The Express.
London, England, 1847-11-10 00:00:00

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somewhat lower prices. The supply is small, and maltsters
purchase only for their present wants. There is some inquiry
for Beans and Peas, of which scarcely enough appear to

quote prices.
Limns, Nov. 9.—Our arrivals are moderate of all grain ;
the buyers of Wheat having purchus2d freely last week, are
quite inactive today, and sales are 11. per qr. below Friday's
rates. Barley slow, and prices as before. No alteration in
Oats, Shelling, or Beans. Arrivals this week:—Wheat,
6,043; Oats, 1,277; Barley, 1,763; Beans, 259; Rapeseed,
103 ; Linseed, 1,650.
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..,otottros BCZZA.RD, Nov. 9.—Of Wheat there was a
liberal supply offered, and although a dull trade, last week's
rates were supported. In Barley, Beans, and Peas no alte-
ration worthy of notice. Wheat, per load of 5 bushels, 30s.
to 351. 6d. Barley, 295. to 335. per qr. Beans, old, 355. to
378.6 d.; per 5 bushels; new, 28s. to 30s.

LEWES, Nov. 9.—Wheat met a good demand, and was in
fair supply. Barley, Oats, Beans, and Peas, steady sale.
Wheat, new, 131. 101. to 141.; red, 121. los. to 121. 16s.
Barley, 30s. to 345. Oats, 21s. to 235. Beans, 40s. to 445.
Peas, 365. to 40s.

