The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-29 00:00:00

TALLOW MARIEET.-THIS DAT.

The market is study, at the untied quotation:
—Town tallow, 665. 61., nett cult; Patonbuti
on the •pot, 675. to 3d.; last thus swaths, 675. ; January
to Muth, 675. 3d.

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.-THIS DAY.

Mesas. Pattsaden aad Smith ripen that the market k
very brisk at fully 4s. per owl. adv.'s+ is prices for flue
coloured hops.—Duty 260,0001. to 260,0001.

COAL MARKET-THIS DAY.
Esstiag's Hartley, 16s. 61. ; Tanfleld Moor, 161.; Walls
End Riddell. 17s. 6d; Walls End Hadley, 17s. 61. ; Walls
End Halloo, 19s. 9d.; Walls Bad Teas, 19s. 94.-33 ships
at mukst.

Neufchatel, from its geographical position, and
with its population of vinegrowen and watthmaken, is ea
eeseatially Swiss (says ,the Timm) as Berlin is Prussian.
The Bing of Prussia has fished la many troubled waters,
bat In waters so troubled as this he has cut a line
before. Be had better put op his rod and betake himself to
a quiet day's saglieg slang the leg German carp of Ckm-
lettenburg ; these greedy pike of the lake of Neufchatel
late sharply, bat they are very difficult to lead. . .

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A dinner wu given on Monday at Marehwiel to
Colonel Yorke, of the First Royals, In oelabraticn of his
este return froml the Crimea. The dieser was moat excel-
lently provided for by the sovunAtee of inanapment, and a
sabetanttal joint of meat was likewise supplied to each poor
mess's family in the parish. The cloth being removed, a
variety of touts were proposed, amount which were the
health of Colonel Yorke," of Miss Yorke, hie sister,"
and also of "Kim Nightingale sad the Nurses," ail three
of whist* touts were enthuslastioally revolved. The com-
pany separated at a late hour. It is proposed by the lena•
Wants of Wrexham to present Colonel Yorke with a sword
in the tonne of the ensuing mouth.
On Thursday last, the 23/d inst., the autumnal
dulness of Aldershot* Camp was enlivened by so event
of tonna interest. It was judged that the greet success
which attended the institution of pedestrian sports in the
Crimea would not be wanting_ were they continued annu-
ally, or at abort interveb. in England ; and the Interest so
graciously evinced in their organisation by her Majesty the
Queen and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, who most
kindly presented a beehtihil silver vase to be contended for,
bre:swat together the thee of military pedestrianism.
The Bavarian government, it is said, intends to
eeavert all its prisons into eallalsr ones.
A marriage is spoken of between a son of M. de
Sauk, the Danish minister, with a daughter of the
Coast:Ns D

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A wealthy inhabitant of Berlin, named Normann,
has just bequeathed a sum of 600,000 fr. to the charitable
establishments of thet oily.
A letter from Temeavar (Hungary), in the Augs-
burg Gasene, says Several hundred families of the vii-
legs of litionlas, near Arad, have abjured the Greek roll.
glop, and become °ethanol."
Experiments with the electric light were made at
Paris on Sunday evening on the summit of tLe Arc de
Triomphe of the Barriers de l'Etone. Four photo-elect:lo
lamps were employed, and they lit up the Champs Elysium
far so the Road Point.
"The Commander Carafe," says the Eau:nap:elm
of Brussek, " who hes signed the diplomatic documents of
Naples published by the Monitor, is nephew of M. Carafe,
a well known composer resale( in Paris."
The General of Artillery Lebceuf, who accompanied
Count de Moray to Moscow, has arrived in Paris from St.
Petersburg. The other member of the mission will return
before the lit of November. The return of N. do Moray
appears postponed to • later period.
The New Munich Gazette denies the truth of the
intention attributed by some journals to the consistory of
the Confession of Augsburg, of establishing auricular con-
fession. All that wu deeigned, sage that journal, was to
preserve some institutions of that kind already alining in
certain parishes. The Cblogos Uazetio contains a letter
from Munich, which affirms that the heads of the church
of that city bad protested against the iatioduction of any
such practice as that enacted to above.
The Rev. W. J. Bucknall Eetcourt, A.M., has been
instituted by tt e Lord Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol to
the rectory of Long Newnton, Wilts, enlist by the death
of the Rev. E. W. &Wan ; patron, T. 11. S. Sother.n
Betcourt, Esq., M.P.
CLERKENWELL LECTURE HALL. —On Monday
evening last an interesting lecture on the wrestructiin and
manufacture of a witch was ditlivired at the above plies, by
Mr. Jdhn Beacon, of Cheapside, before an audience mostly
composed of persons in the trade. He gave a history of the
early construction of a timekeeper, and the different im-
provements by which it has remised ite present high state
of perfection. He dwelt very forcibly on the superiority of
the Swiss watches over those of England, and their cheap.
nese in ruceequence of much of the work beicg dons by
females. The lecturer then recommended the vest:brothers
of Clerkenwell seriously to amid*r whether, by the intro-
duction of female labour, they will cot be able to produce
a wa•ch of a more elegant construction and at a much
cheaper rate than at pres. at, and thus successfully compete
with the Sams manufacturers. The lecture was well

received, and a vote of thanks wu pawed to the lecturer.

PRIZE FUND FOR THE SOCIETY OF ARTS. EXAMI.
xartopc—Lord G ,derich, M.P., his pent ten guineas
towards the prise fund for the examinations of the Society
of Arts for the north of England, to be condurtrd neat
'piing at Huddenfleld. In the letter his lordship says:
" I learn with much pleasure that it is the iotention of the
Society of Arts to bring their valuable examinations hours
to our dooro in the north of England, and especis;ly that
their next examination is to be held at Ruddenfield m roa-
Deana with the I mortis./ of the Yorkshire Union. I
shall Le most happy to eo operate in any way in my power
in so useful a week. I have written by Our poet to Mr.
Dunlop, and cent him a cheque for tea guineas, al my sub-
! mention to the prise find. and I trust that the mount
raised for this purpose in Yoekshire ma 1
oa w
ortoy *lke of
oar county and of the important object t he fund
le to ha dediested."—Leede Aferewry.
ATTEMPTED HIGHWAY ROBBERY, WITH VIOLENCE.
—On Wednesday seeping last, at about nine °later..., u Mr.
Thomas Stanger, eldest eon of Mr. Stanger, grocer, Eth-
ernet, Maiden:me, was proceeding towards the town, through
Visite* Park, sec .topsteied by • young female friend, when
near a bridge which croon a small rivulet, three men sud-
denly rushed upon hiss, sad one of them, striking him a
violent blow on the mouth, !nuked him insurable to the
grosed. They immediately commenced unbuttoning his
great-coat, with a view, no doubt, of poisoning themselves
of his watch, and other property which he had about him.
The young lady, however, raised an alarm which fortu-
nately attracted attention, and the robbers, en hearing foot-
steps approaching, sale witk eiwaidimtble spied, without
lisv.eg effected their weer. It le believed that thee, wen
the same men who sessalted Mt. Bakes hat weak, Dawn*
' the college oast-home sod fps almlleaste. The police are
'making active itulakharatith lONS G•,1(4.