The Express.
London, England, 1856-06-17 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
(BS NAONNTIO TZLIORLPZ.)
Mote OVA OWN 001132111•ONDINT.)
We had a very fair attendance at gambit this day, siti a
steady demand at the following advent:win prime :
Wheat we Id. per bushel; doer, 6d. per barrel, or la
per sack; eau, 2d. per bushel ; os•msal, 6d. per load ; and
Indieu earn, 2s. per v. dearer than as Met Tuesday. Other
things uaehanged.
The weather le beautifel.

MINCING-LANE.-(THIS DAY.)
Stroao.—Tire lug. wanaaatioce which have taken plies
is this article since the dose of the market ow Friday, hag
gives greet oasittlenee w the trade, and the large publie
sales are leering off very .Gaddy. Reflood grocery !nape
frogs ME 61. to 695.

Corm.—The publie PIM ire progreming without any
material alteration.
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Tut.—Speculators have bowfin grams at fall prices.
Cosmos quoted doll clods, at 9d. to 91d.
Rica.—Last week's prices hays beau paid in public sale
to day. Beagal sold at 10s. to lls.; Carolias sold at 34e.
Russ le steady. Fine Jamaica sold at 41. 41. to 4s. 6i
Proof Leeward' quoted firs, at 2.. 24.
Scion are wltiost alwration.
Sateriseao has been sold to a limited eaten; at the full
Woes of last .net.
COTTON.-1500 Wes sold.
I. other articles ao material altaratios.
_ TALLOW MARKEL—THIS DAT.

The Roast continuos steady at the following quotations.
tit:—Tows tallow, 465. nett ash; Pstenburn Y.Q.
the spot, 465. 6d. to 9d. ; Jana, 46e. 6d.; Oet. to Doe.,
465. 641

HAY MARKET.-THIS DAY.

B. J. Davis reports Mute without altsvatles.
Prima wswidow bay, 965. to 1061.; superior, 110 a. ha
1205.; inferior, 60s. to 801. ; new, 701. to 905.; »woe,
701. to 901.; clover. 100 s. to 1351.; stored eat, 94a. S.
1291.; straw, 271 to 301.

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE.
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HAMPTON.—THIS DAT.
CRT simenuo TiLIOILLPI.)
Atutreata.—Prince of Oran, Lord Nelson , Midis
Noce, The Spaniard, Winklield,ge Boer, Queen Meb f.
Olympus, Tournament, Goodoline, Maid of As Mon, New
B4btos, Ultra, Bishop of Otnabors, Middlotos, Little
Toni.

BOUND DUES.

I'ARY

-(THIS DAT.)

The select committee on the Sound buss held their
lint open mania/4 e►t. mewing, is room No. 17 i t►e
member, eowpwieg the sosawittee beim, as follows, vim. :
Mr. C. P. Villiers (chairman), the Chasten°, of t►e Ne-
i chequer, Mr. Disraeli, Mr. Newdegate, Mr. Cardwell,
Lord Stanley, Mr. Mitchell, Vistosuit Cholas', Mr.
Meer Gabon, Mr. BrealsrMeors, Mr. Hatt, Mr. H.
Phillinere, Mr. Dam. and Mr. Dawes.
The first mimosa *sambaed was—

Mr. Edgar Bowrinf, registrar to the Board of Trade, who
said that be could give information upon the rat jest by
virtue of infcrcastion gathered In hie of ldal capacity. The
dues had been levied u far back as 600 years, w►a the
Dsaa held both sides of the Channel. In 1864
the Hvglien, who were regarded as • ne•-
privileged nation, paid an ad valorem duty of 1 per mat
upon goods generally, and 31 per cleat upon wine. In
1646 a treaty wee made with Swedes, and another whit
Holland, by which a reduction was sands in the dull.
applicable to all privilited crantriee. In 1670 the Treaty tit
Copenhagen wee sande, between England and Dootnerk
by which the treaty of 1846 was extended I.
England. In 1814 a treaty between England and
Sweden wreognited the right to levy Sound dues on Sweden.
The Soma dues were not referred to at ell in the treaty
of Yienca. Before 1841, the old duty of 1 per oak ka/
been exceeded, and in that year • treaty was concluded
by which the dale were reduced to their old amounts.

After some farther evident)* from this witnees the com-
mittee adjourned.

