The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-02 00:00:00

TALLOW MAILICAT.-r(THI/3 DAY.).

The market is llat. at the followini rate' :—Tewitellear.
50a. 3d. net caah ; Petersham Y.O. en the met, Hs. IL;
Jan. to Match, 51.. to 51_ ,s. 3d. • March, 51s. 6d. ; Ara
to June, 51s. ; °debar to Deassabar, 501. 6d. to 51n.

METROPOLITAN oeTru MARKET.
(THIS DAY.)

The supply of bees= is lary, mad coosequently Orel
are lower. The numb= of sheep is not very peak
yet it azoNds the demand. Monday's quotations
nab= be =abstained throeshowt. Good calsee aw
dill wane and dear. From Germany and Holland thew
are 175
Per,lseeastoMk4so sheep, and 59 naves ; Spain, 70 bees= ;
mach =lr
=am at ale. n 4. a. d. he dale of Sibs. e. d. a. b.
I•44lketa Iferelds. 5 0 6 I Deanna lit.bdif3h 0 0 .•
lad IlhaeLlanfs 4lO 6 0 Ds= Lead-w0e15.... t 0 4
Seated gra beads 40 4 4 Do. do. Sheen .• * •
Odra
Pip
4 6 4 Do. de. 111011 i .... 0• •
Dist Dna& lll4breds 6 4 • lambs
11314.05 Si await* 1,616: sad lambs. 3,910: OWEN.
114 ; flea 106.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARICHT.—(THIS DAY.)
Moms. Harvey and Bestow repeat trade slow at last awls
ViPrima meadow hay, SOL to 901. ; superior ditto,
to 100 s. ; inferior ditto, 565. to 70s. ,:dover.
96.. to 112 s. Gd. ; ditto, new, mooed out, 8k to 1005.4
straw, 30.. to XL

4

MI Main' BOR. S. CARDWELL, M.P., At

OZPORD.

ass ual dinner of the Oxford Druids' Lodge
minliellihnt evening it the Town-1011, and seconfing to
ilhummil emirs Woe he has bees the representative of the
Ape( Word, Mr. Cardwell was present as the principal
alma. About 300 of the brethren of the order oat down,
mewl whew were many of the moot influential members
fineeenbiosoey Alderman SADLITL, late mayor. the
in 4 Word, presided. The health of the Queen
big Me gives as the Queen of the Druids, with an
ogsmpinfe &Bri' to the bereavement her Majesty has
memnalbanfeeed is common with the nation. arid the other
aslitutiosal toasts having been duly bersisel.
1111.14 lies. L Oammralz, in replying to** tenet
s'lMonnihere for the City of Word," said—Onstiemen,
_ _ _

limb /am from the hetheen of my heart for the
Bkimid medial moaner with which you have received
d the health of my excellent colleague mad myself.
▪ ISOM regret that I stand bare alone to-day to
MlBMieldeeht for this least I know, gentlemee, that my
iims. item Leagekes), like myself, makes it an
ogewilliesiet to Maud at this meet numerous meeting of
imminent' sad Mewls. mil that nothing but ane-
mia mesmity would he,. prevented his being
rip Let up hope that his excellent coo-
eladlem. be habits of 11011faiR and the blessing
d leheelinse apse the lams he is wing for
Ili pops% may spowlily motor* him to health.
Ws the departed year Ms pee down like • winter
gen Mobs% awl with an oozier liquify for the Wore.
Al to bib m meaning • In at ones immutable aid
time` Pm lie nation grieves, sot only as • "Mel Pm*
Wes as it meg ever Mader. the brew cd lb gu-
lag he the deep it.llictioe of a met leaserred sad mein
• filemeeirp, hot beyond thee every beewtheld la the
bribl mom the highest to the lessiblesti lei the great
ill ire hare sesleined se • demi awl • pemenel
llmmesweet (Hear. hem) bosh is the Wilms. whist
Roil hurts hare pH he Ike high INIIIMMINAI omd the
*Aft Aetna et the Prime Owen* the tides( genie
gni& sad Mime isles It is • some, tee deep to
Ile impoinuel in ward% and it will oat be effaced by time.
Our, Irmo.) ibal ire beer to the head of Him who Mew
111. wide Wis mum Ike Ithesismed rasa (Hear, hear.)
ere saw with escrow • siva war brash eat be-
Owen Me mile of one peal arentry—the inheritor, of
oar bleat of oar Monitore, wed of rear glory--(hear, hear)—
awl pallemea, we Amid moped it as 1/11/s Ism than a civil
me among emselve• a* any mliappy cireasesiame should
min he involve um is hostilities with the people of America.
Paw, hem.) lMchairmas he. told se, sad you all know
Sat the telegram of today mays that there is hops of an
emiseh:° siatierneeq provided the demand of Faglaad has ace
bees made in wit a spirit and mach • temper is to make it
brimeseleatile. (Heir, hear.) I trust, in doe time, when
all the oarreprodeem shall have been Mid before the
• public, that they will be of opinion that them who
an entrusted with the powers ci slate have meted is • spirit
worthy of them. and comisteat with their own peiscipiee
sod fseliege. (Hem, liar.) I believe there wow
was • cps orie of which Eaglialmarre might be boo aimed
he the face of &trope sod of the world then the clemeanoar
Brighied be. Mown in this peat trial of her far-
isms. (Chews.) We have sust•ieed an injury—one
*at has beam suck as we could not possibly pass
by, if we meat to retain the name and the pae-
llas which England bas heretofore sejoyed among
the Nation. of the world. (Cheers.) The law, and, as we
mew the °pinks of civilised Europe has been expressed upon
son aide. Our costat is for freedom sod the peaceful
eights of commerce. The ism, thee, does not rest with us,
let epos the asewer we receive. But how has the Eng.
Bah people comported itself under these circumstances!

