The Express.
London, England, 1855-03-17 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

TALLOW MARKET.—THIS DAY.
The market is steady to-day, at the following quotation.
win, :—Tosm Tallow 465, nett cash ; Petersburg Y.C. on the
spot, 475. Bd. ; May and June, 48a.
MARI= ATIMAGES.—Town tallow, 50a.; fat by ditto,
2s. ; yellow Russian, 495. 6d. ; melted stuff, 365. ; rough
ditto, 225. Gd. ; tallow grates, 121. ; good dregs, 7s.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—THIS DAY.
Mr. E. J. Davis reports ths supply short; prices without
alteration. Prima meadow hay, 70s. to 80s. ; superior, 8.55.
to 989. ; inferior, 601. to 60s. ; rower', Qs. to 80s.; clover, 90s.
to 1155.; mond cat, SOs. to 100 s. ; straw, 24a. to Xs.

COVENT GARDEN MARKET.-THIS DAY.
The supply of vegetables is improving. Some good French
Endive, Lettuces, Radishes, Globe Artichokes, and Carrots
may now be obtained. French Apples are also largely
imported; they fetch about Br. per bushel. Gelid Pears are
scarce; they consist of Ne Plus Meuris, Benne Ranee, and
Easter Benne. Seville Oranges bring from 7s. to 14$. per
hundred ; common sorts, from 2s. Si. to 10s. per hundred.
Chestnuts, from 10$. to 24.. per bushel ; Spanish Nuts, 14e.
to 20s. per bushel; Barcelona, ]Be. to 245.; French Al-
monds, 24r. per bushel, 651. per cwt. ; and Brazil Nuts, 201.
Increased quantities of good Cornish Broccoli continue to
reach the market. Spanish Onions may be bought for 21.
per dozen. Carrots or Turnips are dear. Potatoes are lower
in price than they were last week. A few new ones from
France have been sold at from 11. 6(1. to 2.. per pound.
Lettuces realised 9d. to Is per score. Cut flowers consist
of Passion flowers, Bignonia veouste, Tulips, Heliotropes,
Euphorbias, Poinsettias, Camellias, Chinese Primroses,
Heaths, and Roses.

FRUIT.

Pine Apples, per lb., Gm to IM -TAPples, per bushel, 4s, 6d to les
Pears, per hag-dere, 7s to 10e dessert, pa dos, ell tole
71COP,TABLE4.

all,B purple, per bundle, 6-1,3
white, per bundle, 2s. tote
°Wages, red, per doe., 2.• to k
Brussels Sprout; p. half tiers,
1. tots
French Brim, per 100, Se to 48
Rhubarb, per boa., le. to Is. dd
Osaka* per punnet, la 6d to Se
Asparagus, per 100, 4. to S.
Potatoes, per ton, 90e to 130.
per cwt., Seed to Se
per bash., lead to to
Carrots, p. bunch, 6d to ed
furulp., do., Sd to 44
Cucumbers, each, I. 6d to 2a 64
Spinach, per sieve, Se to to

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Beet, per des., Is (1:1 to 24
Celery, per bundle, le to Is 6d
°name, per hu.hel. L ad to 44 6d
Leeks, per bunch, Id td 1d
Shallots, tar Ib, 44 toad
Garlic, per lb., 6d to 64
Endive per score, Is .'d to Is
Lettuces, Cab., p. score, Od to Is
Co., per score, 54 I.le ed
Small Salad, p. pun., 24 to Id
Horse Radish, per WI., fa to to
lit ash roetus, per pot., 2s •o Ps
Chilies, per IGO, Is to Is 6d
Parsley, per bunch, 44 to Sd
Sweet herbs, per ►unch, 2d to 4d
Mint, green, do., ad to Is

