The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-15 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKET&

LEEDS CORN MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
(sr TILZOILLPH.)
(Tams OUR MIIN ooaaasivamesv.)
Wheat held for Is. to 2e. per qr. over Friday's priees,bal
business cot large ; barley li. dearer.

MINCING-LAN E. —(THIS DAY.)
SCGAIL—The market has opened firmly, and prices of
brown qualities are firmer. The private sales include 3,000
bags of Manilla muscovado, 275. 3d. ; 1,500 bags Mauri-
tius, Vos. 3d. to 31s. ; 1.000 bags Madras, common jaggery.
25e. od. to 25a. Refined—Dried goods are firm, with a fair
demand ; prices rather dearer.
COFFEE.-1,000 bags of Rio have recently been disposed
of at moderate prices. Colonial descriptions ore firm.
Tr-A.—Business has been done in new Musings at I s. 10d.
to 6d. ; the finer kinds of ICaisows continued in good
request.
Roi.-100 puncheons of Leeward' sold at Is. M. for pale
and brown.
. . .

FRUIT.—The market is steady, but rather quiet.
RICL—The demand continues active; prices have stiff
RR upward tendency. On the spot. 1,500 bags of good
white Bengal sold at Ids. 01. • 1,000 bags Rangoon at Ms.;
and for arrival. LIMO tons ffangoon at 12s. tad. landed ;
and :100 tons Milani at 115. Gd. landed.

SALTPETkt.—Nn sties reported.
CorroN.—The improved demand continue*, and prices
now show an advance of id. per lb. over those of hide,
last.

TALLOW MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
The market is steady. Prices are quoted as follows :
Town tallow, 445. ; Petersburg Y.O. on the spot, old,
; ditto new, 455. lid. ; October to December, 455. lid.;
December, Cw. 94. ; January, 464. 3d.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—(THI 3 DAY.)
Mr. Charles James Easton reports trade sloe at last
day's prices, vi'.:—Prime clover, 90a. to Ma. : in-
ferior ditto, Gas. to 7:".e. ; prime hay, 72a. Gd. to 8416
inferior ditto, s:sa. to ti9a. ; draw, 365. to 425.

From Norfolk, United States, it is announced that
the naval authorities are again making efforts to raise the
sunken Confederate ram Merrimac, which lies in the channel
of Elizabeth River, leading to Norfolk harbour, a serious
obstacle to navigation. All the guns, anchors, chains, and
other loose material, have been removed by the wreckers
employed for the purpose, but the bull has thus far resisted
every effort made either to raise it or break it to pieces.
We read in a Melbourne letter :—" A terrible
disaster has occurred to another legislative celebrity this
month. Mr. ll'Cann, whole unpleasant situa-
tion under committal for forgery I have already described,
has Sind) been tried, and found gailty of feloniously utter-
ing a forged security of stock. The case was one of several
forgeries by the some hand. The sentence of the court
was seven years' imprironment. These who are sensitive
abut the honour of our public UM say, ' If we have our
M'Canns, England has her &alien, her John Dean Paula,
and her Roupella. The consolation is not complete, but is
the best that presents itself.'"
JOHN MITCHEL's OPPORTUNITY.—John Mitchel
announces the publication of a new weekly paper in this
city on the 12th of October. From its name—the !rid
Citkeit—we presume that it is to be devoted to the in-
terests et the Irish people ; but suppose we were to
strike out a new path for Mr. Mitchel by sug-
gestine that as so many of his country ~•cri hays.
been for years past in the enjoyment of good offices there
might be a fair chance for him in the same hne. He can-
not fail to observe that his fellow countrymen, O'Gorman
and O'Reilly and O'Kelly. O'Brennan, O'Lynch, Oghan-
non and O'Brieu. are, or have been, or hope to be,
the possersors of fat office. and large emolu-
ments. Some of these gentlemen have already
held the office of sheriff, the most prottable in the
city, and others of themare candidates for the mum place.
Why not O'Mitchel have a fair chaos*, if he only has the
same genius for getting hold of it' There is a fortune in
one term, and it would be much better than that farm in
Alabama which be once jocularly wished for, but never
got. —Nue York Fero! I, Oat. 1.
WI XL-BI DIMINO EXTRAORDINARY. Some very
curious old paintings were removed from the old 801 l Inn,
Bishopegate, in the rear 1803, and are now in the possession
of Mr. Clark, No. St. Swithin's-lane. They consist of
a view of St. Mark's. Venice. by Cansletti ; a pair, by
Salvator Rose, representing Tobias and the Angel. and
Jonah at Nineveh; and a portrait, by Hy more, of Mr.
Van Horn, a Hamburg merchant, which, from a somewhat
strange history attached to it, on a parchment. is the
most curious, thow2di not the most valuable. This history
is as follows :—" Portrait of Mr. Van Horn, Hawke'
merchant. Belonged to • club called The Amicable So-
ciety,' held at the Bull-inn, Bishopsgste-street, for a
period of 22 years. During the above period ha
t.l drank ~680 battles of wine, which makes '2.973 dozen
and four bottles, averaging at nearly four bottles and
a half per day ; and did not miss drinking the above
quantity but two days—the one of which was the banal
of his wife and the other the marriage of his daughter.
and heed till he was ninety years of age. Painted by Mr.
Hymen, in the year 1743."—Ciry Press.

Drama.

Dt:URY•L%NF.

When Ahlr'N'th Nan represented at this house last
season. the manager very liberally gave Miss Amy Stag-
wick the opportunity ui perfortokigly Macbeth, and,
last night, when the tragedy W:l9 riolu revived, the same
opportunity was given, with equal liberality, to Mrs.
110 .)ha. .4 perfuait.e.'. this
character before in Loudon, and her reputation has been
made in parts requiring a greater exhibition of feminine
:softness. she is deficient in many of the physical requisites
for a great tragic, actress, and, like Miss Helen Faucit, who
represented the same character at the same theatre. her
strength is chieey shown in the more tender portion of
Lady Macbeth'., character—in the gradually increasing
remorse and sorrow after the murder of Duncan. and in
the sleep-walking scene.
Mr. Phelps plays Macbeth three nights a week, and Mr.
Barry Sullivan plays it the other three nights, and the
tragedy is placed on the stage with all the scenic and vocal
accessories that distinguished its production in former
seasons under the same management.