The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-02 00:00:00

THE WEATHER AND THE CROPS.

CARLISLE.—The weather continues to be highly
favourable for the country ; an alternation of rain and sun-
shine helping forward vegetation in a meet satisfactory man-
ner. Several farmers in the vicinity of the city have cut
gran, and the grain crops are progressing most vigorously.
Bounatonsuitut —We have a continuance of the most
delightful weather, under which vegetation of every kind is
advancing mint luxuriantly. Turnips have been, and am,
the chief care of the agriculturist ; and they are being most
favourably got into the ground, the land having been well
repave& for them from the nature of the weather previous
to this.

CLERGY ORPHAN CORPORATloN.—Yesterclay the
annual general court of the Clergy Orphan Society was held
at the asylum, St. John's Wood, the liiihop of London in
the chair. The report stated that 10 orphans had recently
been elected, making a total of 140 now in the asylum—
namely, 70 boys and 70 girls, the whole of whom are main-
tained, clothed, sad educated. From the death of sub-
scribers and other causes, the annual receipts have fallen
from 4,6591. to less than 1,2001., seriously crippling the effec-
tiveness of the charity. An csaminktion of the children
took place, who displayed great proficiency; prizes were
awarded to the most meritorious, and, the report having
been adopted, thanks were voted to the chairman, and the
proceedings terminated.
OPENING OP THE SHROPSHIRE UNION RAlL-
wara.—Snnzwentrix, FRIDAY AFTERNOOL—Yepterday
this important chain of railways, by which the county
of Shropshire and the adj cent district are placed
in direct communication by means of the London and
North Western Railway, with which they communicate
at Stafford, was publicly opened, so that after to-day a pa--
Niger taking taking his seat in the express train from
Euston•square, will be enabled to reach Sbrewsbury, 169
miles, in five hours. The total cost of the line has been
500,0001. It Si to be worked by the London and North
Western, who guarantee it half their dividend, with all its
own profits up to six per cent. and half beyond it.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT LIVERPOOL.—OH Thursday
night, about eleven o'clock a fire broke out in the extensive
iron foundry of Meson. Pearson and Co., of Liverpool,
and was attended with a serious destruction of pro-
perty. The premises are known as the Liver Foundry,
and are situated in Parliament-street and Green-
lend street, at the south end of the town, and very
near the docks. The pattern room, together with the
whole of the valuable patterns it contained, is entirely de-
stroyed. The loss by this destructive conflagration ie esti-
mated at 0,0004, awl .re socierstand that hl, earl. Pearson
and Co. are not by any means fully Laved, the sum for
which an inrurance is effected on the patient room not ex-
ceeding 2,0001.

MONEY MARKET.

FIUDLY

The English funds have shown a further tendency
to improvement to-day, the fineness of the weather
and abundance of unemployed capital inducing a feel-
ing among the dealers that stocks mast improve upon
the present prices. Consols opened at 911 toy—the
price at which they left off yesterday—and there
having been a few purchases made of money stock,
they gradually advanced to 911 to 3. In the after-
noon they receded to 914 to 3, which was the closing
price.
The transactions in the Three per Cents. Reduced
were at prices ranging from 891 to 901, and the New
Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents. were done at 901191,
and 913.
Bank stock was firmer, and marks 1941. Exche-
quer Bills were done at 455. to 48a. premium for
March bills, and at 431.t0 465. for the advertised bills.
India Bonds were rather weaker, the announced re-
duction in the rate of interest upon them having
brought in sellers from the country, and the only
business in them today was at 70s. premium for
small boa&
Long Annuities were done at 8 9-18, 81, and 83.
In the Foreign securities there was not much busi-
ness; but Nome improvement was perceptible in the
prices of Spanish, Mexican, and Rued= stocks.
The official lists give the following quotations of
the actual business : Brazilian Bonds, at 78 and
771; Ditto, New, at 773; and the Bonds of
L 1843 at 713 ex-divldemd. Chilian Six per Cents.
L at 91 and 92; and the Three per Ceuta at 63.

