The Express.
London, England, 1868-04-16 00:00:00

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tire propai 'one of telegrams to letters in the re- MARKET&
VS ooantrias :
fist. swilasitaim. maid TALLOW.—WKDNINIDAY EVENING.—The market was
1000 - 9d. ;
lan to Ito 87 Ito N 3 Jane, 455. ; pouter to December, 45a. 3d. ; December,
Ito 187 -. Ito 80 ... Ito 221 456.94. Deliveries to last evening, 927 casks ; arrivals,
Ito 114 ... Ito 74 ... Ito 197 666 casks.
1 to 811 169
inLEAthe TleThei—trVatre dnurinteleibuithi:empicht"weber tnandthulebeingte4
Ito 73 ... Ito 69 ... Ito 151
Thus, with all our advantages, Mr. Scuds- Easter week no market was held on Tuesday at Leaden.
more remarks, writing in 1866, the proportion hall. There is no change in the character of the demand.
otelegr
ii7a in Be m three ye
nirtoletitgeiursisno higherarsag
in England o
nglanr
than it .
d now
~.La Ongligh hidestEogliahbe tinttsc,olniahtuse in requestbouldrse, anda
low priced
than itfur,
was in Switzerland twelve years ago. Mr. Sonde- r
more contrasts the early, rapid, and great develop-
ment of telegraphic correspondence in Belgium and
Switzerland with the comparatively slow and feeble
growth of such correspondence in the United
Kingdom ; and asks why it is that in this country,
where knowledge is so generally diffused, where
commerce is so active, where social inter-
course is so frequent, full, and free, and
where thepeople have shown so marked a readi-
ness (a readiness not paralleled in any other
country) to interchange thought and opinion
through the post-office, recourse for the like pur-
pout to the telegraph is proportionately lea. com-
mon than in leas wealthy and lees busy countries
That there has been a slower and more feeble
growth of telegraphic correspondence in the United
Kingdom than in Belgium and Switzerland is
attributable partly to the fact that the telegraphic
system of the United Kingdom has been carried on
under a divided management, but mainly to the
fact that the Tanagers have, of necessity, re-
garded the business which they had to conduct
merely as a commercial undertaking ; that they
have, e)f necessity, thought rather of the interests
of their shareholders than of the interests of the
whole community wind that they have come to the
concluaion that they could not amend the existing
arrangements for the benefit of the community
without at the same time inflicting injury on the
shareholders. Hence it has come to peas that
there is a deficiency of telegraphic accommodation
in the United Kingdom, as compared with Belgium
and Switzerland.

ecerrox—Lrosaroay Arun. 15.—Market closes qui.
etly, at rather easier &Masted silos to-day, 10,00)
bales, including I,so6speculation and export. 6,900 Asa.
Ild. to 13641. ; 600 Paraam, &c., 12d. to 141. ;
350 Santos, 12Id. : 50 Mood* and Bahia, 121 d. ; 150 Ms.
Tinhorn, 12641. to 126 d.; 600 Egyptian, 12 to 15t;
50 00171 DIS 110- 1 400 Pont, 12g. to 13d. ;I,oooid
Bug,
9d. to Madras, 10.141. Bengal, Salads, ko., 964,
to 10d. Fair Dliallorsh, 10a. ; fair Oomrawuttes, 11d.;
fair Broach, 11d. ; fair bengal, 91d. ; fair Egyptian, 1341,
fair Pernam, 12141. ; middling Boards, 121 d. ; midaliai
lOrisano, 12441.

CORN.—Bogrow, APRIL 15.—At onr market to-day we
had a very small supply of wheat ; the market was firm
at prism in favour ef the sellers. Oats, bean■, and peas m
beers, but very little doing. Wheat, red, 7.15. to 76e.;
white, MI. to 80s. ; beans, 4e4. to 53e. ; oats, 244
to 32a.

