The Express.
London, England, 1857-02-04 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKET&

MARK-LANK—THIS DAY.
The receipts of all descriptions of grain knee Monday
hare been sere moderate, and we are without any animas ist
foreign flour. The attendance of buyers in Mark-law wen
extremely limited. and the few transactions which took place
in wheat and flour wore et rates about equal to those of
Monday last.
Burly was Mill sale, but cannot be quoted lower.
Oats with difficulty supported Mesday's currency.
Beans and peas unchanged.
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WINCING-LANE.—THIS DAY.
SI:WM.—The public sales went off steadily at the felt
price* attest week.
Correa.—There hos not been a publicNativt sale to-day, but
the article has a very Arm appearance. Ceylon, 67e.
to 675. 6d.
Tr.s.—A large business was done yesterday in commas
Congon, at 13d., which was the previous pries, and is
Arm at it, yet the market is quite free from excitement.
Srices.—The hope public sales went off briskly. Whole
pepper sold at id. advance, cloves at id. advance. Other de-
scriptions at full prices.
Sairrernit has been in good demand the last two daye,
and a slight advance has been edablishod. Retraction, 7
to sold in public sale at 425. 6d, to 43e.
Itts.—No business of importance reported. The merist
continues very dull.
Ric e.—A limited business done at previous rates.
/irra.s.re or Soros sold at Ills. 3d. to lee. 6d.
In other articles no material alteration.

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.—THIS DAY.
Messrs. Prittendem and Smith report that the trade ter
the lad few day. has been rather quiet, sad prima are the
turn cheaper. Mid end East Keats, 70e. M 90e.; Weeid at
Kent, 63e. to 80e. ; Sumac 60e. to 76e. ; partings, 935.
66e.

TALLOW MARKET.—THIS DAY.
The market le steady at the prices quoted below, vis. :
Town tallow, 62e. 6d. nett sash; Petersburg Y. C. the Kost.
645. Gd. , Feb. to March, 64.. 6d.; April is June, 5Th. 6d.

COAL MARKET.—THIS DAY.
Byars Weide Ilartlayj 15s. ; Davison's Hartley, 13s. 3d.;
Eden Main, 17s. 9c1.;
_Barto 17s. 3d. ; 'Northumberland
Walls, End, 15s. • Walls End Ilamrell, 19s. ; Wolls End
Berton, 190. ; Willa End South Becton, 18s. 9d. • Wan
End Stewart's, 195.; Walls End Taos, 195.-124 ailips at
market.

