The Express.
London, England, 1857-04-21 00:00:00

MINCING-LANE.-THIS DAY.

800A1.—The larc public sales are going of desdffy at
last week's prices. The relined market vcry Arm.
Corssz.—The public sales, which are very leap, as pro-
p's/dm without spirit.
Tao.—The market is steady but not active.
Rica.-1,600 bap Bengal sold in public saki Bout Ka &I-
to 135., which were about Previous rates.
SALTPETRE.—The public sake went off well. Madras!,
relbactiow_ 31, 345. ad. to 3.5 a. ; Bombay, ref. 171, sold at
335. • Based, ref. 81, bought in at 42a.
liqttaxTo.-300 bags sold at 41d. to 40.
Belt remains firm.
Corrox.-100 bales sold.

TALLOW MARKET.—THIS DAY.
The market i• firm, at the following quotations .--.Town
ta➢ow, 645. Od. nett °soh ; Petersburg Y.C., bye. Od. ; isPrU,
66e. ; Way to June, 635. ed. to fots.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—THIS DAY.
Mr. E. J. Muria reports trsde very heavy. Priam
meadow bay, 80.. to Mc; suprrior ditto, 20s. to BA.;
Werke ditto, 60.. to 555.; rowan, 60s. to 80..; clover,
20s. to 100 s.; second cut, 60s. to Kis.; straw, 245. to 28s.

wz..srmnarEß IMPROVEMENT COMMINION.

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This afternoons genersfmeeting. of thebondholders
was held at the Victork Hotel, Victona-street, Westminster,
to consider the present state of the affairs of the commission;
Mr. Maaana LL in the chair. Mr. Wright (a commissioner)
raid a report, detailing the venous steps taken by
the 00MtIliP81011 since the laid meeting, and urging the
necessity of union on the part of the bondholders, to place,
their affii.irs in a more satisfactory position, end to save the
from absolute ruin.
ina)terey meeting was proceeding when we went to press.]

The steam-yacht about to be presented to the
'Emperor of iopan was this morning undocked at Woolwich
and taken into basin, preliminary to her removal to Devon-
port to be paid down and despatched to her destination. The
yacht is most compactly fitted throughout in the style of
comfort which usually pervades yacht arrangements in the
present day.

A letter from Mayence, of the 17th, says :—" The
Prince of Prussia reviewed the troops of the garrison yeller•
day, on which occasion all the Austrian officers were pre-
sented to hie Royal Higbnees. The day before yesterday a
grand military Vte took place here, to ratify the reconcilia-
tion between the troops. The order for the condnement of
the men to barracks hea been revoked, and no incident has
since occurrod to disturb the harmony now existing between
the Prussian and Austrian einem"

The Emperor of the French yesterday entered on
his 50th year, haring been Lora on the 20th of April, 1808.
General Dannerberg, of the Russian army, who
distinguished himself in the affair of Inkermann, is at pre-
sent in Paris.

The jockey mho rode Mr. Reynoldie Simple Petor
at the La Idercho Steeplechase, Paris, on Sunday hot, hag
died from the coesequencee of hie fall at the first leap.

Madrid letters, in the Independence Beige, state
that the private casket of the Princess of the Asturias has
disappeared in an extraordinary manner. It I. added that
the Queen is extremely embarrassed by the want of money.
ACCIDENT TO THE UNITED STATEA STE.UIEZ
HZlLMAXN.—lntelligence readied Southampton yesterday
that the United States steamer Hermann, which was to
leave that port to-morrow with the English mails for New
York, was ashore near Braaten; and thitt the Belgian royal
mail steamer, which was about to leave Southampton for
New York, had mot with an accident at Antwerp, which
would mime a Plight detention.
The Indt'inmdance Beige mention. a sad event
which has just happened at Brume's. A young English
lady, only fourteen or fifteen years of age, at one of the pet-
-4101111411 do detesisdlcs in that city, thaw herself out of en
upper window in • fit of home-aielmess, and one of her lege
was broken by the fall. No name is mentioned.
CASTING Bort LES INTO THE SEA.—These mute
interpreter. of natured phenomena often render beets!. service
to ammo than the thoughts or theories of man. The chart
drawn up by Admiral Beatty, representing the tricks of
mime than • hundred bottles, show. that all the equatorial
waters of the Atlantic tend wage-aids towards the Mexican
Oulf, to Same theme in the Gulf-stream. Those thrown
overhand in mid-wain, or any part of the African coast,
have been found, after a certain lapse of time, either in
the West India. or on the British shore., or floating in the
course of the Gulf-itnern between. There ie even reason to
believe that some of there bottles have been dircovend on
their second circuit arrested probably on the coati. of
Spuin by the drift eouthwards, carried along the African
coast into the equatorial was, and thence again amen the
i Atlantic to the Gulf of Mexico.—Eilinlary Ilericw. now
number.