The Express.
London, England, 1858-02-06 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

TALLOW MARKET (THIS DAY.)
'l'he market is inactive to-day:—Town tallow is /noted
61s. 9d. to 62a., nett comb ; Petersburg Y.C. on the spot,
62a. to 62a. 3d.; February and March, 61s. 9d. to 62a.;
April and June, 61s. 3d. ; October and December, 60e, 6d.
to 611.

ltiatturr AvEmoza.—Town tallow, 61a. 3d. ; fa* by
ditto, 2a. 10d. ; yellow Ruaiisa, 63a. dd. ; malted eta.
3114. ; rough ditto, 22a.; tallow gravel, 12..; good drags, To.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—THIS DAY.
Mr. E. J. Davis reports a large supply, trade very heavy,
prices having • lower tendency. Prime meadow hay.
665. to 70.. ; superior ditto, 72a. to 775. 6d. ; inkier do,
60s. to 60s. ; rowan, 60s. to 60e. ; clover, 80s. to 100 s. ;
second cot, 70s. to 88a. ; straw, Us. to 28s.

COVENT OAROEN.—(THIS DAY.)
Trade continues brisk. Of pears, Bourg Banos, Baster
Beane, and No Plus Malaria may still be obtained. Pine-
apples, ahaddocks, and other forsproduce °outlaw to ar-
rive. Kent cobs am good, and range from Ws. to 40s.
Barcelona nuts fetch 20e. per uahel, and Semite, les. per
bushel; Spanish hazel nuts for planting, los. to lac per
bushel ; Spanish ohasnuts for planting are somas this sea-
son, and are fetching Bs. and 9e. per bushel. Oranges
of all kind. are goad and abundant. Among vegetables
are some good brocoll, asparagus, rhubarb, and seakale.
Winter greens of all aorta are also plentiful. Cucumbers
are scarcer. Spanish onions may be had at hem le. to
2s. Bd. per dozen. French salading is now imported. Best
samples of potatoes are now making 10s. per ton more money
than they did last week. Cut flowers chiefly amidst of orchids,
gardenias, heliotropes poinsettia polchewinia, geraniums,
violets, mignionette, heaths, primulas, oanialim, cyclamens,
tulips, hyacinths, and rows._

. . .
PEWIT.
Pine Apples. par 11e. 4s &I to a Omta.. leer do., ed to le (11
Grape.. per lb, teb 10. Lagoons, pot doc, le to 2.
Portugal do., le to 3. pa. 100, Is to lee
APO* P. halt Were, le to b Id I,llborla. par 1001be..30. tO •
Pears, per doe., 3. to Ge Coto do be to 40.

VISOZT.
OmMowers, pet do.. St to 6,
Broooll, per bundle. la to Led
=Li .p. bunch. Is to es
Oprouta. p. balf Nero, RA
to 3.
Pokale. per plum, la to 31
?reads Beare. prr 100. 3s to la
avant/ea p. bundle 3. to Ts
Staub:et% p. bundle. la to IA 3,1
Potatoes. p. too. 6J. to 150 a
pertua..to2alid
per cwt.. 4. to es
Oerrote, per bunch. el to Td
'Pamirs, pot beach. Id to Ad
kends. P. st.e. Rs to es

4131.68.
Coootobom auk lb to is
chat, pot dos., la to fa
Calory. p. buodlo. L 1.3 la 66
Leelut, par bandit. SI to 34
nballota. p/o lb., GI told
Osdlo, pot lb., Id to Id
pot 100.1 a 6d b!
Lamm Cod, p. wore, IA 66 to
Bodlre, par korit It to lb 60
Ilitdlabaa. wall% par dos, la to!
Rona lisdish. P. boa, 14 is
Mushrooms. p. p tL, id to it
Parsley, par bomb, Id to 41
Mint, mad p. bun., la to la 36
daTory, do.. 34 to 14

A recent number of the Scotsman contains no
fewer than thirteen advertisements of presentations by ladies
to ministers of the kirk, both bond and free, of elegant gowns,
cassocks, and other ecclesiastical furniture.

