The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-17 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS

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TALLOW MAR.IIIT.—(THIS DAY.)
The market is firm today. Spot se quoted 4fia. 3d. ;
Jul , 46e. 9d. ; October to December, 49e.
AVM/AGM—Town tallow, 46e. 6d.; fat by
ditto, 91. 4d.; yellow Smissims, 475. 6d.; melted Muff 37e. ;
rough ditto, ; tallow paves, 16a. ; good dregs, 7s.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—(THD3 DAY.)
Yaws. Harvey and Easton report trade slow, at last
day's prices. Prime meadow hay, 70s. to 80s.; superior
ditto, 84s. to 925. 6d.; inferior ditto, 50.. to 60s. ; clever,
old, 90s. to 112.. 6d.; ditto new, second cut, 90s. to 100 s. ;
straw. Ms. to 40s.

COVENT GARDEN.—(THIS DAY.)
Vegetables continue plestifuL This week there have
bees large importations from the continent, consisting of
peas, beans, artichokes, wrote, cauliflowers, tomato,
cucumbers. frame potatoes, sad cherries. Pine a
grapes are still dear, sod wan and apples are swtter for
this seams. New strawberries become more abundant every
week. Potato trade heavy. Cut flowers chiefly consist of
orchids, Chinese primulas, camellias, violets, ciserariss,
mignonette, sod roses.

hums or Tna O'Doroaaostilb aLa P.—Wetaf!glie-
moss) are extremely forty to leers,
from oar Lemke esersepeedeat, that naillossoghne is so
that it hes bra found osomeary to telegraph to
Tip= cedar to her the appaseehiag baaquet to him
Our onvesposdeot telegraphs " The
rltionlgelte is attarced with the earales, but lam happy
to add that there are no &agrees symptoms. A tele-
gram has been forwarktod to postpone the nudes hangar"
The Above Bar Fair, at Southampton, has just
bra held. It is • pleura e fair, ooesistisg of daring
booths, rows, and circus ; sod this year a novelty was
introduced, by the preaching, at the fair, of • Yr. John
Hambleton, • eenverted comedian. He aseembled • eon-
eiderable crowd around him, who sung hymns sad Mooed
to his preaching.
Therm REORIPTL—The traffic reoeipte of rail-
ways in the United Kingdom amounted for the week eliding
the 10th of Nay, on 10,1.65 miles to 520,0381., and for the
corromondiag week of last year, on 9,906 miles to 519,7151.,
showbeg- an increase of 229 miles, and of 6131. in the
receipts. The receipts on the following 14 rail-
ways smog in the aggregate, on 6,618 mike to
398,9861., and for the corresponding week of 1861,
on 6,463 miles to 400,3361., showing an increase
of 136 miles and • decrease of 3,9511 In the receipts.
The dowers on the Caledonian Railway emanated to 3861.;
on the Lancashire and Yorkshire to 5,3421. ' • on the Loa-
ds). and North Werra to 3,084/. • on the Manchester,
Lincolnshire to 1,9714 ; and on the North
Eastern to 2.,5031._ total, 13,2831. Bat from this most be
deducted 2,7181. the increase oa the Eastern Omar' ; 7121.
on the Great Northern ; 1981. on the Great Southern and
Wirer ; 28.61. on the Great Western ; 1,9661. on the Ue-
da', and Swab Coast ; 1,2301. oo the London and
South Werra ; ots the Nidlead ; 1901. on the North
British ; and 1,415/. on the South Beaters —together,
9,3941., IsavWg the demur as above. 3,9511. The
Clsad mineral traffics on those Hoes amembed
05,764 k, end for the eerreepooding week of 1861 to
mom, sazz, &crew of 9,3621. The recelple far
sweated to 190.621 L stunt
liaBrArsliewlad as hawse of 6,9671. The IMMO re-
ceipts ar 46 other liars amounted, on 3,647 miles, Is
1.19,91111., and for the earreependiag week of last year,
on 3,416 miles, to 119,3791., Aar* an inciter of 91 maps
sad at 4,8141. In the receipts. The falling off It the poi
Saab of She par week as compared with the eeereepeuell-
- barperiod of 1661 arias. chiefly from the Of
trete la the vassantseturing bdrter, bat this
itk el* ant Ile oessidesabis eatent the increase ie
re Wale coassqueses ei ties Istursaliosal
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The lulls read* if lee Tait week show a d d
40 9,5321., as compared with those of the preceding week
ale Ise sg sad* the 3rd inst.

IMPERIAL E

HOUSE OF LORDB.—FmAr, MAY 16.
ma lorehipa mot at 5 o'clock

ROYAL 0011JUBSION.

