The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-12 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
(THIS DAY.)
(By ELECTRIC AND INTERNATI(INAI. TELT/MANI.)
(Mien ova ows COIMISPONDISICT)
The market rather brisk, lied prices are fully 21. below
last Friday. Niles about 7,000 bales.

M I NCING-LANE. -(TH IS DA Y. )
SUGAR.- -No public sales were held to-day. Privately,
the market continues very dull, at the decline of 611. per
cwt. on la i 4 week's prices. Refined -Dried goods are with-
out quotable change ; pieces have sold on lower terms.
COPPEE.-The public sales of plantation Ceylon haw*
gone off at full prices ; low middling and middling, 78s. to
85s. 6d. ; good middling, BSe. 6.1. to 8914. ; fine, !as. fid. to
10•4 s. ; native fine, 715. 6d. ; fine ordinary, 60s. to s M. Csi.;
good ordinary, 65e. 6d. ; inferior. WI:. Cal. to 014. I:1.
COCOA was sold at prices in favour for comin•:n qualities,
good and fine at full rates ; Trinidad, grey and nosed red,
67e. to 75a. ; middling to fie, 775. to 101 s.• Granata, 601.;
St. Lucia, 58s. lid. to 63m.; St. Domingo, the. to .i 44.
Na continues in fair request.
RUW.-30 puncheons of Demerara sold at ls.
RICE continues dull of sale.
ARROWROOT hall SOU slowly at moderate prices. St.
Vincent's, to 44. L; Natal ordinary, ; good, 5.1. to
; fine, 8.1.
SAoo.--The better qualities of pearl are rather cheaper,
other kinds without change. Small greyish to fine, 18s. to
208. 6d. ; small medium, 185. to 18s. 6il. ; large, 18, to El&
Smcm.-Nutmegs, pimento, and white pepper have
all
sold at rather easier prices ; other spices without change.
Pepper-Penang, west coast, 3 pl. to 3 3.Bthe : gray, 30.;
31.1. ; Singapore, white, 60. ; ladras, Rd.
Pimento, middling to fine, 2g.1. to na. Cloves-Penang,
ls. Ginger-Jamaica, 705. to 775. hassle Lignea,
middling, first sale, 1011 r. to 101..
Isuir.,-Currants are in good request at fell to rather
dearer prices. Raisins : Valencia are scare?. mices are
firmly supported.
Carron continues dull of sale, and prices are again
lower.
JUTE was 601(1 at a reduction of :Xis. to 40s. per ton :
good to fine new, 22/. 15s. to 271. ; to g0.,41 me-
dium 171. ss. to 21/. 101.; low to good common, 12/. no.
to 55.
SALPETRE.-350 bags of Bengal sold at •2 'e., ca sh in 14
days, fur refraction 2!„.
CoCRINEAL has sold without material cliair;e .n value;
Honduras silver, 3s. 04. to 3e. 10.1.: Teneriffe. S.. 4.1. to
3s. 74. ; black, 3e. sd. to 4e. 101. ; Mexican silver, 36.
to 3s. 4d. ; black, :is. sd. to :is. od.

TALLOW MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
The market is steady ; prices are quoted fo,Msen :
Town tallow, 465. . • Petersburg TA'. on the • pot,
April to June, 48s. to 485. 3d. ; October to llccember,
49a. 3d. to 495. Gd.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
(THIS DAY.)
The number of beasts is the same as on Thursday last.
Choice qualities are very scarce, and consequently very dear.
We have afew more sheep and lambs. For the former trade re-
mains about the same as on Monday, but is not quite so
good for lambs. There being only 17 calves on olT,r, they
realise high prices. Our foreign sopply consists of 310
beasts, 4,140 sheep, 17 calves, and 190 lugs.
Per stone of bros. ads. d. I Per stone of s. d.
li Beet Scots, erefda 5 8 6 0 Best host. Hfr.lsSh 5 8 5I•
Best Short-horns . 5 4 6 8 Berl Long.vos,ls . 0 0 0 •
Second qua/ besets 38 4 8 Do. do .Shorn 545 It
(lives
NTS
Best DiuotHll-hreels 0 0 0 0 Lambs
Beasts at market, 410; sheep and lambs, 0,700; calves, 17;
Pigs. 200.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
Mr. Charles James Murton reports tr.“l.- si bud. day's
prices. Prune meadow bay. from 100!. to 11or. ; inferior
ditto. 80. to ; rowers, 60!. to Wls. ; clovtr, 111 20..
to 1355. ; second cat, 90s. to 120 s. ; straw, 354. to 445.

A letter from Wellington, New Zeuldrl, says :
"About 480,000 acres have been confiscated lad month at
Opotiki, these, with 1,217,413 acres at Waikato, and
50,000 acres at Taurangs, or 1,750,000 acres in all, have
just been handed over to Mr. Whittaker, bow the Super-
intendent of Auckland, for «ionisation, subject to all el-
g liabilities to =fallacy settlers, compensation to
friendly natives (of which there are I,eoo claims in
Waikato alone), and sundry other heavy drawbacks. The
general government is to guarantee a loan of 250,000/. to
be expended in surveys, roads, and other necessary pre-
liminaries. Well managed tines lands will open a fine
geld fee oolonisation, and the general government haws
acted wisely in placing it under the direction of the pro-
vincial government, by whom all such local matters can be
ben edministered. It will be remembered that the sale of
these and other andleested lands was at one tiros regarded
by the Whittaker ministry as a means for recouping the
three million loan, but the fallacy of this is now utterly
exploded."