The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-07 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

MARK-LANE.-THIS DAY.

Thera was very little English Wheat fresh up for this
morning's market, and the value of Monday last was fully
supported.
Flour sold on fully as good terms as in the earlier part of
the week.

coutmue without any fresh arrivals of Oat,, and the
turn in price was alone obtained from a few needy buyers.
Barley, Beans, and Peas underwent uo change.

MINCING-LANE.-THIS DAY.

Suomi —The market orened on Tuesday with spirit,
and a gestural advance of GI was established; but the
imi.orters brought forward very large salts to-day, and •hcy
are progressing heavily, scarcely supporting the al ove
advance. the refined matkct is Gd. dearer than previous
to the holidays; grocery lumps, -Os. Gd. to 4i..
COFFEE.— There was a good g^ncral dernarAt nt the cora-
'

mencement of the week ; the demand has sine* partly sub-
sided, yet prices aro supported. Native Ceylon sold at 48i.,
at which price the market has been firm.
Tne.—There has been a fair amount of business don^ at
last week's prices; common Congou, 101 d. to 10;d. per lb.
Smear; have maintained previous prices, with a small
amount of business dvne. _

Srmivs.—Hum and 13randy are quoted at the same prices
as previous to the holidays, but there have not been sales
mode of any importance.
SALTPETRE.—A full amount of business done at a shade
advance. . .

Inert has been dull of sale, and prices show a shade de-
cline. - - • ••

COTTON.—A small business only done.
Fut:lr.—Currants : The market continues dull. Valencia
Raisins in limited demand. Smyrna Fruit The arri%..ls
have been unusually large ; the di ;nand i$
SMITHFIELD MARKET'.-THIS DAY.

The supply of Beasts is but snrill, consequently prices
remain about the same us on Monday, but trade is wry
dull. We have an averse supply of Sheep, the unfavour-
able state of the weatherj e.uses a slack attendance of
buyers; choice qualities arc however fret ly disposed of, but
trade h exceedingly heavy for inferior kinds. Good. Calves
are not plentiful, therefore late rates are maintained. Our
foreign supply consists of 101 Beasts, 570 Sheep, and 18$
Calves; front Norfolk and Suffolk, 100 Beasts; 200 front
the Northern and ; and 90 milch Cows from lime
Counties.

I
Per stone of SIN. a4.a. d. Par gone of Vita R. ,I. ad.
Reg Scots,llettrorda. 3 10 4 9 Beet Das. 3 Ilf .bda tli 0 0 0 0
Best Sbort•liaras 3 6 110 Beat boag-40,4,
6ce..rlo.zality li:aate 88 3 4 Dl. do. dhom —.. u a a 7
.
qalyci
Pio 36 4 I Do. do. abaft. 0000
UO2l 161. a: 1181:•Ima4 4 8 5 0 Lambs _...L
.. . .... _ 0 0 0 0
lkaaui at taartet, 6:4; 6.Leap . 3.840: Calm. ; !1:; 140.

TALLOW MARKET.—THIS DAY.
The market is steady, but not so buoyant as yesterday.
There is, however, a good demand on the spot. Town
Tallow is quoted. 46t. nett ; Petersburg Y.C. on tho
spot, 475.; January to March, 4Gr. 9d.; October to Docem-
her, new, 4,3, Gd.

BOROUGH MARKET.—THIS DAY.
Messrs. I'attenden and Smith report that the trade is in
a vi ry healthy state, and higher rates obtained for middling
and tine samples. !did and East hews, 00s. to 168 s. ;
Weald Keats, 90s. to 112 s. ; Bassett, 00s. to 110 t.; Old
231. to 60s.

COAL MARKET.—THIS DAT.
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ley, 17e. od.—Ships at' market, 18.
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HIDES.—THIS lIA Y. .: \_4 .
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641 b. to 721 b., 2d. to 2,1 d. ; 7216. to 801 b., 21 is '244. 1 -
. !,. • •
801 b. to 881 b., 21/1. to 21a. ; 881 b. to 961 b., 2ld. to .1 'Ocoli. '; •-• .o°.
to 1041 h., 3d. to 31d. ; Horse Rides, die. Calf Skrpe% 1i,;2114,„ ; . --
Is. to 25.; full, 6s. - . 1 t f."
13zitmoNustr.—Sheep Skins: Polled, 7s. to- 81,Q,1 L _ ! ....
Kent' and Half-bred*, Os. to Is. 34. ; D2W IV, 4s. 61f.to`s• 41.-
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L9XDON. FRIDAY. JANUARY S.

