The Express.
London, England, 1862-10-09 00:00:00

PROFINCIIAL BEM MARKETS.

LlYffirroon, our. 9.—Sales today : Great Western, 67—lam
enable° and Yorkshire, 109 81 9 81—London and North Western,
int 21—South Eastern. 931—Antwcrp and Rotterdam. 7 9.10
Buffalo and lake Huron. 61--(treat Western of Canada, 126 9.16
I—Ditto New awls, 77d—Alliance Bank, 61 p —Royal Bank,
SOL shares, 101—Coplapo Mining Company, 81 d.
Oer. B.—Market quiet, with but little change
prices. Brest Ship. W.—Great Western of Cana 123--Great
Western, 671-111inors Central, 404 61 d Ditto paid up, 61%!
—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1031 9 I—London and North
Western, 93—Manehester, Sheffield, and tineranstOre. New fire
per Ce-t. Peel , 1 d—New York and Ens. Mit—North British, 671
—South Eastern. 109—North British New Fire per Cent., sa, p
Laresahlre Insure. ce 9-16 p.

BIIOIINOIIIX. OCT. 4.-70 i sale. were:—Wolverhampton and
Stufordehire Rants, O} Severn Valley Railway shares lef—
(nonce:ter Wanton shares. 11 p—Xibiland Wagon Five per
Cent. bonds, ICO. 1 anesAire and Yorkshire hallway stock
offered at US—London and North Western, 03—Shiewsbary and
Hereford, 106—W, et Indiana, Oxford, 2nd Fret, 123 i. Market
quiet. Local stocks tears..

THE ALLEGED SEDUCTION AND CONSEQUENT SUI-
CIDE OF A MARRIED WOMAN.—(II4OI36BT TRW Dar.)—This
morning Mr. IL Raffles Waltbew, the deputy comae, for
Fast Middlesex, resumed, at the Gossett Arms Tavern,
Gossett-street, Hackney-mad, the inquiry respecting the
death of Mrs. Amelia Castle, who committed
suicide under very painful circumstances. The jury
returned the following special verdict. " That the
deceased Amelia Castle took her own life while of unsound
mind, and that the said Amelia Castle was induced to de-
stroy her life in consequence of the improper connexion
subsisting between her and Henry Haldane, and the ill-
treatment she received from him."
DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT MURDER AT LEEDS.
Mr. Mellon, a mechanic, living at Holbeck, Leeds, who
has recently invented a cosimutting rnachiee, left home
yesterday morning about half-past four o'clock to go to his
ordinary employment at the Kirkstall Forge. As he left
his own door he saw three men in the street, and, as he
upczted that they meant mischief. he endeavoured to
aavenid them. With this object, after passing along the
Globe-mai, he struck on to the canal bank, near the Welling-
ton lock of the Leeds and Liverpool Canal. but be soon
tsw that his feint had hero anticipated ; for one of the
men wee then in front and two behind him. He was
knrcked down at once, and one of the miscreants then
a rope round his neck and attempted to strangle
Wird Mallon, however, placed his hand between the eord
and his neck, and thrust his other hand into his front
assailant's eve. The scoundrel screamed out. " Ob, my
eye," and left hold of Mallon ; but the two other ruffians
seized him, and pitched him into the lock. Mellon Nn
some nine feet hnfure reaching the water. He recoiled"
swimming about in the canal for some ten minutes, and
then reaching the lock gate, by which be regained terra
firma, but be wan so exhausted that he was obliged to Id
down on the bank, and here be was found by a workman,
and conveyed home. The outrage can only be attributed
to the spite of the miners 'shout his invention, for he bee
repeatedly been threatened by lettere of late ; told to insure
his life, for that his enemies were determined to send him
to _ _ .

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FRESH BEEP FORTY YEARS OLD. —The NOUre/liife
of Hamburg says :—" At a banquet just given at Trainee,
in Norway, a dish of fresh beef was 'erred which had been
found het summer in some tin came buried at Spitzbergen.
According to indisputable indications these cases were
placed there by the puny expedition in 1826. The meat
wa. Perfectly fresh, and bad not contracted any bad smell."
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TEE OftwELL Seem STssiout.—The English
steamer Orwell. which was ran away wall from Genoa by
some Italian volunteers in 1860, and retaken by an English
man-of•wer. hag ever since been at Malta, pending the ra
suit of a litigation in respect of the circumstance of her
seizure. She bag recently been fitted, and repaired. As
agent of the Paths of Tripoli has since been sent to Malta
to ch.rtar her for a few mouths to convey his highness to
Benghazi and otbei ports of the regency to enforce the col-
lection of taxes which have been for a long time past opa-
-1 siderably in arrear.