The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-09 00:00:00

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.-THIS DAY.

Mears. Patteaden and Smith report the hop market Ara
at late prime, &apply very limited, and consumers short of
tock.

COAL MARKET.—'PHIS DAY.
Walls End West Hartlepool, 26..; Walls End Cusep,
30i.-1 fresh ship •t market.

RAILWAY AND
DER
OTHERR BILLS ON STANDING
OS.

Yesterday the standing orders were declared com-
plied with in the fallowing cues:
Batt:moue RAILWAY.—For a line from Bridport and Ike
Malden Newton Station of the Wilts, Somerset, and Wey-
mouth Railway, at a cost of 65,0001.
809 TM BASTIN/4 RAILWAY (Themes and Medway
Canal Abanduomeat )—Withdrawn.
01.1018. D. WORCESTER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON RAIL-
' WAY.—To alter and improve and construct additional
works, and to authorise arrangements as to Stratford.ou-
Avon Canal, and Stratford and Moreton Tramway. The
standing orders were declared not complied with, OA the
mend of an informality in the declaration.
LIKINICI AND CASTLECONNILL RAILWAY.
The other measures passed were :—The Western Bank
of Scotland (to incorporate and rive power to sue and be
sued) ; Union Bank of Scotland (for the same purpose);
London Necropolis and National Mausoleum Amendment;
Neweastla.under-Lyme Gas; Weston-super-Mare Gas;
Dublin Roads (abolition of turnpikes) ; St. Helens Im-
provement.
The select committee on standing orders have declared
that the standing orders may be &veined with, and that
the parties may proceed, in the case of the Woolwich Con-
sumers' Protective Gas petition; the Torquay Gas; and
the New River and Trustees of the River Lee Company.
Grueznak Commirrme OF ELecriorea.—At their
yesterday this committee appointed Monday nen to
&sow the committee on the Barnstaple petition, and to
Els a day for striking the committee on the Cambridge
petition.

According to a return just presented to the Amen.
can Congress there were posted in the United States for
Great Britain during the year ending the 30th of Jane,
18b4, 2,137,611 letters, and 1,612,671 newspaNirs; and
there were posted in Great Britain for the United States
during the same period 2,199,093 letters and 960,106
newspapers.
THE COAL TAM—Yesterday, at a meeting of the
Court of Camino' Council, a report was presented from the
Improvement Committee, stating that in pursuance of the
cote of parliament row rebuilding Landon Bridge, rte., Mr.
Chamberlain had laid before them a statement of the several
dudes and payments of the fund provided by the acts for the
quarter ending the 6th January last, showing that the sur-
plus which might be paid to her Majesty's commirsionera is
further liquidation of the charges made by them on the
said fund to that period was 38,8481. 6.1. Mr. Hall, in
moving that this amount be paid over to the commissioners,
said may persons laboured under the misapprehension that
the corporation received the whole of the revenue arising
from the coal tax, whereas they received but a very small
portion thereof. A large portion was constantly being ex-
pended in metropolitan and county improvements. The
above was the amount the corporation paid over to the sot
missioners quarterly, and he hoped the fact would receive
due publicity. Other members of the court concurred.
THE LEDLtIt Chill BEKVICE.—Sir Charles Wood,
President of the Board of Commissioners for the Affairs of
India, has addressed a letter to the chairman and deputy-
chairman of the East India Company, in which be says
that he has come to the conclusion that it is
inexpedient permanently to maintain Haileybury
College. It will be necessary, however, that it
should continue in a state of efficiency, until Jan. 1866, in
order to educate those gentlemen who bare been nomi-
nated to vacancies which occurred previous to the 30th of
April last. He proposes to introduce a bid into parliament
for the purpose of relieving the East India Company from
the obligation under which they now are to maintain the
College of Haileybory, and due provision will, of course
be made for those officers of the establishment who remain
upon it at the time of the closing of the college as have a
claim to such a provision. An examination will take pleas
in July, 1856, by examiners to be appointed by the Board
of Commissioners far the Affairs of ladle, of candidates far
appointments to the civil service of the But India Com-
pasy. Public notice will hereafter be given of the prods*
day en which the examination will be held. Twenty ap-
iointments will he awardsd, if so many candidates are de-
ared by the examiners to be duly qualified.
Large ilockg of wild fowl, conaistiog of gess,
ducks, teal, and widgeons, visited Southampton water yes-
terday, driven thither by the severe frost. All the dewy
ponds is thesouth, to which such birds resort lathe winter,
Ism bums sp.

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