The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-06 00:00:00

TALLOW MARKET.-THIS DAT.

The market le steady at the following quotations .
Petersburg Y.C. on the spot, 54e. 9d.; April to Junta
53e. 9d. ; July to August, 62a. 9d. ; Oot. to Dee., Hs. Is
62e. M.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—TIIIB DA.T.
Yr. E. J. Davis reports trade without altsratiou. Prism
!endow bay, 706. to 755. ; superior do., 78.. to 855.; kris-
rior do., 50s. to dds. ; rowan, 60.. to 606 ; Glover, 86s.
to 1004. ; 'sound cut, 70s. to 886.; straw, 241. to 30s.

THE BALLOT.—The friends of the ballot intend
giving, at Freemaeons Tavern, on Wednesday, the 14th
hut, a rake, to William Nicholson, Es q., bite first mini seer
of Victoria, in Anetralia, where he introduced voting ley
ballot. and thus became the founder of that system in the
British dominions,. The Hon. F. H. Berkeley, M.P., here
preside; and Lord Goderich, Sir Arthur Hasa
17:117d to
Bart., Sr De Lacy Evans, General Thompson, and
other well-known friends of the ballot, are expected to he
'resent.
The Hot DUTY MOVEMENT.—It will be remem-
bered that after the iaterview of the deputation from the Ex-
cise Hop Duty Reveal Association with the Chancellor el
the Exchequer on Tuesday week, a meeting was held at the
King's At Westminster, at which it was resolved that
the members for East Sussex be requested immediately te
place on the books of the House of Commons notice of •
motion for the repeal of the above duty. Lettere, however,
have been received from thaw hon. gew !amen, in which
they state their opinion that after the very favourable ee-
ception given by Mr. Disraeli to the memorial of the pianism
and his promise that it should receive hie amen and Weave
consideration, it would be uncourtorms end impolitic to mei-
cipate his financial statement by any such motion se est
suggested. The resolution, therefore, will doubtless net be
acted upon.—South Restores Onette.
LAMENTABLE E X HIBMON OF lONORANCE.—At
the Skipton Magistrates' Court, on Saturday last, a yaw
man, named Knowles, 23 years of age, wee called for the
defence in an afiniation case from that village. On interim(
the witness-box, he seised hold of • small testament fee the
purpose of being sworn, when the following interrogation
were elicited by the bench : Doyen know what that is (OWS-
leg to the Testament) P—lt's a Bible. Row do you know
'Co. I've see won afore. Have you ever heard of Uri
New Testament P—Nay. Do you know whet it is f
Nay. Have you ever been to church I—Sometimes, In the
afternoon, What do they do at church f —Reed sornelltiag.
Do you know what f—Nay. What will be the easassmesee
if you don't speak the truth 7—Don't know what ye MM.
What will God do to you if you don't speak the trathf—
Don't know. Shall you be polished P—Nay. How kw(
have you lived at Barnoldewlck P—Sixteen years. Hew yea
a father and mother P—l've a mother; father died two yews
ego. Of course the attorney declined to examine such •
witases.—Leeds Mercury.
INDLAN LANGUAGES AND THE ROMAN CRA-
kac-ria —Until the period of the elphabetical °solemnesss
held at the residence of Chevalier Emmen, before he left this
country, we believed that the strange sounds of Indian km-
=.3could not be represented by our own alphabet. We
became satisfied that they could; and the difference is
the facility of learning to reed and write, and in the coat of
printing, is each as to justify every attempt to substitute
this character for the native ones. The Hindus have ow-
fared a great benefit on Europe by supplanting the old system
of arithmetical notation in clumsy -IL man lettere, by their
own simple and bmutifttl invention of what wecell the Arable
numerals. To us it would be tenible to think of keepiag
accounts in the same numbers aa we put upon the dials Of eur
clocks. And yet that wee the only mabod our forefathers
had before the Hindu invention was adopted. [What • dlf-
haws between 777 and "metier'', or. between 333 and
me:xi:llf] As they have conferred tlni benefit on no, we
may slowly, and in the course of centuries, confer upon them
• similar one, in a small manageable alphabet, sadly writhe),
and cheaply printid.-72. London Review for April.
OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVERHAMPTON
RAILWAT.—The receipts of this company, including the
Stoarbridge Extension Canal, for the fortnight fading 28th
March, hats been 7,6841. 11s. 64., eaglet those for the
corresponding period of 1857 amounted to 7.6021. Ids. Pd.,
and the expenditure, also including that of the Stourbridge
Extension Canal, 3,7811. 6s. B,L, being at the rate el
49 84 per cent, whilst those for the oorreepondiog period of
1857 amounted to 3,7911. 17a. Bd., or at the rate of 49.87
per cent. The sun of 38,4721. Oa lid., being reeripte hr
the first Si. fortnights and three days of the half-yew, edged
to the 7,6841. Ile. 6d. ae above, mattes • teal nioldPe
46,0661. 12e. 46., as 'safest 47,7951. 4a. 11d. fur the mineepead-
inn Ste fortnights and to days of the previous year. And the
sum of 19,3.561. 15s. 10d., bg expenses for the Met lye
fortnights and three days of the half-year, added la the
9,7811. 6e. 84. as above, makes • total expenditure of
23,1382. le. 64., being at the rate of 60.01 per cent, se
Mahal 23.7761. lie. 2d. foe the ostresponding five fatale&
and four days of the previous rot, or at the rate of 10.74
per cent.