The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-24 00:00:00

TALLOW NIARKET..7TIIIB.DAY.

The rearing is quiet, with very little doing. Subjoined
670 the quotations :--1 own tallow, 696. nett cosh ; Peters-
ham Y.c. on the spot, 696. 3d.; September, 69e., tellers;
October to December, 635. 31. to6d. ; January to March, 688.6 d.
SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET (THIS DAT.)
Mr. E. J. Devi' re; ,rte a large supply. Trade beery. s 9
rather lower priors. Prime namulow bay, 68s. to 7Z.;
=perk, ditto, 765. to SOL ; &thrice ditto, 60a. to 60s. ;
mosses, 60s. to 66t.; diver, 90s. to 106..; second cut, 645.
I to 935. ; straw, 245. to Ns.

THE LINE, THE LINENDRAPERB, AND TES
SHOPWOKIN.

TO SAE TTITOT OF TUT WITIMIT.
n,—Your contemporary, the Times, hen pub-
hated in he impression of yesterday a rather enigmatical
article, whose absurdity, at all event", saves it from being
commonplace. The writer would make " the wants of the times"
an excuse for the enlistment of linendrapers' assistants, to
fight the bottles of their country in tho East. He says,
that ent bed arrant has its advantages." Now, I,
as a linraper's assistant, should very much like to know
the advantage I shocill derive by leaving a comfortable Milts-
lion, with a fair prospect end salary, to become a
private moldier in one- of her Majesty's regiments now
proceeding to the seat of war. "The glorious impulse" we
certainly hove; but a' what a cost must we under the present
system yield to it I We certainly should receive two pounds
and an outfit, viz., a suit of red and blue baize, and an intro-
duction into the society of navvies, labourers,and
worse ; haws to eat with them, sleep with hem,
chum with them, and be under the orders of some
of them. A ntoe prospect this for an educated and
respectably connected young man, who has some idea of
his present position, and a proper ambition to rtee above it.
Now, these strong and active young mem that the recruiting
sergeant looks upon with so much cupidity are not quite out
of his reach, were they only offered moderate advantages • at
all event' they.should not be rewarded for their patriotism
by being deprived of their station in society. There ere
many hundreds of t ie "black whiskered figures in the prime
of lade," to quote the words of your contemary, who ate
eagerto avenge the barbarous massacre of their countrymen
in India, and who would immediately and gladly leave their
present employment were the government to establish Ludt
a company that by entering they might, at all events, MOO.
ciate with their equal.. A battalion might be embodied in •
week, and ready for active service in a month, were a war-
rant issued from the Horse Guards for the embodiment at
such a corps.
Again, on the other hand, I must, for the information of
your eontemporsiy the Times, state that women, se • rule,
are not fit for the work of a linendraper's assistant. A
drapery Mock Is composed mostly, as the word implies, of the
heavier and more substantial articles of domestic use. I
should like to sots the writer of yesterday's article handle a piece
of 8 4 linen sheeting; it would be es much as he could do " to
gendyelevate it." Truly they say they have toucheda delicate
subject, and one that I consider does not concern them ; at
all events we do not require the generous aid of the Times to
give us a social lift downwards, under the mask of the public
welfare. Trusting Ibis may receive publicity through you
widely circulated journal, I own, &c.,
A LINENDRAfER'S ASSISTANT.
Greenwich, Sept. 22.

DEATH OF A CIIARACTSIL A woman named;
Martha Heath, aged 83, living at 16, Sandford-street, wee
we regret to beer, fond drowned in the river Cbett, near
Bermtge Neill, at en early hour yesterday morning. Pokes.
occetables Lewis and Wilkins were shortly efterwards on the
spot. and life being extinct, the body was removed to the
stables of the Swan Inn, High-steset, where an inquest wen
held set evening, before J. Lovegrove, Esq., coroner, and
the jury, after bearing evidence to show that deemed
had thrown herself into the water, returned a ref.
dirt of "Temporary ineanity." We understand that
although demseed went by the name of Heath, her
real Wine wee Martha Probert She was the wife of a man
of that name, who was, In company of Thu/tell and Hunt,
engorged in the rolls ry end murder of Mr. Wears, whale
death some thirty years ago caused so much excitement
throughout
the country. On that occasion Probert saved
from the gallows by turning king's evidence. Hie
two companions in crime ware convicted and hung, and Pro-
bert himself was some time afterwards convicted of hone-
stealing, and the crime at that time being a capital offence,
be suffered the same fate as his former accomplices. Mrs.
Probert then took upon herself the name of Heath, and has
since resided with her relatives in Cheltenham.—Chattnhant
Examiner.
Loss OP LIFE By FlRE.—This morning Mr.
William Payne, the coroner for the city of London, received
information of the death of Miss Harriet Ire, of Dept-
ford. She wu standing with her back to the fire what
the wind from the door wafted her drew against the
bare of the grate. It became ignited, and she wee soon
enveloped in cos holy of fire. Her screams brought assist-
ance, when the MIMES were extineguithed, and without lose
of time she was conveyed to Guy's Hospital, where every
&sentence wee rendered that medical skill could suggest,
but she died shortly after edmission.
DREADFUL decimal. AT A FIREWORK MAKER'S,.
—This mornings frightful accident occurred at Mr. Davies,
firework maker, Pie,. 3, (leaden-plates, Regent-street, Lana.
bath. It appears Charles Davis,- aged six years, and William
Davis, loneaged years, with PM other children, procured
about a quarter of a pound of gunpowder, which they took
into the garden for the purpose of making " &gigs," when a
spark from a loot, dropped on it, and a high explosion
took plate, marl, lilting the two kothem. They were con-
veyed to St. Thomas's Hospital, where Mr. Williams, hones
osiirtreoin, promptly. attended But t hopes are entertained
t
SWIMMING MAvell.—Yesterday evening a swim-
ming match for Wt. and the championship of England came
off at the Wenluck Baths, City-road, before a large company
of spectators The competitors were John Beckwith, of
Lambeth, and Jamul Waitron, of Bloomsbury—fine, well
proportioned young men. The distance was a quarter of a
mile, and, oner n well contested race, Book-with was the
winner.
The Bath Chrow'cle nye :—" The news received
on Tuesday from Berl:tiny Castle wee that Earl Fiteherditg•
was totally inmesible, end rapidly winking. The Rev. Drl
Brown was in attend taco, bat his lordship did not recognise
hint."
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Probably the oldest clergyman in England is the
Rev. H. Tory, al), rector ut-Elehimitara. Sussex, who to
102 years old, and who has just withered the solemn re-
openleg of his chun h after a thoVeruesi
_restoration, to the
ezia:of which he has largely con
Ile public room of the Caledonian Hotel, Oban,
there is an antique oak chair, with the following Inecription
on a river ere --.• This chair was sent by Lochiel to
Pena. Charles Stuart, ea the occasion when the Royal
Standard was unfurled to claim the Crown of his anceroth
at Oleallunin, on the 11th August, 1745."
It is the intention of the inhabitants of Chippen,
In Soatereetthire, to raise 100 recruits for her Idarety'e
service, and thus prevent err gentlemen of the neighbour-
hood with a COMINW.:OO.
The Worcester Chronicle says :—" Lest week as the
Worcester and Hereford coach woe proceeding halfway ten
tweets Malvern end this c4ty, • sportsman in a field adjoin-
, 'oqg the road shot at a covey of Lints, sad one of the shots
kdged is the cheek of a lady on the coach."