The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-09 00:00:00

MINCINO-LANE.-THII4 1 'AY.

SCOAL—The market has opened with a dull appearance
md the public sales are programing heavily. Relined lumps,
ilia to 695.
Correa.-1 700 bags native Ceylon were offered in public
tale, for whic.h full prices were not ~Head, and they ware
bought in at 51s. to 52a. The plantation Ceylon is going off
at about pmvions rates. A cargo of Rio firms sold by pri-
vate contract Oat at 36e. 6d.
=Taat.i-asTh. eA greater ti;Liisporotinlony
sooffwer.edoeinnerablqieusaltmmonawasare
.

ltiCr.-LPrices are fully supported.
SALTPETRE in but limited demand.
Parlint.—A limited business done in Singapore at 44d.
per lb.
Ia other articles a material alteration. Markets gene-
rally have a dull appearance.

TALLOW MARKET (THIS DAT.)
The market la firm at the subjoined quotatioem —Town
tallow 64a. matt cash ; Petersham T.C., re the •ppoot,
ttoo.st). to 9d.; Mar* 66a. 6d.; April to June, 634. 3d. ,
Oat. to Deo., 61s. 9d. to 62a.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—THIS DAY.
lir. 7i I. Davis reports the supply shorter sod trade
brisk, at rather better prioes. Prime wisdom hay, eils. to
725. ; eaperior do., 755. to Ms.; inferior do., 608. to eos. ;
rowels, 60e. to 60 ; clover, 80.. to 100 e. ; eecoad cut, 70e.
8 87s. dd.; straw, 265. to 30..

"No HOUSE" AT MELBOURNE.—LEDHILATIVE
ASSEMBLY, FRIDAY, JAN. 15.—The Speaker took the
chair yesterday afternoon at thirty minutes put four o'clock.
Them were only ten members in attendance, and the hones
was declared adjourned to Tuesday next. This was the
third "no house" during one week—a circumstance un-
precedented in the annals of the Victorian parliament.—
fildbouree Arras.
Yesterday, at the Brabant Court of Assizes,
M. Louis Labsm, editor of the Belgian journal the
//repose, was sentenced to thirteen months' imprisonment
and 1,200 francs fine for " offences against the person of his
Majesty the Emperor of the French."
The annual ball in aid of the French Association
of Dramatic Artists, which took place on Saturday night at
the Theatre de l'OperaComique, Paris, was most numerously
attends', and, contrary to the mud custom, the number of
ladies nearly equalled that of the gentlemen. Nearly all the
prettiest actresses in Paris attended in their most hilliest
toilettes, and seemed to enjoy themselves exceedingly, as
dancing never ceased a moment from eleven o'clock et night
to five in the morning.
THE BERLIN " PUNCH " AND THE MUNICIPAL
Arrnotimas.—A trial has just taken place before the civil
tribunal of Berlin which created considerable amusement.
Some time ago the municipal authorities of Leignits, in
Silesia, issued a circular, calling on the proprietors of houses
in the town to make up a list of all the ' ,omale persons born
in 1838;" and to send them in ; but it was so loosely worded
that in reality it said "Os pesons," not " the list," ought
'to be sent in. On this, the Iladateradateeh, the Berlin
Avid*, published an article in which it ironically requested
the mid municipal authorities "in their profound widom "
to explain "how the male persons born in 1838,"
at Leignits were to be sent in—and after some
plemantries, it told them that lessons in literary
composition might be obtained for • moderate muse
at Berlin. The authorities of Leignitz took great
offence at the article, and caused M. Dohm, the responsible
editor of the Illaddsradateek, to be prosecuted for rt. In
court, after the publication of the article had been proved, it
was contended that as it cast ridicule on the municipality
of Leignitz., it amounted to what the law calls Math of
public authorities." M. Dohm, is his ddenoe argued that
In presenceof such • circular there wasno harm in hie re-
commending the authors of it to take lemons; end
that in speaking of their " profound wisdom,"
which they appeared to think peculiarly offeneive,
he bad committed no offence at all, inasmuch as
he evidently thought them "wondrous wise"- and
was ready to prove that they were so. This mused
much laughter. The tribunal nevertheless condemned him
to pay 10 tinders (37fr. 80c.) fine, and to insert the text of
the judgment in hie journal. It further ordered that the
comes of the number containing the article which had bean
seined should be destroyed.
DISPUTED VALIDITY OF A MARarafte..—The
Tribunal of Boulogne-sur-Mer was lately engsged in herrings
case which excited considerable curiosity. The piddle wire
the Marquis and Marquise de Boiled/guy de C— who applied
to the court for the annulmeat of • marriage cirri
al
their son, M. Albert de Boussigny de C—, with en Bmiti
lady, Miss Baron. The wined for the plaintiffs staked that
the young gentleman had in July last, without the know-
ledge of hts parents, married the lady at Folkestone. The
family of the lady, who had been living at Boulogne, hadfirst
gone to Dover for the purpose of having the ceremony per-
formed, and on the registrar at that town refusing to sanction
it, they had proceeded to Folkestone, where it had taken
place without any previous publication or any of the ordinary
formalities The coaxal at that place had legalised the sig-
natures of the parties, who afterwards returned to France
without the family of the bridegroom being at all aware of
what had taken place. The families kept up the same rela-
tions with each other as had previously existed and there
wee nothing to indicate what had occurred. When at length
the parents of the bridegroom heard of what had occurred,
they immediately applied for the intervention of the law. The
learned gentleman then explained at some length the &lbw-
once which existed in the French and English laws On the
subject of marriage, and contended that as the union
had taken plans without the consent of the pusses of
the gentleman, and without the observance of any of
the formalities required by the French law, the marriage
could not be considered valid. M. Henry, the counsel for
the lady, strongly supported the validity, the marriage
having been contracted openly, and not, therefore, coming
under the appellation of a clendestine act. The fact of the
signature of the parties being attested by the French consul
at Folkestone was, he contended, a enfilcient proof of the
validity of the union, and he could not for • moment bring
himself to suppose that the court would mtertain,the de-
mand for the &liniment. He could, he said, imagine a caw
in which a noble family might seek to break a marriage con-
tracted by one of its members with • person far below him in
rank ; but such not being the case in the present instance,
he confidently relied on the application being dismissed.
The court adjourned the case for • week.—Gslartiam
THE WEATII EA.—Winter has at last come upon
us. The first week in March has been marked by weather,
which, if not more than usually rough and boisterous for the
early part of that month, has partakes at the ems time of
the characteristios which we are wont to associate with De-
cember or January. It has literally been a week of "hail,
rain, mow, and blow." In the early part of last week the
seat and north-east winds were most bitter and cutting. and
made one fully subscribe to the old dktich which toile us
that— . . .

