The Express.
London, England, 1857-05-27 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS

MARK-LANE:—THIS DAY.
Our market was very thinly attended this morning, it
being Derby-day at Epsom. The snivels of all articles are
man, end the trade in wheat was firm at Monday's quota-
tions, and in some instances that day's rates were rather
exceeded.
Flour sold on fully as good terms.
Barley, oats, beans, and peas, all maintained their precious
value.
ILLTIVAID INTO LONDON r&ON NAT IS TO MIT 27.
112221215 &ekes. 121716. Nueoins.
wheat inn Lea
Barer 2410
ow 10 I lila uto
• . ..
slow. barren

MINCING-LANE—THIS DAY.
Osini to the TIOMOMADtaI has been so generally ras-
vended that the attendance in the market is way light, and
no transaction or change worthy of notice is taking place.

TALLOW MARKET.—THIS DAY.
This being Derby-day, great number of the dealers are
abeent, and ocasequently little or nothing is doing. Priam
me nominally quoted so follows .—Tallow, 565. nett mob;
Petersburg Y.C. on the spot, 575. 6d.; May sad June, 675.
July and September, 575. to 565. 9d. ; October and December,
565. to 555. 9d.

BOROUGH HOP MARRET.—THIB DAY.
Wears. Pattenden and Smith report that the market
L very firm, and fly on the increase. Doty 160,000/.

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COAL MARKET.—THIS DAY.
W ylam. leat * Harrell, 165.•, Eden Main 16e.;
Byes'. &
bride Hartley, 16e. 3d.; Tanfield Moor, 11.. 3d.;
Longridge's West Hartley, 16e. 3d.; Walker's Primrose.
13e. 9d.; Walls End Haswell, 17e.; Walla End
South Heaton, Me. 9d. ; Walls End Stewart's; 17e. ;
Walla End Teen, 176.-91 ships at market.

The Dean and Canons of Christ Church, Oxford,
have presented the Rev. Wm. Henry Spenoer, MA., chaplain
of Christ Church, to the Incumbency of Dezerbery, near
Runcorn, Cheshire, rendered vacant by the death of the Rev.
J. B. Fawkes, M.A.
The Vicarage of St. Giles's, Reading, rendered
vsoolenra the death of the Rev. J. C. Grainger, has been
f.
by
the Bishop of Orford on the 'tee. Thomas Via-
rent Fakery, M.A., incumbent of Sanningdale, near Chert-
esy one of the bishop's chaplain,.
PRICES Or AGRICULTURAL STOCK.—At 11, Sale of
live stock belonging to Mr. Henry Faidison, a well-known
farmer at Geteford, near Worksop, Nottingbamehire.
twenty-nine lots ehort-horn cows and heifers realieed
I,OOW. 13a., being en average of 341. 10e. each. Eleven bulls
of the same breed, principally young ones, brought 308/. 14e.,
giving en see-rage of 28/. la each. The herd comprised some
of the beet blood in the country, being demanded from
animate belonging to the late Earl Spencer, Sir C. Temped,
Meares. F. 11. Fawkes, U. Ambler, Watson, end Burt The
total produce of the Isle was 1,309!. 7s. At the sale at Mr.
Codling's, of Lofthense Grange, Cleveland, the three-year'pld
heifers fetched front 161. to 181. per head. The fat beasts
realised 261. each. The horses were knocked down for
401. and upwards. Other stock sold in proportion, the male
I being the beat that hes taken place in the neighbourhood for
some time past.
THE DEAD LETTER OFFICE.—The "dead" or
" returned letter" office at the General Post-office ia a most
I important section of the establishment, and so much, in fact,
hoe the business of late years that the Poritmaster-
General has found it to les necessary to " command" the im-
mediate erection of a floor above that of the sorting of ce.. on
the north Bide of the hall of the office in St. Martin'iole-
Grand, in order to facilitate tire portion of the duty. During
the last few days several labourers have been engaged in
moving into the office a number of immense iron girders in-
, tended to sustain the new floor. The gallery round the in-
terior of the sorting-office erected about 18 years ego in to be
renaved, and the beam* will be pinned into the walls about
the tame place as the brackets for the gallery were fined, the
centre of the floor being suppmeed by light fluted pillars.
To these offices it is intended to have an entrance en St.
Mertin'e-le-Gmnd for the public, close by, the new un-
delivered letter window, the office for impure, in connexion
therewith forming pert of the returned letter office. It is an
extraordinary fact that, owing to failure in the attempts to
deliver lettere and newspapers imperfectly addressed,
2,400,000 of the former were returned to the negligent
writer., thus involving the office in on unprofitable outlay of
time and retienee, and the revenue in the loss of a large rum
of money in consequence; 156,000 newspapers were unde-
livered owing to the seme cause, that being 1 in 120 of the
entire number posted during the year, viz., 71,000.000.
BIRTHS AND DEATHS IN LONDON.—The mean
temperature of the air during the last fortnight has been
14 deg. higher than that of four weeks preceding, and the
ealutary effect of the change is distinctly seen in the present
return. The weekly deaths registered in London had been,
in April =1 in two weeks of Mae, generally above 1.060; in
the week that ended on Saturday the number wee 818. In
the ten years 1817-56 the menage number of deaths in the
weeks corresponding with lest neck was 1,007. That es the
death, of tart week occurred in en increased population, it is
necessary, with a view to oomparison, to mile the average in
proportion to the increase, whereby it will become 1,108.
The deaths of last week were Ices by 160 than the number
which would have occurred under the average rate of num-
' tality in the third week of May. In some recent returns it
wee even that the deaths attributed to diseases of the organs
of respiration were shout 200; a warmer temperature re-
duced them hot weak to 167. The average derived from
corresponding weeks in previous years is, when corrected,
nearly the sayer, namely, 166. Fatal cases of bronchitis de-
clined in the teat two weeks from 102 to 84; thee' of encu-
MR& from 75 to U. Last week the births of 885 boys end
749 girls, in all 1,633 children, were registered in Gordon.
In the ten corresponding weeks of the years 1847-56 the
average number was 1,489.
Deer Si:.t Frninwo.—A novel experiment in the
art of deep sea fishing will, in the course of a few weekr, be
mode. The enterprise ea to be cerried on by iron screw
welled smacks, of 150 toms burden. One of these exegete, be-
longing to a company, will be launched in a few days, from
Deptford. The supposed edvantagos theeesteam screws will
peeress over the present class of vessels ire--whilst going to
and returning from the fishing ground neither light winds,
calm,, nor head mind, will much retard their regress.
They will be .fits to work three trawl nets at the nice time,
one from each side, boomed out a few feet, and one over the
stern. Much of the laborious work now performed by fisher-
men, with winches and capetene—as. for instance, the diffi-
cult teak of heaving up trawl nets Dorn 60 mad 70 fathoms
depth, with tons weight in them—will be effected by the
power of steam ; go also, when the meek gate amongst
shoals, where the finny prey take the bait as soon
as the lino refutes their locality, machinery will be employed
to wind the Itch up to the surface, sparing the men the
labour of hauling them up by head, which is often a painful
tadr, whet continued three or four days with little tete:-
mission.