LIVERPOOL, Nov. 9.-Exclusive of a liberal quantity of
Oatmeal from Ireland, the receipts thence and coastwise
during the week are limited. Beyond a fair supply of B. ans
from Egypt, those of foreign produce recently into this port
are also light ; and, from the extreme pressure of the times,
the prospect of the American rivers and the Baltic being
shortly closed, there appears no probability of any efficient
importations from abroad, until thole avenues are re-
opened in the spring. Meanwhile the deliveries from
our home-growers, hitherto only moderate, will in-
crease,
as autumn sowing is now nearly completed.
Our market to-day was attended by several Irish buyers, but
rather fewer from the country than of late, and, generally
spaking, less animation was exhibited in moat articles of
the trade than for some weeks past. Upon a moderate de-
mend for prime Wheats, which are scarce, the prices of this
day week were slightly exceeded; all other qualities of Eng-1
Inh, Irish, and foreign nearly receding to the rates then
stated. Flour of all descriptions, being taken much less
freely than heretofore, merely sustained the currency of
Tuesday last. Barley and Malt, upon a tolerable demand,
supported former prices. Beans and Peas, with a moderate
glare of attention, remained unaltered in value. Good kiln.
dried melting Oats, upon a limited supply, were saleable at
Id. per 451 b. over the advance of Friday, and other kinds,
although in slow request, were held at. a similar amendment;
Oatmeal, on the contrary, declining Is. per load. The stock
lot Indian Corn being considerably reduced, and in good de-
mand on both English and Irish account, realised 21. per 4801 b.
above last Tuesday's quotations; Corn Meal commanded 15s.
to 16s. per brl. Present prices : British : Wheat, per 701b5.,
English, red, new, 7s. 931. to 81.3 d. ; old, 85. 3d. to 83.6.1. ;
white, new, 7s. 10d. to Bs. Bd. ; old, 81. Gd. to Be. 101;1
Irish, red, new, 7s. Id. to Bs. Id.; old, 7s. 4d. to 7s. 10d. ;
white, new, 7s. Bd. to Bs. 4d. Barley, per gr., English, new,
34a. to 365.; Chevalier, 375. to 385.; Scotch and Irish, per 601 b.,
old, 3s. 9d. to 4s. Malt, English, per qr., pale, old, 61s. to 6.55.
Oats, English and Scotch, per 451 b., *ld, It 6d. to 3e. Bd. ;1
Welsh, old, 3s. 6d. to 3s. 7d. ; Irish, fine sorts, new, 3s. 3d. to
3s. 5.1.; old, 35. 6d. to 3,1.8 d.; general, new, 2s. I Id. to 3s. Id.;
old, 3s. 4d. to 3s. 64.1. Beans, per qr., English, old, 60s. to
545.; Scotch and Irish, per 480 lb., new, 425. to 451. ;
455. to 475. Peas, English, per quarter, white, new, 465.
to Ms. ; ditto and Irish, grey, 361. to 38s. Flour, per
280 lb., English and Irish, fine, 38s. to 395.; superfine,
41s. to 435.; extra, 445. to 453. Oatmeal, per load of I
240 lb., Irish, new, 275. to 28s. ; old, 245. to 255. ; Ca-
nadian, old, 235. to 241. Bran, per 24 lb., Is. 2d. to Is. 4d.1
Foreign Wheat, per 701 b., Canadian, red, is. 2d. to
7e. Gd.; white, 7s. 811. to 83.; United States, red,
7u. 6d. to 75. 10d. ; white, Bs. 3d. to 81. 9.1. ; Bennie, mixed
and red, 71. 6.1. to Bs. ; high mixed, 81. to Os. ;
Lower Baltic and Hamburg, red, 7s. 6d. to Bs. ; white,
7s. 10d. to Bs. 3d. ; Riga and Petersburg, red, 7s. 2d. to
7s. 4d.; Archangel, Gs. Bd. to 7s. ; Odessa, common, red,
63.10.1. to 7s. 2d.; Polish, 7e. 6d. to 7s. 9d. ; French, Spanish,
and Italian, red, 71.2 d. to 75. 4d. ; white, 7s. 6d. to 7s. 9d. ;
Bonnet and Marianopoli, red, 7s. 3d. to 7s. 6d. ; Egyptian,
4s. to 4s. 3d.; Mediterranean, &c., hard, red, ss. 3d. to 51. 9d.
Rye, per qr., Baltic, oce, 335. to 361. Barley, per 601 b.,
4s. to 4s. ad. Oats, per 451 b., 3s. sd. to as. 7d. ; Russian,
