The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-29 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 29, 1849.

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6d. to fa. Oatmeal, pm load of 2401b5., sad
bilk Ole
to 21s. Od.
NIWOANTLB ON-TYXI4 Jas. 27.-The woad 's, thh week
has bola sortseemiy betaaves% whiting more of the oho-
emir et Mialiera Jemasap, Khe heavy wank however
have been vow bleselleint,, by elevating the segoellams
ateienre wpm Maid missive soils, sad we .q new ex.
poet ear hems le be sompled be isms tiro
the lead fie the oloopties of ON mai.
we nosy legit kr Ile hawks
boos prodegalinhet. The Weis
during the puma week hes OM, bee al
Mere so
thus WOO ham bens eathdpaiod, emeidratag Mal the lime
far the mimeo of tho beaded stooks is sloes Mimi The
Dade might any artiste boo Meal:: a MIMI abaft,
tor, leas piles es the NMI VMS hilymolnktei.
our mee this we had a skew of Wheat
hem poserses, east eallstieg sa sale Omni the
mastos eisureses was early ass agnate of fully
10. mho goads@ Is same mine
Per a ewe of Cm:
Cal ;sir er. was claimed, weighed 831 be., mod* he de-
livery MU, tho lit last., whilst a .ythism *deem& h.
mese ba Far Mar we had an beemesdlasnim,
sad a his demean was made at tally be nese,
faveartle marks of beemlields aialdni tla IL le 3k.,
and ishilso up to 375. pot eask rupothely. la
lye Ltd* 'theism sad the se meg be said el
Demo mil Peek Malting Pesky is Minted, sad we
taped le hill as ail/leaky la realiZseirlopeuetaticas for
mhos &maw ; griailag ante Malt ern
menu, be soiled shaper, bet mily Snot Mom& qua-
Biles await sheathe, other desseigiem Wag *maw&
drily arylleated. Raving only a modeseto obey of Oats
flee the emery this morales, with fewer ordeals cessi-
who, the trek ndod monewbet firmer, and, in the basins=
bee, preview memo were sustained ; in het Ow mashes shred
with a firmer tom for all articles, sad would lead to the
girties that all grain has seen its lowest for the present,
tstisty oa Barley, Boma, Peas, Bye, and Oats, has sere-
sally &demised 6d. per. qr. Present prices; -Wheat British,
Northumberland, new, white, 60s. to 635. ; red, 425. to 49*. ;
Norfolk and Suffolk, sew, white, 625. to 64e. ; red, 48s.
to 61s. ; Lincolnshire, new. white, 60s. to 62.. ; red, 475.
to 495. Bye, Norfolk and Sahl, 245. to 275. Barley,
Norfolk and Suff.ilk, 295. to 315.; Chevalier, 30a. to 325. ;
Northumberland and Scotch, 245. to 275.; Chevalier, 265. to
28e. ; grinding and distilling, 241. to 275. Malt, 60s. to
630. • Chevalier, 625. to Me. Oats, Northumberland and
fleotish, potato, saw, 20s. to 225. •, common sad Ayes,
2Gs. to 225. ; new, 151 to 20.. Peas, white,
32a. to 345. ; grey sad maple, Me. to 365. Beans, old, Ws.
to 425. ; sew, 110 s. to 311 s. Flour, per sack, Sae. Bleekkin
sad Northumberland, its. to 365. • Norfolk, whit*, 35.. to
375. • howsholds, 33.. to 36e. ; oso;ads, 30s. to 335. ; house-
bolsi, Ws. to 32..; thirds, 20.. to 280. ; houssholds, 24.. to 211.
Whist, foreign, Macias and Konigsberg, white, 625. se
56..; red, 475. to 495. Silesian, white, 60s. to 635.;
red, 48s. to 50s. Mecklenburg and Pomeranian, white,
621. to 635. ; red, 60s. to 625. Hamburg, Marks, and
Anbalt, white, 60s. to Sic. ; red, 475. to 495. Kiel sad
Holstein, white, 48e. to 60a. ; red, 448. to 465. Petersburg
and Archangel. red, 38s. to 40s. Odessa, rod, 40s. to 425.
Polish, red, 41a. to 465. Rye, Pomeranian sad Prussian,
Ms. p 275. Burka, 24e. to 265. Barley, Baal, 265. se
; Pomeruhut and Hobble, 245. to 26.. Oats, Dutch
brew. 10s. to 211 s. ; Pomeranian, feed, 18.. to 20s. ; Hol-
ston* sad Damask 16.. to Bs. ; Archangel and 16s.
to 18.. Pees, white, 28s. to 325. Beans, Fdeslaad,
30a. to Ma.; Alezandriau, 245. to 26a.

NIWPORT, INA or WIGHT, JOT. 27.—Webad a good
sandy of Wheat sad Barley. Beet samples of Wheat sold
at (ally last week's prime; interior maples difficult to dispose
eat try low prism. Old Wheat, 48s. to 66,. per qr.; new,
401. to 441. ; Barley, 26e. to 28e. ; Oats, 18s. to 22a.
Nonwtcs, Jan. 27.—Our market was barely supplied
with Wheat to-day by the growers, the merchants offeriag
foreign, to be liberated on Thursday next, at a trifle km
mossy. Beeliah sonastandel Cully as much money. The
late week of line dry windy weather has improved the quality
of the Wheat There was • good demand fir Flour, f.o.b.
Barley comassaded • fair sale, and no alterati.s Beane,
Pest, sad Oats the turn cheaper. Wheat, white. 46e. to 50s.
per qr. • red, 441. to 48e. Barley,. Ms to 3Gs. Beane,
35a. toile. Pesa, 325. to 351. Oats, 20s. to 28a. Flout,
r per sack of 280Ibe. purchasers flailing sacks sad
claiming one meat's diselaint ; retail, la. 10d. per Mose.

