The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-05 00:00:00

MINCING-LANE.-THIS DAY.

SCGAIt —The public sales, consisting of 12,000 bags Mau-
ritius, Bengal, and Madras, went off without spirit, and a
large portion was bought io, but last week's quotations re-
main unaltered. Refl .ed has been very firm, and nothing
quoted under 48. 6.1. ; grccery lumps, 48s 6d. to 50s. 6d. •
MOLASBrB —l5O bags Mauritius were tfferia in publia
sale, a. d bourht in at 13s.

Correa.—Tbera has been only one small public see Of
150 b,sts Itraz.l, which were bought in at 57. to 581.
Cocos.-300 bags Trinidad went 'brought forward in
pubic sale, and withdrawn (or want of Own nt pre-
vious rates.

SALTPITRIL-4 000 bags sold briskly in publio sal% at
ry full prices; refraction 2 t. 4, 294. to 28s. 6d. ; refraction
6,27 s 6 I. to 2is.; refraction 6, 265. to 265. 6d.
Rice conlit ace• dull of sale.
Gin Gen —6OO pockets of common Serpa sold at 19e. fkl.
to 20s. in bond.

Rust remain. dull.
COTTON Continues laver's,.
TNA.—The market iv steady. &mend ships bees arrived
from Chios during the last tew de's.

SMITHFIELD HAY-MAHKEF.-THIS DAY.
Meors. Cooper and lisets rep at the teed. at the foaow-
in. quotations :—Prime 51. ado• nay. 665. to 725. 6i. ;
in-
fer.or itto, 50s. to 639.; It,sren, 10.. to 605.; Clover, liOs.
to Bth.; Straw, :44. to 27e.

PROPOSED IMPROVEMENT IN ST. PAUL'S CHURCH-
YARD —There is a movement among the inhabitants of SL
Para's Churchyard and hs vicinity on the euhj:ct of throw-
ing op n the space in front of that cached al, at present sit.
closed within a high and not very handromt-looking cast-
iron railing -a movement. too, that is bk. ly to he successful.
Apropos of this railing, is s..id to be the fl•s; termed tf
cast iron ever pat up in London • and it is added that tha
c •ntrac•or mac., a large fortune through f is own canning, or
thy ugh the ignorance of hi. customers, by the difference in
cost between them and wrought hats. At present three C11:1
be no que•tion that this part of London is a disgrace to the
airdrop ihe. It Is a complete stricture as rtgards cirett-
lation, except through a single circuitous chenni I between
the nest and the east—that is to say. for vehicles; while
foot peesengers who traverse the north side ern crowdrai
in a space, the imallness of which renders "milting
sometimes fr. rilods. Be sides this anything lke • satisfactory
view of the church is shut i.ut ; a cluirM still the architec-
tural gl, ry of England, notwithater ding the close.tistel
econ my of the London corporation when it was built, in
making Wren change the original plan of his portico. Tha
advantages of ilstowi.lg op-n the sires in queshon may be
deemed manifdd ; much greater 0. curitt wits he afford. .r
to the multitudes of pedestrians u.ini this very crowda
locelity, and they will be enabled to cross from the nor II :a
the $llU•h ode of St. Paul's Churchyard and street,
and rice reesd. without difficulty and woke, being p.p.d
the danger and de lag Imp Lc y encount• st d the man yr
vehic:es of 41 descriptions which area winually paring. if
the present collage way, which is v.?! cooiracied, were
widened to the ex ent of 20 feel, or thereabeu a, secidettli
would he avoid. it, horses end vehicles peering by the cathe-
dral on the south ade would not meet with so ms- y stop-
p iges, better order wou:d he preserved emoegst covehmee„
omnibus drivers, waggoners, sad other% and s repetition of
thole scenes of noise and confusion th,t so fee qucnt'y disgrace
this neighbourhood wound be effectu ills pre verved. Try
necessity of throwing open St. Paul's Churchyar4
aid diepleyii g more prominently the west front of
the noble cathedral. has, tioisev.r, been long
recognised. A clause Was ilart due. d 80 years ago into
an act of refinement, the llth of George 111 , sop 20, foe
carrying •his much desired impr ivi ment into effect; bug
the intentims of the legislature were tot accomplished;
and cn the repeal of that statute in 1845, end the passing
of anther act establishing a new commission of sewer., ge,s
a similar clause was not introduced into it Since the pass-
ing of the act of George 111., the pi pulation of the metro-
polis has, however, trebl. 4, and the influx of stranger@
into the ci,y daily has ini•re aged in more then a proportionate
ratio, and is benders continselly itmeasing.—Ohes en%