The Express.
London, England, 1857-02-09 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

MARK-LANF..-THIS DAY.

The supply of English wheat upon the Ease= and sent
stands wan very abort this morning, and all good paroolr were
readilysold at last Mondry's ratm ; the inferior hung on hand
although at Is. to 2s. reduction. The receipts of Emig,"
wheat and flour last week were small, and a retail solo was
experienced at aboutlaat week's rates. The top price of town-
made flour was reduced 3e. per sack, say to 675. ; sad
country flour was le. per rack lower.
Malting barley maintained its value, but other descrip-
tions Is. per quarter cheaper.
Oats were dull et a reduction of 6d per quarter.
White peas the same, grey pees and beans Is. lower.
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MINCING-LANE.-THIS DAY.

The followinq;iles arc advertised for to-morrow
Swans-12,000 bags Mauritius, 6,000 Bengal, and 1,000
bags Madras. Coffee-1,300 packages Mocha and 200 bags
native Ceylon.
The pnvato contract markets have been very firm.
&MAR.—A full amount of business has been done al the
extreme prices of last week.
Corese.—A. limited business done at full prices.
TEA.—Priees are unaltered, with a tranquil market.
Rtes.—About 30,000 bags sold since Friday, chiefly
Madras, 10.. 3d. to 10s. 40.
Corrow.—No males of importance reported.
On.s.—Scal, pale, 4W. 10s. to 6W.; yellow, 451. ; brown.
44!. ; sperm body. 922 ; headmatter, 95/. ; rod, 481. to 491. ;
South Sea pale, 48!. ; olive Gallipoli, 61/. to 621.; Spatial
and Sicily, 601. ; cocoa-nut, 495. to 615.; palm, fine, 47a. 64.;
linseed, 41s. 9d. to 425. ; rape, pale, Rs. dd. to 555. ; brown.
525.

TALLOW MARKET.—THIS DAY.
The market is firm at the following quotations Peters-
burL. Y. tisstogratL, 6si.
666 d.; Feb. to March, 665. 6d.
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PARTICULARS 07 TALLOW.

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14,431 T 632 43.010
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METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
(THIS DAY.)
The number of koala is again smaller, and consequently
prima are fully as good as on Friday; however, we cannot
quote higher. The supply of sheep is very email ; trade is brisk
for them at rather advanced rates. Calf trade is dull, but
best qualities are rather dearer. From Germany and Hol-
land there ate 48 beasts, 70 sheep, and 62 calves; Spain, 80
beasts; Scotland, 4do; Norfolk and Suffolk, 200; and 100
from the Northern and Midland Counties.

Par Mom et ilb• a. 4. ad.: Per dams arSibr. aO. ad.
East Ilaata, Ileratorda .4 1 5 1 DM Dr tßf lavas& —.-
15441 .. 4 1 0 Bad I.mg-sroels ...... 2 4
Imam. soSty bats.. 3 4 4 ; Dads arm
1145•1554 market. MU; Asap sad Isaats.lll,9o; dna 100 : /14P.
90.

110 ROUGH HOP MARKET.-THIS DAY.

Messrs. Pattenden and Smith report that there is still a
fair demand for all kinds of hops, at about last week's prune.

CLARE, THE PEASANT POET.—Patroniaing wan
then in vogue, end to catch a real unsophisticated peasant
poet fresh from the country, end transplant him all-a-
growing into the hotbed of London life, was truly refreshing
to the Lydia Whites end Leo Hunters of the period. How
Clare deported himself in his pumps and white mistreat.
under the guiduiris of Lord Radatock, his chief ehownian, we
are not minutely informed; but we know that he felt ill at
ease in his unnatural mitre& talked het little, and when
dinner was over, and he wished to change the scene, to the
utter discomfiture of his hoet and of the ladies waiting in
delightful expectation in the drawing-mom ahove, he would
rise without ceremony, and, thrusting his bends into his
pockets, my, " Well, I'll fib," and " goo " he did accord-
ingly. More judicious friends awaited him in hie nation
county. In these early days he was a recognised prophet in
his own country, and the timely sod well-regulated liberality
of Lords Exeter, Fitrwilliam, and Spencer, then, egeinet ell
the traditions of straggling genius, promptly be towed, has
been continued to the present hour. Meanwhile he far ex-
celled the first efforts reviewed by ne. In 1821 succeeded
" The Village Minstrel," in 1827 " The Shepherd's Ca-
lendar," end in 1835 " The Rural Muse." Though he met
in Mr. John Taylor with the kindest of publi4ent, the
profits his boob brought him were not large, and good
management is seldom the characteristic of a pet's farming.
He walked the fields rather to gather thewe for his poetry
than grain into Iris garner; end, like Burns, would stay the
pieties midway in the furrow to moralise on scene creature or
plant he had disturbed; he persisted in looking upon weeds
es wild flower., and literally loved his mole-bills es
mountains. A hallucination on this subject was one of
the find symptoms of a fine mind giving way under too
sharp a tension, and perhaps by being daily employed or
work too rough for it. The sad result may le told inn few
words :—Poor Clare, has ingbeen several times under private
care, is now a patient in the Northampton Lunatic Asylum ;
forgotten by the gay world that oneepetted him, and warmly
remembered in his own country, exeept by there few nohlemeir
who Mill minister to his went., and whom in his wanderings ho
defilade to call his brother. in blood, es they really ere in
kindness. Yet hie true and loving drieriptiona of natural
objects, hi. pictormeme and nervous language, and the pure
vein of poetry and feeling that runs through all he wrote,
might claim for him a kindly remembrance even In days
which would looker hie themes as satiquated and imapfil.
There are lines "First Love's Recollections" in his
lest volume, which, can from a men of hie clam strikes
us es one of the meet romarkaWa expressions of refined feel-
ing we know; sad there is a efiwularly wild. end strange
beauty in some wawa, still unpublished, written b 1 him
while en inmate of the asylum; bet we regret that these mid
further details of his story ere beyond our eresent
The cottage at Northbarough, which his vale. null holds
under Lord Fitmillism, show. in amnesiacs@ of de arrange-
ment end &rill/We marks of higher cultivation then the
ordimry labourer's home : in its books, many of them scifts
of friends—in the teamed engravings, emirate of his hem-
factore—in flowers more abundant and more choice than in
me men cottage gettlens—just such a holding as one would
wish the Village Minstrel to eniov.—Qwerterly Renew.
THE AMERICAN MAILS,—LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.
—The British and North American Royal Neil stemilhip
Asia, Captain E. O. Lott, sailed from the Mersey et llalf.
pest nine o'clock this morning for New York, with Om
usual weekly mails for the United Staten end British NOY&
American province, 60 passengers. and a full cargo of va-
luable rearetuusdine on freight. The next mail front the
United States will be brought by the Royal etreasship
America, Captain Small, which was to leave Boston on the
28th, end Halifax on the 30th ult., and which may be ex-
pected to arrive in the Mersey to-morrow afternoon.