The Express.
London, England, 1855-04-28 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

TALLOW MARKET.-THIS DAY.

The Market is quiet, and prima are lower than yesterday.
Town tallow is quoted 645. nett cash. Petersburg Y. C. on
the spot, 565. to 56. 6d ; May and Jung, 665. 6d.; Octo-
ber and December, 565. 61.

MARKET AVERLOEL—Town tallow, 562. Bd. ; fat by ditto,
3e. ; yellow Etonian, 58s. ; meltedj stuff, 41e. 61. ; rough
ditto, 265. ; tallow graves, 12e. ; good dugs, 7e.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.-THIS DAY.
Mr. E. J. Davis reports the supply large; trade without
alteration. Prime meadow hay, 755. to 855.; superior, 90s.
to 1004.; inferior, Ws. to 60s. ; rowan, 130 s. to 80s.; clover,
904. to 1204.; second cut, 84s. to 1104. ; straw, 265. to 30s.

COVENT GARDEN MARKET.-THIS DAY.

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Vegetables still keep deer. Endive, Lettuces, Radishes,
Globe Artichokes, and Carrots may now be obtained.
Apples of foreign growth may yet be had. Hothouse
Graves may now be bought at from 10,. to 13s.
per lb. Oranges le,ch from 2e. 6.1. to 10s. per 100. Quan-
tities of Cornish and French Broccoli continue to teach the
market. Spini,h Onions may be bought tor per dozen.
For Asparagus there is a fair demand. Potatoes have ad•
winced but little in &rice since last week. A few new ones
from Frs.nce Lave been sold at from Is. 6d. to 24. per
pound. Lettuces realise 9d. to 1. par score. Cut flowers
consist of Parsion flowers, Titian', Heliotropes, Euphorbias,
Carnations, Cyclamens, Aisles', Camellias, Chinese Prim-
roses, Heaths, and Roses.

The meetings of the various literary and scientific
societies for the ensuing week are as follows:—Monday:
Zoological.—Anniversary. Institute of Actuaries, 7.—" On
the Valuation of Public Se-nritiee," by Mr. Edwin James
Ferret, V.F. Tuestay : Hor7ictiltiril, I.—Anniversary.
Institution of Civil Engineers, 8. Diseussiod won Mr.
Barton's paper, "On the Economic Distribution of Mate-
rial in the sides, or Vertical Portion, of Wrought Iron
Beams." Royal Institution, 2.—Annual Mtctiog. Wed-
nesday : Society of Arts, B.—" On Juvenile Crime as it
On ma Commerce, and the brat means of repro esing it," by
Mr. Jrlingcr Symons. Geological, B.—" On the Pt: pica'
Geography and the Ph isrocene Pl.enomena of the Cutts-
weal Hills," by Mr. E. Hull.—" Notice of the Occurrence
of Coal in the Gulf of Nicomedia," from the Fortign•cffice.
On the Anthracitic Schist* of the Lower Satirises in
the Sunth of Scotland," by Mr. U. Harkness. It ,y al In-
stitution, 3.—" On Voltaic Electricity," by Dr. Tyndall.
Thursday: Zoological, 3.—General. Society of Antigua:-
rice, 8. Royal, 81. Royal Institution, 3.—" On Christian
Art," by Mr. G. Scharf, jun. Friday: Aram dogical In-
stitute, 4. Royal lastirution, 81.—" On Gunpowder and
Its Substitu'es," by Dr. J. H. Gladstone. Saturday:
Asiatic, 2. Royal Institution, 3.—" Ou Electro-Physi-
o.ogy," by Dr. Da Bois lteymond.
The next anniversary dinner of the Royal Literary
Fund will be held on May 22; the Bishop of Oxford in the
chair.
A new operatic work, 714 e Gnome of Harzburg,
by Mr. Henry Smart, will shortly be produced at the Hay-
I market Theatre. _ .

A correspondent of the Maidstone Journal, nar-
rating the circumetincesixttending the death of Mr. Denies,
says that at ten o'clock on the night before his death, the
right hon. gentleman said he feat more comfortable, and
would go to bed, telling the butler to call him in the morn-
ing as usual, about six o'clock. The butler accordingly
went into his room at the appointed hour, and found him
dead. The medical attendant on examining the corpse ex-
pressed an opinion that Mr. II • had been dead two
houn before the butler went into his chamber.
A statement has been made in the Herald, that
" to Captain Spratt, of the Spitfire, belongs all the honour
of the completion of the submarine electric telegraph on
the 13th." "',Sea cuique tribuito.' To this distinguished
officer," write ?assn. Newell, "doubtless, is due the great
merit of piloting the Argus across the Black Sea safely, and
enabling the projectors to accomplish their object; but some
share of honour is due to us, the contractors, who proposed
and undertook the risk of the work, and to his Grace the
Duke of Newcastle, who accepted our offer. A telegraphic
despatch ' that the line wax completed between Versa and
the Crimea on the 25th,' has been received from our put-
nor, Mr. Charles Liddell, civil engineer, who went out with
the Argus to lay down tile cable, and whose experience in
former operations of the kind has not, we should believe,
been without its effect on the successful completion of this
gnat work."
The "Address to the People," written by Char-
lotte Corday, and found upon her person when she was
arrested, was sold in Paris Use other day for 770 f r.
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has given notice
of various new clauses to be moved by him on Monday is
committee on the Newspaper Stamp Doi s 1311. It is
proposed that periodical publications must be potted within
fifteen days after being published; that in all cues in
which a question shall arise whether a printed paper is
entitled to the privilege of • periodical publication, so far
as respects the transmission thereof by the p .0, the qu. a-
Lion shall be referred to the determination of the Pest-
i master-General, whose decision, with the consent of the
Commissioners of her Majesty's Treasury, shall he final.
A Paris letter, in the Intle,pcsadance of Brue,els,
contains a few i steresting items of literary geesip. The
publication called the Correspmdant is to pass, it is said,
into the bands of MM. Montalembert, De Falioux, De
Salvandy, De Vetimessil, Buller, and Albert de P..xglie,
by whom it is to be made more Catholic than the Rev,: der
Deter Moan, but not ultramontane like the Univers. On
the other hand, the establishment of a review under Impe-
rial ii,ispiePS is spoken ef ; toe contributors including MM.
Troplon
de c
g(Priessasgine, ProsperidentoftheS menateeL, t., de
laG
tinnier .e rronilre,
Sainte
Cormenin, Miry, and Tbeophile Gautier. Of M. Lcmertine,
it is stated that, on the conclusion of his four volumes of
the Histoire de Tvxquie, he will take a year's rem, and occupy
himself with superintending the cultivation of his landed
property. For the last four years he has est apart 14 hours
a day for work. The ones renowned Pri.udbun is said to be
engaged upon • work to be cal;ed " Considerations upon the
Railway System," in sr high he contends that the oompanies
should be suppressed, and the direction placed in the hands
et the state.