Constantinople letters of the 24th state that If.
/litmus, the Turkish envoy at Turin, is superseded by
Ruotem Bey.
Among the passengers which arrived at Southamp-
ten yesterday in the Peninsular mail packet Tagus was Mr.
Sullivan, the United States Minister at the Court of Lisboa.
A BRIDE'S OUT7IT ON ITS TRAVII.B.—The pre-
paration consisted In the dispatch of late maid to Boris nadir
the protection of the courier, for the perdue of that outfit
for a bride on which it maid be already low, in the pre.
lent narrative, to beans an nem bat to which (on
• vulgar principle it elegem of aillardem ie the tangier it
which it professes to be milten) it &dim to give a French
me. The itch and boa
ha aikidos is to,thz
agents, in the course of a ha teembkmeis its way
the intervening country, baba" win aritan-honres, gar-
risoned by an immense ow sidey momdicants to uni-
fain, who incessantly remodel illßeses Petition 0=
as If every individual warrior wain them were the
Belieariue; and of whom them were mammy legions, that
unless the warier bad equaled imt me horael and a hag
of diver aaery im wakening Sir &trees, they would have
worn the atehti eat bean It eel to Rome, by tuning
over and ever. ell ma dengue, however, it wee
triumphmtly brougbk Mob by inch, and arrived at bijou"- •
Ley's end in fine carillon. There it was exhibited to select
companies of female viewers, in when gentle beams it
awakened implacable halinge.—Lietle I• rot for Februarys,
OUR flos.—Our boy is by no moans certain a
his movements, he tikes sometimes one hoar to accomplish
a distance of half a mile, sometimes two hours ; this le
accounted for by his taking various CirellitOilB routes accord-
ing to his taste. One day, ia consequence of Punch sad
Judy. he proceeded boon Charing-cues to Patemoster-row,
eras Westmineter-bridge, the New-nut, the New Rent-rced;
and then over Blackfrianebeidge, to his desiireition ; the
next day he proceeded from and to the same place,. rid the
Northern-road, taking in Cluildford-street, Pentonville, and
the City-road. Our boy is also given to music; we hue
frequently found him extemporising an accompaniment ma
the bone. to a grinding organ, and once he assisted at an
acrobat's performance, by surreptitiouely beating the drum
when the men's balls were tuned. Our boy Is likewise
given to holding conversations in the Onsets with perfect
strangers, and he also takes rat interest in all shop tubers
mechanical operations ore going on. Oar boy is abo of ea
inquiring turn of appetite; he invariably toots the aaeLtias
of our wins sod biscuits, and he carries his investie is
this quarter to ouch an eaten, that whatever he gees to our
printer, be steals pieces cif old printing-rollers, bearer •
attain portion of trestle eaters into their eompolitism—
Oneseresof Dwellers' Mirtriete, for February.
MILITARY AND NAVAL FLOGOING.—One lash is
the navy is considered to be equivalent in severity to ionlnl
in the army, became of the naval lash being gives by the
prattled strong am of a bostrerain's mate, and from the nee
cords of the cat being separated at each lash, so that seek
cord acts; ad the military lath given by the unskilled
arm of a drummer-lad, who merely sweeps the cat round
and inflicts the • ~phmut aa be would with • whip.
Tom" said, " law, Miss Feely whip I—wouldn't kill a
skeeter, her whippies. Oughter imam old moor made the
bah fly ; old mar knitted bow." So Tovy would my
were she to wham on British land the difference between •
military end a naval bogging. "law, dem drummer-boys
flog ..—wouldn't kill a 'osre-fly, der whippet 's ; but dem old
bona-mates scratches de blood yid der nine long-tailed cab:
dery man-o'-war-eritters know how to flog ulnae and
sailors."— United Soria Xatasiete for February.
PENINSULAR VETERANS BEFORE. NOVALTT.—In
Tune 1039, he had gone to Court to be invested with the
Ribbon of the Bath, and on his Maus he made the following
brnirtradngsolddeicrarl' elsontrriucein'n..hissrjournaim.:—T.d...dltimnattbhoeanpniindiiientsuirciuof.i.rem:rof
—worn, meagre, groykeded. eroopinAold corn, risking fart!
I too hove one leg in the grave. we had last been
together we were young, alive, full of high Time, dark or
auburn locks ! Now all are changed, dare parents, all fW/
of ram. Well, the watt b chained hand to hand, for
Pamhun.:;4"twilte7tr.h7dsthear:rytholineg:agmen":4:7oei? Thmilm'atioritha, if:i.whfi4dSgedrrairelyedUgol:c.x'°filbm.ei
Queen receiving our and our old shrivelled bodies
and gwy beads were bohtreltfore her throne, intimating our
revelation to stand by it aswe bad stood when it was less
!minty' filled I wonder what she thought of mold eoldiers
We mat have appeared to her like wild beast., end I dare
sav she looked at us as she looks at the animals in the
Biological Garden. lord BM is old and ha lost his teeth ;
Door Sir John Jones looked like a ghost; and Sir Alexander
Dickson is evidently
_breaking Thinking how these ism
had directed the British thunders of war, I saw that death
was the wader, the ballistics of the court uniebed, mad the
stared me in the fete: hie empire ii,
over rife' l we are in the larder for worres7Z
apparently vary indifferent venirion."—Life and flpianaeel
Oera. Str CUL Ai. Napier, G.C.B. By Lima:Cita, eh K.
Napier.