The Express.
London, England, 1850-09-05 00:00:00

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From St. Petersburg we have this day received a
highly 'Usable statement, giving • fall review of
the course of that market sines lest swan. In ex-
ports generally a fair amount of business was dose
during the winter, but in conarqueno• of the want of
demand for corn, and the generally indifferent har-
vests of last season, the trade of the interior in im-
ports boa not been active. With regard to tallow,
several thousand auk" were borrowed east autumn,
by exporting buses, of the dealers, to be returned in
new tallow this season, mostly during August, the
lender paying a bones of 2 to 4r. hence p-r bqt.
The price of fleet sort Y. C. was 110 r. at the close
of the navigation in November. The following is
the comparative annual statement, in which the ave-
rage weight of the casks is an important item:
Local Nook Total Anne, met
Nipped. Corsa Besakte. bap*. Welelitialtailm
11144 Nebo 113,121 ... 5,555 ... 111004 pen. 3$ ilia
1817 „ 111,1164 10,500 146•66 " 84
tale „ 129,304 ... 6,384 ... 11,437 ter,ess „ ft
1840 „ 11a,IU ... 4,033 ... 33,120 180,42 „ 53 37 „
In January the pries was quoted at 109 to 110
money, arid 117 to 118 r., 10 down, and from
that time the teedeccy was downwards until'
April, when the prices were 111 r. on the
ppot, and for May and Jane, and 107 r. for
Aug at, money. Oa the opening of the aavig itioo,
the market stiffened for new tallow, while the price
of that on the spot declined. Latterly, both have
been drooping, especially since the middle of July,
when the eat!lement of July sod August contracs
commenced, and some exchanges foe next year, simi-
lar to those notieed above, were made, the principal
holder of wintering tallow soon afterwards telling
off his stock of remelted Ukraine, amounting to
6,000 or 6,000 tasks at 106 to 105 r. The estimate
of the supp.y of new tallow for this season continued
to be 120,000 casks till Much, when it was reduced
to 106,000 auk', at which, and op to 110,000, it re-
mains, making, with the wintering stack, a total of
about 136,000 casks for the season. Another short
supply is predicted for next year, in consequence of
he drought that has -prevailed this summer in the
south, but any opinion on this point would, as yet, be
premate.re. 'The total shipments from the wharf amount
to 39,320 casks, spinet 43.638 casks at the same
date lest year. For Lx the contracts opened
towards the end of December, chiefly with the best
dealers, at 92, 82, and 72 r. money, and partly with
the minor dealers at 2 r. less for 12, 9, and 8-head,
and at 66 and 36 r. for tow and wail's. Early in
February large contracts were made at 6 r. advance,:
arid by the end of the month the parcheets tad
reached 8,000 tone, and 110, 100, and 90 r. had b en
paid to the test dollen. The market was then again
quiet till the arrival of the supplies in the beginning
of lone,eiose which time a large bosintia has been
doing at advancing quotations. The purchases are
now estimated at 10,000 tons, and the quantity for
vale at St. Petersburg and expected, at about 1,300
toner nor is this quantity likely to be increased as it
was last year, there being no stocks of old flax iu the
country as was then the cue. The reports of the
growing crop are rather contradictory, mostly agree-
ing, however, that it suffered partially from want of
ruin in the early part of the summer. The shipments
from the wharfs are 00,758 pods, against 640,842
to the same date last year. Of hemp a
large stock remained over from last seism. Con-
tracts opened in December at 78r. money, and 82, 10
down, for clean. In January, 80 to 82r. money, and
83, 10 down, for clean ; 73 to 76 money, and 77 to
80, 10 down, for outshot ; and 70 money, and 73 to
75, 10 down, for half clean, were paid on contract,
and 84 78, and 74r. on the spot. Parchases continued
in February with little variation in price, but in
March the rates reached 87 to 91r. for clean on the
spot, end 77 to 78r. money for outshot, half-
clean remaining unaltered. The demand on contract
then slackened, but purchases on the spot continued
'at previous rates for common hemp. OD the arrival
of the barks at the end of Jane new clean hemp
declined somewhat, but regained its position at the
end of July, in consequence of considerable
,though the market is now rather dull. ficirearote:
supply, including the wintering stock, is estimated at
I about 30,000 toes, or about 8.000 tons short of last
year's. The shipments from the wharfs are
1,094,334 pood., against 1.292,744 to the same
date last year. The growth' of last summer 'weigh-
ing the supply foe the next season was good
and 'abundant, but this year's has suffered from
drought in some parts of the country. Hemp seed
opened in October at 8 r., Goon advanced to 10 r.,
aad is now steady at 101 r. Hemp yarn is becianiug
a considerable article of export, particularly to C e
Disked States. The Bret sort is now steady at 96 to
98 r.—For linseed prices closed last autumn at 23r. to
28r., at whisk time no stook was left tea the spot.
and only 3,300 to 4,000 chins. were on the way. A
few oontraete were made at 221 to 23r. for Rj. ff and
Verey,delieerable in June, and at 261 r. for Speak
sod Liskeff, deliverable in July and Aegast, with 10
to 14 r. down, at which rates, and up to 28 r. for
Morelia:ask, deliverable in August, only a very mo-
derate business was done daring the winter, sad the
demand continued languid, with little variation in
price, till about the middle of Jane, when large per-
*Moue wer.: made at an adva Ice of 2r. Latterly the
market has been quiet. The total purchases are esti-
mated at about 160.000 abets., and the supply, ar-
rived end expected, at about 270,000 chola.
the quality and condition are generally in-
, feriae to last
tieses. The prospects for
next year's sa y axe unfavourable, espe-
cially from the war Volga, where azurite
drought prevailed during the eerly part of the saw
rase. Of emu and flour, the export last year was ia-
oossiderable, and daring the winter the only business
done was some of a speculative gators in oats, among
the deeltrs,gronudiedontheeoeajevelo high priors
in the interior. In May and ; Seim few transep-
t/us oosurred in rye, oats, and hot thedemand-
for the two former avow osoowl. lAttseir Aso* has