2s. 10d. to 2s. Ild. Beans, per quarter, European, 48s. tol
625. ; Egyptian, per 4801 b., 335. to 345. Pees, per qr., Baltic,
&c., white, 4.5 e. to 481.; Canadian, 365. to 40,. Indiral
Corn, per 480115., 345. to 375.; Indian Meal, per barrel
of 196th., 15s. to 16s. Flour, per barrel of 1961 b., Cana-
dian, sweet, 275. 6d. to 305. ; United States, sweet, 28s. to 30e.
United States and Canadian, sour, 20s. to 225. Arrivals into
Liverpool and Runcorn from the 2nd Nov. to the Bth Nov.,
inclusive : Wheat, 1,726 an. ; Barley, 390 ; Malt, 420 ;
Oats, 3,210; Beans, 4,400; Peas, 120; Indian Corn, 22;
Indian Corn Meal, 4,260 barrels; Oatmeal, 5,718 nks;
Flour, 666 sacks, 925 barrels.
LYNN, Nov 4 9.-A moderate supply of both Wheat and
Barley. Wheat without alteration in value. Barley about
Is. per qr. lower. Wheat, 601 b. to 611 b., 48s. to 505.; fine,
52s to 545. ; white, 565. Barley, best rune, 30e. to 315.;
fine 324. Averages posted here thisday : Wheat, 475. 11d.;
Barley, 31s. 2d. ; Beans, 495. 3d.
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 9.-Oar corn market was but thinly sup-
plied with farmers' Wheat to-day, which was taken off at
former rates. A better show of foreign, on which sales were
dull at the prices demanded. Other grain about the same
as last week.
I SALISBURY PITCH MARKET, Nov. 9.-The toll-dish was
not used this day, the ntegistrates ordering its discontinuance
they had had another meeting. Trade for every de-
scription of corn very slack. Fine Wheats were as Int week;
but all moderate and inferior sorts were Is. per sack lower :
best Wheat, 52. to 545. per qr. ; second quality,
505.; infe-
rior, 465. to 485. Flour, 40s. per bag. Barley was in fair
request; top figure, 32.; some good malting making but
30s. ; fair grinding samples at 275. to 28s. Oats were dull of
sale, at the prices of last week, but little done. Beans and
Peas remain in the same inanimate state. Rye and Tares
were both offered at lower prices.
ST. Ives, Nov. 8.-The Wheat trade to-day rather brisk,
the price the same as last Monday. The merchants seemed
better disposed to buy.
NEWRY, Nov. 8.-There is ne alteration in the prices of
any article of farming produce since our last. We can of
course only repeat the quotations given on Saturday, which
are as follow :-Flour, 18s. American, cwt for first ; second,
16s. ; third, 14s. ; fourth, 125. 321. Oatmeal,l
machine-manufactured, 12s. 6d. to 13a. per cwt. Indian
Corn Meal, 9s. 6d. ; and barrels, 16s. Cal. to 17s. 3d. each.
DUNDALK, Nov. 8.-Owing to stormy wet weather, the
supply of corn at market to-day was very trifling. Wheat,
being in demand, advanced Is. per barrel; also Oats, 3d. to
6d. No change in Barley. Rates were, for red Wheat, per
brl., 275. 6d. to 295. ; white, 30s. to 31s. Oats, lis, to 12. 6d.
Barley, 14s. to 16e. 9d.
LEGHORN, Ocr. 30.-We have no change to notice in
our market. There have not been any more failures, nor are any ex-
pected, so that confidence would soon return were it not for the coo-
tinned alarming accounts teem your aide.
NAPLES, Our. 29.-We bear nothing of the opening of
our ports for the export of grain, and believe it is the intention of
government not to allow of any being sent away this winter.
MARSEILLES, Nov. 4.-We have nothing new to notice
In our corn market, which continues to bevery dull as it is influenced
by the markets in the country, where little or nothing in dome ; and
at the mane time eargoes are courtrontly dropping in from the Black
sea. Superior qualities of Polish Odessa are the most abundant, and
very fine yellow, 611b5., Orbs. wheat could be purchased at 440. per
qr. on board ; fine Marianopoli, 445., 455.

