The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-16 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
(THIS DAY.)
(ST ELECTRIC AND INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH.)
(PROM OUR ON:i CORRESPONDENT.)
The market very steady. Saks, about 15,000 bales.

MINCING-LANE.-{THIS DAY.)
SUGAL-The market continues steady, with • fair
amount of business doing in British West India descrip-
tions. Antigua, Ds. 6d. to 30a. ; Jamaica, 30s. to 30s. tld. ;
St. Kitts, 30.. 6d. ; Demerara, 275. to 295. ; ditto crystal-
lised, 375. lid. ; refined-rather easier prices have been ac-
cepted for dried goods ; pieces remain firm.
Con s.-The public sales of Ceylon ha.e gone off with
much spirit. Plantation at full prices to lo advance ; triage,
fr3a. to 61s. ; fine ordinary to low middling, 73a. bd. to
795. • middling to fine middling, 80s. to 89s. ; pesberry,
ON. lid. to 86s. ; native at la. to N. advance ; good ordi-
nary to bold, 64.. to 70a.
Cocos has sold at steadyprices. Trinidad, middling
to fine, 78e. to 100 s. ; superior, 106 s. to 119 s. ; Granada,
common to good, 68.. to 745. ; Flt. Lucia, ordinary, tits.
TE.A.-The market continues quiet, except for green
teas, for which there is some demand, chiefly for export.
lin:v.-There ore buyers of soft grain at full prices, but
few sellers ; about 2,000 bags sold liessein at 9s. 100.
Sriess.-(finger has found buyers at a further slight
advance. Cloves : Penang at • slight decline ; other
spices without change. Pimento,oomixon to good middling,
'lath to 211 d. Cloves: Penang, Is. Id. to Is. lid.. Pepper
Penang, middling to fair, 34d. to *I. ; Tellicherry, 4.1. ;
Singapore, white. 65.1. (linger, Janigica, ordinary to wad-
dling, 70;. to 78s. Cochin' very low to fine, Ms. to 113 a.
Nutmegs, small, Is. Id. to Is. 7d. ; middling to good,
Is. l Id. to 2s. 9tl. ; fine bold, 4s. 2d. to 4s. 3d. Cinnamon,
Ceylon, first pile, Is. 9d. to 2s. ; second, la. 7d. ; third,
Is. Md. ; fourth. Is. bd.
Wm.-About 320 puns. of Demerara sold at Is. 6d. to
ls. Md
COCHINEAL has sold at rather easier pre
oes to 2.1. decline
for Hoo luras silver, at 3s. Id. to 3a. 7d. ; black, N. to
31. 8.1 ; Teneriffe silver, 3s. 3d. to 3*. 4d. ; black, 3s. 3d. to
4s. 3d. ; Mexican silver. Id. ;
_black, 3a. 2d. to 3s. 4d.
SALTPETHE.-A small paroel sold at 21s. cash, for re-
fraction 3.
COTCHN.-There is a firm market, and prices are mostly
$. per lb. dearer.
Jera.-The market in quiet, at 10s. decline.
Hour quiet, at 311. 10.. to 321. for St. Petersburg clean.

TALLOW MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
The market is steady. Town tallow is quoted Vie. 31.
net cash ; Petersburg Y.C. on the spot, 445. ; October
to December, 455. tkl. ; December, 4Gs. Cal.

DIETROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
(THIS DAY.)
We have a large supply of beasts, and trade is drill,
yet choice qu:dities readily make Mondays prima There
are not quite so many sheep as on Thursday last ;
quite sufficient, however, for the demand ; indeed
a clearance cannot be effected. There is but little altera-
tion in prices. Lambs are very unsaleable, the acason is
now drawing to a close. Trade is slow for calvee at late
rates. flue foreign supply coir.ists of 840 beast', 2,71)
sheep, ZIO calves, and 85 pigs.
Per atone of 6111 a. ad.a d. Per dose of Ma ad. ad.
Best r4o.ta, Derail's. 64 6 1 De-tt Dos&Hf.bdatili 0 0 0
Boat Short torus G 2 5 6 heat bong-wade.... 5 5 6
meond qual. beasts SlO 4 4 Do. du. Shorn.... 0 0 0
Calves
PIP
Boa Drta&llll.breds 10 2 lambs
Beasts at market, 1,630; sheep and lambs, 6,160: calves, :10
ptp 100.
SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
Mr. Charles James Easton reports trade very slow at
last day's prices. Prime old clover, from 120 s. to 130 s. ;
inferior ditto, from 'bits. to 110 s. ; prime old hay,
from 105 s. to 110 s. ; inferior ditto, from IlOu to 100 s. ;
prime new clover, from Ms. to 100 s. ; prime new h.iy,
from 755. tom a. ; inferior ditto, from Ws. to 665. ;
straw, tram to 455.

THE HARVE.sT IN Yiiimutiiite.—The weather
during the last two days Las considerably improved, and
yesterday the farmers in this district wire actively eo,-
ployed in loading the late crops of log. In moat cases the
hay was of bad colour, and the quality very inferior. Thu
harvest has also c.orainenced in this neighbourhood, and
should the weather continuo favourable it will become ge-
neral in ten days or a fortnight.--Lavis Mercury.
HA RVEsT BR, ,SPEI.Ta—Li Neer LNSHI RE.— Anoi• sT
Is.—There are appearances of the weather becomiiig
more settled, and farmers are taking advantage of the
change. A few days of favourable weather, and a great
breadth of grain will be cut, but the harvest cannot wiw
be an early ote. Wheat, on the whole, promises well,
but the recent heavy rains have laid it very much in sortie
districts. Barley, generally speaking. is also looking well,
and indicates about un average yield. Everything. however,
now depenile upon fine weather. Oats are a variable crop.
In the district around Grantham wheat and barley arc
looking well, and oats also promise frtedavof oura
and blymanrld. From me
and
re
districts beans are favourably repo,
turnips have been much improved by the late rains. Upon
the whole, harvest prospects are (with continued fine
weather) favourable in this great agricultural county.
MAN UrAirrl' EE 0? FRESH BUTTER. —At the
Derby police court on Monday. after the usual business
of the court had terminated, Mr. Hilton, head countable,
said on Friday afternoon a woman purchased a ponnd
of butter under the following circumstances :—After the
regular butter market is over, several persons re-
siding in Derby get outride the market wit). butter
baskets, and sell to all late corners. Amongst these
was a woman named Lthan, who, seeing the woman
referred to looking into her butter ,sltet, asked
her to taste it. She did so, and Laban said as it was the
last pound she bad got the would take a shilling for it,
although the market price was Is. 4d. per lb. The woman
bought it, took it home, and, on squeezing it into a butter
pot, a cupful of water came from it. She showed it to her
I neighbours, and they thinking it was not all right, the but-
ter was brought to him (Mr. Hilton). In the meantime the
woman Laban had returned into the market with another
basket full of butter, and he (Mr. Hilton) sent to purchase a
pound, for which be paid Is. 4d. It was similar butter to
that she had widths woman on Friday, and on Saturday
he put the butter through one process, by which he ex-
tracted a cupful of water. He then put it through a second
proeess, by which he extracted the colouring, and there
then remained nothing but beef dripping. The colouring
was annatto. It was a clear case of fraud by obtaining
money under false pretences, and be should ask the bench
to a warrant againse the woman Lilian. The bench
ordered
a warrant to be issued.
POSTAL ARRANGEMENT'S.—The following notice
was issued from the General Post-office yesterday, viz.
Extra mails for the Caps of Good. Hope will be made up
at this office on the morning of the '2sth inst. for convey-
, awe from Southampton by the Union Steamehipeompary's
packet Dane. All letters intended to be fedforw by this
opportunity must be specially addressed, y Packet
I Dane, from Southampton," and they will be liable to the
usual rate of postage.