The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-28 00:00:00

SPAIN.

MADRID, SEPT. 22.
To-clay the council of ministers meets to take into
consideration the proposals which Orlando has brought
with him from the Catalonian mill-owners. These
proposals are :—That no cotton goods be admitted
into Spain that contain more than 28 threads in a
Spanish quarter of an inch, and sheeting the Spanish
square yard of which weighs but 24 a&rmes
(drachms). 2. That handkerchiefs shall be submitted
to the same =ague, but paying the high duty im-
posed by law. That mixed stuffs be prohibited (those
of ilk, cotton, and wool). That tissues containing a
mixture of cotton, hemp, or thread shall pay the ave-
rage duty of 16 reals the square yard. If these pro-
posals meet with the approbation of the ministers,
the Tariff Bill will be a dead letter.
Wan" 2132. T. 22.—Tbree per Csab., Banksnt; Four per*Centi...
11 ; Ftve pis Cents., 111; Couons, 7 ; of EL Feril., 77
paper. &thaw an Lcadm,2o so.

ABERDE/NSHTAI CATTLE RiYoftTe.—Oar cattle
exports are now at their lowest figure, and for a month
or two comparatively few will be Since our last
publication 150 cattle only have been exported to Loudon
and Newcastle. Lest year at this time we mused up the
toed number exported for the year sadist August. This
year we have mad* a similar summery, sad fled the total to
be 18,300, which is ea lames* on the exports of hat year of
nearly 3,000. To skew the rise sad progress of this trade we
submit the totals for every year slue it was commenced,
• •. —lB2B, 150 cattle ; 1820, 250 ; 1830, 400 ; 1831, 550 ;
1832, 800; 1833, 1,250 • 1834, 3,125; 1835, 4,628 ; 1836,
5,605; 1832, 6,850; 'lB3B, 6,150; 1839, 6,250; 1840,
6,422 ; 1841, 6,450 ; 1842, 9,643 •, 1843, 10,160 ; 1844,
10,661; 1846, 11,928• 1846, 12,300• 1847, 13,783 •
1848, 15,420 ; 1849, 18,300. Total, 149,685 cattle. Theo;
' ilgures, we believe, are as neer an s to the truth
es eon well be get ; sad they show that the cattle
mob el Aberdeenshire bee greys to dimensions. La
We muse than 20 years ear shippers boot osperted about
="tattle. If we estimate the rearm et *see at 201 a
the gross receipts from the Lsodes sad Yorkeldre
markets are shown to be 3,000,0001.—5ay three :aliens of
ponds. Fifty years ago 8,0001. would have paid for all the
wads sold to the southern drovers. Twge4 yews ago, w-
hop, 10,0001. was the Talus of the es stock of the
ounty ; but what pions advances are bee. made
shams a direct commusion with London was opened up.
Beettith Fanner.

ELLYAW's Amitra. SHEEP BALL—The annual
sale of sheep from the Ellman flock took play at Landpert,
on Thursday, under the presidency of Mr. Pitman Verrall.
The full-mouthed ewes were purchased by Mr. Jonas Webb,
at 61. 15s ; Lord Hastbige and Mr. Fend, 81.10 s. ; Lord
Hastings. 31. 16e.; and the rest at an average of 31.3 e. 104 d.
each. The one-year ewes fetched from 21. 14s. to 21.,
averagiag 21. 10a. 6d. A three-year ram was hired
for Lord burn, of Caesarean, for 361. 15s. ; Lord Hutings
purchased one for 181.75. 6d., and another for 131. 2a. 6d.
Mr. Field, for 111. 11s. ; Mr. Woodhatai, for 101. 10a.; and
Lord Lisburn, for 211. The whole of the sheep were sold
to breeders out d amen ; never, it is said, did the Elks*
flock show to greater advantage than on this occasion. At
tile COSldasias of the mle *a company were invited to the
miaow Ogle beardse. Abe Blisnae, Esq., Leadport, to
• DierW the umber various tles connected with the
agricultural **feu WWI amused • sad an opinion was
expressed, hornlike expwlestoe of Boatidowns when removed
:rem their native Ms, that if this celebrated breed of sheep
wee better fed eel sheltered In the winter the result would
nesual inareses in the sise and as iisProTimulat la the
&edition of the .keep.—Brightoks Ossetia.
Cuv:IVATION OP FLAL—At the recent quarterly
numbs 6 f the Hereford Fermin' Club the subject discussed
was whUlter flax can be prolitably cultivated in the county
of Hereford." After a good deal of argument en both sides
the question, the following conclusion was Arrived at : " That
In the oolitic)* of iltis meeting there is a proimbilin that flax
map be isrefltabl; cultivated ut thh eoanty, end *mein* it
is strongly saccscoange that experiments be eiimmixily
tried."

