The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-05 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKET&

LIVERPOOL COTTON AND CORN MARKETS.
(THIS DAY.)
(sT ELECTRIC AND INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH.)
MON OCR OWN CORREMPORDENT. )

Corrom—klarket very dull, and prices are fully Jd
below Friday's. Sales about 4,000 bales.
CUILI4.—The market was well attended. Wheat quiet
and rather irregular in price. Flour dull, and lid. lower.
Beans rather cheaper. Oats and oatmeal support late
rates. Indian corn in moderate demand, at 44.0. to 40s. lid.
for mixed.
M INCING-LANE. —(THIB DAY. )
. _ . .

Scala--The market has opened firmly at the full
prices of last week. The private salmi include brown and
grainy Mauritius at 31s. to Ms.; Penang, 31s. fid. Refined—
dried goods are in more request. Pieces sell freely.
Corms.—A fair business continues to be transacted at
steady prices.
Tea.—The public sales are progressing without material
change. Privately the market is very quiet.
Rum and Iticr..—No sales reported.
SPICEM.-200 bags of Zanzibar cloves sold at 3 yJ., and
small panel of white pepppper at NJ.
Corron.—Owing to Aliens from America, and the dull
state of the Manchester markets, there is increased heavi-
ness. Prices now show a decline of Id. over those of last
week.

I.TPETRE.-400 bags sold for cash at 19s. CA. refraction
41, being the former value.

TALLOW MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

The market is quiet, at the following prices:—Town
tallow, 44a. • Petersburg Y.C., on the spot, 445. to 44a.
34.; March, 446. to 444.31. ;June, 445. 64.; October to
December, 4,1 e. sellers.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
Ur. Charles James Easton reports trade very slew a$
last day's prices, viz..—Prime clover, from 100 s. to 110 s. ;
inferior ditto, SOs. to 925. 6d. ; prime second cut clover,
90e. to 955. ; inferior ditto, 60s. to 70s. ; prime meadow
hay, 75a. to 86s. ; inferior ditto, bin' . to firia.; straw,
36.. to 465.

WELLS CATHEDRAL. —At Wells a deed of archi-
tectural boldness has been dome which would entitle the
doer thereof (name gone now) & the Victoria Cross. When
he (for it was one man) piled up the central tower of
Wells, he found that his genius had carried him too far,
and that his delicate shafts would not bear the superin-
eumbent mass; the pillars began to bulge and crack, time
was short, and his building would soon be down. What
did he do He supplemented audacity by • fresh auda-
city. He buttressed up his pillars, and, in doing so, re-
produced the arch overhead ; not upright, you will under-
stand, but inverted—upside down— ectiril as if in water:
and there it stands to this day ! For the rest : the inte-
rior of Wells has been scraped and restored in a style
which has been approved of by the Saturday Review, and
so, I suppose, may pass muster. The service is
mast exquisitely done ; the mere chanting simply
divine ; the anthem, Boyce's second anthem from
Job; the tall young tenor warming to his work,
and if not understanding the glorious poetry, at
feast able to appreciate the glorious music, bringing echoes
back from the ribbed stone, each one of which was worth
an unjudgeable quantity. The organist WAS a king
among organists, sighing and fluting up aloft
there, with • full appreciation of his young sur-
plieed friend (possibly his pupil), who was ra-
vishing our ears below. Through the whole of it one
bad only to cast one's eyes aloft to see the stone shafts
knitting themselves together over head, a little, a very
little jewelled by decoration. Just above, where we sat.
there was a corbel of torquoise, very modest, yet very
brilliant ; to our left, behind the altar, was the expanse of
the Lady Chapel, a great Gothic efflorescence of pale yellow
stone, getting a. chaste richness of colour from windows of
painted glass at different angles. The sermon was. I regret
to say, a great disappointment, It is somewhat unfair to
notice this, however. because, unless one hunts good
preachers about, one has little chance of bearing one good
sermon in the year. Only, after the wonderful perfection
of the other details of the service, that sermon did rather
jar on one.—Macarillan's Ma9a:ine for February.