me Eftland shows that irritation sod excitement which
mealy mornimaniee weakness, or that quietus. sad con.
Aiwa which can spring aloes frees a coseciounen of right
mid a coescionaness of power? We have been !determined to
de right, but we have been squally date/mien not to suffer
wen. (Cheers.) The Americana may ted an apt descrip-
dee of the conduct of England, and by that I mesa
set the F.ngliah government merely, but the Lg.
Nth people at large, for than bee been no party
Ilmbeg in the matter. (Hear, hear.) What bee been done
bes been the aot a.s it always is in circumstance@ where
Ile honour of England is at stake—(hear, bear)—it hex
Ibsen the ait of a un.ted people, speaking and acting as one I
mac— I say the Amen want easy bad the best description of
the attitude of England at this moment in the words of her
we popular poet, in describing fortitude as
"Serene sad musk and dill and calm. and self -pcoveraL"
I West that the sews of to-day may be ratified by more full
intellligenos, and that we may lied men on the other Ode of
the Mimeo inteenced by a spirit like our own, and that
these O,,USTIPOOOI may not only par over without
leaden to the great calamity of hostilities between two
Idedred onions, bet by the explanations that may follow,
Jungers that always helms to a state of war may be so
ihr removed and smoothed away that there may arise no
ether iimiimatance calculated to involve us in like danger
Au the future. ithecm) A country can afford to be
gescanul tr. it. tone and moderate is its laageige that standout
the happy position in which we Dow stand. Never were our
may or our navy in a more efficient Rate. We not oily
seine without a conscription an army and a navy soft-
neat for the defence of out own thorn, and our own
great colonel possessions, but we nee a militia without
Wei -(hear, bawl—and in addition there has
been exhibited during the lest three years a
egeeMide, which no other nation ever exhibited before,
▪ the seagiral rise of that great army of volunteers which
▪ ensued the gratitude of their own country and com-
mended the admiration of every other nation. (Loud
ahem) And while speaking of these, and acknowledging
fpre deep debt of gratitude which the country owes to
#m m, let us sot forret the naval volunteers, whose example
et
this period of anxiety and doubt has attracted to them
Or Notice sad appro., il of their countrymen. I speak of the
✓enal velveteen with ',Adj..: interest, for I was menthes@
she hod the honour to elve• the adoption of this special
Bet At the time when the subject was ander disensdne,
we were told by those who pro!med to speak anal&
latively, that it w,. lot be impossible to rains a imps el
mmeal volsetwers, because such were the helloes at aliena-
tion between the naval service of the country mid the
thereitut service that all effort. to raise a aged reserve
hem the meethent mews meet ascemerily fail. But
them to w►om the isrmiry was entrusted did sot take that
L. They said that if there be that feeling of
ellenntioa heaven the navy sod the merchant service, let
me esquire whit is the reason and whose fault it ii' Does
It not arise from the recollection of old times and ancient
gprinsems when .nu relied epos impremenient fir messing
per navy, so I whet. your appeals to the merchant see-
wine wen made by the agency of force ? (Hear,
bow.) We said try the meal Esglithmae as you do
min other Fmglislinme in every other positioe in
ass force, but appeal to his patriotism end
gemereine hebag —iambi him to owns forward and rally
semi hie semen awl his country, aid see if he will
ant bens wady to give hie services for the protec-
tive el the country sad the mint/Duce of ii.
Veneer a. they sin. (Loud theme.) And what has been the
meek It is set yet three years else, the period when that
eaviie wim humbly traviered to the crews by three who coe.
darted t►at inqu:ry, and all of you keow that sot oily hays
we a lugs sad edgiest frimereedy, and melons to cones for-
ward it our rev Mould require their services; but, as
my utile friend the First Lord of the Admiralty told me
Ole east day, to men w►o esteeithote the crew of the
nienheot service, it is as honour mill an ambition to
bleep to the force ; and ws it ever will be
de a boil! of Englishman to come forward
ter the defence of thew country when you
Bunt to themes Eeeliehmes„ mid appeal to their patriot-
Ism, to their generosity. sad to their ►igh-minded (feline.
Puna) But that L sot all. That which I regard with
•egprrMt satidattioe is wituseing the progress of that
dim end their aseduct is, that the barrier which did exist
Memo the navy and the menamet awake is effeetnady
Lim dews ; sod we new lied the merehant service sal.
=Ma by the mem spirit of patriotism which pervades the
mstd the essimuaita - socket jraoesies mu forgone', sod
Ingbahseee are ready to unite in 41110101 of the ROWS
SIMI the country. (Hear, hear.) I rejoice to think
Set the feeling of Essased is unanimous in inlet.
Inibig an eeriest hap* that the blessings of peace will
• asnalneed. (Bess. ker.) No me would domed,
name time I weed any Hess le war with all it. ad's-
dent bonen and missive—bet while I am most anxious to
imal war, lam rodent le binaries that is any meat
asses nude sad beloved geese may ooslidendy rely upon He
gendslis end isthmian* eplait ia Dead, in Indeed,
in asealseia, sea is saw edisiee of a km,
• bripa. and a meganalmens pieta& (The right ben.
!men rensmad Ms cent amla hod end yeekeelled
ebowlegj