NOTTINOHAX, Jan. 27.—Buyera of all kin is of grain in
this saarkist to day have to pay fatly she I r:ces of last week,
and for the choice samples of Wheat and malting Bak, a
slight advance is obtained, at which the supply is quite equal
to the demand, as no ono seems willing to get far into stuck.
Pavzstaosouon, J. 22.—We have a small supply of
all grain, Wows biking that prima will improve, rather
than recede after the cern. laws cease. Wheat is a ready
sale, at la advance upon last weak. Barley is also Is.
dojo.. Beans a slow sale. Oats in demand, and late
rates rather exceeded. Wheat, new, 38s. to 42a.; lee,
41s. te 481. • old 425. to Os.; fine, 48s. Barley, Ns. le
285.; lbw, 30s dassiterez, Hs. to 18s. ; fine, 18e. to 21s. ;
old, 20s. ; be, 28s. old, 311 s. to 40s.
_ _

P=ll'ollll4 Jas. W.—Rather mar disposal's was shows
to do basemen at oar ssarket to da • bat the inferior wadi-
ties of a greet part of the Corn offend renders it difilealt of
disposal. Wheat, white, 91 10s. to 101. 10s. ; red,;lol. to 111.
per load. Barley, malting, 20..t0 275. per qr.; grinding. 24e.
to 161. Oats, 18s. to 18a. l'em, 38s. to 421. Bass, 40s.
to 425.

PLUTON Jan. 27.-The :proseat: average is the bat to
regulate daddies under the act of parliament which expires
in the 31st instant, We have had very boisterous weather
daring the week, and no freak supplies from Ireland in con-
amasses. The trade in the lama time has assumed a firmer
tame, but without leading to any amendment in price. We
lad a sill supply of English Wheat at oar Com Exchange
this miming, which mot a brisk sale, at an advance of 6d. to
le. par wiadb , sad upon Irish we note an improvement equal
to 4d. per bushel. Flour, 64. per peek higher. BMW about
laper wind's deem. Oats more inquired for, and, the
supply at hand being scanty, were hard for 14. per butte'
more mosey. Fusin' Oatmeal met a slow oak, and Irish
merely sustained our last currency. Other articles without
change. Primes: Wheat, per winds of 2201b5. English,
white, 221. 64. to 25a. 6d.; yellow, 21e. 04. to 245.
Irish, per bushtl of 701 be., white, 7s. U.; mid-
dling to good, 6e. 3d. to 6s. 9d. Flour, per pack of
24011ba English, fins to superfine, 32a Od. to 319 e. Od. ;
Freud:, per 2801 be., superfine, 395. 6d. to 42e. ; sizen, per
3401ba., 31s. 6d. to 325. Barley,perbaabelsf 6011 e., Iriehand
Scotch, malting, 41. 04. to 4s. 6d. • grinding, 3s. to 31. 94.
Beans, per swindle, of 2201 b., Kaglieh, 12e. 6d. to 15s. ; Mak,
12s. to 13s. Peas, Irish, maple and grey, per 2801 M., 15e.
is 17s. Bran, per pack of 2401b5., Iriab 10s. to 10s. 64.
Oats, per bushel of 451b5., Irish, prime sealing truthless
Is. 9d. to 2a. 104.; common, te. 7d. to 2s. lid. Oatmeal,
per load of 2401 be., Irish, choice maples, 24e. 6d. to 26e.
good general qualities, 235. 6d. to 245. ; middling to good,; be to 235. dd. Indian Corn, per qr. of 4801 b., 33.. 6d. to
365. 04. Indian Corn Keel, per pack of 2401b5., white, 17s. 9d.
to 18a Od. ; yellow, 18a. ed. to 19s.

RIIADIXO. Jan. 27.—The little quantity of Wheat brought
to mutat to•da, was mach improved in condition, and was
readily &posed of at sa &drams et 2s pee qr. lot every
a . la middling samples et Bat*, the trade was
darlr,rteli
far due qfalualities the maltstaraz. quite as suck
emmey. A 'peat ling off is the at yof Oats, sad as
advisee et Ii pee qr. was readily to. Bemis sad
Peas costiaassl without variation.

/hems Wahtnex, ha. 27.—Wheat and Barley the
atm as on last raarket to-day. In other grain wean per-
tienlez to sodas.

811R1W61101IT ha. 27.—Oar market tkis day was well
attended by bothimilers aad dealsn,and a large mode was done
in Wheat, Daley, and Oats, at prices quite equal to those of
lase week, the farmers not willing sellers at the pries, cad to
mod instances from ls. to 2s, per qr. more demanded for all m