GLASGOW, APRIL IS.—The weather has been remarkably
flue, and favourable for spring culture. At this days
market there wu somewhat more inquiry for wheat, and
rather over previous prices were asked fir moat kind., but
it was difficult to establish an advance, which was only
partially obtained for American red spring and Odessa to
the extent of 3d. to 6d. per boll. Flour rather more sale-
able, at former quotations. Barley firm. Oats and oat.
meal steady. Beans and peas unaltered. Indian com
slow sale, at a reduction of about 3d, per boll. ed
American, 235. 9d. to 245. per 29011 m.

CATTLE.—SOUTHALL, APRIL I. —We had a [air
demand today, and everything vas sold. Beef made
from 3e. 841. to se. 4d. ; mutton, 4s. to Is. lid. ; lamb,
7s. to ne. ; veal, 4s. 6d. to Is. Id. ; pork, 4s. to se. per
stone of slim., sinking the otTaL

COALS.—Loammr, Amyl. 15. —Holywell Main, 35,. gd.;
West Hartley, 16s. 3d. ; Wylam. 1:4. 9d. ; Eden Mainla 16s. ; Walls d Braddyll's lietton, 17s. 3d. ; Wane Esj
Hatton, 19s. ; Walls End New Belmont, IGs 3d. ; Wells
EndMussel'.Hatton, 16s. 6d. ; Walls End Carsdork,
18a. ; Walls End Xelloe, 16s. 9d. ; Walls End East Hart.
lepool, IS.. 6d. ; Walls End Tees, 180. Gd. ; Walls End
Trimdon Thornley, 168.—Shipo at market, 39; sold, 29.

Warr Coen or APRICA.—The African Com-
pany's steamer Athenian, Captain Davis, arrived in the
Money yesterday, with the mails from the West Coast of
Africa and Madeira, together with a full cargo, 1,443/ ,
4,913 doh., and 5,001 francs in specie, and eleven pas-
Imagers. Her dates ar►—Fernando Po, March 10; Caine-