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The following bills haring passed both bowie d par
liament received the royeksesent by 003111111116012 :—The
chequer Bonds (1,000,00 W.); Cbaritsbis Dees AA (1961)
Amendment ; Crown Suite (Isle a Man • cloqege a Thy-
sic ia n (lrelan d) ; Netly Hospital &tate ; ; Piers sad
Harbours Aet Amendment; Writs of HAMS into
her Majesty's Possewrioas Abroad ; Transfer of Stooks (Ire-
ind) ; Wyoornbe Railway ; Folkestone to Barham Downs
Bond; Landon sad Bkokwall Railway; peados, Tilbury,
sad filouthead Railway ; Wareham Roads Norwich Cor-
rur• Ras Turnpike Trust; Firesides Railway;
eder Road ; Coventry Poor Ant Amendment, ; Ciren-
cester District Roads; Much Wenlock said Boyers Junc-
tion Railway; Brid Road(Seeond District); Bradford Cor-
poration Water ; Heekmoadwike Gas ; British Flats Glass
Company ; and Webb sad Craig's Patent Bills.

PRIVATE BIIIIINEM3.
The following bills were made third timesad pawed:—TM
Waterford and Limerick, and limerick and Ennis Railwar ;
Ceylon Reline Company k Phillimore's Estate ; Badmouth
BallvsY sad 1 ; Limerick Market ; North Devoe
Railway sod Doek ; Rathraines and Rath /par Improvement
Queenstown Imwoyvmsat ; Bristol and Exeter arid c
and Taunton; Truman Improwiensut ; and the Bollington
(PreMbury) Improvement sad lAghting,

(CAL LEASES.

Lad LYTTELTON hid epos the table a bill to amend
a taw in the act of lest seselon, whieh he bed introduced on
the subject of ecclesiastical bows.

Th. fill was read • finktiaw.

COUNTY COURT FEES.

Lord cHzutaiiiiiisskorc;rimWer the Lords of the
Treeeury by their patent Orlin that a plaintiff in a
County down who claimed anew thee 405., should paw a
fee of le., had not exceeded the powers conferred by the
law, and, if so, whether the order would be rescinded.
The 1.011,D CHANCELLOR (showed that the fee was
con WWI. end expinwed why it bad been imposed.
Lord CRANWORTH tweenrred with the Lord CUM-
cellor.
The house adjourned at a quarter to 6 o'clock.

HOWIE Or 0011MONB. —Pupa:, MAY 16.
The SPLOM took the chair at 4 Aka.
PRIVATE BUSINESS.

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The followiug bill; ware read a third lam Yd yarned :
Bradford, Wakefield, and Leads Railway (Farther P►ovi-
sions) ; Brom Down Harbour, ta. ; Bristol Water ; Ike`
sees Railway • Hull and Harnosa Railway ; Leads New
Goa; Boottaids'Nords Rastas Railway—Bills.

ROYAL AREENT.

Colonel Cu rroun, the Yeoman Usher of the Meek Ed.
appeared at the bar and summoned the hams to attend in
the Home of Peers to bear reed • royal emnrolmion for
giving the assent of the crow' to several bilis speed wpm
by both houses.
THE P.

rsity RIFLE MATCH.

