The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-22 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

MINCING-LANG.(THIS DAY.)

Suoan.—The market has been vary quiet today, and
prices are unaltered.
Coll7lls.—Fall prices have been paid foe this artlele to-
day.
Taa.—The demand continues very gcod, and sales have
been made at the extreme prises of yesterday.
RIC. remains unaltered.
BALITZTRI—P6O/11 have been supported.
Eva.—Common leeward, have been sold la. 91d. to
la. 10d. i Damson proof, 2a. Id.
Brien are steady.
In other ardche no material alteration.

TALLOW MARILICT.—cnus DAY.)
Quotation, exhibit httle ohms* elates yesterday, ho; aa
follows —Town tallow, 66a. /sot sot melt ; Petenbang Y.C.
so the spot, 685.; all the month, 67e. Id. to 67e. M., Amery
to March, 67a. to 67e. 3d.; Maze dose, Os. 9d. to 68.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
(THIS DAY.)
. . .

The supply ef both letoTeis and p although not very
large, far exceedsthedroand. ZION lea very &road 'monist of
business transuded in either department sad on the average
at lower rates. The few calves ou offer are sold at Mondays
quotations. Our foreign supply comests of 80 tweets and 440
sheep. The another of much cowls 180.

rue Wes ells.
Sol Game, Betaferele— 4 8 4 0
Rea latoreeera• 4 6 4 10
ananke giaaay boa 4
Oahu. 4a 0 0
no ...... ... 8 4 8
Mot Die RalPorelo 5 e 4
Boole at nolot. :
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0.
1544 Dr •
Boa LersFlAnds
.meei. 4444 4 $ 6-0
Do. de WINS
Ow
de. weed cora, 4 1 4 6
De. Sim
aa4 lamb% 2.750: 044,110: 43

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—(THIS DAY.
Messrs. Doris and Compaq report trade steady, at the
followlag pekes:—Prime mean., hey, 765. to 78a. ; oapatice
ditto. 80s. to 84a.; Warta' ditto, 60s. to 605.; rowan, 40s.
to 66a.; clover, old, 90s. to 100..; new second cat, 68s. to
80s. ; straw, 24a. to 30s.

THE LANDLORD IN BEAK-STREET.—Her husband
he could net be called the landlord, for slis. P. was
manager of the place—hed been, in happier times, capten
or lieutenant In the militia; then of Dies, in Norfolk, of no
proteation ; then of Norwich Castle, a prisoner for debt;
then of Southampton-buildings, Landes, law-writer; then
of the Hom-liestro Cat:adores, in the envies of her Majesty
the Clasen of Portugal, lieutenant and paymastee; then of
Melina-place, St. George's-fields, &c. I forbear to give the
particulars of an existence which a legal biographer has
traced step by step, and which has more than once been the
subject of judicial investigation by certain 00170170i01/011.re
in Linooln'a-inn-fields. Well, Prior, at this time, swim-
ming out of • hundred shipwrecke, lead clambered on to a
lighter, silt were, and was clerk to a coal merchant, by the
river-side. "You 0011COITO, sir," he would say, "my
em-
ploymentis only temporary—the fortune of war, the lornues
of war! ' He smattered words in not r. few foreign lan-
guages. His person wee profusely recited with tedium.
Bearded individuals, padding the muddy hoof in the neigh-
bouring Itegent-strest, would call sometimes of an evening.
and ask for "the captain." He was known at many neigh-
bourior billiard-tables, and, I imagine, not respected.—
Cornhill Magasina.
TRANSPORT SERVICE FOR Csratar.—The Adelaide
screw steamer, 2,060 tone. the-property of Mr. C. H. Stook.
of London, arrived on Tuesday at Woolwich, having berm
chartered by the government to take officers and etorse to
China. This fine vestal is intended to sail on the 31st init.
She is the first ship that has strived at Woolwich out of the
mix tramper' already taken up for this service by govern-
ment. The Adelaide was tendered just one week before Om
wee delivered at Woolwich, having within that time been
Inkiest out of the Victoria Dock been two days in Wigan:We
Dry Dock foe repaireraeseel the government survey, and
bees made completely _ for sea.
THE CONTINENTAL MAILS; DOVER, WEDNESDAY,
Dec. 21 —lt blew a heavy gale last night from the S.S.W..
with squalls of relit mad snow. All the packeta remained It
port until this morning at 7.10, when the Vivid loft for Os-
tend, and the Outline for Calais. with omits sad passeogses.
The Empress also arrived from Cage at 11.45 s.m., and the
Emerald from Ostend this afternoon. The delay is the
arrivals of the mail packets from Celais is owing to a heavy
fall of snow on the line between Parts and Calais, which has
prevented the trains from arriving at their usual hours.
SMART SILAMANBHIP.—The fine ship Lady Ann,
Captain Sinclair, oeleoging to Hears. Dauber and Soo, of
London, which Ida Plymouth Sound July 8, arrived at
Port Adelaide, South Australis, September 30. She
rounded the Caps of Good Hope safely, bet on the 11th of
September, after having prod the Island of St. Paul's.
bets on a S.E. by E. course, with a smart breeze from
W.N.W. a feerhal and unexpected crab occurred. la de.
Northing it, a young officer belonging to the ship rays—
" We lost nearly ell our mute, and yet made the paws in
84 days. The mainmast was carried away amen feet trues
the deck, and the whole lot of it, t4p-gallant nodding sails
and royals (which were est) went overboard together, carry-
ing everything bat foremast and fore topmast, reizeumast
and bowsprit, along with it. We all went to work with
choppers, sus, sad knives. and cleared the main part of the
wreck in twenty minute,. The spars gave her some
tremendous thumps under the gassier, and we thought she
might have been stove in astern, bat she withstood it
heinously." Excepting this disaster, and the loam of •
Danish seaman from the top-gallant yard on the 27ih of
August, the voyage • ppears to Davy been very satisfactory;
all the emigrants, 262, many of whom are young unman
row Ireland, were landed ,ably in the colony.
A numerous and highly influential meeting of
Liverpool merchants and shipowners wee held yesterday at
the Sailors' Home, Liverpool, in support of the claims of the
Society for Missions to Seamen, the object being to attar,
the services of chaplains to visit mown on shipboard and at
their lodgings, and of laymen to improve in various ways
their social condition. At the clure of the meeting Mr.
Rankin promised to contribute 501. re annum for 6 yam,
Mt. Brodtlebank, 501., sad Hr. Bushell, 25/.