The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-22 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

AIINCING-LANE.—THIS DAY.
St:Can.—The pub:le 'Alm which are rather large
are going off be ivily, and the importers are lining in
largely to sustain prices. The refined market steady.
Correa.—The private contract market closed yesterday
on 'Change with much firmness in all. 10,000 bag. native
were sold 435. fid.; ditto importations, 495. Tn•dev
494. 61. to 495. has been paid, hut the demand nit en bro.',
as yesterday. To-lay the public sale of 120 casks of plan-
tation Ceylon went otf freely; eoloury at fully iP.
TLA.—The market is firm. Importers ask hi3ll prices,
which rather checks bueineu.

Rten.-2,200 bags Bengal were offered and partly sold At
104. 6d. to Ils.
Corrox.—A fair amount of boilers. done, at full prig-s.
In other articles no material alteration.

SMII'ILFIELD DAY MARKET.—THIS DAY.
Mr. E. J. Weis reports a short .upply at the following
price:—Prime meadow Hay. 87s. 6d. to 929. 6d. ; inferior,
745. to 849. ' • Rowell, 4.54. to 606. ; Cloerr, 9,:ts. to 1059. ;
second rut, 609. to 95, ; Straw, 289. to 335.

TALLOW M AI:KRT.—THIS D.Y.
The Tallow market i r,ither quiet to-day at the snnexed
price• : Town Ta!Tow, 43,. 6d. nett cash ; Petersburg Y.C.
on the &pet, 4 to. 9 1.; ➢larch and April, 445. ; Oct. to
Dec. (sew), 41a. 9d.

LOCAL SHARE MARKETS.

Livittroot.„ Maned 21.—The business done in riilway
stock has been but and at lower prices gene. iliy
MAXCHRSTRIt, Msucit 21.—There hes been ato 41 deal
of fluctuation in pr...-te, i;nd Sheffield stock, which opened
at 20:, has closed at 34 Lancashire and Yorkshire, and
Midland have declined, the forms!. 225. 6d., and the latter
255. upon Friday's quotations. Loudon and North \Vs *.s.ru
are also 20s. lower. The sales at the close were—Et•dern
Counties, 13 ; ILeeds, 741 ; Shefllelds, 301 ; Midlands. 74 ;
Dowers, 23j; .North Staff ,rds, 4 5.16 sl.; Caledenians, 32;
London Stock, 11d.
BIUMINOM•311, Msacw 2l.—This market was hrisk to-
day, and prices were firmer. Shrewsbury and Birmingham
at mit was dons at Gil ; Slirewsbury and Hereford,. at 11
die.; Crystal Palace shares, at 11 prem.; ana. General
Steam Navigation Company 'bares, at 3A.
Lune, MAUR 21.—The market this morning is spill'
very flat, and a general decline in prices has taken plate.—
Lancashire and Yorkshires have fallen 11., and Midlands
17s. 6.1., while the smaller stocks have sandergono a similar
decline. The following are the closing transaotions, the
market clo,iort at its weakest point:—Lancashire aid Yurk-
shires, 76 ex die.: South Eastern and Hovers, 23j ; North-
ern Counties Unions, 3 dia.; Manchester, Shedleid, and
Lincolnshire., 291 ; Midland Stock, 74g ; Leeds Nurtherns,
16; York and North Midlands, 2101.

PUBLIC SALES.
MARCH 21.—8 y Mr. 1? at Garraway's.—Lease-
hold family residence. No. 47, Upper Gower-streer, Bed-
ford-square, ectimated to produce 1001. per annum, and
held for 32 years, at 151. per annum-7801.
By Mr. Osmium DounAL, at Garraway's.—Leasehold
house sad shop, No. 4, Theresa-plate, Marestreet. Hack-
ney, producing a profit rent of 241. per aunum fur 09 years

F••ur canape, Little Park-plane, East lane, Walworth
—4461.

(BY ELBCTSIIC TELEGRAPH.)

LIVERPOOL, Tvzouvt, 10.30 .t.x
Wind N.N.E.; fresh breeze, and fine.
Arrived.—Sisters, from Mobile.
QUEENSTOWN, MAUCH 20

Wind N.W.; light.
No arrivals.
Sailed.—Nuova Albano, for London ; Flom. for
Corfu, with troops.

GRAVEYARD i AT HOME AND ABROAD.

