The Express.
London, England, 1854-01-11 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

MARK-LANE.-THIS DAY.

The supplies of foreign wheat and floor have been liberal
this week, but moderate of other articles. The advance
noted in wheat and dour on Monday was well supported
this morning, and in some cases rather exceeded.
Barley not much inquired for at previous rate'.
Oats were 6d. dearer, with a fair demand at the advance.
Beans and Peas maintained the late improvement
niatv.ian INTO LONDON rigor JAN. 9th to JAN. 11th.
Gm Itnelha. 6sotcs. Isiah. [Wart,
'Wheat....„ I 710 I 12410
Barley 3eo ......
DM • 1 2boo
560
Oat.
Matt .....
Mar, soaks and 28990 barrels.

MINCING-LANE.—THIS DAY.
StIGAL—The market is firm to-day. The public, sale of
10,500 bags Penang is going off steadily. Refined walnut
alteration. Brown lumps, 455. ; grocery, 45e. 6d. to 503.
Corpse —A public sale of plantation Ceylon went off
steadily ; about 150 casks sold. Native Ceylon quoted
495. 6d. to 50e.
Rten.-1,000 bogs Bengal were offered in public sale,
and bought in at 17... which was a high price. The mar-
ket is not quite so aetive to-day.
11A.-1 he market is steady.
SPlClS.—Pepper: 5,700 bags black were offered in pub-
lic sale, and chiefiy_bought in. Singapore and Penang, 41d.
to 41d. per lb. Nutmegs sold at rather lower prices.
Cloves sold at 61d. to 131 d. per lb. Cassia Lignea : 140
boxes offered and bought in at 61. 15s. to 71. Sago sold
heavily at • shade lower price..
Setairs.—Rum sad brandy continue in fair demand.
COTTON.—The market is dull.

TALLOW MARKET.-THIS DAY.
The market is steady, with rather less business doing.
Town tallow is quoted 615., nett ea* ; Petenburg Y. C. oa
the spot 625. ; Jan. to March, 131 e. 6d. ; March to April,
625. 6d.

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.-THIS DAY.

Meters. Pattenden tad Smith report that there is an in-
creased demand for the cheaper sort of hope, and prima ue
very firm.

COAL MARKET.—THIS DAY.
The prospect of supply is very bad indeed. Wells End
South Hartlepool, 38a. ; Tanfield Moor, 30e. ; Hasting's
Hartley, ale.—Ships at whet, It.

