The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-16 00:00:00

DAT.

SUGAR.—The market id; steady at yesterday's rates. The
pulite sale of l'ernams is progressing without showing any
material alteration In The refined market also steady.
0,11 EE.—The lc aka are going off without spirit.
Ten.—The mar firm without alteration in prices.
Pceesat-600 bags Singapore were offered in public sale,
and bought in at 5.1 d. per lb.
Pturicro.--600 bags offered, and chiefly bought in at Md.
to aid. per lb.
GINGEst.-200 barrels Jamaica told at from 795. to 121 s.
Rict.—The demand continues steady.
Lieu's rrns.—We are without transactions to report.
Corrow.-100 balm sold yesterday, and this article has an
upward tendency.
Markets generally have been quiet to-day.
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TALLOW MARICET.—THIS DAY.
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The me;hast ta fiat to-day. Town tallow Ls quoted 61s. nett
cash: Petersburg Y.C. ow the spot, 60.. 641.01,68.1bert
Ova. , October ta December, 69e. ; January to Marsh, 6%.

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.—THIS DAY.
!deism. Pattenden and Smith repast that the demand for
new hops to at.H eery linitedt and the duty has advanced to
MAX.

TRANSMISSION OF THE INDIAN MAILS
ACEOBB ZGYPT.

TO THI EDITOR OP PEI WITS!.
Stu, In your columns of the 13th ult., an article
appeared blaming the Egyptian government for the delay oc-
casioned in the treswaileeion of the Indian malls serer
Egypt, and attributing It to negligent] e and IU-will.
I have since received a oommunicati n from Alaurria on
the Falba, and it is requested you will, in jarice to the
Viceroy of Egypt, permit me to correct some errors into
which your correepoudent seems to have fallen.
It is well known (and certainly somewhat surprising that
your correspondent was not aware of the fact) that the
Egyptian government has no longer anything to
do with the transmission of the Indian mails.
Some hesitation might, I think, have been felt in finding
fault with a government to whom we are entirely indebted
for the privilege of conveying our mails across their own
country ; but when it is found that, so far from obstructing
or rots:ding its progri es, the Viceroy of Egypt has granted
to Englishmen the exelosive control over the management
of the trends service, it is not to be wondered at that the
remarks which appeared in your columns have not only
created much surprise, but caused considerable indignation in
Egnt. Presug, however, that they arose from a want
of knowledge of the above fact an the part of your corre-
spondent, I feel reared that you •al readily seize the pre-
tent opportunity to remove any misapprehension into which
the readers of your widely circulated columns may have
fallen.
Mr. Green Bey, the brother of her Britannic Majesty's CM,-
sal at Alexandria, is the gentleman who bee the exclusive and
absolute control over the railway and transit service, and the
commission of "surveillance" which formerly existed has
been since entirely suppressed.
This gentlemen has under his orders Mr. Bette, the agent
at Alexandria; and Mr. Grecs, jtin., the agent at Cairo ;
also Mr. Betts, the Sees agent. AU these gentlemen are
Englishmen, as ere also nearly all the employ& in the
service.
The electric telegraph has likewise been exclusively con-
ceded to the direction of Englishmen.
Now, I consider that in justice to the Viceroy of Egypt
. the above facts should be made known' audit any neglect has
*warred it is only fair that the blame should be attached to
the proper partiee. At the acme time, from the information
I hire received, I am inclined to think that the delay In the
, transit of the nails erre from circumstances over which the
gentlemen in question had no control whatever, and their
• management is spoken of as very efficient and praiseworthy.
Bat apart from this, It ewer that your aberrations re-
peeling Mr. Bruce, H.B.M.'s coned-general in Egypt, and
;G. John Greer H.B.M.'s consul at Alexandria, ;rho are
• hell in the Webert esteem by the Egyptians and their own
erowymen, have given quite as roach umbrage in Egypt ea
' your aware against the P4ypdim government. Trusting
• the you will appreciate the spirit in which I feel called upon
to make these observations. I am, &c.,
DANIEL ADOLPHUS LANGE.
43, Mark-lane, London, Sept. 14.

