The Express.
London, England, 1851-02-01 00:00:00

TALLOW MARKET.-THIS DAY.

The market is firm to-day, with bat little Tallow °Meng,
either on the spot or for forward delivery. '1 he qu)tations
at present ruling an. Town Tallow, 371 ; Petersburg!
Y.C. on the loot, 37; 9i; February Cod Mach, 375. 9,l ;
less three months, 291. sellers,

Mannar AVZILAOES —Town tallow, 395. 6d. ; fat by
ditto, 2s Id.; yellow Russian, 38.. 6d.; melted stuff, 295.;
rough ditto, Pit ; tallow gravel, 9.. ; good dreg., fn.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—THIS DAY 7
Missre.Cooper and Davis )1 port a lags supply sod heavy
trade, at the following quotation.: Meadow Hay,
80i. ; inferior, ditto, 68s. to 70a. ; Bowes, 555. to 60.. ; Cloyed,
65e. to 80.. ; Straw, 24a. to 27..

COVENT OAItDI

r.-THIS DAY.

leinons, per doz., Is to le
Pomegranates, each, 3d to 6d
Almonds, per peek, es

sweet, per lb., 2s to le
Chestnuts, per peck, 2s to Ss
per 100, 9d to is 6d
Nubs, Bar., p bush., 20s to 22s
Bnm, p. bush.. 12, to lis
LISLE&
Ptlberts, per 100 lb., OA to Os

IRELAND.

DCILIN, JAN. 3.
The Lord Lieutenant and the Countess of Clarendon
bald their first drawing-room for the season last

night.;
A large and influential messing, convened by a
requisition to the Lord Mayor, under the auspices of
the Association for the Abolition of the Duty on
Paper, _ was held yesterday in the Rotondo. The'
Lord Mayor presided, and the merchants and most
respectable of the citizens attended in greet numbers.'
Letters of apology were read from Sir Robert Kane,
Mr. Cowan, M.P., Mr. B. Tennent, Mr. Charles
Knight, Mr. It. Chambers, Mr. Scholefleld, M.P.,
Mr. Ewart, M.P., Mr. Home, M P., Mr. Kershaw,
LP., Sir Joshua Walmeley, Mr. F. O'Connor, M.P.,
Mr. John O'Connell, M.P., &I. Sir Edward M'Doo-
nell, one of our must extensive paper manufacturers,
in proposing the first resolution, said:
A short time ago • Canadian merchant, to whom I used to
send paper, told ma I mold do so no loner, as the Americans
were stile to widened us. Truth encourage the emigration of
our manta, mashine makers, Ike., and, from being Ina
from taxation, are thus enabled to beat is., crippled me we are
by this oppreleive excise regulation. (Hear, hear.) For
these laws being all framed spinet the smuggler are most
karassiog on the fair trader. When we manufacture the
paper us have to give twentpfour hours' notice to aa
affirm to charge it; it must thee remain twenty. four hours
for another officer. (Iliac, hem.) The duty is collected
through labels, and if you Nas one of them a penalty 1. at
sate brought against you—you. must keep a person
sively to keep the account., sad an error will oast to
the most accurate. It occurred to myself some time ago;
a single label, the value of which wee five shillings, was
lost, sad, although the collector &deal:tad that out mill
was as regular as any mill in the empire, a mewrial
lad to go to Ltodor, for the system of centralimatioa Is so
perfm•ly carried out is this department—( Haar, hear)—that
the collector could nut even adjudicate on that, and, after
eight t.r airs days I received word (rein London that so
realty would be enforced. Now is it possible with such
restrictioas that one con can get on with this manatectute ?
When the eoty was 3d. per lb. it produced 16,0001. a year la
Ireland—when it was teamed to ltd. per lb. it produced
40,0001. ; bet this does not represent the duty paid by
Ireland, it only represents the duty paid by the xthaufncrurer,
because, owing to the Haire duty, which cramp. our capital
fore, where it is so scarce, we are not able to compete with
the moult. r in.anfattarers of England sod Smitlaud, where
tucking accommodation enables them to beat us,
and I am quite sure we do not manufacture one third of the
piper COMIIIIII.I in Ireland. (Hsu.) Look to the brawn
paper trade—it is nearly extinct in the eithatry, because an
Irish manufacturer, with his limited capital, cannot afford to
advance 7.. 64. on a ream of paper, the value of which, with-
out duty, is only 12s. 64.
It was admitted that Sir Edward McDonnell made
out the best cue fur the manufacturers which any ore
of the meeting had beard, but the other speakers took
the broader greut.ds of the general public interest,
which is involved in the question, as affecting the
diffusion of knowledge. Among those who addressed
the meeting in proposing or wending resolutioLs,
were Mr. Grogan, M.P., Mr. Torino, Mr. NlcCullagh,
M.P., Mr. Reynolds, M.P.; the Mon. Mr. Vereker,
Mr. Fry, Mr. S. Fergueon, Mr. Robert Mallet, Mr.
Jonathan Prin, Mr. James Perry, Alderman Kitiaban,
&c. Mr. NlcCallagh said :
He teured that his honourable reloads who were member'
of parliament, would ricollict that a title gentle pressure
applied to the Louse of Commons would conduce to the
attainment of the otject of the meeting, which was one that
concerned all who were iaterreted to the improvement of
the middies of the people, sad the redid absoiption of
the untheployed popalatim in Industrial occupation. The
whole Niamey was interested in it, and they ought to press
on heartily sad puesveringly until they obtaintri it.