130111DWILAND, Jas. 27.-We ham had no arrivals of grain
et Flour either lonia* or coastwise, demise the week,
Owls', P;o9ably, to the tespesteous winds that have pre-
vailed ; and though than was oily a mall supply of Whist
at market to-day hem the farsaws the demsad was very
slack, and soles were diflealt to make, at last week's pekes.
The best Wheats we quote at 48e. to 50a.; goal avenge
perals, 44.. to Ma. ; and ishrier maples, 395. to 425. per qr.
Oeed see* setatry Wheats are in film Amami. All other
Wade et grata are my dull sale, and prises are usetivally
mate as fast week, These is a hoe demand for all descrip-
tions it Flour, at late Flew. South country is charged 36e.
to Ws. ; sad hcesem•u, 33.. to 34.. per sack.
Waatusent, Jas. 27.-There was a very large sepply
K Wheat, sad the trade was mon animated that meal, and
• kaki theuglislight improvises' it prim. That was •
large waft of peek 11 ottey la the twist, likiek seid
awe mealy tai shady at last week's priest ; Jet still mete
tow maples hoseglit le.ler cp. is. soap. The Oat triode
was Magaid, wed, to effect sales, • decided fell of ls. to 2e.
per qr. was very retesting, submitted te. TN same remark
will precisely apply to Beans. TIM trade in Peas was so
triliirg, we cannot plus the quotations. We make so
alteration is the Flour trade. Wiest, *ow, SU. to 60s. ; old,
42,.t. 6131. Barley, 25e. to 33.. Oats, 19s. to 225. Beata,
Os. to els. pm qr. Floor, Us. to 30s. per seek.
Wttowmema, Jas. 27.-At this nmenhog's
_searket there
wm • fah Mem butWh he whisk Om kummi was net
eery eztsilies, the best sample, folly meintel.ed the
=Oho. week, without an Mews. Tssamstisas in
(both mallow mod ',Mktg temples) wets deddedly
slow, sad Oen waft held mash the arse as IMO week ;
though, far @skald awake, Me tern wee la Amur of the
seller. There wee Imps watt, of Oak • salerhi_ch
attracted bet sal esly Wavyht
last we•lesiorlem Mbar sorts beteg la. per ;arts'. The
operation in Bums and Peas was ter from exteasive, bet we
do net very queladwas, The ism s& her Malt sad Flour
was math the sass as railed as punka market days, and
prim strictly the same. Wheat, sew. toss 91. to 124 per
lead ; old, 101. to 121. 151. Barely, Ds. to 291. Oats, 14..
to 20e. Per, 321. to Mk. Betas, 34a. to es. per qr.
Molt, Te. 94. to Pa. per bushel. Flour, 30s. to Ss. psi era.
Wissacn, Jas. 27.-Wo are moderateinl
oryllol today
with FM he ' of all kiwi ; t esaditist lbs 100
dry* triads. Good dry Wheat meals a Pk demand, at
tirr better I rims, whilst seeswasy 111111111 hay seektok
former rates. Oats sad Beats it fah dolma, at last week's
prime. TM following are the prementpelms ; Wheat, new,
red, Whs. to 621b5., 3k. to Me. pm qr. ; Wm. 401. ;
ago. in 430. ; extra, 47e. ; old, red, 6111 t. to 631 M., 42.. to
46e. ; extra, 475. ;1 white, 445. to 47e. ; extra, 48.. Oats,
old, Mits. ta 40,11%., 114. per stone ; new, U. to 9d. Beam,
old, 34.. to Wk. per qr.; aew, 20a. to 31s.
woactenta, Jan. 27.-Ourfmarket war scattily sup-
=with English Wheat to-day, sad in toteequesee rather
wiem WWI obtained, porticalarly for fine white. Bar-
ley held with MOM fireasear, but the demand was slow.
Preach Boma rather MOTS inquired for, but Egyptisa le. to
21. per qr. lower. Peas very Mita to sell. Oatswi-
thered.
yea', yin 27; We have lees grain offering at cur war
ket today. Wheat has made a steady mils ‘t, fully last

week's prima Barley is la to 21. per qr. deem. Oats sell
freely at Into prises. In ether sedates se mitigation.
The pemeee pekes: Wheat, white, 46. to 48a. per impe-
rial ; red, 40x to 46a Barley, melds', 275. to 365.
13e te 26e. Mak. Na to IX Oats, W. to M.
per steels of 141 b. Flour, Ns. ger seek elf WOW.
Demmer, Jen. 1111.-Aa immersed feeling wee ounifest en
this dere e, and we armee spetadens 64. kr
Wheat, and li
d. per barrel kr OMs. There wee a better
demand for Indian Com, sad in ewe ketemes le. per gr.
advisee was realised. Other things maintain their vane.
The tellivring woe the pond surer-ay Wheat, white,
Ma. to IX 64.; red, 21e. to 335. 64. pet 260105. Oats, 9s.
to 10s. per 191111 m. Barley, Ilk. to 17s. IL per 2114115.1
Indies Cora, 31s. to 31a. per Webs. Ostmesl, lle. to
lie. Gd. per ewe. Fleur, semesda 14a- M llft psi ort-
Buren, Jan. IL-Whether it is gum the Draft of
the weather, sr trees the *Sem Pining fa the igmeral
failingtbst we err. stir the lel.to haw es Masse In idea,
and, opeonlegeng emnelik out withheldlagto eggs
giklas we lwerw sok but wit hem lad hag en=
grok sneerTeidegi end yet, dealers met beteg
to buy begged ask immediate week, Wm. go mkt-
meek ors generelly ea the decline. Wheat hes de-
'Need 3d. on the beet qualities, sad folly N. ea
dim sorts, es the week; and the sake of wok
ego wry limited, at a similar decline. Flour : All penile
al as they an, and it is diflkult to set at the sets ta si
prier. Our qun tations are, in some inateeme, IL ifewertha
week. Barrel Flour a milts free este, at 37e. le Ills. ger 1
barrel Barley is damilt of sale at late prime. Ow are
3d. to 41. lower, but sell readily at the decline. Oatmeal
has Apia declined 3d, aid is dull of sale. Indian Corn la is
NINA bounds, and I. few hangs, and sells pretty freely at
71. 7s. 6d. to 71. 10s. for white, and 71. 10e. to 71. 16a. for
yellow.
Coax, Jan. 26.-The weather continues variable, storm
alternating with rain. The arrivals of foreign grata have
not been as large 'sof late, still they have some forward to
a fair extent. The trade oontinuas demised, and, the
nearer we approach to the ev slid let, the greater the
anxiety felt by those ore immediately columned in the re-
sults of the new system. We receive but moderate
supplies of homeirrown grain. We have little al-
teration is the prime of any description of grain.
Ia prepared Wheat the badness done hes been on
the most restricted seek. We quota the current value of
Polish Odessa 275. per barrel. Barley, raw and preparW,
remains nachange& keeling Oats are in demand, but
ether description' are a shade lower in valise. The Flom
Wide continues dull, and the business doine is vit., limited,
though without any alteration in prim. Indian Corn (the
only article in which an improvement can be noted) is in
hatter demand, but without any advance is its nine, the top
peke of Oak's this week being 71. 10s. per ton.
Jae. 27.-The weather sontinues showery,
without any appearance of frost A geed deal of Wheat has
been sewn lately ; the farmers are now talking of setting
Potatoes, but seed is sore* and dear. Our sundae of
grain fee the seek have been fair, with firm pekes. At this
day's market a small show of Wheat; any good samples
brought an advance. Oats also may be quoted id. per stone
dearer. Barley in demand, if good, by millers and mate-
rna ; bat inferior qualities neglected. The trade in Indian
Corn hes been more inciting, as stocks are lessening, and a
small advance realised. Indian keel and Barley Meal ere in
favourite eoesumption by retail, while Flour of fine quality
is dull. Wheat, red, 13d. to 141 per stone ; white, 14&
to 16s. Oats, 7d. to 84d. Barley, 9d. to 10d. Gialatx Indian
Core, W. per tea. 'bran, and other, 71. lie. to 71. 17e. fld.
Ameriesa, yellow, 71.125. 61. to 71. 13e. • white, 71. 10s. to
71. 12e. 641. Oatmeal, 101.10 s. ; Barleymiel, 91. • Byesasal,
81. Is. per Wet American Flour, 30s. per barrel. ; Irish,
32a per beg.
- - -

