The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-06 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKET&

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
(THIS DAY.)
(BT ELECTRIC AND INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH.)
(PROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
The market unchanged. Sales probably 10,000 bale,.

MINCING-LANE.-(THIS DAY.)
SUGAR. -The market continues firm with a fair amount 1
of business doing. The private sales included British
West India at an advance of fid. per cwt. on last week's
prices. Brown Mauritius at 28s.' and jaggery Madras at
'2ss. for grainy. Refined firm with a moderate demand.
CoFFEK.-There is au improved demand for all dualities
of Plantation Ceylon, at full prices; fine fine (mammy to
middling grey, 725. lid. to 77a. ; low middling and mid-
dling colory, 78s. to 82s. ; good middling, 83a. lid. to 84s. ;
fine bold, SM.
Tue.-The market continues quiet.
FRC IT. -A fair business is doing in most descrintions at
a slight decline for currants, other articles without change.
Currants sold, common to middling, '..105. to 28s. Raisins,
Valencia, low to fair, 225. to 345. ; selected, 3Gs. to .7,25.
Muscatel layers, common to fine, as. to nip. ; sultana,
48s. Turkey figs, low to good, 245. to 625. ; Spanish, 19s.
to 20s. ; Faro, '2l.s.
Srlce.:l have generally sold at the previous value. Nut-
megs, small to middling, 10d. to 2s. ; bold, 3s. 9d. to
3s. 10d. ; mace, Is. 3d. to Is. Al. Cloves : Penang, good,
Is. ; Zanzibar, 3d. to 3,lii. Pep'.er, Singapore, 3jd. Cin-
namon, first pile, Is. I ld. to 2s. Id. ; second, la. 7d. to
ls. 10,1. ; third, Is. 4d. to Is. 9d. ; fourth, Is. Id. to Is. 4d.
Pimento, 2d. to 2 Iti.
RICE. AND SALTPETRE -No sales reported.
RUST.-100 puncheons of Leewards sold, at Is. 44,1. to
Is. i 1. ; 70 puncheons of Demerara, at ls. 7,1. to Is. ;
and a few Antigua, at Is. hid.
C,tvautiEat..-About 1,100 bags have been sold-silvers
• at Id. per lb. decline ; black at M. decline. Teneritfe
silver, 3s. Id. to 3s. 71. ; black, 3s. -3d. to Is. 9d. Hon-
' duras silver, as. ad: to 3s. lid.
Corrox.-A fair business has been done, at steady
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prices.
JUTE.-6,000 bales have been sold at steady prices for
good qualities, common in some cases at a slight decline,
I common to five, 13/. ss. to 221. ss. ; rejections, 10!. Its.
to IN. 55. ; cuttings, 71.

TALLOW MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
The market is steady, at the following prices :—Town
tallow, 435. 3d. ; Petersburg Y.C. on the spot, 448. ;
December, 435. 9d. to 44a. ; January to March, 445. 3d. ;
March, 435.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE 3LIIIKET.
(THIS DAY.)
Trade to-day for beef unusually dull, and prices lower.
For sheep there is no trade whatever. Veal considerably
lower. The foreign supply is 450 beasts, 2,090 sheep, 130
calves, 110 pigs.
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Per stone of sibs. &d.& d. Per stone of Sibs. 5..1. ad.
Best Scots, Nereids 0 0 0 0 Best Dim& lifdxlaSh 5 10 G 0
Best 'Short-horns 4lO 5 2 Snit Long-w 0015.... 5 06 4
&world qual. beasts 4 0 5 0 I Do. do. Shorn.... 0 0 0 0
Calves
Pigs
Best Dns& Mf-hreda 3 0 4 1, Lambs
Beasts at market, 910 ; sheep and lambs, 3,420 ; Calves, 170 ;
Pig& 160.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)
Mr. Charles James F. 415,011 reports trade very slow at the
following prices : Prime clover, from 100 s. to 1155. ;
inferior ditto, 90s. to 935. ; prime second cut clover,
90s. to 100 s. ; inferior ditto, 365. to 705.: prime meadow
hay, 755. to 60s. ; inferior ditto, 555. to 70s. ; straw, 365.
to 443.

The workmen employed in the factory and other
establishments at Chatham Dockyard have made applica-
tion for an additional day's holiday on the day preceding
Christmas day, the additional time thus granted being
previously made up by the hands working extra hoars.
This will iliviate the necessity of lighting up the furnaces
and the fires in the factory for one day only, and allow of
the workmen taking a holiday from Saturday afternoon
until the following Wednesday.

Another fatal accident in Leeds has to be added
to the melancholy list we published three weeks ago,
arising froui the great floods which then inundated
great tracts of country in Yorkshire and Lancashire.
Yesterday morning, a portion of the flooring in the
bobbin mill of Mesa's. Mortimer, in the Isle of Cinder,
gave way, and a man named Pickersgill, who
was working at the time, was precipitated into the
goit which tuns by the side of the building. Though an
expert swimmer, the current was so strong that the un-
fortunate man was carried down the stream, and his body
has not yet been recovered. The foundations of the build-
ing were weakened, there is no doubt, by the flood, and
the rains of the last day or two had again filled the stream
and produced a freshet which caused the accident.—Leeds
Mercury.