The Express.
London, England, 1850-01-01 00:00:00

tesposollii week.

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Wbset. Dsslsy. Ws. lye. Beans. Per.
el. ad.a d. r. L a d. a. d:
In 194$ 47 6 31 4 1$ 4 29 1 13 7 37 10
la 1149 23 9 23 9 13 9 22 9 27 it 29 11
Decline $ 9 3 7 2 7 6 4 6 2 $ 11
This simple statement speaks volumes, and desonatratirs
the position to which our farmers have been reduced as
plainly as anything which multi pomibly be said or
writ', a en the subject.
We sincerely hope that the worst is past, and that the
ensuing year may prove more prosperous for our agricul-
tural friends; bat we cannot express ourselves very san-
guine in regard to the future, if the same line of policy
whisk has produced these malts is to be adhered to.
Then may, and probably will be, a temporary improve-
ment ; during the next two or three months the -Baltic
amd ether northern ports of Europe are likely to be dined
tit, which would render shipments impractiro cable.
the frost continues, and foram supplies are kept
ant of 'our markets. prices will probably rally ; but the
same cause and effect to which the deprrciation in the
nk, of agricultural predate in 1849 must be ascribed,
most be expected to have the like influence in the summer
of 11160.
The wheat trade has throughout the week maintainer' a
Ikea tone, and at several of the late' consuming towns of
the north, as well ar at the principal markets in the noel
dbtricte, prices have crept up about la per qr.
The Christmas holidays have, as usual, interfered more or
ism • Itb the regular course of business, and the operations
have not been extensive ; but there is evidently a strong is-
prone° among buyers as well as sailers that quotations are
not likely to be lower, which we are inclined to view as the
forerunner of a moderate advisee
Ties arrivals of wheat coastwise into Lindon have been
smell, only 2,021 qrs. having been reported duties the
week ending this (ltatarday) evening. The receipts per
Wilsey from the Eastern Counties have been co a sae
moderate scale than of late, and the quantity exhibited at
Mark-lane since Monday, by land carriage samples !TOM
Eases, Heat, and daffelk, has bees trifling.
Os Wednesday we had a complete holiday market, an em
,welly thin attendant, and the Beer& stands almost have.
In this Bate of affein the transactiess were n-ceseararily
circumscribed, and in the absence of business of any im-
portance quotations remained aossinally unaltered. The
setting io of severe frost on the following day had the effect
of imparting more &mama to sellers on Friday, and as
attempt was made to establish an advance on previous
prices. This served, however to check the demand, and the
few lots fresh up from Ere: remained some time unsold ;
ultimately they were parted with at terms similar to those
current in the beginning of the week.
Toe supply of foreign wheat has consisted of 11,666
quarters—not a large arrival, but sufficient for present
waste. Hitherto we can notice no improvement in the 1
country inquiry, and our own millers appear to have still
enough on band fee their immolate requirements. The
character of the trade hi. thereon remained much the
same as far some weeks past ; no enaisty has been mani-
fested to perm sales front as board, and graaaried samples
have been held with great &mem. On the ether hand,
there has been a want of activity in the demand, which has
rendered it impossible to quit hareethat parish; but for the
retail quantities wanted for present see needy buyers have
bad te pay very fall rates.
Flour has been held with Increased firmness. The top
prim has sot varied, bat it was difficult to punkin fine
qualities of foreign ea Friday at terms which would
have been willingly accepted is the thoosneemeat of the I
week.
TM receipts of Bailin barley have proved amply sue.
e eat for the demand, sad sales of this grain have priceeried
slowly at the prime of Ronal last. Superior malting
qualities having been comparatively scarce, have com-
manded relatively higher taros than other Ascription ;
the &mead, however, has set been plirticalarly active,
eves for the bat sorts. We have had further arrivals of
barley from abroad, sad the quantity on the market is still
large. The moderate imp of prices Weans a steady &e-
-man for grinding sorts, and quotations remained man the
same at the el: of the week as they were es Monday
lase.
