The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-08 00:00:00

XIMCING-LiNIL-(THIS DAY.)

Suomi—The demand is steady bat not active, the privet*
Wm include grainy Mauritius at 35e. 6d. Refined is firm
for all descriptioos. The stock of rev sage: at this port
amounts to I 1A,600 tool sophist 92,630 tom /14.1 i year.
Coml.—The public sales of Ceylon are progressing
steadily at full prima.
Rca.—No sale. reported.
Rica. —The demand is active ; 4,030 bap of a hit" Bengal
sold at 10e. to lls. ; and 17,00 U bags of soft brain at lira
Sprices.
SALTPITIUL —There are buyers at full prices, but no eels.
are reported.
Covrox. —The market is more steady, the business dose
has been at firm prices.
lirDico.—There ia a fair demand for *mourning qualities,
at October sales' prices.

TALLOW MARKET.—(THIS DAT.)
The market is steady at the &Cowin prius :—Tows
tallow 42a ; Peressberg Y.C. oe the met. Vs. 61.
October to Dweaber, 40s. ; January to Mush, 41s. 6d.;

SMITHFIELD HAT MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)
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Messrs. Harvey mid Eastou report trade at last day's
prices. Prime meadow hay, 80s. to 110 e. ; Mover,
old, U. to DIN.; ditto new, sewed eat, Cals. to 1104.:
straw, 27a. to 32e.

The Magistrate* of Manchester yesterday resolved
to appoint a Roman catholic chaplain to minister to the pri-
soners of that faith who are confined in the city gaol. This
justices fix the chaplain's salary at SOL a year.
SERIOCS FIRICS—(THIS Dee.)—About 3 o'clock
this morning a fire broke out in the premises belonging to
Mr. R. Sprung, a mason and sealptor, No. 20, Mark Honer
place, Walthamstow. The building was burned out sod this
content' destroyed. The house was insured in the Pli.noix
Fire-ufflce.—Another tire, attended with a greet Ins of
property, happened in the premises belonging to Mr.
Witmaft, a cap front manufacturer, wholesale milliner and
haberdasher, No.l, Pickford-street,Maceleafield-street City.
road. The warehouses, the workshop, and the stabling wean
destroyed, including the stock in trade. A horse was also
burned to death. The loss will fall upon the C.untr, from
which office Mr. C. White quickly attended.—Auotber are
took plack in the premises of Messrs. Iran and Large,
coach-builders. No. 56, South Audley-str. et, Grosvenor
square. The workshops were destroyed by fire, and part of
the roof was burned off.—A fire also took place in the prr
miles of Messrs. Elgington and Co.'s tarponling works is
the Kent-road, at which the engines attended, .indaliboagts
• low; shed was destroyed the other portions of the factory
were saved.
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Ma. FARADAY AND SPIRITCALISSI.—Mr. Fara.
day, in answer to a spiritual invitation, has sent the follow-
ing characteristic reply :—" Gentlemen, I urn obliged by
your courteous invitation, but really I have been so disap-
pointed by the ' manifestations' to which my notice Mu at
different times been called that I am not encourtged to
give any more attention to them, and I thereto» leap
those to which you refer in the hands of the professors of
legerdemain. If spirit communications not utterly
worthltea shoal happen to start into activity, I will trust
the spirits to Ind out foe themselves bow they or. move
MY attention. I am tired of them. With tbanlcs. I am
vary truly yours, M. FARADAY. Royal Institution, Ott. 8."

THE BROTHRILS DAVRNPORT AN 0 THE NEWCASTLE-
ON-T1 NI MAGINTRAtini. —At Newcastle, vest.nlay morn-
ing, Mr. Robert Ward, proprietor of the North of Enylgad
Atlrcrtiaer, applied to the sitting magistrates for • summons
against the Brothers Davenport. who have just concluded •
series of !inset./ in that tows. Mr. Ward stated that the
Brothers Davenport, by professing to show spirituel
manifestation, bed obtained money to the amount
of about 1001. from the people of Newcastle, aced
that he himself hail been defrauded of a cities.. By
their professions the Brother Davenport had induced
large numbers to attend their ..auces, where cert.iu alleged
spiritual manifestations took place, bat which he believed to
be nothing but • swindle, and that the money, therefore, had
been obtained under false pretences. lie stated that there was
an seta minutiae t empowering the magistrates to punish all
persons obtainieg money by professing to give exhibitions of
spiritual agencies. Re submitted that such persons cluld be
muddied the same as fortune teller. were. The m agietrates'
clerk asked him if he could produce the act of parliament to
which be referred. Mr. Ward said be could not, as be did not
inject it would be required. Ile believed the manifesta-
tion, to be a thorough swindle, and that the parties ought
to be punisbed.—l he °Warman said that he himself did not
believe in those silly exhtbitioes, but he dui not think the
magistrates bed power to grant a summons in the case. If
people would be so foolish as to pay their mone to wit.
new such exhibitions. it could not las said that they bed
bees deluded by Wee pretences. The bench refused the
application.
A comet has been observed for some time past in
the western sky. Its loeatioe is near the planet Jupiter,
and at it p.m perhaps 3.1.1414. above the horizon. It has retail,
but Tameables a star of the 'woad clam surrounded with •
cloud or nebular light. When cent observed, on the 9th
of August, it was very distinct, but is now receding from
the sun. to a south-westerly direotiou.—/Peaulu Arfrer.
turn, Sept. 2.