The Express.
London, England, 1858-08-14 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKBIB.

The Gareth statement of the movement t.
precious metals for the week ending Wednesday
gives the following tote* viz.:—lmports of gt
128,8521. • exports of gold, 216,8391. • imports
silver, 31,9274 ; exports of silver, 183,431.

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TALLOW MARHET.-THIS DAT.

The market Is steady. Petersburg Y.C. ea the apt ie
M49e.; August, 495.; thiptimber, 49a. id.; Oot. is
491. ; ditto, separataly, 49a. 6d.
Mazur" ATIZAOIIII.—Town tallow, 50e. ; 5.4 by dilly
2a. 7d. ; yellow Russian, 60.. ed. , melted MA 24e. 6d.;
rough ditto, 20e. ; tallow paves, 15e. ; good drep, 7s.

EVETHFIELD HAY MAREE'r.--THIS DAY.
Mr. I. J. Desk reports trek without idisautita : —Prime
1114•Eow hey, 66.. to 72e. 66.; superior do., 76. take. ;it
beta do., 60s. to 6k. ; sow do., 60a. to SOL; clover, old,
90s. to 106 s. ; second cut, 82. to 86e. ; new, 365. to 935.;
straw, 30s. to 345.

COVENT GARDEN.—(THIS DAY.)
Trade remains brisk. Plums oestrous to arrive from
Prams; and there bas been this week a second large int-
pertation of West India pines, which, thouglitgood In
4/natty, fetch only from arl. to Is. 13.1. each. A cots are
plentiful but small in ;Are. Cherries and 'tiny ies ars
now all but over. Some ripe pears and apples may
now be obtained. Barcelona nuts frisk Ns. per
bushel; now Brazils, lac ditto; Spank 14.. ditto;
Almonds, 245.; Walnuts, kiln-dried, 20s. ftb. Among
vegetables are emus nice cauliflowers. Peas are
now scarce. Greens an plentiful, as are sled Preach
beams. Potatoes are AS[ largely supplied. Omen
artichokes fetch from 4.. t. 6s. pr dom. Cucumbers
aotiuta. 10p..4 Cut dowers dandy con ot orchids,
geraniums, violate, mignionetta, hmigutl=
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Mr. Baresford Rope sad /War Scott, the sambas for Maid-
stone.

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Increased nearly 100,0001. during the pest week, Trits PEOPLE'S PAIX, HALlPAl.—lrestorday, the
making a total increase of 283,6781. within a fart- imeaar of thi° Park trgal the donor, F. Creeds:. BK..
M.P., to the corporation of Halifax, wee the modern of
night. The Bank us understood to have purchased muscle rojedclesp. The day was sot observed es im pastal
stock. holiday, but same of the milk and mess of the shops deed
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precious metals for the week ending Wednesday last of the ,470 r sod liallsdslics, the ,P4411/121_,_ iiPlisie :If
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REMINISCENCEOP
WERP. THE BOURSE AT
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All day loeg did the bright Augue.t sun shin*
wee the lair town of Antwerp, and :he 1111111 a hits
sower of the cathedral was set forth in bnlliant
relief against the clear bine sky, as the inquisitive
Englishman pissed the handsome streets with un-
wearied step, explored the curiosities of the well-
Mend memos, and noted with hitelligent eye
the rug lines which Chalet had so vigorously de-
boded. As the traveller looked on the lunette
Baint Laurent be recalled in imagination the in-
fernal heat of shot and shell, the vigorous ascent of
the French stamen, and the final triumph of the
tricolor. That tricolor, however, thought he, has
not always fluttered in the ranks of liberty. And
many more, probably, would have been his musings,
bet his English soul yearned foe dinner, and he had
been long away from his island home, and visions of
beefsteaks broke in among the forms of French
rigiers, and he desired his commissary to show
s way to his hotel. That hotel rejoiced in a
name which promised comfort ; it was the Hotel de
Bien-Etre, clot.e to the " Bourse of Antwerp." flat
was its French name ; but, alas, it bad also a Dutch
one.
- -

French exercise and fresh air, and " bif-stik "
and strong Belgian port wine, not kept until it was
mellow, did their work upon the Englishman, and
be went to bed at eight o'clock, and he slept the
sleep of Endymion. Bet Luna did not come to look
spon him ; Aurora, In all her blushing honours,
precisely at tour a.m. kissed his brows so gaily that
he sprang from his bed with his energetic English
heart more rigorous than ever. He descended the
stain; but that landlady of radiant smiles was no
longer visible ; no waiter answered the bell ; no-
thing could be discovered but • "boots," whose
communications were confined to the vernacular.
Alas' that unsophisticated Englishmen should
wander in the Pays-Bu withoat • knowledge of the
"Platt Deutsch." .

