The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-31 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL OOT?ON MARKET.
(?HI DAY.)
On ILICTLIO LID urrizawnonar, ruzawx.)
(1101 003 OWN 0012.101.0333 NT).
The market is a tries steadier to-day. Sala about 4,000
balm.

TALLOW MARKET.—{THIS DAY.)
Tits mat►et is steady. The pressat quotatioas Sill as
follows :—Tows tallow, 44e. dd. sat sash; Petersburg Y. 0.,
as the spot. 455. Ad. ; Mirth, 465. ; April to Jima, Ids.
October to Deoestbsr, 475. X

Yaws Aezzaass.—Towatallow, 465. 6d. ; to by ditto.
2s. 30. ; yellow Rossisa, 475. 3d. ; melted stuff, 325. 611.;
rough ditto, Us. ; tallow gnaw, 12s. ; good dregs, 7..
SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
Moms. Harvey sod Easton report 'Mall Mydull, wit b
s shoot supply, at thetollowiog quotations :—Prams meadow
bay. 70s. to 755. ; superior ditto,' 80s. to 8.5 e. ; inferior
ditto, 50s. to 80s.: clover, old, 90s. to 110 s. ; ditto,
wood ant, 84s. to 100 s. ; straw, 321. to 304.
COVENT GARDEN.—(THIS DAY.)

In consequence of the unusually favourable weather
experienced this winter, supplies are very ebundaot,
and prices comparatively low. Importations of foreign
goods are also well kept up. Among apple* are New.
town Pippins, Pomme d Api, end Reinettea Pesos
monist, of Beam: Dial, Glen Moravia, Joao de Witte,
Ne Plus Maoris, and Beane Banos St. Michael oranges
fetch from 265. to 32.. per box. Chestnuts for plant:Lag
are now in perfection ; they fetch Is. 6d. per basheL
Cucumbers are more plentiful, and there is a tether better
demand for pine apples and grapes than there has hitherto
been. Potato Wee have altered little sines last report.
Cat flowers still chiedy consist of orchids, pelargoniums.
violate, mignonette, and roma

The Zoological Society are preparing tanks for
mome white whales (twelve feet keg), which ►re coming
from the Bt. Lawresoe.

GALLANT CONDUCT OF A SF:AVANT GIRL—.
arm:cols wrni • Spectre. —At the Liverpool county
magistrates' omit yesterday, a man named Joho Regso wan
charged with having in November last entered the house a(
Moe. Powell, Beau Cottage, Knotty Ash, car liverpo4
sod attempted to steal a quantity of jewellery, he., raked
at 101. On the 30th of November Lsrt, the primate
called at Mrs. Powell's about five o'clock in the
even*. and sated tows one of the members of the family.
The servant girl told him that it was not a proper time Se
cell, and that he must come again in the morning. The pri-
soner then said, " I suppose they are out," sod went away.
Shortly after this, however, the girl heard a poise in Mn.
Powell's bedroom, and she went quietly upstairs with
life preserver, and peeped into the room. Tie prisoner
was placing the plate in a bonnet box, and she naked
him what buMness be had there, whereupon he knocked
bar down, and 00de:wormed to escape with the property
through one of the windows. The girl, however, nothing
daunted, got up and seized the prisoner, but was c',wpelled
to let go her hold. She then ran doweetairs and opened
the (rout door, when she saw the prboner getting over the
wall of the garden, sod agate seizedhim. Finding that his
position was an awkward one, the prisoner dropped his
plunder, and effected his mope. He was shortly appre-
hooded, however, and it was ascertained that an entruice
had been gained to the hones by forcing one of the window
latches. The prisoner was committed for trial.
liststi RAILWAY Brus.—lrish railway bills this
session will be few in number, owing, no doubt, to the late
bad harvest. Notwithstanding, some will go forward, hay.
ipg lodged the deposit neosmary under standing orderers
among which will be the Metropolitan, Cookstown, and
Pomeroy Junction. Sligo, and BaUyhmidereen Railways.—
Dablin Event' leg Mail.
A RAILWAY TRUCK BLOWN AWAY BY THE WIND.
—On Tuesday afternoon the train from Dunfermline to
Kinross was run into by a troth, sad the lan carriage
smashed. Fortunately the only occupant of the carriage
was • gentleman. who escaped without serious injury. The
truck had been run on to a aiding a short distance horn
Lumphinuans Junction, and so strong was the gale that it
was blown over the " choke blocks (large ban of wood
fastened down to the rails to keep the trucks Ii their
places while standing), and ran along the line till it came
into collision with the Kinross trsia.—Bdinlin volt Courant.
TRAFFIC Rwrusss.—The traffic receipts of rail-
ways in the United Kingdom amounted for the week ending
the 24th of January, on 10,588 milers, to 48.5.574/., and for
the corresponding week of last year, on 10,191 miles, to
458,575/., showing an increase of 395 miles, and of
26,881/. in the receipts. The gross receipts on the following
14 railways amounted in the aggregate, on 7,266 miles,
to 382,9961. ; and for the corresponding week of
1862, on 7,008 miles, to 360,8704, ebowing an in-
crease of 260 miles, and of 22,126/. in the receipt..
The increase on the Caledonian amounted to 4111.;
on the Great Eastern to 1,306/. ; on the Greet Northera
to 7571. ; on the Great Southern and Waters to
' 5754 ; on the Great Western to 1,986!. : an the LAW -
cashirs and Yorkshire to 1,2161. ; on the London and North-
Western to 4,994/. ; on the Leaden, Brighton. and
South Cold to 1,1211. ; on the London and South-Weetera
to 2,6991. ; on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire to 757/. ; on the Midland to 2,2531. ; oa the North.
British to 1,470/. ; on the North Eastern to 1.2921. ; and
on the South-Eastern to 1,2891. ; total, 22.1261. The
and mineral traffic on those line, amousted to
soda
5431., aid for the corresponding week of 1862 to
205,6451.. showing an increase of 14.8981. The receipts
for passengers, parcels: ka., amounted to 162,4531.
against 155,225:., showing . anincrease of i:2261. The
traffic receipts on 65 other lines amounted, on .I,:rao
to 102,460/., and for the corresponding week of last year, ot
3.185 miles, to 79,7061., sbowingatilDONlSSO Of 135 miles, sad
of 4,75:d. in the receipts. The total reeeipts of the past
week show adecnsse of 1,4141. as eompared with those of
the preceding week, ending the 17th hot.