A-TTEXTTED SUICIDE OF A RECRUITING SERGEANT.
- Saturday evening Sergeant Onus, of the talth Regi-
ment, '"etturcied with • recruit log party stationed in this town,
attemp,'ed to commit suicide by cutting his throat, at the
White I. public-house in Lichfield-street, where be wee
billeted. About Ave o'clocl, r giving directions that If he
were wont, ad he should be found up stairs, he retired to hie
roam, end ,iid not re-appear during the evening. About
ten o'clock o ne of his men inqu,red for him, and on pro-
ceeding. as die 'acted, to his room found him lying in a pool
of blood and bin, throat frilbthdly eat. He wee at once con-
vey,' to the South Staffordshire Hospital, where every po..
a iss rendered him; and, slthougb he still
lives, he lies in a c ritical state. It is supposed that be com-
mitted the rush act Natick so nearly aneriliccd his life in a lit
of religious monomania,. • book which he had evidently been
ending being found overt and the leaves turned down at a
passage recounting a happy release from earthly sttliering."
—lrelrerhampton Chronicle.
BOAT ACCIDENT OFF PORT GLASOOw,_Two
LIVES LOST.—A fatal boat accident occurred QS. ewer
immediately opposite to Port Glasgow on Saturday, by
whicis two line have been lost. The following are the
~,.yete,eary patr;.ft Mackie and his eldest son, a young lad,
fele hove been mogul; employed in taking 'MUMS fTESE
the bank in that part dthe eye?, WIC engaged On Saturday
in their nnisi avocation. They LA4 ..W. their
boat very deeply, and put cif' from the bank to
return to the harbour. A very heavy shower of rain
began to fall, and having spread • sea over the cars
of the boat, they crept underneath for the purpose of
screening the shower, leaving the boat in the mean-
time to drift off into the channel. A steamer wee corn-
ing up the river at the time, and the boatbeing in bar coon.,
those on board hailed those in the latter to make them keep
nut of the way, but the signals did not seem to be beard.
The steamer cleared the boat, however, all right, but shortly
thereafter—whether or not from the surf caused by the
steamer it is difficult to say—the beat was seen to go down,
leaving nothing remaining on the surface but the tape of the
two men, and some of the oars. We regret to say that
Mackie bus left a widow and young family. When the poor
w. man heed of the melancholy event, she was In a state
biardwing on distraction, end could with difficulty be re-
strained from nashinc to the river to Aare the fate of her
husband and eon. Tint bodies have not yet been recovered.
—North litriiirn Daily Nail.
THE NATIVE POPULATIONS Of ISDIA.—The na-
tive cultivator, mechan or merchnnt, has little farther con-
Mel with Cher,
ruling power, whether Hindu, Itehonnuedan,
or British, but to contribute his share of the rent or taxes
levied from the community to which he belongs. All that
he desires in return—and usually desires it vain—is the pro-
tection of an efficient police, wills the admieistration of Jus-
tice in matters above the reach of the village conclave. For
the rest, he only asks to be let alone—to treed the little round
that his patents trod before him; to scratch the Gelds with
tie same crooked stick that served hie father for a plough;
to shave with the aim razor the children of those whom his
father shaved of old; to beat upon the same great atone,
with the identical** sad groan wherewith his Leather made
the river's bank mound. the scant apparel of his dusky clan;
to tell the same Morita, eat the same food, shore the same
CLIMIENISINE lead the same stolid life, and die the same epi-
thetical death, which millions have done, are doing, and will
confirm to do, before, around, and after himself, in most su-
preme Indifference whether Prospero or Stephan, be kiwi., of
the island.—Blackwood' Margins for Sept.