W•rnaronn, Jan. 27.-In the early part of the week, we
experienced a slight improvement in our supplies of farmers'
grain, when prices of Whoa*, Oats, and Holey receded a
trifle Erma the currency of Saturday last; since then, our
receipts have again fallen off, and the value of all kinds of
country can may be quoted nominally as on this day
esennight. Few traasactions hive taken place in either pre•
pared or hue foreign Wheat, but for bonded there has been
a seeders* sale at former prices. F w prepared Oats and
Berle ,we lave had game inquiry, but owing to the high
rates de. a 4 d by holders, the business in both articles has
been quite of a retail character. The trade in Indian Corn
has been slow duties( the wet k, and late priest are barely
maintained. Free Flour has b.en saleable only in retail to
meet the immediate' wants et bakers, but some quantity in
bond (manufactured exchis'vely from Irish Wheat, end cam-
sequenly not of prime quality) has changed hand at
34e. rr sack. The following ale the relent
Uadned, new : Wheat, per 20 5t.,234.6d. to zir .
shipping, 20s. to 225. Barley, milting, per 16 stone,
16e. to Ilk. ; grinding, Ile. 9d. to 13s. Oats, white, per 14
stone, 8s 6d. to 9s. 9d. ; black, Bs. 9d. to 9s. Dried
and foreign: Irish Wheat, millers' per 20 .to 265. to
275. Od.; shipping, 22e. to 245. ; Polish Odessa (in bond),
265. Od. so 2i.. 64. ; French, red, 275. Od. to 275. ad. Barley,
grinding, per 16 et , 12s. 9d. to 14s. Oats, white, per 14
stone, 10s. Od. to lls. ; black, 9s. 9d. to 10s. Od. Flour,
s per seek, 365. to 37e.,• seconds, 345. to 345. 6d.;
t=
, 30e, s. to 31e. • fourths, }a. to 245. Indian Corn,
Danube, per 20 stoma, 19s. to 20s. Od.; American, yellow
and red, 18s. to 195.; Spanish and Portuguese, 18s. to
18.. 6d.; white, 18e. ; damaged for cattle, 12s. to 151. ;
Indian Corn Mel, per cwt., 9s. 3d. to 9s. Bd. Oat-
meal, pee cwt., lie. to lie. 6d. Bran, per 6 atone, 3s. 64.
to 3s. Bd. lesportathis week : Whett,2,665 qrs. Indian Corn,
2,320. Brports this week Wheat, 77 barrels. Oats, 2,303.
Flour, 1,272 seeks. Oatmeal, 40 ewts.

METALS.—Ousoow, Jan. 27.—The tone of the
market is very Arm, and a steady demand for Pig Iron has
prevailed throughout the week, at advancing prices. The
market closed firm, at 495. W. to Ws , No. 1, and 491. to
to 495. 6d. tailed Nos., nett cash, prompt, f.o.b. Notwith-
standing the increased demand, there is a decrease in ship.
piog orders and in shipments for the month ; we cannot,
therefore, mud the present demand other thus purely spe-
culative. There is an improved demand for manufactored
boa, at fully higher prises. We quote '31115 arm, at M. 10..
to di. ; nail rods, 61. 10s. to 61. Ifte.; plates, 81. to 81. 10s. ;
hoops, 81. Four per cant. discount for cash.

POTATOES.—Sonnwaag, WATERSIDE, Jam 29.
—Thu condoned adverse winds have left oar market so bully
wapplied with every daeoription of Potato, that we have but
kw mots to quote prioss of this week. The followlag are
this de 's quotations: York Regents, 100 s. to 150 s. ; New-
castle Regents, 90e. to 110 s. ; French Whites, 90a. to 110 s. ;
Belgian, 80s. to 1000 s. ; Dutch, 50s. to 80s.

HOPS.—Bonoros MARIA?. Meru. Pattenden and
Smith report this there le no &mains to notke In peas, and the
deetend continues pod.

