The Express.
London, England, 1859-11-08 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS

VRRPOOL CORN MARIET.—(TRIS DAT.)
(111 DiMAK AND 1111111 *lOllllO TILISOZAPD.)
mow ova OWN coaasoroxoarr.)

Tin corn market was steady, with a fair attendance, wheat
felling freely at extftme rates. Indian oorn in good demand.
at la. advance eince Pliday. Egyptian beans steady at 36e.
Oats and oatmeal &m.

MINCING-LANE.—(THIS DAY.)
Bcoan.—The public mho are progressing heavily, but
the importers show firma's*, and are buying in freely. Re-
lined lamps are quoted from 484. 134 to 50s.
COFFlll.—Theipubhc sales are going off without showing
any arterial alteration in prices.
Yak.—Public sales are declared for to-morrow, and the
market is inactive.
Rico remains steady.
Run without alteration.
BaLvirrras steady.
Markets generally have a doll appearance.

TALLOW MARILET.—(THIS DAT.)
The market is quiet, at the following prices . —Tomb
tallow, 60s. net cash; Petersburg Y.C. on the spot, 595.;
ell the yeer, 68s. 6,1 ; December, 68e. 9d.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
Meows. Davie sad Co. report trade brisk. Prices
Films meadow hey, 70.. to 76e. ; superior ditto, 80e.
to 84e. , inferior ditto, 56e. to 60e. ; rows., 46e. to 60e.1
clover, old, 95.. to 106 e.; straw, 275. to 32e.

LOCAL 8114.111 YAAKEIB.

lava. Hot. Noy. 7.—Tba market mu bett. La price, Irdbdtt
balms. MOW; taotntlaa : Mamba& 771 —ldackburn. 11/
Oaledoedan,22l 3—ebatar sad Malba6.42l—mlaa 11.
0,1•4 ‘40•1.... Oft —lmanathlre sad Tubby% Wi7—Labat
and Mara Maim 114 1--43mMa4 341 I—Midland. 10,4 4-"onlh
WSW, eet Ml—Eararla. 64 901 York and Nona, 74 4—Leeds
Nl—Dour. 23 I.l6&l6—Dateslthenleb. 41 —Quad
Unt.a"d Canada. 9 1146 23-16—Orast Wotan of VanaLt, 14 1
M.PCIIMMT.a• Yoe. 7.—Thee um an ad4du:lBly thohe.l
bat arcs wore 6ea. Hrascra Cosatiec 111-4.0.14. 414-03ald.
341—Midland. Wei—Dour, 334—(Iress Morava AEI —Lood.m.
Stamm:anat. Nov. 2.-1341•Inem coalman Masao. aa.l prier much
the mate. Oraat Meatern Stour Vaal. Oaanummd.na maundl done
at ; and South toefontaire, at 101 tr. td.. and 101 nu Amu.
(tat Madero, Itirrninattam (laarantedd, dn.! 731 to 73-I.dadon and
Noah Watern. aft to I—Crytla Paha Prof.. St, buyer,

THE COLLECTION OF LAN P, ASSEsSER, AND
Tricot(' TAirs.—We (Times) understand the authorities
hays decided upon a plan for the collection of thee@ taxes
which will be more economical, impartial, and safer than at
preemit adopted. All vacancies occurring among the toed
tax collectors before the sth of April next will be filled op by
excise officers, and after that period the present reflectors
will be dirpeneed with and their doges handed over to the
excise officers.
RECORD OF WRECKS.—it appears from the
"Monthly Summary of Wrecks" ie the Rhippiray Gr..ette,
that, duties October, the number erns 269. In dm,
of January there were 177, in &knurl 165, M,,rg°1761:
in April 169, in May 110, in June 94, in July 81, in August
127, and ie September, 140, waking a total daring the pre-
sent year of 1,473.
118A.SCREsTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LISCOLN9RIEJE
RAILWAY —The total expense of this company's railways;
including rents, toil, duty, &c., from Jul 1 to October 30;
1869, amounted to 99,6331., as against 87,6701,, for the come-
spoeding period of 1868. The proportion of the South Jue-
lioe
receipt., accruing to this company from July Ito October
30, amounted to 9,319!., as against 7,3261., foe the coma-
eponding period of 1868, and the expenses to 4,7201., as
against 4,7441.
MUSEUM OF PATENTS, SOUTH SENBINGTON.-.•
Number of visitors for the week ending Nov. 6 :—Morning a;
927 ; melee, 1,288; total, 2,215. Sines the opening of the
memos free dolly (Nay 12, 1868)068,836.
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GRAVE•INN-ROAD.-ot
The number of patients relieved •at thie hospital, during the
molt ending Nov. 5, is 2,500, of "hid, 594 des erg
maw

