The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-25 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
(THIS DAY.)
(NEON OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
The market is rather quiet, and the sales will foot up
about 8,090 bales.

CORK BUTTER MARKET.--(TILLS DAY.)
Off TELEGLips.)
(niox ova OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
Ordinary, 10.2+., 995., 915., 905., 77..., Ws.; 1,700 &kiwi.
Mild cured, 10.55., 101 a, 945.; 210 ill Una.

MINCING-LANE.-(TFITS DAY.)
Stroaa.-The market continues extremely dull and the
business done is too small to give quotations. Relined -
Common to good lumps are now to be had at 435. to 445.,
being a decline of 6d. per owl. on last week's prices, and
at this reduction there is very little business doing ;
pieces are also dull of sale at drooping prices.
Coma.-There is a good inquiry for all colonial de-
scriptions at firm rates, superior colors qualities being
rather dearer. Plantation Ceylon, middling, 72.. 6d. to
775. 6d ; good middling to bohl, 795. 6d. to 84s. ; native
c°ll.Ce7Tll.l:7ldgZed;naro.tdillarYket cOnttin7t.u6des.d; ufinllcanottlinitryd inactive.
to
6°s.;
Rica-The salts are about 6,000 bags on the spot. No-
cianae, I Is. cash ; Hallam, Bs. 6d. to 95. 3d. ; and 1,000 tons
afloat, Rangoon, 10s. Itlfd.
Rm.-About 100 puncheons sold. Demerara, Is. ;
Leewarda, Is. Sid.
SPICES are no in active request, but previous prices are
general!, maintained. Jamaica ginger sold, common to
good, 3,5. to 775. ; nnehin, 43.. mom, lbw dark to com-
mon, la. Bd. to ls. 9d. Nutmegs, sail to middling, Is.
to 2s. Id. ; good bold 3s. 7d. Singapore bleak pepper, 3jd.
Pimento, common to middling, 2d. to 2td.
FRUn.-The market continues very quiet.
SALTPETRE remains dull of saw.
Corrox.-The market continues dull, but the lower
prices accepted have led to more business.
COCRINIAL has sold heavily. Tenerife silver at Id.
decline, at 3s. 2d. to 3s. 6d ; black, without change ;
ordinary to fine, 3.. 2d. to 4a. 2d. ; Honduras pasty grain,
at Id. to 2d. lower; clean and black, at full pries; Hee-
dares silver, at 2.. 6d. to 3s. 4d. ; black, 3a. to 3.. 161.

TALLOW MARKET.--(THIS DAY.)
The market is quiet. Town tallow, 41s. 3d. ; Palms-
burg T. C., cm the spot, 44e. 94. ; June, 445. 9d. to 445. 6d. ;
October to December, 44e. ; December, 445. 3d.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
(THIS DAY.)
We have a large supply of beasts, and trade is not quite
so brisk, nor prices quite so good as on Monday,
but choice qualities meet with a fair sale. The
number of sheep is about the same as on Thursday
last ; the demand is rather larger than on that day, and
Monday's quotations sae pretty well maintained. Lamb is
very plentiful and lower. Calves are selling about the same
as on Monday. Our foreign supply consists of 240 beasts,
1,830 sheep, 303 calves, and 6 pigs.
Per stone of Efts. N. d. 8. d. Per steno of 91r.8. d. s. d.
Beet Scots, Heralds. 4 1 I 0 Peat boat 116.beIlls 4
Best Mart-borne ... 4 4 10 Best Loosr-wools 0 0 0
fisoond qua. Beasts 2 8 4 Do. do. Shorn...._ 44 4
Pares 3 410 Ewalt asered gasL 0 0 0
3 4 0 Do. do. Shorn 3 6 4
Beet Dos! 1111-brads 0 0 0 lambs 6 0
Beasts at market, 1,440; sheep end lambs 16,440; ceiveft 666;
Pigs, 40.

SMITHFIELD HAY IiABICHT.THIS DAY.)
Yr. Charles James Easton at the fol-
lowing prioes:—Prime old hay, Z 10.965. ; inferior ditto,
SM. to 70s. ; *eta new hay, 70s. to 84s. ; interior
ditto, 60s. to Mk. ; port old clover, We. ies. ; in.
feria. ditto, 80s. to 90e. ; straw, KW. to Me. to l

HOLLOWAY WORKING MIN'S CLWB AND
evening_ 110M-
TM. —Yesterday a public meeting.wee held in
Bt. James's Sel 001-rooms, Holloway, in sonnexam with this
institution. The emcees which has attended its agera-
time during the last Ave years has rendered larger pre-
mime necessary for the purpose of extending its
advantages and making it self-supparting. The
cost of the proposed buildings will be aboet one
thousand pounds, of which three hundred are already
pram iesd by the members and a few friends.
The immediate &jest of the meeting was to ask
the amistance of the public in raising the remainder. Mr.
Alderman Lusk, M.P., presided, and addresses were deli-
vered by Sir Henry Hoare, Bart., the Hon. Auberen Her-
bert, Mr. W. Hawes (chairman of the council of the So-
duty of Arts), the Rev. W. B. Maakensie, W.A., the Rev.
J. C. Gedrie, Yr. Hodgson Pratt, Mr _G. Starttly and Yr.
Tattillil I b °a. lecrot&T7).
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