The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-04 00:00:00

MINCL'YG-LAIM-THIS DAY.

Boo►a.—The market has opened with a firm appearancs.
and the itarbadoes public sale went of eta slight advance.
Mauritius and East India are now progressing. Rama
steady. Lumo. 62e. 61 to Mo.
Coverz.—The public sales are going off steadily at about
previous rasa
Ta►.—Tbe market Is than.
RICE.—The large public males went tff well at about pro-
vials rates.
SALTPETRE.—The quality was low, and told rather ands
the prior which ruled previous to the holidays.
Rota hue a steady appearance.
In other articles no material alteration.

TALLOW MARKET.—THIS DAT.
The market is firm —Town tallow is quoted 61e., nett
mall; Petersburg Y.C. on the spot, 51e. 6d. January le
Mara, 61s. to 61s. 3d. March only,6ls. 9d.; April to June,
60s. 911.; October to December, 50e. 9d. to 61s

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—(THIS DAT.)
Davis and Company moon trade firm. Priam good far
drat-rate clover and good meadow hay. Prime meadow
hay, 78a. to 84a. ; superior ditto, 864. to 90s. ; Inferior
ditto, 60s. to 70s. ; rower, 60e. to 70a. ; clover, old, 95e.
to 106 s. ; ditto, good new second cut, 86s. to 955. , straw,
24.. to 30a.

The Edioborgh correspondent of the Ayrshire
Express says,—" Before the Express is in the hands of your
readers, Principal Cunningham will have received from a few
friends of the free church the princely mum of about 7,0001.,
as an acknowledgment of his great aerviue to that commu-
nion.,•

The Bishop of Raab, in Austria, has directed
the clergy of his diocese not to " church " Roman catholic
women who are married to protestanta, unless their children
are brought op se catholic'
LEGAL CHANGES IN IRELAND.—The Saunders'
liaes Letter sap :—"Ws ere enabled to state that the vene-
rable and esteemed Baron Peon/father has placed his NOV
nation in the hand* of government, owing to the delicate
elate of his health. The learning, the acumen, the great in-
telligence, and the remarkable perspicuity of the accomplished
judge were equally recognised by the bar and the public, and
he occupied a proud position among the very distinguished
men who have adorned the Irish bench. The Solicitor-
Genersl or Mr. Brewster will moat probably succeed to the
vacancy, se it is considered certain that theAttontey•Genaral
will decline to accept of the °Mos"
THE BUCKINGHAMSHIRE AGRICULTURAL
CIETILS.—The two great sgricoltural societies of Bucking-
hamshire, at the periodical meetings of which Mr. Disraeli
has frequently explained to the world the tactics of his party,
whether in opposition or in ofilos, are showing symptoms of
t=decline. A meeting of the members of the Royal
lire
grioultwsl Association is to be held at the George
Inn, Aylesbury, to-morrow (Wednesday) week, to outsider
the propriety of weeding to a proposal at the Central Bathe
Association for an amalgamation of the two societies.
ANNIVERSARY MEETING OF WORKING MEN'S
COLLSOT.S.—To-morrow (Wednesday) evening, an iotereet-
ing mending will be held in the Corn Exchange ; to which the
three working men's colleges of Mane:otter, Anooata, and
Salford, will contibute • numerous gathering, and we hope
any spare spat* will be filled by working men, not yet of any
college. Besides short reports showing what the three local
colleges have already done and are doing, and intending to
do, the Rev. F. D. Maurice, the well-known president of
the London Working Men's College, will deliver an &dans' ;
and Mr. Thomas Hughes, 8.A., of Oriel College, Oxfords
the author of " Tom Brown's School Days," will also
address the meeting ; over which Mr. Oliver Heywood is to
preside.—Afandieefer Onerefeen.
CHURCH RATES AT DOREING.--Sixteen persons
were summoned before the Dorking beech, en the lot Mat.,
for the nonpayment of a church rate made in July leak The
/mentioned parties were defended by Mr. J. Bennett, of Lud-
gate-hill. The grounds of objection urged against the
validity of the rate were, that It woe excessive, that the chair-
man had refused to put two relevant amendments to the
vestry, that the estimate contained Rents which were illegal,
and that the minutes of the vestry meeting were Imperfectly
recorded. The beech decided that a priced facie uses bad
been made oat for disputing the legality of the rate, end dis-
missed all the summonses. The only course now left for the
churchwardens to recover is to rue those of the defaulters not
belonging to the Society of Frlends in the Ecclesiastical
Court ; this, however, is not at all likely to he done, as the
We is so clearly irmooverable by any legal proem.
THE CHESHIRE MURDER.—The examination of
the Fix men charged with being concerned in the murder
of James Beech and Thomas Maddocke, gamekeepers in
the employ of Mr. H. Akroyd, Doddiugton, in the latter
part of November last, has at im.th, after a weary, pro-
tracted series of adjournment', resulted in the committal by
the Rev. Jerome Folliett, of Stspeley of two of the mincers,
John Danko and Richard Boohoo, for wilful murder.
The practice of taking down sermons in short-
hand notes had leeched such a height in Frankfort that the
conxistories both of the Calvinistic sad tba Lutheran bodies
have thought It neesseiry to prohibit it for the future.
" The church." says the ordinance, " ie not a lecture-loom,
but a house of Foyer."