The Express.
London, England, 1850-05-14 00:00:00

SP OR TING.

TATTERSALL'S—Mom DAT.
The mad remarkable feature of We buainees this
altsrascis was the decline of Mayors to 20 to 1,
laid t• about 3001., and his return shortly before
the sloe to 15 to 1, several partite offering to
take any 'drum 06 that prier. The Italian also gave way,
and to a greater extent, but did not rally. The two favour-
Ws were steady at 5 to 1 each, and The Nigger, Pitaford,
and Penang in favour at an improvement on last week's
quotations. Voltktear and Mildew were not in request, and
20 to 1 was offered in vain againe Ghillie Callum, 30 to 1
talus to 3001. about Deitoon ; 4.000 to 100 sad 3.5 to 1 two
air three times about Blarney, and 1,000 to 10 freely about
Mesas. The Knight of Avenel 1 declared not to start.

- DERBY.
sto apt Lord Airlie's Climber
sto Mr. W. Edwards na Bolingbroke
19 to Mr. Oratsricke'a The :Sine! (t)
13 to Lord Zeiland's Voltageur
13 to Mr. 11. Mara l`daford
13 to Mr. Hord'. Penang (t,
13 to Lord Ifeludon'4 Mayors
16 to Mr. Jaoseles
3o to Duke of Richmond'. Ghillie Callum
33 to Mr. licadara's Tbe Italian (t)
SO to Mr. Guam's britC4lll (t)
Al to Mr. Dison's Marry (t)
1,500 to 23 Mr. Orevilles Cariboo (t)
1,000 to 1 Mr. Merry's Drama
2,000 to 23 Major lairtWe The ear& (t)
DUNI'. 1631.
If to I apt Lord Howth's Trunnion (t)
We did not hoar a bet oa the Suffolk Stakes or Oaks.

NEWMARKET SECOND SPRING MEETING.
NVIIXARILICT.-MONDAT
EXTZT 101 TIM ROWLIIT 141L3 PLATi —Bolingbroke,
Cm", Bortleaas, Gartortb, Peaaag, Royal Han, Prealaw,
Ispeassios, Wanadyko.

THIS DAY.
(By Davie TelegrapL)
HANDICAP.

Jest
Beau Pre Belle .•
SWEEPSTAKES,

Nineveh .._ • •
Visite .. • •
• •
MATCH : Mahrattah won.
ItOWLEY MILE PLATE.
Royal Hart
Wanadyke
Bolingbroke and Penang did not run.

POST-OFFICII NaI7CL—AMILItICAN MAlM—Gene*
real Pat-ogee, May.—The Pormaster General of the United
States having annoutcsd that the government of that
country Is Wont to establish contract mail packets between
Liverpool and New York, all letters, &c., intended to be
forwarded by these vessels must, until further eiders, be sow
dally addreased, " By Unite i States; Packet from Liverpool."
The perage will be the mme as that charred upon letters
and Lewspapon conveyed by British packet, viz : one shil-
ling for a letter not ezesediag hall an ounce in weight, and
so oa, and one penny for MCI newipaper. The former may
either be paid in advance or left unpaid, at the option of the
tender, but the postage upon newspapers must be paid, or
they will not be forwarded. No particulars have yet been
received resp ct to the peeiods at which these packets
will leave this country.
L3ILD DUNCAN AND THE WINDOW-TAL—The fol-
lowing letter has been received from Lord Duncan, acknow
hedging the receipt of the petition to parliament against the
window-tax, agreed to be transmitted to him by the last
meeting of the corporation :—" 1850, May 7, 15, Hill street,
London.—Deer beg to Inform you that I presented
the petition which the mayor, aldermen, and burgesses of
Sunderland did me the honour to entrust to my charge. I
am quite sure that nothing could be more opportune at the
present mciensot than such a display of feeling at Sunder
d, to which town, unfortunately, I bad to allude in my
observations on making my motion on the 9th of April haat.
The result of the debate and division on that occasion is fatal
to the tax in question, which can no longer be defended on
any ease plea than its antiquity. There u, unhappily, an
idea afloat that a tax, however unjust, if the people are only
accustomed to it, ought to be maintained at all hazards;
and I am afraid that, as in the penny perdue, the repeal of
the corn-laws, and numerous other instances, nothing can be
done effectually
_without an exprewinn di public opinion. I
have only to add, that I trust that the repeal of the window-
tee will not be loot sight of by the public, more especially in
these days of sanitary reform ; and should any future Chan-
cellor of the Exchequer be bold enough to again include the
taus on air and light in his badget, you may depend upon
it that I will use iffy utmost exertion to relieve you from
such an unequal, partial, and unhealthy tax. I remain
yours faithfully, DUNCAN.— Wm. Snowball, E9."—Jews
der:toed Herald. _

