The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-08 00:00:00

TALLOW MARKET.-THIS DAY.

There is little doing to•dal The delivery for the three
days is good-1,000 casks. The trade, however, buy only
from hand to month. Petersburg Y. C. on the spot is
quoted 664. 6d.; Feb. to March, 551. 9d.; Marsh and
April, 655. Gd.; April and May, 675.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.-THIS DAY. .
Mr. E. J. Davis reports trade without alteration. Prime
meadow hay, 70s. to 803. ; superior, 841. to 95e. ; inferior,
603. to 601. ; rowels, 80s. to 801.; clover, 00s. to llis.; se-
amed cut, 80s. to 100.. ; straw, 235. to 28e.

IRELAND.

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DUBLIN, Fan. 7.
A draft of the 49th Regiment arrived at Cork on
Sunday from Carliale, consisting of 185 men, with
two officers, Lieutenant Gale and Ensign Farquhar;
and a second draft of the same regiment, numbering
161 men, under tho command of Major G. M. Lye,
with Ensigns Brooke and Cumming, were daily ex-
pected; when the entire draft, consisting of 346 rank
and file, will embark on board the Emperador, for
Corfu.

A draft of 50 men of the 72nd Highlanders, with
two sergeants, under charge of Captain Best, with
Ensign St. John, arrived at Cork on Monday from
Kilkenny, and on the preceding day 262 men of the
let Royals, arrived from Athlone, under command
of Captain Gore.
Fifty commissariat drivers for the Crimea arrived
in Cork on Monday from Dublin, and proceeded to
Elizabeth Fort, where they will remain until the
arrival of the transport Severn, which is expected
hourly in this harbour. They are all fine young
men, cumfortably clad: they are from the counties
of Armagh, Tyrone, Galway, and Mayo.

HOLLAND.—By the nomination of Captain Smit
Van Den 13roechc to the post of Minister of Marine in
Holland, the Dutch cabinet is now complete.
ROYAL GALLERY OF ILLUSTRATION.—The Earl
of Cardigan visited the Diorama illustrating the events of
the war (including the charge of light cavalry) at the above
gallery yesterday afternoon.
Yesterday appeared the copy of a convention be-
tween her Majesty and the King of the Belgians for the
establishment of international copyright.
THE SON OF BARON BRUCK has arrived at Vienna
to provide a residence for his father. The baron is not ex-
pected to arrive before the end of the month.
THE NAVIGATION OP THE MURRAY RIVER seems,
according to the last accounts from South Australia, to
have been carried on with most satisfactory results.
Although the water bad been lower than for many years,
Captain Cadell had again steamed in the Lady Augusta
2,000 miles from its month, and within twenty miles of the
town of Albury, in New Booth Wales, which he would
have visited oat for the river being impeded with snags.
MEDICAL INSPECTION OF INVALIDS PROM THE
ClllMEA.—Yesterday, a medical board assembled at Chelsea
Hospital, for the purpose of examinieg the invalids who
have recently returned from the seat of war, and of deciding
who were competent to remain in the army, and who must
be discharged from the service with pensions.
CRYSTAL PALACE, F. 7. SHILLING DAY.-..
Admission at the doors, 427; admission by season tickets,
133-560.

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY CHURCH AND
SCHOOLS AT DONCASTE/L—This company, in their appli-
cation to parliament for power to erect and endow a church
and reboots at Doncaster, state that there are in Doncaster
1,000 workmen employed by the company at weekly wages,
whose families consist of more than 1,600 persons, and of
' these more than 1,000 are children, end that as there is not
now in Doncaster sufficient church accommodation for them
it is fitting that the comoany should supply the deficiency
for the people dependent on them. They possess land (2
acres) for this purpose, and propose to devote to it 6,0001.
out of their corporate funds, cud bind themselves to pay
" annually and for ever" 3501. as stipend for a minister,
the administration of public worship, and maintenance and
repair of the church. The company also propose to contri-
bute a further sum of 2301. for supplying elementary in-
struction for the children, and to secure the annual pay-
, ment of schoolmasters and schoolmistresses.
SHREWSBURY AND HEREFORD RAILWAY.—Yeder
day the half-yearly meeting of the shareholders in this cam-
' Psay was held at the Lion Rotel, Shrewsbury ; Mr. W.
Ormsby (I.,re, M P., chairman of the directors, presiding.
The report stated that while the average weekly receipts for
the half year ending the 30th June had , been 8061. 151._, or
151. 16,. per mile, those for the half year ending the 31st
December hod been 1,1471. 155., or 221 10s. per mile. An
increase which affords promise that the dividends now
guaranteed by Mr. Brawey at 4 per cent. per annum will
exceed tbis amount when the shareholders shall shwa with
the lessee, in 1858, a moiety of the surplus profits. The
directors recommended that a dividend after the rata._d 4
per cent. per annum (less income tax) be declared Paigne
on the 15th February instant. The repoinwas carried. an 2
the thanks of the ineetingwere voted toifi_n
_chairman ty:
BOUTS WESTERN RAILWAY. larne for -. •
ending Feb. 4, 1855: 6,9112 C 3e. 7i4.4
2,7811. 14s. 2d. Total, 9,76,1 i. 17s. 9141.
NORTH WESTERN RAILWAY.—ft ter
ending Feb. 4, 1865 : —Passengers,
horses, and mails, 22,0661. 12e. 7d. • radis%.`
6e. 11d.; sett* 9781. 81. Od. Taal, ,179 t 7s.
:topsoils' week, 185 t, 49,1874. 196. • 7;1.

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