Mr. B. OSBORNE-6r, there is a matter di
which has OM' under my solies, sod upon which =C
• =ten as. to what I senates to be a very unjulti-
tamed os the lard High Chanagior of
Ragland andiTther soils lords in mother pies. (Bear,
hear.) I wish to ask yea whaler ism It say trail in the
statement, that it the iseiliptisa of the sight he.. pati•-
man the Secretary for War, ma love sort a dialler to the
other home of parlisment—HatelMor)—to mot them in a
rids costa& (Renswod lawesisr.) I have mem to be-
hove it Jobs& hots, and emirs to viva you, dr, the seam&
"MflalitlllSHO—Vi eonarMiLsol my, hosslable heed
rises to eddies. that *minion to you, I was ping
to skim the indolence of the hone es a
matter pineal to myself, sad to call steatite
to a letter which I bold in ray bawl. That letter will, I
=.saner ths quads" alarmed to you by my has.
It la a letter from the Speskse a the Houle el
Cowmen. to myself, and with your peemeeke I will rend it :
—" May I6.—My dear Lead Eishie.,—l km heard with
amassment that the Lord Clmemiler samannead eight
in the Bore et Lords—Gaughtsej—that la bad roosived a
shame too rife saki Ism the Speaker of the Home of
OOMIDODB—II &asap foam Me Hones of Commons to the
Hoses of Lards. (ROIDIPOI brake/) As I assail doubt
that you made the tommadootion to the (beseellor, I must
regaled you of what fast *se between as I was bait
oa Tuesday mihisg with sissabore promoting
and moving mnsppesel returns • you aims
to sae with • rah of papsrin yeas Lail, imisi that a rile
match was proposed between seem neensbers of the sete
homes, and asking me for my lama I anirwand that! wss
may busy, that I could not spin a inessent to read the
paper, nor did I ewe • singe seed it sonidosi. Yea rie
maimed a short time by ay chair sad mid that the meta
was to take place, and many iambus felt mush interne
about it. Wishing to &mks the sisbjek I said in jets the
only pert I could take would be to Ars • shot with the Load
Chancellor. (Continued laughter.) If pm have nada mo
party to a paper which I did not read, and have bees the
bearer of • challenge to a ride match to the Lord CheinesGar
from myself, putting me isto conflict with that gnat digai-
tary—(aughter)—l shall have to request you to maw
an explanation to that noble lord that you idol
seder • misoonception—that os Fay. pert no such
liberty had entered into my maginatiou.—Belism
me yours very truly, J. Ever .T$ Divisors." ((heers.)
I believe when you, sir, mot me that latter it
was your wish that I should ad it to the home, sad I
havolikewisa, in occordanas with what yen ham expremed
in it, communicated its contents to the Lard (hewier.
For my own part I have milieu to add, tempt this, that I
certainly did not anticipate the objet would ever have
been brought before either house of parilemeat—(lear.
bear)—aud I have likewise to express my regret that any-
thing I should have said or dose should have led to this
mistoomption or misuuderstandim, and I bays further to
myna my incense t that anything I have said or dose
should have ceased you, sir, the slightest annoyants.
(Chews.)
The SMILER—I can metre the noble lord that I have
received the expressions which be limpet uttered entirely
in the spirit in which he has made them, and is the manner
is which I should wish to receive them from, I may add, an
old and valued friend. (Hoar, bear.) I wish to treat this
matter in the most paled good humour, and I trust the
house will be diapered to treat it in the same wa7. (Hear,
hear.) I should wish to guard myself en a certain point—
! mean a point of order. It is not unfrequently my duty to
remind lion. members of this home that it is not within
the rules of order to refer to the debates which take phoebe
the House of Lords. (" Hear, hoer," sad laughter.) I should
be very mto appear myself to infringe that rule bat
I must point out to the hoots that this is rather
an exceptional ems, and maybe rather treated in the light
of a meanies
.from this house to the House of Lords—
(hear, heari—in which character it would sot be improperly
a matter of observation. I have now only to say tCPerlrli
gra the time of the house should have been occupied even
for so few moments by such • subject ; and with regard to
myself, as I have had the homer now for nix years to pre-
side in this house, lit thee is DO single member who
for • moment believes that I bad veatured in such a manner
to commit this house. (Loud cheers.)
Lord PALMERSTON--Siz, I am quite sure the hones
would sot require any essurame on your part to merinos
' them that on no scconat. however serious or however el a
' different description—would you commit this home
in any way that might be inconsistent with its rules and
proceedings. (Heir, hear.) The house has heard the
statement of the noble lord, and also what has fallen from
you, sir ; and I em pomaded they will join with me in the
hope that there will n be any more serious collision or
contest between the two houses than that which is likely,
if it be likely, to occur in • trial of skill on the terms and oa
the occasion referred to by yourself and by my noble ftisod.
, ("Hear, hear," and laughter.)
NOTICE OF MOTION.
Mr. A. SMITH pve take that on the 27th of May; in
the eveut of the notice of the hon. member for Bristol
bift sanctioned, he should move that votes at municipal
elections be taken in certain caw by ballot. •
RECIPROCITY TREATY WITH CANADA.
Mir. FITZGERALD asked her Majesty's government
whether they bad received from her Majesty's minister at
Webiugton, a copy of the report of the mounatee at the
, House of Representatives of the United States on the opera-
tion of the reciprocity treaties with Goads ; and whether,
if such a report had been received, them was any objection
to lay it upon the table of the house
Mr. LAYARD replied that the report to which the bon.
gentleman alluded was laid before Congress, and her Ma-
, Piety's government bad received a copy. Them will be no
, objection to lay it on the table.
THE FORTS AT SPITHEAD.
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Mr. B. OSBORNE asked the Bweretary of State for War
when the commierionen for inquiring into the neotesiite
irectiug forts atBpithaid might be expected to communists
their report to parhament
eir G. C. LEWIS maid he was Wormed that the commis-
sioners had agreed upon their report, and that in the course
of next week it would be in the loads of the government.
Mr. B. OSBORNE—When will it be laid on the table of
the house!
Sir G. O. LEWIS—When the report the hands of
the government, I shall be able to answer that question.
THE OCCUPATION OF MEXIOO.
Sir G. BOWYER asked the First Lord of the Treasury
' what information her Majesty's government had received
respecting the ocenatioa of klexloo by Feamcoand the
Intentions of the French goverment regardlng
Lord PALIIBRSTON—By the latest amostals which we
have received from Sir Merles Wylie, our minister at
Mexico, it appears that it wan the intomMon of the French
oorpe to advance to the eity of Maxim. He advance, how-
ever, up to that time bad be made, bat that was their in-
beaten, With regard to what the `Naha of the French
uuremeet may be. I sin oily Mee the hen. bluest to
the eceivention of October, se reecelisg ths Ishentiens of the
three powers to anderteke teustinthethee eolith IS MiliCO•
Ms ace for a 'Meister of the Brillit "MO
.Ps 'oak in say
way ether then this MAI therstiens et it Iste govern-
ment (Hear, hear.) Plieleign ft may be salkesolory to add
to my, sewer that by • despatch from lllrMass Wyk,,
dated the 13th of last month, it appears he expected on the
17th of that mouth to have in interview with the Minister