The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-06 00:00:00

TALLOW MARKET.-THIS DAY.

The market is very firm to-day. The idea (so prevalent
last week) that the soap duty would he reduced, camel
many of the trade to buy rather more than usual, and the
delivery has in consequence been 1,428 casks for the three
first days of this week. 2,400 casks are advertised for We
to-morrow. Pricts rule as follows;—Town Tallow, ne.
nett cash; Petersburg Y. e. on the spot, 38s. to 38s. 3cl. ;
Feb. and March, 385., buy,rs; last three months, 3tis., buy-
ers and sellers.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—THIS DAY.
Messrs. Cooper and Davis report trade at the following
quotations : Prime Meadow Hay, 755. to 80s. ; inferi^r
ditto, 60.4. to 6.4.. ; itowen, 609. to 639. Clover, 709. to
1809. ; 2nd cut, 63.. to 70a.; Straw, 23.. to 26..

MORTALITY OF CHILDREN IN FRANCE.—I 6 the
sitting of the Aeachimie des Sciences yesterday M. Charles
Dupin read a paper en the mortality of children under five'
which proved the figures cited by
illard states
of the
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that 6,932 children out of 10,000, in all classes of the popu-
lation, died before reaching the age of five ; Desparcieux,
for the first half of the century, concluded from returns
made up from the tontine registers, that iv of the mai
favoured class of the community, that at the end of tin firt
five years there were living 8,69.5 children out of 10,000.
M. de Idontferrand, comparing the population in the dif-
ferent parts of France, ascertained that in the Department
du Nord the longevity iv the least; but even in the least
favoured class of that department, it appeared that on an
average from 1816 to 1832, 8,841 children out of 10,000
lived beyond the five years. In fact, such has been the
progress made in the conditions of existence of the French
population, that even in the least favoured departments,
out of 1,000 births taken at hazard, 146 more attained five
years than in the same number of chosen children a hum
dred years ago. As regards the town of Lille, in particular,
it appears from official tables that the d •aths were fewer
during the last fire years than in the same period during
the second half of the eighteenth century, and yet du.-;eg
these five years there were two great visitations—chclera
ard scarcity of food.

EASTERN COUN VIES AND E IsTERN UNION RAIL-
WAYI3.—TO the Editor of the Ezpreu.—Sir,—As it ap-
pears by the arrangement proposed to be carried out be-
tween the Eastern Counties and Eastern Union and Norfolk
Companies that the amount to be paid to the Eastern Union
Company, to cover V.: it guarantees, is not to exceed 70,00011
per annum, u a shareholder in the latter company I am
induced to ask, through the medium of your paper, whether
such sum will be sufficient for the purpose stated? I have
been informed that the different guarantees of the Eastern
Union Compan♦ amount together to 90,0001. a year, ael
therefore it becomes a serious question with the Eastern
Union shareholdcn whether this sum of 70,000/. will or
will not be sufficient to meet the guarante,s ? If not, what
is to become of the original shareholders of the chases A, it,
and C i—A BaxngnOLDEß--Feb. 4.