the field w,:h u many men an he could muster, and
at once buses* the terror of the pro-slavery me..
He defee•ed an immensely superior force of them at
Ossowatomie, and did summary execution upon large
numbers of single individuals, and all in a spirit of
the most exalted religious enthusiasm. He finally
got it into his head that he was commissioned by God
to wage war upon sleveholders and liberate wrote,
and seems to have inspired his followers with
a portion of his own ?rear• No man

performed half so many daringmt exploits
in the
courier of the war. Moro than once he seized upon
Missourians in their own homer, in the dead of the
night, and hanged them on the nearest tree, for
having participated in outrages on the free-state
men In Kansas ; and he at last became the bugbear
and terror of all the border ruffians. Whenever
" Old Bruins " was reported to be in the neighbour-
hood they instantly disappeared. When the war
was over a return to his old mode of life was of
course impossible. The lots of his sons had mad-
dened him. and he devoted himself entirely to
carrying off slaves to Canada. That he was coun-
tenanced and ezcouraged in this by many leading
abolitionists there seems to be no reason to doubt ;
but that any of them went any further haa yet to be
proved. For the last year or more the public has
not 'ward mach of him, but during this interval he
seems to have been busily engaged in organising
an insurrection of the slues. With this view he
went to Virginia, hired a farm in the neighbour-
hood of Harper's Ferry, and having quietly, and as
it appears without exciting any observation, collected
a considerable quantity of arms and ammunition, and
been joined by fiftieth of his moot devoted followers,
inclueing his two surviving sons, on the evening erf
the l i h inst. be seized upon the United States'
armoury in the village, arrested and imprisoned the
esuployAs and mazy of the principal inhabitants in
the neighbutirhood, blocked up the railroad, rut the
telegraph wires, and called on the negroes to join
him. the megrims did not join him, however, and in
a skirmish with some of the railroad men be re-
mained master of the field, but was finally driven back
into the armoury, which he loopholed and barricaded.
He defended tie, armoury suocessfuily until the
arrival of militia from all parte of the country, and of
marines foto Waslungtoa. He was then summoned
to surrender, refused to do ma and the door being
bunt open, he and his surviving followers—only two
oat of seventeen—were captured, Brown himself
being I, idly wounded. One or two of his adherents,
who did not succeed in entering the armoury with
him. nude their escape, and are still at large.
Ter adair has excited profound ionisation, and, let
toe add. profound consternation at the South. The
sermey with which the plot was brought to maturity,
the large quantity of arms and ammunition which
Brown had collected, the facility with which he
surprised the village arid seized the armoury, the
desperate tenacity with vs hich beheld it,the resolution
dieplayed by all hie followers from first to last, end
more teas all. Brows'. dauntless bearing since his
capture. the lofty tone of moral superiority which
he sesomse over his captors, have made a profound
inipeoatio on the Southeru people. They have long
been ie the habit of accusing the abolitionists if
tampering with the heroes, and instigating them
to fight or re ea t, hat it was always supposed to be
in an anderhand sneaking way. 'the popular notice
Of an 'hole emelt mad* him above all things •
coward. But here is at least small taste of senile
war, se ivredly began by this detested crew, and
what 111121G11, 0: men honey find them to be ? Why.
fifteen of them suffice to raise the whole state of
Virsnuie into wild atfnght, to call out al its militia,
to anew feelerel troop. trim the capital, to seize on an
&malty, sad defend it for two days, and when it
was at last stormed by an overwhelming fens, thir-
teen of the's p enema are found to have died at
their posts, ride to hand ; two only came oat alive
these desperateiy wounded and glorying in their
crime. It it no wonder if the South feels that an
abyss has opened at their feet. They first resorted
to physical force as • means of extending slavery ia
Kansas, emitting oar ndently on Northern penile-
uniity. Bat the fi4'cting had not gone on very
till the crust of peac,fal habits wore off the Yankee.,
and the old se hiaie,f, pray ing, unconquerable puritan
hunt oat. The Swath, es we know, finding they
had raised a legion of devils, quitted the field and
oohed far peace ; but, when Yeekess once begin to
fight. it grows on them, and they were not now dis-
posed to cry quits so easily. So the war has been
carted into the enemy's territory. The damage
done is to be awe vary trifling. Oaly half-a-dozen
negroes joined Brown's enterprise, bat it is acknow-
ledged that this in mainly to be ascribed to his having
chosen a bad scene of action. In that part of Vir-
ginia the negroes are few in number, and • large
number of them house servants, and the farm com-
paratively mall. Had he throws himself into the
iicitton state., amongst the great plantation', where
a theesend blocks often toil for a single owner—
s antaised by hard work, exposure, and the overseer's
lash—and offered then' arms and bid them follow
aim. no man dare to say he would have been crushed
without untold hereon. The panic his mad titian
has spread proves in what horrible insecurity men
dwell south of Mason and Dixon's line, what
a flaming sward hangs suspended over the whole
ahem region, and how deeply the white population
feel. its danger.
I du not defend, and no one can defend, Brown'.
agond..ier. ',lrmo', had it even half succeeded,
clued only have bred massacre and desolation. If
the Southerners had themselves failed to restore
ord.--end my firm belief is that if a general negro
in.u-rec'ion ever doe* take place they will fail—the
North would be compelled, if only for humauitra
sake. toetep in and quell tie revolt. If the condition
of the Weeks is ever to be really improved, it must
he peacefully and gradually. Bat in spite of all this,
no nee can see a grey-headed man, who has loot five
aoss in the mum of freedom, step in, with the
last survivor of has family by his side between the
slave and his master, and with his thirteen other
cam paithas bid defiance to a whole state in the Immo
cf the Lord of Hats, without more or less admira-
tion. 'Dien is something grand in the old fellow's
readier, and those here at the North who most con-
demn him, acknowledge him to be well worthy, if
111: .`r a better, of • more hopeful cause, and of &hap-
pier tate than that which new awaits him.