THE WEDDING-RING FINCIER.—This is the fourth
finger on the left hold. Why this particular digit should
have received such • token of honour and Most beyond ell its
congeners, both in Paten and Christian times, has been
variously interpreted. The most common explanation is, ac-
cording to Sir Thomas Browne, "presuming therein that a
pat-limier vessel, nerve, vein, or artery, is conferred thereto
from the heart;" which direct vascular communication
Browne shows to be anatomically incorrect. blacrobius
gives another reason, which may perhaps satieryr those
anatomists who are not satisfied with the above. " Polka,"
he eayr,"or thumb (whose calms and general sinfulness are
samcieatiy Indicated from its Latin derivative palms,
and from its Greek equivalent eshehrir, which
seam as good as a hand'), is too busy to be set
apart for any such special employment; the nest
finger
to the thumb being but half protected on that side,
sides having other work to do, is also ineligible; the oppro-
brium at..eting to the middle finger, celled mediroo, puts it
entirely out of the question; and as the little finger stands
exposed, and is moreover too puny to enter the lists in such
• me= the spousal hononrs devolve naturally on pronubms,
the -finger." In the British Apollo Is l7BB, it
oiled that fourth finger was chosen from Its being not
only lees used than either of the rest, bat more capable of
a ring from bruises; having this one quality peon-
Crovitte
f, elthat it cannot be extended but in oomppaaeey with
some other finger, whines the rest may be ont to
their tall length and straightmes.—„ftpwler Brrers By

PUBLIC SCHOOL bteroseiL—Last *tit a must- -
lag of old Wykhamista was held et Pandare old, Pekoe-
yard, to take into consideration the propriety of &este-
ahlog the Winchester natehee at Loran Cricket Brood;.
BS Claude de Creeptay, Bart., * the disk. The &dr-
**, opening the proosediap et the sesting,
the dierondasence of the piddle school and abill=
He had hag observed the wear et sea shieeted erobe pub-
lic ohm* end, has his own exporienes be malt say that
.sang the* who hell dislimpished themselves is pablie bli-
the active aridoetere ism a tek prepped's. For laisami, he
had row tam the Mealiest *serest it the spars; and as •
lathar eta bray, he toss hie sane Wyllie**, sad
*Mid peat at the easel astalso, se they bed been MAIL
on a- yore. Be we. staid to see list the Wykhasiets
we* yet anissaind by lien *Asp which existed
sestet the* in his dup. • least ecoveristion then took
pleat as is the has mdse( carrying eat the object in view,
sad it was morose' annsisenely diet • sodas*, at
lets be isessel, Mobs kr HaNies the rseentrolahment of
Ow school matron at lewd% sad that all Wyllie*** be
invited is Mesa nimbi* eszasuntast et ea& sum as
be should delonainsi by ke ma a ocumkt.
appointed ta teeesiose tie sae ad ssvp k bringing
under the modes el the author** at Minaret,' all ques-
t**. relating to the revival sad continuance of the school
such*, sad thee each roomittee be antkorkei to draw op •
memorld to the entharities on the eroded, end to drools*
the *m.mess Wykkealate kr their sad it was
qtuutteledgr,gacitosadalvathatlithAtsthessmainithabek4agtiornawlalvfthirliglimsis *:Pwar—Sk litefrt=p)beths`ri..
swabs.M. George L Boada, .., Bow Whiglehl
Mr. R. Jests Bessasa. Mr. Alfred M. Dryden., Mr. W. P.
Dickies, Mr. Bdwead W. Tolls ltr. E. Wasik _Kr- H.
Mason, Mr. J. Lewis, Mr. C. Tyslan, and that in, inroa-
d& Gs* be musk& to eat as hrs. nieretay. A stadia voie
of thanks to the chains= tesinated the peesseilep.
A BLIND MAGINTRATZ.—The oasis bare ness-
domed wee Walpole* blind rasa, • bre** lobs.
who satataiall Ida is his case, ad Ids
weal if debt, pm& a moot maths and role
A Mad lawyer s • meet musedIct
Proillatoos thd law wawa as nwit mut to rea4 wean
to stead most la ised d vita. 11 wwid iswa
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ocegaioal at his ova INS Mon d
led
dhna7bialiseiipabb.bredisebiemedsreasgdjzb.btbkwskedrdl"litkw::snudh*dtoat,„=
stis es roil* rasa/ 11116 IMO mt diespesialed
deaf isproi.-•-Praffel ataraimi Flbnalq•

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—Fin DAY, Fn. 5.
The Lena Cassicact.cut took km seat ea the woolsack at
ars Abe.

PETITION.

Lad DUNGANNON prewsted two gwitioas from dr
awe, of two rural desneriso, ise is the diocese of St. Are*,
wag the otter to that of Lichfield, ageioet the Religious Wor-
ship Act ilsersittweot Bill.
THE PASSrORT SYSTEM.

