The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-16 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

LIVRRPOOL CORN MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
(se =mut AND MIN Newry= enheatra.)
(nom OUR OWN 001LIZOPONDINT.)
Marietta very steady but not much doing le wheat. Flow
without change. Indian corn ,365. 9d., and 37a ; mixed Galata,
395. Beaus steady. Oats and oatmeal kw sale at late masa
The weather is beautifully fine, but the attesdaace 4 the
market is limited.

MINCING LANE.—(THIS DAY.)
lowa—TM pub Lie sales aro roaming staadlly.
teed fully supported last week's primes.
Coma— is is selling fairly in public sale at about
previous rates.
Tea.—The public malee hays gone off to-day without
spirit, bat tbs private contract market is firm.
CotTos is steady, but sot active.
BLirririui aid at full primes.
llrfous are steady.
Run without alteration.

TALLOW MARKET—(THD3 DAY.)
The market I Orm at the aabloised prices: Tows tallow,
54e. sat cads ; Petersburg Y. C. on the spot, ISBs. to bee. dd.;
April to Jaw, 58e. ; October to December, 55e.
SMITHFIELD HAY MARKEI'.—(THDI DAY.)
Yuan. Davie sad Co. report trade slow at hit day's
LPrime meadow bay. 75e. to Me. ; superior ditto,
CI IOU; inferior de., DOE. to SOL ; clover. old, 900 to
IMl5s. t; sew, mooed eat. Ph. to 100 e. ; stisw,
a. o 441.

RETRIESTITATION or TrlisMorrlif.-v-The onlf
names before the elector. are Mr. N. G. Limber* the wei
knows coal mum and Mr. Arthur Otway, brother-in-law
Is Lord Clarence Peet Both them semitone's are liberal&
Neither of thus hod rosebud North Shields on Saturday
sight, but Mr. Lambert was expected that evening, and It
was siseed that his address is tribe issued to-day. Mr. (Away
seem babied to ask that a requisition should be sent to him.
Does to Saturday evening the extent to which either
of thews gentlemen will go se parilanestary reformer,
was *skews ; there I. ent strength is the
party Is the borough who bold honest opinions upon this
t subjects and who are detormieed to make it
w▪
ith vos the question of the ronteet, probability,
Wanes ei power. It is stated that, la all
Sir alma Ale ender Doesidsos, a mead liberal, will also
be is the Geld today. flr S. A. Donaldson is a wealthy
Australias, we sadereland, and has had muck to do with
establishing liberal isothatioas at the ases. lost night,
it was rumoured that Yr. Richard Hon, of Carina,
might be brought out by the tonne.—Newcastle Chronicle.
MUNITICIENT PRISES.= TO BARNSLEY. —Mrs.
Locks widow of the late Mr. Joseph Locke, the eminent
engineer, has just made knows to the local authorities that,
masideration of the interest ever shown by her lamented
husband in all relating to the lowa of Sunday, and as a
memorial of him, she purposes present* the town with a
park or recreation ground. Is sa, Mrs. Locke has en-
amored that she will make a donation of 2,0001. to the
Barosley Grammar School, where Yr. Locke was educated.
Mrs Locke has also made Wows In the heads of the Roman
catholic school in Barnsley. the foundatioa SWIM of which
um laid by Yr. leeks, and who for years had been a liberal
subscriber to the old school, that she is prepared to present
it with 1,0001., in remembrance of the interest so long taken
in it by her lamented husband. Although the Locke family
are sumben of the Roma. catholic r , the late Mr.
Leeks and hie wife did not belong to it.
?HZ WRATHIR AND THE CROPS. —AnotEeT week
of eoetinoed dry weather haa taken pleas, greatly to the
delight of the fausura, upon whose prospect' the constant
wet had begun to tell most seriously. Very gloomy accounts
were begioniag to prevail in all quarters, and not without
mama A large breadth of land remained uneown—and is
many cuss mono of acres origiaally inteeded for wheat
were found to be in such a coodition as to render their
appropriation to some other purposes wholly in•
evitable. Even where wheat had been sown in the
autumn, the plant was in savorous instances en
destroyed by the slug, or rotten from the effect of
the continued wet, that all hope of a crop was out
of the question ; and the land has been ploughed up
to be devoted to barley or oats. The weather of the
past ten days his, fortunately, put a check to the mis-
chief that was going forward, and in addition to
the absence of rain, the earth has been gladdened
ith the prevalence of brilliant sunshine daring a Call•
siderable portion of the week. Farming operations have been
ted with great lied not a day has been lest.
prosecuted
notwithstanding the favourable effect of sunshine &ad
dry weather, the earth is still saturated and, with the ex-
ception of a few spring showers, a further continued absence
of downfall will be most desirable. The warmth of the sun
has bad a good effect in warming the earth, and the gram is
everywhere looking fresher and giving indications of
. During the lut two or three days the weather
growth
been cloudy and gloomy as if a change were near at
hand. The wind, however, still keeps to the northoest,
sad although that is not a very agreeable quarter, the
fanners would be glad to compound for that evil provided
the result he to keep off a downfall—Sussex Advertiser.
Tee HOP PLANTATION. —Me state of the hop
plantation at the present moment, ia eousequesce of the
wet weather which continued last year from March to
Christnias, almost without intermision, has given rise to
much usiety, and now that the vegetable world is springing
into life under the influence of spring, some estimate may
he formed of the damage which the plant has sustained.
We regret to bear from almost every quarter that the
plantation has suffered very severely. Many gardens have
been grubbed, and the ground sown with corn. In other
oases the injury is still morn serious. The crown of the
Outs looked healthy. mid the ground has bees dressed;
but on digging down to the roots they ham been found
completely dead and rotten ; so that all the labour he.
been thrown away, and the ground moot well be applied
to any other purpose. This has happened even in cases where
the land has been thoroughly drained and farmed right up
to the mark.—Maidstone Journal.
THE BUILDING TRADIB IN THE NORTH.—It
appear. then is much disoostest among the vrerlipeople of
the building trades is some of the north-oCilaglesd towns,
and on Saturday the eissonee.laboures of Manebeeter turned
net ea the refusal of the Sami•r• to give as advance of wean
CAldrosula.—Armonling to the last amounts
freak California • amber of veseele were loading at Han
Frainideee with wheat and dour for England and New York.
A very few years ego California imported breadstuff". The
pope Inhere of California now yields a large and increasing
mums

iiIiTROPOUTAIP Fail HOSPITAL, D EVONSH IR E-
SWAY" CM. —no esgregieto aernber 01 patients relieved
dries the week ending Apra 13 wee : Medical, 1,514 ;
cowgirl, 11119-4clal„ 1,144, el which 749 von sew wow.