The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-06 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

TALLOW HAMLET (THIS DAT.)
The market is steady. Town tallow ls_croolied 68.. ed. nett
ash ; Petersburg Y.C., on the spot, ,• Marsh, 64a.;
April to June, 63e. 64.; OM. to Deo., 61s. 9d.
Mammy Aviasons.—Town tallow, 65.. 6d.; bt by
ditto, 2s. ; yellow Russian, 665. 51d.; melted stall,
38s. ; rough ditto, 22e.; tallow graves, 17e. ; good dregs, 71.

HAY MARKET.-THIS DAY.

Mr. B. J. Davis reports tads without allocution .—Pelt
mallow hay, NIL to 70s. ; 'gator do., 725. to VOL ; ia-
larior do., bOs. to eos. ; rayon, Ns. to 60s. ; dorsi) 764.
to 100 s. ; second cut, 70s. to tbs.; grim, 244. to 28s.

COVENT GARDEN.—(THIS DAY.)
The severe weather at present experienced hes to • con •
siderable extent diminished the supplies, and prices are
somewhat higher than they were last week. A few straw-
berries have male their sppearanoe, and realise 3s. per
ounce. Of pears, Beard Rance, Baster Benne, and N. Plus
Mewls may still be obtained. Kent cobs range from 365.
to 40a. Barcelona nuts fetch 20s. per bushel, and Brazils,
16s. per bushel; Spanish hazel nuts for planting, 16e. to
16s. per bushel. Oranges oral} Madame goad and abundant.
Amens vegetables are rhubarb and nakale.
Winter greens are plead . h aidadiicondsting
of cabbage lettuce, Barbs de Captrain. Bata nedive, •
and turnip radishes, are making their appesranos. The
supply of Cornish broecoli has been checked. Cucumbers
are scarcer. Spanish onions may be bad at from
Is. to 2s. 6d. per dozen. Best sample, of potatoes ere
realising about the same priors sa last week. Cut Sowers
shielly consist of orchids, gardenias, heliotropes, poinsettia
pulcherrima, geraniums, violets, mignionette, heaths,
primulas, amass, cyclamens, tulips, hyacinths, and rasa

THE OATHS BILL AND THE DERBY MINISTRY.
—Our reactors meat not indulge the hope that with the
Palmerston Administration the Oaths Bill has faded away.
Lord John Russell acts in this matter without reference to
the mistieg government. He intends to ask the Home of
Commons to proceed with the Dill on the 16th of the present
month. Those of our readers, therefore, who had been pur-
posing opposition of various kinds to this measure, should
persevere without reference to the &sage of ministry.
Petitions to the House of Commons should be forwarded
immediately ; those for the Home of Lards ins fortnight
or three west.—Prew.

WILLS.—The will of the Right Hon. George
A.:7,Frederkit Percy Smiths, Viscount Strangford
Lado. end Baron Penahnrat (England), was proved in
the sole executor, the Earl of Stamford and War-
rington—personalty 7,0001. To the Earl of Stamford be
has bequeathed his porphyry jars, pigmented by the King of
Sweden to his father, the sixth Earl of Strangford, when
ambassador at Sweden; also sped& bequest. are given to
the Countess of finunford, lady Harry Vane, and the
Countess of Tankerville; to Mrs. Benjamin Disraeli a col-
lodion of birds, bunerilies, land chrysalis, as ll
matte of their attention during his Ulnae.; to?* w*
Row. B. Disraeli two Turkish swords—The will of the Rev.
Philip Bliss, D.C.L , Prindpal of St. Mary's Hall,
Oxford, was proved in London ender 14,0001., by hie widow,
the sole ezeoutrix, who takes a life interest in his property ;
bequeaths his Geneva Bible (1660) to the library of SC Joffi
the Baptist College, Oxford; and a moiety of the dividends
of the residue to the augmentation of the librarians ewe In
Si. John the Baptist College.—The will of William Waltis
Friends, Eq., of Colchester, Emu, hes been proved under
18,0001. personalty.—Bleattetaf Loam Nem,.
THE WELSH PULElT.—Within leas than a day's
journey from the metropolis there is • people
whom the pulpit is • power. The alienationof the r:75
dames is •• theme there never dimmed. This " v
queetim" is to many Welsh pastor, who has never set
fiat on Saxon soil, • complete pale. In his country
masses" are under the power of the gospel: "
" Cepa "Bethiseda," and Ebenem," are always
thresged. The most Ignorant ea the alarm of this life at
hest feel same uttered in questions pertaining to another.
la the busiest day of the week, the smith leaves his alma,
the groom his shop, the shoemaker hie last, the farmer its
field, to hear the stranger-prnicher, whose name, though he
heard it on the Sunday, he may have quite forgotten.
Follow them to their respective employment*, listen to their
conversation, their shrewd remark, their warm died:ado ,n
and deduct, object, detract, philosophise se you may, the
impression still chugs that the puilpit is there • power. Oa
the still Sabbath morning, station yourself by that "lonely
house of God." The chapel-how is the only habitation
near; you me no other human residence. Can a courregs-
ti ni ever be assembled there ? Can the Mice ever he filled f
It is about tea. The worshippers "come, and still they
oome"—through silent glen, over mountain-top, through
pass and defile, along stony lane, or scarce visible foot-path
on horse, or on foot, in small groups, or one by one—all
pointing their way to that small, grey, low-roofed house,
surrounded by that (oh, how quiet I) reading-place for their
deed. They all confess to some mysterious power of attrac-
tion there, It is peat the time ; the place is now ; the
dirre-like but soothing sound of praise, in fine harmony
with the inase aroma, now amends. Wait awhile; the
text is reed; the disown, begins ; ind you soon am that
grey-coated shepherd, red-pilaf ted matron, burly farmer,
giddy youth and sober age, alike minima, by look and atti-
tude, that then la power in the Word preached.—rasa for

I AILWAY TPAPTIC.—The traffic returns of rail-
ways in the maid Megrim for the weak ending February
27, amounted to 3119,6101., and for the corresponding week
of last year to 401,63 k, showing a decrease of 11,9201. The
gross receipts of the eight railways having their manna In
the metropolis automated for the weak ending as above to
1641,6611., and for the corresponding veek of last year to
162,462 J., showing a decrease of 7,8111. The ditinase os
the Eastern Counties Railway meted to 1,0771 ; atop
Great Northern to 69114 an the Great Western to i
on the Louden and Nerth-WaSers to 3,71.41.4„- es the
London and Blackwell to 1131. ; as the London,
and South Coast to 1,0621. ; the Loathe
Wasters b 8611.• tad on the dloath-thetses to Nth SW.
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