MANUFACTURES.—HUDDERSFIELD, NOV. 9.
Great anxiety prevails so to how we are to get through the
winter. Most of the mills in the neighbourhood are running
short time, and today's market in our Piece-hall has pre-
sented as gloomy a picture as any preceding it. Very few
Woollen cloths seem to be wanted, and the prices offered
are very low.

CHEESE.—SALISBURV, Nov. 9.—Some brought
from Ramsey fair were pitched here for sale this day ; prices
31. per cwt. lower than last week ; best, 663. per cwt. ' • fine
Somerset+, 605.; fine Half-cowards, 525. ; poor, 444. to 463. ;
beat Skims, 284. to 305.; poor, 265.

HOPS. BOROUGH MARKET, Two a' Clock.
Messrs. Pattenden and Smith, Hop factors, report that there
is no alteration to notice either in demand or prices.
New Mid E. Keats M. otoU. 12 Yearling Kentep.ort.24.lo to 31.14
New Weald al Keats 216t0 1 0 I Yearling Swam „ 2 sto 3 3
New Passel 210 to 3 101 Old Hope 1 oto 2 0
Yardman
CANTERBURY.—The very choicest growths were offering
at 10s. per cwt. decline from last Saturday'. Days of collec-
tion of Hop duty : November 15, Monday, at Gravesend;
16th, Tuesday, at Wrotham ; 17th, Wednesday, at Wester-
ham; 18th, Thursday, at Sevenoaks; 19th, Findey, at Tun-
bridge; 22nd, Monday, at Malting ; 24th, Wednesday, at
Lenham ; 25th, Thursday, at Maidstone ; •29th, Monday, at
Milton; 30th, Tuesday, at Rochester.—Maidstons Journal.
COLLECTION OF THE HOP DUTY.—The second moiety of
the Hop duty of Lewes district, for the year 1846, will be col-
lected on the days and at the places specified as follows :
November the 10th, at Battle; November the 16th, at Rye;
November the 18th, at Wadhurst ; and November the 19th,
at Tunbridge Wells.—Stusex Advertiser.
SALISBURY. Nov. 9.—Trade still depressed; the few sold
were at from 51. to 61. per cwt. for best Farnham' ; 31. to
41. 10s. for inferior; best country, 31. 10s. to 41. ; common,
21. 10s. to N. 3s.

WOOL.---iIUDDERSFIRLD, Nov. 9.—There has been
rather more doing during the past week. but this has been
in consequence of the fresh arrivals from the public sales,
rather than for any increased demand for the article.
Prices are very low. German Wool' continue to be Am.
called for.

CATTLE, 6:e.—ST. IrEs, Nov. B.—We have bad
a good supply of fat Beasts to-day; the market rather
brisker than last week. There was a good supply of store
Beasts to-day, which appeared in excellent condition.
°LAS now, Nov. B.—There was a limited supply of Cattle
in the market to-day. Prices maintained their former rates.
Best Beef brought 10s. per teen stone. 01 Sheep there was
an average supply. Best black-faced brought from 11. to
11. 81. Ewes, is. to 16e.

For Yesterclay't Alartgets see laJf page.

SHIPPING.

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MAILS AREIVED.—DubIin, 4 ; Waterford, 3; Denaghadee,
1; Guernsey, etc., 1; French, 1 ; Flanders, I.
LONDON, Nov. 10.—Wind this day at noon, S., moderate
breeze and fine.
DEAL, Nov. 9.—N.W. to W.N.W.—Arrived : Honduras,
Sydney, New South Wales; Humayoon, China; Edaionstone,
Calcutta ; Thames, Colombo ; ' icar of Bray, San Btu ;
Primula, Cuba; Atlantic, Honduru ; Wataga, New Or-
leans. Arrived from the river: Vanguard, St. Helena;
Caroline, Jamaica; Barrette, Jun. (tpt.), Halifax. Ar-
rived from the river and sailed: Recovery, and Guiana,
Sierra Leone; Calypso, Jamaica; Gloria, Havannah ; Elea-
nor, Moulmein. Sailed: Chasely, Sidney, N.S. W. ; Golden
Spring., and Diana, Bombay ; John Hullett, and Pauline
Houghton, Mauritius; Everett., Orenada; Statira, Jamaica;

Sylph, Bubsdoes ' • Orleans, New Orleans; Atka' Sitka.
iron
An buoy, painted white, such u is used to mark danger,
wu passed in lat. 41 N., loaf. 27 W., by the Themes.
F0117”lo41tt, Not, W.N,W,—Seiled
Northumberland, New York.
WHITEHAVEN, Nov. 9.—lt has blown a heavy ate at
S.W. to N.W., but is now moderated. The Hope, of Mary-
port, Quebec to Carlisle, got on shore, and filled ; cargo ex-
pected to be saved.
ScahllollollMf, NOV. 9. The Sylph, Newcastle to
°Limerick, was towed in here with damage, from contact
with a light brig yesterday.
FALMOUTH, Nov. 9.—N. W.—Arrived: Charlotte, Rio
Janeiro.
PLYMOUTH, Nov. 9.—S.W.—The Eliza is on shore in
Mothercomb Harbour, and likely to become a total wreck.
Arrived: Edward. Quebec.
Toamal, Nov. 9.—N.—Soled : Catherine Elizabeth, To-