Grenada Deferred, at 31. Mexican, at 27/ ex cou-
pons. Rug= at 103. Spanish Five per Cents.
Active at 161 and 17 the money, and 17, 171, 171,
and 17 for the 14th June; the Threes, at 33; 323,
and 331. Aastrian Bond. at 70 ; and thobutoh
Four per Cent. Certificates, 76 and 761.
In the Foreign Exchanges there was but little
doing to-day, and no change to notice in the rates.
We give the reported negotiations es tillows :
On Amsterdam, 12.2 to 21; (at short, 12 to 12.01);
on Rotterdam, 12.21 to 21; on Antwerp, 25.721 to
70; on Hamburg, 13.121 to 13.13; on Frankfort,
1211 to 122 ; on Paris, 25.65 to 70; (at short, 25.421
to 471) ; on Marseilles, 25.671 to 721; on Genoa,
26.40 to 50 ; on Vienna and Trieste, 12.20 to 30 ;on
Leghorn, 30.90 to 31 • on Naples, 401 to It ; on
Madrid, 491 to 1; on Cadiz 491 to I ; on Lisbon
(90 days), 53 to 1; on ()Porto, 531—a1l at three
months, unless otherwise expressed.
In the Corn Exchange to-day we have again to'
report a dull market, and pr:cm of foreign wheat
were somewhat lower. Barley was likewise rather
cheaper. Oats about 6d. lower for all but good
parcels. Beans and peas sustained previous rates.
On the whole, the market seems more to be influenced
by the large foreign supplies than by the recent im-
provement in the weather, for, till the last
day or two, the growing crops had not gene-
rally presented an appearance of a sufficiently satis-
factory character to affect prices of home-grown
wheat, of which the quantity brought to market does
net exhibit a lower aver, ioe than ruled in the
month of Aprll. hioßsea fie the co try there
has been a liberal importation of foreign corn under
existing circumstances of stook and supply of home
grown. Taking the quantity of wheat and flour in
bond on the sth ult. from the importations for the
three months ending on that day, we have 1,474,222
quarters of wheat, and 1,216,519 cwts. of flour en-
tered for home consumption, to which alone we can
attribute the present reasonable prices of bread
throughout the kingdom. In connexion with this
subject we may quote the following extract from the
Bankers' Magazine, published to-day :
The price of corn has still a tendency towards improve-
ment, as will be seen by the preceding figures from the
Gasetle. We hate now arrived at a period of the year
when the market nine of the article is governed more by
the prospects of the approaching than by the results of the
former harvest. We cannot say that the appearance of the
fields is quite satisfactory. We hear from the north, and
from some counties in the centre and in the west of the
hland, of the frequent occurrence of thin craps and stickle.
plants. An intelligent correspondent, on whose judgment
we can rely, says, with reference to the growing crops, We
have, during the present month, been through a large por-
tion of the county of Kent, and we are by no means so
well pleased with the results of our observation as we could
wish. On the opposite side of the channel, in Belgium,
especially in the provinces of Brabant and East and 'West
Flanders, where we have also had an opportunity of seeing
the growing crops, the luxuriant and vigorous aspect of the
wheat, and of the grain lands generally, is exceedingly
kvourable. In many of the places we passed through,
a few weeks of hot weather would bring on the
harvest. In the north of France the cultivation
k much behind that of Belgium : and there, al-
though the fields do not look amiss, we should have less con-
fidence is the out-turn of the crop.' The limited deliveries
trom our own growers quite confirm the general belief in the
providence of very small stocks of corn among the kronen.
Against this deficiency of home supply, however, there is
stall a liberal importation. It will be seen that the weekly
importation of wheat, for example, does not fall far below the
volume of the home delivery. We can easily urdentand that
a state of general low priors, concurring with a deficient
crop of inferior quality, has occasioned in many districts a
pressure of sgr.cultural distress. The farmer has had less to
sell, and the quality of the little he has had has been below
an average. If the experience of the last thirty-five week I
may be accept. das any guide, it is tolerably plain that in
seasons of ordinary fertility on the Continent, this country
me y reckon upon a liana importation so long as the prime
at Meek lane are abort 445., and the duty continues at Is.
per quarter. There can be no doubt, that in the present
year. it ha been a low duty which bus saved us from a hale
of prices very much beyond 440. and which has imparted to
the corn trade a degree of steadiness not of frequent occur-
rence in Its history. We question if the egricaltural distress
lies beteeen the tonnes and the owners of land.
The advices from Hamburg in the city to-day ere
to the 29th ult. They reort no change in the pre-
vious state of the markets. The mercantile commu-
nity continue to receive repeated statements of the
settlement of the Danish question, none of which
wt ra realised, but they now seem to think that there
is good reason to believe that this "useless allifc " is
about to close, and that the negotiations for that
object were in a forward state. Mean-
while, the blockading chips allow many ar-
rivals, and on the above date a large steamer from
Hull had come in. The only transactions worth re-
cording in produce are some sales of Brazil and
Domingo coffees, and about 900 bags La Guayra, at
previous quotations, and some retail sales of sugar at
full prices; but nothing was doing in cotton or rice.
The weather was remarkably fine and warm, and the
country never looked or promised better for the crops.
In the exchanges there was not much alteration; the
demand for bills was very limited, money was exceed-
ingly abundant, and shares and stocks generally
higher—except those of Russia. Gold was quoted at
439 per marco, and Imperials at 439 i paid. Exchange
on London was 13.10 for 3 months, and 13.111 at
short ;lon Paris, 187 at 3 months, and 185 at shortdatee
The Bank of England averages for the week end-
ing the 26th ult., when compared with the week
preceding, give the following results:
Methadon Panne ...127,eiro3s
Circulation eche* 18,469,200
Public deposits 5,370,555 Increase 561,710
Other deposits
Government Aersritice `14,175,507
banking department_
Other retort...es
Coin and Bullion
Seven day end other hills 1,110,332
The Best 2,151,602 Decrease 5,793
DANK ON E2lOLAND.—Acconse for the Week ending 16y 26, MB
reline DIP/ ',MUT.
dotes loud ...... Lif7,600,135

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Be
•it Debt ra.015.1e0
Other eeurniee 2,984,e(k
Oeid Coin and Maas 13.176.566
DOW Bake 323,801

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Government Beturitime
thtelud. Deed W€
Aaadtsl ..... Z 14,175,507
Otherfiewaetttes
I Noted ..........
I Gold lad killur Cala 9!7,031

trims' Haplta/ 41./43.00
3.151.402
Pubße Dewlta Unclad
leag=' tri=
Debt as Ln. accia.l 5.370.g55
Other Dwooft. „..„, 9.75.51000
tiona-dayaad War BUM 1,1114333
.133.940;7811 63
May 31. ISO. . MARSHALL. caleß3saguse4°'.
Captain G. A. Halsted, R.N., the secretary to
Lloyds' has received from Messrs. Brown, Franck
and Co. of Palermo, the agents of Lloyds, the grati-
fying intelligence of the cessation of the blockade of
that port on the 15th May; official notice having
been given to the foreign consuls by the commodore
commanding the Neapolitan squadron that the con-
test between Naples and Sicily had terminated, and
pence was established. A notice to this effect was
accordingly posted in the underwriters' room yester-
day afternoon.