TIM Marlborough Election is not perhaps the most
important If those now in progress, but it certainly
has been the moot amusing. The borough of Marl-
borough,—it may be as well to remind our readers,—
Lao 271 registered electors, who return (it would bo
too farcical to say " who are repreventel by ") two
members in the House of Commons. Of Marl-
borough, it is said by the decorous and cautious 800,
"Tnellaiquis of AlLLsuciti has some influence
here." 'llte second son of the Marquis, Lord ERNEST
Bixec., is one of the two members elected by. the 271
voters of Aylesbury ; and Lord EttaLsv having just
&wilted the important political office of Viec-Cimui-
bctiaiu to her NlAJfrialA'lS Household, has been under
thenccespity of appearing before the constituency in
which his father has some influence" for re-election.
The leading electors of Marlborough aro stanch pro-
tectionists and Derbyiurs : to be culled upon, there-
fore, to re-elect one who not only supports, but has
actaa'ly accept:l of of :c under the terrible Coalition
Ministry, was fur them rather a bitter pill. Lord
EaNzsv. however, isitcd his constituents on Satur-
day and Monday last, and being unable to help
theurchret, they agreed to return him again. But
human Eaton will break out. It was with wry
Laois and cagey grumbling that they performed their

task.
Jotit G ULMER, Esq.—the bell-wether of the
!bete—on rising to put Lord Er.sns.r in nomination,
took care to protest that ho did it "on personal
grounds 0r.1y." What those personal grounds
vele he indicated a little more clearly in
a subsequent part of his speech, when he
observed that "he accorded to Lord BRUCE
his cordial and calualified support, for ho repre-
sca:ed Oft pt es'y of the country." Tins "cordial"
gentleman, however, could not help compLsining
alocd that though he had hoped both their members
would give Lord DERBY'S government a general
support, yet, "instead of that, they had joined a
" caloal oltich he could only characterise as a most
" unholy alliance." The frankness of Mr. GARDINI.R
is unprecedented in the annals of English electioneer-
ing. Lord BRUCE, he vows, has deceived him, has
gone a-caballing. has joined a " most unholy alliance."
In fact, Lord lin..ce is a Liberal, and yet Mr. GAR-
DIN mt not only votes for Lord BRI:CE, but nominates
hint on the hustings, beelosso Lord BRUCE " tvpre-
sews Go properly of the country." Mr. Ivrsox, the
elector who seconded the nomination, was a little
more guarded, but ho, too, allowed his discon-
tent to peep out. Lord Bnrce, ho admitted, differed
from hitt in politics, but " ho gave to him that free-
" dam of opinion that he chow to exert for birr...clf."
This ultra-tolerance of Mr. lye:4os leads hint not
only to allow Lord Ilituot: to dissent from Mr. ITE-
SOWS political principles, but to aid in placing Lord
BRUCE in a position to put down those principles.
Lord BRUCE was not slow to punish his grumbling
servitors for the rude and uncivil hint about the
"cabal" and the "unholy alliance." He talked for
a short time, scholarly and wisely, about the
triumph of Sir ROBERT FEEL'S principles, and
the blernlshes of Mr. Dasnaent's Budget. Soon
he turn.l to the :subject of the alleged cabal, and the
far greater part of his speech was directed to a proof
that no cabal had existed, or that, at all events, he
had not becu a party to one. This question being dis-
posed of, the time came to retaliate for the unhand-
some imputation. Alter observing that the exten-
sion of national e.lucation would be one of the tirst
subj-cts that engeged the attention of the new Mi-
nistry, Lord ERNEst, with the most innocent air and
dulcet tones in the world, went on to add that "he
' "conceived that in the same proportion as education
advanced the franchise might be extended."
This unmistakeable allusion to the measure
of Parliamentary Reform promised by ?di-
Listen filled up to ea erdowing tho cup of
gall, which Lord ERNEST has tendered to the
GAlL'ilNr.itS and IVEIONS, and other electors of
Marlborough, among whom " Lord AILESIILRT has
swim iefinenca," and which they, not without much