Earl ISTANBUL% said dist, swig the Secretary for
foreign Afire in, the house, he wished to draw unmans to
this subject. He hal seem it stated that the Frrneh torero-
meet was desirous of 'askew isms alteratious with respect
to the issue of purports by French consuls in this
The result would be, that Li fugue the French consuls° vutai
in this country only time passports to French subjects, and
not to Britisu subsets, em toad beret. fore been the awe.
He wished to know what rystun was to be w-
ined with raped to the c‘nsule of other nations besides
Frame. In ..,nsequetios of this, he apprehended consider-
able thooirentenre might maize to British subjects who
Weft take pase;orts from r ezaoiple and when
they wished to return throoch France, would find their per-
ports sot &violable. Now that doe a c :mews had arisen, it
affueded a (Avowal* opportunity to put an sad to a great
aneis4y, that of British ail je, is Ong abroad with foteign
passports. It w.uld be couremeot •f the British subjects
west abroad with purports from their owe goverment.
Thin sees a time when It was difficult to get a Forefgeathee
passport, for the price was then in,rdirsittely high, while
ethic foreigi ministers hosed l ample, •ithout amigo Mal
He remembered when the dig .:e ft. a Foreign-odlos=
port was no bee than .I. 175., but the
bed ethos been redired to is. dd. Under the..

dromestentate be wi.had to askkisnObleftiend whamming
nand be taken sow that this oceurreene bad taken yam.
Be thought it • faunal" opportunity L r instituting a sow
system sad he was sure it would be for the (NITIZIOIi Warne
that British 'objects should, as a rule, travel with passports
obtained from their own posonment.
The Earl of CLARENDON, in answer to his noble friend,
had only to ray that villain the last few days the French
govanmett had infunned 'hem that they intended to pat ea
sad to the ey.tem under which their consular agents in this
country had been In the habit of riving passports to British
subjects. And he mast say that he wished tosxpreus his
alum concurrence with the view taken by the Fetch
meat, if they intended to rely at all ea any safety that
passport system would afford, fur under the system lamely
pursued by them say person t alling himself a
Bntoati entject could obtain a passport without any inquiry
into his nationality, stall leas as to his character, end there
was no description of the individual. so that the passport
would pass from band to hand, sad therefore foreigners
who might be thought dangerous to their government
travelled through France as British subje,ta. Now, certainly,
there could be no more absurd thing than when the other day
two men with a ninth, of jewellery sane to Southampton,
and were there arrested, they having stolen the jewels la
Paris, 'and the French jewel' were found on them, thank
they had passed through Fiance with pseenets. The Eng-
lish government had never interfered with this system. Ia
some Instances great inconvenience hot arisen from these
=beiag given to Britishsubject•—labourere—whe,
that labour was wanted abroad, went to France,
and then finding they were not wantet were pared back to
this country at the expense of the British government. In
this country they attached no importance to passport"; any-
body might come to this country without • passport, sad
might leave it without a purport, and there was, of course,
no intention to interfere with that system. Nor was
there any intention to interfere with foreign governments
giving peseports if they chose to consider those pompons as
neefW. He thought that pasty srts given In this way by
foreign consuls would be found bale to the objector
pointed out by his noble friend. British travellers with
French passports would be liable to interference, and though
this government could not interfevo to prevent this system,
yet he could have no doubt that British subjects
would find it to their advantage to have British
passport", for they most have more weight on the
continent. It would be seem that ;he government not only
gave all facility for obtaining Britisa passports, bat ey ad-
vised that they should be obtained, sod he had no doubt that
British subjects would find it more vat:lenient to have Bri-
tish passports. As to the price, it see tram that some years
ago the prune of British passport" was inordinately
for the vela* of it, but 21. 15s. wee levied fora fee ft,
tinting it from the flommary of Sta e for Foreign Allies;
but the price now was only is 6d., f which de. was foe s
stamp, and the additional 2s. 6d. was : of more than einengh
to defray the expense of the 'stabile/al:Dent. Tbsy did sot
require such an establishment for the gt =nal good, bat only
for the convenience of those travelling, and therefore the
establishment should be self-supporting, or nearly so.

- - -
THE ENGLISH ENGINEERS IMPRISONED Ilf
NAPLES.
Earl GREY presented a petition from the English mil-
seers now awaiting their WW in Naples, sad wee eadenteed
to may that though he could not call oa the government to
interfere directly, yet he could not present the pendia with-
out expensing en opinion that there were grounds lbe die-
adamant at the manner In which them two imam had
been treated. Two British subjects, who had bees arrested
out of the dominion' of the King of Naples, had been sub-
jected tea coarse of treatment rigorous, if not cruel ; for some
mouths they hod been undergoing punishment which in
this country would be wandered sufficient for ma Awe of
some magnitude, though innocent. There wee every reason to
believe that those permits had committed no offerme whatever.
He could not help thinking that the government had been
preexisted from interfering for their benefit by the very ill-
advised coarse which they bad pursued towards the Neepo•
titan goverment ; that they had been prevented from inter-
ior* in a way to bring their grievances under the notice
of the Nespobtan government.
The Earl of CLARENDON mid that although he was
aware that, according to the rules of their lordaWisi house,
he wee out of order_

The Earl of DERBY —Tilers is s (ruction that the peti-
tion do lie ea the table.

