The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-11 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKET&

-THIS DAY.

800.111.—Thena; kat continues to was, a very firm ap-
pearance ; the small public sales of forelen are going off at
pranoas rates. Helloed lumps, fair to fine, 625. to Gls.
Correa.—The public sales an programing at tally pre-
vious rates.
Tris.—A large baldness was again done yesterday in
Consols from le. ld. to la. 3d. and tie article generally has
great confidence.
RICII.-1,800 bags very good Bengal offered and bought
in at 13.. ed.
Covvoss —3OO bales Tinuevolly offend in pub!ia sale ; 50
sold at 50., the remainder bought in at 41d. to 6d.
Soo° doer sold at 18s., sago purl 31.. to 31.. 6d., small
25a 6d. to 27a . _ . . _

CASSIA LIONIk Sad at a detains dolma 6d. ; lower tl
pod sold 975. to 102..
Jura sold from 161. to 21i.
In other &Welts 110 material alteration.

TALLOW MARILKL—THIB DAY.
The market is steady, with not mach doing. Town
fellow I. quoted 68e. nett sash; Potent:own Y. C., on the
s'et, 69..34. ; all this math, 68e. 9d. to 691.; Jemmy to
Much, 69e.
SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—THIS DAY.

Mr. B. J. Davis reports trade without alteration.
Prime meadow bay, 68s. to 755. ; superior ditto, 80s. to 881. ;
inferior ditto, 60s. to 601. ; rowan, 60s. to 205.; Moyer,
701. to 1055.; straw, 24e. to 29e.

ENFORCEMENT or THE TREATY or Penis.— At
the meeting of the Sheffield towcconneil yesterday (Wed-
nesday) it was resolved, on the motion of Mr. Councillor
Broadbent, seconded by Mr. Councillor Sisson, to present
an address to her Majesty praying for the strict forcement
of the Treaty of Paris.
THE CABE or ARCHDEACON DENISON.—We under-
stand that Archdeacon Denisoo, acting on the advice of his
counsel, Mr. Hugh Hill, QC., will apply to the Court of
Gases'. Bench at the commencement of seat term for a
mandamus to compel the Dean of Arches to entertain his
appeal against the Bath judgment.—Guardon.
No MORE ,GRETNA GREEN MARRIAGES.—At the
sad of the present month Gretna-green marriages, and
border marriages, will be prevented. By as set of last ses-
sion It is provided that, after the 31st December, no irrupt-
, lar marriage coetractedia Scotland by declaration, &anew-
. lodgment, or ceremony, shall be valid, unless one of the
parties bad, at the data thereof, his or her usual place of
residence there, or had lived in Scotland for twenty•one
days next preceding such marriage.
THE AMERICAN MAILS.—LIVERPOOL, WEDNES•
DAY.—The United States mail steamship Baltic, Captain
June, Comstock, sailed from the Kersey at 10 o'clock this
forenoon, with the usual mails for the United States, .16 pas-
sengers, and a very 101 l cargo of merchandise on freight.
The royal mail steamship Europa, Captain Leitch, will carry
the malls to New York on Saturday morning; letters fot
which must be posted here before S am. on that day.
EAST LANCASHIRE RAILWAY.—Mr. SMithetn, the
general manager of this railway, writes us that the para-
graph which has this week appeared is most of the London
and provincial papers, headed Another Fraud by a Hail.
way Clerk," contains gross misrepresentations. The foots
are that John Johnson, late stall= master of the East
Lancashire Company at Ormskirk, was, in September lasts
discovered to have embezzled a sum of about 291. He was
then brought before the magistrate. at Bury, and was
committed to take his trial at the October Quarter Sessions
at Salford. Bail was taken for his appearance. He afters
wards absconded, end hat not since been heard of. Jolley=
on his appointment gave, through the British Oderatitees
Society, the security invariably required from every servant
who has charge of money, and the Bust Lancashire Com-
pany will not less one penny by his defalcation,.
()PEEING OF THE GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY.—
For a week Montreal has been gay with festive mirth and
brilliant crowds. The weather during the railway celebra-
tion was delightful, and on the whole we have every rea-
son to congratulate ourselves ea having realised a great
nieces.. Nothing of the kind of equal magnitude, or so
brilliantly nexissful, has taken place on this continent
Immix, a made sad e half of tables, bountifully covered
with every delicacy,
r,tich 4,000 guests were entertained.
When " 0:d me the Qaeen sung, and the whole
crowd, Amerieeas as well as Canadians, jOined enthniittj
telly in the chores, the effect was most magnificent and
thrilling, and will be long remembered by those who took
put In it. In additioa to the guests, at least 10,000 .r eon.
ton visited the city on the occasion, The town was
thronged as at a fair dialog the whole week.—Montreal
correspondent (Canadian News).
MISTAKING A SIGNAL.—The Malta Times of /N.
comber 2, says :—" On Wednesday morning last, during a
strong norto-weeterly breeze, the signal-man at the tele-
graph station at Sebum., telegraphed to the Palace tower
that a brig, anchored to the north-east of Selmone,
required assistance from Valetta. The stesm. tug
Dragon, having on board Bub-Inspector of Marine
Polies, L. Aloisto, immediately steamed elf to her
assistance, followed by the steam-tag Bulldog, and
H.R. steamers Harpy and Centaur. On approaching
the brg, the following colloquy tcok place :—" Good
miming Captain." "Good moralog."—" Where i'o yon
hail from ? ' "From Shields."—" What's your name ? "
" Mildon, English brig."—" Where are you lest from ? "
6. 8.4..0,.."—" What are you laden with ? " Grain,
for Cork or Fahnouth."—" Wait did you put in here
for ? " " Because I Iled the place. Don't von
want our assistance ? " "No : lam going to din-
ner; good day."—The people on board the steamers
upon this, of course, looked very foolish; but
there was no help for it, but to return. The affair was
not exactly a boas, but arose from a mistake on the part of
the signal-map, who seeing the brig paying out cable be-
lieved she was going ashore. The cost of coal expended by
the four steamers in this trip must have amounted, we are
informed, to at least between twenty and thirty pounds
sterling. The story has occasioned a good laugh, wh
it his been told.