rooms, 9 ; Beam River, 17 ; Nnn, 17 ; Bonny, 17 i Benin,
18 ; Lagos, 20 ; Accra, V ; Cape Palmas, 26 ; Sierra
Leone, 30 ; Teneriffe, April 6 ; and Madeira, April 8. I
The news is without importance.
GENERAL PORTERS' BENEVOLENT ASSOCIATION.
The first annual dinner of the friends sad supporters of
, this institution was held at the London Tavern yesterday '
' evening. About a hundred gentlemen were present, and
the chair was taken by Mr. Henry Hoare. The object of
the associationtis to provide and grant pensions to infirm
and permanently disabled porters and messengers, and to
their necessitous widows and orphans. The porters and
messengers in London are a very numerous body, amount-
ing to some 60,000 or more, and the association has been
projected to endeavour to meet in some degree the require-
ments of this meritorious class, whose lememeration, as a
body, does not allow of their making provision against sick-
ness or other disability from labour. The chairman, in
proposing the tout of the evening, "Prosperity to the
Association," said about three years ago his fate father
promised to take the chair at the dinner of this association,
but in consequence of the accident which betel him, that
promise was never fulfilled. He was now fulfilling it for
him as far es he could. Many changes had taken
place in society of late years, and amongst other
changes they were learning to diem-inch:tate between
real charity and false charity. In doing so they were
developing the great principle of the dignity of labour.
No body of men was better deserving encouragement
and assistance than the porters and messengers of London.
The remuneration of these men was small ; they had
many of them wives and families, and in case of VlClifil-
tutle they had nothing to look to but starvation or the
workhouse. The association was founded in 1838, sad
1,700 of the porters had subscribed to it. About 2,000 f. had
been disbursed in pensions. The number of pensioners now
on the books was 19, and the funded capital amounted to
nearly 6,0001. There were at this moment 29 deserving can-
didates for pensions, many of them being upwards of 70
years of age, but the stabs of the finances would only allow
the committee to grant pumices to two of them. The
secretary then read a list of subscriptions, which included
10. W. from the chairman, 1051. from Masao. Leaf and Sons,
521. 10e. from Mown. Akre° and Co., 1051. from Memo
Boyd and Co., 261. ss. from Mews. Bradbury, °reagens,
and Co., and U. ba. from the London Tavern Co.—the
total amounting to I,loof.
EMIGRATION FROM THE EAST OF LONDON.
Yesterday 150 people, including men, women, and chil-
dren, embarked en board the St. Lawrence, serew steam-
ship, lying in the Victoria-docks, bound for Quebec. The ,
men were chiefly blacksmiths, fitters, sawyers, and
labourers and all of them in the prime of life. They had
all lived in the mist of London, principally in Poplar,
and all suffered more or less during the long continued
diagram. None of them, however' bad received parish re-
lief. Most of them had families of four and five children
each, and some had sons and daughters well grown. They
an sent out under the auspices of the Bast-end Emigre-
ties sad Belief Fund, the subscribers emulating chiefly of
beakers, merchants, shipbuilders, and clergymen, and which
was formed with the view of alleviating by emigration and
other means the distress in Poplar and the adjacent dis-
tricts, in consequence of the cessation of employment in
the a hipbuilding yards. The emigrants have all a free
out, sad are provided with everything necessary
passage
way of clothing, provisions, books, Bc. On their
arrival at Quebec, they will be put in communication with
Mr. Stafford, government emigration agent there, who has
iastreetioestornakearrangementsfortbsir reception, mdfor
sending them up the country to districts where labour is
most in deemed. The Sr. Lawrence is a screw steamer of
1,398 tom register, and is thoroughly well fittediot u
l a
and emigrant ship. The voyage will ly
Matillogn.r tl6 dep. All the emigrants are properly Abed,
and the arrangements have been =Tied and certified by
Captain Lean, the government bon agent for the
port of London. Notwithstanding privations which
the entigreats had suffered, they looked yesterday in fair
heel* sad spirits, though some among them appeared to
feel poignantly the breaking up of their little homes and
associations and taking leave of friends and country. They
are all of the class likely to do well in a country like
Gouda, the men brims handicraftsmen and labourer*,
comparatively young, sad having growing sons and
daughters. They were selected by a committee of guile-
man in Poplar, including Mr. Henry Green, Mr. Currie,
Mr. Bullinat, the Bev. J. F. Kitte, sad others. The
vessel will proceed on her voyage this m,wning, and it is
the intention of the oommittee, if funds be f',o.ming, to
sand out a fresh batch in a short time.
ANOTHRI FATAL BOAT ACCIDENT.—ON Saturday
thermion a melancholy beat aogident occurred on the
river De west. George Groves. twenty-01r ran at !go,
and • companion, engaged a pleasure bo•S, bat they had
only prooesded as far as the "dead waters," some short
dLlana pad the "twat beam," when, from some unea-
siest, the boat capised, and both were thrown
tort:grim.They straggled far a considerable time,
and geese was making towards the embankment the other
jumped epee his back. and the coesepenes was that both
ingbanti sank. In the presence of some men, who bad
been st to the spot by miss of distress, each rose
spin to the serfage, but the demised was totally ex-
hausted, and before kelp could be rendered he sank a
third time. The bodez was subsequently recovered. The
ether man vas reeeaad
CAPTORS OF A Motagrzs ROYAL SRI:MORON IN TEI
INDWAT.—Yestarden whits a Beebesterflehernum, asesed
Henryllllli.ah. was engaged fishing in the Medway, nestl
-reach, be suosseded In capturing • repel 1
stns nof an unusual giro, th fish being found to
gn.
no leas than L.lfillia., its length being 7 feet 6
Op being bade* the sturgenn Yu Priornted t•
- mayor (Mr. Vliegat Hills), to whom, under tbe
ancient charters of Beebteder, all " royal" fish caught in
omal/2thineuile:liiielowayabilesgal
t; absoso II was on rinalero irpsettnwitlotol:,
othwtot is tho h
mat wear espial= Mimreetley. to be the
Wm HiwrOrtimaxerit.—The neighbour-
issill riladslalso Is dos pada of Islington, is famous for
honeolanghlieinli. Mr. C. J. Bunt, she in-
inissier of homes for alauglitering berms, appointed I
wander tbe Leal act, repels that &Ayr the past year
siaegidsrel sir hosed deed to Mei slaughter'
=Will& Me diarist won as fellows :--httoes, alive,
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