ItILICAN SYMPATIIV WITH LADY FRANKLIN..-or
At • watt:et d "al Kozo Mnourneac Aawatka in New
Toon. ea the tVlit alt., reonlutano were &dotal, ',oaring
OW Mellott wympony to Lwly Franklin, and imprenstog
eYrir edtoirati..e..4 acurnat of bee dawontd Ow* sad tin
trwl.,lty wkien el e ante ranee. d M Insperabls Inteson.
rut sad reinertsi &Lwt to an I. widelt se Maw lasideed
ltrw. t net a• a belaukt sad loan-eleint toreeed Wert yet be
rota aon to low—a et' watch, Unmet sow disappoinind
and nblitorstwl, Is. wit the plearaling erannsiatins Ud 115
chert.twd seta Yr aaly ,wad fens an manse at lino
to rtes; rents, shoo a all efts be J.s.d, red when
tare to to Arctic mike, anti wbarn mows esd toe as,
seisms." s Ira eploAated to alleallatett• the
teroNt'on In Led) Frishha, dtr,ced to the tare of Lod
Jetta &.N

WOOLWICH, Nov. 7.
COAST B1110.1)11 OF ARTILLIBILL—The officers
gemmed" to this asw force on Friday hat Were thit day
ordered to be stationed as follows —The Tower, Captain
1111irrery ; Ireland, Captains W. Henry sod Ilandyeide,
sad Lfiellegemat M'Altarey ; West Dittrict, Captain Ireland,
Liestesanta Nettle and Thomson; South Fret District,
Captain. 'Mackenzie and Sweeny, Lieutenant itl.Gillivray ;
North Britoil', Captain Elhott ; South West District, Lieu-
tenant Yhilhps ; Headquarters. Maier Campbell, Lieutenant
111611 Adjutant Cols, sad Lieutenant and Quartermaster
Andersiti.

An order arrived et Woolwich this day postponing the
departure of the ArUilary forts, for Chloe until Wednesday
wit, al the &MOM, uYortatuouth, to not ready for the em-
barkation.

A return hSB bees ordered of all the me mom at the
Mama ready fur immediate ehipamt to Colas.

CHATHAM, Nov. 7.
It is understood that the authorities at the Horse
Gusrds lan decided on not dempetching eny more re-
inforcerneste from this gerrieon to India daring the present
year, It conesquvoce of the favourable and pacific news re-
ceived from the Three Presidencies by the test mad. Re-
cruiting is still to be proceeded with for those depots the
service companies of which are below their required streeg'h,
and the detachments for those regiments will be despatched
to India during the siosidug spring.

LIVERPOOL RIFLE AND ARTILLERY BRIGADIL.—
Yesterday a public meeting, to inaugurate a rids and artillery
briesde, wee held in the Town-hall ; the mayor, W. Preece,
Eel., in the chair. Mr. J. B. Cooper read • report, the
adoption of which was moved by Mr. Evart, M.P., who re-
marked that he was not an slarmiet, but at the mune time he
believed it was most desirable that this movement should be
taken cep in such • way se to put the country tam • thorough
Mate of Internal el, fence. Mr. William Brown, who se-
conded Um resolution, pointed out the facility with which,
by mamas of fist-bottomed boatel and In fuggy weather,
se mewl might be landed upon our curate, end
drew hem this an argument in favour of • cow-
ed efficient system of rifle and artillery defence.
Ilr J. B. Moors moved the appointment of an horiceary
tmanciL He went back to the year 1804, and showed that
than an army of 410,000 volunteers, 100,000 militm, and
90,000 milers, was mind, and surely we could far awed
this now, if the national spirit were fairly aroused. Mr. G.
H. W , M.P., mereded the resolution, welch wee
oaßraail adepts& Am executive committee, to cab
the
add aseeseary
nom errempriseste, wee appointed, with power to
to their ber.