Tun CHINESE JUNK.-At an early hour vontorday
miming the Manua junk was taken out of the Ism India
Dock to be removed to her new plies of exhibition adjoining
the Ewes-street steemxa• pier, Strand. Her ►ull was en-
closed in a holland covering, and her meats removed to per-
mit her to pass under the bridges. She was taken in tow
by two steam top, and reached her destination about noon.

&EVE AT • PROTECTIONIST DINNEL—A cored,-
ragsent writes: "The following account of violence and vans
conduct at the dinner meeting of the Somerset County
Protecionist and Conservative Association, at the Old Down
ast the let May. 18.50—Sir Jobs Co: Hippialey in
the ebair—is from the Both and Cheltenham Gazette of the
Bth inst :—' Alter the usual toasts, Mr. W. A. Green stood
up foe the purpose of prupteing the health' of Mr. Mike
end Mr. Pinney. A burst of disapprobation from every
quarter of the meeting showed that there was no prubabi-
jay of Mr. Orma's proposition being entertained; end
after considerable contusion, Mr. H. Dlandford. who sat on
the side et the room immediately opposite Mr. Green, rose
from his seat, mounted the form, strode across the four
tables which intervened between him and Mr. Greets, seised
him by the collar of the cost, and with the assistance of
others ejected him from as room, amiiist the cheers of the
meatier.' "
Bolted EXPLOSION.—On Thursday morning a
boner explesion occurred on the premien*: Morn. Marshall
sad Sone, cotton-manufacturers, Portwood, by which the
engineer, fireman, and the son of a boiler-maker were se-
riously injured. The machinery is usually driven by five
boilers, each of about 40 kerns-p twee, but one of them was
in the MUMS of undergoing repairs. On the resumption of
work at 6 o'clock, the engineer (Horabuckk) and the fire-
man (Beek) were on the spot as usual, and the boy (Whit-
taker) was assisting his father in heating the rivets or the
outside boiler, when the accident occurred from the
middle, which was always considered is good
working cesditien. la km missies after the en.
Irises were started, the boiler In question was lifted from
is bed, linakieg moder the large eonneeting steam-pipe,
and the next momeat the end near the river gave way, the
reeking Mean melding the above persons in a very alarm
mg manner as they Need in front. The building fortunately
escaped without &mtge. Oa examining the boiler after the
accident, it was bend that the screw steam vales la the con-
signing pips was closed. The ergineer says it was open and
all right when he left work on the muskeg night, end the
watehmea saw it M a similar state et 4 o'clock that mons-
ter. Meek, the aremaa, died on Thursday afternoon.—
Heaffisse chdirshos.

