The Express.
London, England, 1859-11-21 00:00:00

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARNE P.
mpg DAT.)
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We have a lugs supply of bwb, yet choicest guildss
us not much more plentiful, and late prices sre
folly supported. The number of sheep te rather
smeller, but a large supply to tbs dead marker
muses a slow trade We, and prices on the average ars
sessuely as good ron Monday leaf. No 'Memnon w the
calf trade. Prom Gennsoy and Holland there are 920
beasts, 4,960 three, and 96 calves. Scotland, 80 beret;
Irelend, 700 , Norfolk and Suffolk, 100; sad 2,700 from the
Northern and Midland Couritim _

eel. 100. Wes. •o.a. a. Pee nose of Sib, •..• C.
Beet .!,.row Hereford.— 4 8 S • Best Du
Ps Neon-bore. 4 e 4 10 Beet Lose-woo.. 4 d 5 0
*cor. euetltr beam.— 3 4 4 0 Do. de Sbere .
4 0 5 u lose t second 40eUtr 4 0 4
Pip
Bat Du I 2101f400d. • 0 6 2 Lamb .
DWI" is mike. 0.310; &up sod Lot 22.410: 041405.144:
Mo. NO.

—BIT HOUGH HOP MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
Ileum Pentodes sad gad* report that the mailed
continues Arm, and fine sampisa are in demand, et the fol-
lowing prior, —Mid and Best Keats, from 704. to 90e. ;
choice Goldinas, 1124. to 147 e.; Weads, 60s. to 705.;
Golding ditto, 7.15. to Ns.: thiseex, 465. to 621. ; fine, 66e. to
63e. ; °Whigs, 70e. to 75e. per owt.

THE PRICE OF TALLOW.

T0_713 IDITOII. 01 TZI EXPREAS.

sls,—l observed is use of your last week's
Itrprees a report which you stated came from me interested
to the tallow trade. lam connected with that Wide, but as
I ma not a speculator, it matters not to me what price ft is
or may be, having neither bought nor sold forward, and
kaow you are always glad of dienterested information on
any subject.
The accumulation sad present large stock of tallow arlses„
In my opinion, from the late summed melt having bass
much larger then for many you', and chandler., have nob
required to buy their usual quantity of YC. I still hold •
portion of my summer's melt, and I have not yet had to go
to market to supply my general wants which in 1863 I com-
menced by buying Y C ow Oct. 1 ; 1854. Aug. 13; 1855,
Aug. 13; 1866, Sept. 6; 1857, Oct. 10; 1868, Sept 29. I
know mine is not a singular case, sad if you take it to be die
same throughout the country, it will explain the felling of
in the delivery of tallow, and the present large stock es
hand, which will probably still madam to inaease, the
heaviest consumption having passed, by housekeepers hewing
supplied their winter's requirements at Alicheelmae. no
trade from that time to Christmas le always quiet; and asst
Christmas the melt will, in my opinion, be very large, se
the root crop is good, I believe, throughout the kingdom.-
1 am, dec., A CONSTANT READER.
November 19, 1869.

PUNISHMENT OF LONDON 'PRENTICES.—At s
prior to the commencement of Christian and
rat': Closing Amociatious, a great change bad mule.
fasted knelt in the demeaaonr, habits, and usefulness
of the City apprentices. Their affection for those
whose position was in lace parentis had greatly in-
creased, and a disposition was evinced by them, se
body, to make the bah:sets of those they served, not
only a duty and responsibility, but a sure stepping stone is
the ladder of human program for themse:ves. Consequently.
• black bole, a chamber of terror, wan found to be n , longer
needed, and its existence ceased many years enue, when
some materiel alterations were made in the late.
rior of the Gaildhell. Alluding to their, Mr. T.
B. Nichols, in his brief account of the building, slams that
formerly on each aide of the stone steps were the ball-
keeper's offices, and round the top of each of them were
six iron palm trees of carious worktasnship, which ',lced as
supporters of the large balcony overhead, and entoposad
' 'enrolling like two arbours. Under them offices were two
small cages or prisons, where unruly apprentices were con-
fined, by order of the Chamberlain. They were called
" little ease," not beine of eutlicitut height for • big boy to
stand upright —City Perot.
A STONEMASON TRANSFORMED INTO A LEGIS-•
LATOIL—u Authentic intelligence," says the PerMsAirs
Adertiser," has just arrived here stating that &native of this
town, Mr. Charka 3. Don, stonemason, has detested aa
()facial, sad attained to the dignity of an Australian NI.P.
Mr. Don is well known in Caper-Aniline, and whom resident
was a very useful member of the Mutual Impravernent
Society. Mr. Disraeli was telling au English audience the
other day of the advantage of mechanics fusitutee ; and we
have good cause for thinking that the schooling err 'eh Mr.
Don got in the meeting-room of oar /moiety Gar mutual
improvement has helped him to his present toeiti in. We
rejoice at the elevation of oar old working, tramping,
Mg, and debating colleague, ' Charlie Doe,' and earnestly
hope he will turn out a wise as well as an enargetio
legislator."
A SERIOUS CtrotGE.—At the magistrates' clerk's
°Moe, at Pstendsld. on Thursday, • painful and melancholy
circumstance occurred. Mr. Wardroper, for many years in
eremite sea solicitor, of Midburst, Sussex, was brought up
from the police-station, in which place he was incarcerated on
the previous day, on the charge of fraud sad einbrulersant to
same considerable extent. A pre ferns examination took
place, slier which the prisoner area remanded by the Hon.
1. 3. Carnegie, the prodding megistram, to a future day.
The prisoner will remain in eeetedy at the Petenfiell lobos.
station until the neoessety evidence condrnaing the charges
as bit onapleted.—Haspshirc Itodependoit.