The Express.
London, England, 1853-05-31 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MAREETS.

MINCING-LANE.-THIS DAY.

SCOAR.—The large public sales are progressing heavily,
and prices are scarcely supported. The Refined Market
dull, at last week's prices.
COPPER.—The sales appear to he larger than the demand,
and importers are buying in to support the market.
TEL.—The public sales went off steadily, at fully last
week's prices ; a large portion bought in at high rates.
j ,RicE.—This article has a firm appearance; the publics
sale of 2,000 bags Bengal was chiedy bought in at 10s. 6d.
to 1 ls. _ _ .

SALTPETRE.-4,000 bap were offered in public sale, and
about halt sold, at prices a shade in favour of the huyeri.
Refraction 61 to 7 sold Wt. to 275.; refraction 41, 275. Gd..
to 28s.

COTTON.-500 bales sold yesterday on 'Change.
In other arsicks no ma+erial alteration. Markets gene-
rally hare a dull appearance.

TALLOW MARKET.-THIS DAY.

The market is firm Pi-day. The warlikeaspeCt of at-
fain tends to advancing prices for all Russian produce.
Town Tallow is quoted 461. 6d. nett cash; Petersburg
Y.C. on the spot, 475. Gd. ; June, 475. to 475. 34. Oct. to
Dec. (new), 483.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.-THIS. DAY.
Mr. E. J. Davis reports trade dull. Prices: Prime
Meadow Hay, 804. to 905.; inferior, 70s. to 765.; Rowan,
455. to Ms.; Clover, 935. to 100 s.; second cut, 70s. to 90x.;
Straw, 235. to 335.

OXFORD.—From the spot where the railway from
London now brings the stranger into Oxford, he ha; not so
good a first impression of the city as when the approach
was by the bridge at the foot of Magdalene Tower, with its
gardens and meadows:
" A league of grass, washed by a slow broad stream
That, etirr'd with languid pulses of the oar,
Waves all its lazy lilies, and creeps on,
Barge-laden, to three arches of a bridge
Crown'd with the minster towers."
A beautiful tower is that of Magdalene, commenced in
1492 and finished in 1505. On the previous morning, May-
day, at five o'clock, a hymn bad been chaunted on the top
of it, according to annual custom. Popes gateway, the
open-air ,:one pulpit opposite, and • charmingly pie-
turesque piece of the ancient Magdalene Hall, in the
garden adjoining, will all be noticed. The chapel and
antechapel are very good specimens of perpendicular
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covered statue, has been restored with a stone which
will speedily decay again. The majority of the buildings
in Oxford are in a frightful state of decomposition, the
oldest not the worst; and unfortunately, it seems diffi-
cult sow to obtain a stone which will serve oar posterity
better. The tower of the University Church, St. Mary's, a
little further on, with its crowd of pinnacles at the top and
lofty spire, has been restored. Behind it you see Gibbe•
Radcliffe Library, the Pisan baptistery, translated into
another language, where a bust commemorates the archi-
tect. The Bodleian Library, with its unrivalled missals,
and the picture-gallery, with a series of architectural
models, is close at band. For variety and picturesque effect
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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY, MAT 30.
The Lose CIIANCILLOII took his seat at 6 o'clock.
PETITIONS PRESENTED.

Issc crt ;.;;;;;;; rs..:liy lbs LW of BANDON
as l Lord BERNARD, from ladies raying for en Inquiry
faro conventual establishments.
COI.OMIAL PZNNT POSTAGIL—By the Duke of NEW-
ev4TI.E. from St. Jobs's, Now Brunswick, preying for a
aimed pasty postage.
TINS NUM. AL Lord WHARN.
CLIPPII7-11amodtVITIM-atfajlag 16e thir-paorfod of on
evf 1.. r the hotter regulation of the merriest fiecifeeetoti.
Pooa Laws.—By the Bart of BTRADBBOKE, praying
that tha taws tar tie VINIKOTII sad eminent of the poor
atayte aubeaded.