The Express.
London, England, 1858-08-02 00:00:00

LATEST PER AFRICA.

A. the Africa did not leave New York until the li
afternoon of the 21st July, we have received by her
the following later intelligence :
Naw Yoax, Inuit 21, Two p.m.—The screw steam-
ship Kangaroo, from Liverpool, arrived here this
morning. Our stock market to-day is extremely dull
and prices have a drooping tendency. Sales of Illinois
Central shares have been made at 75 ; ditto, Bonds,
861 ; New York Central shares, t 45 ; and Erie., 17/
sterling. Exchange closes firmly at 110. A large
business has been done for the Africa. Money is
abundant, and rates easy. Flour is in very light
supply, and prices have advanced this morning 10 to
16 cents, per barrel. Wheat is also scarce, and
prices to-day are nominally two cents, per bushel
higher. Indian corn very scarce, and firmer. Pro-
visions are quiet and steady. Sugars are very firm.
Coffee dull.

CHARLESTOWN, JULY 2).-Our cotton market
advanced jc. to.day, with sales of 1,700 bales.
New ORLRANS, JULY 20.—Oar cotton market
has been stiffer toelay, but not portably higher.
Bales small. Freights to Liverpool easier.

THE NUSSULNANI IN ALIUC4NDII4I.

(From tlto Naha Time of July 27.)

It iv said that bar Majesty's despatch-boat Caradoc,
Commander Buckle, which arrived on Saturday lard from
Alexandria, brought despatches from the English Cos-
set, urgently denunding a man-of-wee might be tent I.
that poet, owing to the agitation existing amongst
tan Massulmana, which, it wee apprehended, might
break out in the approaching Rhamadan, in some
set of violence against the Christians, which a knowledge of
the premoos of • British men-of-war would tend to avert.
The some Haar Princess Royal was Immediately despatched
to the East; but whether she has proceeded to Alexandria,
or, es Is slated by some, has orders to touch at Candle,
to elder an the Vulture, which is mid to have proceeded
Whir, we are maid@ to thy. A letter dated ltitit July,
froth Alexandria, has been published is Ma ta, stating that
a telegraphic deepstch had brett received from Suez, to the
elfeet that an express courier had reached Suez from Tor,
bringing intelligence that for.y boats, each containing twenty-
re armed 14.00114. !resides many inhabitants of Jeddah, had
left for does; that this intelligeare had created much alarm
ameaget the European residents; end that precautionary
themes' had br en taken by the author :des. The Caradoc left
Alexandria two days after the data of this letter, but we
understand the authorities here bare received no intima-
tba the intelligence, which, there fa every reason to
suppose, they would have, were it authentic. A }attar re-
ceived by the Caradoc arnoutioes that three floasulman
priests had been arrested at Cairo by order of the Viceroy, for
preechiug war to the knife to Christians. It le laid that
arms and gunpowder have been discovered is a mosque.
On Sunday the Marlborough (dig of Vice-Admiral Fan-
thaw.), and the Centurion joined the Conqueror, which wet
cr &rem off the Weed. The three ships a tme close off the
port yetheday main; but this noceatag were no longer in
sight.

THE POLICE .11ID TEE SUNRAI LIME IV

PATTICOAr-LaNs.

