The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-28 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

LP7XRPOOL CORN MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
(nom OM OWN 002111PONDINT.
(aT Daman AND tang suaggno msesare.)
Good attendance at to-day's market. Wheat modemta
°assumptive demand, sod at full lxxes. Flour slow ids
at late rates. Indiau corn tsar business ; mixed, 31s.
quay' 31s. 3d. to 31s. 6d. in store. Egyptian beans steady:
oats sad oatmeal without change.

MINCING LLNE.-(THIS DAY.)
Soon.—The large public ales are programing intirout
material change in value. Privately 300 begs Gemara
date sold 38s. 3d. Relined remains firm, but quiet.
Conn.—There is a fair demand at full prices. A pars
of made= native sold at 66e. 6d.
COML.—The market is quiet.
TrA.—For all descriptions there is a steady demand.
Reni.-100 lioplreads of Mauritius sold at Is. 6&d.
Rion continues quiet. 1,500 bugs sold : white Bend.
13a. fit ; good Rangoon, Us. 3d.
116,CunrAmos. —The quarterly sales commenced flatly at a
decline of Id. to 2d. per lb. for hue first and second quelity,
but the demand improved as the male proceeded, sad tin
decline was nearly recovered. Oilts:cayaiil ilia sold well--
first, la. to 2s. ld. ;' fine, ; la. 3d. to L. TL;
third, 11d. to L. 4d. ; fourth, 9tto 11
BA.LITZTIi-1,100 bags sold se the spot. Refradina
ni to 53, 39e. to 39a. 6d. ; and RIO tons for arrival. as
39a. ild. to 40s.
COITOL-1,000 tales sold at full pries&
Jors-1,000 bales sold for arrria4 sad 300 balsa oa the
spot at full prima.
Olitimao.-80 cams fine orange sold for arrival at 9/. lb.

TALLOW MARICIT.—(THIS DAY.)
The market is firm. Tows tallow is quoted 465. 9d., set
cash ; Petersburg TM., oe the spot, 475. 6d. ; Jamey,
475. Bd. ; *arch, 48e. ; April to June, 48s. ; October ti
December, 481. Id. to 495.

SMITHIIIKLD HAY MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
Messrs. Haney sod Diatom report trade slow at the le&
lowiag prima :—Prima meadow hay, 80s. to tiCa. ; saperir
ditto,lkis. to 100 a ; inferior ditto, to 70e. ; clover, ell,
lide. to 119 a 6d. ; ditto, new, mooed cot, Ms. to 100 a.;
straw, SOL to Xs.

11111. WAT nu lELJJNO AND WS PUBLIC

kilttill:

ig.. 8...14.= C.S., surgeon to the Royal
Meta he of the Err, conimaniestes the hil-
t* /meet conauission on the infinence of railway
ON Me pablic health : •• Ilv MMus*• has long
be.. directed to • certain ~I oa of .loaeders affecting chiefly
the head, we, sad throst, resulting in deafams, sou-
salgis pals is the ear soi fare. and frequently in teenposory
parallyeisof the hand nerve. In most of the. affections mane
of a 11/1111111111th charai:t. r .ae more or le is developed. They
MI IND he armed to evostan to cold, and especially to
imeghle ef mil air while travelliag by railway in damp,
met weather deirlag the autumn and winter months. I
led. aim, ad mass of throe CI.V. Oet'Ur on the Northern
sad &Mara lines of rail, which pas" through marshy die.
*Ma. Oases been mew i,d, eat are now octerrying to me.
to Mai certain otherwise is good health have
Weltpuss) • long railway journey in an attack of
es' eisamatic beininclie, lasting for weeks, or even
=wilds the u.. 0 of pi uper precaution would have
Both yeses :Appear to suffer, but females less so,
CV!'because the fine sod head are covered, and there-
se
some extent. protected from the cold current.
playing on those parts. So far, therefore, as concerns
tins made of traveling, the results do not appear*.
writable, but rather to arise from incaution mid ono'.
emery exposure. The well-known amrstlietic in-
lame of cold applied to the surface of the body will
texplain the paralysis and deformity and disturbs'sa
of the mermen centres that are observed in these cases.
Is the same way the continued draught of cold air
drive, iato the external ear, and on to the membrane
of the tympana', will account for the temporary deafness
sad beanattied sensation so freijueutly complaioed of by
trovelless, sad particularly those in commercial life, where
tinare taken at all seasons, and regardless of proem-
healthy persona are thus subject to attacks of
deafness and other evauesgent sv iliptoms about the head
sad hoe from the mode of travelling, how important it is
that those who have a damaged organ. and especially that
eery comas* proof of it, a discharge from one or both ears,
should cautiously preserve themselves against cold. Those
whose mease easbls them to travel in first-class carriages
an evideatly Ism exposed to the sells above-named than
either armed or thrrd-e1,.. psoseogees • but to the officials
of the rwtonaltY, such as the engina-driver, stoker. and
it is attracted with far more serious consequences.
are many at this thine with diseased organs,
who, had they been examined by competent per-
sist*, would bay, been diastiaded from the occupation. In
some of them unhappy cases not merely the organ of hear-
ts& lot life alao has been eudangered. Aod the nett, too,
I set roadbed to the individual, but he is reodered lees-
pabia of satiefactorily discharging the duties' of so respoo•
able as office. I could mention many railway i mph/tie
with osly one sorted ear who are now doing duty ; mall ark,
whit a the amusement of the imperfect hearing 1' When
both ears are perfect we can judge of the direction of
sem& without taming the head, because the strength of
the vibration is aisequil on the two sides, and, by romper.
Mg the two inipresaions, instantaneously decide whence
the mead proceeds ; but when • person is deaf with one ear
W eimparinea is ililicalt ; thus he is frequently obliged
Ile tarn hi head in order to bring the tube
of the ear la a line with the waves of sound,
berme be can ascertain whence it premeds. The
ehilhases experimeed by railway travellers otter the
wailing for the snail on a mid wet day, establishes • strong
=oldies to the subsequent attack. The feet first
cold, the circulation is disturbed, the whole 'nem*
has below the novel temperature, "ad any aatandly weak
ergo& is aupsailly liable to failure. It is, therefore. impel-
ealle to maid the coaclusion that strong currents of cold
sad damp Az, added to the vibratory motion of the car-
rises, are the main muse of • clam of diseases. to which,
as oonneeted with deafness, no one appears to have directed
ebsematios eMil the totroductioa of railway travelling.
WM racially I have had under my retire two persoas in
whom headache, accompanied by deafness sad moment
miss' M the ears, was a prominent symptom, regularly
=by railway journeys to and from Brighton daily.
mal a's, and ethers in the lame way, resisted all kinds
of treatment, wale the vibratioa sad travelling were re-
lismnished. Ide not hesitate to say that disease of some
genies of the me may son be lighted up by this cause,
when say had gesibposilisa exists."