Moat the Nary-few Erpresed
A eontienanee of eold sad weskit weather, and a mate-
ski durum in the arrivals of grain from abroad, have had
the effect of causing a farther rise in prisms, and imparting a
more animated character to the trade.
Couiderable suitement has been produced at the prin-
cipal cantiseatal markets by the upward movement here,
and the adult., in the Baltic and at the near tworta hat been
hilly se great es with as. This will probably in the flat
butanes prevent the execution of the olden which may have
been Bent out on English account, and we are likely far a
time to motive comparatively small supplies of brags sofa
but the ultimate effect will, in our oos helmlmlmpeets
than we should have received if taken bad quiet
It Is ft yet much too ;early to speak with ownsiaty se to
the probable consequencewhich may be produced an ear
aropee by the weather lately experissesed : that it has been of
a character during the last two or dun weeks to afford
grounds for some usualness cannot be questioned ; but we
are happy to state that we hear Si few saristus eomplakts,
either is respect to the wheat pleat or In references to spring
sown e .rn. Oa the feu lands of Llaulasidr• and Cambridge-
shire mischief is said to Eau Wedelns by the wire-wore, and
the Grope in that loeality are allegeflber less promising than
they were at this period bet year ; but a few weeks et really
Ike weather might do muck to reuedy thou& Oar pekes,
are, however, very low, and all parties ars therskriliallit sen-
sitive) y alive to every oecarrentee whisk my &Menet
from theprodactivensmof thanes, hrvml aadealsethseem-
mar should prey, decidedly peopltious,we may expect frequent
flastsatioas. The Mae I. the value of wheal last,
weekly report has been from Is. iiil:fff illtbri
leading oakum* towns, and rather more at several of the
markets is the metrieultural districts. Prices of spring corn '
• have also begun to tend upwards in most parts of the country ;
and though quotations are still much below the cost of pro-
duction, the advance already established will make a material
difference to growers, Wheat is now worth from 4s. to be.
per qr. more than it was a month ego, and other kinds of
egncultural produce have participated in the improvement.
By our letters from Scotland, we learn that the tempera-
ture had been very low, the sights having, on several occa-
sions, bees frosty in the early part of the week; dile dream-
stases, and the more encouraging tone of the .deices from
the south, had not been without influence; and both at
Edinburgh and Glasgow wheat and flour were dearer on
Wednesday than on that day se'nnigh..
The accounts from Ireland us of a similar character to
them from other parts of the kingdom, as well In respect to
• the weather as to the effect produced thereby on the minds
of holders and buyers of grain At all the principal markets
in the island, wheat, Indian cern, oats, &e., had risen in the
same proportion as on this side of the channel.
Though some Increase has recently taken place in the de-
liveries of Wheat from the growers in various parts of the
country, the supplies coarse's' into Loudon have continued
small, and the quantity brought forward at Mark-lane by
land carriage sample' from the neighbouring counties since
Monday last has been trifling in the extreme.
On Wednesday the Essex, Kent, and Suffolk stands were
nearly bare, and the operations were ounsequently on quits
a retail scale; the few sales made were, however, at terms
rather in advance of those previously current, Between that
time and Friday some improvement occurred in the weather,
but this did not check the upward tendency in prices, and
the business done in English Wheat at the close was at
prices fully la. per qr. above those at which similar qualities
might have been bought in the beginning of the week.
The arrivals from abroad hays been much less merle sine*
our last than we have lately been accustomed to ; and though
the country demand has net been extensive, importer. have
been enabled to obtain a similar advance to that established
on home-grown wheat. Fair quail i.s of red were sold on
Friday at 405., while fine Rostock was held at 435. to 445.
per qr. The town millers have generally some quantity of
foreign wheat remaining on hand, and a part of the recent
arrival has been landed by factors ; still the stock in ware-
house is not large, and the quantity remaining en board ship
at this port is now inconsiderable. Unless, therefore, fresh
supplies should reach us, the better sorts are likely to con •
tinue to be held very firmly.
No variation has taken place in the top price of town.
manufactured Flour, but rather more money has been
obtained for households and good Irish parcel. of foreign
A few small cargoes have been received during the week
from French ports, for which 30s. per sack has been &eked.
Supplies'. of home-grown barley have .latest awed, and
the arrivals from abroad have fallen off materially. In
English scarcely any business has been transacted, owing to
the want of supplies and the high rates asked for the few
lots which have come forward. For foreign an increased
country inlairy. has been experienced; and, though the
purchases were in small lots on Wednesday as well as ea
Friday, the aggregate quantity taken off the market duelist
the week has not been inconsiderable. The lighter sorts
have brought 165., and good heavy parcels, 135 per qr. ;
being a rue of about Is. per qr. on the rates previously
current.