The value of malt km remained nearly stationary, sad
the sopranos, in the artiste have bees el very tittle so-
mist.
TM receipts of oats from oar ova oast have been tab's,
whilst fees Inland we have been altogether without sup-
=the pi:Meisel part of the arrival bevies ens sort of
sad foreign. On Weineeday the Vanes@ Was
wags es ilite a retail.seele, but en Fr day the deal. rs seemed
SON IssLnsd es peones; still 11A: moderate emoaat of
=was dose, and preview soled sot be 'needed
In an, whilst to make pregrem in the disposal of
taw den* or light an ein-elosiditiened foreign quo
Min, lower tome had to be asseepni.
la the early int of the week bean were almost wholly
neglected, but eine awnings Is the manor the article
has molted rather mere einesdas, sad pease were fully as
!rift: the close as ea likeiday.
frost has also seamed pus to be held with greater dro-
sses, and good bases scald hardly be bought as cheer,. ea
Friday se previously.
There sponse ts he nine slight disposition to make is-
eminent in Indian men, hut the prime demanded torearree
ea passage have gesondly been deemed too high, and the
amount of business actually dem km an, we Wine, been
important.
FOREIGN CORN TRADE.

By the nest net advises kess the serth of Bumps we
ham that the weather, after ban= bees coniperatinly
mild between the 14th mei ISM nuns% had mg= beams
vesa neon, sad ahllasei=seLmskintifseratrarasabl=eunts.
Latin derma had apron up in wheat, a= as the supplies
=ea the grooms had act hew kap% pilule had nand up-
wards at all the Lewes Dais put.; his at Dead( buises
had hoes vist.
Our letters boa the lest-owed plasm an of the 22nd
isms= IS.. that deg wok way law bargains bad boa
dosed, penhamos doessimg the rune mend b 7 Mid= to.
high. The inn% MA however shown se disposition to
lower titan progenies% e fine. itiglamized wheat
was qmoni Rs. 30e. ; mined, 365. id. ; sad good
=sad. Ilk per qr. bee es hard.
laalribarge, as site esse day, gestatises wer% for
=files• her nisei. 30a. ; sad kw rod,
r gr. his ma beard. la grime cant dim had sot
Is" awe doing, SA mins bed soneely varied does that
dip week. Snell ben, we war= lie. id., late 160., oats
from 9a. 94. m 10a.. sad pees limn lie. to lis. id. per
SW/ ige2=iesdigard ink= as that wheat had met
with a Milk *sky, whin had had ski of eat of
driving ud prfrm ls. ge 1.. per qr. We trust that ear =r-
ehash' will am he MOO to fellow so rash a esparianatas
to segl wen atm* as then sow demanded la
the Baia id Int en% wheat wee, arsordlai to
lawilariamara, bald at equal bins. par v. fru to
nerd; and at Orleinsid Aaelaat Owasso ha alas
armload about le. per qr. is caassamaas a( boat spasm
befa
Our Iliada loam as at the 24014 Dessolaar. TM do-
ssed far .hest bad, we are laspraved lassariall .
sad Wale's bad Ufa cubed Is stalk Mee on

BIUGIITON AND flotna•Coaav RAI:AUT.—TAIWAN Tar-
miam, Dee. 31, 1849.—T0 the Editor of the &pew.
—Sir,-1 shall farl obliged by your correcting an error
which appeared in your paper of this day, in which you
state that this company's impress trains between Lesion
sad Brighton will be accelerated, ar•d ran the distant* in
one hour end a hall whereas such express trains ham
heretofore performed the distance is that time, and they
►are tow bee■ accelerated to one I our and a starter.-1
am, sir, your obedient somas, FIID. BRION; semitary.

