The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-01 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND HAREEM

MINCINO-LANE.—(THIB DAY.)
Bross.—The market continues inactive, but prices are
autaltered to day.
Comm remise firm.

COCOA has sold with sp'rit. Grenada sold at 595. to 6..t5.,
which was a considerable advance.
TEA remains quiet, in the faos of the large public sales to
contincnoe to-morrow.
Rl:M.—Jamaica sold at 3e. 101, which shows a decline of
2d.

lime low ; white Engel 6014 e 101.
SALTPETRE coetinn• a dell of wile.
Markets seserally dull to-dey.

TALLOW MARKET.-z(THIS DAT.)

The market is firm. Petersburg Y.C. ea duo spot is'quotttl
604.3 d. to 60s. sd. ; March. 60s. 3d. to 50s. GI.; Apt.' to
J ens, 665. ; O•t. to NO, 535. 50.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
(THIS DAY.)

We are not vary largely supplied with beasts, yet it is
dißi-
cult to idea a clearance. Prices on the averses are shoot
the seine as on Monday. The demand for sheep is very mail;
prices ars rather lower, and several remain nomad. Calves
.re not quite so dear al of late. Oar foreign supply consists
of 70 beasts, 600 sheep, sod 11l calves. The number of
witch cows is 1.52. _ _

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Sam accts. lientooli— 4 6 0 Not 1
.1,3hl 114
.::brel4
les tilion.lioras.. 4 4 8 Mk -wool ...... 6 2 5 4
Illsand tumult) barb— 3 4 u Do. de
Oshas
I A 8 BIM IA 000000 wanly 4 4 4 A
6148 ~. 4 5 0 )00. do. ahem
Not EMS a hat 9.red. 5 0 8 Lamb. ...... ...
31.00.
146. at met. 021: Bb4lo sod Zomba 3.377: O&M. 143:
P 14%

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
Trade fair ; prioce without alteration. Prime meadow
bay, 70a. to 76e.; impartor ditto. 781. ea KW.; roams, 46e. to
60a.; clover, old, 92a. 6d. to 106 e.; ditto sew, wooed cut,
766. to 8:34. ; straw, 25a. to Ms.

. LOlll3 MACALILAT.—A desire laving been very
generally expreared that the essays contributed by Lord
Macaulay to Knight's Quarterly Magazine, and essays in
the Adissburgli Review which have no. been reprinted in the
oollected,edidoe of big Essays, should be made more acatissitio
to the public, it hos been decided to collect and publish
them. To thew will be added hie blooraphies of
Atterbury, Bunyan, Goldsmith, Johnson, and Pitt, which
originally appeared in the "Proycloprelie Britennica."
Benda. these essays, it it well known that there are varbus
' pieree of poetry in %nights Quarterly Migazine, as well as
' others existing onl= mannecrpt in the kende of private per-
'
sour. Thew will bet °Dented ant printed unite:sully with the
" Woof Aaoient Rome." Theseld isoellanies, with the Critics(
and Historian Brays, will form • complete edition of Lord
' Macenlay's mtwellansons works. With regard to Lord
' Mamoday's " History of England," it has bean a. extalnad
' that some por.ion of an Intended fifth volume has been left
in manuscript; but cirenmetanose will prtvent any early
publication.—Loegenan's Metes on Books for March,
lOURNILYMIN Beffillte.---Of the bread eaten in
' London • large proportion comes handled very. often, afro
trodden with bare feet after long fermentation in such dean
as thew. Of barna' men only about fourtri n in o hundrsd
hays a look of health, while of carpenters, who also work in-
' doors, seventy. two in a hundred are robust. Among bak .re•
journeymen no lees than seventy in a hundred are found to
complain of positive disease. " I have met," says • Met-
• cheater surgeon, " with more than twice as many as sof
. disease among the bakers as among all the other artisans put
together, the number of men in each 0068 being Ole
vieit from a deputation of journeymen the tame WlO6OOll says:
r -" Thry came to me in a body late in the evening, and on
' entering the waiting-room the effect was startling—so many
shrunken, pale, anxious countermine, combined with the
ghastly looks of same of them, end their dusty habiliments,
' it seemed more like • visit from the tenants of the tomb than
' from what ought to have been hearty, sonsd-oonstitutioned
' men." A journeyman bakes is wandered to be used up at
' the see of forty. ear Me Yew Bound.
WRITER AND linanan.—An immense deal de-
pends, in the case of quiet and not Er Want writing, which
yet eon some thought,upon the surroundings amid which it Is
read. And the essay writer, as he traces his succemive
lines, hes in his mind's eye some ideal reader readiag his
away In Nome ideal place and time. But in his cal,:ulatbis
in them respects, the emsaytet is no doubt often sadly mis-
taken. RIM lea great sdventage which one has in witting
a sermon, as eampared with writing ea eery. In written.
your sermon yen have your cangretados before year mental
view. You have before you the tine and place where it is to
pit:be a
Pgauhe
you pidgin.. You e t
Wa ye n u rte hl
icthhuerlcaoasPu andrtasagmctb.'t of the P
con-
gregation: you iostinctively recognise the hour of the day at
which you will give out your text and begin ycur diesourse
you maintain intuitively and involuntarily a wets= keeping
between what you write and all these attendant eircum-
steams. Bat the essayist writes for people be hes never
men : who will real his esray in chambers unknown to hs :
in comfortable easy chairs by warm fires: on say
chain with no arms In cold corners: in lonely
lodgings amid a great shouting of little children : with
the accompaniment of a stupid old woman talkieg on in •
heel-levied : with their hard hats on their heeds in it.
readinproorns of royal exchange*, sth.steamr, and philoso-
phical Institutions in a great hurry, and standing: quite
leisurely and relining beside a window that looks oat on
evergreens sad roses : betide a window, seldom cleaned, ttsii
commeads • slushy street, damming with Its brown, half-
melted snow, How can yofi adapt yourself to all th, se
different people and their different circumstances? Tte
material which snits one will 120 i suit the meet. Ito
essay gullet to be reed after dinner will not do for reading
after breakfast. That which is intended fee • man, testing
and pensive, when the day's work is cart, would be meet
incompatible wi'h the few minutes for which the bray, rare-
gotta men takes up the =urethra at 9.60 a.m., while waiting
for the oonveyence whi.,l it to come at 10, and convey him
Mins office or his chambers.-10raur's Magazine, for March.