bakmrntrrowx, Nov. 7.—The Gem, of Maryport, Liver-
pool to Newport Prat, is on shore ; crew saved.
OFF PORTLAND, Nov. s.—Ernst Lorent, St. Jags de Cuba,
for Altona.
FISHOUARD, Nov. B.—lt has blown a gale from S.S.W.
since the 6th inst. ' • 24 vessels are in the Roads. The Done-
gel, Quebec to Cardigan, has hoisted a flag for assistance.
Should the wind come round to ithe north, the destruction
will be severe.
WATERFORD, Nov. 7.—lt blew very hard all night, and
this morning increased to a heavy gale.

enortgo.

MAILS.
The mails for Vigo, Oporto, Lisbon, Madeira, Cadiz, and Gibraltar
will be made up on the moraine of the 17th November.
The West India Mails, excluding Bermuda, Nitesau, Havana.
Monduras, New Orlemm, Vera Crux, Tampico, 3M Porto Rico, and
including thine for Janine], Carthagena, Meta M.otha, (Ingres,
Panama, West Coast of South America, and 0.1 Juan-do-Nicaragua,
will be made up on the morning of the ilth inst.
The twill for Britiah North Amnion, Bermuda, and the Unit=
states, will be made up on the eveniag of the latla November.
The overland malls foe Gibraltar, Malte,Greees, the loamn lauds,
Venn, Aden, Ceylon, India, llong.Kong, and China, via Southampton.
willhe made up on the morning of the 20th November.
The overland elwed malty, r, Marseilles, to the Medltenunean,
egypt, Aden, Ceylon. ladm, Hong Kong, ne., will be made up oa the
evening of the 24th Nov.
ma mails for New South Wales, V. Diemen's Land. and New
Zealand will be made upon the evening of the 30th Noi ember.
The mails for the Bruit* the Bien Plate, Monte Video, Perham.
sow, Bahl., Madeira, and Buenos Ayres, will be made up on the
trade; of the 4th December.