PRODUCR OF TEI FRENCH PRINTING PRIM IN
1849.—Then was printed in Frans, in 1849, 8,278 week.
of all sors—lsee by 170 than the number publishrd in 1848,
the pen of the revolution. Of this number, 7,378 wen
book, in aUlanguages, living and dead ; 872 stamps, en-
parlay, and lithographs, and 328 musical works.
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PROTECTION TO ChT3.—A cue with reference to
the right of a gamekeeper to deettoy cats vu deeded at the
last Blackbars County Oset. The plaintiff, Mr. Samuel
Menden, • reenible farmer, sought to recover damages
for the deafte ks of a velaslge domestic est bd=:z
him, whit& wee wilfully shut on his rum by the
lank Duckworth, a gamekeeper, in the ample) of Ms. J.
Feilden. The exuainatioa of a number of-Omeeser pro
and coo , and the learned defence set up by Ita Maiwerth
in which be sought to prove that pats belonged to the ink
for. 'whirs, sad lien areasequatly wane 01111111.1111110111.
atherded emederskle set, to white *eked. Mad*
bated not • little, by obeetrviag that the ems was Mtge wok
important+ to be leaded et nee, and eh should therefore
reserve hie &dein NU nett wait. The leap, Mr. J. Att-
ain, saki that this. were eirtala easiest .to, to the et
feet that oats seth doge went worthless. la leaden times
however, there wen pardealar laws relating to dagetealias
bat as the Nit In gasetioa seemed to be a valuable animal to
the 'weer, and es it was phut his express prokibitioa that
the defendeat shot Ike eat, be ',snob, rimier in favour of die
plaintif—Dameges, Is. Warm I.
ATTEMPTED .MII/DRlL—llsralt Evans, who stands
charged with steeping to murder two of her thildreo by
art dag their throats, badevertat • *Lai eausinades before
the Illiii•trates at Daddy ea Friday. The edam, of
earth Even one of the prisoner's daughters% ogiel of 13,
who was a:Laud, west to prove that, hewn. Pew
deter, Reesanalt, ening. the watousteremies to =the
fined her lying oei a bed with ker
bedside. Utanaith's threat was eat and bleell"Mtelitet
• Moody knife was bias by her. Her mother's
she was Moody. When but mother saw her (einem), eke
eski, " earth, it I. year tarp next," sad appended /we ;
oa whisk she ma down etalo4' folidwed part of the way by
her mother. lberweer. she emaped hem her sad roe to
her father, who wine week now, end told him what like bed
mew. as wend' be embed into W bone red wrested the
hails (whisk she bed taken ap4egairt) from her. Who. dm
Crwee takes into custody by Coestabte Shore, ebe. 90
imea
Sold the 'barge sake her mid, " I am bury I did
sot do ter 4m all sad Neyesif Mi." Oa the hothead bead
lag du balk to site cemetable ha pealed rat that it hod
hue abarpsood • es whisk the prl.onee uslajosel, 0 1 did
keen it. The diva Isid me to oat the coiM's throe!'" sod
throng to her bumbled. abs added, " It 'll be pow Mei'
aut." Two seellemo dred .ea to the aeon of the
wound, width tsars WWI sad then than lug. At
ant it wee fatal, but the AN is sew pro
41=1 1
&Me the itiquisr priwasr
at the soise. Mt it We $9
be es 11111091ilile of WY. •

' MONEY MARKET.
Moira: Evmmrc.
The English stock market was much more buoyant
to-day. Various speculative " buyisgs" took plass I
which gave an impalas to the market, and prices ad-
vanced 1. which wee maintained to the ekes. Cresols
opened at 96 to ex dm. for the 16th January, from
which they soon advanced to 961, and were last
;melted 961,, wideettt evincing the least retrograde
movement during the day; they closed at 961 to 1,
with a firm market. The Three per Cent. Reduced
were dery at 96 sad 1. The New Thres•and-s-Quarter
per Cents. at 971, 1, and 1.
