The Express.
London, England, 1858-10-12 00:00:00

TALLOW MARKET.-THIS DAT.

The market is quiet. Subjoined are the quotations :
Town tallow, 60s. 3& nett cash ; Petersburg T. C. on the
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Spot, 60s. • Wass to Number, 49s 84.; ditto, sigandely,
496.9 d. to 50s. ; January is /larch, 60s.

SMITHFIELD RAY MARKET.—TIDB DAY.
Yr. J. B. Davis reporta a madams supply. Prime
meadow hay, 655. to 76a.; superior, do., 80s. to
86a.; inf..rior do., 60.. to 70a.: rowan. 60a. to 70a.; clover,
old, 90.. to 106 s; woad eat, 70s. to 90a. ; straw, 245. to 27..

M. Donati, the discoverer of the comet now visible
In the heavens, hes been appointed awiatent metronomr of
the Imperial Maas= of Ffoenoe.

It appears that the 'Aram transport, which was
conveying his Exoelleacy Ferukh Khan and his suite from
Constantinople, wu overtaken in the Black Sea by a terrible
storm, and was for some hours in great danger. At lug they
sneoreded in putting in at Sinope. They took to sea the
following day, and on the 4th inst. the mini reached
Tivbisond.

THE COUNTESS OF DUNRAVEN AND HER TR-
WANTRT.—On Saturday last the numerous tenantry on the
Dunreven estates in Glamarganshire were invited .by their
landlady, the venerable end popedar dowser countess, to the
cantle. and, with a large array of the gentry and principal
Inhabitants of the district, partook of her ladyship's prelim
hospitality and gemeroeity. The guests were permitted to
roam ad libitum through the grounds, conservator's., arid
noble pile of buildings. A band of music wee in attendance,
and the countess arid members of her family mixed and con-
versed with the throng with the moat unresteainsd affability.
Dinner was subsequently retired, and among the ladies sad
gentlemen who eat down with the termite, were the Dow-
ager Countess of Dunraven, the Connie.* of Deleeuw Ludy
Augusta and the Honourable blies Quin. the Earl of
Dturraven, the Honourable Wyndham Quin, with several
clergymen. IJpon the minor.' of the cloth, "The Health
of herldejeety" having been drunk, the health of theCountems
was given, to which her ladyship responded, impressingimon
the cempany many good 'therms u regarded both them-
selves and families. The Earl of Dunraven's health having
been Fain, hie lordship returned ebonite, and in the courea
of his rhetrvations adverted to the good feeling which should
exist between landlord end teouit and urged upon the latter
the necessity of improvements attempted to be nude in theu
condition. The festivities were continued to a late hour,
ample entertainment being provided for the female and
juvenile portion of the guests.
EXTRAORDINARY BIRD REARING: SOlllO time ago
we noticed some experiments mode in the rearing of birds
bjhltfichr.t3hien`Cowmuisbui,sbiirdupf.an.rdacier,
ofSao ttrl-nstreet,brinith...fe
teealt of
greendn.thee, Enure, chatEnchee, titlarks., and white-
:At:ell bee':;P4riobfad3Bmenbliblerealrehidbetc°innnotiurFigehunbeynnpl trIth
tehisexttwraoomrdilnaryntha
be the canaries. It may be worth while to enumerate them.
lu the month of June the canaries—the male a green and
the female • piebald bird—were caged for the parp:se of
breeding. The female laid five eggs, end while she wee
sitting a greenfinch egg sae introduced into the rest. All
of these were hatched, and the day after incubation was
nonaplnted Eve grey linnets, also newly hatched, were put
kite the cage, in their own BM. Next day a newly-batched
*set of fear chaffinches was also introduced, sad afterward.
Sns diderent nests, consisting el six titlark", sot white-
, Aroma, three rkylerks, three winobare, and three black-
eage. While rearing the last of these nest.., the female
canary again laid and hatchet four eggs, thus making 38
young birds brought up by the pair of canaries. It
noticed that most of thus birds are soft-billed, same
natural food la small insects, but they took quite kindly to
the seeds upon which they awe fed by their asthma, msg-
ffM . The pair of canaries fed at one ekes 21 rung
dlen,and rarer had lens than 18 making demands upon their
core; and while the female wee hatching her second nest,
she continued to feed the birds that =aphid the other mot
/ender .11e. eery.
CRYSTAL PALACE.—ONE SHILLING PAT.—MOR-
IDAY, OCT. 11.—AMMS. MM. .o:k patll'eat, 4,030; aito by
sun= tchata, 683; total Meteors, 4,613.