sputtering and wry faces, have been obliged to drain
to the dregs.
These votaries of " property," in contradistinction
to and defiance of principle, are too well aware of
what is going on in the political world not to know
that any measure of reform introduced by the LINS-
DOWNE-ABERDEEN Ministry must embrace much
more than a mere extension of the suffrage.
They know that all classes are shocked with
the systematic venality and corruption which
pervades our electoral system, and willing to
apply a remedy to it. But they know also
that the Cotisersative prepossessions of these
gentlemen predispose them to seek the remedy, if
possible, iu some other application than an extension
of the suffroge. They therefore feel convinced that in
a Cabinet of which " Conservative Liberals" form so
large apart, the partial or entire disfranchisement of
these small corrupt constituencies which are best
suited to the purposes of a centralised agency for
electoral corruption, is sure not to be omitted. This
Lord ERN F.ST meant to remind them of, though he
did not mention it in as many words, and they un-
derstood him perfectly. He smilingly hinted,
h this is probably the last time but one
" that I wall avail myself of your reluctant
" services, and the last time but one that I
"a ill put up with your undisguised impertinence."
And they took the hint in smiling silence. It must
have been as good as a comedy to see and hear Lord
ER N EST and his supporters vowing sternal friendship
in one breath, and in the next edging in black impu-
tations, or covertly threatening political annihilation.
He judged rightly when he assumed that the fear of
a coming Reform Bill was the true source of this dis-
affection and ill-concealed rudeness. The GARDl-
iff.r.s and IvusoNs have a natural predilection for
protection, and intolerance, and everything that is
foolish or bad in our institutions; but what they
cherish in their heart of hearts is that abuse
of the electoral system which makes them some•
bodies. A new Reform Bill they know will reduce
them to utter insignificance. A new Reform Bill
they know Is peouosed by the Ministry to which
Lind BRUCE has attached himself: and therefore,
while obeying with menial subserviency the orders
of Lord BRUCE'S father tore-elect him, they in-
dulged in the true spirit of menial impertinence in
cutting remarks on him. He felt this, and reta-
liated by reminding them that he could pay court to
those who should inherit the political powers of
winch they are about to be dispossessed. And all
tees pleasant interlocutions were carried on in lan-
'atop as caressing and polite as is used
by the gnduates of the Srhool for Semi-
fin? while stinging each other. These civil ex-
pressions of keen animosity, blended on the one head
with reluctant servility, on the other with con-
temptuous determination to suck the orange quite
out before it is thrown away, are ominous. They
foreshodow the impending break up of the system.
They are like the squabbling of a pirate crew on the
deck of their doomed vessel. They inspire a sanguine
hope that a clean sweep will soon be made of the
petty proprietary and nomination boroughs which
were left untouched by Earl Gnss's Reform Bill, the
members being given to larger and more enlightened
am: independent town constituencies.

THE PimaCeift at last announces the recognition of
the new French Empire by the Northern Powers. They
were in no hurry to take the step—it is clear they
did not relish the neeessety—but they had clearly no
help for it. For them or any one of them, to have re-
fused, would inevitably have thrown the new Poten-
: tate, with all his absolutism and his great army, into
the arms of Liberalism abroad without a Coustitu-
tional system at home ; and the ill effects of such
a step would have been felt by the recusant
Monarchs in the remotest corners of their
dominions. They might and did delay, they
weight qualify, they might restrict their recognition,
but they dared not refuse. The recognition may
have been made ungracicasly, uncivilly, in a manner
lelcalated to wound- where they dared not strike; but

