The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-24 00:00:00

TRACTS IN LEADENHALL-MARKET.

Mr. D. W. Harvey, the Commissioner of the City
Police, received the following letter from the propriety, of
the Beni Pon:
user,— I Mae the liberty of calling your attention to •
eate which, I believe, is only one if • very •umcrous clam
of frauds of like character. Having received • copy of the
inclined advertisement last week, which was unintentionally
inserted is my paper withoot previous inquiry, on sending
up the uxount to my town agent he reports it as bad ; and
intowsog that this mode of obtaining provisions from ins
ciente), is frequently practised by men of straw at this
aeseon, tbo same used is this ease hiring that of • poultry
salesman of some standing in Leadenhall-market, 1 beg to
easiest the expediency of some inquiry being made by the
F•1:1p respecting the Woe named.
l am, sir, your most obedient servant,
JOMN3O,I Woos, Proprietor.
To H. W. Harvey, lin., CUMIIII*BIO4CI
of Police, London.
" No. Fleet street, London.
" wish the enclosed inserted are, times in your
paper, and a copy sent each time, with your charge, by
return of pent.—Yeun respectfully,
" To Poultry Perdue, Farmers, and others.—The adver-
tiser is desirous of contracting for • regular supply of poultry
of all kinds; also fresebutter, cream cheeses, hams, Me.
Address, prepaid, —, Fleet-street, London.
" N.B. An eats* supply of geese, turkeys, fowls, and
sucking pigs required during Christmas."
Mr. Harvey also received& letter from the County Police.
°Mee, llnashiss, matins that • gentlemen in that vicinity
had, in oonsequesoe of an advertisement of the same tied,
sent to London by railway a teach...et. containing three
geese and a turkey, einsigned to the persons who desaibed
tnennelyes in the advertisement as salesmen in Leadenhall-
market, buy had heard • word about the goods since.
The commissioner, upon receiving the communications,
sent constable 376, ea* of the active member& of the force,
to m- ke the neeeseary inquiries, and the report of the offi-
cer was that • gang of swindlers, to which the Fleet-street
and the Leadealiall market edvertteers belonged, :were
getting game fres% all parts of the euun try ; that the house
an Fleet-street was formerly a betting ether, and that one
of the parties a there all day to receive letters. That •
respectable Saleasas in Lsadenhall-market had shown the
oiliest • number of letters respecting the gang, who had
taken the liberty of using his name, and that the beadle of
Nemaata-market had advertised in a number of country
newspapers cautioning farmers and oti Cr. upon tlie subject.
Active measures have, we uoderstat,d, been adopted in
consequence of this information.

HOLLT AND MISTLETOE.—The holly wu dedi-
(Wed to Saturn; and, u the fetes of that deity were cele-
brated in December, and the humans were accustomed to
decorate their houses with holly, the early Christians deco-
rated their houses is the suss manner, while they were cc-
leh-ating their feElval at Christmu, in order that they
might escape observation. The mistletoe was dedicated to
r riga, the Venus ut the Seandinavizas; and as sbe was the
goddess of lore, hence arose the custom of hissing under the
mistletoe.

Ecra.—F.ggaofhen,and ducks and other poultry,
commonly eaten as food in thin kingeom, are, in point of
quantity almost incredible. The aggregate number cannot
be less than 1,500,0010,C00, and the value, at the lowest
prices, three million. sterling. Ireland products nearly
N 0,000,000 eggs. The London and N..irth Western Rail.
we, CuopaLy frequen,ly reel. ire at their station in Liver-
pool, in one day, from Ireland alone, upwards of ono
million of erns, and forward them into the manufacturing
districts. Last year 10,724,170 eggs were imported. in
1551, the number eso 7,17,127,..;.—Lirrrp00t "Amur!".