The Express.
London, England, 1854-01-03 00:00:00

I REVIEW OP THE CORN TRADE
DURING TER PAST WEEK,
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(Fro= The 1.4 Low Eaprosa.)
BRITISH.
At the close of the ,year a short retrospect of the
sours. of the trade may perhaps preys welcome to our
feeders. Our spew Win met permit as to ester into the
sabjeet very =lase* ; bat unties of mos of the west
striking features wilt make to recall to Wad the nest pro-
Lana eirearassoess, sad their ressequesese.•
. At the spesiog of the year the prevailing belief was
that prises of grata would undergo a material advance.
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This impression eras card initial; by the aekaowledged
feet that the submit and-tinta had proved exceedingly
nafavoarable. 84 great a qaaatity of rain fell I. she

&steam, sal tits early part or the -winter, net a large
breadth of boil tateaded for wheat could sot be seeded,

sad the prospects for the seconding crop were at that
out, period already viewed as precarious. Oar ranehaato
were enesequently Waned to purehese rather freely abroad
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during the white; raenths, and the weather proving very
mild. the Beide porta remained open to a later period than
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metal. The mope ales of the navigation was al ;o somewhat
sooner thee is ordinary seseese. Ureter these eitesiesteateie

the brook is the nppliee frost abroad, wbM bad bees
misted es, sod oa whisk the ezpeotatios of higher priest
wee partly hued, did sot take place ; for daring the short

tinethatthe Baltic yens wenelesei by int, we had libenl

arrivals front tie -Moditeneassa .ad Bleak SOS. The
wheat trade, therefore, »utilised quiet throughout the
moth oflanuary, sad in February the rho in price did not
weed Is. per qr. h )[arch we received large supplies
fres Franco, Spahr. the Mediterranean, sad Atomise ; sad
prises gave way about 2e. per qr. at the priacapal seer

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Wailaitrwas. The weighs: shoat this timewasleralsly
aaspisiess for spring sowing, sad the lent corn was, on

ttio-orbolo, sot is liaL , A pa" tika of *Oland whiOlt it'liod

bee* tee peeible to seed in the setae= was devoted to other

peritonea, hitt part was sown with spring wheat. Throukh-
-1 oat April business ramainod very inactive, and namely
any change took plank is quotations. May proved a trying
month; the wind was constantly (mai the eastward; and

t►ois► tile days were ►oe aid isany, t►e t►ermooeter on

several ecoaaiene lank to very newly freezing point at night.
That this did lajwy to the spring eorn and grass loads
esatoet be questioned. It tailed, however, to soutane'
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eb afoot of largo foroiga enfol", aad Pricer of whaat

gave way 4s. to ifs. per qr. at lark-lane, reducing the value
of good red, the growth of Boss: and Kent, to 40a., sad
white to about 466. per qr. Tbis was the lowest point,
we are induced, therefore, to give the quotations, se tbe
subsequent ries will then be aeon reedily underseood. The