HONESTY.—Nine years ago, a labouring man, of
the name of Thomu Herslag, of Wing, lent to a carrier of
the name of Richard Hounslow the vanaisflaL Abash Ivo
years since Hounslow and his family emigrated to Australia
without paying the money, but he promised him if he was
successful in Australia he would soon send him the principal
with interest. About two months ago there arrived a letter
from Australia to Mining, enclosing • cheque to the
amount of 131. for him. He immediately went to the beak
and drew the amount. To the surprise of Muting and his
family, another letter arrived with another cheque enclosed
for the same amount, from Hounslow, as interest for the
money lent to him nine years ego. This is honesty in
humb!e life which those in higher society would do well to
imitate.—Bucks Advertiser.
THE MACKEREL FISHERY.—AII our mackerel
boats are ready for sea ; in fact, several of them are already
gone to Plymouth, whilst others remain to try their luck
in the Channel before they proceed to more distant parts.
Mr. George Chessman's boat, the Caroline, put to sea on
Tuesday morning, for the purpose of Channel fishing ; but
the crew encountered such a heavy sea that they were com-
pelled to return. Since then the weather has been still
more severe and unfavourable ; and at present they must
content themselves by resting on their oars. Two Worth-
ing boats came in the other day, one with three quarters of
a hundred mackerel, which readily wild for 31. 10s. per hun-
dred, the other boat had about five sound fish, and a hun-
dred pieces, the other portions having been devoured by
dog-fish. It seems that no better success attends the mack-
erel voyages at Plymouth ; for, on Monday nigh-, one
Brighton boat ran into Dartmouth with about 20 mackerel,
and four or five Hastings boats with five or six mackerel
between them.—Brighten Gasette.
COLLECTION OF INCOME TAX.—An income tax
commissioner may
.be shortly expected in this city for the
purpose of making inquiries into the correctness of the re-
turns furnished by traders, &c., and more particularly into
the incomes of those offering to compound for a period of
three years. The tax will be in course of collection in the
month of February, and mast be forthwith paid when ap-
plied for. The collection must be completed throughout
the country during the month of March, and furnished to
the government previous to the let of April. A doubt has
arisen whether the poor rate collectors can collect this tax
as was intended. The law for the collection of income tax
does not provide for deputies, but requires the collection to
be made by the collector in person, who has to satisfy the
government officers with ample security for the due fulfil-
ment of the duties of the office.—Cork Constitution.
CONTINENTAL THEATRES.—A theatrical journal
gives the following statement of the number of spectators
the principal theatres on the continent are capable of
talniog:—The Grand Opera, 1,800; Francais, 1,186;
Opera Comique, 1,600; Odeon, 1,5.50; Italien, 1,300; the
Harchner-Thor, at Vienna, 1,800; the Burg.theater, in
the same city, 1,670; the Theatre Royal at Berlin, 2,078;
the Theatre Royal, at Dresden, 2,000; the Court Theatre,
at Munich, 2,500; the Court Theatres at Hanover, Stott-
gardt, and Darmstadt, each contain 2,000 plates; the
theatre at Hamburg, 2,300; and the San Carle, at Naples,
4,000.
CONTINENTAL BANKERS.—As a body, a more di.-
honest clan than the continental bankers does not exist.
It is a great mistake in the English to transfer their notions
of the respectable English banker to the pettifogging
retailer of base coin, who calls himself banquier" on the
Continent. Lord Byron says somewhere that the Turks
are the only bankers who will not extract money from the
traveller under some dirty pretest of commission, debased
paper currency, &c. The experienced traveller knows well
that the promise which some of the London bankers make
of granting circular notes without deduction, is a mere pre-
tence, the difference being always made up by the foreign
bunker givinz less than the current and quoted rate of
exchauge, cr ay some other mode.—Ntic Quarterly &clew
for January.
DeGlLtsr or CLIME.—At the Epiphany Sessions
for the North Riding of this county, It, Id at Northa;lnton,
this week, there were only 14 prasoner, lot srlony for tsial,
and 10 for misdemeanours. It is upwards of thirty ysnn
shoe such as occurrence took 7.1 see, of so f.w 'n number

having to be Wed at these sen.iOns.— Leeds Ildel”ge.ces.
THE MOUSTACHIL—It is highly gratifying to find
that the OLugow ginseng and rawu ay officials are not to he
Wonted in their abandunm,nt of the rasa. At Arbroath
a member of our most intelligent young men have broken
loose from the tyranny of a barbarous fashion, and, despise.
iscletboe taunts of those who still mutilate their bodies with
idled steel, allow the for of the infra-nasal region to
m "free and fair." This is just as it should he. We
cannot conceive how a tuft of hair on the upper lip should
be the cause of mirth, or call forth expressions of coutempt.
Were it any fictitious ornament or sionitroeity—any
irregularity of nature then we would say away
with it at once ; but teeing that it is but the use—
strained development of a part of the human frame—a
part, too, as important as the organ that canopies it—to
remove it is the height of folly and infatuation. To those
then who have manfully despised the taunts of unreflecting
shavers, and the derisory comments of that section of the
community who practise the asinine-resembling custom of
elongating their can with metal, we say, "Be firm." You
are acting in strict harmony with the laws of nature ; you
are following the dictates of sound sense and reason; and
addle you have as an example some of the most &via-
gibed men of ancient, sad nit a few of the renowned of
anima times, you have, in your self-denying abstinence
hie as irrational practice, the further consolation that it
Is 'sedative to health of body, as sure as it is indicative of
evierk of mind.—Mettrost Ravine.