In Wales and many districts of the United
Kingdom, one coffin or shell serves for the whole of
the parish poor, it being provided with a false bottom.
The coffin is lowered into the grave : tho bolts are
drawn when the mourners have quitted the church-
yard the venerable coffin is drawn up again, and
the corpse is then covered with earth, as though it were
the carcase of a brute. Never did I witness such deception
abroad; and had N. P. Willis been aware of this fact, he
winds' not have spared us any more than he did the Neapo-
litan theme! vaults. In France, sanitary measures are far
from neglected, far from being unappreciated ; there I have
seen a plan adopted an a safeguard in the event of leaden
coffins bursting, as also fur generally rendering intramural
interments obnoxious. The outer coffin is made about
three or four inches larger each way than the inner: this
space or intenuce is filled with pulverised charcoal prior
to the lid being secured ; which carbon deodorises and ab-
sorbs the putrid exhalations In Germany, quicklime is
no: unfrequently used for a similar purpose, it being agouti
disinfectiug agent. The religious establishments of Italy
constantly embalm, or, more strictly speaking, prevent the
decomposition of the bodies of eminent ecclesiastics, laymen
who have left bequests to the convents, and the brethren of
their communities. The crypts, or smterraine, where these
inummyfied worthies are ranged like sentinels "of the
valley of the shadow of death," form places of no incest-
siderable interest to travellers; and when visiting them, I
have not had my olfactory nerves more offended tom when
I have walked through the Mummy-room of the British
Museum. But I would particularly refer to what I deem
to be the best method by the Capuchins, it being one
well worthy attention—that of pouting thin hot grouting
' into the wooden box or shell which contains the body,
through a head or stand pipe, in a manner similar to that
practised by ironfounders. There is not any need of pre-
caution to counteract the expansion if the grout, as the
flesh of the corpse readily yields to the pressure. I should
remark, that the body is laid upon blocks or narrow ledges,
to allow the fluid to encircle the lifeless frame ; and wizen
set and consolidated to form a complete casing of concrete.
I have seen Bleats piled up compactly ou one another, with
the name of the deceased affixed ou marble or wooden
tablets, and have also had my attention drawn t t blocks
which had been split open for the purpose of Miura; tiog the
semicalcined or cauterised corpse. The cleft block reminded
me vro,srly of a ilenlnter'S moulds, heater of Paris or
Koman cement might perhaps be used with bc::tr effect
titan lime. Where cotfiat are deposited in vaults or cata-
combs, even at cemeteries, it appears to me that it would
tie desirable to surround them with concrete, cr at toast
with peat charcoal.—Correspondent of the Builder.

THE LONDON

IKERIES.

Deep are the " Mysteries of London," and en vironed
• by dangers. The condition of large sections of its inhie-
bitauts is wholly unknown to the majority of those
• aliove them in the social pyramid, the wide base of which
is made up of poverty, ignorance, degradation, clime, and
• misery. Much has been written on the subject within the
last few years, and a large amount of good has been done.
Still the great bulk of the people are ignorant and apathetic
• on the subject. Viewieg the evil as a mighty one,
and strongly impressed by the helpless—almost
helpless—cundition of many thousands of fellow
creature. who cannot make themselves heard un-
less the Press speak for them, we propose en-
tering into some particulars respecting the lodging-
houses and other dwellings in London inhabited by the
poorer classes. To investigate the condition of the heaves
of the very poor ha this great metropolis is a task of no
small danger and difficuity. It is necessary to brave the risks
, of :ever and other injuries to health, and the contact of men
and women often as lawless and as desperate as the Arab or
the Kaffir. In addition to these obstacles there is amecgst
the very poor a strong feeling against intrusion. Few lie r-
sons venture into these haunts beiiidea the regular inhabit-
an's, the London ;nisei diaries, the parish surgeon, and the
police, and thus the extent of this great evil is intiierfeeify
understood. A few years since it was a fashion to visit
the Rookery of St. Glies's, and wonder at the in culiora-
ties of that strange land (and it was, perhap,, partly
owing to these visit* that some improvements were carried
into rifest) ; yet few of those visitors, and not many others,
are aware of the numerous places in London end tile
Borough which exist at the present day in as bait a cecdt-
time as any part of St. Giles's in its worst time. These
blots in London abound in AVhitechapel, Westminster,
Spitaifields, Ciundeudown, Somers-town, Clerkenwell,
Islington, Be rmondei y, various parts of the Borough, &c.,
kc. In many instances these hotbeds of fever and vice are
so effectually hidden by goodly houses that their inhabitants
are little aware of the poverty and degradation which exist
within a stone's throw (rout their own doors. These densely
peopled clumps of houses, or "Rookeries," as they are
caned, are mostly inbahited by the poorest Irish lodging-
Lowe keepers, tromps, rosterrnoni.;crs, thieves, and the
lowest class of street walkers, driven from the pale of decent
society by improvidence and other causes. In addition to
these ore small shopkeepers, receivers of stolen Rood',
brokers, and publicans. The condition of the greater patt
of these people it is ditficult to describe in words which wi.l
convey anything like a ivat idea, yet it is a certain and
melaceholy fact that this dangerous and to the State expen-
sive class of persons is alarmingly increasing in London and
other large towns. What we maintain is this, that it is
missible iJ house the poorer classes comfortably and Lea:th-
rall, at a&little cost to themselves as they neeseitey, and :.t
infinitely :us cost to the community at iergg; Merl whet we
dt,ire is to aid is bringing this alout. As we have fia.d
again sad again, sad the sentence has' bills echoed
rsochoed far and wife—hernee are thg ' enadtifactorie•
men—as the home so what it sends
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