The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-25 00:00:00

TALLOW MARKET.-11MB DAT.

The tr;rlTetTs itrnsatiieatlneledirlosi:--tewn tal-
low, 62e. 6d., nett cash; Petersburg, T.C. on the spot,
3d. ; January to Much, 635. 3d.; March only, 635. 61.
to 9d.; April to June, 6'_'s. October to Deoember, 61a, 6:4
to 624.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
Davie and Company report trade heavy, and prises without
alteration. Prime meadow hay, 70a. to SOL ; superior ditto,
&is. to 90s. ; inferior ditto, Us. to 60s. ; rowan, 60.. to
70a. ; clover, old, 90s. 01. to 100 a.; ditto, ow, woad cut,
Ka. to 955. ; straw, 261. to 30a.

DEATH OP CAPTAIN THE HON. HENRI BAND-
Coca —Ms with feelings of the deepest regret that we
(Westmeath Guardian) ennoturce the death, under the mod
melancholy circumetencee, of the Ron. Henry liandcock,
youngest son of Lord Castlemaine. The particulars have
not yet reached this country further than the sad tidings of
his death while tiger hunting in India. The enraged animal,
it appear., attacked him, and inflicted such bodily injuries
that he lived but for an hour after his release freer her fangs.
Captain Hendon& was but twenty-four years of age; he had
served with distinction with his regiment, the 44th, thro
out the Crimean oampaigo, and had represented AtbloneAln
native town, in parliament during the session of 18-56. At
the time of his death he was attached to the staff of Lord
Harris, governor of Madras. The greatest sympathy I. felt
for his lordship and Ditty Csatlemaine under this aevere
affliction, and universal regret is evrmeed at the untimely
end of a young gentleman whose amiability end winning de-
meanour rendered him a favourite with every one.
A CURIOUS WEDDING.—On Saturday last, a mar-
riage of a very uncommon character was celebrated at the
Baptist chapel, Wedharst. The wedding dram were of
each a peculiar character, particularly the bridegroom'e, that
all the " matrimonial clothier." In the Idaplom may be
challenged that they have never proposal and produced
" nuptial dreams" of such texture and adornments. The
bridegroom is by profession and practice, a map, and he was
en busily engaged in his profession ea the morn of hie
wedding-day that he had no time (and rasps no inclina-
tion) to either wash his flesh, comb his bob, or change hie
Mishima dress, so that he was as " black as a sweep," and it
is believed that he had left two chimneys undone st a gentle-
man's house in order that he might not be behind the
appointed time. The dress of the bride (Philadelphia Beatty,
widow) we. also very appropriate for the occasion, and re-
sembled in colour and tint very much that of the bridegroom,
particularly her raven hair, which evidently identifld her as
of gipay extraction. —Sussex Advertiser.
JOHN SADLEIR'S TRANSACTIONS AGAIN.—At pre-
meat • gentleman named Walker, receiver over the Earl of
Portarlington's estates in this county, in which situation he
succeeded John Sadleir, is engaged in searching through the
amounts of the years during which the latter held office.
For the purpoee of assisting the investigation, Mr. Walker
asked and obtained from the board of guardians a loan of two
hundred and eleven books of rate-collectors' warrants for the