The upward movement in barley has not failed to produce
some effect on malt, and the latter article has been held with
greater firmness than before.
The receipts of oats from our own rust have amounted to
only 1,390 qr* , and from Scotland and Ireland we have Ld
no supplies ,• and the foreign arrivals having meanwhile con-
sisted of only 9,018 qrs., a further advance has been insisted
on by importers. The principal dealers having bought
freely during the preceding fortnight, have manifested con
eiderable unwillingness to follow up their purchases at en
hanged rates, and the operations were consequently some
what restricted both on Wednesday and Friday. A rise of
6d. psr qr. was nevertheless, in partial instance*, established
on the lust, and more generally on the last-named da.
Danish nets realised 155., and fine Swedes were held at 16..
per qr. on board ship at the close of the week.
English Beans have come very sparingly to hand, and
the tecdency of prices has been decidedly upwards; but the
trifling nature of the supply has prevented operatisus of im
portend.. Egyptian Beans have been alma held at somewhat
enhanced rates, and the greater part of the late arrivals has
been taken to granary on account of importer*.
Prices of peas have rather crept up since Monday, but not
se much as to render it nevesary to alter quotations.
We have had very few offers of ladian corn is arrive, and
the high pretensions of sellers have prevented business being
done in that article.

THE FOREIGN CORN TRADE.
For come time past we have had unfavourable re-
ports from the C intthent respecting the rye crop, and the
complaints have lately become so general, as to induce a be-
lief tine striate mischief has been done not only in the north
of Europe. but likewise in some parts of FrInCP. Should
this really prove the case, the value of wheat would certainly
be affected thereby, and the rise which has taken place in
the value of the latter article at wilt of the continental
markets must be partly attributed to speculation founded on
the presumption that, owing to the damage done to rye, an
increased consumption of wheat will bs caused. The more
'scourging accounts from hours have also hal their talk-
ince ; iadeed, we are iaclined to think that the latter has
had more to do with the rise than the repelled injury to the
rye crop.
Letters from Dantz;e, of the 4th instant, state that imme-
diately ale, receipt of the London advice' of the 29th ult.,
holder" bad raised their pretensions. Good supplies had
been received down the Vistula, and the weather having
dry and cold, the condition of the new wheat had
proved
been
tgreatly improved. Sales of high-wised Lower Polish
weighing 82Ibe. per bushel, had been made at 38s. Gd. to
Ns., and for a parcel of high-mixed Upper Polish, G 2 to
691 be. equal to 40s. per qr. free on board, had been realised.
Within a fortnight about 1,600 lasts had changed hands, a
good dvals of speculation having taken place Freight was
2s. Bd. to 2s. 9d. to the east toast, 21. 10d. to London,
and 31. per qr. in full for wheat to Liverpool. The shipments
of wheat from the let of January to the 30th of April had
amounted to 3,631 lasts, all for Great Britain, with the ex-
ception of &boat 200 lasts to Holland.

At Konigsberg, on the 4th instant, wheat was in good re-
quest, and 61. to Is. per qr. higher than on that day week.
Rye had been in lively demand, owing to unfavourable re-
ports respecting the crop on the ground. The latter article
was quoted 16e. to 16s. 6d., and wheat from 335. 6d. to
375. 6d. per qr. according to quality.
Stettin lawn of the 6th May informs us that the supplies
of wheat from the growers bad not increased, and that the
news from this side had imparted a MOM lively tone to busi-
ness. Fine 621bs. Pomeranian wheat was then quoted 3-55.,
and other sorts from 335. to 341. per qr. free on board. Rye
was dear.r, but in the value of barley and oats no ~articular
change had occurred ; the former having been offered at 16a.
to 16e., and the latter at 12s. per qr. free on board.
From Rostock we learn that the inquiry for wheat bad
improved; and, no increase having taken place in the de-
livery of the article from the growers, enhanced terms had
been insisted on. Stocks at that port are very small ; and,
owing to 'he prefer nee given to Rostock over other Baltic
red wheat by our millers, quotations are relatively higher
'hire than elsewhere. Good qualities were still obtainable
in the Weaning of the present week, at Stralsund, Omits-
weld, sae Andra, at 34e, 6d. to 365., whilst the last quota
bon for 62 to 63 lbs. parcels from Rostock was 375. per qr.,
free on board.