upward mmeument eornmeaced in Jane. The weather es.
perinea in that month wee more favourable than it had
been previously, but it bad they been discovered that
large as bail been the supplies, ouswmptio• bed nearly
kept peen with the mute, and that a mush smaller ao-
eumulatin of stocks had taken place than might have
ben espeted. The Moulin time for wheat wee ims-
peepitires, sad in July a considerable quantity of fain
fell, Me effect of which was a decided rise is prices, and
by the end of the month wheat wee selling at Mark-
lane 10a. per qr. higher than it might have been bought
at In May. Other articles participated in the upwind
movement. The nominal top pries of dour, which had
previously stood at 475., was put up to 60s. per sack,
end spring corn of all descriptions advanced in propor.
floe. In the early part of August, h wee com-
menced in the southern and forward parts of the king-
doms natter favourable auspices; at about the same time
liberal supplies of grain reached our shore, from various
foreign ports. The immediate effect of this wee a sodden
decline, and in the lint fortnight wheat needed 7s. to Be.
per quarter. Complaints began then to be current re-
epeeting the yield of wheat, and as cutting progressed
these bums more numerous ; the downward mo
was consequently checked, and before the close of the
Meat 4e. per quarter of the decline had been reeowned.
The advance Hasegawa', wee rapid ; the weather Ned
biome decidedly unfavourable. Only a very small
was of the wheat wee carted in good order, and a
peat quantity wee badly injured by wet. Meanwhile
Mu bummed waste of France had mused buyers from
isms ue appear be die Swab markets, which, with the
egleilinB Sag tlo 1111111•4 t d the produce of wheat would
puce kart seellelp. enema peat excitement and so import-
ant rise. The epanMg pries* for new wheat at Mork-lane
were 62e. toils. few red, and 68e. to 83s. per qr. for white
Before the end of Bepeembet the sane qualities had been
mold reepeetively at Me. to Mr., and Ms. to 755. • indeed, for
Flaked samples of white 80s. per qr. had been realised. Eng-
lish dour rue 10s. par auk, and American 3s. to 6s. per
barrel, in the wens de few weeks. A temporary calm suc-
ceeded, and in the beginningef October a reaction to the ex-

teat of about 2a per qr. took place in the value of wheat ,
to well, however' bad the deficiency of the crop by this
time been aseertained that this moderate eoneassiou suf-
ficed to emosarage buyers to *Mead their operatieee, sad
ribaldl use almost immediately recovered. In November
them ersrelay Mal change; buyers were in general es-
MIA te hallo, their operations to each quantities as they
required he imesedista am, sad the supplies from abroad
bag libeed, the. mussy el prime was, on the whole,
doerammeds. W. have view brought the fluctuations down
to We Feast meth. December commenced rather quietly,
heit sesidem luertAill in the export demand gave a fresh
impetus to the upward moonseat. The rise mime the elms
of November may be fairly estimated at de. to 7e. per qr.
ea all desselptiene of wheat, end if we 'rompers present
sprolation wish theme current in May, the rim will be hued
to asismat to Ida. to 406. per qr. That this could not have
emenered with free trade, if the deficiency in the lest cep
had art been very wins is several of the principal cond-
iment& wheat•grariag onatriee, as well as in Great Bri-
, fah, is *utile; and this beteg admitted, it is not easy to
ix • limit to the rims.
That greet efforts will be made to collect wheat in the
header of America, and that we shell obtain all that the
Milkifillst of Europe can spare, there can be no deebt ;
hat lookiag at the ease with which all that has hitherto
moehed as harbees absorbed, it mast be admitted that
• yeedbility, if not a probability, exists of supplies falling
Meet of daubed, more espedally daring the neat two or
the,. meatis, these being little prospect of the seethera
pee" Ode, Mei hem he in time to allow supplies to each
hermihemee lifers April or hay.
The ram*, of broaden& on passage from the other
sided the Atlantic is maqueboubly large, but we are
hellasi to think that it may not seam to serest the up-
ward movement, and we can come to no other concla.ion
than that the auudnuria pedal has not yet been reached.
With the eseeptial of a temporary thaw of a few boars'
dam*. ea Friday, the weather has been very severe
theetsgheat the week. A stop has been put to most kinds
of cat•door work, and farmers have had plenty of time for
thrashing, nothwithstanding which, the deliveries from the
growers have bees 011 • Tify moderate scale.
Though the holidays- have interfered more or lees with
the regular coarse of beldam, there has beau r good deal
elf mstivity in the wheat trade, and the tendency of prime
has been decidedly upwards ; indeed, at moat of the SSW
kilts held towards the close, ea advance of 2s. io Bs. per qr.
was insisted ea, and in many oases obtained.
At Mark lane the transactions have net been particularly
extensive, still a fair amount of business tees been done.
Oa Wednesday there was a small show of samples on the
Reees, Kent, and Suffolk stands, and the town millers
Amin rather more disposition to buy, factors succeeded
la ratabliging an adrenal of le. to 2a. per qr. on the rates
ainsat «a the 19th ult. Oa Friday there was scarcely a
maple of English wheat fresh up, and a further rim of Is.
pm qr. was pretty generally obtained.
The snivels of wheat into the port of London since the
line of last week have been small, and importers have
Mmidested great indifference about reallaing. There
vlav a good country demand on Wednesday, and previous
Rate. were ezetedsd by at least le. per qr. ; subsequently,
the 'rivalry improved, and rather aa extensive business
was done ea Friday at a further eshaamenent of 1.. per qr.
Thu tar, osly a small potties of the Animism supply has
arrived, bat we probably shall have geed receipts neat
week. Nothing of mush interest has taken place in floating
cargoes, owing partly to the very high pretensions of sellers
sad partly to a felling off in the export demand.
Flour hes been in 'moderately good request, sad men
mew was obtained for fresh American on Friday than
meld have been railed at any period of last week.
Though then Meals& show of. English barley on Wed-
nesday, the whiten and distillers had to pay le. to h. per
qr. more than is the 19th December, sad nearly the whole
WY said. Foreign barley roe Is. per qr. in value ; and the
shames on both Wads was well maintained on Friday.
Malt he. participated in the upward movement, and the
tarn bee boom decidedly against the baler.
, The seseipme of oats cemeteries skew a small increase as
1, empanel with remit arrivals ; bat from 'relied we have
had Uttle to Ire sandy sines the dose of the week, and
I, the paatitg seldell has mote to hand from shooed has
she" MO 'AMU. The esavieties that no farther quantity
of tab can rush en from say of the earthen coati-
metal ports till spring, hes Who'd the dealers to bay

