The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-06 00:00:00

TALLOW MARKET.-(THIS DAT.)

rh. market ia steady. Town tallow is quoted 41s. 3d.;
Petareborg Y.O. co the spot, 41e. 3d. to Cs. 6d.: January,
41a. 3d. ; 42e. 3d.; Aped, 42a. 6d. ; June, 43a. ;
October to Daccenber, 43a. 6d.

HMI 111.11/CET.-(THIS DAY.)

LEADEIVIALL—Bides : Primo :-561b. to 641 b., 2N.
to bd. ; 641b0. to 721ba., M. to 30. ; 721 be. to 801b4.,
3d. to 88114
11 ; 801bo. to .. 34d. 8811 m. to
961114., 4d. tO. o 40.. Homo hides, 94. Od. to 10a. 6d.
Gat sides. light, 9.. W. to 40. ; 7.. 6d.
Biattoirmil.—Nitooptlcloo •. polio& 10.. M. to 13.. Od.;
9.. to 104.6 d.; DOWD., 7.. to 8.. 6d.
BOROUGH HOP MARKET.-rws DAY.)

Mears. Pattendu and Smith report the trade io the
same healthy state as has characterised it throughout the
mem • there are very few good samples to be met with,
and clay command higher prime them at the ohne of the
year.

STAG Hera'.—Taking it in a galloping point of
view, there la no doubt that the staghontar haa • decided
advantage over his brethren of the chase, whether fox-
hunters or thistle-whippers, in always being sure of his
game. He is like a man with his dinner In his pocket, sure
of • feed wherever he is. Whether the staghuoter's game
will run or not is another question ; but the same may be
said of the fox aed the hare. Still the stegbuster never
has s Weekday ; be b sure of seeing the animal descend, at
all events, and if he won't condesoend to run, the true
sportsman bee the wise privilege that the eastermonger had
with his donkey ",rot vcraldn't go"—namely, the right of
lerropieg him.'" To the fair es: the stag Is truly in-
valuable ; and we should think the ladies would poll twenty
loose in favour of the stag over the fox. They see the
actual &aimed that has to be hunted, instead of having to
draw upon their Imaginations for the idea. Then, look
at the independence of the thing. While the to:hunter's
anxieties betimes all the year round, eguavated by perfi-
dious keepers, faltbleen Meads, and are never more &cote
than en the punchier morning of the meet, the staghunter
terns about in his bed with the easy indifference of the
comacions that he, at all events, will be all right,
▪ can by his head on has game on the instant. No trap-
pers, so shooters, no empouctoal earth-etoppste disturb the
calm serenity of hie repose. He is not afraid of the foot
people molesting the cover, or of laity sportsmen stopping
abort by its side. The hare-hunter may go flop, flop, top-
ping about the country, peering into all the bushes and
tulle be comes near, without finding what be waste ; but
the Aseehenter has his proud boast under lock and key, and
has rely to shoot the bolt, give him a kick, and set him
egvieg. Then there is something fine, wild, and romantic
is the idea of stagbasting, heightened by the pictures one
sees of the performanee—the forest gieds, the boundless
weer, the impaseable•looleing ravines, the glassy lake, the
hens, the hounds, the hubbub. It is the happy confusion
of fiction with fact, the bleeding of the glories of the pest
with the tameness of the present, that tends to keep the
deg of staglionting flying in the eacendaut. Still, as with
Sketold, so with other mestere, many people did net care
to be the @behoove's a wooed time. They like loony they
have mesa • atsehunt, sad having seen oat are satisfied, and
Amnion out that Wisp were not quite what they expected
—Mr. lbagfores Hormds. Jemmy amble.