The Express.
London, England, 1853-10-06 00:00:00

THE CORN TRADE.

The subjoined remark. are extracted from the circular of
Mr. Geo. Dornbusch, dated Wednesday evening : " The
reported declaration of war by Turkey against Russia, the
principal and most stirring topic of the slay amongst politi-
cians and merchants, yesterday quite unsettled the corn
trade, and induced holders and importers to ask extrava-
gant prices, to which, however, buyers were not prepared
to amide ; another minor political of the last se'nnight
bearing on the corn trade is the extension of foreign corn
and dour importation into France at the lowest duty till
July 31, 1854, and the prohibition of exporting potatoes
from that country. Since last Wednesday the weather
was, with the exception of two showery and boisterous
days, on the whole favourable for this lesson • fine drying
winds predominating from the south-west, and alternating
to the north, have allowed a good deal of corn to be secured
in good condition. In some of the late districts the want of
susuihine is retarding the ripening of the crops • last
Sunday night • white frost appeared in this neighbourhood,'
and the nights have generally been cold last week. All
secounts respecting the produce of this year's wheat crop in
the United kingdom concur in describing the yield one
quarter to one-third short of an average ; a fact daily mere
confirmed with the progress of thrashing. Barley, oats,
beans, and peas continue to be represented as rather above
an average crop in quantity, but with a large portion dete-
riorated in quality by the wet harvest weather. The potato
disease is still causing great anxiety, although for the pre-
sent reported as stayed, but no certainty exists regarding
the future. In the North (Scotland) the wet and stormy
weather has interfered last week with harvest work ; one-
' third of the crops is still on the ground waiting the sickle.
In Ireland the harvest was last week favoured in most parts
(in the north less) with fine weather, and is drawing to a
close. The produce of the cereal crop is generally satisfacto-
rily spoken of; the potato disease again is reported as
extending, but the very large crop of this esculent raised
this year fortifies the opinion that enough will be saved to
satisfy the mere pressing wants of the country. Farmers
have lately sparingly supplied the markets with corn, and
particularly new wheat has been kept back. In ordinary
years the delivery of homegrown corn is generally liberal
at this season ; but this year a desire to hold for higher
prices seems to rule uppermost. It is believed that the
stocks of old wheat now in farmers' heads are larger than
usually held at this season. The arrivals of foreign corn
during this last sea'night were small, and are expected to
be much reduced next winter. Their extent will greatly
depend on political circumstances, and on the state
of the weather. In the beginning of last week
the excitement prevalent in Mark-larte found a ready
response in almost all the country markets held on Tuesday
(27th Sept.), and prices of wheat advanced from 4s. to Ss.
, per qr. Since then till yesterday morning the absence of
stirring news, the relaxation which as a natural consequence
always follows a great excitement, such as that of the last
fortnight; the increasing tightness of the money market
(the Bank of England rate being now 5 per cent.); these
circumstances have caused the trade to subside into a calm,
out of which the Eastern affairs have again roused it to
some degree. Abroad, in the Baltic the markets were ex-
cited in consequence of English advice. and the bad re-
ports of the rye crop in those quarters. Ilolland, Belgium,
and France quiet but generally firm. In Italy the trade
assumed greater briskness at rising prices. At Odessa and
Galata the warlike news caused a fall in the prices of wheat
of 71. to Ss. per qr. At New York, owing to the decreasing
demand, prices had also given way.

ALLEGED " TRANSPORTATION" OF A PAUPER
FA7eILT TO lazLANu.—Yesterday a parliamentary docu-
ment wee printed, contaiaing an interesting corrs; ondence
between the poor-law officers and Bt. Luke's parish, on the
alleged transportation of a woman named Garrey, after a
residence of twenty years in London, of which sixteen years
were passed in St. Luke's, and her two children, born in the
parish, to Ireland. It appears that the woman and her
children, on being discharged from the workhouse, were put
on board a steamer and landed at Limerick, where she had
n been berme, and where she had no friends. She was
charged at Limerick with vagrancy, and told her tale. The
matter was laid before Mr. F. Rumen, M.P., and investi-
gated by the Poor law Board, who addressed the guar-
dians of St. Luke's on the subject. On being pressed on the
matter the poor-law guardians directed their clerk on the
19th July last to address the following letter to the I'oor
law Board : " I em desired by the board of guardians of
the poor of this parish to acknowledge the receipt of your
letter of the 30th ult., relative to the case of Bridget Garrey
and her two children, and to inform you in answer thereto
that they were removed under order of justices to Ireland
in the usual way, and that the guardian. do not think it
fair that they should be called upon to give information in
cams of removal, which might possibly be used aphis
them, mud therefore respectfully decline to do so :"