CAT LIB, &c. earranno, Tbo o'Clock.
The number of Beasts is rather larger than on Monday last;
but the swains being cool, and the dead markets a little
clearer, trade is active, at an advance of about 2d. per 81b. on
toe choicest volition. The supply of Sheep is again
small, sod I. eattesqasses they ars laces remlB, disposed
of, at fully 24. per 81b. advaaee. Good Calves are
will mares, sad maintain late qaotstions, but trade is hardly
se (heaths' for the middling kinds. There is a steady de-
mead for neat Porkers at late price,. From Holland and
Geresaay there are 316 Beast., 630 Sheep, and 89 Calves;
flea Norfolk and Suffolk, 160 Basta; Lassign and North-
madam, 410 ; sad Scotland, 400.
reset Phu a 4. •4. Pet skims sf tas.
Dot INK atuai 310 4 s Best as.slll.4xls S. 4 0 0
▪ amallma 4 04
Host &
Imemirsels. 4
lasead wale lasitt 2lO I Ds. alms OO 0
gar 3
4 0 4 Iwo sadssaosisealm I 4 4
Piss ....... .......... 4O 0 4 ft.& aces ...... 00 0
new D. a Haiama 4 I 410 Led
Dimas at sattsa 5.M; hop sad Lambs. 11.700; Othat. 165 ;
• 140.
For &fordo**, markets on hut pogo.

sonadent alacrity to avail themselves of the fresh
impetus which this emenripationot industry will give
to the astioselesergies.
The question of own law repeal never has bees a
party 44se ldom and the Manchester banquet will be
no cee3ratlaa of party triumph or instrument of
perty warfare. The crowds omen, leading and in-
fluential is their respective localities, who will as-
semble at Manchester on the 31st, present
the utmost diversity in opinions and senti-
ments on all questions bat one. The Whig,
the Tory, and the Radical will there be seen side by
side; the voluntary will take his seat beside the
churchman. Were any political leaden to attempt to
wield the power of that congregated wealth and in-
telligence far any purpose but oce, they would feel
themselves palling at a rope of sand. But in regard-
ing absolute and unlimited freedom for the trade in
earn as an indispensable requisite to the prosperity—
nay, to the existence—of the nation, and in nmegine-
ing that the same denial of protection which they
pronounce in respect of the corn-grower most, in
common farmer, be extended to every branch of in-
derby, there is but one thought and one feeling
amongst them. The unexampled unanimity and oon-
li of purpose which marked their struggle for
orrnw repeal, marks, and will continue to mark,
their avowal of a determination to abide by the de•
vision which the nation and the legislature have pro-
nounced on that question.
Some leading supporters of government and some
of their busiest agents have been for the last week
flattering about, restless and noisy u seabirds before
a storm. In the resorts of business, and in the public
thoroughfares they have been pouncing upon every
friend of free trade they' meet ; assuring him with the
air of men who are admitted behind the curtain that
government have no intention to impose a low fixed
duty, and that therefore he may keep his mind quite
at ease. This eagerness to impart good tidings is
amiable but superfluous. The nibbling attempts to
get up a movement in the City in favour of a low
fixed duty on imported grain, whoever ma
have been at the bottom of them, were so feeble and
desultory, and any response made to them so
much the reveres of encouraging, that with most men
the disclaimer of an intention on the part of ministers
to have recourse to such a measure was the first in-
timation they had of its having been with or without
reason attributed to them. And even though the
feelers had been put forth more extensively and with
more appearance of earnestness, the unwavering una-
nimity which is known to pervade the free traders
would have precluded any fears of their success.
Ministers (any set of ministers) may perhaps be
allowed for a time to tamper with the differential
sager duties, or play fast and loose with the abolition
of the navigation lam, but protection for home-grown
corn is put down for ever. Here they are power-
less. The public opinion whose representatives will
meet at Manchester on Wednesday, is master on
that cluestion, whoever may passess legislative or
executive authority on other matters.
It is high time that the agriculturists should dis-
cover that the protection to which they clung is gone
for ever, and recognise the true character of the men
who have abolished it. They are not the enemies of
the farmer or the landlord tither. They grudge no
man his wealth or the fair reward of his industry.
They uk no more than equal freedom of enterprise
and industry for all, and, as Englishmen, they will
rejoice in the prosperity of the agriculturist. as much
as of any other class. If the agriculturists labour
under any nutria burden or any undue restriction on
their industry it is only by a frank and cordial appeal
to the equity of their free-trade brethren that they
have any chance of getting it removed. Henceforth
sectional interests, seeking by intrigue or bare-faced
power to gals undue advantages over one another, are
impoelible in this country.
And there are many symptoms, by no means equi-
vocal, that this conviction is gaining ground in the
aricultaral mind. The very agricultural and protec-
tionist meetings which are taking place in various
counties, are among the most encouraging of these
symptoms. The laborious efforts of the " farmers'
Mends," who monopolise the speechifying on these
occasions, only prove that there is mutiny in the
ranks. When we see at the Chelmeford meeting a
parson leading off with an excommunication of COB-
DEN and Cobdenites—Sir i 0,121 TYRRELL following
with all his powers of humour (such as they are) to
make " Manchester stockingers " and " hatters
at the Board of Control" ridiculous and

odions—and a Major 'finding up with pa-
thetic exhortations to protect the innocent or-
phans of the army from the Manchester ogre—:.t is
obvious to the most unreflecting that they are not so
much giving voice to the sentiments which they know
to pervade those around them, u arguing 'past the
sentiments which they fear or know to be growing up
in their minds. The orators at the Brighton meeting
do not leave the state of their auditors minds in this
respect to be inferred. Mr. Faxixdor confessed that
" many farmers would swell the cry for reduction in
the national expenditure." He went on to my that
" this wu to be deprecated," and modestly and po-
litely aught to divert his hearers from the intention by
telling them it was impossible they could form a
sound judgment on the quesuon—" farmers were not
politicians. The Duke of RICHMOND confessed that
many farmers will join in the agitation of Mr.