This morning a return was issued of the number
of prisons in Grant Britain and Ireland in which wane
committed for criminal offences an maned, and slowing
the mantbar of Nampo which ham taken plus during As
last du pun.

Thus mocaiog the home amounts of the India Corn.
palsy were hosed, pansaat to the 3 and 4 William IV..
e. 83.

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This morning 'fru issued s return of all the Britisk
sass that bent at the siege of Sebastopol and the bombard-
ment of Sweaborg, sheering Ms description sod &Mee Of
es& gas, the number of rounds fired, when the inn be
eine astolvicaable, and the nppeeed atom of the benathig.
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It appears by a return issued this morning that
daring the lut three yogis the growl camber of cooveyanees
of land regietued in Ireland was 7,072 ; of that somber la

2,281 seaveyeame, the coadderation was seder 6001., is
362 the emaideration wee 6081., Lad under 1,0001. ; in 3.781
so ormaidention was mentioned, and in 191 the onsiders-
lion was 54., or 105., or for " Love sad affeetioa."
ROCIETi POE THE PROPAGATION OP THE GOO-
pin —The 166th anniversary of this venerable society was
celebrated to-lay in Bt. Pears Cathedral, which wee
crowded with a fashionable congregatioo. Under the di-
mama of Mr. Goes, the orgativr, there wee a very @Motive
mesical ureter., in which the choirs of her Mojr sty 'a Chapel
Royal, Bt. Paul's, and Westmiester Atbey, assisted. As
eloquent sermon wes preached by the Lord Bishop of
Chester.
RZTECTION OF THE PCIIIII,IC LIBRARIES ACT no
Si. Partdaaa.—Last amnia( a peblie meeting of the ma-
mma of St. Pancras, convened pursuant to reqnnitioti,
was bold in the Vestry-boll, Kins'e-rood, Camden-tows, to
take tato consideratioa the propriety of istrodedieg this
Public Libreria. Aot into the parish—Mr. Chatcheardea
Streets* tKM the chair. 31,. Kenny proposed a aortae is
favour of the adoptioe of the sot, which was met by ea
amendment by Kr. ROM, that it would not be advisable as
segment the, at presser, too heavy rites. The amendment
was supported by Mr. Aldia, Mr. Hall, and some othen ;
and opposed by Mr. Harry Chester, J.P., the Rev. F. D.
Maurice, and Mr. Bainbridge. Os a divirion there wee •
large mid nity &Orin the introdnetioa of the act into dm
perish. A vote of thinks to Mr. Churchwarden &metes
terminated the procredings.
THE ()KEST ROBBERY OF GOLD—CAPTURE OP
TES Ts tives.—A few days since a diecovesy of a mast ea-
teasiv• robbtry t f gold and silver (amountiog to nearly
11,000/.) wee made at the Bank of Ragland. Several bean,
supposed to contain optic, had attired from Bouthamptee,
by the Solent, West India snow r, and wen °cosigned foe
security to the custody of the Beak authorities. Oa endor-
sors( emir& atioa the discovery wee made that the whole
of the precious metal bat been &hemmed, and that Met
red lamps of lead had been substitated. The boss* were
from different merehmts at New Granada, sad appeared to
have been shipped at Cs/therms vs booed the steam
skip abovenanted for Reeked. Yesterday nodes was
posted it Lloyd's, for the information of the underwriters,
that the police at Carthogena, after the &perinea of the
swan. had received information of the martyry, sad kid
taken into eutody the thieves, with dent 120 lbs. weight
of go'd (6,0004) is their possemioo, a portico of the pleader.
The parties implicated are said to be the carrion who
brought the buses to Carthegeos from the interior of the
cosetry. Other parties were glee summed, whose apples
henna, up to the last advises, bad sot been acoomplia.
ATTEMPT= SUICIDE.—This morning a n apt °tibia
yosag wears& easel Cite:lotto Willett, aged 31 your, who
raided in street. Borough, was brought to Hi her
Wad, Gey'smHop toI with her thre.t frigbtfally cat.
Thu sonata of Mew when she lived, on giiieg down
stairs, diseemeelidl Mit es the floor, weltering in a pool of
bleed, midge iseieeded from a rub she had ii Lotted thee
alffb essaui the wiadpipe. At the bola tel gamiest
meow* mm memleired, bat from the avers nature of the
vow& NMI Min Si. eatertelsed of her recovery.

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