The Express.
London, England, 1856-07-31 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

DAY.)

51113/./..—Tee decline of le. 61. on lest week's prime,
which was estatiliebed at the close of the market yesterday,
has sot Missed buyers to come its, and the public sales
are progresdng very heavily to-day, and it is difficult to
quote prices. Refined brown lamps have declined to
661. 6d. without finding buyer,.
Col,lll.—Tke patio sales are again going off well, and
prises me now 6d. to le. higher than last week.
Tau.—We are without transactions of importance to
report to-day.
Comte —A very large business has been done, say
1,600 bales sold at a abode odium.
Rica.-1,700 begs Assuan sold in public sale at 9s. 6d.
to 10a.
Rum —Thema:kid ressaios firm._ _

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Ntraarz or Bona.-600 bags retraction were offered
In public sale, and bought la at 17.. 6d.
Is other articles no material alteratloc.

DAY.

The tallow mishit is steady with bat little doing.
The annezed ate the quotations :—Town tallow 6la. nett
cub; Petenburo Y.C. on the spot, 625.; Aeguet sad
September, 61s. 6d. ; Oct. and Dee., 60s. 6d.

SMITHFIELD HAY MAHKET.—THIS DAY.
Mr. B. J. Davis reports a fall supply ; trade slow • prism
without situation. Prima meadow hay, 90s. to 100 s.; su-
perior. 110 a. to 1205.; inferior, 60a. to 701. ; sew. 60a.
to 90a.; rowan, 60s. to 80s.; °lover, old, IN.. to 1305.;
woad cat, 90s. to 1165.; new, 60a to 1001.; straw, We. bir
Us.

• PAB6INO A FORGED BANN NOTE AT LONDON.
sums.—Jobs Stacey sad William Simeon, alia Ger rge
Flames, were charged at the Brighton borough beach
yesterday, with uttering a forged 51. Bask of England note,
o seder the following circumstances. Stephen Richnrd Jens*,
of a., Baker'sbuildinge, Liverpool- , City, deposed—
; lam a booking clerk in the second-class office or the Los.
doe-bridge Station. I booked second-class for the sight
o'clock train this morning to Brighton. At a few minable
before eight o'elo:k the prisoner* came to the pay-window
sod Stacey asked which was the brat way to Grodwood.
I replied Brighton. Stacey then asked If they could
get on to Goodwood by the eight train. I looked
at the list and told him perhaps ;bey might.
Stacey mid he would take the chance of cychiog
the special tan o'clock train from Brighton. Both primates
asked several qur ethane, and Stacey then Lock two second-
clue tickets to Brighton, saying that he did not want raters
tickets, as he did not think they sr oald rotors that day.
Steely gave me the 51. note produced. and I gave him is
change tour +resigns and tour shillinge. The other pri-
soner was all the time standing at Stacey's ride. The note
practises to he a Bank of Ilog:and note. The doors were
being eked, and the porter waiting to hurry these two pas-
sengers. I did not like the colour of the note, and showed
it to another clerk. As hour afterwards I took the o..te to
the Bank of England, end a clerk stamped it " forged."
Toe note Reader eel was the only one "(took by that train. The
tickets issued were marked 656 and 657. 1 then cane, d a
telegraphic message to be sent to Brighton. Mr. Wgge,
the stipendiary magistrate, said he mast commit the pri-
soners to the Southwark Police Court. Psisoaen were Um
removed.—Brighton Gusts.
In consequence of the prevalence of cholera at
Teneriffe, the Niver, which brought the last West Africa
mails, did not take any mail from thence. It is reported
that toe average deaths at Madeira was twenty-seven peg
diem.
The Elberfeld Gazette states that for the Met 20
years no such favourable harvest as tee present one has hem
Area in the provinces of Saxony.
We read in the China Mail: " The theatrical cons.
any lately in bong Kong have moved to Canton, wane
heir performsnoes are watched by the local government
with more then ordinary vigilance. The destnetios of
Fthshan, in 1854, is believed to have originated on Me
inflammatory addresses of some of the players, and in Mee.
sequence orly fifteen companies are now licensed Are the
drama in the provisoes of Hwang,' and Kwasitsag—bas
half the number Seamed when the government keel lees%
apprehend."
A letter from St. Petersburg says : " Three Asiatics
divide at this moment the attention of to capital; see le a
Japanese, whom Admiral Poutistthe brought ae ea later-
Freer; the other is a Chinese, professor of hie own IMO
'sage at the University in Yuan for the Eastern knee ea.
a• establishment sow transferred _Alei bet ; ar.d the tklyd is •
Lean or Baddlitiniest, who Is prifessor of Meal* at th
ease ealverrity.
An " Eton dinner • was to be given at Bengal MI
the 4th. at the Government Moue, by the Govan et Ger
ral of India. -

1.-1 i: prise of corn of all kinds has fallen *midge-
ably throaghost Arida within the last fortnight.