The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-05 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKET&

LIVERPOOL COTTON ILLEIET.

(THIS DAY.).

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The market steady, and the sales toot op about 10,000
bales, at yesterday's dosing rates.

MINCING-LANE.-(THIS DAY.)
Sross.-The improved demand continues, and prices in
most cases show an advance of lid. per cwt. British West
India sold at 31s. to 32a. 6d. ; common jaggery Madras,
245. 3d. ; tinclayed Manilla, 255. 3d. to 25e. lid. Refined
is in moderate request, without change in value.
Corrxr.. -The public sales of Ceylon continue to go off
without spirit at easier prices. Plantation Ceylon sold,
triage, 375. 6d. to 525. 6d. ; fine to fine fine ordinary,
70e. to 725. lid. ; low middling to fine middling, 725. to
86s. 6d. ; peaberry, 88s. 6d. to 92. 6d.
COCOA.-The market continues inactive.
Tea.-Elamples of new season's congou are on the market,
but only a few sales have been effected, the quality not
being satisfactory.
Faurr.-New Valencia. are selling slowly at previous
prices ; low to fair, 325. to 36e. ; selected, 375. to 455. ;
Muscatel. sold. layers, new, 82a. ; old, 495. to 57e. Now
Sultana, 48a. Currants are dull of aide.
SPINES. -A moderate business is doing without change
in value. Pimento ordinary to good middling. lid. to 21d.
Penang black pepper, 3d. ; treng. Ad. to lid.; Cochin,
3ad. ; pod, 184. to 19s. ; ginger, Jamaica common to good
middling, 425. to 615.; Cochin, 435. to 765.
Rici.-1,000 tons of &siesta sold at 11.. 40. landed,
and 300 tons Necranxie Arraoan, 10s. lOad. ex ship.
Rue AND SALTPETBL-No antes reported.
Corres.-The market is steady, at firm prices.
JUTIL-A moderate business only is doing, at steady
prim&
HICIIP.-A small parcel of Manilla sold. Sorsagon, 501. ;
Altai, 491.

TALLOW MARSET.—(THIS DAY.)
The market is 'toady. Town tallow is quoted 43e. 3d. ;
Petenburg Y.C. on the spo; old, 435. 9d. ; ditto new,
44.. 3d. ; October to December, 43e. 9d. to 435. bd. ;
December. 445.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
(THIS DAY.)
The number of beasts is small, so also Is the demand.
Prices, on the average, are about the same as on
Monday last. We are well supplied with sheep
and lambs, and trade for them is very dull
Monday's quotations cannot be maiutained, nor can a
clearance be effected. Calves are plentiful and prima see
lower. Our foreign supply consists of 136 besets, 1,380
sheep, 106 calves, and 2L5 pigs.
rer stoat vf Oak, e, 4. •a. I Tar atone of Ma. •4. e. d.
dart Scota, Denali. 5 0 6 2 ; Dolt Das& Ilf.hdaSh 0 0 0 0
Beet Shorthorns 4 8 5 0, Dela long-w 0015.... 4 4 4 6
Second itaaL Wads 283 10 1 Do. do Mora 00 0 0
Calves
mg.
Beat Diluting-bolds 6 0 6 2 ; Lamas
Boma; at market, 540; sheep and lambs, 8,200; calves. 457;
320.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—(THI4 DAY.)
Mr. Charles James Beaton reports trade slow at the fol.
lowing prices, viz. : —Primo old clover, from 110 s. to 115 a. ;
inferior ditto, $O.. to Ws. ; prime old hay, 75v. to tlss. ;
inferior ditto, 60s. to 70s. ; prime new clover. Ms. to 100 s. ;
inferior ditto, Goi. to 75a. ; prime new hay, li7s. 6d. to
75e. ; inferior ditto, 1"..15. to Ws. ; straw, :kis. to 42..

BARNET FAIR, THIS DAT (THORSDAY).—This
morning the fair opeaed for the second day. There were
many horses on rale. Good cart-hones, fit for London
purposes, sold at from 40 to 50 guineas very readily ; and
well-grown cart colts, 25 to 35 guineas ; handsome nags,
40 to 50 guineas; unbroken, well-bred colts, for riding
and driving, 30 to 35 guineas ; strong useful harness cobs,
12 to Di guineas ; and horses of superior stamp,
for private harness purposes, 40 to 55 gu:neas. A
very large clearance has been effected to-day among the
droves of Welsh pony colts, and all horses of high class
readily found buyers at advanced prices. There ie • large
mass of victualling booths erected on the fair fields, and
the rein has quite swamped these canvas hostelries. In
the pleasure fair there is a large concourse of penmen, and
great preparations are being made for the horse races to-
morrow, which will come off over the horse fair fields.
THE M V.ILSEY DOCKS Time Gec.—On and after
the 21st inst., a time gun, fixed on the pier of Nlorpeth
Dock. at Birkenhead, at the expense of the Memel, liock
Boma, will he fired daily at 1 p.m., Greenwich time. The
gun will be fired by electricity, the current Icing from
an electric clock. erected by Mr. Ritchie, of Edinbuerh, in
the Observatory, on Ilidaton-hill. This time guu will be
a great benefit to all persons—especially those connected
with shipping—on both sides of the Mersey, the time bell,
fixed over the Electric Telegraph-office, in Castle-street,
having been a comparative failure.
HORROR* OF THE ORISSA FAMINE.—MT. Miller, a
missionary at Bellmore, writes :—" Nothing that I have
ever read of has enabled me to conceive of anything equal
to this famine. I have known of no instance of Hindus
eating dogs Or eats, or cows, but they did eat their own
children when they were dead. I beard welhauthenti-
cated instance in which a mother and eon were found eat-
ing a dead child. I know of nothing to surpass this famine,
either as to its extent or its severity." It must be remem-
bered that the cow is sacred to the Hindoos ; it, in feet,
worshipped by them as a god. The same gentlem in further
reports :—" Hundreds died in the fields and out-of-the.way
places where no one saw them. If one chanced to cross
the country, one saw the bodies lying about, and Pie jackals
eating them. I should say, to he within hound.. that shout
a fourth of the population of Gripe* has died. The misery
and suffering have never been fully described: it would
have been altered impossible to exaggerate them." Dr.
Jackson, the medical officer at Balasore, writes :--" Cute
prejudice's even then interfered, and many people
would not cat the food most necesory in their con-
dition, such ea soup. When people ere reduced in weight
beond a certain point, they almost invariably air. There
was terrible struggling at the place of the sole of rice. I
had the door of my own house broken in. and the coat
torn off my back by women eager to purchase. Those who
fared worst in the struggle to buy eke were those—the
very poorest—who had to go to work, and cools! not spare
time. Latterly we discovered that a great part of are
famine mortality wan dne to an extraordivary tendency to
the production el frightful worms, which protect-A fatal
appearances of cholera and other disease*. At the hos-
pital the mere throwing of the dead bodies into a pit and.
covering them with earth was more than enough to employ
every mehter (sweeper) we could get--the mehters (or
sweepers) being the only caste in the district who would
touch the dead bodies." And last, and most frightful
picture of all, the same gentleman reports :—" I saw a
woman lift up her arm, and let it drop, while a dog was
pulling et her entrails and eating them."—Fraso's Mapu.
rine for September.