The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-19 00:00:00

MINES.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'C
The mining market is rather quiet to-,) ay, with
trausactioxs upon a very moderate ace e. Great
Vor shares continue in request and lir tie risen to
30 to 3L East Grenville are quoted to
the Stock Exchange Great South Tolgi mi have beep
dealt in at 2.

Foreign and colonial mines are ine *ire. Yuds-
namutana shares are enquired for.

COAL ILARKST.-(113:113 I )AT.)
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Walls Eod Haswell 21a. 6d. ; Walls Bad Teas,2oa 9d.
Walla Bad East Hartlepool. 21a. 3d ; Walls Bad
Hartlepool, 21a. 3d. ; Will. End South I Salk*, 20a 901. ;
Walla End Health Hall, 20a. ed.; We W Eca Quad.;
20a. . ; &buds Hartley, 19a 6d.—a ips at market, 2G ;
at MN 25.

Tin REPRISENTATION Or a aurrox.—The libe-
rals have determined to bring tom, al a wood liberal can-
didate for this borough at the et at paend eteadoo, the
gentleman selected being Mr. Egill M. Richards, of Brook-
Glaanorgaushim who is • partner in the firm of
Dillwyn and Co., Swansea, the p rincipal in which is Mr.
Dillwyn, R.P. for that borough. Mr. Richards has been
mayor of Swansea several times, sad for many year part
be bag been oae of most =tam • apimeten of the liberal
one.. in Glamorgansbire. He is a thorough liberal, advo-
cates the uncoaditional abolition of chtuch-rates, the eatat-
Nies of the franchise, and the adopti on of the ballot.

TARTIMONLAL TO A RUIN IrLY ENOIN;AA.... —A
magnificent Barrios of plate, weigl sing 1,000 comes and of
the value of 650' 1., was presented to Mr. J. 0. Forsyth,
engineer of the North Seaffeedskir• Railway, and also for
some years gambrel manager eir that Has, at a banquet given
to him at Stoke-cal-Treat on Frisky evening last. The testi-
monial was subscribed by a 'umber of gentlemen residing in
North Staffordshire, and wan inkoded, to quote the in•crip-
Moe on one of the pieces of the esrmiee, "as • tribute of
respect and admiration for the honest, iadepeadent, and able
manner is which be ham dieeharged his duty as resident en-
Moser of the North Statfordature Railway from its corn-
menoemeet, and also as emend manager of the whole
undertaking for a member of years."
Bsuito. Cou.aos.—On Friday last the Fellows
of Balliol College, Oxon, came to a resolution which will
theimeforward admit Roman catholic undergraduates to
that great and harped society.
Srosowi.—The sponge business has become a
prominent department at industry in the Ramos Islands.
/t is almost entirely the growth of the last twenty years,
and nets annually about 20,000 dollars. The sponge is
fished and raked from the sandy bottom of the ocean, at
the depth of twenty, forty or sixty feet. It be to a
very low order of anima life, organisation hardly being de-
tected. Melo first taken from the water it is black, and
becomes exceedingly offensive from decomposition. lt is so
poisonous in this cooditioo that it almost blisters the flesh
it happens to touch. The first process is to bury it in the
sand, where it remains for two or three week, is which
time the gelatinous animal matter is absorbed and de-
stroyed by the insects that swarm in the sand. After
being cleansed it is compressed and packed in bales like
cotton. The sponge has been applied to a variety of new
purposes. and within the peat few years has quadrupled in
value.— West India paper.
AN UNEXPVTED VLSITOR. —M. Dump, Minister
of Public lostructioo, as ia well known, recently made a tom
in the department.,. He arrived one morniug, accompanied
by his son, at the College of —, sod, without giving hie
name, penetrated incognito as far as the astieet of the dire..
tor. He knocked at the door, and on a voice from within
telling him to come in, he entered the room. The director
was writing, and without deraoging himself in the least, he
said, " Sit down there." The =Mater took a mat and
waited until the letter was finished. The direeker then
deigned to look up and said. " West is the age of that
young man r Torsoty-two," was the reply. • Diable I
sad what do you !stead to make of him!" " My eaeratery.'
" Weil, and do you wish to put him Into this ease ?" I
" No, Ido not." " Well, thou, what do you ems he
fair " l come to see bow you naive the weals of pnpr7s ;
I am the Waists of Pak Isetrifealea."