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rather freely, sad mast of the reesnt arrival, have been
Bleated off the 'market. The business done on Wednesday
w,ss at priors 6d. to Is. per qr. above those of last Monday
wee,::, and on Friday these rates were again eitweded by
gc. pee gr. In Ireland pries. are very high, and it would
cot pay t,,,ship from thence to tLe London market.
gegiish bevel have cone rather sparingly to hand, and
have crept up :41. per qr. ; for Egyptian a similar advance
has been asked.
Whit. per have oh; rather mon readily, and in some
ease! at lc per qr. nob: money. Tn prices of grey and
maple peat no change has ta.krw place.
Indian corn has been hold at enhanced teems.
FOREIGN.

The Christmas holidays are nasally more avidly kept
on the continent than with us, and braises' is almost
wholly Impended :dodo; the week which mem& We
bare eonsequatly nothing fresh to censannicate from the
Sallie ; bat the general tone of the advice. from theme is
very lbw, and holden anticipated a further rise in prices.
The frost hod, we are informed, increased in intensity, and
the ioe bad become as thick, and arm as to render a re-
opening of the navigation before the spring very inspro-
bable. Supplies from the growers had rather increased,
bat the demand had bees good, and all that had been
offered had been readily taken by merchants at very full
sates.

The amounts from the near coatineatal ports aro of a
similar chariots/. At Ramburgh, on Tuesday, mormily
anything wia dom.; and at Rotterdam no outlast was
hold on Yoaday.

la the Belgium markets butiaeee appears to lave been
quits neglected during the week, owing to t►e holidayee
and no quotations we (WWI.

The I;teet advisee goot the Mediterraaeut state dud.
&fur a temporary dames; the demead for w►eat had again
revived ; and at Leghorn, an the 21et. prime were le. to
la. 6d. higher than the week before.

At Malia the operations appear to have boon natinpor•
tut, bet holden bad contained ezteedingly dm.
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Fee. Odessa we teem eleit meet of the vessels which

bad been loading theie had completed their cargoes, and
a calm had succeeded to the previous bustle. The
harbour bad been nearly cleared of ships, and little
business had been done daring the preceding week. Eno
qualities of wheat bad become very mares, and for the
lower descriptions, weighing only 60 to 61 lbs. per bushel,
equal to 375. 64. per qr., free on board, had been asked.
Rye sod ladled emu bad been in Wive request for the
Mediterranean poet.

