The Express.
London, England, 1859-03-12 00:00:00

LUOAL 111412.11 ltaLRlll7B.

lairmuroot. Matra 11.—Tbe market gra Eat In the mktlio of the
dm mad declined f percent.. tut liaprovel la the anconeoit, and
dosed will l per can. lowa then the Eta prices. Hirkenbeals,
qty 1-ISlamibunn, 111. i—Oalatonless. I—Carta end Wichita/.
119 /-11 ant tawatita, 11 1-11 lancenblre, td 4—" heat
Reases.l/9 I—Lareattlre Torlahha I—Laden end Noah
View% 961 I—gbefelad, 381 h —llna Wash. ha
11—hawlega. fa i —York and Neva 70* 1-Inedi Nodhern.
47 I—Dovers.l2 Nil Data th• 611.41 1 Trent at Co-
1111—aria1 Weems, 10_111,
li nunsonas. Naas 11.—Mee Wait* balsas la the market to-
day want long aoclo In rains gibers the au:acacia waning/ad.
bat geotactic.' amnia were Me w. beam sad North e awns.
domed at 914 to Nes ilts.-111dIsadt at 100, to 10I—North &arra& at
11 as. dielyald—tireht Walesa at 611 to 60.
Magmata. Naas 11.—The manta was lot throughout the day.
end prices dead at OWb the bast Pala. /Maack. 1101—Union
Beak 1 6f—Devagh 1111—Trank6 1 18.16—intto i Dad.
Deal,
.. 119—L ed.,
ondon; sad
111DiNahsdh Mild% 111—Natan
Cowie.

To-night (Saturday), at the Assembly Roomt and
new Town Hall, Nowcactle-npon•Tyne, the wcrkpeople of
Armstrong end Co. the engine-builders, are to bo sump-
tuously entertained by their cmphyers in celebration
of the dleenction which has recently been conterred upon the
sealer partner by the crown; and he, in turn, is shortly to be
similarly wctertalocl by Ms fallow-townsmen.

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The Bangkok (Siam) prices current are now regu-
larly published in the HOW Kong newipsters. A rice mill
has just been meted at Bangkok for the purpose of preparing
rice for shipmost for San Francisco. and is likely to do
serious damage to a lucrative branch of trade at Hong
1171. William Smith O'Brien met with a warm and
enthusiastic reception on landing la New York from the
stemma Prince Albert.
THE VACANT OFFICE OF RADCLIFFE OBSERVER.
—The news of several gentlemen eminent in the science of
astronomy are already mentioned fir the vacancy at the
Radcliffe Observatory, caused by the death of Mr. Johnson.
Amongst them are those of 1&. Pogroo, of the Hartwell
Observatory, ant Kr. Donkia, &villan Professor of Astro-
nomy in the univeirity of Oxford. The former gentleman
was for a pert.d of mean years Mr.Johneon's chief svist-
sat, and is conswinently well gnallard to carry out lbw. Im-
portant scientific works left in an unfinished atire.—Oxford
Chronic*.
WHISPERING IN ST. PAUL'S.—At last week's
ordinary olivine of the Royal Institute dametece, Mr.
Parris, who renmited the panties in the of St. Pour.,
said be bad remarked, from bis experience of that St.
that he could be hand distinctly at the dis'ance of 220 feet,
when be was immediately usher the eye of the dome. Any per-
son standing on • particular part of the pavement below, at
a right murk. or 'Neely at • right angle from where hie
voice would suite the roof, could heir evris a whisper with
aLtlitioe grea...tesuit
adtiti.n7rtnese.
Ile believed
bate
ifeaZ lieurhad.
Pinola hebaaldic.konever-whe
tried the experiment. As he moved to • different part of the
dame, the mem below would have to move to
a different pwchn, but in the same angle ; when this
became tor yro,t, the voice sea lout. He had often tried the
experiment, and found that the reverberations in a dome
were always repeated thirty-two Lime, meetly cor-
responding with the plate of the conipaea. It
was the same at the Dolomites (London), where he had
tried it with thseute, voles, ant every meant,. He had tried
experiments in the cams way in St. Pad's, upon the level of
the organ, and shwa and beneath it ; and he found invariably
that the sound was always beet heard at the point opposite to
where the voice bad struck. It was precisely the same with
the voice ascending so descending ; In fact, his attention had
been celled to the matter by hswieg a man below sek anotber
be 6d. ' • be exclaimed : —r' Take are, hail givieg you a bad
one ;" and the man Immediately tented round, surprised se
to where the voice could be coming from.—Builder.
RAILWAY TRAFFIC.—The traffic returns of rail-
=ye ha the United Kingdom for the week ending March 5,
amounted to 431.8681., and for the corresponding period et
last year to 383,4661., showing en Increase of 48,400/. The
gran receipts en the eight railways having their termini Is
the nestrogolts amounted for the week ending se above to
latesu. ; and for the corresponding week of bat yew to
166,1761, showing an Increase of 23,6891. The furrows on
the Eastern Counties railway amounted to 1,620!.; en
the Greet We.tern, to 4,6211 ; on the London and North
Wasters, to 7,199/. • ea the • London and Blackwell, to
3611. • on the London, Brighton, and South Coast, to
4,20fi. • 0111 the London and South Western. to 3,8171. ;
end on 'the Beath Eastern, to 3,6711.: total, 25,2981. Bat
from this mast be dedorted 1,609 L thedeorease an the Great
' Northern, leaving the increase es above, 23,6891. The re-
ceipts as the other Mass la the United Kingdom aumereted
to 26.1,0011, and for the =responding =log of mg,
to 227, showing an ismer of 24,7111. in the re-
ceipts ease lines; which, added te the increase on
the metropolitan lino, makes the tend increase 48,4001.
se wagered with the oorreeponallog week al 1838.