The Express.
London, England, 1852-03-23 00:00:00

TALLOW MARKET.-THIS DAY.

The market is flat today; very little business is doing
either speculatively or for c3nsumption. Town Tallow is
quoted 335. nett ; Petersburg Y.C. on the spot, 335. 91;
October to December (1832), 375. 33.; on or Mims the end
of March, 3.51. 6d.

SMITHFIELD HAY MAItKET.—THIS DAY.
Messrs. Cooper and Davis the trade heavy, at the fol.
lowing quotation:—Prime Meadow Hay, 12s. to 76e. ;
inferior, 635. to 675. ; Itowen, 60.. to 635. ; Clover, 75e. to
Sta. ; second cut, 675. to 755. ; Straw, 25e. to 28e.

COALS.-LONDON, MAactt 22.-CLosE OF THE MAR-
kar.-Chester Main, 12s. 3d.; Dean's Primrose, 124. Cel.;
Ilulywell, 141. Gd. ; Howard's West Hartley Netherton,
12s. Gd. ; Longridge's West Hartley, 124. 6d. ; Ravens-
worth West Hartley, Ils. 9d.; Tanfield Moor, 12s. ; Tau-
field Moor Butes, 12s. ; Walls End Gosforth, 135.; Walls
Eud Walker, 121. Gd.; Eden Maio, lis.; Walls End
Dell, 145.; Walls End Belmont, 145.; Walls End Brad-
dyll, 15$. ; Walls End Hetton, 15s. 3d. ; Walls End
Russel's Hatton, 15s. ; Walls End Stewart's, 154. 3d.;
Walls End Casein; lis. Gd. ; Walls End Fowler's Hai tle-
pool, lls. ; Walls End Ilcugh Hall, 14s. 3d. ; Walls End
Kelloe, leis. ; Walls End South Ilartlepool, 14s. 9d. ;
Walls End South Kelloc, lis. 3d.; Walls End Thornley,
145.; Walla End West Comfort!), 135.; Birchgroes,
Oraigols, handpicked, 225.; Nixon's Merthyr and Cardiff,
235.; Sidney's Hartley, 12s. Gd.-Ships at market, 133;
sold, .59.

ELECTRIC TELEGRAPII—The wires arc to be ex-
tended to Aberdeen, crossing the Tay, by the submarine
method.

DUTIES ON LEOACIES.—On Saturday Mr. flume
obtained a return to the House of Common+, from which it
appears that in the year ending the 6th of January last. the
duties ou legacies was 1,160,080/. 16s. ad.; in Scotland,
9.5,633/. 2s. Bd. ; in Great Britain, 1,266,7131. 19s hi. ; and
in Ireland, 69,5661. 18s. 4+l. ; whilst on probate?, adminiqm-
lions, he., in the year, the amounts were respectively,
926,0121. Is. 61.; 71,314!.; 997,2261. Is. 64., and 66,07.1/.
From 1797 the duty on legacies has amounted to 17,502,4461.
14s. 9d., and on probates, administrations, and testamentary
itvmtories, to 38,260,667/. 15s. 81d.

ROYAL CALEDONIAN ASYLUM.—Yesterday the an-
noel general court of the guardians of this institution was
held in the ball of the Scottish Hospital, Crane-court—Sir
John Heron Maxwell, Bart., one of the treasurers, in the
chair. The Secretary submitted for the unction of the
court en appeal in behalf of the asylum, soliciiing for it the
support of all Scotchmen, which, with some modifications,
was agreed to. It was stated that although the asylum was
built for the reception of 200 inmate■, the children of
sailors, soldiers, and marines, natives of Scotland, yet that
from want of adequate support only 108 arc on the hooks,
and these are maintained at the annual expense of 1,0001.
above the income, the items for last year being— income,
1,6001.; expenditure, 2,5001. His brace the Duke of
Montrose was elected vice-president, rice Lord Melville,
deceased; and the usual routine business having been
transacted, the proceedings terminated with avote cd thanks
to the chairman.

FAIR IN THE THAMES TUNNEL.—Yesterday tho
anniversary of the opening of the Thames Tunod was
celebrated, by a fat and fancy sale, in that remark.sble
thoroughfare. Rows of stalls, covered with a variety of
useful and ornamental articles, extended the entire length
of the tunnel. In either shaft bands of music were sta-
tioned, and thousands of variegated ►amps were arranged
in a variety of fanciful devices under the vault.

REFUSAL OF LICENSE TO TUE STOCK EXCHANGE.
—Yesterday at the licensing meeting of magistrates of the
City, held at Guildhall, an application was made by Mr.
George Webb, the Secretary of the Stock Exchange, fur a
spirit license to a house, No. 4, Shorter's-cow , Thrugmor-
ton-street. The petition noted that it was intended s dely
for the accommodation of the members of the Stock Ex-
change. Mr. Bodkin appeared in opposition, and contended
that as the place was not intended for the accommodation
of the public, but merely for the subscribed, the court had
no power to grant the license—the subscribers ought to be
left to supply themselves Ns they might at club-houses, but
it would be a great hardship to grant a spirit license to suc►
a place to the injury of those who had held licenses for
many years, and had expended great sums to get into their
respective houses.—Mr. Ballantine, for the petitioners,
urged that the license ought to be granted—many lieill•CS
had been granted to confectioners and eating-house keepers.
—After some further discussion the license was refused, on
the ground that it was not required for the good of the
public generally, and if this were granted almost every one
would make a

THE CAPITAL CONVICTS AT WINCHESTER —Several
thousand persons visited Winchester early on Saturday
morning last, in the expectation of seeing the execution of
the two men for the Rooney murder. Numbers of them
hail walked 20 or 30 miles, coil on learning that the mur-
derers had been reprieved, appeared to be much disap-
pointed. A great many of the visitors would seem, from
their depraved appearance and brutal conduct, to be making
progress towards the fat, from which the condemned men
had temporarily escaped. The public-houses and beer-
shops in the neighbourhood of the gaol were filled during
part of the day with the persons who had conic to the
" hang-fair," as it is called in Hampshire.
EXECUTION OF A BANKRUPT.—At noon, on the
10th inst., just as the Exchange at Hamburg, crowded with
merchants, presented its busiest aspect, two drummers in
the civic uniform came up and rolled their drums for the
spare of ten minute,. causing a great commotion both
within and out of the Bourse. While this was going on,
workmen wore seen over the principal gateway of the
building elevating a black board, on which was painted in
white letters the name of a merchant of the ci who had
lately suspended payment and absconded with aphis assets.
When the name had been fairly set tip, a bell called the
sehand gloeke" or shame bell, only rung on such occa-
sions, was sounded for two hours from a tower of the
Bourse. This penalty of disgrace, called the "execution
of a fraudulent bankrupt," is ordained by a law which can
he traced to the fourteenth century, when the Hanseatic
league was at the height of its greatness. At that period,
however, the bankrupt's patent of citizenship and his certi-
!tette as a merchant, were also burnt by the hangman.
OUNDLE BREWERY COMPANY.—Yesterday, beforo
Master in Chanoary Richards, a call of 30/. was declared, •
on the statement of Mr. Hutton, the official manager, that
it would be neoeuary to defray liabilities, which amount to
16,7874 The sale of the property has realised 7,000!.