The latest advises from Link% inform us that less en-
couraging reports Wm hence had caused a slight decline in
the value of flour. The inland navigation had been elated
by ice, and stocks at the ports on the coast were generally
light; the probability is, therefore, that on receipt of the
news of the rally here, prices recovered the decline.
The exports from the United States from let September
to lath December had amounted to—flour, 687,724 bushels;
wheat, 3,640,510 bushels; maize, 616,124 bushels. Sane
time last year—flour, 326,325 bushels; wheat, 2,216,310
bushels; maize, 52,465 bushels.

ASSAULT BY AN UNDER-GRADUATE UPON A

SOLICITOR AT CAMBRIDGE.

A great deal of interest was excited at the Cam-
bridge Borough 13406004 holden yesterday (Monday) morn-
ing. by a charge of smith preferred by ors of trio most
eminent solicitors in the town against en under-graduate of
Christ's College and the son of Mr. Deigliton, the well-
known bookseller of Trinity.street. The defendant is a
slim youth of about 20 years of age, so tint Mr. Foster, as
far as physical strength is concerned, is infinitely his su-
perior.
Mr. Mills appeared for the complainant, and Mr. Wool-
lidge for the defence, before Mr. Serjeant Storks, the Re-
corder for the borough. The bat witness called was the
plaintiff himself.
Edmond Faster—l em a solicitor in Cambridge, in part-
nership with my brother and em the son of the late B.
Foster, Esq., of Annoy Hall. On the 22nd of December I
appeared in the Comity Court, as solicitor in the eau of
" Robson and another v. John Deightme and Grant." The
plaint was by the 'urinate of the late Mr. Robson
against the churchwardens of St. Michael's, Messer.
Deighton and Grant. Mr. Leighton is a bookseller
in Trinity-street. Mr. Cooper, the town clerk, appeared
for the defendants. I made an observation to Mr. Cooper:
I said, "The fact is, my clerk, Mr. Waymen, has been too
busy studying the Bine Book" (the report of the commis-
'loners to inquire into the circumstances connected with the
return of Mn.essr Astell and Macaulay at the last electien).
That was in answer to Mt. Cooper, who said that we had
taken out the summons in the wrong name. Mr. Joseph
' Jonathan Deighton was named in the Blue 80.,k, and
Wayroan took out the summons in he same instead of that
of Mr. John Deighton. I was non-suited: that was about
three o'clock in the afternoon,and I left the court at that
time,and went to my office. left there to go to my dinner,
sad left my private residence to return to the office about
slx o'clock. At the corner of Benett-street, next Kieg's
Parade, l saw some one standing, and it prove to be the
defendant. He spoke to me "your name's Foster,
I think." I replied " yes, it is •' and he then said "my
name's Deighton ; you re a d—L.' d blackguard and • lying
thief." He spat in my face and said " there's something
ka you to take home." I then turned en him, saying
"what do yon mean by thin!" and he then squared his
'beta and struck me a violent blow under the right eye. My
eye was black for a week. I thought it was not worth
while having a "set-to" there, and 1 said he should hew
mon of it, and went my way. I go that way four days a
week. I made a complaint before the magistrates. The
Master of Peterhouse and other magistrates sent the ease
to the sessions. I never had any altercation with either the
defendant or his father, though I and the latter differed as
to the ehurch.rates of St. Michael's pariah.
The defendant's statement before the magistrates was
here pat in, and read by the Clerk of the Peace as under :
"Osntlemeo, on two or three occasions the complainant
bus malted my father at St. Michael's Church. My father
▪ iminplained to me of the systematic insults that he has
reesbeed from Mr. Foster during the lut two years. Oa
Tbarefarlaet my father complained to me again (when I
iletelinbed home about four o'clock) that Mr. E. Foster had
inadowly insulted him by an injurious and false sassed=
cleat my uncle, who is dead. This assertion was made ea-
duly independent of the ease which Mr. Foster
was conducting. My father felt that he was grossly