THE INHABITANTS OP SOUTHAMPTON observed
Wednesday as a day of humiliation, prayer, and thanks.
giving. Of humiliation and prayer on amount of the pre-
miums of that great merge the cholera, which is now d-
ai em rear of the country ; and of thanksgiving
laid bad been at length removed from the locality of
liffsialleeptoo. All the shops in the town were clued, sad
ifilmisse were held in all the churches and chapel..
THE NEW POST-OFFICE, DEVONPORT.—ibis build-
ing having bees sumpleted, and all necessary arrangements
I garde, was first used ea • post-o Mos on Thursday morning.
THE 1848 HoP BUTT.- —This day the Chancellor
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I deretend, was to be very numerous.
Permxtraltitte Same.—On Monday next the new l,
' act for regulating the carriage of passengers in merchant
vessels (12 &13 Viet., c. 33) will 001113 into forge. It con-
tains 64 sectiors and some schedule,. Several statutes are'
repealed, and the present one is to form the law on the sub-
The commissioners of emigration are to can y the act
co
Into execution, with power to appoint assistant officers.
I Passengers' ships are to be surveyed before they proceed to
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be ash Wad in conspicuous places on board ship se that
premien.s may know their rights, and the owners of vessels
be compelled to comply with the saactmen's ci the same.
SUICIDE BY A FEMALE.—Yeaterday art2roo tn Mr.
Center rescinded en inquiry at the Town-hall, Gray, s md,
smoothing the death of Elizabeth Briant. The deceused
held a situation in a gentleman's family at Streatham up to
the second week in this month, when she left. Oa Thurs-
day, the 13:h inst., she visited a beer-shop, kept by a person
of the name of Twits, near the Clifton Marine-parade and
Rushes vale-pier. Sne retired to rest about halt-put eight
o'clock, and the following morning, on the apartment Deena
entered, a melancholy scene presented itself. The bed writ
saturated with blood, hut the female had vanished. The
window, which overlooked a side yard, was epee, end a
blanket dangling out of it. The attention of the officers
was directed to the water-aide, and at the edge of a lime-
wharf, some 40 or 40 yards from the beer-shop,
Was seen more blood. Here it became evident
that the deceased had scone into the river.
The body was picked up in the river below this relic:, and
the articles of drug which were left in the room led to her
identity. Mr. Grim/haw' surgeon, of Gravesend, deposed
that be had examined the body. There wen a wound &arms
the throat, four inches in length and one in depth. It ran
from left to right. The cut was not deep enough to cruse
death. The larger vessels were Lot divided. lie made a
pest mortgage examination end he co- sidered deceased died
Area drowning. By Coroner—Thought it probable that the
dessosed after cutting her throat could have descended by
the blanket and gone to the river side and thrown herself ir.
Certainly vu of opinion that she was alive when she went
into the water. Harriet Manfield, housemaid in the same
family as the deceased had been, deposed that deceased fre-
quently complained of being unhappy and had hinted at
deetroyiag herself. The jury returned • verdict " That
the deceased destroyed herself while in a state of temporary
insanity."
ALARMING FIRE IN HOLBORN.—Yesterday morn-
ing, between three and four o'clock, a fire broke out in the
premises belonging to Messrs. Cronin, Wheeler, and Cu.,
wholesale manufacturing ',millers, in Bertletexbuildiess,
Holborn. Before the Brigade could get the flames eaten-
gabbed, the workshop in which the disaster commenced,
together with its valuable contents, was much damaged.
Nay OMELET.—Break four eggs in a basin, add
two salt-ipoenfuls of salt, half a one of pepper, and two tele.
spoonfuls of fresh grated Parmesan cheese, beat all well; put
two spoonfuls of French beans' cut small in the usual way,
well boiled; put your omelet pan oa the Are, with two
ounces of butter, and finish. It not Parmesan, any mild
cheese may be Reed.—M. Soyer.
MILK IN PARIB.—A day or two ago a HOMO. :4:-
peered before the president of the correctional police,
charged with having committed assault and battery on the
olfactory organ of the plaintiff. She stated her name to be
Muller, the Teutonic cacophony of which did not prevent
her from being by birth and prescriptive right a genuine
Parisian mistress, who absolutely can no more exist without
her cafe an lair for breakfast than a Highlander without his
whet el Glenlivet. She considers it her duty to take it good,
but, alas! this beau ideal of what top au tail ought to be
has always been for her a dream—a vision of bliss never to
be realised, for it is universally recognised, by both the phi-
losopher and the gamin, that not one drop of pure milk is to
be obtained in all Paris for love or money. Nevertheless,
constantly deceived though always hoping, like the rest of
her sex, the fair portress gulphed her mat (lieutg every morn-
ing with a wry but patient face, so long es it could be
gulphed; one clay, hoe ever—a day marked with black
chalk in the calendar—the bluish mixture that was palmed
off upon her under the misnomer of milk seemed to her so
undrinkable, that all the acrid acid of milk was suffused
over her usually benign lineaments, and, yielding to a mo-
ment of vivacity, she permitted herself to be guilty of an act
of wrath and violence on the person of her milkman, for
eltich she now stood before the tribunal of the correctional
police. The President, to the accused : You have permitted
yourself to commit an act of brutality really quite unit's
tillable on the pan of a women. Do you admit the charge 1
Tag Accused: If I admit it, most certainly I do, stance
it is the truth; but I hope this milkman will remember
it, and that he won't take it into his head, for a long
time at least, to deceive either me or others, The Milk.
mashall "......einoer it ; and my poor non will
Ilitiln :
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tstrbiitnk I
too,—my nose, which will never get its net,
pendicular again, as the tribunal may judge, seeing how
ft has been damaged by the gentle ways of my customer.
The Accused: Never mind; I confess I was a little
hasty, bat you aggravate things, too; end besides, it's no
fault of mine, my good man, if your nose is on one side ;
you ought rather to lay It to a defect of birth. 'lb.
Milkmen: Thank yea, without taking iota the account the
blow of your milkpot, which you broke into a thousand
bits upon my face, for only the handle remained in your
hands. The President: That was a hard hit, and it left
a wound, the scar of which I see still. Tne Accused:
Gracious gosdness ! I hit him with my coffee-cup, and not
with my milk-pot, and that makes a wide difference, for I
was only holding that at the moment. But I must tell
you there was enough to throw one into a passion; only
think of his milk turning three times, one after the other,
that morning; my three sous were as good as thrown
away, and then for the lose of my breakfast . . . •
The President, to the milkman; Is it true that your milk
really turned three times ? The Milkman: What can you
expect ? It was no fault of mine. It wes the heat, the
thunder, that did that. The Accused: Fiddle fuddle with
your hest and thunder ! It was mares' milk, pigeons' milk,
which I don't swallow at my time of life; it was the
drags he stuffs into the drink that makes all this curdling
and clotting. I know the milkman cent be cured in that
artkde eh* and for a long time I ought to have got my
milk frees another cow than what Ms his pail, but so lens
as a mixture eon be got down, why a body does get it
down. I think ha must have taken a desperate heavy
hand while he was mixing on that day. The President:
Yours, you mean. The Accused: What's done is done ;
let it be a lesseta to him, and don't let him eke out and
physic his milk. The Milkman : Thank yoe for the hint,
but if all my customers were like you I should be soon
(creed to shut up ship and ant the pail. The Accused:
And there would be no great harm if government were to
make some famous reforms in that quuter.—The tribunal
condemned Madam Muller to a week's incareeration.—Ga-
seers des Tribbasaits.