All these efforts of the obscurantist. will prove un-
availing. The lord of the manor, and the rector, and
the major, y 111410) their forces in vain to keep the
farmers, and the labourers, and the village grocers and
mercers of their parish, from thinking for themselves.
The conviction which is sprading that the day of undue
and exclusive privileges is past, and that only in the
abolition of all protection and restriction, and the
equalisation of public burdens, is there hope for the
agriculturist, which has struck root, will grow,
and gain the ascendancy in spite of them. Aidthi;
fact ought to courage the friends of financial reform
to increased efforts. The guests at the Manchester
banquet, as we have already observed, are composed
of men of every shade of opinion except on the one
question of free trade. But' among them are not a
few of the most clear-sighted and energetic advocates
of financial reform from the various centres of politi-
cal activity and influence. So favourable an oppor-
tunity may not soon recur for friends of this came in
different parts of the kingdom to ascertain each other's
sentiments and wishes, and to concert measures for
combined action. There will be a general sense of
disappointment and dissatisfaction throughout the
kin om,if such financial refornmas s are to be present
at anchester on Wednesday, d, not hold a consulta-
tion next moraing before separating for their respec-
tive plsoes of abode.

Ors cannot be surprised that it should have 03-
ourred to there bitten with the mania of national de-
fences, to form an army out of the workmen in our
dock-yards.A formidable army they certainly make.
There were 14,000 of them employed in 1848, at an
average of 41. Bd. to Cs. a day. The annual expense
was little short of a million in 1848, being 850,0004
for the workmen, and 140,0001. for the Ahem This
includes merely the home establishments. When it
is considered that the cost of our seamen and
marines figures in the budget for no more than a
million and a half, it will be seen what an enormous
expense is occasioned by mere preparation for war,
independent of its efficiency. Moreover, the im-
mense amount of dock-yard wages has been doubled
since 1839; doubled, avowedly, in consequen-e of the
expense of steam-vessels. Yet, even now, although
the dock-yards build the halls, they only repair the
machinery. The steam-engine and power are pur-
chased from private factories. And as far as the iron-
work of the steam-navy is concerned, one million •
year, and our 14,000 artificers, go but to cobble it.
We need not say that in the present outcry for re-
trenchment it was impossible
.for the Admiralty to
continue this scale of expenditure especially as its
and First Lord admitted that the steam
fitiv7taa reached its maximum. The former personage
acquaints us with the resolve taken in regard of
the amount of labour. The number of shipwrights,
he tells us, is to be reduced to 3,500. The ex-
rof the whole establishment may always
ese timated by the number of shipwrights employed,
so that the figure is important as marking the general
reduction intended. On the let of January, 1848,
there were 3,772 established shipwrights, and 840
hired. _ _ _

IttApril theme were reduoed by
And nentediately after by 245

The present reduction therefore is of about 680
wrights, or one-seventh of the establishment of ha.,
1848. In 1833, when the Admiralty laid down that
the number of dockyard workmen should be 6,000, the
shipwrights were 2,630. On the lit of January, 1834,

they were, including 80 inspectors, 2,849. There
can be so ream for Glass being more ilankalreAl
now, however the number of smith. and founders
may have been legitimately in/ reseed.
The Malt striking part of dockyard administration
wan certainly the laxity of accounts, and the stride
near of etiquette. Any person employed might larks
as mach or her Majesty's stores and money as he
pleased, but to direct an observation to his superior
officer was forbidden. Respect was enjoined as the
first virtue, and honesty was not even the second.
And this is woethy of note, for the rule is not °gi-
fted to the dockyards, bat extends to:other far moral
important_ dopartaients of the public service.
We marvelled much, some time acre, how it was
that so much money was wasted and so little result
obtained by the law setting the poor Irish to public
works. Never as each an administrative bungle,
without cheek or direction, discipline or authority.
All the blame was thrown upon the unruly Celts,
and in consequence of the failure, the maxim in
political economy, that precludes all productive labour
on the public account, was mercilessly and irrefrag-
ably confirmed. Bat look at the administration of
our dockyards, es given by the Naval Secretary.
lie tells us that now, for the first time, there is to
be a regular check upon wages, there having bees be-
fore not even the semblance of a subsequent audit
There are now to be checks and audits. The inspeo-
tore are to keep their books with " some degree of
care," and as some guard against dishonesty work
is to be measured and re-mess fired.

As to stores, we are told that " hitherto," there has
been no check on the demand, without storekeepers or
any one else having the power of refusal. When
such has been the system of management in the
national dockyards, can we wonder at the failure in
our organising labour in Ireland ? Or can we marvel
that, when these uncontrolled functionaries get coals
and iron, in addition to timber, a discrliton, the
estimate of stores ran up from halt a million (which
it was from 1833 to 1837) to a million and a half,
required at the present time P
With this laxity, this nullity in checking the amount
of waste or wages, compare the awful rigour of etiquette.
There was no efficient communication between the
employis, save in the shape of command and report.
An order onee given, be it ever so nonsensical, no
demur was allowed, "except in writing, and by a
circuitous route, sufficient to incur the rejection, or
the miscarriage, of the most timely and valuable
counsels." Such was the discipline of her Ma-
jesty's dockyards in 1848. The reform now comes,
and it is very simple. The different employes are to
meet in the morning, and talk freely to one murkier.
The inferior is allowed to make observations, and the
superior allowed to profit by them. What an inno-
vation on our aristocratic habits, the liberation of the
dockyard from the awful and absurd etiquette of the
quarter-deck !
It is now nearly a twelvemonth ago, on the 22nd of
March last, that we commenced an article asking, Does
Ithe Admiralty ever take stock ? And we then pro-
ceeded to point out how impossible it was for the
government to know what it possessed or expended,
or how it progressed, or whether it was doing better
or worse than private establishments pursuing the
same line of tradeand work. We then said:
An important and urgent question therefore it is for the
proprietors of the steam navy of Britain, " do the Admiralty
ever take stock ?" do they put down the number and names
of their serviceable steam ships of war, and opposite write
the cost of each trona the beginning, including alterations
and repairs up to such invesugatioa t do they then put in
the next column her present value, estimated by competent
arbiters, able to state with a business-like approximation,
the present value compared to the boat of an equally effective
new ship of the ants elass ? If they do, will tney show
their books ? If they do not, would it be impertinent if we
were to brit permission to have it done ? Na,, might we
not suggest that the public should appoint a couple of quali-
fied inspectors, or book keepers, or surveyors, specially in-
formed on this point, just as railway shareholders lly
appoint auditors to examine the amanita of directors : and
could we not find auditas who are capable of putting down
our stock in the capital gement at what it is worth ? We
see no difficulty in doing this ; and if it were wieely and
honestly done, it would tell this " nation of shopkeepers"
that which in their private trade they know to he of such
vital importance to their honesty and credit, viz. the real
value of this part of our stock la trade for naval warfare.
We don't see why the nation should be more remiss in the
statement of their capital account than any other joint stock
company.
Her Majesty's Lords of the Admiralty,borrewing in
1849 almost our words of a twelvemonth previous,
now declare :

