The Express.
London, England, 1852-02-14 00:00:00

TALLOW MARKET.-THIS DAY.

The market is steady, with the following quot;tions
Town Tallow, 355. 6d. nett ; Petersburgh Y.C. on the spot.
355. 3d.; Oct. to Dee., 1852, 375.; on or before the end of
March. 355.

MARKET ATERAO3B.—Town Tallow, 3&. Od. ; fat by
ditto, 2a. Od. ; yellow Russian, 375. Od. ; melted stuff, 275. ;
rough ditto, 16s. 6d. ; Tallow grates, 9s. ; good dregs, 6s.

MARKET-THIS DAY.

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Messrs. Cooper and Davis report a slow trade at the fol-
lowing quotations : Prime Meadow Hay, 724. to 765.; infe-
rior, 655. to 68s. ; 'Owen, 60s. to 635. ; Clover, 804. to 855.;
second eut, 70s. to 755. ; Straw, 235. to 28s.

COVENT GARD]

EN.-THIS DAY.
um.

pineapples, per lb., 1a to 6. I
Grope.. Lisboa, per lb. ltd to Is
kitee., par beab„2atole44
Pears, deosset, par 44., 24 to 6.
411nOOde, per peek, 34
swot, per lb., /a to Ss
Lamas, par doz., tato le
VEOKTi
Saniper dos., 104 to Is Id
iz
, par bomb, At to le 34
Asparagus, par bundle. 4. tole
Saila* per beekat. Is to Ss
Grams. par dos.. 24 to la
Bbobarb, p. buorllA 94 lo Is
Pobgeoe, par les, Yea 110.
tor met., fto es
per bush. le 64 to le Id
Tondos, per doi.. S. to 4s
Cuatuebors, orneb, la lola
Nagy, per boodle, 64 to I. Sd
Called; per bunch, al to 74
Brussels Sprouts, per halt sieve,
1414 to 24 td
Avlosals, per Ares, Is to le 64
Outer, per burashp, 3d to 44
tipardra, dos., lead W3a
Endive, per IteJTIN 9.1 to Is
Bee; perdu., Ist ls

Brasses, per doe., UM Gd
per 100, Ss ed to 10s
Vera p. doz., Is. to Je
Nuts, Bar., p. aura., 10, to 21n
nndl, p. bush., t2a to H.
Oslo, per 100 Ib., to,

—par piatiot, fd to Is
Metal, per halt we% bd to 34
none!, per bunch, Id to 34
Savory, per banal, 2d to 3d
lbrse, per Wash, 14 to 3d
Parsley, p. doa. ban., la to Is
Wat, per baear., ad to Is
Baal, per bomb, Sal to ad
Marjoram:44o., per bunch. ad 4'44
We r.. tr Jor.bacch.ed to Is

