The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-29 00:00:00

TALLOW MARKET (THIS DAY.)

The market la firm et the annexed priors —Town tallow,
SU. um cash; Petersham' Y.C. on the (pet, 63e. ;
January and March, i 3(.; March, 63e. 9d. to 64a.

SPORTING.-THIS DAY.

(DT ZLECTRIC TELIORAPN.)
READING STEEPLE CHASES.

TEE CALCOT PLATE.

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CALEDONIAN RAILWAY COMPANY.—An extraordi-
nary meeting of the Caledonian Railway Company was held
fa Graggew, on Tawdry afternoon, .•for the purpose of gua-
ranteeing in perpetuity a fixed dividend at a rats not exceed-
ing five per cent. per annum upon those of the Caledonian
Railway Grantee shares in regard to which notice had been
given by the holders thereof of their desire to receive a fixed
guaranteed dividend in perpetuity, in lige of the proportion
appertaining to the stares held by theta respectively, of the
net profits mister from the 'silvers end works authorised br.
the Caledonian Railway (Graeber Breaches) Act, 1857.'
Mr. William Johnston, chairman of the company, occupied
the chair, and explained that the guarantee extended only to
the sleek raised by the Caledonian Company, and that the
Duke of Boceleuch's 30,0,101. of eta k we. ungneranteed. A
resolution opposing of the proposed guarantee was mann-
mostly owned.
RAILWAYS IN GREECE.—A letter from Athens of
the 18th In the Nerd of Bruises goys Two companies
have taken Tart bathe edjedieatien of the railway from Mis
oily to the Pintos. One French, represented by M. Perak'',
who came the nearest as regards the pries of places to the
programme of the government; and the other Greek, having
at its heat Baron Sine, who has deposited 200,000 francs,
and the National Bank, which iris engeged to pay a gnat!
I sum. The editor of the Reperatre. representing an English
company, arrived too late to be admitted. Every praise is
due to Id. Prevelegioa the new Minister of the Interior, for
the inpartiality he Mowed on this ore-Won. It is for the
king to deride which of the two companies will be preferred.
It is thought that no the French company has offered the
lowest pries for the place., and the shortest term fur the con-
motion (seventy-two yoars 'Bread of seventy-five), it will
obtain the concession. It is to be hoped that the affair, which
has been ten pars in hand. will pew be finished."
OYSTERS AT NEW YORK.—There is no place in
the world where there are ouch fine graters ea in this city—
fine in fievoter, and of • etas unparalleled in the oyster-beds
of Whitmable, Ostend, or the Ro.:hcr de Cancels. Nor has
the gift ( f oysters been bestowed up'x en ungrateful people.
If one may judge from appearances. the delicacy is highly
relished and esteemed by all claws, from the millionaire in
the Fifth Avenue to eke boy in the Bowery and the German
and Irish emigrants in their own peculiar quarters of the
city, which (rail lit es Tassant) seem to monopolise all the
filth to be found in Mantuittou. In walking op Broad-
way by day or by night—but more erpecielly by night—
the stranger omen but be struck by the gnat
number of " Oyster M00n.," "Oyster and Coffee
Saloons," and "Oyster end lesser Beer Salome" that solicit
him at every tura to stop and taste. These saloons—many
of them very ktanderanely fittod up—are, like the drinking
saloons in Germany, shire, d in vaults or ceiling, with
steps from the street; but, unlike their German models, they
often forts them in ruidergr,,nail shifts of stably commer-
cial palates of granite, brown state, iron, and white marble.
In thee. palace., as in the hotels, oysters are to be had et all
hours, either from the shell. RS they are commonly eaten in
England, or cooked in tenineT,—der, for all I know to the(l eon-
ipMed,inatefroreZ boarkel, roesim'sgi, fried, 'antitecolloY;ed ; orrten
ters
made into soups, patties. and puddings; oysters wi.lo con-
diments and without condiraetts ; eycters for breakfast,
dinner' and supper; oysters without stint or limit—fresh es
the fresh air, and almost as 'attendant—ere daily offered to
the palates of the Menhattaasse, and appreciated
with all the gratitude which ouch a bounty of na-
tura ought to inspire. The Aare of Long Island, fronting
the Lung bland Sound, for 11S miles, is one long sucetesiou
of (1 KU beds. Soutbwarila, along the coast of New Jersey,
and northwardo and eastwards m Rhode blend and Elme-
r-busses, the same delimit. Menet& and foetra a large and
very lucrative comer( roe. In City bland, adjoining Long
Island Sound, thew Lute popolition, cm:1.6061:g of 101) per•
sow, is employed in the catty...lra of oysters. The City
Islanders are represented m n very honest, peculiar, and
primitive community, who intermarry entirely among them-
relent, and drive a very douriebiag 'Cnine.... The oyster
which they rear is a particular favourite. Other esteemed
emerges come from Shrewsbury Cow Bay, Oyster Bay,
Rock Bey, Boddie Beck, Virginia'Bey, and Spuyten Mural.
This lees-mentioned place is in the East River, non the
Long Island Sound, and derives it. name from the
original Dutch settlers of New Atumerdam, in the days of
Kreekertneker. It is related of an English earl, not long
ago a Mater to the States, that his great delight wee to
wander up and down Brootaray at night, and visit all the
principal oyster saloons in succession, regaling Weasel(
upon fried oysters at one plaza open stewed oysters at ano-
ther, up= routed oysters at a third• and winding tip the
evening Ly a dish of oysters d As nearly all the
theatres are in Broadway. the Broadway oyster saloons com-
mand sleight a truffle seen larger than by day. "Frog,
coustenorre mai" may designate humanity elsewhere, but here
the quotation is out of pito*, and man ',born to «imam°
opters."—Letter front Dr. Mackay In the Illustrated
Lou,lue Heirs.

A :etter, dated rari., December 27, says :—" There
wee a report at Marreillee on .he 23,11 of December that the
Fortuna (Sardinian CPPOP. Captoin Poez•, bound to Mar-
seilles and Genoa, had been fired at in St. Domingo Roads by
the insurgent', and sunk."