Exchequer Bills ware negotiated at 61s. arul 69e.
pm. ; India Bonds at 88s. and 90.. pm.
In the foreign house, the priccipal business was in
Peruvian bonds, at a considerable advance; they left
off at 69 for account; ditto, Deferred, at 19. Russian
*ode were done at 1101. Mexican experienced a
-Wassidecline. Spanish were scaroely noticed. The
consisted of—Braz;lian Small Bonds at 88.
Mexican (ex lac. coupon) for account at 291, 281,
and 291. Peruvian Four 'per Cents., 1849, for ao-
°cunt at 671,1, 68, and 69 ; ditto, Deterred, at 181,
1, and 19. Portuguese Four per Cents. at 361, 1,36,1
and money, and 361 and) for amount. Rus-
sian at 110). Spanish Five Cent. A:61%1z
awl the Pardee
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bent. Dutch Ceridostes at 84j.
The total amount of railway es& falling due in the
month of January, 186%. is 1,782,2491., of which the
proportion called by foreign companies is 640,0001.,
326,3061. are due on the London and North Western
Fifths, and 188,0001. on the Great Western 261.
sharp.
At the half-yearly meeting of the Canada Com-
pany, held to-day, a dividend for the haltyear, at
the rate of 6 per cent. per annum, was proposed.
Although the directors had not sufficient funds in
hand to pay this dividend, yet they believed that.
from the abundant harvest in Canada for 1849, the
sales on the part of the settlers would be so very
considerable as to bring the revenue for 1849 far be-
yond the amount of the divided. Although the sales
eland for 1849 were 7,000 acres less than in 1848,
yet the number of acres lamed in 1849 was much
more considerable. The receipts of the company were.
about 24,0001. After some discussion the dividend was
agreed to.
Odessa advice' of the 14th mention that the
quarantine harbour had frosen o rer during the night,
and the further loading of vessels was therehee -im-
practicable. The Roads, or outer harbour, however,
continued o2en, and loaded vessels were still able to
get away. Two English vessels, the Wetherell and
Teigumouth Castle, had been despatched with
wheat to England. The demand which bad arises
for wheat in order to complete the cargoes
,of vessels then in course of loading bed already sub-
sided, in consequence of the setting in of frost, and
the grain market was quite inactive. Tte prices
quoted were 22 to 23 r. for first, and 19 to 201 r. for
second, Sandorairke wheat, and other descriptions at
proportionate rates. The stock in first hands was
reduced to 330,000 chet. of soft, and 15,000 chat. of
hard, wheat. In Linseed, nothing bad been done,
and the stock, consisting of 16,000 chet., was held
firm in first hands, at 241 to 26 r. In wool, scarcely
anything was doing, but the prices continned the
same. The stock of tine wool was estimated at 13,000
poods. The stock of tallow was about 60,000 poods,
which could not be had under 111 to 111 r. for yellow
ox, and 104 to 11r. for sheep tallow. The exnort of
this article to England has this year entirely fallen
off, and the operations have been limited chiefly to
the local demand. Exchange on London, 2,210 to
2,225 ; on Marseille', 116 to 115 t ; on Trieste, 50
to 601.
From the official notice given by the United States
government, it appears that no new act of Congress
will be requisite to give to British ships the same
privileges as native vessel., the coasting trade ex-
cepted, American porta. The act of Congress
passed in 1817 already provides for this; and, in ac-
cords:lc...with the spirit of that act, oar new naviga-
tion law, which comes into operation to-morrow, the
Ist January, will, in effect, open simultaneously the
ports of Great Britain and the United States
to the chipping of both countries. Since this fact be-
came generally known, public attention has been in
some degree occupied with estimating the compara-
tive tonnage of the mercantile navy of the two coun-
tries. It may, therefore, be opportune to lay before
our readers the following particulars relative to the
merchant shipping of the United States, a great part
of which we have collated from the report of the
Secretary of the Treasury, on the commercial naviga-
tion of that country, for the fiscal year ending the
30th June last.
