The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-27 00:00:00

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DOXALD CIMPII6I.T., badaler, Dec. 30 and Jan. 20, at the
Stock Exchange, Gla%govr.
i.RA6II.II.TH 0011,1W:i. 3.olowlale and Olaagow, blerh,r
and merchant, D.c. 31 and Jan. AP, at Earths'. Royal notch
Glammie.
Jona

. Oardendown, Booff,inre, draper, Jan. 2 :nd 30, at
blillander'a Hotel, Bautf.
saran KAWINDIIM, Come olden, of G'ksgow, contractor, Jan. 2 ant
4J, at Vol Crow Hotel, Glarg.,w.
IsVID dltula and WILLIAM MILLIS, Patit.bead, EtreAtire,'lnanufac.
turerw, Jan. 3 and 24, at Robertson's :Nation .1 H le., Kirk:Bay.
tow Silwaar, Airdrie, grocer, and Csiderb .nk, L•asark..bire,
innkeeper, Dec. 1.9 and Jan. 19, I t Brurnmotu:'s Hold HAW,
Airdrie.

THE FIRST VEGETABLE AND FIWIT COMMISSIGN
AGENCY IN MANCIIESTEIL—It is a curious fact that largo
as Manchester is in population and prodigious as is the
amount of vegetables and fruit there consum..d, until very
recently a vegetable and fruit commission agency bad never
been established there. A gentleman named Bruce not
many months ago having'some potatoes at the station of the
Lancashire and Yorkshire railway iu Manchester, applied
to have a commission agent recommanled to him
who would undertake the sale of them. To his sur-
prise he was told that the trade was not known.
lie had to sell them to a dealer, and was not
over satisfied with the • result. The discovery of our
wawa sometimes suggests what are those of others. Mr.
Bruce was struck with some surprise that in a great em-
porium of commerce like Manchester, where goods are con-
signed from the most distant parts of the world for sale—
where the words " commission agent" strike the eye upon
the sign boards and door posts in every street—the
farmer-' of Lincolnshire, of Yorkshire, or the Midland coon.
ties should have no such agencies through si hich, for a
slight per centage, they could sell their vegetable and other
produce, without being at the mercy of dealers, to whom
they usually dispose of them, without being very accurately
informed as to the market prices. Ile made some inquiries
of a railway manager as to the prices charged by the in pany
for transmitting potatoes, :thinkng that he haddiscovered
an opening for a new trade. The railway manager asked
him what he knew of potatoes, declaring that it was the
first time such a question had been put to him. A few
minutes' conversation strengthened the confidence of the
inquirer in the opinions he hod formed, and the firm soon
bourne known in Manchester of Messrs. Bruce and
Greenish, fruit and vegetable commission agents. The
farmers along the Lancashire and Yorkshire line of rail-
way up to Goole and Hull were at first somewhat timid,
and, unused to the system, hesitated whether to
entrust their produce in this way. Mr. Bruce, however,
continued his journeys among them till better known, made a
voyage to the continent, visiting Rotterdam, Antwerp, and
Cologne, going up the Rhino as far as Mayence, and the
result is that while the farmers of Lancashire, Yorkabire,
and Lincolnshire, have found it profitable to consign
potatoes per railway to his care at a charge of five per cent.,
the fruit growers of the continent are sending over large
consignments also on the same terms. Large quantities of
wild fowls are consigned to them from the same quarter.
Of such value has the trade already become, that we know
it on good authority that the receipts of a single railway
company into Manchester for the month of October, from
Mews. Bruce and Greenish, amounted to 9001.
These gentlemen have had some difficulties to
encounter in the difference of weights and measures
prevailing in different counties, and have just pub-
Belied a list of tables, through Grant and Co., Man-
chester, which will be found very useful for farmers. The first
table gives a comparison of Yorkshire "tubs" with Lanca-
shire " loads" and tons ; the next gives the results of Lin-
colnshire " sacks," compared with loads and tons ; another
shows the weight of potatoes, fruit, &c., in pecks, stones,
Etc. ; and another the price of potatoes and cost of carriage
per tub, load, sack, and stone. There can be but little
doubt, as this system becomes known, and understood by
farmers at home and fruit-growers abroad, it will be re-
. sorted to more generally, and the innovation has already
begun to tell with great satisfaction in the northern
counties.

[Adrortisententj--A LIVER AND STOMACH COM-
Nancy or LOOO PRANDINO maim ny lloarmwsres Pthts.--gergeant
tf ilMn, late of the Honourable Pam India Company's Bertilooqq=Woe
nearly twenty-five years employed on the iitogal sLlttshmett,
*uttered moat intensely from an affection of the liver, indigestion,
and sickness of the at mach, which appeared to be rapidly under-
mining his e limitation, notwithstanding the treatment of same of
the suet eminent of the riled cal protarion. On his return to this
country he way airve I to try Hod °, aye Pills, awl this superior leen
dicine lass elected iiuch a periect cure that it hse astonished all that
were aware of hi. former apptrently hopeless sese.—Boldmilaril all
venders of medicine throughout the civilised world; and at
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