The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-02 00:00:00

MINCING-LANE.-(THIS DAY.).

SI:CAM—The market continues firm, at full prices to a
slight advance, at which moderate sales of West India,
chiefly of Barbadoes, are reported ; also 8,000 bags tin-
cloyed Manilla, at 28:s. to %F. 9d.
COFFEE and TEA continue in limited request.
SPlCF.S.—Further sales of Penang black pepper are re-
ported at 3d. to 34d., being steady prices. A small parcel
of Cassia Lignea is also reported at 124,.
Rice is dull of sale, and to effect sales of importance
lower prices would have to be submitted to ; 100 tons of
Dacca sold to arrive at 10s. landed, and 500 bar Askoo-
bie on the spot at 11s. 9d.
SALTPETRE.—No sales to report.
Comm.—The market continues dull and inactive.
Jun.—About 4,000 bales sold for arrival at full prices.

TALLOW MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
The market is quiet. Town tallow, 41a. 3d. ; Peters-
burg Y.O. on the spot, 43e. 6d. to 43.. 9d. , June, 43e. 6d.
to Ca. 9J.; October to Dumber, 43a. 9d. ; December, 44..

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)
Yr. Charles James Easton reports trade slow at last
day's prices. Prime meadow hay, 80s. to 84s. , inferior
ditto, 6.55. to 75e. ; dorm, old, 90e. to 105 s. ; second
cut, 70s. to 90s. ; straw, 30s. to ads.

The Empress Charlotte, says the Nord, will soon
take up her residence in Brussels. Some drys ago the
handsome property of the deceased Countess de Laluing,
the Ducale, was acquired in the name of the prinoese. On
the land which borders on the Boulevard du Regent, there
is going to be built for her a sumptuous dwelling, sur-
rounded with pleasant grounds.

A private meeting of sixty deputies has just been
held at Vienna to consider the financial measures. The
following statement was made as to the liabilities of the
state. At the end of 18G0 the total debt amounted to
4010,612,167f1. f2(r. 15c. each), divided into consolidated,
2;e:1,398,7241, and floating 42;1,213,443f1., requiring an
annual interest of 127,718,14711. From the above•named
period to the end of 1867 the sum was augmented by
105,598,200f1.

HEALTH OF THE EARL OF SHREWnBURY. —The
Stafford correspondent of the Birmingham Post says that
according to the intelligenoe received up to yesterday
morning the health of the Earl of Shrewsbury and Talbot,
who is at present in Scotland, and who has for the past
few days been suffering from a severe attack of pAtrio
fever, has improved. Oa Saturday last his lordship 's
malady assumed so serious a form that it was found to he
advisable to summon the member of his family staying at
Ingestre to attend him.
CLERICAL ABUSE OF MR. GLADATOXE.—The Rev.
J. D. lifsissingham, LLD., incumbent of St. Paul's, War-
rington, has been lecturing the members of the Blackburn
Church Institute on the proposed diesstablishment
of the Irish church. In the creme of his remarks he
said Mr. Gladstone, he believed, was actuated in the
course he had taken by two motives; the first was revenge,
and the second was a desire to get back to pay and place.
The other day he satonished a gentleman by clueing Mr.
Gladstone with the Todmorden murderer, in so far as they
both acted from the feeling of revenge. There was, how-
ever, this difference, they could hang the man for murder,
'but they could not bang the man who sought to disestablish
and
o plunder the church, and he held that hanging Ins too
for a man who proposed to du that.—Birmingham
oat.

Tits Lars STORM.—During the very severe
thunderstorm of Friday the temporary Congregational
Chmoh at Buokhunt-hill, near Woodford, of which the
Rev. William Darling is the recently appointed minister,
wee struck by lightning. It was instantly in a blue at the
apex of the roof. Some workmen close by browlit
ladders at once and extinguished it with water. If Qin
had occurred at night the building would probably have
been consumed. Three or four houses on the bill were ales
struck by the electric fluid.