The Express.
London, England, 1856-02-28 00:00:00

TALLOW MARKET.-THIS DAY.

The watkot Is firot tc•loy at de following qaotottoot,
viz ;—Tows Tallow, 61.. actual% ; Petonbarg Y. C.. oa
,Its soot, 695.; Februmn to 11szsb, Hs 61. to 680. 91.;
Musa to April, 64.. to 640. 6d.

HAY MARKET.-THIS DAY.

Mr. Z. I. Davie rapists the *only shover; trade with-
out situation. Prime msaiow hi', 100 e. t. Wt.; saw
prior ditto, lIOs. to 116 e.; inferior dais, 70s. to Mc;
owie, 70.. to 901.; clover, 100 s. to 1301 ; wood eat,
100.. to 120 r.; straw, 24a. t, 28s.

SOUTH EASTERN RAILWAY.-(THIS DA r.)

The usual half-yearly general meeting of the pro-
prienrs of the Bouth•Bsstern Railway was held thy after-
noon at the Bridge House Hotel, Foothwsri: t'w lion.
Jamas Brno, M.P , chairman of the board of directors, in
the chair.

Ti e report, whicb hu already beau published, was takes
as read.

The Quoit:mow, in moving the adottion of the report,
dwelt upon the solid polities of the mono, and remarked
that the teal% still kept op, having yielded such a Mora
as would 'cable them to declare an improriod dividend of
' 13s. 3d. per share, and still leave a balance if 6,9180 to be
united over. Owing to the improvemects whisk had
been made in the thancialdetartmeat of the compaay ; the
dirictors would he enabled to pay the dividend, if declared.
this day woes, votes ...nth earlier than in former years
in the history of the conapsay. Tee line was la excollotat
' condition, while, in order to ensure its proper working,
the direction hod spit:tinted Mr. Eborall, lest of the
But Lancashire Railway, to be general manager.
The company wee on the best of to eons with their neigh-
bour, the London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway,
and were this you in the agreeable pleition cf having so
bile to promote in parliament, although they had bee&
forced to lodge • petition against the Batt Rent schen', as
an agreseioa upon their property
Mr. CAIRN c eml lotted that the engiceer's retort had RCA
bees tubliol ed, and asked if the locomotive and cur:age
departments bad made retorts.
The CHAIRMAN replied in the affirmative, end they
should be read if the meetisg wished it. ("Nit, t o.")
Kr. CAIRN romerked !het the HONIG wars pat down at
80,0001. Woe ti at en situ ate r the an ual volution ?
The CHAIRMAN said they tad been taken at their led
price. Ti,. stonkilept r had returned the oe'uation.
Mr. Caton—How heath* valuation been SIM rt tised-4,g
actin! measu-ement or otherwise? Did you take the
MARRS to a-cortain if there are 80,0000 worth of eons ac-
tually lames ?
The CZAIRICAN said yes, en hountery bad been taken.
Mr. Cams asked two nacre questions. Had the espendi-
tare of the y: a-, on capital aectosat, 'nude I the pasha-
easat.re estimate ? Seundly : Is it tea* that a chug' was
wade against a director of basing allowed his use to he
introvert, used in Wert nee to a nature= for supplies, sad,
if 112, tat ft been investioted ?
The CHAIRMAN replied that the rapuditere tat not
ruched she estimate. With r lord to the el coad gentian
no each charge hat been sada
Captain W (a dines r) said such as impatatioa
had bees male &gainer him, bet it was wholly devoid of
truth. lie would rather cut his right hand off than do
anohinot derogatory to a uilor. (Cheers.)
Mr. Cam) said, looking it the large incseate is the
traffic, the dividend was unsatiefactory, end he moved, as
go addition to the motion for the adoption if the repon—
" That is conumence of the omission of the me-
talloids of the leading &Seers of the compsay,
la their asverol deportment., and scenes that, notwith-
standing a reseletioa of the beard anaoaaeod in Marsh,
1852, that oils of the directors should asassify retire, their
Inffsenceb4B boon used to return ell tea retiring directors,
and so to prevent the feu espressios of the
ordain, of the shareholders, this miens; &clans
its direat'sf.ctioa with the c modest of the board an these poe-
tical to, and calls upon it to act on the resolution announced
la Much, 1862, by requiring one at the /class director to
withdraw his claim for n-eleetlea." _

MAXWILL second. d the aceeemest, which vv.
rise to a long disceesion, bat alticately it was rejected by a
large za•jarity, wed the original resolution was carried.
the dividend was then theedered.

The elevates of Mr. Key as a director was roaarmed, sad
Mr. Williams re•eleeted as audit w.
Thaake •ere tLea voted to the chain= sad directors,
sad the meeting terniested.

•
The rooms of Mlle. Folio:jet, one of the principal
Moen-warehous is is Paris, have bees thronged dusieg the
Met few days by ladies desiroas of lupe othig the plasmas
I repared for the first Imperial infest. Although the ladles
. of the Court seem to take It for grouted that a boy will be
bore, two se's of clothes are prepared ready fcr sitter arena
Blue ribbars are wed for the boy's, red for Busier..
SAL. or COPYRIGUTS.—Yesterday Mr. Hodgson
pet up for sale, et his new audios mops, c-raer c f Fleet-
strut and Chase •ry lass, the valsab'e c ,nyr.ghts of several
of ear popular astuors ; also about 60,000 volomse is cloth
and quires, sib Ire:uded Bentley'. Miscellany,"
"niers'. Preach Revniat'or," serious standard
moods sad r =tome. There was a fsll attendee er of the
meat eminent publish. rs and books Alen., not only frau all
parts of the me., piles, bet also from Manchester, Lh.r-
pwl, wed ether mugs towns of tlse noway, mese
whoa there was a serf active competition for the
4wopeety. There wore 761 lots, of which the biker-
Wr 'lnched the peen attachsd s—Madatne Ale Steel's
Carlow " 211.; Giris'a "Comore Come," 61 gui-
west; liansou's Betrothed," 16 subsea, Lover's
Rory OW. re," 140/. ; Cartels Chester's "B. Brae,.•"
land "Lute ef a Soldier," 190 gainees ; Ingoldaby's "Ma
Coeds Nichols'," 95 guineas ; Baslais " Smuggler,"
281.1 es ; Cereals Mts.. chas " Stories of Waterloo, The
Biros's," " fleet" 011,11 ors.," and " Captaiu Blake,"
5661,; six works of Theodore Hook, 468 iota's, ; (intros's
" Barr e / f Brume," "Jags/line of Rollaud" sad
" Legeads cf CAI Rhint," 108 guine.e• Captain Trelaw-
se, 's " Yosager £oe," 42/. Ledy BeAt's "Tremlyss,"
211.; Rd. ewer h's Melee," 106 Rainiest Mrs. Tooth:nee'.
"Vicar of Wrezbill," and "The Wieow Borsehy," 1041. ;
Hood's " Tylnoy Hall." 121 gainers; Whiteh. t's
"Richard Bsyste," 14'.; Albert Smith's "Ecattergnod
rawly," " Adventn es of 1"r. Leibury," sad "The
Karelian's' /trios 11 cr.," 6361.; " Rosana
sad Re I, y," 22/ ; Lr.gh Hunt's "R• perieem sof • Osol
Chaplain, '46 guineas, Re. The por r y resilient above
11,0004.