The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-18 00:00:00

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MINCING LANE.-(THIS DAY.)
&MAR.-The market continues quiet ; prices are again
rather in favour of the buyers. A public sale of 460 bhds.
and 2C3 barrels of Porto ltioo went off heavily, and only
partly sold at 335. to 395. Refined, there is only a limited
demand at former prices.
Comm-For ooloury qualities of Plantation Ceylon full
prices are paid, bat grey warts have sold at prices in favour
of the buyers; low middling greyish to colony, 82e. 6d. to
89e. • pea berry, 955. to 93a. 6d.
TR.A.-The market is unaltered.
SAGO bee sold at 19s. 6d. for small ; and at lla. 6d. to
18s. for medium and large.
Moe. -There is an active demand for cargo kis& of
Bengal, and sales have beep made at 3d. to lb. Soft
grain is also in good request ; tine NiNzanzie sold at 9s. 6d.
Row -The market is inactive.
Smoot. -No sales reported in black pepper, but white has
sold at 14. per lb. decline ; good fair to good Singapore,
sed. to Rd. • for Zacsiber cloves steraider prim were paid ;
ordinary to load were disposed of at 3 .to 3ad. Ginger :
Jamaica has declined 2s. per cert. ; o nary to good, 61s. to
1365. Curie lies' firm ; middling to fine, 86e. to 935.
Faurr.-For currants there are buyers at previous prima,
but few sellers. Raisins quiet.
Corrox. -A fair busioem is doing at full rates.
JOTS.-The market is active at fullaiwioss, common to
good sold 211. to 271. 15s. ; rejections, 1 . 2e. 61. to 16/. 51.;
cuttings. 111. sa.
HgMP.-Ruuian unaltered; clean, 381. 10e. to 40/. far
new and fine old.

TALLOW MARKET.—(THD3 DAY.)
The market is quiet. Prices ere quoted ea follows :
Tows. tallow, 41c .3d. to 41i. set deb; Petersburg Y.O.
on the spot, 425. 6d. ; all the month, 425. 6d. ; July to
September, 425. 9d. ; October to December. Qs. 3d. to
45e. 528 auks delivered for the half week, no import.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
(THIS DAY.)
The number of beast' is scarcely as large as on Monday
last; the demand, however, is much smaller, and conse-
quently several remain unsold. although there is a dis-
position to take rather lower than our quota-
tions. Sheep and lambs are rather more plentiful ; trade is
exceedingly dull, and Monday's quotations Omen be
realised throughout. We have a large supply of calves,
concnd, on the average, prin. s are lower. Our fore** supply
sists of 395 beasts, 2,130 sheep, and 551 calves ; milch
cows, 85.
Par slaw of 1111 a a. d. ad. Par dada al Übe. aJ.s. d.
Dog Boots, ldaratda 4 6 0 Beat Lards 111.1448 h 48 5
Net Bhoet-horns 4 4 8 Best Lang-w 0015.... 00 0
Second qua/ beasts 3 4 2 Do. do. Shan .... 44 a 6
Calves
Phrs
eon Dna& Illf-brlxts 0 0 c Webs
Boasts at market.. 1, 15 ; Sheep sad Uinta 11,320 ; tablves,
74a : Plak ILO.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—ITHIS DAY.)
Mears. Harvey sad Restos report trade slow. Yriatio
meadow bay, 70s. to 80a. ; wen°, ditto, 80e. to 00s. ;
inferior ditto. 4... to 60s. ; clover, old, 90a. to 120 s. ; ditto,
mood ant, 88s. to 100 s.; straw, 28a. tosSte.

FIRE AT MAIDEN-LANE. (Tins DAT. )—At a few
minutes before 5 this rooming a fire broke out in the pre-
mises belonging to Messrs. G. Dawson and Co., priatinz ink
manufacturers, Maiden-lane, Battle-bridge. The fire was not
extinguished until the drying-house of Messrs. Dawson and
Co. we. hurtled out and most part of the roof off. The roof of
the bl ick house of Mr. Cray was so far on firs that it lost
its supports, and fell down. Fortunately the adjoining
property was saved. The property destroyed was not
unwed.
DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT TO UPSET A TRAIN. —A.
most diabolical attempt was made on Monday to upset a
train, on the Scottish Central Railway. about threeluarters
of a mile to the north of Larbert Junction. It appesu
that as a gods train was proceeding south, about 2 o'clock
in the morning, the engine-driver observed a railway chair
with two halves and a couple of stones lying on the oppo-
site rails, near to Muirhall cattle siding. On reaching
Larbert he gave ieformatiou of the circumataocs
to the night porter. who proceeded to the spot
and had the obstruction removed. The whole
chair was placed on the rail with the hollow
side downwards, so that the one fitted into the
other exactly. A horizontal bale was, moreover, by this
device obtained, and the two halves, along with the stones,
were built on it pyramidically. The obstruction must have
been placed ou the line betwixt 6 o'clock on Sunday night
and 2on Monday morning. The matter has been reported
to the police authorities, who are making every effort to
obtain • clue to the perpetrator of the atrocious act--
Falkirk 'Jerald.
THE WEATHER AND CROPS IN WORCEMTERSII IR
The rains we have bad lately bare had the most beneficial
effect on the gnu, seeds, pastures, area corn crops, and
have come just in season to make tolerably good crops of
almost everything. They will einati'.e the farmers to
complete their swede planting, and very much improve
those which are planted. Grass has very much improved
and by waiting a week or nine days longer than usual, be-
, fore it is cut, the crop will be a fairish one. Peas, beans,
sad wheat have shot up wonderfully since the rain com-
menced. The two former will be long, exceedingly well
blossomed, and will to all appearance be well owned. The
lands now well saturated with wet. The crops will grow
fast, and before the moisture is absorbed they will shade the
ground, so that a return of dry weather would not have
such an injurious effect, while warmth would make every.
thing grow faster. Bad the dry weather rentianed much
logger the grass, seeds, and pastures would bare been
parched and burned or, Loud asimany were the complaints
which were being made, but those fears lave been dispelled,
end if we get some nice fine weather it will be found that
not much damage bee been done after all. Some of the late
planted barley, which lay in the ground owing to the dry
weather, will now make its appearance ; but we fear there
is much barley on light gravelly soil which has been so
' much injured by the drought that it will never come to any-
thing like a good crop.— Worcesterstire Clay:ark.