The extraordinary commercial progress of the
country is shown in the following table of the sum
total cf its tonnage, with the increase per cent. for
fear decimal periods :
1818. 1,225,284 tons
1828 1 741,391 tons, Increase, 42 per cent.
1838 1,995,639 tons. Increase, 15 per cent.
1848 3,164,051 toss. Increase, 66 per cent.
From this it appears that the tonnage of the United
States has increased 150 per cent. in thirty years.
On the 30th June, 1848, the aggregate tonnage
was '3,164,042 tons, of which 1,639,317 tons, or more
than one half, were employed in the coasting trade,
including 38,329 tons of licensed vessels under 20
tors each, and 411,823 tone of steam vessels;
192,180 tons were engaged in the whale fishery,
89,646 tons in the cod fishery, and 43,569 is the
mackerel fishery.
Of the above 3,154,042 tons, more than one-half
belong to New York, Massachusetts, and Connecti
cot, 843,788 belong to the collection district of
New York 1 • 622,674 to Massachusetts; 452,328 to
Maine; 227,010 to Louisiana; 211,552 to Penney!.
vania ;158,491 to Maryland ; 111,982 to Connecticut;
78,455 to New Taney 98,183 to Virginia; 62,078
to Ohio; 43,873 to Rhode Island ; 41,404 to North
Carolina; 38,312 to Missouri; 28,859 to Routh Caro-
lina; 27,250 to Michigan; 23,956 to New Hampshire;
22,010 to Alabama; 29,790 to Georgia; 17,452 to
Delaware; 15,164 to Florida; 10,488 to Illinois;
11,824 to the district of Columbia; 8,822 to Ken-
tucky ; 3,630 to Vermont; 2,446 to Tennessee; 1,362
to Texas; 369 to Mississippi.
The whole of the registered, enrolled, and licensed
tonnage belonging to the 14 collection &stricts in the
slave-holding states is 660,609 tons only, or a few
thousand more than is owned in the small state of
Massachusetts. Take away the tonnage of New
Orleans, and that of Maine will exceed the tonnage of
the slave states. Charleston, S.C., has but 24,237
tons of shipping.
The following is a view of the American tonnage
of the Lakes, as entered in the different marine die-
ted& :-Lake Champlain, 4,746 tons • Lake Ontario,
33,800: Lake Erie, 116,980; iake Michigan;
10,483-total, 184,497 toss.
The tonnage of the western rivers (exclusive of
New Orleans) is 108,127 tons, of which 30,970 be-'
long to Pittsburg, 21,360 to Cincinnati, and 38,512
to St. Louis. The river tonnage entered at New
Orleans is almost equal to the whole of the above,
making a total of almost 200,000 tons of ship tonnage
on the western rivers.
In, the year ending June 30, 1848, there entered
the United States ports from foreign places, 2,393,482
tone United States shipping, while 2,481,289 cleared
fns foreign porta; also, 1,405,191 toes of foreign
shipping entered, and 1,404,169 tons cleared. The
increase of tonnage la the year to the above Weis
314,995 tons.
The first six states in point of shipbuilding ere
ented in their order as follows :-In 14111341,
Maine built 89,974 tins; New York, &MN f Maw
sachusette, 39,388; Peancylethis, 29,638; iffaryleist
17.480; Ohio, 1i,668.. The following facts
asp/tom thp report r-oisp•aihd of the ihfrbnildgl
imminent', .ie in the west ; ,8,000 toes of Hew
York ship-building is_ on the Lakes. Thrones of
Ohio, an entirely inland Mem, is the sixth' in point of
obil.-Poildier. The state, 'el Ohio hqilds so mob
limp in vessels as all e oats. led porta hem
Chesapeake Ba to the Rio Grande. Ohio builds
AUCh as Virgin* North Ciarutins South
sod Mort&