The Express.
London, England, 1866-05-24 00:00:00

MINCING:LANE.-(THIS DAY.)

SUGAR.— The market continues dull, at a decline of
about Is. per cwt.. except for strong refining qualities,
which are only slightly easier. No public sales were held
to-day. Refined prices are maintained, there being a
steady hut not an active demand.
Coarse..--No public sales were held to-day; privately
the market is quiet.
public sales are progressim; he wily at irre-
gular prices. ilolonp and scented teas at lower prices.
Srli bags of Penang black pepper sold at 3J.
cash, and 34d. with prompt. A few lots of Mitiento at
?id. to 2?,i1.; and ginger Jamaica at a slight decline—low,
575. to rsis.; good ordinary to middling, Tills. to ti9s. ; good
ditto to fine, 70s. to 130 s.
Rum. --.49 puncheons of .lamaica sold at 3s. Id. to 3i. 21.1.
H 1 (T. ANii SstrrernE.---Nonales reported.
. irn x.--There is more disposition to parch:we at pre-
vious prices, lint holders are not ready sellers thereat ; the
sales in comielmenoe are limited to small iiareAN,
.117 s has sold at about the previous value; medium to
good, 141. rsi. to 191. ; fine, 201. 10s. to 231. its.
HEMP.—Russian continues dull ; clean at 311. to 321.

TALLOW MARKET.—(TRIS DAY.)
The market is quiet ; prices are quoted as follows :--
Town tallow, 435. 3d. ; Petersburg Y.C., ou the spot,
42a. (kb ; June, 425.; July to September, 434. ; tktobet
to December, 43e. 31.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
(THIS DAY.)
We have a few more beasts than on Thursday last, kin
the number is very small. Trade is active, and :n some
instances Monday's quotations were exceeded. The supply of
sheep i scarcely as good as of late. There is a fair ileniand.
and prices are fully as good. Choice lambs and calves tiro
freely disposed of at high rates. Trole is heavy for mid-
dling qualities. Our foreio supply consists of :WO beasts,
2,250 sheep, 77 calves, and 145 Mgs.
Per stone of Olin. a. d. ad. I i'cr stone of Miss. ad. a. d.
lkrt S,•,t*. lierehls. 5 0 5 4 110.; Dn.& 11l lelsSß 5 g 0 0
Best 8/e.rt horns . 4 10 5 0 ' Best hte.z n0e15.... 0 0 0 0
Second tithd beasts 310 4 2 De. do. Shorn.... 6 4 5 6
(*lves
Pies
Beat Uus t Itlt orals u 0 0 0 lambs
Beasts at market, 840; sheep and lambs, 7.000; calves. 220;
pigs, too.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
Mr. Charles James Easton reports trade very slow,
at last day's prices. Prime meadow hay, from 1001. to
110 s. ; infenor ditto, PAR. to ; rowen, 60s. to My. ;
clover, old, 121 s. to 13:o. ; second cut, 90s. to 120 s. ;
straw, 3,33. to 41s.

MR. BEN. GLEADALL's READINGS. —Mr. BOR.
Gleada , who a short time ago gave some popular read-
ings of Hood's Poetry at Lawson's Rooms, Gowcr-street,
last night appeared again before a crowded audience at
the same place, and gave a dramatic selection from
Dickens's "Sketches of Every-day Life and every.
day People." They were admirably rendered, and received
with repeated applause by the interested and aintiked
company. Mr. (.lea all is not only au efficient elocu-
tionist, but has the faculty of interpreting the author
both by facial expression and appropriate action.
ROYAL COLLEGE or SURGEONS OF ENGL.: ND.
The following gentlemen, having undergone the necessary
examinations for the diploma, were admitted members
of the college at a meeting of the Court of Examiners on
the `22nd inst., via.:—Messrs. Richard Morgan, Aberdare,
South Wales ; Thomas Franklin Lloyd, L.S.A., Finsbury-
circus; George Birch, L.S.A., Kingsland ; George COMO
Barnabas Stevens, Southgate-road, and Charles Haniboyde
Carver, L.S.A., Nottingham, students of Guy's Hospital;
Alfred Hutchison Smec. Finsbury-circus ; John HortLll,
B.A. Oxon., Leeds ; Julius Lawrence Levy,. Westbounie-
terrace •. Michael Perry, Harwell, Berkshire, and John
Charles Calton. M.A. Oxon., Exeter, of St. Bartholomew's
Hospital •, David Roberta Pughe, L.S.A., Aberdovey, and
i Edward John Adams, Charlton, Kent, of St. Thomas's
I Hospital ; Campbell Fair, Outerrard, county Galway, snit
Gordon Archdall, Bundoran, county Donegal, of the
Dublin School ; John Rees .lames, Llanelly, Carmarthep„
of the Middlesex Hospital ; Berkeley Murray, Barhadoes,
of King's College ; Georg Friedrich Julius Schott, M.D.,
Gottingen, Frankfort-on-the-Maine ; Thomas Sansone,
Birmingham ; and David Johnston, Magherafelt, county

Derry.
SENSLA ND EMIGRATION. The ship Eastern
Empire, 1,751 tons huril..n, chartered by Messrs. I'. M.
Mackay and Co., sailed on the 16th inst. from Gravesend.
for Queensland ; Captain C. Ferguson, commander ;
surgeon•superintendent, Dr. T. E. D. Byrne. The Eastern
Empire is the 79th vessel that has sailed on the land-order
system of emigration, under the immediate direction of
Mr. Jordan, agent-general for the Queensland government.
She contains 450 souls, divided into paying, assisted, and
free passengers, and consisting of 278 members of families,
161 single men, and 11 single females.
PIGEONS r. THE TELEGRAPH. —AN INCIDENT IN
THE LATE DF.RBY.—A licensed victualler near tLe Monts.
went visited the Derby, and took a pigeon with him, so as
to send home the names of the three first horses in th•
Derby. As soon as the numbers of the winning horses
were hoisted, he tied a slip of paper round the pigeon's
neck, and started it off on its journey home, where his
friends were awaiting its arrival About seven minutes
after the news was known by the arrival of the pigeon, •
neighbouring licensed victualler received a telegram from
his friends on the racecourse, to inform him of the results
of the race. The news thus arrived more speedily by the
pigeon than the telegraph, by one-third of the time. This
was no doubt on account of the senders of messages on the
course having to wait their turn, as the news was received
at Tattersall's three or four minutes after the race. The
pigeon performed the journey in fourteen minutes, which
is, allowing for the direct path in which they travel, about
a mile per minute.
THE METEOPOLITAN HORSE Snow. —This show
was yesterday afternoon visited by the Prince and Princess
of Wales, Prince Alfred, and Prince Teck, and several
distinguished members of the aristocracy. The sales of
the prize animals have been large, and the prices realised
high. Count Fleury has purchased for the Emperor of
the French, Sir George IVomtwell's chesnut hunter,
I Hawkseye (which obtained the first prize in Class 2) foe
500 guineas, and also Mr. Charles Symond's six year old
Fire King, for 250 guineas. Amongst other sales effected
was the Duke of Marlborough's dark brown stallion Blen-
heim, 16 hands 1 inch in height, which brought 130
guineas. The show must have been again visited yester-
day, from its opening to its close, by upwards of 20,000
persons.