MAIL POE AUSTRALIA.—To-night the clipper ship,
Ballarat, will be detained in the Downs till Sunday morn-
ing, in order to afford merchants an opportunity of answer-
ing their letters per Argo. All letters, newspapers, &c., in-
tended for despatch on this occasion must be speeially ad-
dressed " per ship Ballarat," at Deal, and posted to-night,
Saturday.
Pans MONEY.—Last night's Gazette contains s
notice to the officers and company of 11.111. sloop King-
fisher, that certain monies, being shares of bounties on cap-
tured slavers, await them at the agent's. Judging from this
amounts receivable, there is nut likely to be any dangerous
rush for the payments in question. Tie shares due on "a
cutter, name unknown," seised in 1847. are for thirteenth-
class, one penny farthing per man; twelfth class, ono penny
three farthings ; and so on up to the seventh class, which is
entitled to claim nine-pence farthing.
TRAINING REFUGE FOR DESTITUTE GIRLS.—The
fifth annual meeting of this institution woe Geld last even-
ing at the Literary Institution, Portman•rquare; It. E.
Broughton, Esq., presided, end addresses were delivered
by the Rev. K. Dibdin, Rev. 11. Hatch, J. Payne, Esq.,
J. R. Fordham, Esq., and other gentlemen. The report
stated that t►e expenditure en the year bad been 6691., and
the receipts 7861., but the balance had been made up by
donations. 18 girls base been placed in service during the
year, and 36 remain in the Refuge. 129 have been admitted
since its establishment.

CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING DAY.
Friday, March 16. Admiuion on payment, 940 ; ditto by
auxin tick.% 350.1:T0ta1, 1,290.

THE BRAZIL MAILB.—The Constitution steamer,
which was to have left the Mersey this (Saturday) morning
for the Brasil, and West Coast, has been detained until
Monday. Letters posted in Liverpool up h, 9 a.m. on the
17th (Monday) will be in time. They must be marked
" Per Conatitucion," or " Per private ship."
THE ADDITIONAL DUTY ON MALT.—Yesterday
a return, procured by Mr. Bess, M.P., was printed, show-
ing the additional duty imposed by the act last year. The
stock was 4,751,865 bushels; and the additional duty has
posed last year was 952,6771. 13. 94
MELANCHOLY DEATH.—On Sunday morning last,
the body of a schoolmaster, of Wihill, near Pateley Bridge,
was found dead near Harrogate. The deceased, whose
name was John Waller, had been on the previous day on a
visit to his father at Knaresborougb, and on his way home
bad called at several public,houscs at a place called Burnt
Gates, where he remained uutil a late hour. Becoming the
worse for liquor, he missed his way on resuming his Jour-
ney, and was found the following morning in the snow,
having fallen a victim to excess of drink and the inclemency
of the weather. A dog, which he bad in company with
bim, drew attention to the lifeless body of its master, by
barking at a passer-by.
TICI2IO.—The New Zurich Gazette states that the
commission formed by the committee of the people to
exsmine as to whether a charge of high treason ought not
to be brought against the principal authors of the dis-
turbances in the Canton of Ticino, has just denounced to
the Council or State the names of MM. Stoppani of Ponte
'
Tressa'; Polari, of Moriote •Airoldi, of Lug..no ; Fransoni,
of LOCUIIO and Advocate Cattaneo, of Fordo, as chiefs of a
systematic and anti-national opposition, as founders of •
violent and anarchical press, as constant calumniators of
the authorities mud of the country, as exciters to rebellion,
and, consequently, as guilty of high treason. A letter from
Bellinsona of the 9th, in the Piemonte of Turin, states that
the differences existing between the Canton of Ticino and
Austria are about to be settled, and that new instructions
have been sent for that purpose by the Federal Council to
the delegates at Milan.
THE NEW METAL.—The attention of the Academy
of Sciences was, some months since, directed to a discovery
made by M. Sainte-Claire Deville, professor of chemistry
at the Superior Normal School, in cocjunction with
M. Wohler, professor of chemistry at the University of
Gottingen, of a new metal, to which the uame of
aluminium was given. The Emperor, on hearing of it,
ordered that every enc,uregcment should be given to
utilise the discovery, and some manufactured apecimine
of this metal will appear at the Es htbition. In a report
made to the Emperor by the Minister of Public Instruction,
proposing that the two above-named mavens shall be pro-
moted to the rank of officers in the Legion of Honour as a
reward for their scientific skill, we find the following:
"when this extraordinary motel, light ss glass, white and
shining as silver, almost as unchangeable as gold, malleable
and ductile in the same degree as these precious metals,
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