TM Biel of CLARENDON wee re ry sled to know that
be was sot treepeasing on easy rule of their lordships home,
bat, after the observatioas of his noble friend, he
thought it necresary to trespass for a trer moments
on their lordahlps' tines ; and as ids quetion of
the British 'netnews had justly emitted very great
awl interest in this conatry, he trusted that their
herd hip would permit lea to stela the circumstances which
bed come to his irledge eat be could ammo his noble
hied that thaw mest het Mit mind ia tempest ham the
iniernmgas it.., roltime with the Neepthem gommiesnt.
Be mast do the lleilitent ermen the justice to say
that their aeeeasdrlfass on the subject had hem madame.
The tads were, that on the nth is.. last, the Cagliari, a
saner maths from Omes to Tunis, and
of coregia.arms,
MIAMI at the Wad P. sixty miles from The
alarm bud ban sandMY and they
head they attednd end emegterrred the smell garrison,
sod Med the commender. They released soma pri-
emirs, end teak them as board, with some arta-
, and 000 or 400 meow and some amens-
and premeds/ ter a dam in the ?impolite&
where they WNW. and abendoned
rapes meek
Alm the bed ahmiluned the meal the
p de-
tended to take hen to Berke mad Werra the
of whet led pseud ; but before he =slit
L,is. her err nowt bby~ ewe Voopotitin frigates, aid sea en
band s. of than awl .mused the seed to the spin
elite *Opts B. liaised eh* sells mobil Mind tad laid.
Ws leek Pete out at the Noltien dotainicem bdai use
ran is skis trom the Nimpaten comt, sad seaspeantly
it In kapott= waters; and the Seadinien
hawks sessestard that, bed mule a elesaul CIS
his swans for the nellenalles of the
neuM of mum Wade tad el the nu The he
bawd slam beteg an LOA engliser ea bred the
se • fats triad he had rest from the hem member
ter Bowed* Mee hammed him that them w. Bmgfiab
tiltiis beard eased Watt, and Maeda** be wrote
ll
eeds awed at Naps then* him to glue ovary
smielmos end le that Mithriduel, awl et the ems
Ise teemed dish ..gear, k wee fthly
hoselable that be = kwaleas guilty of my evil-
imam Altar that be reacted • letter from Hr. Park, the
leer of Ihs ether swiless as, sfVkar instreellons in re-
=hies see eke malto the seen!. The sisal S-
hin this he se amt persised to bare sees te
ass sod he wee Inetnisled to writs to H. o_, the
mintatar af help maim awl dessitol that the temed
ahead have souse le than, end that he amid
is allowed to seiset for than legal irk mg
US the kW shwa is baelard. N. Ostlb
replied est aeosedis le the Neapolitan law ea
insereslarise oaks pidiwirrir weak be oesiseal
is as* and sick this. mks bed been aid the
le of Isolleisset drawn, it saws wee the sedum np pemlt
=l"rito hare sties Os Sae who were with
altire, and that he sestil set she scaption in
foss et BMW enhkele ; he add that the Uhl would
be pedalo awl that an mimed* might be sedated. Inquiries
were mode when as Wel wadi awe on, and H. Warn°,
tbe psearatesprirel, bassi the rierassal at tbe
Utter awl d °Saw that the robtless of the ilk•
=Zeklaillis=bi .0 MO than. Hs (the Bel of
sok te Hr. Park, pepostas
him to sid eflhis err, amid he paprail his •
Berea doehrd th
Ciseada)e semi le ~utizegiorp.
him then the case wee the that mused peat
&ttie pewsami, and eselled • ORM smelles
the whole isantry ; awl Oa* k was net the
of themeveranwst to kiwis with the
hoz.....and It H. law la cisme sit S.
las ease elide the sees of kw skip tees Is
110,11 *V rand pesky Nee as t Asa le
Illefhlkkhade, osi Sea •pee* delay ta Oa He
salead *es M. Cunt • set esersos
1.11 lilt " IdbY abseil tele plea la gin=
Rem nos at the sew ef lb' Cooped bad beta Ws
ski ; mei the thedbas. osesessne, ie the Tessa at bar
Mir= frripara. awl Ids the &splits ot thine
Inas swam that Os bed atiebis ~re
Os rats; sad were Swart thestles dim ef these UM wow rat le theelleire
dile slid sal be see at Napa ee
fii. metandim swift thee son se that al
. watt) bed sa lia • Ms Ms assWU% waTileh
lased kit they see sesieest of the branesliat ; bat
toed 7 bed al
l 7 WWI/ tat* Eolith.. a Lim In the
aldte haw it yea se keit desseess wawa
piessis noed iket the
Wain lidlerwanii

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