Tun RUSSIAN FLEET.—The Russian force in the
Baltic at the present moment numbers forty-two sail of
the line, all powerfully equipped, ably manned, extensively
stored, and ready fur action I—Port:mount Times and
Naval Gazette.
Tun GREAT BarrAin SrlAwEa, which has been
entirely repaired and refitted, as well as greatly enlarged,
is intended to sail from Liverpool for New York early in
April next, with passenger, and goods. The rates in regard
to the former have been fixed considerably lower than has
hitherto been the ease in steamer traffic across the Atlantic,
the charges in the Great Britain being twenty, fifteen, and
thirteen guineas for the respective degrees of accommoda-
tion. Captain B. R. Mathews, late of the City of Glasgow
and Great Western, is to take charge of the Great Britain.
The Great Britain is an iron screw steamer of 3,500 tons.
THOMAS CARLYLE ON POOR LAWS.—The follow-
ing letter has been addressed by Thomas Carlyle to the
secretary of the Poor Law Association, Manchester :
" Chelsea, Feb.,s, 18.:i2.—Sir,—It gives rue great pleasure
to understand that the Poor Law Association has actually
got in motion, and determines to proceed strenuously to-
wards the grand object of having all the paupers of Great
Britain set to employment. I inclose you my subscription,
and, along with it, my heartiest wishes for your success.
According to all the notions I can form of our strange time,
with its manifold perplexities, its vague, high.flying hopes,
and fearful, steadily-advancing p. rile, this that you have
in view is precisely the thing needfullest to be done, the first
of all real steps towards safety and improvement for Eng-
lish society, as matters now stand. Till some veritably
wise and human mode of dealing with that frightful, ever-
increasing clam called paupers is attained, or, at least, is
zealously endeavoured alter by the government and the
community, I can only consider English society as in a state
of slow continual smoke, every day bringing it nearer the
state of flame and utter conflagration, into which we have
seen all other Enropear Moieties already go, in every tragic
manner! This is, and has long been, my fixed opinion--
grounded on innumerable considerations, deeper and less
deep, on which volumes might be written, and which are
of far too extensive compass to be entered upon here. One
thing may be asserted without risk, and has the closest
reference to this matter. If free bargais in the market,
and fair up-and-down wrestle and battle between em-
ployers and employed be the rule of labour (which I am far
from believing it capable of being, except (or a very limi-
ted time, and in very peculiar circumstances) ; still more,
if new and infinitely mere human arrangements between
employers and employ d are—as all men begin to sur-
mise, and as many men have long foreseen—ace inclispea.
sable necessity for labour, iu England as elsewhere, then,
clearly, I say, in either case, the first condition of fair play
is, that all paupers be quite elimluated from the contro-
versy, and carried clear away.frorn it, out of the labour mar-
ket, and its wrestles and its struggles. This, one would
think, needs little demonstration. Alas! if the pauper
were always supported by the rich, especially by the idle
rich, I could esteem it for the moment a small matter. But
he is supported by the poor, by those who are not yet quit*
paupers—whom, with fetal invincibility (and not by his
" rates " alone, but by his bad conduct, by his had example,
by the thousand fold infection of him every day and hour),
he is dragging down into that sad category. It is miserable
to consider. The course of every idle, foolish man, left
loose to become a pauper—continually deranging every
honest workman's bargain, then taking shelter in the poor-
house at the honest workman's expense, then, again, bursting
out to produce new derangement and confusion—is like the
course of an ine.udiary torch among the peaceable posses-
sions of mankind ; it is mad as would be the course era fever
patient left to run stumbling about the streets in these times
of ours. Ido not mean to say that the subject has no dif-
ficulties ; nay, that it is not like to be, in practice, beset with
difficulties, and to lead us, in its ulterior developments, into
innovations we are little prepared for at present. I perceive
well there is immense work a head of us in that directiou;
and I think withal it is high time we were beginning
As for you, who stand yet in the first stage of the affair, I
couceise your ground to be already wry clear, and that b
temperate and diligent exposition of your suns, you will
certainly gain the public support, and probably before long.
To an impartial stranger lending among us, as if from
another planet, it would seem very strange that there
could be a doubt about what you propose! Ile would find
doubts enough, however, and denials enough, and a great
quantity of cobwebs to be removed, before he could get this
axiom admitted. For, iudeed, the theories men form about
this world, and their political philosophic., and sciences.
and dismal sciences, make strange work with them ; and
truly, 'to a man doubled dow" .`g backwards
through his knees,' say. 'vs are in-
verted, and stand e 'oh you
every success, and I
yours sincerely, T,

P.;;eps, per dos-, Ott to Is
beets, p•r besets. Id to Id
Peanom, p•r lb. 9d to 104
(ladle per lb., Gd to Id
Artisbuirs, harden", per tat
dm, 9d to Is
L0u.... Cab. p. ma 4d to lo
Peon Reds, p. pa, Id to 3d
Hort. Radish, per bdL, 1. to4o
livatvons, par pot. Is to 1t 3d

doubled down, and looking backwards
11,. says the proverb, all things are in.
d upon Asir heads I again wish you
bid you , pery,e_Maad am, sir,
7. CARL r
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