The Express.
London, England, 1857-04-08 00:00:00

TALLOW MARKET.-THIS DAY.

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The market is steady to-day, at the following quotations
Town tallow, 645. nett ash ; Petersburg Y. C. for Mar*
625. 6d. ; April, 61a. 3d.; May to June, 32e.

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.-THIS DAY.

lisTign.fatten----dt;;Ocl Smith report that tha demand far
middling and tine hope continues steady, at about the same
prism as for some time past.

COAL MARKET.-THIS DAY.

Tanfleld Moor, les. ; Walls End &sham, 195.; Walla
End Hartlepool, 19s. 6d. ; Walla End Harwell, 20s.
Walla End Toes, 205.; Wylao, 17s. 6d.-25 ships at nowhere

THE AMERICAN MAIES.—LIVERPOOL, TUESDAY.
—The SCOW steamship City of Washington, Captain Wm.
Wylie, will sail from the Mersey for New York, with a large
number of tessengers, and a very full cargo of valuable mew
chandise on freight. She will carry a ship letter hag—for
which letters must be addressed " Per City of Washington,"
and peeled before 9 a.m., and with late fees before 9.30 a.m.
to-morrow. The Royal Mail steam-ship America, Captain
Inn', will sail with the United States and Canadian mails
on Saturday forenoon, the 11th instant, for Halifax and
&atom. The mail closes at 8 a.m., with late fees at 9 am.,
and at the landing-stage at 10 win„ on that day:
Hum PRICE or SLATEIL—The increasing value in
causing considerable =easiness in some of the Southern
States of the American Union. The antral Organ, pub-
lished in the parish of Avoyelles, Louisiana, giver the fol-
lowing high prices brought by the 13 field hands at a summ-
on sale which took place a month ago in that parish :
Denton, aged 10 yews, 1,365 doll. ; Amanda, aged 14,
1,476 dole. ; Hayden, aged 15, 1,525 dole. ; Pansy, aged 16,
1,600 dole. ; John, aged 17, 1,820 dole. ; Haulms', aged 16,
1,885 dole. ; Louisa, aged 2.5, 1,955 dub. ; George, aged 19,
2,000 dole. ; Silas, aged 21, 2,020 dole. , Charles, aged 19,
2,065 dub. ; Laura, aged 16, 2,070 dole. ; James, aged 21,
2160 dots. ; Lewis, aged 31 2,360 dun. The New Orleans
Bte feelingly observes :—" It to difficult to conceive how
slays labour ran be profitably applied at such exorbitant
If an adult field hand is worth over twenty-three
hundredpries
sL
dollars, what would • first-rate negro mechanist
bring on the auction table I"
CENTRAL AMERICAN PRoDree.—The steamer
La Plata, which arrived at Southampton on the pat instant,
with tho last West India mail, brought home, amongst other
cargo, a large quantity, of indigo from the west coast of
Central America. The produce of that part of the world has
hitherto been mat to England by way of Cape Horn ; bet
now, owing to the arrangements made by the Panama Rail-
way Company, it is shipped on board of a coasting steamer.°
Panama, sent by railway sans to Colon, and th.ere put on
board the West India Mail steamers for England—the malt
being that the produce is in England and sold in Ism time
than it used to take in retching Cape Horn. Then
arrangements will prove of immense advantage to those
interested in the speedy delivery of cousi,gnmenta from Cen-
tral America.

PRINTERS IN PENNSTLVANIA.—II is IL fact that
not only the two 'United States Senators from Pennsylvania,
and the State Supreme Judge, but the present Speak
Clerk and Asaiatant Clerk of the House, the Clerk of the
Senate of Pennsylvania, and the democratic candidate for
I Governor, are all practical printers.
A SWORD OF THE "Six HUNDRED."—We saw
end handled yesterday a relict of Balaton, in the shape el
a sword, wielded by Lord Levee= Gower in the tames
charge of the "bin Hundred." It is a Scottish claymore of
great antiquity, having been in the posiessioei of the Gran-
ville family for several centuries, made of the finest tem-
pered steel, with boaket hilt of the same material, and it
measures about three feet from point to guard. The owner
presented it to Captain Dm Riviera, of the Zonaree, the pre-
sent possessor, who succoured him while 1 on the field
of Baleklava, desperately wounded. The scabbard is dented
in severel plans by the hoofs of hone., and the hilt is
slightly injured by the thrust of a Cossack's lace. The
charge of the "Light Brigade" is not so recent but that
this relic of the event pommies considerable historic interest.
—New York Evening at.
COLLISION ON THE CALEDONIAN RAILWAT.--
Yesterday (Monday) morning, a special train which IA
Lanark at ten o'clock--aarrying the state of the poll to Glas-
gow and some gentlemen who intended to record their votes—
overtook a mineral engine near Overton station The train
wee proceeding at nearly full speed, and neither the
drivers nor *token of either engine observed the danger
until a moment before the collision took place. The guard,
driver, and stoker of the special train were injured, but net
seriously. Two paesonyers also were injured—one of theca
having two of his teeth knocked down his throat. We hope
that the circumstances attending the occurrence will be pro-
perly investigated.—Glasevic Daily Mail.
}litre YeoreerixT.—Yetiterdny morning, between
the hours of 2 and 3 o'clock, a Erebroke ant in the premises
occupied by Mr. Heyday, a boot and shoe-maker, sienna No.
6, king-street-terrace, New North-road. Before the fin
could be got under the whole of the stock in trade in the
lower part of the premises was consumed, and serious damage
done to the furniture, dm., in the upper part. The engin of
the disaster is unknown. The sufferer was insured in the
Westminster Fire-ofllce.—About the seine time another tire
took place in the premises occupied by Mr J. Halbert, an
importer of foreign leeches, :•70. 3, Princes-square, St.
Georgea•in.the-East. The flames commenced from some
unknown cause in the basement. Considerable damage wee
done to the stock-in-trade end the premises. The proprietor
was insured in the Revel Excheinge-ofim.—A third fire took
place in the premises belonging to Mr. John Baker, a bread
and biscuit baker, carrying on business at No. 3, Char-
' lette-street, Plmlim nearly feting Buckingham Palace.
The fire originoted in the third floor, and as it
shot through the windows it reflected so
upon the palace as to lead person, at a distance to lit=
that the royal residence was on fire. The upper part Mae
building was destroyed, and the lower portion extensively
damaged by water, ice. The origin of this fire was else
unknown. The stock-In-trade was insured in the Son Figs
Office, and the building in the Law Fire Office. Other fires
also took place in the presages of Mr. T. P. Smith, milliner,
No. 32 A, Cleveland-street, Fitzroy-square, and No. I,
Gavel-lane, Southwark, but the damage done at each was
trilling.
THE TEA AND SUGAR DUTIES.—LIVERPOOL,
TVEADAY.—Tbe customs duties received at this port yester-
day were very large, amounting to 101,7161. 9e. 1 Thistle
accounted for by. the reduction of the duty on tea and wpm
—the mast paid on the former being 66,6721. 7s. 7d. ; ea
eager, 34,3931. 4s. Bd. • and on mama 1,1261. 17e. Al.
One hoses in the tea trade acme paid 20,13 W. M. 6d. ;sad
another 6,6711. 4a. The largest amount paid for dente of
nor by one firm was 7,6421. Its. 6d.