That no pavans establishment mould go on f a 18 or 20
years without taking 'tack, and they mathe to the want of
a similar regulation in her Maj,uty's dockyards both the
discrepancies that have universally arisen between the re-
sults of the survey, when held, and thaw given by the
ledger, and the want of proper economical arrangements for
the stowage and preservation of timber. A periodical car-
ve, will force upon each superintendent the nece.sity. 80.
What a confession for the government of a country
that has been for a century the first naval power, with
the greatest naval resources, in the world!
We are very glad to see the Admiralty anxious and
zealous for the honest keeping of the " stores;" but
let not any fuss about reform in details and regula-
tions make us lose eight of the main features of re-
trenchment. Let as remember what Capt. MILNE and
Mr. DUNDAS said, about stores—
The increase of the store estimate was consequent upon the
Masses of wages ; for, if you employ more workpeople, you
use mere material.
And in answer to a question of Sir JAMES GRAHAM,
the same Lord of the Admiralty alleges, that as the
increase of stores must be in proportion to the increase
of workpeople, so .he amount of stores and the num-
ber of workpeople are rendered requisite by " the in-
crease of seamen, boys, and marines afloat, and by
the increase of ships and vessels in commission."
All economy, therefore, depends upon the numbers
of men voted. The admiralty and its organ, the Tones,
will make a mighty parade of their eagerness for
economy ; in search of which they will di-
rect and (avert public attention to a host of
details and particulars, with abundance of admission
of past blunders and promises of future amendment.
But what is important for the public to know, is not
either these promisee or these details. What it
wants to know is the amount of reduction in the num-
ber of men. We had 45,000 men " borne " in 1848,
and 26,000 in 1835. Which is to be our peace esta-
blishment ? Therein lies the real question.

NOT the least of the inconveniencies attendant on
being lifted to the supreme power by popular suffrage
is the extraordinary number of persons who conceive
they have conferred a special favour on,the bead of the
state by voting for him, and who expect to be remu-
nerated by promotion or pecuniary aid. Talk of the
discomfort and dismay of the member for an English
borough when he is called on to realise a portion of
the very liberal promises of which he has been lavish
Idurim his canvam ; but what are they to the per-
plezitus eta French or American President when he
lads himself the cynosure of the need, the greed,
sad the desperation of some myriads of his con-
@titre:ate—the ladder, by grasping a firm hold of
which, they expect to climb to the top-gallant of pro-
motion ? PiAPOLEON-LOOle is said to have received
140,000 letters within a month after his election to
the Presidency, 6,000 of which inclosed pawnbrokers'
duplicates. On the other side of the Atlantic, poor
General TAYLOR is pretty much in a similar plight.
There are yet two months to run before he assumes
the reins of government, and already is he over-
whelmed by the petitions of a multitude of his parti-
sans, ravenous for a share in the official spoil which
it is customary to redistribute at the accession of each
new president. There being less distress in America
than in France, and the president's salary, as well as
his private resources, being so limited, he is probably
favoured with fewer confidences as to his constituents'
dealings with the pawnbroker.
There is, no doubt, something touching in the im-
plicit reliance on the power and goodwill of their
ruler, which is thus evinced by hundreds of thou-
sands of his subjects ; if we may use the words in
such a sense. Or ought we rather to say "on the
power and goodwill of the subject, evinced by hun-
dreds of thousands of his sovereigns?" And yet it
must be acknowledged that there is no feature in the
political system of the United States and of France,
both before and after the last revolution, more
open to reprehension than the practice which
has so generally prevailed in both countries
of making the tenure of inferior officers
depend to a great extent on the political opinions of
their occupants; and then the wholesale expulsions
which consequently follow any marked change in
the administration. The rise of such a system in
France is not surprising, if we take into account the
temptations offered by the excessive centralisation,
which, together with the precedents of his own arbi-
trariness, NAPOLEON bequeathed to the ministers of
the restoration ; and they in their turn to the still
more unscrupulous and corrupt, as compelled to be
more stealthily reactionary, government of Louts

urea. But we have often marvelled that our brethren
beyond the Atlantic, healthy and homogeneous as
their political constitution is, and controlled
even in its excesses by a wise and tem-
perate spirit, should ever have allowed such
'in abuse to grow up amon them; and still
more, that they should have not only tolerated,
but that the majority of their moat influential organs
and public men should be in the habit of landing, the
extravagant length to which this principle is carried
in the distribution of the humblest and the paltriest
employment in the gift of government. The fearful
ass to which the practice has led are so well
, and have been exposed and denounced by se
many writers on America, that we need not enlarge
upon the subject here. It gives us moreelessure to be
able to advert to the fact that the practical evils
which result to the service of the state from the want
of the natural inducement to its employes
to mind their business, are beginning at length
to be seriously felt ; so mach co that
we are enabled to record their simultaneous con-
demnation by a prominent member of the governtsent
that is going out, and by the head of the government
that is coming in. We give the precedence to the au-
thority of highest rank, and copy with sincere plea-
sure and warm approbation the following minute,
brought by the last packet from America, of a decla-
ration which the multitude of petitions for place with
which he was assailed compelled General TAYLOR to
make at Baton Rouge. The authority for the publi-
cation is not stated, but there seems every reason to
believe the statement to be authentic :

