The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-04 00:00:00

Arrival for the week endlag 12th June last year 776 e
delivery 1,376 casks. The arrival last week comprised
Petersburg, 1,400 casks Odessa, and 32 casks Australl
2,349 casks.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
(THIS DAY.)
We are very moderately supplied with beasts; the
average quality is good. Trade is by no means brisk, yet
late quotations are pretty generally realised. We
are sufficiently although not largely supplied with sheep
and lambs. Trade is dull and prices are lower.
Good calves are in demand ; for other kinds trade is dulL
From France and other countries there are 1,190 beasts,
4,710 sheep, 144 calves, and 50 pigs ; Spain, 67 hearts ;
Scotland, 49 ; Norfolk and Suffolk, 1,060 ; and 534 from
the northern and midland counties.
Per stone of &lba a d. ad. Per stone of Blba a d ad.
Best Scots, Herefda 6 2 6 4 Beat Das& Hi-Waft 6 6 6 8
Best Short-horns 4 10 5 2 Best Long-w 0015.... 0 0 0 0
Second qua. beasts 4 0 4 4 Do. do. M0m.... 5 2 6 4
Calves

Piss
Best Des4tHlt-breds 0 0 I
Beasts at mks; 8,490 ;
pigs, 370. _

Do. do. Bhori 4 2 4 8
lambs
and lambs, 24,240; salvos, 176;

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.-(THIS DAY.

Messrs. Pattenden sad Smith report an active demand
for all descriptions of hops, both English and foreign,
prices for the former ruling fully 10e. per cwt. dearer.
The reports from all the plantations continue very unfa-
vourable, fly having made its appearance in large quanti-
ties throughout Kent and Sun= and on the continent.

THE CHntEsE Misatox.—On Saturday, his ex-
oellency the Chinoe commissioner and 'nit., accompanied
by Major Frederic Brine, and Mews. Bowra and be
Champs, interpreters, paisd visits to the Under Secretaries
of State for Foreign Affairs, Mr. Layard, M.P., and Mr.
Hammond. In the evening they attended the Countess
of Waldegrave's assembly. Yesterday the party drove to the
Crystal Palace, being received at Bookhills by the chair-
man, Mr. Farquhar, andEmeral manager, Mr:Howley ; they
afterwards celled at the eem's and Crystal Palace Hots*
and on Mr. Phillippe. day Pin-Tu-Jin and party go to
Windsor and Eton, where royal carriages will await their
arrival, for the 4th of June festival.
Ma KISYON S. P*ax&a.—The Observer con-
tradicts on authority the announcement of the death of
Mr. llegyon Stevens Parker Q.C., from en accident. The
announcement copied into the Times and Daily News from
the Solicitors' Journal, produced a considerable sensation in
Lincoln's-inn on Saturday morning. Mr. Parker did not
, die in King's College Hospital, for he was removed thence
on Thursday evening and on Saturday morning he was
pronounced "better, having had a goodnight, and up to
seven o'clock oa Saturday evening there was no change for
the worse.
The opening of the great rhododendron tent on
Saturday, in the garden of the Royal Horticultural Society,
South Kensington, attracted a large and faabionable as-
semblage of the fellows and their friends. The show of
rhododendrons was pronoenosd by competent practical
judges to Intert equal to the magnificent collection at
the recennational Horticultural Ifshilitiom.

CHUM& kALACIL FITZ SHILLING DAY.
Ettrultan. Jtin 2. Adasitions on payment, 4,092;
ditto by mom tkkiN, 701191 ; bind visitors, 11,584.