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111 E FAIR SEX AND THEIR DIET.—We are not
of the number of those who think that the fair sex ought to
subsist, like Peris, upon odours and dew. We like to nee
the blushing maiden beside us exhibit a entail' degree of
friandise, and show a healthful appetite, corresponding to
the brilliant colour of her cheeks. It is a mere delusion to
suppoic that a ball or sJitie affmd the best opportunities of
snaking love. An adroit cavalier will make more items-
sion upon the virgin heart, between soup and dessert, than
he can hope to effect in fifty plunging po:kae. We are a
dining nation; and, at dinner, the fittest onalitirs of the
teat and intellect are instinctively eabibltad. We do not
like to are a young lady ignore her food, or turn from the
proffored wing of chicken, albeit with an air of the prettiest
disgust. That abeam to us et least, winders sulpicion of
previous banquete—of surreptitieue lunthroas—of forenoon
indulgences io cakes and hot jelly, it may be with a fi moor
of maraschino. We see at once that there is a falsity in oat
sweet neighbour'. performsace—that she is wing a nut
deliberately studied and conned—and we remember, with a
shudder, the story, in the " Arebais Nights," of the tidy
who r tttt Mud !terself to a few grains of rice at regulated
meal-timer, is order that she might be properly sanitised
for her hidcmis supper with the Ghouls. This is bad enough.
but what shall we say of en undisguised voracious woman t
It is frightful that such a thing should be ; yet. nesertheleas.
we lie tot when we assert its ezistence. Gluttony is not
altogether a Male tie; it an be found in the female. Bole
oft.■ have wr behrld in the Perk carriages rolling by, con-
taiolog tautens women, bunting with plethora, in whose
rubicund countenances the awlel signs of habitual hot
luncheons appeared! Are they to be pint(' / Yet but
their husbands are more pitiable still. I, or wo cannot con-
ceive anything more wretched and deplorable than the MS
of a man who, after his day's work in the City or at chain-
brie, returns home with a freshened appetite, and seats him-
self at table with a few friends whom he proposes hospit►bly
to entertain—when, opposite him, the partner of his couch.
the once slim and elegent Laura Matilda, site in mate
obesity, her perception dulled by satiety, and a sullen
morn upon her heavy lip—when Brown, and Jones, and
Smith, the dearest friends of his soul, vainly wail bar with
Threadneedle jokes, and the lut pungent:lee of the Xi-
chauge—when even Bosh, the wit of the club, who has been
know. to extort a grin from a red-tapist, sttrosits hi. (foci-
ciliation in vain !—Suciwoon's Maouins, for Decem-
ber.