The Express.
London, England, 1863-03-03 00:00:00

MINCING LA N& -(THI8 DAY.)

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Suoan.—The market has opened very on:fitly, although
very little is declared for public sale, the demand privately
being inastave no important sales having been effected.
Relined is else: fiat, with but little business doing.
Corm .—A fair amount of business is doing in colonial
descriptions at full prices.
I'LL—The public sales of about 40,000 packages were
commenced this morning. and will continue for some days.
The panels already passed thew no material alteration in
prioes.

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Itica.—The sales are confined to small pares* white
Bengal at 13. ; cargo, As. 3d.
Rum.—About 50 casks of good Demerara sold at ls. 7d.
to la. 10d. for large to small packages.
SALTPITILE. —6OO bags sold, average refraction about Gid.,
at 375. 6d.

COTTON. —The market continues to show a deeliniog
teadeaey, about 500 bales sold.

TALLOW MARICET.—(THIS DAY.)
The market is quiet, at the annexed prices :—Town
tallow, 435. 9d. net cash ; Petersburg Y. 0., on the spot,
435. 9d.; March. 435. 6d. to 434.9 d. ; April to June, 44e. ;
October to December, 46a. 6d.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
Messrs. Harry and Easton report trade slack et the
following prices: —Prime meadow hey, 70a. to 7:e.: superior
ditto. 78s to 84e. ; inferior ditto, 60s. to 60s. ; rowen, 50a.
to 60a. ; clover, old, 90s. to 115 s. ; ditto, second cut, 80e. to
106 a.; straw, 30s. to Me.

A CHILD SUFFOCATED BY • FEATH ER. —OD Friday
evening Mr. Cartier held an inquest at the Grenxiat Boy
public-house, Greenwich. on the body of Ellen Cremour, •
child seven months old. It appeared that the mother placed
the child in bed during the afternoon, and on going to it two
boars afterwards found it deed. At the post-mortem exa-
mination of the body • feather was found in the throat of
the deceased, which it must have sucked from the pillow
on which it had been lying. The jury returned a verdict
that death resulted from suffocatina by a Nether.
DEATH ON TH E WAY TO A CEMETERY.—Yesterday
afternoon George Holiday, about 45 years of age, a collar and
barons maker, of 8. t'larendoa-street, Clarendon-square,
Somers-tows, expired under the following melancholy
circumstances. It appears that the deceased got into omni-
bus 7,352 in Oxford-street. accompanied be his siater.in.law,
with the intention of proceeding to Keeled green Cemetery
for the purpose of planting dowers on the grave of his
brother-in-law. The omnibus had not gone more than 100
yards, when the conductor was called so, sod informed that
the deceased was iu a fit. A cab we. immediately w-
and sod the deceased removed in it by Bird, 114 C. to
the Middlesex hospital, when life was found to be extinct.
DEATH or • CENTENAII AN. —lllrm. Broad, •
widow lady, for many years a reeideat in Minim, died on
Thum& morning last, in the 103rd year of her ego. The
deoee up to within a very short time of bee death, was
able to ;led and write without the aid of glasses, and np
to • recent period was in the !whit of walking to Mailing
and back. On the anniversary of her hundredth birthday, a
lady awmaintance was suggesting to her the amount of relief
she would experienm by using a walking-dick, when the
characteristic reply was, " But, my dear, it makes one look
so anciant."—South daatern Gasetk.