The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-09 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

MINCING LANE.—(THIS DAY.)
Elooan.—Tbe market hes again opened heavily, midterms.
praise are barely supported. Mauritius fair yellow mead sh
395. 6d. ; and Kandla cleyed 34.. 3d. Refined, comma
lows and titles, bare declined to Ma. dd. ; and ustkiall
goods have shoo sold at easier rates.
COMZ. —The market privately has bees inactive; tlp
bade having been occupied eith the samples of the lamp
parcel of Bast India to be offered by auction. The Woo
San commeoced rather howdy.
00coe. —6( 3 bags Bible sold at 425.
Tra. —The market minimum quiet.
Rica—Belem is the oily description inquired for, bell
the high prime demanded has checked sales.
Parrot—Singapore sold at 3icl. cub.
Etat. —5O puocheoos of Jamaica sold, good fair at 2a. 94.
to 2s. lid. • low, 2s. 4d.
SALTPITELL —No sales reported.
Mrroir.—The market minnow inactive.

TALLOW MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
The market is steady. Town tallow is quoted 40a. id.
net cosh ; Petembars Y.C., on the spot, 411. 9d. ; Octane
to December, 41s. iki. ; Jammu to March (18(i3), 44a. di
So 44e. 9d.

SMITHFIELD HAY HARICHT.—ITHIS DAY.)
Marra Harvey and Piston report trade tiro at last day%
tel Prime meadow hay. 00e to 100 a. ; laterite Milt
o 85a. ; sew ditto, GA. to 925. fid. ; clover, dd.
90s. to 120 a. ; straw, 27a. to 32a.

HARVIRT IN TER MIDLAND COUNTIER—Wheat
sad barley cutting is now become general to the comities ef
Worcester, Hereford, and Gloucester, sod the proepeda of
the return are, on the whole much better than could haft
bees anticipated, owing to the extra cedinery drought. The
scarcity of rain in the middle of Cooked has bees very
remarkable, and perhaps no district shows the effect meth
than the three counties above-named. Only a very few
showers have fallen is the last three mouths, awl os the they
mile the earth has cracked for two or three feet deep.
SINGULAR TAIIGRT ACCIDENT.—OR Friday last
an inquest WAS held at Weele on the body Of Rebates
Butler, aged 11 years, the daughter of a sweep, whose death
WY occasioned by one of the Waste used by the Toadying
Hundred Volunteer Corps falling upon her. Emma Baltic
the sister of the deemed, deposed—On the af :emcee 4/
Tuesday, the deceased, myself, and three other sisters, seri
a little brother. sU younger than myself, went down to the
volunteer praotier-grotiod to pick up the lead at the
Suddenly I heard my little brother scream out, =et
looking round I saw that the target bad falba
dorm. I went up to it, and all that I could see al
the deceased was one of her feet with the toes pointing
to the ground. We tried to lift op the target, bat we
could not, and we the, west home tad gave as
alum. At the time the target fell there was DOD errs
of us seater than four or fiat yards. and there was
no
wind at the tics—Edward Bytes, labourer, said : Oa
the afternoon in question, hearing that the target had fallen
sad killed a child, I west to the spot followed by a wawa
sawed Summers. We raided the target, whisk was as mask
as we could do, sod I took the demised. who was lying fat
upon her face, from underneath. She was quite deed, sal
there wee some blood upon the graced when her face hal
kid. The target, I tiodarateed, weighs half-atop, std the
iron hold-fasts were hooked to the back of the target and
hod spikes st the made for akin them into the grounk—
Joseph Lat. thatcher : I have the ethosthethat of the km-
gets. They were both securely fixed on Friday List, and I
am emits sure they would have been safe as the Trawler
if they had not bean interfered with. I do not thaw
that any horse was in the field between the Friday sad
the Tuesday. I know that the other target hoe
been once found lyier fist oa the growth—The jury re-
turned a verdict of " Accideatal death." but in the coarse
of a discusaios which ensued a saggestios was made that
rifie targets should be more malady had than in this
Malawi'. The usual manner of fixing the targets —indeed
the targets and fasteoinge both are those provided by
government—is that dracribed by the wanes' Byles, mad
ample resistance is in that way obtained airtime the form
of a bullet fired from the front ; ba so provision is mole
for any blow or disturb:mai from the back. DO one being
supposed to go behind the target. It is impossible, how-
ever, at any range to prevent children from picking up the
nl4 had. The Co over said he should oominnoiethe with
Captain Cardinal' (oommoodant of the corps) on the sub-
ject, der= Herold.
CARLSBROONA Caortht—Tbe tourist on coronation-
fog the merest to Oa istwooke Cathie by the anciest direst
footway from Newport lingers on the shady. slope at the lest
of the castle mound. and luxuriates in viewing the Moth
piece of charming rural emery round the castle.
threepiog from the carriage road below down to thr:i.
mill strewn is a dowry meadow, "ever blooming. f , sal
fair," sad studded with luxuriant elms ; beyond the stealth
are the smiling gardens sod verdant lawns of the west end
of the vi7ige of Coriebrooke. The beautiful meadow ithatelth
to, oominoraly called the " Volunteer Field," wee bon&
about 50 years ago by the oommiasioned omen of the thi
vainteers of the Isle of Wisht, who applied the pay they
received to volunteer aid charitable purposes, sad traeless
..ere apj..inted to admiaster the proceeds, together wok
some funds placed In a local bank, which bask brae
sod relieved the trudges of that put ei their tenet. The
protest tthetes of this lath is Sir Hoary °slender, of Nth-
well, Bert.. who became trustee in Um thorn of bin father,
the late Sir William Oglasder, and it appear. thee sr-
aragements have besot made for letting the land an mate
rents for building purposes. At Newport and everywhere
throughout the irked the project for taming eat lila
work of destraetios bet called forth strong harbor. of db.
approbation. The 'ablate the brought forward at a math
meeting of the Newport Tows Oossoll, sad a delesteMan
was met immediately from Mat body to Si Hefty
Ogkader, with the view of settles before him the risethee-
ties of rural samery which the tercado of betake sad rateks
would isvolve aid to induce him to &bathos the perjest.
Bier Hoary Oglaader received the deputation, sad in wale
have promised to do all in kinpower to meet the withal al
the town of Newport, although • portion of the lath Imo
bola already let.