The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-23 00:00:00

MINCING-LAN E. -(THIS DAY.)

Stman.--Tbe market has cpened steadily but quietly at
about last week's currency. The sales are chiefly confined
to British West India descriptions. Refined is in fair re-
quest, prices being rather dearer.
Comm. —The market privately has become quiet,
owing to large parcels of East India being declared for
public sale.
TEA.—The demand continues very limited.
Ries.-300 tons of good white Bengal now landing has
been sold at lee. to ltia. Gd., and 4,000 bags of Necranzie at
10s. W. for cash, ex ship.
Bete.—A parcel of Jamaica sold at 3s. Id.; 150
of Demerara, Is. 74d.; and 50 punebeons of
Msehe leeward, at Is. Ad.; brown, Is. 7d.
Amine/Rom-200 tins of St. Vincent sold, N.C., at 41d.
CorroN.—A fair business is doing at fully previous rates,
to id. per lb. advance.
Jere.—Business is doing at fully former prices.
HEMP.—St. Petersburg clean firm, at 36(.

TALLOW MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
The market is steady at the following prices:—Town
tallow, 435. 3d. net ; Petersburg Y.C. on the spot, 455.;
July to September, Co. ; October to December, 465. Od. ;
December. 46e. lid.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

Mr. Charles James Easton reports trade at the
following prizes, viz.:—Prime clover, from 1101. to 115 e. ;
inferior ditto, A0..t0 955.; prime old hay, Ns. to 905.;
inferior ditto, 601. to 701. ; prime new clover, 80e. to 1101.;
inferior ditto, 60s. to 705.; prime new lszy, 65e. to 70s. ;
inferior ditto, 50s. to 601.; straw, 40e. to 465.

THE ENGLISH CERATE.—A &met:H.—There is,.
first, what may be celled the apprenticeship time of the
young curate, when he receives any von for hid labours,
varying from nothing to WV. • year. How long this period
may be extended in any given case it is impossible to say.
But when it is passed, and the young man has learned his
business, and too often married a wife and begun to furnish
• nursery, it is no great increase to which be can look
forward. His salary may be raised perhaps to 100/. or
• year ; it is but seldom, since pluralities were happily abo-
lished, that a house is provided for him ; or if it is. the
estimated rent is deducted from his small salary, and on
that miserable pittance he may continue to exist for an
unlimited time—possibly for his whole life, though his
labours may be honestly and ungruilgingly given to the
work of his high office. Many are those to whom prefer-
ment never does nor can come. That to which the poor
hard-working curate may mmt hopefully look, the prefer-
ment administered by his bishop, is utterly insufficient to
supply such claims ; for the benefices in England, to which
the bishop! appoint, form but a very small number in the
list of livings. Whether on the whole this is an advantage
or a disadvantage to the church is a question on which we
will not enter here. Its settlement would involve many
most oonfiicting considerations, but this inevitably result.
from it, that even where the episcopal patronage is moat
fairly administered (and we know cases in which none but
cutides of the diocese are admitted to share in it), • very
small proportion of the curates can ever obtain preferment
from its resources. Many, therefore, unless they have
claims on private or political patrons most, in spite of the
real service of years, live and die as curates. But this is
, not all. Even if they do obtain, after years of work, •
benefice, they are often little better, and not unfrequently
are worse off than they were before. Even the better-
endowed livings commonly do little more than pay their
expenses, and by far the greater proportion of English
benefices fall far beyond this level. Perhaps the curate et
twenty years service succeeds et last to a hying of 3001. or
even 400/. a year. But with it come a multitude of new
expenses, which often make the poor man wish himself
beck avail in his less dignified position. The direct claims
of charity multiply upon him. The maintenance of the
parish school rests in ordinary cases mainly upon him ; the
parsonage is to be kept, too often to be put, in decent
repair, whilst it may be (for the entail of such poverty is
very widely spread) there are no assets in the hands of the
widow 43, the dead incumbent, to meet that most eicken-
ing of all charges under such circumstances, the claim for
dilapidation". Then for the rector there are new social
claims and new contingencies. lie has now a certain
position to maintain ; he cannot wholly abdicate it without
greatly diminishing his usefulness, and probably incurring
b. lie finds himself commonly in that poorest of
alrer ;lions in a very wealthy society,—that of a poor
gentleman. He miles in society, bound to conceal the
scent grief which is preying on him, and to wear a look
of complacency over • heart heavy with anxiety.— Quarterly
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