The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-12 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET. —(THIS DAY.)
(lIIY SIMON AID 11110 NAGNIMO TZLKOZAPH.)
(molt ova OWN °Nazar:mare.)
Crain market very firm, but without active laminate,
wheat and flour remising Friday's extreme rates. Indian
coin quiet : Egyptian beans obtaining 40s. to 40a. 6d. Other
articles unchanged.

MINCING LANK—(THIS DAY.)
RUG AR. —The large public RIM are progrewhig heal,
and they will not conclude till a late hour. Refined wi •
out alteration.

einwcr„—The public sales are going off steadily without
showing any material alteration in prices.
Tea. —The large public sales have closed, and the result
shows them to have gone off better then was anticipated,
i.e., a full average quantity sold, and prices about average
previous rates.
Rict.—This market is quiet.
Run.—The market is firm, and prices are supported.
°MOE. This article remains dull.
Sateerrac.—Fine has sold at 395. Gd. cash ; Refraction
11 36a. 6d.
Brtcut steady, hut not active.
Markets generally have opened with a dull appearance.
TALLOW MARK.ET.—(THIS DAY.)
The market is firm to-day. Town tallow is qtvitecl
net cash ; Petersburg Y.C., on the spot, GOs. ; February,
605.; March, tiOs. :id. to 60a W.; April to June, Us. 6d. ;
October to December, 565. 6d.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)
Messrs. Doris and Co. report trade remains doll at Im4
day's prices, wiz. :—Prime meadow hay, 755. to 84e. ;
superior ditto, 90s. to 1104 ; inferior do., 404 to 575. ad. ;
rowan, Mc to 50s. ; clover, old, 95e. to 115 s. ; ditto 'et.
coed cut, 70s. to Ns.; straw. 325. to 435.

NEW As ERICA a ENTER/RINK/NT. —A musical
novelty of • singular character was pretested for the
first time yesterday evening, at the St. James's Hall.
Ceder the title of "Father Kemp's Old Folks'
Concert," we have an entertainment in winch thirty
American musicians, vocal and instrumented, appeared
in costumes of a century ago, the male sex being
seated by wigs, lace coats, aad knee
and the tamale by mistime drams and !m t..=
moat grotesque shape and mortaring capacity. The
performers. thus antiquely attired, sing or play •
curious selection of pieces, the first part consisting of well.
known anthems and hymns popular • century ago, and still
no doubt in vogue in Massachusetts; the second chiefly
of patriotic and national elms, among which "Hail
Columbia," the Marseillaise Hymn, and our own National
Anthem, Sod their place. The great attraction of the
concert is the singing of a young American vocalist,
named Mrs. Nichols. Her execution of the song of
" Minnie Clyde," and "The Captain," are admirable ; her
style is charming, and will probably make her very
u pop lar in this country. The audience manifested their
delight by encoring both.
SOCIETY /OR PROMOTING TRH A lIHNIIMMIT OF
THZ LA W. —At the meeting of the Law Amendment Societa:
held last night, Mr. °reread, Q.C., in the chair, Mr. P.
Taylor reads paper upon the expediency of peening
.an act
to permit defendants in criminal courts, and their wives or
husbands, as the case may he, to testify on oath. The pre-
sent law, precluding an accused person giving testimony on
his or her own behalf, and from calling his or bar spouse
■ defence, was, he considered, unsound in principle
and injurious in practice. For in judicial investigations,
where the object to be obtained was the discovery of truth,
no evidence likely to aid in that discovery ought to be re-
jected, and the rules of evidence ought to be the same in
criminal as in civil procedure. A long discussion followed
the reading of this paper, in the course of which Mr. Allen,
Mr. Fitswilliani, Mr. S. Flood, Mr. Henderson. the Recorder
of Liverpool, and the chairman, differed either in whole or
part from the views of Mr. Taylor, which were supported
by Mr. Blundell, Mr. Frederick Hill, and Mr. Lawrence.
Finally the paper was ordered to be printed.
Ustvitlutrrx Cam.mit, LONDON. The conncil,
at their maim on Saturday last, instituted • professorship
of the Bengali language and Hindu law, and appointed
Mr. Caniaidr Mohuu Tagore, a native of Bengal, professor.
The appointment was made with the view of providing more
completely for the instruction within the college; of the
candidates for the civil service of India who have passed the
first examination, and are preparing for the second. Other
glasses, on the special subjects of the second examination,
now meet is the college as follows :—flanskrit, Professor
Goldstucker ; Hindustani, Professor Abdoollah; Jurispru-
dence, Profaner Sharpe, LLD. Arrangements for the in.
struction of candidates who wish to acquire other Asiatic
languages will be made by the professor of Tamil. Baron
von Strew ; the professor of Ougeratt, Mr. Dichibbid
Naorojl ; and the professor of Persian and Arabic, Mr.
Charles Rieu. The council had the satisfaction of learning
that the new clam of animal physiology, for nommedical
students, under Mr. Marshall, was likely to prove • suc-
cessful experiment ; that the clam was attended not only
by students preparing for the degrees of B.A. and B.Sc. of
the University of London, but by a large number of inern•
bees of the Schoolmasters' Social Science Association, who
desire to make physiology a subject of instruction in their
schools.

SQUIDS IN • PRISON CUL AT GUILDNALL.—
About six o'clock lest evening the deed body of a primmer
was diseovered is one of the cells under the court at Guild-
hall. The man, it appears, bad yesterday been examined
on • charge of steeling silk from a City firm, and was
ordered to be remanded. O the arrival of the prime van
to convey the remanded prisonen to Newgate, the pole
entered the cell in which the prisoner was coaSsed sad
found him suspended by the seek. He instantly pre an
alarm, and on assistance arriving the maw was cut down, and
life was found to be extinct.

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THZ CONVICT OUTHEZAZ AT CHATHAM. --CHAT-
NAN, MONDAY Meer,—On Sunday, at intervals during
the day, there was considerable uproar among the con-
victs placed in the punishment cella, as well as
many other MU pieced in various parts of the
prison, most of them booting, shouting, and swear-
ing, and making se of other insubordinate conduct,
the leaders being the nine men who took the most
active part in the outrage committed on Friday after-
soon last on St. Mary's Island, le several instuces, the
most shameless commenced breaking up their cell furniture,
smashing the windows, sad committing other outrages,
setting the governor, Ceptain Powell. and the warders at
defiance. A eoesiderable uproar took place also last night,
by the men yelling and shouting to each other after they
were locked in their cella, but the names of the ringleaders
being known, and each securely fastened in his cell,
no fear of any alarming outrage wetanticipated.
The markt& employed at the ont.door work and on St.
Mary's Island were marched down to their labour as usuel,
with the exception of those men who were observed to be
taking a leading part in the mutiny on Friday afternoon.
These were still kept in the irons which had been placed on
them on Friday, and retaised in the cells. They have,
however, indulged in the greatest uproar during the whole
day, nand their language and conduct have been of the most
vielearcharacter, creating considerable terror and sierra
mean the officials of the prison.