The Express.
London, England, 1857-03-19 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKET&

MINCING-LANE.—THIS DAY.
&MAIL—The market hue very steady appearance, sad
buyers have acted with more confidence. The rcticitd market
also firm.
COFFISIL—The market is quiet, and it is rather difficult to
sell at fully previous rates.
Taa.--Alt few sirculative parcels have been sold at 12}
short prompts. The market for other sorts is steady.
Rtes.-11,500 bags Bengal were offered and bought in et
Ils.
Piwervro.-470 bap sold freely 4p., 41d.
Corron.-250 bales sold.
In other articles no material alteration. Markets gene-
rally dull.

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TALLOW MARKET.—THIS DAY.
Ms market is firm at the subjoined quotation, via. .
TOIIM tallow, Apri1,0 53e. nett earth ; Petersburg IX. fiw
March, Ns.; 545. ; May to Jam, 52a. 6d. to lid.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARBET.-THIS DAY.
36r. E. J. Davis reports trade heavy ; prices without alte-
ration for the best green meadow hay ; inferior qualities
lower in prWe, with very little demand. Prime meadow hay,
60s. to 6U.; superior ditto, 70s. to 80s.; inferior ditto 6*.
is 635. • mime, 60s. to 605.; clover, 70s. to 100 e.; second
eat, 60;. to 80s. ; straw, 261. to 30e.

ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY.—At the meet-
ing on Monday next, the 23rd instant, the following
DetW
papers
willbe reed I. " Journey in Persia, from Shires to
end Kaneran," by Mr. Consul K. E. Abbott ; communrotai
by the Bad el Clarendon.-2. " Proposed Search for Ltieh-
lazdt's Missing Party,7 by S. Sidney, Esq.-3. " Retwn of
the North Australian Expedition, under Mr. Gregory , to the
But Coast."-4. " Chronological Table of the Earthquakes
in the West Indies," &c., by M. Andras Poey, Director at
the Meteorological Observatory at the Havann.
COOint EPITAPH AT RUGELEY.—A correspondent
of the Cheltenham Eronainer states that soon after the
execution of Palmer, the following was sent to Ansley to
be placed on poor Cook's tomb ` Here lies John Parana
Cook, who wee timely poisoned by hie hired, William
Palmer, gasman, of this place, on the 20th November,lB66
but justice followed that man, and after a long and impar-
tial trial before three judges of the land, he was found
guilty, and executed at Stafford, on the 14th June, 1866,
with the general approval of the whole kingdom."
CHESTER AND HOLYHEAD RAILWAY.—A circular
loaned from the secretary's office informs shareholders that,
lea measquenee of an unavoidable delay in dosing the se-
eismata for the pest half-year, arising out of the recent am
nagenient with the London and North Western Company,
and the necessity of adjusting all prior claims, it has been
found necessary to defer, for a few days, the issue of the usual
half-yearly statements of account, and the meeting, called for
the 20th instant, will therefore be held pro fermi only, for
the purpose of au adjournment to a future day, of which due
notice will be given.
A WHALE IN WHITECHAPEL.—A few days ago
there appeared in the Times an advertisement for a meant
hit of ground whereupon a whale might be exhibited. We
wattled anxiously fur the result, and with success, for
shortly we read another notice, to the effect that the whalehad
'arrived and woe now on view in the Mlle-end-read, White-
chapel, near the King Henry the Eighth puplic-house. That
same day pew us on the top of a Bow and Stratford omnibus,
the conductor promising to set us down "at the whale." Oar
money paid, we enteral a tent, and for the first time in our
life enjoyed a full and uninterrupted view of the monster.
We had expected to have seen a skeleton ; but, instead, the
proprietor bes preserved, stretched on a frame-work, the
akin entire. The head remains attached with the bones,
whalebone and all complete, so that it was a stuffed whale we
went to ace, and not a skeleton—none the less interesting
for that. It rarely happen. that Londoners hove a chance
of seeing a specimen of the largest animal in creation. Pla-
tens certainly convey an idea of a whale, but to have
notion of its huge bulk, the thing itself must be seen ex-
tended on the ground, emunined by the eyes, and felt by the
engem. The epecimen is a young female—Repine!, or ranor-
backed whale (so called born its having a fin on its back
somewhat like a razor). It was driven on thereat Wioterton,
ecig t mile from Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, in a tremendoue
Rate from cant-south-east, on the oth day of January last.
length is forty-eight feet ; his weight about twenty-
five tons. 'I he colour of the AM is dark brown on the
hack, vanishing off towards the body in a bhtish grey. The
tsil measures fence tip to tip, It feet. This is composed of a
dense fibrous MAN Ka feels to the touch like • thick sheet of
India-rubber. It is placed at right angles to the body, a
the reverse way to that usually seen in fish. The eye is
'workably smell. and the folds of the eyelids well marked;
se it was impossible to preserve the eye in its natural bright
state, an artificial gime model has been inserted into the
eyelids—the natural colours of the eye haring been closely
imitated. The liver of this animal completely filled
a one•horse cart, and was as much as the florae could draw.
The heart about tilled s good-sized washing tub, and &section
of the principal artery (the aorta) would about fit round en
ordinary-steed bucket. The weight of the blubber was not
serartamed. It seems extraordinary that the captors were
not aware of the value of the oil, for they cut the great
mares of blubber off and spread it as manure over the fields.
The fin which is placed by the side of the anima is remark-
able; it contain four fingers, like human fingers, not, how-
ever, all separated one from the other, but enclosed in the
skin of the fin, which looks like that of an ordinary fish.
Imagine a human hand inserted into a hedgr-eutter's giove,
and wax poured round it, and you bare (emus the thumb,
of which the whale has no trice) an exact model of the
whale's fin.—Dickens's " Hostaehalel Wards."
LONDON GENF.I4 OMNIBUS COMPANY.—TreiIe
receipts for the week ending March 14, 10,0261. 19s.