The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-22 00:00:00

MINES.-THIS DAY.

Two o'CLocc.
Not a single transaction is officially reported to-
day in the gold mining shares.
Australian Agricultural sham are rather firmer,
other land shares remaining quiet.
Linares shares are dull, marking 81 to 8; Santiago
hire been dealt in at 41; Lusiiantan at 11 to 11
prem.; and the shares of the Old Australian Mining
C.mpany, at 1 (61. 10a. paid).

A d is the min in g exchange official list of yester-
day's sales :—Altred Consols, 121, 121, 121, 12 ; Cop-
per Hill, 185; Caradon Console, 314, y ; liender, 41,
41 ;Ivy-bridge Coosa% 255., 275. 6d. ; North Robert,
321; Sortridge Consols, 61, 61, 6.8.9, 61 ; West Seton,
265; West Sortridge, 7e., Bs.; Wheal Grenville, 3;
Wheal Kitty (Lelant), 35.32, 34, 331, 34!.
We also hear ot the tollowiog transvctions •in the
Stock Exchange, vie.:—Rusewarne, 210, 215; North
Wheal Basset, 291, ; Allred Consols, 12f, 131 ;
S .nth Tamar, 61, 7,1; Great Wheal Alfred, 171;
Wheal Kitty (Lelant), 341; Sortridge Consols, 61, 1,
4,1; W heal Edward, 3; South Bedford Consols, 4. ;
Great Sortridge, 10s.; West Sortridge, 7s. 6d.; East
Sortridge, 6s.

OF FOOD

morning the first report of the Adulteration of Food Cum.
nitres was iseseJ. It simply °within, the evidenoe„

Cuicostsr.—This morning a return wear issued
which shows that the expense incurred in carrying out the
Treasury minute to prevent the fraudulent sale of the mix-
ture of chicory with ooft-e was 2,1701. 10s. 5d.; but the
saes paid by persons convicted have more than covered the
amount.

CHEMICAL ESTABLISHMENT OP TILE EXCISE.-
This morniog a return was issued which shows that the
total coat of the chemical establishment of the Excise de-
' ltartment, including the salaries of the different of6oers,
from 6th Jan. 1814 to stk Jan. 1846, was 6,6771.8 s 9d.; the
number of °Beers educated in the lane period was
77, at ea average 'ripens, of 961. Is., and the monies paid to
tudep.odeot chemists daring the same period amounted to
5,2001 16.. 10 t.
THE POTATO DISEABE.—Meurs. Hardy and Sone,
the well known seed urowers of Maldon, writleg in the
Chelmsford Chronicle on the spread of the potst) blight in
• virulent form, in several districts of the county of E.PX.
pey :—The only slierni.tive we know of is that of eau ting
off their tops, and leaving them to chance, thus bleeding
these, ea it were, to Guth by degrees, and posing those yet
aninieeted to be more dry and mealy and in keeping con-
dition than they otherwise would be. Palling the stalks up
is not so well, u it destroys their vitals inetaatateously,
abets in disease, sad subjects them to further deesy. It is
also objectionable, as no index is then left as to where the
roots an, and when taken up they are subject to be p:ereed
with the fork. Be this as it may, all should he done before
the tabere become too far contaminated. It will be of no
more toe to amputate or pull them then, than it would be
to cut of a man's areas or kg. infected with disease to pre-
vest p • trefeatiea which had arisen from such infeetien, mod
which bad bees allowed to taint big whole body. If sadden
discus attacks a pig and it is knocked oa the bud and Omit
killed inetanraneoutly, It una becomes putrid, sad unlit for
human food; sot so if phlebotomy is resorted to at the Hut
appearance, it then renders it marketable. Just se "'Blithe
Plato."