MONEY MARKET.

TRVBSDAT EVIIIINO:
The market opened very quiet for Consols at the
closing prices of yesterday, but with a firm appar-
ince, and after being marked for the first transactions
at 921 for money, they advanced and were next done
at 921; from this they receded to the opening price,
and were done again at 921 and 1, at which latter
fraction they became buyers. At this period of the
day some very extensive purchases of money stock,
by a leading influential broker, esur2cl an
immediate rise to 931, which was sustained to the
close of business, when they were officially marked
93 to & for money, and 931 to 1 for account.
The business in all kinds of Exchequer Bills was of
an unusually animated nature, and to some extant, at
385., 374., and 40s. ; ditto, 6001., at 35e., 375., and
40e.; ditto, Small, at 40s. and 375. premium. India
Bonds realised 715., 74e., and 751. prem.
There was very little business negotiated in the
foreign house, and the transactions, which were
as follow, present nothing of importance:—
Danish Three per Cents. 182.5, at 77. Mexican
ex-coupons, at 27/ and 1 for money, and at 271 and
for account ; ditto, Small, at 271. Peruvian Four
per Cents., 1849, at 55 and 1; ditto, Deferred, at 171
and 1. Spanish Five per Cents., at 171, 1,17, and
171 ; ditto, Passive Debt, at 31. Two-and-a-Half
per Cents. Dutch at 64 and 64; ditto, Four per
Cents CertiLleates at 841 and 851.
Yesterday's Jetts from Amsterdam report the Na-
tional Fan ds u :tot quite so firm in price, and the
Four per Cents. especially were offered. Austrian
Metalliques were Teri firm, and improved iu price.
Rumba maintained previous rites. Portuguese eras