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LONDON,WEDNESDAY,NO V. 10.
THE subject of mendicancy is acquiring; a painful
importance at this moment. Ireland is letting loose
a flood of pauperism on this country. The contraction
of railway enterprise is throwing on the world thou-
sands of labourers, improvident, reckless, and able-
bodied.
Under these circumstances it becomes more than
ever necessary to distinguish with care between the
really destitute, forced on beggary by want of employ-
ment, and the professional tramp, trusting to mendi-
cancy as a calling in preference to labour. It is im-
possible to treat the latter with too great severity.
The former have a claim on our indulgence. It may
be true that improvidence has much to do with the
distress of the railway labourer out of work. He has
been in the receipt of large wages for a long
time, and has, in moat cases, been spending in
drink the money which would have raised him above
want until better times come round. But he is desti-
tute. This is one fact. He is willing to work. This
is another. It is doubtful how far this willingness
to work may be asserted of the Irish, who are now
swelling the tide of pauperism in our streets. Per-
haps beggary in England is found to be more profitable
than labour in Ireland. Facts seem to lead to this
conclusion. It is noticed that the immigrant Irish
families improve rapidly in appearance after a few
weeks' tramping in this country. Manyof those who
apply to the workhouses as destitute persons, on being
searched are found to have considerable sums of money
concealed about them.
Ireland seems destined to be England's diffi-
culty at every point in which the countries coma
in contact. We are hardly more puzzled to deal
with her peseantty, in the shape of conacre tenants
at home, than in that of sturdy beggars here. The
journalist is safe in the often-repeated assertion, that
" something should be done " in both one case and
the other. But to suggest what that " something "
should be, seems equally beyond the journalist's and
the statesman's ability. One thing is certain. No
mere dealing with the mischief, as a consequence, can
be effectual, unless supplementary to some attack
upon it, as a cause. The struggle for land in Ire-
land, and the influx of mendicant hordes into England,
point to the same evil—present over-population. The
amount of Irish labour in this hemisphere must be
reduced, if we are to insure the lives of resident Irish
landlords, or to diminish the pressure of Irish immi-
gration on English poor-rates.
These Irish immigrants bring with them not
merely the canker of pauperism, but the seeds of
pestilence.
They have planted fever in Liverpool, in
in Glasgow, in Newcastle, and in every great
town where they have settled in numbers. Here is
one mischief to be met. Some system of quarantine is
wanted, a medical examination of Irish, when ship-
ped, another when the wretched cargo is landed ; and,
harsh as the duty may be, no efforts should be smred
to force back Irish pauperism on Ireland. This is
one way of bringing the plague of that wretched
country to a head.
In any attempt to deal with the general destitu-
tion of England, we must distinguish carefully, as we
have said above, between the casual pauper and the
professional vagrant. The former must be re-
lieved, with however sparing and stern a
hand; the relief of the latter should be accompanied
with the imposition of a labour punishment. At pm-
sent our workhouses make no distinction between the
two classes. The labourer out of work and on his
way to find it, and the tramp, hating work, and on
his way from one begging walk to another, may
knock tt the same workhouse door with the same
confidence. Since the circular of the Poor-law Coln
missioners in 1839, relief to the destitute must pre-
cede inquiry into the case and cause of destitution.
The navigator or country labourer must pig in the
same filthy ward with the vagrant who has never had
a home or done a day's work. Both are casuals.
They must therefore sleep under the same rug, pay
their tribute of blood to the same vermin, receive
the same number of ounces of workhouse bread, break
the same measure of stones for it. It is said that
there ie no possibility of distinguishing between
accidental destitution, and professional vagrancy. The
evidence on this point, however, (as it appears in
the blue-book on district asylums) is contradictory.
Those workhouse officers who have attended most I.
this department of their duty, declare that it is easy
to draw the line between pauper by necessity and
pauper by choice. All who have paid the least at-
tention to the subject, rate the former as forming a
very small proportion of the sum total of " casuals."
Out of 100 vagrants who apply to be received into
the casual ward, it seems there are not more than five
who are in the habit of working, or willing to work.
The other 93 live from union to union, leaving the
vagrant ward in the morning after breafasting on the
vagrant allowance, dining on the produce of their beg-
ging, or, in default of this, at the expense of the Men-
dicky Society, and repairing again at night to some
new vagrant ward. There are calculated to be about
2,000 thus circulating among the metropolitan and
immediately adjacent unions. The Poor-law Amend-
ment Act of 1844 gave power to certain parishes to
combine themselves into districts for the erection of
asylums for the reception of the casual poor. Our
readers will remember, perhaps the parochial agita-
tion against the execution of this power. The com-
mittee of 1846 gave to the house the evidence they
collected upon the subject, as far as London was con-
cerned, but could not agree on a report.
It appeared from that evidence, on the one hand,
that since the circular letter of 1839, all the vagrancy
of London, in ordinary years, was accommodated in
the vagrant wards of the different workhouses.
On the other hand, it was equally apparent that in
these wards there was neither strictness nor regula-
rity of discipline. The vagrants who frequent them
have formed themselves into gangs, who rob and ill
treat the unlucky destitute persons who do not belong
to their own class and calling. The wards are gene-
rally overcrowded. In some of them pestilential
diseases have actually broken out from this cause.
As many as twenty in a hundred who entered Alary-
lebone vagrant ward (which was distinct from the
workhouse), without apparent disease, have been
found unable to leave it in the morning, and trans-
ferred to the infirmary of the workhouse. The widest
difference prevailed in different unions both as to the
accommodation, the diet, and the work exacted for it.
Ia some parishes the food and shelter are given, and.
ao labour required in return. These are favourites.
In others a labour teat hen been applied, with inekhn•