Whet. the skid I. In the gait
Ms wither good for mat. nor beet.
Fortunately, however, the snow which hal heavily on
Tuesday appeared to abate the severity of the wind; and
although attended by some little frost, the weather became
decidedly milder. Since then high winds, with deal and
rain, have followed, and although the wind has' veered
round to north-west and west, and the am ha.
on several days been shining with tall force, the mow
seems still unwilling to take its departure. Our hills
bear traces of the recent fall, and slight mow scuds
occasionally descend. The weather, however, has sot, it
is stated, been serer" enough to do much injury to vege-
tation, except in very exposed and bleak spots. On the con-
trary, the mow hoe to a certain extant sheltered the young
wheat plant, and preserved it from Injury. Of MINS all
vegetation has been checked, anti this has been an avant',"
rather than otherwise. 1.7 p to Christmas the extreme mad-
ness of the season gave an unusual stimulus to vegetation,
but in January and February there was mole or less of heat
and low temperature, which gam a masonshle cheek—and
vegetation conseonently had net mode each proems on the
approach of March as to teed to materiel Injury from the
recant frost and snow. The dins bee new armed, however,
with-
out nude* impatience wish to bid • deal adieu to winter—
swhen we may fairly begin to sot SRO weather, and
weats Erprests.
MODERN CRED01.11"1 A TOWN PRODUCT.
The honest and intelligent countryman under whose roof we
were lodging, fairly turned the tables upon onriefeee. "If
you want instance" of absurd credulity,' he said, it is fn
greet towns, not in the country that you should look for
them. Every new and then in the Penrilh and Carlisle
newspapers, I see some paragraph shout spirit-rapping,'
mediums, and'seen'—l know not what—and edu-
cated gentlewomen, It moms, write books upon such stuff.
Shame upon them I We do perhaps rant and rave • tittle
In this valley of Patterdals, but such gross credulity, such
downright lyieg and deception us muse be going on le Lon-
don and New York, beets all I ever beard or read of." We
had to make the beet defence we could for the cities of Lon-
don and New York, thus compel:deed In the ern of our
host by certain " elegant extracts" he bad ammemtered in
the comers of his Penrith newspaper. We wen glad to
beat • merest from the subject.—Bleelermers Neeezies for
March.
BOW= Kittenrineel Menigtek.—Der=he week
: —Oa
=a7lierTtlythe Throes have been an
and eaterdey daft 21044 ;
OR laday and 'Tuesday fr.4.7.beei eveWmP), I°6 ;
61, Pi 11c, telk
the three students' days (
472 •
Mak OKI thrum:lto Da V.v.—
MENTAL PALM.
658; lies
ass 'wadi, ...deg (Weetwiey).
MONDAT, MAKIN an pepres4
by soma octets, 91N ; 74.5*