The Express.
London, England, 1862-04-12 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

TALLOW MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
The market is steady. Tows tallow is quoted 465. net
mob ; Petersburg Y. 0.. 455. 9d. ; April to June, 45e. 6d. ;
July to September, 465. 6d. to 465. 9d. ; October to De-
cember. 48.. to 48s. 3d.
Mawr ATIPAOZN. —Town tallow, 48e. 6d.; fat by
ditto, bid.; yellow limb's, 47a. 3d.; melted stuff
37e. ; roach ditto, 21s. ; tallow groove*, 16s. ; good
dregs, 71.

HAY MARIEICT.-(THIS DIY.

Mum. Hammy and Eutou report trod* et the follow-
ing pries:—Prime meadow hay, 70a. to 80a ; superior
ditto, 84.. to 955. ; interior ditto, 40s. to 50a. ; rowan, 50e.
to TOL ; clover, old, 80a to 110 a ; ditto, new, monad cut,
80s. to 100 a. ; dew, Ms.

COVENT (lARDEN. —aim DAY. )
Vegetables continue plentiful. Among them are broccoli,
Pm* lettuce, endive, green peas, artichokes, new pots.
tees, warms', and early horn carrots. Pears, which are
v scarce, have not altered skips last report. Good table
egOesareseares, as are also English pineapples. Grapes am
dear. New strawberries way now be had. Potato trade
heavy • beet samples have, however, considerably advanced
ia plies Cat dowers chiefly consist of orchids, Chinese
primulas, canielliae, hyacinths, violate, cinerarias, migno-
nette, mad nem

OBOCZNI PHOTOGRAPHS, &C., IN BOOK PACKITS.
—On the let of May next, and thenceforward, all photo-
drawings, prints, or other things, which may be
oobviously and unquestionably of an obscene chars cter, will
be excluded from the privileged of the book post, and most
not be sent in open covers to any plat* in the United King-
dom, or to the colocied or to any foreign part. It will be
the duty of postmasters to send forward in envelope% as
unpaid letters, any packets which may seem to them clearly
to fall within the messing of this prohibition.—By com-
mand of the Postmaster-General, ROWLAND RILL, ADM-
tary.--Gerral Post-office, April 10.
TRAFFIC RHTURNS. —The traffic receipts of ran—
ways in the United Kingdom amounted, for the week
April 5, on 10,145 miles to 491,720/., and for the a
lag week of last year on 9,911 miles to 525.5801., showing an
reran of Z 44 mile, and a decrease of 33,860/. The pre
receipts on the following 14 railways amounted in the sun-
set* on 6,618 mile to 373,1811., and for the corresponding
week of 1861 oa 6,458 miles to 403,5351., showing
an reran of 160 miles and a decrease of 30,3541. The de-
mire cu the Eas.ern Counties Railway amounted to
1811. ; on the Great Northern to 1,9681. • on the Great
Southern and Western, t r 819(. • on the Grist Western to
4,03 ' 41. • on the Lancashire and Yorkshire to 6,5574. ;
en the London and North-Western to 2,3171. ; on the Lon-
don, Brighton, and Soar Comet to 3,778/. ; on the London
and Sou.h- Western to 1,9641. ; on the Meinchester, SheSsid,
and Lincolnshire to 1,8781.; on the Midland to 8331, ; on
the North Bntish to 791.; on the North-Eastern to 2,0971.;
and on the South Eastern to 3,8981.—t0ta1, 30,4231.
Bat from this must be deducted 691., the increase on
the Caledonian ; leaving the decrease, as above,
30,3641. The goods and miaaral traffics on those
lines amounted to 203,166/., sad for the ow-
reependiug week of 1861 to 206,632/., showing a de-
crease of 3,4661. The receipts far passengers, parcels,
he., amounted to 170,0151., against 196,9031., showing a
decrease of 26,8861. The traffic receipts on 66 other lines
amounted, on 3,527 miles to 118,5391., and fee the
oonwipooding week of but year on 3,453 miles, to
us,asi., showing as DIMON' of 74 miles and a demises ef
3,506/. The falba' off in the tale of the past week as
compered with the correpondieg period of 1861 is con-
siderable in the passenger raffle of the great lines, caused
by the comparison being made with Easter week in 1861,
tied also in the goods traffic, is consequence of the depres-
sion of trade in the manufacturing districts. The traffic
receipts of the past week *hew as inures of 23,1201. r
compared with those of the preceding weak ending the
29th March.

During the last five years 58,568,424 passengers
have been conveyed over the Massachneette railroads;
204 perm= were killed on these railroads daring that
period.
The National Debt of the United States on the
12th of last mouth vas 303,019,710 dollars, of which
181,930,811 was in Treasury soles.