The Express.
London, England, 1854-01-06 00:00:00

HIDES.-THIS DAY.

LILDINBALL.—The ;iresent prices are :-561b. to 641 be.
Md. 841 b. to 721b5., 214. to 3d.; 721 b. to 801 b, 3d. to
sp. ; 80Iba. to 881bs., 3.1 d. to 314. ; 881bs.'to 9611 w., 314.
to 314.; 96Th,. to 1041ba.,1 31d. to 4d. ;110411,4. to 1121b5.,
4d. to 414. Horse Hides, 6e. Calf Skins, light, 21. to
34.6 d. ; fall, 6s. to 6s. 64.
BRIXONDSZY.-Bbeep skins, polled, Is. 6d. to 9s. 6d.;
Bente sad Half-beeds, 6e. 6d. to 7e. 9d.; Downs, 4x.64.
to de. 94.

COAL MARKET.—THIS DAT.
Very few ships are aids to work, all the insides of tiers
being blocked up with its. Walls End Riddell, 355. ;
Walls End Stawart's, 365. ; Walls End Tees, 36s.—Ships
at market, 49.

IRELAND.

Douai!, Jaw 3.
The annual ceremony of inaugurating the new
Lord Mayor, Sir Edward M'Donnel, took place yes-
terday with the usual antiquated pomp.
The snow still covers the ground, and the frost up
to this morning continued very severe ; but a change
in the wind this morning from N.W. to S.E. portends
a thaw, and most probably some rain. The weather
in the channel is still tempestuous, and all the
English mails arrive considerably after their time.
The English and Irish Magnetic Telegraph Com-
pany have carried their operations so far to comple-
tion that telegraphic communication is now perfect
between Stranraer in Scotland, and Queenstown in
the south of Ireland, through Belfast, Dublin, and
Cork. The first telegraphic message from Queens-
town was received here yesterday from Rear-Admiral
Sir W. Carroll, addressed to the Lord-Lieutenant.
The reply of his Excellency was conveyed in the
same way. It is expected that a very short time
will complete the arrangements for conveying mes-
sages between London and Dublin by this line.
A fatal accident occurred yesterday on the Water-
ford and Limerick Railway at a short distance front
Clonmel. The train which left Clonmel at 7 o'clock,
p.m., for Duckett, ran off the line, nearly opposite
Balling, Castle, and engine aud carriages went down
an embankment some twenty feet high. The engine
driver, named Smith, was killed on the spot ; the
stoker's arm was broken, but the guard and passen-
gers escaped with a few slight bruises.
It is to be feared that the ruinous opposition
among the Irish Steam Packet Companies, which re-
cently proved so destructive to the interests of some
of these companies, is about to be renewed to some
extent once more. A Belfast Company has started
an opposition to the Cork one, on the line between
Cork and Liverpool, and commences running this
week. The Cork Company are at present building
three first class steamers, which are all laid down in
one yard in Cork, but it is supposed that these
extensive works must be suspended if the war of
opposition be persevered in.
Saunderee News Letter has the following account
of another robbery in a Roman catholic chapel :
The Roman catholic chapel of Rosen& was, on Friday
night last, broken into by some miscreants, who entered the
sacristy, and forced open every place where money or arti-
cles could be secured. The ruffians took away with them •
silver chalice, the priest's vestments, with other articles
connected with the celebration.of mass, together with some
money, which bad been collected by some of the congrega-
tion for chapel purposes. This outrage must have been
committed by a well-organised gang of thieves, as they
must have taken a length of time to carry into execution
their scandalous purposes, for they had the audacity to
light • fire in the library attached to the chapel, where
they committed all sorts of abomination. The inhabitants
of Roma and its neighbourheod ire very indignant and
disgusted by the commission of this disgraceful offence, and
there is reason to believe that the guilty parties are the
same gang who recently committed similar depredations la
the Roman catholic ehapeh of Mountrath, in the Queen's
County, and Frankford, in the King's County.

\VEST-END AND CRYSTAL PALACE RAILWAY.—
The parliamentary estimate of this company, for the con-
struction of their proposed extension iron Bromley to
Farnborough, proposed to be executed under the authority
of an act to be applied for in the ensuing session' including
contin.encies and purchase of property in the district, is
• 000 s.
Tin STIPENDIARY MAGISTRATE QUESTION AT
Btanutomax.—On Tuesday the question of applying to
government for the anpointinent of a stipendiary magistrate
for the borough of Birmingham was brought under the con-
sideration of the Town Council, and, after a discussion of
six hours, the motion was negatived by a majority *genet!
it of 27 to 21. - %
F 02.81011 GOODS.—The Cnstotns antbori
of estates tint the yrnetise of taking and recordist:lW
eseneiene ot plow ot Mk goods and leather &tee, In_
roydrei by the Midair regulations may now be dieser
Haunt id& NM, 11111.111, order his been insect tor
the edam of this departmat to govern themselves is
tame senerilagly.