Our friend strolled out into the town. What is so
pleasant as the breath of morn? The lions of the
preceding day paned in review ; again that elegant
glare fascinated the sys; again the accuracy of yes-
teeday's measurements was canvassed ; the -height of
the famous tower essuredly wee not SOO feet, though
its light farm shot up so gaily through the blue air.
The mathematician was in a day•dream. 01108 more
flitted before him ravelins and eounter.carps and
triumphant Frenchmen ; but all the time his feet
bore him onward through streets in which the shops
were as yet that, till on one aide of the grand
place" he espied, with a feeling of welcome, an
open pastrycook's. Thither he beat his step', and
there he refreshed his souL Alas ! self-confident
Englishman, you left that shop without even in-
quiriog the way back to the Hotel de Bien-Etre. Of
course, you might have gone back, like Senoacherib,
by the way that you came. But then that turning—
you don't remember that. Try again : do you know
where you are at all? Everywhere the tall spire is
visible, sad oar traveller arrives in the middle of
the town, but the Hotel de Bien-ttre was at one end
of
it. Really it showed great want of topographical
instinct not to get beck to your goal without in-
quiring your way like a countryman in London. At
last pride was obliged to submit; so our friend went
cep to a passer-by. The passer-by was not a gentle-
man ; there was no gentleman parading about
at that hour, "De grace, Monsieur, enseignex-moi
lie Amin a l'Hotel de Bien-Etre." Not a weed
aimed from that Dutch month. So the traveller aid
the boor looked at one another, and the traveller
mast his interrogatory, and the boor shook hi.
bead, and the traveller perceived that the door of
eseamenication between those two mortal intelli-
gences was locked and bolted, and could Lot for the
nonce be opened.
What was to be done? Try another man: he was
as big a Dutchman as the other. Try then another
effort at self-navigation. Look at the sun; make
out the points of the campus ; note well the streets;
are any of those houses familiar to the eye? One
day's experience was not enough yesterday the
traveller had paraded those streets under the safe
escort of the commissary, with a head stuffed with
black state's of Isis, and Coehorn's system, and the
stases might have been the streets of Timbuctoo.
Bat there is another fellow. I will go up to him.
"Eh bias, momeireur!" How he stares. What a
ride look ! And his mouth widens, his eyes twinkle,
and he bursts into a great guffaw. Insufferable!
He turns upon his heel, and as he is overtaken by a
ocesred• following 1 hear sounds. Good gracious!
bow provoking ! to good broad Yorkshire he ex-
claims to his friend, " What a fat Frenchman"

Oar traveller was not a— fat Frenchman. but an j
Englishman. sensitive and shy, and full of VI3 ura ire
Adage. Could he make up his mind to run after the
brute ? No, he could not stoop to it ; he turned
down the next street, resolved in his great English '
heart to make his way to the Hotel de Bien-E:re by
his own unassisted energy.
Bot, alas! he turned and turned in vain, end the
morning wore on. It was Sunday morning. u.d tae
boar for early mass, and lady-like women began to
pass gently along the yet silent grottoir. " Egad "'
said this traveller, " I will inquire of one of them ; a
lady will assuredly understand French." So, select-
ing sae at random, a stately-looking dame, he made
kh approach. He was conscious of a roué appear-
ance. Ha bed wandered forth from that much-
desired hotel subarea and unkempt ; the sun
had looked upon him for weeks, and he had been in
incessant locomotion ; his linen was soiled, and
he was an Englishman ; and therefore, under the
circumstances, his address was embarrassed.
"De grace, Madame." A look of di.gast
instantly pervaded the lady's face. It would
not be easy, perhaps, to describe how she
regarded the interruption, whether she deemed the
humble suppliant a beggar or a heretic, or simply
an impudent fellow—whether she was internally
saying her prayers, or going over her sins pre-
paratory to confession. One cannot dire into that
mystery ; but anyhow she flounced away, and the
Englishman gazed after her, and sighed for the
Hotel de Bien-Etre, as Ulysses sighed for Ithaca.
But all things have an end—even misfortunes.
The errant Englishman was delivered at last,
and that, ton, by the exercise of his own faculties.
The hotel, he suddenly remembered, was close by the
Bourse; and Bourse, like " sack,' is of all leavings.
He boldly went up to this next Dutchman sad
distinctly pronounced the word " Bourse," making
signs that he was beet. That word was a talisman,
a polestar—it was " open testate." The goodnatured
Dutchman painted with his finger to a turning ;
and then another Dutchman was operated upon in
the same way, till the Bourse actually hovi in sight,
and the hungry Englishman was eventnally restored
to his quarters in the Hotel de Bien-Etre.

Let others wail for the Bourse as • memento of
saris of prove,. my grief for its lose has its source
is the conviction that • friendly beacon for forlorn
tourists lest in the learn of the Antwerp streets hes
perished.

A Moo:quoin TRIP.—A trip to the *edam Athens
" by moonlight" was Coke. on Tenthly Wit by &boat NO
proms beloogleg to this town owl diserlet. The eicurelea
wee wader the enperittoodeem of Km Gem el the likekshl
Teteperesos Hotel, who scoampentisd the aide. The pity
loft the Coital Stabs ehomit dter midsight, sod reesbei
"Ababa:eh shoe' 6 o'clock nu.. zoo monitor, and seems
gape te being ediekebly seated out, whit Oste
empties that promised in the helm et this pemertepk.
The orb►el eight 41 am helm the "hippie's " left lb.
misdate, red her abeam* wee the osseel thews of
meek pd kninoarld jest end tomlem.emosgst those of the
en who kept " wltte swum' during the whole or
✓esew pert ef Hee= Arefoid at Erlisborgh, the
vastest peemegero le men& of the mitatarassmit
which a tembie *Smyth ths emote sod a visit to the prim.
dpel Isethatimo of tits firs'Osh milea3 me so well idea.
Led to mold% tai at eft o'cioshY the *Mail* they set
wet sob hr Tremble, which wee reeelbed shortly before ems
edit* yeseseday morning. To the Worlds, risme. with
"hem time is es important cowelthisetlem, them "moonlight
Wipe" ambit a somas of cbtohigy enjoyment at. very
emelas of the biers of either Meat or repose, sad
et the some doe the fans retract' se moderately ere the
some of the very plowed, et Ie pines ea opportunity of
resomalag body sod mind *kW the 'seek of -gloom ereq
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