Yesterday the City and Metropolitan Police, acting
under nW•al orders, took a first and most decisive step
toward. putting as end to the Sunday trading in Petticoat-
lane, and judging from the remelt of their labours it seems
probable, it the magfetrscy and parochial authorities properly
support them, that the grossly iniquitous and immoralpro-
osedings which have for years past taken place every Smear
day will sot much longer exist to scandalise this peat Chris-
tie' community. To place the trade carried on in this lore it y
upon the same footing ss that transacted upon a Sunday
nasalise, in some of the poorer districta of the
metropolis, and speak of it as part of the Sunday
trading question, Is an absurdity, and only proves that those
who do so are igisrant of what is molly the state of affairs in
this notorious neighbourhood. In those poor distriots the
trade is Girded on in some open thoroughfare and the trete
confined to the commonest requirements for food and some
few articles of clothing. Few, If any, houses of refreshment
are epee, and the facility for selling spirit. in unlicensed
holies is not great, added to which business ends as soon as
ohs:eh-time oommesoss. In Petticoat-lane it is quite the
revs s. Speaking of Petticoat-lane, or the Lane; as It Is
usually called, It Is a non of above 600 wretched houses, built
in close courts and alleys, yards, and up gateways, where babe-
tatices would behest sepeetad. But very lewd then houses
are without the means of allowing those who enter them
one way and require to leave by soother from doings". Not
aancrchiot`i.themerfrza he sitireTruiethorou same k=4
is an enclosed area, called Phil's Exchange," presided over
by an ex-pugilist, who ads or did act, as money-taker. This
is private property, where stalls are erelted, and the privi-
lege of trading within its precincts is subjected to a
charge varying from ow halfpeeny to threepence. It is, in
fact, the Ca court of .the pleas, and, beteg private pro-
perty, the police cannot interfere. Throughout the whole of
the above-mentioned places what Is called Reg-fair is tar-
ried on. To outward appestats . the principal deal-
ing is in clothing, old and sew, but scarcely
• smoke pp+~sses at the Cant& Criminal and Court
of Quarter Semitic but what the evidence of the polic9
proves that a large 'portion of the property which is daily
Mahn is there disposed of. A walk through the place, and
a casual look at the property there offered for sale, is enough
to show where and how some part of it has been obtained.
Utica one stall an article of jewellery, bearing evidence of
having been forcibly detached from some fastening, and upon
another, _odd volumes of richly bound books in good condi-
SON " Mal. I•dgers with a few pegs cut out sad the covers
defaced where names have been. Here, upon the pavement,
kends, of seta of workmcn's tools; and there, portions
of machinery in good condition, at a price little
exceeding the valusof the metal in which it is mode. This
Is the trade at present carried on in Petticoat-lane, and
upon ft onday the gathering Is unusually great; but as
most of the dealers keep shops or live in the locality,
the polies cannot prevent deaths( is the homes, bat up to
yesterday stalls and shambles used to be erected nadir the
wall of the East India Company's warehouses, whilst the
buss itself used to be tilled with stands, carte, and barrows.
They used to assemble daring the night for the purpose of
obtaining a place, and from that time until late upon Sunday
the place was one scene of confusion and the resort of the
worst characters of the metropolis The nuisance, as for
as the trading in the open street was concerned, had been
stopped by the police, Metropolitan and City, above 100 in
number, most of whom bad been ors duty all eight. A large
reserve of men were also in waiting In case of any ill. but
so systematically sad quietly. ere their movements-made that
no di/turbans. occurred. Notwithstanding this, all the
shops were open In the Lane and Cuter-street, doing
busbies all day. Some intimation of what was about to
take pl co bad evidently got shred, for daring a yards' of
the morning not fewer than 1,000 persona• nearly all of the
worst class of society, were present. The public-houses
were of course closed during the moraine ; but the barbers',
lenimade, and fried-fish shops were full of customers, many
of whom had been 'adulator' in excissable beverages. Nearly
all the leading Hebrew Oedema is Houndsditch had their
shops ckeely shut, and most at them felt very anxious that
Rag-feir as it now exists should be abolished.

The Pent, which has just arrived home with the
India mall, has mode a most extraordinary voyage. She
left Southampton July the 4th, and returned on the 31st ;
lima performing a distance of 6,000 maw, and making Ore
skmges, In 27 days. She ran from tkathatopton to
Gibraltar, a distance of 1,000 mike, In 3 days sad 21
boars ; from Memos she rsu to Idalta, another 1,000 mike, in
days, 12 home; and hem Mahe to Alexandria, also 1,000
ails, la dnye, 19 hove. She arrived at Malts, from
Sentbaseptek at half-pest two on the morning of the 12th.
Thai abs ran a distaste of 2,000 mike fa little more than
'ma Mr.
CITY OP LONDON HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OP
Till Cant, VICIVIIIA•PL/L—The mete from this M-
ilitates show that &nag bat week 896 patients were re-
Smell, et whit It fambir 143 ware new MIS.