The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-20 00:00:00

TALLOW MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

The tallow market ia quiet. Town Tallow, 455. 3d.;
Petersburg Y.C. on the spot, 45*. old, 455. 3d. new ; Octo-
ber to December, 455. 3d ; December, 46a. 3d.; January,
465. 6d.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
(THIS DAY.)
We have a very large increase in the supply of beasts,
sad a very dull trade. Prices are lower for all descrip-
tions, and a large proportion unsold. There area few
more sheep. There is scarcely any business transacted,
and our quotations may be said to be almost nominal.
Calves also are more plentiful, and prices are lower. Our
foreign rapply consists of 1,020 beasts, 4,005 sheep, 250
calves, and 145 pigs.
Per stone of 81De. ad.a d. Per done of Sib..a d. a 4
Bed Scots, Herefds 5 4 6 6 Best Das& lif-rodeSh 0 0 0 0
Best Short-horns 6 0 6 4 Bes.Lo 11. w ools .... 6 0 5 4
Second quaL beasts 3 8 4 0 Do. do. Shorn.... 0 00 •
elves
Pigs
Best Drs&Tllt-breds 6 8 6 0 lambs
Beads at market, 1.340: sheep and lambs, 7,880; calves, 590;
pigs, 210

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.

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Mr. Charles James Easton reports trade slow at the fol-
lowing prices :—Prime new clover, from 90s. to 1005. ;
inferior, GOs. to 80s. ; prime new hay, from 756. to 85s. ;
inferior ditto, from 405. to 656.

The government of Chili has purchased several
heavy guns without carriages from the state of Massachu-
setts, paying for them 600,000 dots. The ordnance in-
cludes four 450-pounder, six 300-pounder, and two 68-
pounder Blakely guns, the remainder being naval cannon
of not very heavy calibre. The Blakely guns were bought
during the war by Massachusetts, to protect Boston Har-
bour against tho attacks of Confederate vessels. The
Chilian government is now having carriages built in this
country upon which to mount these guns.
Dr. Ndlaton has just given 750,000 francs for
the Malnoue estate, situated between Paris and Meaux.
Malnoue was formerly a celebrated abbey of Benedictine
friars, and was not only the most ancient in France, but
in the whole of Europe, having been founded by a holy
knight, De Furcy by name, who flourished in the seventh
century. The village is decidedly the most picturesque in
the department of Seine-et-Marne, and although it con-
tains but 330 inhabitants, it is the object of many an ex-
cursion on account of the scenery around it.

The "obituary" of the Bombay papers includes
Major Macdonald, her Majesty's 77th Regiment, Rev. A.
H. Norman, M.A., Bengal Ecclesiastical Establishment •
and Mn. Colonel Crawley.

Some attention is excited by the probability of
petroleum springs being discovered in the Punjaub. Appl%
cations have been made to government for a ten years'
lease of the land.

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The Rajah of Kolapoor, a day or two before his
death, last month, yielding to the persuasion of those about
him, allowed himself and wives to be weighed with rupees,
the amount to be distributed to the Brahmins. The Rajah
weighed only Rs. 4,000, while his two wives weighed
Rs. 5,000 each, making in all Rs. 14,000.
The Delhi Gazette says :—" We hear from Sree-
nagger, Kashmeer, that his Highness the Maharaja is
about once more to enter the bonds of wedlock. The
intended bride is the daughter of a retainer of the house
of Chum* and the bridal procession has reached Verney,
on the eastern confines of the valley. The Raja of Kapoor.
thrills is invited to the ceremony, and on his arrival near
Sreenuggur from the west, the Chumba evtige
comes in from the east. Considerable excitement is said
to prevail amongst the Hindoo population in Kashmeer by
the recent slaughter, by order, of a number of sheep and
buffaloes. The skins of the former are required for the
clothing of the Giljit troops, the hides of the latter to make
rafts for passing the army across the rivers. The flesh
in both instances was sold to tho Mahomedans, who no
doubt enjoyed the opportunity of such a relish."

The Indian Mirror, representing the advanced
Brahmista, has for some time been complaining of the
conservative party, who adhere to the caste and idolatrous
practices which they publicly denounce, and which
are forbidden by the rules of the Somaj. The
writer deism that, as at meant conducted. the
Somaj is " • living illustration of a policy of
clishononrable hypocrisy, unmanly cowardice, and
unpardonable inconsistency. It does not make the renun-
ciation of idolatry a matter of conscience, but keeps it an
open question for prudence to decide according to an esti-
mate of probable advantages and disadvantages in each
case. It has converted the religion of God into a creed of
the world, and the universal church of mankind into a
sectarian Hindu church. What is high as heaven buboes
made 'of the earth earthy what is vast as humanity is
cribbed sad sonaned in time sad apnea."