irvi;io7.7l-si;;OCLZill:11.1;i;;;:cf other part, of the
Tipperary union where the Portarlington estate is situated.
Busy rumour hints that in one division, where the poor-rates
were but 61., Mr. Receiver Sadleir took credit for 1181. If
this and similar tales prove true, the result of the present
oleos Investigation will form another chapter in the giant
swindle. Serious doubte are entertained whether Jam
lair did not actually pocket the large sum given as compen-
sation by the Great Southern and Western Railway Com-
pany for traversing a portion of this estate while under his
management.-Clonmel Chronicle.
THE CAXTON FCND.-Although it is almost unani.
mously =ceded that to Caxton ore we indebted for the es-
tablishment of the firet printinglress in this country, tip to
the preset period, incredible es it may appear, there is no
national testimonial to the memory of one who has downed
so wall of posterity. True It to that the Roxburgh club,
under the presidency of the late Earl Spencer, erected a
tablet in Westminster Abbey in remembrance of Canaan,
"ea one to whom the literature of this country is so largely
indebted," but this memorial is but the homage of a fees
patrons of literature to departed worth, and cannot be re-
garded as the expreasiun of a nation's gratitude. Within a
comparatively recent period an endeavour was made by Oa•
tain noblemen and gentlemen connected with literature to re-
move the stigma which has so long attached to this country.
A committee, having for its object the erection of a monu-
ment in every respect worthy of the eminent individual whose
important services it was intended to perpetuate, was formed.
Notwithstanding the mart urgent appeals to the community
at large in its behalf this laudable undertaking failed to
secure that sympathy and pecuniary support which its pro.
motors might net unreasonably have anticipated. After no
little exertions,on the part of individual members of the com-
mittee to insure the snores. of the object in view, it was at
length hopelessly abandoned. Of the contributions which
bad berm received, • balance, after defraying rundry expenses
which had been Incurred, of 1841. 4s. 2d. remained, which
amount it wee eventually resolved to transfer to that ex-
cellent institution the Printers' Pension Society. With this
rum, which has been augmented by the appropriation of up-
wards of 3001., the proceeds of the society's annual festival
held in 1867, an additional annuity, " as • memorial of the
introduction: of printing Into this kingdom, and in honour
of William Caxton," entitled the " Caxton Fond," hue been
founded. Greatly to be regretted as la the failure of the praise-
worthy endeavotas of the Caxton Memorial Committee, it is
no little coneolstion to the admirers of the memory of our
first English printer to reflect that, although their homage
may not have assumed a prominent embodiment In
"sculptured marble," it may, nevertheless, in the less
ostentatious character of an eleemosynary fund, result in •
more enduring memorial of him whose illustrious name and
eminent services it is their object to perpetuate. To soothe
the downward path in life of the aged and Infirm printer-to
alleviate that privation and suffering which are the too fre-
quent concomitants of his declining years-is the object of
the society to which Ins been entrusted the administration
of the Caxton fund. To those who desire to honour the
memory of William Caxton, this fund, which is yet inoom-
plete, affords= ample opportunity of starring by their 0011-
tributious that which the dissolution of the Caxton Memorial
Committee has perhaps hitherto frustrated-namely, a per-
petual memoriel of the first English printer.-Topular. Owl.
lines of the Priis.
ROYAL NATIONAL LIFEBOAT
During the post year this institution has incurred the follow-
ing apogees ou either additional new lifeboat stations, on
the replacing of old hosts, transporting oarrieges and houses
by new ones ..-Norfolk : Cromer, 2761.165. 6d.; Mandalay,
22.11. Be. ; Becton, 3771. Ils. 11d.; Palling, 2721. 17s. 6d. ;
Wkiterton, 4001.5 a 11d. ; Yarmouth (two boats), 8691.3 e. fid.
Suffolk Lowestoft, 1631. 14s. 6d.; Sontbwold, 1271. 190.
Berwick, 731. ; Bodine', 731. ; Altueoutb, 411. ; Whitburn.
2471. Ia ; Honsea, 441. 124.; Exmouth, 1401. Is. ; Apple-
dote, 441. 12e. ; Aberdovey, 1381. 3e. Id. ; Rhyl, 621. 17e.
Pontoon, 721. 165.; Fleetwood, 1401. la.; Fraserburgb,;
2661.95. 2d.; Lcesismouth. 1401. la. 3d. Ireland: Rew-
ords, County Down, 2821. 7s. ; Kilmore, 1401. Is. ; Dun-
dalk, 1911. Is. ; Carusore, 1871.8 a.; Tremors, 3221. 18e. 9d.;
Dungervan, 1911. Is.; and Ardmore, 811. Ils. sd. The in-
stitution has also expended on the repairs, stores, alterations,
and impaction of its numerous lifeboat+, boat houses, sad
transporting carriages, 2,7141. be. 3.1., tinkles altogether a
total of 8,2631. as. 95. It has also:granted 9621. as rewards
to the crews of its lifeboats and those of shore boats for
saving 427 from 64 wreaks on our coasts.
This great national work hap, however, only been ac-
complished by Involving the society in a debt of 3,0471., and
an expenditure of 10001. from its small reserved capital.
Impelled by every feeling which we hold dear, to ears a
fellow creature from an spelling death by thipwreck, one
would suppose that the National Lifeboat Institution bad
claims which came home to the hearts of every one and there
pleaded for support and sympathy; and most perticulerly does
this apply to the United Kingdom, which is so much in-
debted for so largo a portion of its greatness and prosperity
to its hardy seamen. The society has now eighty-one life-
boat. under its management, to maintain which ins state of
thorough efficiency a large permanent annual tneOnia
absolutely needed.