The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-30 00:00:00

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.-THIS DAY.

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Mr. K. J. Davis reports that trade is brisk, at the fol-
lowing quotaticon:—Prime meadow Hay, 78e. to 84a.;
inferior, 665. to 765. • Roweo 61e. to 63a.; Clover, 86a. to
100 s.; mond ant, as. to 874.. 6d. ; straw, 271. to 325.

TALLOW MARKET.—TIDS DAY.
The market is quiet, with no business doing either :On
the spot or for ibeward delivery. Town Tallow is quoted
445. 4d. ; Yetenburg Y.C. on the spot, 46.. to 464 3d.; all
this year, 465.; Jan. to March (1863), 465. ; October to
December, new (1863), 44a.

LOCAL MARI

I MUT&

layrssooL, Dec. 29.—The market was rather flat this
imming, bat Improved in the afternoon, and closed very
good. Quotations :—Birksahead. Lancashire, and Cheshire,
61 d.—Chester gad Holyhead, 24—Hastern Counties, 131 c.
—Lancashire and YorkshireA 821 1 I—Lancaster and Pres-
ton (1 shares, immed at 121. 10a. d.), 44 p.—Londo• and
North Wasters, 1241—Manchester Shrftleid, and Lincoln,
81 801—North British, 10-Bt. Helm's Rail-
way and Canal, 731—Ditto (new pref. 6 per cent.), 361—
South Eastern and Dover, 26111 1 1-Bouth Yorkshire
and River Dan Company, I d.
lissoasscal, Dsc. 'S.—Prices show a rather further
advance, but there has not hem much business. A good
blatant: was dose is Dever% which opened at 231, and
attar some fluctuation below and above that price, closing
at the same quotation. Chester and Birkenhead_ (2211, 21
die.; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 861 ; Midland, 801 Lon-
don and North Western, 1261; Cheshire Junction, 6* dia.;
Australian Freehold, 1 pram. • Blackburn, pref., 24 ;
North Waters, pref., 16g ; East Lancashire, pref. Fifths
(2nd Wee), 6 &Le; Burma Counties, 131. The market
closes Brm.

Bizi7u7Cacm, DSc. 29.—This market was dull today,
though then was no decline of prices. Birmingham, Wol-
verhampton, and Stour Valleys were done at 101. 116. 3d.;
Chester and Holyhead), at 231. lls. 3d. ; ditto, preference
sham, 191. 10s.; North Staffords, at 18i ; London and
North Westerns, at 128 r ; sad Shrewsbury aid Birmingham
Steak, at 613 A.
Lazne, sc. 29.—There has been little doing on
'Change this morning. The transactions were chiefly on
spiculstion for the accoant middle of January. Prices
show no material variation. The following were the closing
males :—Leeds Northern, 18E; London sad North West-
erns, 1234 ; Gooles, 234; Australia& Freehold, 28.

THE LATE DE. BEHCIL—We have the deepest
regret ia animating the death of Samuel Barwick Bruce,
Req., M.D., of Ripon (late surgeon to the forme, and medi-
cal inspector of mills sad prisons in the Ripon district), at
Victoriaoquare, Grosvenor-place, London. Dr. Brace WOO
bonon the Sth of January, 1788. He was the second son
of Barwick Bruce, M.D., and the grandson of the Hon.
J. 0. Bruce, of Gartlett, scanty Clackmaanan, North Bri-
tain (some time judge of the Court of Common Pleas, in
Barbadoes), by Jane, his wife, daughter and heiress of
General Samoa Barwick, governor of that island. Dr.
Bruce was einsated at Codeington College, Barbadoes. In
180411 e estsood the medical department of the army, but
saw awe of Me want lorries afloat, under Lord Nelson, in
1806; be woo pleat at the capture of the Danish klub
of St: Thommy, St. John, and St. Croix, in 1807, and
ha as served at the 'wigs of Fort Demi:,
Martinique (be 'blob be bed a nada and • clasp) ; at the
espitueo of Iwo Idaho, am thwitelotipe, at the bombard-
mand_mil adrift boa the* enebenise of the Preach fleet,
is MOO ; at the capture of Guadeloupe (for which be re-
ceived a medal and clasp), aa well es at the capture of the
adjacent islands, in 1810. Dr. Brass served in the Penin-
sular, is 1813, la America, in 1814 and 1815, and was pre-
sent at the severe actions before New Orleans, in January
1816; at the capture of Fort Boyer, its. He joined the
army in the Netherlands, wider the Duke of Wellington,
in May 1816; was present at Waterloo, and at the subs..
guest capture of Faris. On the recommendation of Sir
Lowry Cole, he wee, in 1817, appointed private medical at-
tendant to the family of IsA de Grey, and Ise settled at
Ripon in Yorkshire, where be cautioned to reside till
within these weeks digs death.
LONDON AND BODTEL - WESTERN RAILWAY.-,
Amount of trifle Ibe the week ending Dee. 28, 1862
Passengers, 9,5901. 7s. old. ; goods, 2,4011. 16s. ld. ; total:
11,9921. 3s. 64d.