The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-27 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MAILKETS.

LIVRRPOOL CORN MARIERT.—(THIS MU.)
(11 ialriii AND lOWA iLiONNTIO 111LI0NAIPN4
(TWIT OCR OWN 0011NO0ONDONT.)
Mahal very quiet bat moderate business la lama mai
sour at alumna rats of Tueeday ; eata firm, 3.. Td. paid fix
461 b.; beat mob oatmeal, 20a. dd. to 30a. per Load; Wiry
and bean* etrady , lidlai coca unchanged, and in Mad
demand.

MINCINO-LANE.—(THIS DAY.)
To-day, u customary, has been kept ea a holiday, sad sre
are without traimaotions to report.

TALLOW MARSET.—(THIS DAT.)
The market la steady et the faHewing prices:—Town
tallow, 67e., net melt ; Petersburg Y.C. on the spot,
68e. 9d. all the month, 68a. 64.; January to Mar*
68e. to 66a. 3d. ; March sloes, Us. 6d.

PaRTIOUL* O► TALLOW.

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SERIOUS CHARGE OF PERJURY AT BOLTON.—At
the Borough Court, Bolton, on Thursday last, George
Smethurst, bee:seller, of Charchgete, in that borough, ap-
peared to gnawer a eummou for having his honer open at
Mega hours on the Saturday morning previous. Mr. Hall,
the public prosecutor, apprized in support of the information,
and Mr. Richardson for the defence. The cue presented was
of an extraordinary nature, t bestuanient cf the police-oenatable
being such sr to call forth from Mr. Richardion the remark
that he had committed wilful and corrupt perjury. which
mut haubeen the cue Hate evidence given by toe witnesses
for the defence were trite; and It was intimated in court that
the constable would be proceeded against for that offence.
Since then, however, the affair has begun to assume a very
different aspect, not making the alleged offence of perjury
any less, but charging it upon the witnesses who gave evi-
dence foe the defendant. The magistrates ordered warrants
to be issued against Nicholas Reyes, Mary Gallagher, and a
lodger, Leyland, and they were apprehended in the afternoon
on a charge of lOW and corrupt perjury, and Smethurst
on the charge of aiding and abetting in procuring the said
corrupt evidence. Hayes and Smethurst were admitted to
bail, end the cue will come on for hearing to-morrow.
MONEY ORDERB.—On the Ist January next and
thenceforward the following changes in the mode of trans.
acting the money order bulimia, which have beau effected
in England and Wales, will be extended to Scotland and
Ireland. The dish:atom between minor and major money
order offices will be abolished, and all money order offices
will be placed on the footing of major money order offices.
Theorising of money orders drawn at any office (hitherto a
minor office) le the United Kingdom on any deo,
in the Called Kingdom will be traneneithed direct
to the paying office (ea in the cue of orders drawn at
a major office), instead of being sent through the metro-
politan office ea at present, and the corresponding orders
will be paid, although the advice. du not bear the swop of
the metropolitan matey order office. Applications for alter-
ation of the name of payee or remitter of an order
issued in the United Kingdom on any office in the United
Kingdom may be made direct to the booting poetmeeter, if
the remitter can make the application in person. The exist-
ing charge for additional commission will be maintained. If
application cannot be made by the remitter in peroo, it
mat be suede, es at ptesent, by letter, enduring the amount
of the additional commiseion In postage stamps, addrereed to
the chief money order office of the kingdom in which the
order Kisaued.—By command of the Postmaster-General,
ROWLAND HILL, Secretary. General Poet-office, Dec. 21.
THE ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH ix NEW SOUTH
Wsues.—The electric telegraph Is being rapidly dev-hipsd
In New South Wales. As regards the interculoniel line
opened some time Mace between Sydney, Melbourne, and
Adelaide, it appear. that a second wire is being put up .n the
poste at present in we between Sydney and Athory on the
frontier of New South Wales. The we.tern line to Bet burst.
extending nearly 120 miler, was expected to be reedy for
messages in November; and the northern hue, which will
connect Maitland and the Hunter River district with
Sydney, has been oompleted as far as Wollombl, b tweet
which place and Maliland there Is a good road, so
that there will be no further hindrance is the com-
pletion of the work. The Sydney government hays
placed on the ertimetee for 1860 the nun of 15,000/. for a
line from Goodie' (en the present route to Alhuty) rig
Wagga-weggs to Deniliquln, to effect a second communica-
tion with the Victorian and South Auetralian eta.i..na at
Zebus. The new direct Adelaide line will, if carried out,
follow the Murray River to the eastern frontier of South
Australia, end will avoid Victoria altogether. It is pro-
posed to purchase a line from Deniliquin to Echuea, con-
structed by • private company, as it fa considered desirable
that the government should have the control of it when the
I new communication contemplated with Deniliquin ie este-
bibbed. It is also intended no ark for • vote of 6,0001. for
the 'etudes of the western lige to Madder, and 45,0001.
for a line from West 111.itlend to Moreton Bay, rid Sin-
gleton. Scone, Murrurundi, Tamworth, Beadsmen., sad
Armidele.
OXFORD, WORCESTER, AND WOLVEIGIAIIIPTON
RAILWAT.—The total Wane receipts of thin cowpony for tba
fortnight ending the 18th of December have been 9,7821. lfos
21. and ter the corresponding fortnight of 1888 they were
8,9791. Is. 101. ; the expenditure amounts to 4,1821. 9s. 74.,
or at the rote of 42.74 per cent.. whilst the expenses for the
coneepondiog fortnight of 1838 amounted to 3,9171. be..
or at the rate of 43.73 per cent. The aggregate receipts
for the first twelve fotth.l/4hts and three d. of the half-year
amount to 123,2141. le. 04., as against 113,3811. Os. 761.
for Me corruponding twelve fortnights
and four days GI
the previous year; and the omega,. expenses for the first
twelve for.n:ghts tied three days of the helf-year amount to
49,0641. 2s. 44., being at the rata of 39.81 per cant.. as
seinet 41.63 U. 17e. 10d. for the oorrespotding twelve fort-
n4hts end four days of the precious year, or at the race el
39.36 per oat.