The Express.
London, England, 1847-10-16 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

PRODUCE.lfirsctio-hama, OCT. lb.—The sttgar mar-
ket has been tolerably well suppartsdl mamilarlag the quantity
offered, yet prices are fully la oder *mai last meek. 670 Mids.
west India sold by private =stmt. nab. I,N• WY. kr the week.
5.000 Mire Mauritius art ;Miry IWO add la pills ails 2,3
bags Madras and kW* M. neer were withersva, kr 'mat at
buyers within la of the previous rites. Reamed dull, and pekes ere
rather lower : good lumps, 535. standard quality, seller,. 540. Coffee
continues out of demand the public rule of Mocha coral: led of an oid
neck of sundry low mixed qualities, and did not give quotationa
Rice 1,500 bags of middling white Bengal were offered in public
sale; a few lots only found buyers, at I3s. Gd. to 14s. The remainder
wen bought in. Cotton remain. Inactive. 'orbit° r COO chests pawed
auction, of which about 400 sold. The qualities were ordinary sod
low kinds of Bengal and OuCee, and went off at yesterday's reduction,
01. to 6d. per lb. The whole quantity now paned the hammer (fourth
day) has been 7,200 cheeto, of which 4,100 were withdrawn, 1,000
bought in, and 2,000 chesta mold. The week closes showing the
amount of &wines@ done much kw than the usual ; and,
swept for artielee of large consumption, there has aenthely been any
demand, credit and discounts bearing no oppressively on all articles.
SUGAR,—The Average Price of Sugar the produce of the
British Poratesions in America, emanated from the returns made in
the week ending the 12th day of October, 1517, to 235. Id. per cwt.
Sugar the produce of the Mauritius is *Oa. 4d. per cwt. Sugar the
produce of the East Indieo is jointly,,
Sd. per cwt. The average price of
the three foregoing deacriptions, jointly, is Ms. 54d. per cwt.

COTTON.—Ltrzaronc,Ot-r. M.—The embarrassed state
of the money market continual to act prejudicially noon cotton as weU
as upon all descriptions of property, and the purchases of the trade
doting the preeent week hare not been proportioned to cher greatly
reduced consumption. Meanwhile the ',mashies of boklers compel
them to offer outton freely, even although the reduced state of the
stocks, and the unfavourable repreeentauons made of the coming crop
offer many inducements to hoM. lb-day the mice are about 3,000
bales at yesterday's prices, and the total sties of the week have been
only 21,700 inks.
WORSTED STUFFS.— BRADFORD, Ocr. 14.—There
was a pretty good attendance of merchants, and a far demand for
piece goods in the market here to-day, Wthongh the transactions were
marbly equal to what they were a few week. Aga. Ac the stocks
are kept low, late prices were generally babied. The yarn market
did not exhibit its usual activity, and the spinners were knot In their
complaints that the prices offered for yarns were disproportionate to
the cast of the raw materieL The wool market was flat, yet prices
did not recede. The maple's were not eager to force sales, alleging
that they would bare difficulty in replacing their stock. at the priors
eked.
BLANKETS. —FIECKNONDWIXE, OCT. 14.—The at-
tendance of buyers to-day wee small and the merchants present
bought with very great caution. The Web. in the warehouses is
scarcely no active this week as it has been for some weeks past.
HOSIERY AND LACE.—NorriNomax, OCT. 15.—
The demand in the cotton stocking trade seems to knee settled down
to about one-tenth short of full employment foe wiretight mace base,
and more than a fourth for 001-0 p• ; the hand. Is may lmdmm we
can hear of, at /rent distances, either going a begin or piling to
vrorkmpon the railways. The cotton glom trade mot be eeniliered
in an amended state, and we bare heard in some ism thst the silk
most branch has rather receded. ea the bands an dr ter et =dog;
ment. The cotton bobbin Oct trade bas suddenly
bags and handkerchiefs filled with net are annalTrdleako.o.
moving towards the wart hob., in many cases la Neigh tiesecru.bleta
proves that they are orders. The cotton warp Yee trade W
amended a shade, and considerable activity Freres Is one at two of
the srarchuUses engaged in this manufacture.