From he W. Y. Express cf Saturday last.
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 cial calamity. We have been intimately acquainted with commercial matters for the last thirty years and recolect all the distresses during the gloomy periods the hard times of 1SO7 1sll 1915, lSl7 and 1895 but none of them have any parallel to those of the present day. Failures after failures follow every day, and the periods we have named. Nor do the tidings from the South, or from the other side of the waer give any cause of hope relief. There is general de. pression in all descrp ptlons of property Cotton, real Spring trade, which is usually brisk at this season of the year, is excessively dull. Our merchants, who conded their goods last year to the great Soul and The merchants from that section have not come on {; and if they had there would be but very little dspos on to sell again to them: The next Fall trade must of necessity be great for the consumption of the country is and must go on.

 Coiton-The Market during the week has been dull, and prices have further declined. "Middling fair to Cotton 1 is nc now offered at cts and duction there is no demand for shipment and the only sales making are small parcels for home use, princ Paly at 10 l2 cts. The same descriptions were sold here last January at l6 IS cts Ccfee-The Market is in a most langud state:- Holders are willing reduce the price, but this offers no inducemen for buyers Constant sales by auction at reduced rates. At private sales the transactions have been as follows

 800 to 600 bags Cuba 0l-2 10 l-2

 400 to 800 do Laguyra II

 Flour-The market is in very extraordinary state two dollars a barrel. The holders of Western are stiff at 10 10 25, but very few les Southern and New York is selling at all prices, from to dollars, according to quality.

 Grdin-Our market is overstocked with wheat and rye. Over million of bushels, principally the former have been thrown into this city; all that could be, has been thrown on to the underwriters but there is an immense quantity damaged before leaving Europe and which Is forced off under the hammer 10000 2Oh at 73 79 l2 cts and F 900 bushels rye at 5 63 cts Some or fifteen thousand bushels red and white German, have been sold at l42 a l50 cts. Six thousand bushels sound rye at auction sold 72 75 cts. Corn has also decned-sales of Delaware at 83 cts-Northern rye at 5i cts.

 MoLnsses-Prces have reduced very much within four weeks, but within week they are without any change. Sales since our last of POO hhds N. Orleans at g l.2 cents; zoo Porto Rico at 35 cents 900 Trinidad at B cts, and Cuba at 2S cts.

 Death of the Hon. Joseph Anderson.-We see it mentioned in the National Integencer, that this gen. eman late first Comptroller of the Treasury, and for eighteen years member of the U. s. Senate, from Tennessee, mostly during the administration of Pres idents Jefferson and Madison, died at Washington on Monday last at the advanced age of 30.

 Burning ef the 1reasury.-The United States Cir trial of Richard H. White for setting fire to the Treas ury buildings in ls33 It may be remembered that on his second trial the jury brought in special verdict, stating their opinion that the prisoner committed the crime but finding him not guilty, upon the statute of limitations This verdict the has aside, and ordered venre de nOuO for the third trial of the sed.-N. Y. pcper.