The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-02 00:00:00

REVIEW OF THE FOREIGN CORN TRADE

DURING THE PAST WERE.

([ram the Mari Law Ezpreac)

Hitherto then has been very little giving way in prises of
wheat abread,the doll reports from hence having been rows
tanned by short supplies, and some disposition as the part of
foreign merchants to speculate. Toe protracted nature of
the winter has also misted to cause prices to be well main-
tained, inasmuch as the supplies hays bees kept back by the
badness of the roads and the difficulty of forwarding grain
b water.carriage, many of the risen, after having been free
office, having again been frczen over.
Letters from Danzig, of the 23rd Marsh, inform as that
the Vistula was then so blocked by ice as to node, it quite im-
possible it the eon-laden barges to get down, and as the land
supplies had not increased, holders et parcels In granary had
asked fall terms. The nominal valise :of old fine high mixed
was 41s. to 42.., and hinixed 38a. to 395. ; new, weighing
81 to 82Ibs. per bushel, d bean held at-equal to ka. 6d. per
qr. for isigbAnized, and 345. to 35e. for mixed. Then rates
Wing blgher than the limits of the foreign orders, hardly
any ausinees had bees done for export.
Prom Hoeigsberg we Mars, under date of Mara 22, that ,
the navigation had agate become closed, sad it was
Aped would sot be entirely free before the middle of April.
Billlllllol had been dull there, and the. tendency of prom
rather downward, high mixed wheat:havusg been offered at
34,., mixtd at 33a, and red at 31a. per qr. free ea board.
The gnat decline la priest of barley and oats had sheeted
supp of these ard ;still no rally bad occurred, 49 to
60 lbs. small barley being than offered at 12.. to 12e. 3d.,
and 63 lbi. large at 14e. 341. to 14.. Bd. per qr. tree on board.
At Stettin, on the 26th ult., bungee was almost at a
stand ; holders were nevertheless exceedingly firm, end had
manifested no disposition to lower their pretentious. The
best 82 lbs. Pomeranian wheat had been bald at equal to
365. • Behemoth, of 611 lbs., at 344. 6d.; and 61 lbs. red
fltstiin at 335. per qr. free on board. Barley was quoted 15s.
to 17a. and oats 12e. to 12a. 81. per qr. mesas board.
•T At Rostock holden sppear to have shown more disposi-
tion to raise than to lower their pretensions, owing to the
extreme insignilleenee of the supplies, and the beet heavy
qualities could not, on the 24th of March, have been
bought so as to allow of being put free on bard below
Xs per qr.
At most of the other leading aorta is the Baltic quota-
tions asses to hap bees very firmly maintained; still we
see of agleam that if after the so wlm of spring earn shall
have bees gemplated, our whets Amid range is the
memo beetles sew as at peenot, in the abases of Inglis
min queering would not be Boorted on the other aid*.
The email rim whisk has Ulm in the mine of wheat
here within Its lest helmigke bees immediately re-
sponded to at the sem gestioestel pores, and he Holland,
Belgium, and is Frame, pries of wheat have slightly im-
proved; still there has been a want of animation, and from
the general character of the trade we an inclined to think
that • small mammas ia the deliveries from the growers
would give a downward movement to prier abroad aa well
es at home.

Nees the Mediterranean We have no news of interest to
ennatenkste, sad the whim from the other side of the At-
lantis are of melody the same ohmmeter es before • indeed,
then does not appear WWI prospect of supplies
from any of the sore distant ports, prices beingraert7very
lower user home qua to the markets of the Untod States,
the porta to the Bleak Sea, ao.