the Powers cou'd net—dared not—refuse. The man
whom they encouraged in his attacks on liberty, in
his assaults on tae republic, in his destruction a the
constitution of 18-19, is their master, also, at least to
this extent—that what they have assisted in making
him they must rotognise as a fact. There is eonso-
lotion and retribution in this.
Why, then, all this sulkiness, this precrastinatton,
this interchange of communications, this unity of
action, before recognising Louis NAPOLI-ON I"
Did
they wish again to question the right of France,
Cl en when accepting the fact, to change her institu-
tions as often, as violently, and as inconsistently as
she pleases ? Dld they propose to recognise illegiti-
macy in one sentence, and reiterate their old pled-
!tided about divine right is another? 'Were the
chiefs of northern absolutism slow in concocting a
document which should recognise the present, with
reservations as to the future? Or had they condi-
tions to require as the price of the preter.dea favour
they were about to show the new self-made
Emperor ?
IVitatever the cause, there they have been con-
sulting and plottieg at Berlin, Vienna, and St.
Petersbui gh,—these three great military powers, who
have armies of hundreds of thousands to keep pence in
their own dominions ; with parks of art iilery planted
against their own cities and towns; with larger ar
moments against their own subjects than those with
which the Emperor Nei-usenet I. humbled their
pride and parcelled out their territories. And con-
sulting and plotting against what and whorl ?
Apparently against France; to restrain its
ambition ; to keep it within its own frontiers;
to perpetuate the territorial arrangements
, they deem best. Moro in appearance than
reality. All this complicity, this coming to a
common nedeistantline, this forming a united policy,
II extends further than France ; it is a revival of the
IHoly Alliance without the benevolent dispositions of
the Emperor ALEXINDER, or the chastened expe-
rience of the Kaiser FR %NZ—it is a binding together
of the military chiefs to apply to the rest of Europe
what Lord Der.ev dared to talk of doing here—re-
sistance to the progress of democracy. What else
would have reunited Austria and Prussia, and sub-
dued their hereditary rivalry. for supremacy in Cicr-
:nary ? What else could induce the Autocrat to
bless the bands that join them? But though
contracts for mutual self-defence against French
Aggression may be desirable, yet any superadded
schemes against liberty and progress will not
succeed. For a while despotism may be able
to resist the spread of knowledge, to keep
down the aspirations of intelligence, to force
back the determination of smarmed millions. But
not long. The drum, the bayonet, the sabre,
and the cannon cannot permanently be uppermost.
Though absolute power now sways the destinies
of France, as well as Austria and Russia, even
that cannot prevent the progress of education, of
civilisation, of enterprise, skill, and capital.
These lead, sometimes, over a difficult path, but
always must in the end lead to freedom.
Neither European despots nor a new Emperor
can roll France back to the dark ages. Let
us cherish that impossibility. Its youth must be
instructed, its industry be employed, its skill and its
taste be cultivated, its mind have occupation, and in-
dustry, learning, elegance, and refinement keep alive
the sacred flame of liberty in the worst of times. Bad
as is the origin of his power, Navel-Los 111. cannot
reduce Fiance or Frenchmen to the plight of
Russian serfs, or, worse still, Austrian slaves.
Frenchmen have at least the traditions of past
glories—a consciousness of present power—a belief
in future greatness, to preserve them from that de-
gradation. Time and tide run through the roughest
day, in France as well as elsewhere ; and the great
nation that at last outburst the trammels of the old
Holy Alliance, cannot long be a fit instrument for
any new conspiracy against human happiness and
freedom.
Look, too, at the faithful band, small though
it be, of the eminent Frenchmen whom no
imperial luxury or flattery can seduce, no wealth
can buy, no threats affright. They will continue
to live isolated and apart ; uncontaminated with the
riches or impurities of the new dynasty ; devoted in
heart and soul to their country's happier and better
destinies; a race set apart and living in readiness to
show it the way and to restore it to rational govern-
ment ; teaching it obedience even to bad laws and a
bad government. The existence of these men,
scattered all over France, pursuing the even tenour of
their enlightened lives ; studying with all the ardour
and freshness of youth, happy iu their own spheres
silent, it is true, but stronger in their condemnation
, and reprobation because they are silent. The in-
fluence of these men, models of good citizens, of
honest statesmen, and of upright magistrates, is still
lilt in France ; and, whilst that influence sues ives,
the memory of freedom will endure, despite the
fickleness of the populace and the timidity of MA-
mercialists. Nor will misfortunes common to all and
grievous to bear be thrown away on them ; they
will—they must—teach even M. Guizor tolerance of
opponents • they have already taught GeneraICA-
VAIGNAC the value of conciliation.
Though mouchards, locust-like, cover the face of
France—penetrate into every family—and lurk,
impudent, cat-like, and offensive,in every cafe, to
silence the liveliest politicians of the world, forty
millions of people cannot be governed by mouchards
—needy, seedy, venal, gullible, unscrupulous, and
untrustworthy. Society won't endure, for it can't
exist with, the infliction; and if politics be banished
France, society is powerful still. Of such a detest-
able system of espionage, having its ramifications
even here in London, every man and woman can
and will feel the degradation, the inconvenience,
and the disgrace. And these will soon begin to pro-
duce their natural effects—dissatisfaction, discontent,
nominees, and disaffection. In such instruments
of tyranny there is no novelty, and there never has
been any permanent success; they tease, they tor-
ment, they persecute, and they annoy. But at last
they are -brushed away ; and something better fol-
lows. In the ultimate stability of the present form of
meat in France no man can have any great con-
rdvence ; least dal the Northern Powers. Like the red
men of America, despotism has a right of occupancy
only, and is liable at any time to be expelled by the
rightful owners of the soil. Courts may differ about
who the owners are ; but Liberals can have no doubt
—the French people. And what Northern Ahso-
lutism has been plotting is to prepare in tho first
place to hold their own against any attempt to ex-
tend the boundaries of France, but chiefly to pave
the way, in the future changes that are inevitable,
for the restoration in France of their owa system of
heieditary sway.

