The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-06 00:00:00

CORK BUTTER_MARKET.7(THIS DAY.)

(Fox °UN OWN COMNSPONDSNT.)
Ordinary, 1275. 121 s. 118 s., 1125., 975., 775.; 1,630
firkins. Mild cured, 139... 1275., 1215.; 110 firkins.

MINCING LANE.-(THIS DAY.)
Stio.ia.—The market continues quiet, at the previous
currencies; for refined no further change in prices has
taken place, as the demand continues limited.
COME. —The public sales of Plantation Ceylon con-
tinue to go off at prices in buyers' favour ; good and fine
ordinary small, 665. 6d. to 63a. 6d. ; grey, 64e. to 675.
low middling to good middling, 675. to 765. ; good to
fine bold, be.. 6d. to 86s.

TRA.-The public sales have gone off more steadily, and
occasionally at firmer prices.
Ruts &tar SALTrItTalt.-No sales to report.
Rum-1,000 bags of Madras had been sold at 44d. to
M. advance, and 4,200 tons for arrival ; Rangoon,
lls. 41d. to 11e. 6d. • Necranzie, 10s. 6d. to 10,nilrer.11 ,
Siam, 118. 6d. • Ballam, Bs. 64. Business has been done
in cleaned descriptions, chiefly in common kinds of Ben-
e SPICZB.-1,000 bags of good west mast Penang pepper
sold at firm prices, 3ed. to 314. ; 600 bags white at steady
prices, ordinary, 4,1 d. ; Singapore, 6d. ; 8 oases doves,
Penang at firmer prices, 10d. tolOid.; Ainboyms, bid.; 900
packages Jamaica ginger, low dark to comma, 36e. t 0.425. ;
good common to good middling, 44a. to 625. • 970 awes
Co,hin, common, 365, to 60e. ; middling, 63k to 68s. ;
good, 271. to 81s. ,•
.flne, 61. to 61. 3e. 310 hags
common and middhng, 2d. to 2ed. • 60 casks nutteings,eat'a
easier prices ; small to middling, is. 3d. to ls. ; bold,
2s. 2d. to sd. ; 7 cases mace, IL. 24...t0.35.s 3d.

Corms. —The demand continues limited, and prices
still rule in buyers' favour.
Jura.—Tbe demand has much subsided, and prices are
10s. per ton lower,

TALLOW MARICET.—(THIEI DAY.)
The market is steady. Town tallow, 425. ; Peters-
burg Y.C., on the spot, 445. 6d. ; August to September,
Pi. 6d. ; October to Doomber, ge. 9d.; , 46e.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET
(THIS DAY.)
We have a few more beasts than on Thursday last,
and trade is very dull. Monday's quotations are
barely maintained, and several lots remain unsold.
Sheep are plentiful, and tilde is wareely an
good as on Monday for them. Lambe are in
great abundance, • large proportion of them totally
unfit to be sent to market, but forced in by
the dry weather; these are making very low
prices, and many remain unsold. The supply of calves is
large, but choicest make about the same as of late. Our
foreign supply Foolish; of 20 beasts, 2,630 sheep, 322
calves,, and 26 pigs.
Per Ammo of dbo. ad. s. 6. Per done of Ma. a 6. s. d
Butlasto, Nereids. 4 10 5 6 13totDoltHII•brdsolt 0 0 0 0
Boatlerealterno_ ... 4 8 4 10 Beat Loat-woolo 4 4$
fl quaL Bomb 18 $ 4 Do., do., !teen 00 0 0
Calm 3 0 5 0 14readiscoadons. $ 6 3 10
Pita 3 0 4 6 Do. do. Bltorn OO 0 0
IliffitDlols/111-Leda 4 6 4 10 Lambs 4 6 5 4
BOWS at souk, 1,091; sheep and iambs. WAD; 011504
KS P 616. 50.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARIET.-{THIS DAY.)
Yr. Charles James Poston reports trade at last
day's prices tom.:—Prime eld hay, 115 e. to 120 e. ; in-
ferior ditto, 90e. to 100 s. ; prime new hay, 100 s. to 115 e. ;
prime old clover, 120 s. to 130 s. ; inferior ditto, 105 a. to
116.. ; prime new clover, 110 s. to 120 e. ; inferior ditto, 90s.
to 100 s. ; straw, 30e. to 38e.

ANOTHER TORT CANDEDATZ FOR BIRIaNOHAM.
—The tories, it is said, are considering the advisability of
bringing out a second candidate, and rumour has it that
they are trying to persuade Mr. J. D. Goodman to swept
the dubious honour of standing fifth upon the poll, im
company' with Mr. 8. 8. Lloyd, for whom the fourth place
is already engaged.—BirsseagAset Post.
PlozoN B.werrro. —The Epervier, a Brussels
p 2: givea an account of the great_pigeon race which
tplace annually in Belgium. Th. King offers a valu-
able prim to the owner of the first bird in, and the Count
of Flanders to the owner of the second, the total value of
the prizes competed for being 19,000 fr. This year 1,507
pigeons were conveyed from Brussels to Agen (Lot-et-
(aronne), a distance of more than 600 miles, and
were then thrown up at 6 a.m., under the ruperintendence
of IL Huybrechta, who had been al4 .inted by the Society
L'Hirondelle to mark and liberate I. pigeons entered for
the national concourse of 1868. The first prise was not
claimed in Brussels until the following day, when M.
Grooters, of that city, presented his bird at 6.4 a.m. A
few minutes afterwards the same gentleman claimed the
ard, 6th, 7th, 11th, 16th, 18th, and 21st prises from the
commissioners. Bt 9.30 a.m. 21 of the pigeons bad
reached Brussels, eight of them belonging to IK. Grouters,
who appears to be the most pigeon fancier in
the w