The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-21 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
(THIS DAY.)
(ST TELEGRAPH.)
(PROM OUR OWN OORRISPONDENT.)
The market dull, and with but small demand. Sake
about 5,000 or 6,000 bales.
MINCING-LANE.—(THIS DAY.)

Suass.—The market continues quiet, at previous prices;
the sales are confined to small parcels of British West
India. Refined dried goods are dull of sale, at previous
rates ; pieces rather lower.
Curve& —No public sales were brought forward to-day ;
privately business is doing at firm rates.
COCOA is dull of sale at previous rates ; a small parcel of
Trinidad sold at Ms., and Grenada at 655.
TEA.—The public sale concluded with rather more
spirit, at the opening rates.
Ruii.—A small parcel of Jamaica sold at 2a. 101
Rica sun SALTPCT RE. —No sales. .

Faurr7ibe72;rliet continues quiet, at previous Tea.
brices.—The value of Pimento has further slightly
declined. Other spices sold at steady prices. Ma bar
pepper sold, fair heavy, 4td. ; Cochin , 3jd. ; Singapore ,31d. ;
Pimento, lid. to 2d. ; nutmegs, small, Ild. to 1.. 2d. ; mid-
dling, ls. 7d. to 25.; bold, 3s. 6d. to 3s. 7d. Jamie.,
ginger, 535. to 56a. Cinnamon, Ceylon, fourth to first,
ls. 3dto 21. Id.

borroic.-6nly a limited business doing at the previous
value.

Jt:rs has sold readily at 10s. per ton advance ; common
to fine. 131. ss. to 251.
Haw—Bllainini is doing in Manilla at 491. 10a. to 501.

TALLOW MARKET.—(TIIIB DAY.)
The market u quiet, at the following prices:—Town
tallow, 42a. td. net ; Petersburg Y.C. on the spot, 435. 9d.;
March, 433. 6d. to 9d. ; April to June, 432. tid. to 9d. ;
October to December, 44e. to 444.3 d.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
(THIS DAY.)
We have a few more beasts than on Thursday last,
and trade generally is dull. Monday's quotations are
realised for choicest kinds, but in other kinds there
is a small reduction. Sheep are more plentiful,
and trade for them is worse than on Monday.
Several remain unsold, although our quotations are lower.
Good calves are very scarce, and meet with a ready sale
at advanced rates. Our foreign supply consists et 175
beasts. 1,670 sheep, 68 calves, and 00 pigs.
Per atone of Saba a d. ad. Per dons of Saba ad. a d.
Best Scuts, Ilerada 6 0 6 2 l Best DosalltbdsSh 0 0 0 •
Hest Short-bores 4 8 3 0 Best Lung-w 0015.... 6 4 6 6
Second qua/ brats 3 0 3 6 Do. do. Thom._ 0 00 0
Calves

30 4 4
Best Dne&lllsbreda 5 10 6 0
Beasts at market, &40 ; shee
plgs, 130.

I DO. do. 0 o 0 0
, lambs
p and lambs, 4,850 ; calves, 103;

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
Mr. Charles James Easton reports trade at the fol-
lowing prices, vis.:—Prime clover, from 100 s. to 110 s. ;
inferior ditto, 80s. to ; prime second cut clover,
90s. to 95a. ; inferior ditto, 50s. to 70s. ; best green bay,
84s. to 90s. ; prime meadow bay, 75a. to 83s. ; inferior
ditto, 555. to 655.; straw, 40s. to 46a.

ENGLISH AND FRENCH PERVERSIONS OF TRUTH.
" I have remarked," said Monsieur Berthier, mildly, "that
the conception of truth among Englishwomen is quite pecu-
liar to themselves ; and I must own that it appears to me
very often to answer the exact purpose that falsehood does
with other people. For example, suppose that an English-
woman has happened to go to some place or other, and
that she has her own reasons for not wishing it known that
she has been there—(such a thing might oocur, might it
not?)—she comes back, and sonic one asks her where she
has been? She immediately answers, To this place—to
that place—to the other place, and thinks that so long as
sbe doer not positively deny the having been to the on.
important spot she is scrupulously truthful. For has she,
after all, not indeed been to all these place.? More than
this, she is even capable of deliberately planning to go to
all these places, expressly in order that she may be able
with what she regards with perfect truth to enumerate
them, and behind them to conceal what she wishes con-
cealed. When I have said what I thought upon the sub-
ject—which was that this male of action appeared to me
to be very much like pressing truth into the service of
falsehood—l have been received with indignant surprise.
The Englishwoman thought she had, on the contrary,
evinced a conscientious adherence to truth. Now a French-
woman is, for the most part, quite incapable of that sort
of thing ; if she is in a difficulty she will lie like a trooper,
but it will be a direct lie, born out of an immediate danger
—not that elaborate perversion of the truth in which the
Englishwoman permits herself to indulge with so much
astuteness and self-complacency."—Cornhill Ma9azine for
' March