The Express.
London, England, 1857-04-23 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

MINCING-LANE.—TEDS DAY.
floor.a.—The market continues steady. 12,000 bags un-
•at Manilla were offered ill public Bele, and all bought in
at Ms. Relined in fair demand. Lumps from 65e. to 68e..
fair to tine.
Coma.—The public tales are going if steadily.
Tn.—The public Bales commenced to-day; they are pro-
gressing without spirit, but without showing any materiel
beqta of Ilmigel were offered in rattle isle;
a part only sold at 10s. to lls., and the article has • dull
iirrfilte market is quiet and prices unaltered.
Corror.—The public sales to-day consisted of ineurrent
qualities, sad did not give quotations.
Markets generally dull to-day.

TALLOW MARKET.—THIS DAY.
The market remains Lino. Prices ere quoted as follows
Town tallow, Ms. 6d. nett cash ; Petersburg Y.C., 67e. 6d.
to 66e. ; April, 675. 6d. ; May to June, 6ts. to 6d.

HAY MARBET.-THIS DAY.

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Yr. E. J. Dsvis reports trade without alteration. PAM
meadow hay, 60s. to 665.; superior ditto, 70s. to lloa ;
inferior ditto, 60e. to 63e. • rower, 50s. to SM. ; clover.
70a. to 100 s., second cut, 60a. to 835.; straw, 245. to 28s.

Yesterday's Moniteur contains a decree making
upward. of ninety nominations in the Legion of Honour
among odeers, non-commissioned officers, and privates is
the English army ; also a dome making Any-seven dram
nominations among officers, warrant officers, and mama ha
the Royal Navy.
Oa Monday evening, W. Tite, Esq., M.P., de-
lewd a Mature before the members of the Bath Literary •
and Pldkeapikel Aisociatka, on " Horace and his Times.
as Miastantei bpi& "skins" The Mayor presided, and .
ea beam was followed by a lively discussion. The attest-
ator, was very numerous. • -
Tla LATE MB. ROBERT BICKERSTETIL-110
alma of this highly astimmed_gentleman took place yester-
day messing et St. Amore Camillery, Liverpool, and was •
koudg_ attended ; the swetes woe mad by the Rev. hr.
WWI.. The pap brew awe the Lord Bishop of Ripon.
the Vemeadis AMY/NM Ildienteth, the Venerable Arch-
deassalialeond the Ifeenesbie Archdeacon Jones, rector of
Limped. It had been the intention of the members of the
ordeal profession in Liverpool to join the roomed= in
Rainey-street, but as the family of the demasM were averse
to any public demonstration, the project was abandoned.
They asessubled however in great force at the Cemetery, and
Sword In line to receive the body on its arrival, and wore-
paid the prooession to the grave.
Canaan:4o KENT.—It is contemplated by
thepations et this noble sad bealth-inepiring peen raideat
la Ent Kcal, W Beast artuript WO arm FF
‘atheir rale aura art eeir sum raVairria.alltirkear- •
bra, mew the We of the
aims ea rte aritint pearl Ismael ea
hit Mate all heir weed like akimbo et illnedel
and Ile red N. C. DM Wg, F/142.121 lertert.
risa,
.Iratesed the alentlia Ire that ;
Cialabwy the St. Lamm is likely_ an ache
ewes ter be the scene of matcher. Theo le the
mina taken by its " "—Mat Herald.
REMARKABLE ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENON.—
About hairiest to on Tuesday morning (April 21), a curls
ma and brilliant appearance ma obaused in the atmosphere,
at Plymouth, by a great number of spectators, who appear te
have be ell so wonderfully struck with Its character that
scarcely an two describe it 011ie ; and whether the plane-
MOMS really did assume the different modifications described
by different persons, viewing it at comparatively moderate
distances from each other' and all within the gem at about
half an hour, or whether the discrepancies are owing to •
went of accurate observation, it is not easy to determine.
The wind was N.W. and high, the atmosphere rather hazy,
earls high, principally cirri and eirro-eumuli, the weather
Ono and warm. About half-past ten, mys a ator, I wee
:I=by observing in the atmosphere an mmais circle
white light to the westward of the am, and reach-
ing been the sun in • direction N.W. more than half way te
the horizon. The sun appeared to be in one edge of the Mica;
end looked as if it were travelling in the bright
orbit which the circle represented. At the point where the
am touched this white circle it was intersected by another
circle, or rather portion of a circle, which, extending from the
ma, cut off a very large arc from the S.E. portion, and in-
tersected it again to the southward. This second circle was
dislinguished by brilliant prismatic colours' and looked like
a rukbow interacting the white circle, the colours being
met trilliant at the points of intersection, and the ma hen
forming one of these points. The ends of this prismatic are
were not visible much beyond the periphery of the white
circle. This appearance lasted about half an hour, and the
gradually tided away. Another observer states that the
rims* are was external to the white ring, that their pa-
rtpbarke ware at some distance from each other, and that the
sonwas considerably to the eastward of the white ring, and
within the prismatic are. A third describes the prismatic
circle as being nearly entire, and intersecting the great white
eirde,the sun being situated in the centre of the space in-
ended between the two intersecting arcs ; but all agree se to
the tratraordinary brilliancy of the phenomenon.—Jleehanies'
ityarate.
THE FRENCH PEASANTRY AND THE GOVERN-
E INT.—The changes which have taken place hi France since
1789 had thrown into the hands of the peasantry a large pm-
portion of the land of the country. As every owner of land,
whether of a large or Oa small estate, has an equal rots, the
peasantry hold on overwhelming majority in the frenthies.
The constitutional monarchy had unwisely debarred this
large class of the landholders of France from political power ;
bra by that principle of occioty which seems to be one of the
most deep-seated and irresistible conditions of political
existence, no sooner were the existing institutions of Hsi
country overthrown, than the supreme power in the state
reverted as it were to its source, in the owners of the soil.
T and there alone, the government of the second empire
has a basis ; that is the main, if not the sole, condition of
the gwesent tranquil eubmiesion of Frame to a form of so-
vereignty which has annihilated every eerablance of
freedom ; and the only claim to originality we
can discover in the fabric raised by the Emperor
Napoleon 111., is his discovery that • government may be
founded and maintained, for a considerable period of time, by
the pole support of the landed peaaantry in spite of the
disaffection of the town!, the aversion of the upper ranks,
end the ridicule and vi of the educated classes.
The peasantry were roma by the exercise of universal suf-
frage to the consciousness of political power; but it would be
• complete error to emporia that • wide diffusion of the fran-
chise amongst that class of society tends to free government
and liberal principles. In France the result has been just
the reverse. Unable to exercise that power by any direct
machinery. of their own, they delegated it absolutely, and in
the most simple form, to one man ; and they view without re-
pugnance the uses whirls may be made of that power spinet
liberties and rights to which they are Mangers. provided
their own independence and ascendancy be respected, and
their own prejudices and Tendons flattered by the head of the
state—Edittintret Becieto, new number.