The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-11 00:00:00

SUPPLY OF BREADSTUFF" FEW" THE UNITED

STATES..

A correspondent writes :
New York, Nov. 27.
For ► number of ►ears I have been • subscriber to your
paper, in which I read with great interest your market re-
ports. The enclosed rtatement, published this morning,
and made up by most reliable parties, will show you th►t
Great Britain cannot receive much morepun and .our from
the United States. This statement will bed groat interest
and service to your merchants, millers, &c. :

Statement of the Stock and Shipments of Flour and

New York, Nov. 24.
The season of canal navigation being now about closed,
when no further receipts of wheat and flour can be ex.
prided, and in view of the present condition of our own and
other markets, and the probable wants for the coming six
or seven months, for a supply of breadstuffs ; we, the 1111.
dersignecl, have deemed it advisable to prepare a statement
from the mod authentic and reliable sources, of the stock
of wheat and flour now on hand in this city, thereby show-
ing what may be relied upon for our own consumption
(which is estimated at from 55,000 to 65,000 barrels per
week), and for shipment.
Stock of flour at this port 760,388 Ws.
„ Wheat „
Flour. Wheat.
Bbls. Bus.
Export! from New York to Great

Britain sal the Continent from
Sept. 1 to Noy. 16, 1460
Prom Noe. 16 to Nov. 22, to Liverpool 27,307 340,466
66 66 London 20,747 171,197
41 46 2,369 22,638
- -

.4 IS Faha-oath— 1,000 19,860
g• Other port 555
.oh 4.-• 12,583
64 Dublin — 17,280
Galway 18,781

Total 530,584 7,021,142
To the Continent, Sept. 1 to Nov. 20,
1860 _ _ 16,273 _ 166,923

D. and A. Dow. and Co., Jame Hoyt sod Co., J. B.
Herrick and Bon, N. H. Wolfe and Co., George B.
Powell, Smith Mott and Co., Sego and Co., Wright
and Rawson, J. M. Fmk. and Co.. Brown and Omy,
Lee and Cochrane, L. Roberta and Co., W. H.
Newman and Co.

War or Ma. COBDLN TO Nicercarrix.—The
hon. member for Rochdale, whose groat services in the
cause of commercial freedom in connexion with the treaty
between this country and France, have won for him the
warmest applause of even his opponents, has been invited to
visit Newcastle, and attend a demonstration to be organised
in his honour. Mr. Cobden has now gone for a short time
into Algiers to recruit his strength ; but before parliament
reassembles he is expected to return to this country, and
there are reasons for believing he will accept the invitation
sent to him from Newcastle. We can aware the great
apostle of free-trade a warm reception awaits him whenever
he visits Tyneside. —Nen-math CAroaide.
THE FIRE BRICK TRADE AND THE FRENCH
TB:Arr.—ln the spring of this year a meeting of the va-
rious fire brick and clay retort manufacturers in Durham
and Northumberland was held in the Chamber of Com-
merce, in this town, to consider the probable effects of the
commercial treaty with France on this now large and im-
portant branch of our local manufactures. Mr. Jos.
Cowen, chairman of the Tyne Commissioners, was ap-
pointed a representative of the trade to visit Paris, and lay
the case of the Are brick makers before the commissioners.
He did so, and we're now glad to learn, by the publication
of the details of the treaty, that all the concessions asked
for by Mr. Cowen have been granted. Fire bricks, clay re-
,' torte, pipes, and all other articles usually made by Are
brick =ken, are henceforth to be allowed to enter France
entirely free of all duty. Thin will be a great boon to this
branch of local industry, as hitherto Rowe of the fire clay
goods entering France were charged with a duty of ninety
per cent. Now they are free.—Neroyastk Caro-air*.
IMPORTATION OF WWI AT SHIELDS. —The fol-
lowing official communication has been received by the
secretary of the North Shields Chamber of Commerce, in
reply to a memorial presented by Mr. Hugh Taylor, M.P.,
from the chamber on the subject referred to :—" Custom.
house, London, 3rd of Dec., 1860. Sir,-1 am directed by
the Commissioners of Customs, in reference to the memorial
presented on behalf of the directors of the Chamber of Com-
e:Wee at North Shields, requesting that the port may be
approvedthe
for the importation of wine in cask; to inform you
that
commissioner.,
with reference to an order of the
Lords of the Treasury dated the 16th ult., have approved
of Shields as • port for the importation of wine in cask; on
and after the bit of January, 1861, under the tad section
of the Customs Tariff Amendment Act. 1860. —I am, air,
your obedient 'errant, F. GARDNER, Secretary. Ralph
Turnbull. Esq., Chamber of Commerce, North Shields."
THE DEAD WEIGHT ANNUITY. —Some accouut of
a transaction connected with the Bank of England man
possibly interest the reader. In the year 1823 the several
pensions payable to the retired officers of the army and
navy, which were granted after the Battle of Waterloo,
amounted to the large sum of Ave millions annually. The
amount WWI lessening every year, and it was calculated that
on the average of mortality the whole would ensue to an
end in forty-five years. This suggested the idea of offering
to • great public body a fixed annuity for that term of
years, in consideration of their relieving the public of a
pert of the immediate payment. The Bank of land ac-
cepted the offer, and advanced the sum of 11„000/.
towards buying up the pensions, receiving from the govern-
ment an engagement to pay them an annuity of 57101.
until the year 1867. This annuity was, and is to the pre-
sent time, very appropriately termed " the dead weight."—
Money Markit Iterietr.
TEE FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY AT LIVERPOOL.
library, which was opened on Monday last,
has been crowded during the past week from ten in the
morning to tea at night with at least 20,000 people. The
number of books issued on Monday was 1.362, Tuesday
1603, Wednesday 1,967, Thursday, 1,897, Friday 1,831, and
the half day on Saturday, when the library is closed at tour
o'clock for the propose Of cleaning the rooms, 731—making
a total for the week of 9,410 volumed, all returned unin-
jured. On Wednesday evening, at half-padt eight, 513 per-
sons were seated at the same time, and upwards of 120 in
the avenues, enjoying a arena hardly ever before presented
is Liverpool. It was a pleasure to see Mr. Brown partici-
toting in this enjoyment. He frequently visits the insti-
tution. and takes great interest in its &id
progress. Among other novel Mes of the reading-room a
considerable space has been reserved for ladies, but few
have yet seeded themselves of the privileips probably
because it may not be generally known. —Ltrerpool Mer-
cury.