and cruelly insulted by it. On hearing this, and
seeing how my father was affected by it, I do.
termined to pat upon Mr. Foster such an insult
to I eensidered due to the repeated insults which he
heil limed to my father, and more especially to his conduct
that awning ; end it was with that Intention left the house.
With regard to the blow that I struck, it was entirely in
'alt-defence, as I anticipated on! front Mr. Poster after
what had tkes plow. lam sorry I was induced to act
ht the violent manner I did, but I acted under the inz-
=aof punishing Mr. Foster for the insults he had
my father, and within en hoer of hearing what
wok plate that morning."
At the conclusion of the evideace of Mr. Footer, Mr.
'Woriledge called for the defence,
' 'John Deighton, who said—l was churchwarden of St.
Illehaels with Mr. Grant. I 'employed Messrs. Foster to
enforce a church rate against Smith, lathe Crete:mu. Whits
I was so employing the firm, I learned that Mr. Edmond
rester was- privately supporting Smith in his opposition to
the rate, and went and complained to Mr. Ebenezer Foster
about it; and he, finding Mr. Edmond hod actually sub-
scribed money to support Smith, advised me to withdraw
the cue oat of the hands of the dna. Mr. Edmond Foster
behaved most discourteously to me at St. Michael's vestry,
whtle I was churchwarden, in the presence of my eon. I
cannot recollect the words he used, but he treated me
with contempt and disrespect. I complained of
that in the presence of my son, and my whole
flunlly knew I was aggrieved. I heaul Mr. Foster
say in the County Court that my late brother's name
au well known in the Blue Book. Mr. Faster said
that the churchwardens ought to have funds in their hands;
I understood him to mean that I ought to have money
derived from the rate, though he knew that he was the
mews of upsetting the rate. I have had to pay more than
Mi. oat of my own pocket in consequence of the defeat
of lbw rate, which was caused simply by an informality in
the notice. I motels I was in a great state of excitement
when I went home from the court. It was caused by Mr.
Fester's conduct at the Wert, and for two years previously,
and which had undermined my health and spirits. My
son heard me express my indignation. I recounted to him
what had taken place ; that was about 6 o'clock, anti he left
the table in the middle of dinner. He was gone about 20
minutes, and on his return he told me he had assaulted Mr.
Foster.
Arthur Edward Deighton—l am the defendant. My
father, on the day of the trial at the County Court, came in
in a state of great excitement. 1 was present at St.
Michael's vestry a year and a half ago, when Mr. Poster
masted my father with marked discourtesy of meaner. L.
considered my tether bad been much injured by Mr..
Foster, end I conceived myself the proper pasty to resent
it. I afterwards went and apologised to Mr. Foster. ~,A
said that if I had had time for reflection, 1 should haw
acted fat otherwise.
By Me. Mills-1 most certainly went oat with the delibe-
rate intention of cemmitting the assault, bat as I say, if I
had hid time for rodection, I should not have dont it.
Thy Recorder would not sentence the defendant to im-
priemuneot, bat at the seine lime he must mark his sense
of the cooduet of the defendant, and to do so he adjudged
hid to pay • tine of 201. to the Queen, and to be bound
over w memsoinnees to keep the peace, himself in the sum
of 601. and two sureties of 251. each.
Mr. mine applied for wets, and the Recorder ordered the
same bgaisst the defendant, to be taxed by the officer of
the wart.

ilialtdlettti—HOLLOVATi OINTIMNT AND
=caradwassow Cosa ow • SID Lao.—A too of
Of OwrA-lobldsow, now l'isisorlap. hod •
ds bah whit& woo wash seurwollenft sad Moses& Vorioss
• MS /01 the Parlte• it, Intl. gigted. sad
lof that nature that it•.ut mai a•Wma tun woo ofthe no
this efts. Mr. Whew Bea*. 410" of the Wee AWN
mew to wHotioway's Otatsost awl nu, which
rd •Ma 1•11•11110•11 lank for in • short thwo Vos log
stet mu% illkoft maths" spot ow biswile.--bakt by all
sad at Messer llMbway's EstabiLloseat, ISt, Strand,

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