t• oily to Lir tort, '• Prows* to taii Urrodir

ei Weal, fowled whit tin Mabel Mil YiiMbeedig.
jar. 0. Neale*. sad Mr. ibmisent Geoefee
Yr. Hurt, M nopendleg, mimai to the Asenimn
question, °beery*/ time he wee set three es the edeeines
of the United States, bet si Wooers Mme be wee me al
those who did not feel so at as some appeared to do
the enormity of the offence the America= were supposed
to have committed against us. He admitted that the eau-
plea of the l'aieersity of which he was ooe were overruled
to • great eland by the opinion of au overwhelming
materity, and should war emus, perhaps °MMus wadi teled
arm to wines him that we were ironwood in • rigliessos
querrel them the fact that his right hon. friend, easepylog
es he did a high positsoo in the councils of his Somigo,
agreed with the rest of the ministry that it win Mead*
assessary, for be believed that so reitice which that right
Ma. rather= filled would harm Idea to man Is • war
whisk was eaten, He then& the moribet use of Milan-
lag Impose W a leading parties of therm of Sim essaley
when speaking Si Americas Montelises was meek to be
deplored. That portion of the prom be all del I. wee tee
much in the habit of iodulgiog to commeets wee American
iustitutions, sod holding them op as broireare
frighten the people of this ormatry. It was the
pristine of the people of Sparta to at • bushes on
bellies their chikkon to wars them by Ids abeiedily apart
the via Si drunken's& It eremed to be the practise Si
some of the newspapme to Owe all the defects oI
the Americas hotitotioas Wore the MOM people, with •
view of wanting them against the won of democracy. He
could not help thinking that this was done chiefly for the
purpose of decrying palmier isaitutions io this country.
Whatever might be the mile Si democracy, be did not think
thod this was a time whim irritator/ sommeate npoa
Amerissa ifsittations ought M he made.
Mr. larjeasi Gamin ale, ashnowleiged the tout, and
szprossed his disappoiatment that then right boo. reprr
seatatimi bed net thought ft right to ember tote any retro-
west of Me logibilien et the last essaiea, er of the Mtgs.
time Si the parrommt in that whisk was sow about to
sommemer-espeebilv woo that all-hwertant subject of
mime. be whisk both parties were pledged.