The Express.
London, England, 1857-04-07 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKET&

LIVERPOOL CORN MARRET.—THIS DAY.
(ET MAORETIC TZLZOILATII.)
(TROY OUR OWN CORJUMPONDRNT.)
Then was a large attendance of millers and dealers at otsr
corn market this day. Notwithstsadtot, the Mainers trans-
actions were very small. Erery anti of the trade was
. mdet. The retail transaction' obtained the last Tuesday's
prima

MINCING-LANE.—THIS DAY.
8110 lill.—The market has cpencd with • firm appearante,
end the large public sales are progressing steadily. The re-
amed market Arm without alteration in prices.
Correa.—The small public sales are going off at bat
week's prices.
Tu.—The market is stead but not attire. Common
4:emelt firm at 12d. to 124 d. The reduced duties corns into
n yesterday, and it is estimated that about 6,500,000
operation
be delivered this week.

11.;C5.--iivis article is dull of sale, and it is difficult to •
effect sales at previous rates.
Her is very firm ; Demerara proof, 3e. Id. to 3s. 2d.
SALTPETEE.-550 bags refraction 8 offered in public sale, .
and bought in at 41s.
Corms.-200 bales sold.
In other articles no material alteration.

TALLOW MARKET.—THIS DAY.
The market u quiet to-day, at the undermentioned quota-
tiger:—Town tallow, Ms. nett cash; Petersburg Y. C. at
ths spot Ms. ; April, Rs. M.; May to June, Mu

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—THIS DAY.
Mr. B. J. Davis reports $ tell supply, and trade very.
heavy. Prime meadow hay, 60e. to 6&.; superier ditto,
705. to SOL; interior ditto, 60s. to Ms.; rorren, 60s. Os
Ws.; clover, 70s. to 100..; second cut, 60s. to Ms.; Mawr,
245. to 275.

TIM BETTING BOOKS AT WHITE'S AND BROOKES'S.
In theme singular vellum'', which still exile, may be found
bets en all conceivable subjects—beta on births, &lithe, and
marriages; on the length of a life, or the duration of a
ministry; on a rases risk of the halter, or a pia:muses
prospect of a coronet ; on the chances of an election, or the
sanity of the king ; on the shock of en earthquake, or the
Mat sandal at Ranelngh. or Madame Comely's. A re=
trdown at the door of Whiter; he was carried into
ae. Was he dead or not 1' The odds were imme-
diately given and taken for and against. It was proposed to
bleed him. Those who had taken the odds the man was
dead protested that the use of a lancet would effect the her-
mm of the bet. Walpole has a good story of a
who, coming into Whites on the morning of the earthquake
of 1730, and hearing bets laid whether the shock war owed
by an earthquake, or the blowing up of powder-mills, went
away in boner, protesting they wore such en impious set,
that lie believed, "if the last trump were to sound, they
would bet puppet-chow against judgment." One Mr. Blake
betted 1,6001. that a man could live twelve hours ads
water: hired • desperate fellow, and sunk him in a ship bpy~
way of experiment. Neither ship nor man r
"Another 's= sad ship are to be tried for their lives,
Walpole, who is our authority for this story, " instead al
Blake, the easmain."—Naliesel Review, new number.
A POSSIBLE ACCOUNT OF ENGLAND.—• •
But perchance a minister of the Board of Foreign AUT.
in Pekin might feel a areas difficulty in epeaking of the
=lpeople. From the report in his lands, he might
ay that the outside barbarians profess to .rwdate
their oadma by a hook nearly as ancient so the writing* of
Coninges. The authors of this book—the rage. and pro-
phMe dem Wert—although not always in =ism with one
enelltar, yet ogres generally in preferring poverty to riches,
ha applawllng sbstlneacc and self-denial, and decrying the
Pomp arid woollies of the world. But he might proceed, I
lima tram enallhee report prepared hy a mandarin of great
experience in the treys of the Englieh, end who enjoyed in
the junk at Ehaltwall unusual advantages for obeerving
them, that the great distinction between one Engliehman
and smiths nub niNIM his worldly subotsnce. Ile who
rides on hassetnek is mere eilsamed than he who trudges
.
on foot; and he who fa drawn by house inwabure
hex is reputed greater then him whoa
saddle. A rich man may, by a me though coed;
proems rid himself of • =lb who has been faithless
to his bed; but • poor one art retain his erring and
spouse. A torten. that would purchase a thou-
' =netls
of the test rice meadmrs in our happy country is
lavished upon the education of the wealthy, while the prat,
to whom learning in civilised Chins is wealth and station,
are in barbarous England shut out from all the better
Wards, and myriads of them pass from the cradle to the
grave in Ignorance of letters. Moreover, the sages of the
west inculcate upon their disciples the duty of negiectinr
this world, and of preparing deity and hourly for another;
but so indocile ore their hearers that for the moat pert they
ere occupied either in amoasing riches or in procuring fee
themselves pleasures on earth alone, and regard the prospect
of another and a better world with as much indifference as
they regard their own drams or their neighbours Interests
An extremely difficult people are the English to describe;
W'esteatister Baiter.