From Hamburg we learn that business had been rather
checked by the high pretending of holden; still a good
many parcels of wheat appear to have changed hands
between Friday went and Tuesday last, at an advance
of le. to 2s. per qr. Fine Waren of 621 lbs. weight,
on the spot, had brought equal to 40s. 6d., and the commoner
descriptions from 35e. to 366.6 d. per qr. free on board. Then
had testi bat few offers from outparts. Barley and oats had
also bean held at enhanced Raley and for the first named
article an advance of Is. per qr. bad been pretty freely paid.
The eddies from the principal Duteb, Belgian, and French
markets are of a similar character, and the veins of wheat is
jest now relatively higher on the Cataluna than in this
country—a eta* of things which reader, foreign hada=
very unsatisfactory.
We have advisee of recut dates from the United States,
but the news from themes is an of much interest. Stocks of
flier at the principal Atlantic ports Wei. smell; awl, not-
withstanding the dull accounts from Europe, the value of
the article bed shawl ado*** *Waimea.

slii•gicsi by being lids to does of his scrip
lilthoucany inquiry -being it atted whether the
iron is in existence or not. The effect of this
pernicious system of raising money and encouraging
speculation, which took its origin in 1845, in one re-
spect is this : the stock of Scotch pig iron at the
period ref. rred to was about 95,000 tons, whilst at
the present date it has accumulated to about 300,000
tons ; the relative price of iron in 1845 was 41. 10s.
for Welsh, and 381. for Scotch pig, whilst at the pre-
sent time it is quoted 4!. for the former, and 445. to
451. for the latter; the latter augmentation in price,
induced by speculative operations, and not by any in-
creased demand, as may be interred from
the large accumulation of stock. We have
heard it stated on undoubted authority, that it is no
uncommon circumstance .for nearly half a million
sterling to be raised in this manner, and that at the
present moment it is estimated there cannot be leas
than 200,000!. afloat in Glasgow, in the shape of ad-
vances on iron scrip, which is nothing more than •
piece of paper given by the iron masters to the follow-
ing effect : "To the piny lodging this document with
us we will deliver free on board in Glasgow when
required tons, No. pig iron." This vicious eye-
tem cannot be sufficiently deprecated, and it is at least
satisfactory to be able to state, that it is not
countenanced in England, and certainly meets with
no encouragement at the hands of the leading die-
. .

count honsita in Lombard-street, who have on —prin-
ciple uniformly rejected such paper whenever it has
been offend.

At the public sale of palm oil which took place at
Rotterdam on Friday, 190,000 Neth. lba were offered,
the greater part of which found purchasers at 18 to
181 1. for first quality, 17 f. for second, and 16 f. for
third quality. 20 lots of first at 19f , and 13 lots of
second at 17 f., were withdrawn.
Hamburg advice. of the 10th report a fair amount
of business in coffee at the reduced prices of the pre-
vious week. There had been disposed of for con-
sumption and for the interior 13,0)0 bags Brazil, at
31 to 41, 1,500 bags Domingo, at 31 to 41, I,ooobage
Porto Rico, at 5.1 to 6 sch. The stock at market of
Brazil, in first hands, was nearly cleared off. Sugar
was rather dull, but 1,000 chests Havannah had been
taken at previous rates, the result of the Rotterdam
sales having operated rather favourably upon
the market than otherwise. Some rather considerable
transactions had taken place in rice, parti-
cularly of Java and East India kinds, at previous quo-
tations. Transactions in cotton were trifling, and the
price was looking up. A fair amount of bueiness had
been done in dyewoods, at 21 to 21 marks fur Do-
mingo, and at 45 to 41 marks for Campeachy. Spel-
ter was quoted 9.9, at which 2,500 centner had been
done. la wool scarcely anything doing. The grain
marked was rather animated, and prices firm in con-
sequence of the accounts from England. Money was
plentiful. Gold was quoted 4351 mark.. The pub-
lic funds were firm, with little business doing. Ex-
change on London, 13.9 for three months.

Letters of the sth from Stockholm state that the
board of commerce have, at lenuth, considered them-
selves justified in declaring all the porta of Great
Britain free from cholera. The same laxly, in con-
formity with the command of his Majesty, had given
in thew report on the petition of the shipowners to
have all articles required in shipbuilding admitted free
of duty. Their report is only partially favourable to
the views of the shipowners; they recommend the ad-
mission of only hemp, capper sheathing, speller, and
other mettle for marine pur,xiees duty free; a reduc-
tion of the duty on sailcloth, rope, and compasses;
hut to retain the protective duties for anchors, chains,
&c. The exchange on London was quoted 12 dole.
8 sch. for three months.