I am not yet president, and when I atn, let these applica-
tions be made through the proper departments, and if it is
wished to remove an incumbent, let it be shown that he dots
not answer the Jefferunian standard for en offiee-holder,
and that the applicant does ; for, as far as lies in my power,
I intend that all new appointments shall be of men honest
and capable. Ido not intend to remove any man from office
because he voted against me, for that is a freeman's privilege.
But such desecration of office and official patronage as some
of them have been guilty of to secure the election of the
master whom they served as slaves is degrading to the cha-
racter of American freemen, and will be • good cause ler
removal of friend or foe. The offices of the government
should be filled with men of all parties; and, as I expect
to find many of those now holding to be honest, good
men, and u the new appointments will, of course, be whigs,
that will bring about this result. Although Ido not intend
te allow an indiscriminate removal, yet it grieves me to
think that it will be necessary to require a great ma yto
give place to better men. As to my cabinet, I intend that
all interests and all sections of the country shall be repre-
sented, bat not, as some of the newspapers will have it, all
parties. lam a whig,.as I have always been free to scknow
ledge, but I do not believe that those who voted for me wish
me to be a mere partisan president, and I shall, therefore,
try to bee president of the American people. As to the new
territory, it is now free, and slavery cannot exist there with-
out a law of Congress authorising it, end that I do not believe
th y will ever pass. I was opposed to the acqui,ition of
this territory, as I also was to the acquisition of Texas. I
was opposed to the war, and, although by occupation a war-
rior, I am a peace man.

The sentiments here recorded do General TAYLOR
the h;ghest honour, and if his government be only
conducted in the spirit here foreshown, no president
since WASHINGTON will have earned so valid a title
to the gratitude and reverence of his countrymen. It
is most cheering to find the new presicent, himself a
warrior and a conqueror, proclaiming himself the
champion of peace, and setting his face against the
lust for war and conquest with which his unscrupu-
lous predecessor too well succeeded in inoculating hi,
countrymen. It will be remarked that the dm e
great vices which stain the American system, and
lower the character and the prospects of democracy
all over the world—slavery, the thirst for war,
and the abuse of official patronage, are equally visited
with the reprobation of the new president. We do
most heartily trust that this paragraph is not one of
those unjustifiable hoaxes to which some of our trans-
atlantic contemporaries are but too prone.
A few days before General TAYLOR is stated to
have made the above declaration, an unusually forcible
expression of the impossibility of combining effective
organisation and careful management of the business
of the state with a clearance every four years of
officials of every rank, had proceeded from Mr. CAVE
JOHNSON, the present head of the pod-office depart-'
went. The question of postal reform has for
several years excited a great deal of interest
in the United Stater, and they have been
advancing by slow and uncertain steps to that
realisation of the benefits of a cheap postage of which
' this country had set them so striking an example.
Unfortunately they had no ROWLAND HILL among
them; and the bit by bit reforms to which congress
has consented have been impeded and rendered of
comparatively little effect, not only by the inordinate
privileges which the members of Congress reserved to
themselves, but still more by the negligence, cor-
ruption, and incapacity of the subordinates of the
Pest-office all through the country. The abuse and
incessant transference of official patronage has been
greater in this department than in say other, and the
result is that Mr. JOHNSON in his annual report, while
indicating the improvements in the postage system
which he deems necessary and practicable, is compelled
to conclude his report with the following paragraph-,
which any one who is familiar with American politics,
will perceive to be characterised by a frankness and
boldness very unusual in American statesmen while in
office.

It may not be inappropriate to remark that those con-
nected with administrative duties of this department could
not but have observed that there has been, for some years
past, a strong feeling pervading the country that the system
had been conducted by an organised corps, extending
throughout the Union into every neighbourhood, under
the control of politicians, at the seat of government,
wielded with the view of promoting party purposes, and
party organisation, rather than the business and social tate-
, rests it was created to advance ; that the effioes were be-
stowed as the reward of partisan services, rather than from
the merit and qualification of those selected ; and that each
presidential contest is to produce a new distribution of the
offices, and hence embittered political contests are excited in
almost every neighbourhood, demoralising in their tendencies
and injuriously affecting the purity of elections.
Whilst such apprehensions are entertained by a respecta-
ble portion of the community, a want of confidence in the
hlnesty and correctness of the officers, however pure and
upright in their conduct, soon shows itself, seriously injuring
the business of the offices and bringing discredit on
the system itself. The post-office system was deadened
for business purposes, for the cultivation of the
social and friendly feelings among the citizens of
the different sections of the Union, and should be in no
wise connected with the party polities of the day. This will
give that degree of confidence in its spate necessary to
render it the most useful to the people. There does not
seem any reason why this business and social agent of the
people, should be more connected with them, than the offi-
cers of the courts of justice, or the accounting officers of the
government—if it were believed that the latter officers per-
formed their duties assigned them with a view te the ad-
vancement of party purposes public opinion would soon
correct the evil—if the post-office were alike exempt from
political inflames and party contests, public confidence
would be maintained, and the best interests of the system
p rooted.
It may be well worthy of consideration, if these objtets
would not be advanced, should the Postmster•General be
nominated by the President te the senate for a specific term
of years, be separated from the cabinet, aad only removable
by impeachment; and the appointment of the principal
subordinate officers for a like term of year,, be given to him,
and to provide that no removal should be made, except for
good and sufficient cause, to be reported to each session of
the senate. CAN, JOHNSON, P. ht. General.
Whether the making the office of postmaster-gene-
ral permanent would be expedient may be doubted ;
but there seem, every likelihood that Gen. TAYLOR
will do his best to carry out the other suggestions of
, Mr. Joaraox.