EXTRAORDINARY ACClDENT.—Yentorday, about 4
o'clock in the afternoon, an ac ident occurred in the neigh-
bourhood of Ilaissell•square, which, although happily unat-
tended with any loss of life, was followed by serious con-
sequences. A jobbing carriage and pair, belonging t Mr.
Yeoman, livery stable keeper, of Guildfordstreet, were
incautiously left standing in Marchruent-street. The
horses, being spirited animals, took fright, it is supposed,
at a !taker's cart passing them rapidly. They immediately
started off, and tore along at a furious psce, until they
reached Everett-street, down which they gallopped, elarm-
lag the pencil by, and narrowly escaping collision with
a van laden with furniture. Continuing their count
into Bernard-street, they dashed across the road
end came iiulently against the railings of No. 11, which
immediately faces the bottom of Everctt-street, tearing
away a great portion of the iron-work and the coping stones.
They hung within the area, sus2ended by the traces from
the carriage, when they c:mmenced plunging and kicking
in the most violent manner, rendering it impossible for any
one to attempt their citric thou. At length, Capt. Troup,
who resides at No. 11, with great presence of mind and no
little courage, severed the traces, precipitating the horses
into his area. The fall considerably injured them, and it is
feared one must be killed. As it was impassible to remove
them in any oth r way, a scaffolding and croselsole were
immediately erected over the railings, and several men em
ploycd to raise them by means of a rope and bands passed
rouni the bodies of the prostrate animals. Upon the first
being raised to the level of the pavement it was injudiciously
attempted to carry it over thst part of the railings which
remained standing, instead of choosing the part which was
broken down, and which would therelete have presented
no obstacles to their exertions. The consequence was that,
kicking furiously, the 'awl foot of the ;unfortunate beast
caught is the railings. It continued plunging violently,
and broke a further portion of the railing away. At the
same moment the cross pole over which tho rope was
thrown, and from which the horse was suspended, gave
way, thus creating considerable confusion, the poor brute
fallieg again violently into the area upon the body of the
other. The seaffol4ing having been raised, the workmen
succeeded in drawing up the horses, bleeding profusely
from several trightflil wounds. The scene altogether was
one of considerable excitement, a c:awil of 800 or 900
persons having coil:eta together. Ono unfortunate man,
while heisting in locoing the horses teem their perilous
situation, met with a serious accident, and was removed to
the Free Hospital, in the Gray's-ice-road, in a State of in-
sensibility.