The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-27 00:00:00

3MICING LANK-(THJES DAY.)

817041 L-Then is ao improvement la the de for this
article ; only a moderate basins' in British West India., at
prices barely equal to those ruling last week. Trieidad
relining, 37a. ; St. Kitts, 38s. • Jamaica, 364. &L Is other
kinds so Wes reported. Bodied mations* In fair request,
at steady prices.
COIM.—No public sales have been held to-day ; pri-
vately, business u dole( in Plantation Ceylon at farm prices,
and Native, 675. to 68a.

TEA —T!e motet nmeiee quiet.
Hips.-1,800 boa of good middling whits Banal sold at
12a. 3d.

sales reported.
Elaisrrres—Asparail of Bengal, refraction 7 per cent.,
sold at 395. abort prompt.
Barnown.-80 balsa of Bengal of reosat import sold at
5/. 15a. to 61. 5e., being steady prices.Satiturc.—The market betas more freely 'applied, good
and floe button sort boa sold at sa. to 10a. decline—from
8/.10. to 91.10..
Carrots motional dull of oak.

Harr.—Prior of slow Kaaba us quoted at 331. 10s. to
361., for Mario, to du.

TALLOW MARIEET.--(THIS DAT.)
The market is steady at the fallowing quotations :—Town
tallow, 395. 6d. to 395. 9d., net cash ; Petersburg Y. 0., ors
the spot, 41.. 9d. to 425. ; July, 41s. 6d. to 41a. 9d. ; Oats.
her to December, 435. 9d. to 4Y. ; Desember, 44a. 3d. to
445. 6d.

BOROUGH HOP HARKIT.—(THBI DAY.)
News. Pattenden and Smith report oo sitaratiou in the
market since Monday last ; prices remain firm, with a steady
demand for cousumptko. The plantation aoreturts this
morning are rather more favourable than t►ose mosived •
few days ado.

FATAL Direrrl.LenT ACCIDIefT AT CILABOOW.•-•
Tam Lrrin Lowy.—On the forenoon of Friday last, be-
tween 9 sad 10 o'clock. a dreadful accident occurred in No.
2 Distillery at Port-Dundee, belonging to Meters. M.
111•Farlase sod Co. A tan, containing between 8,000 sad
10,000 pitons of wish heated by steam op to 186 de re"
bust, sad the bet liquid melded a fireman, Robert
Mlntyre, 23 rins, of age ; the foreman, James Max-
well, and two named John Sommerville, aged nine
years and Day' Fife, aged sight yean. The ,offerers
were immediately conveyed to the infirmary, but the
injuries which M'lntyre and the boys bed sustained were
of inch • serious character that they expired. The boy
Sommerville died as Friday afternoos, M'lntyre oe the
genie evening, sad the boy Fife on Saturday afternoon.
M'lntyre was unmarried. The boy Sommerville, aocom-
, peond by his companion Fife, had gone to the distillery
with bin father's breakfast. Maxwell, the foreman, is
seriously injured, bet hopes are entertained of his re-
coveey.—Edinbergn Courant.
A HOUR CHARING A RAILWAY TRAIN:SRRIOCS
AOCIDINT.—IVRQs WO men in the employ of Mrs. DAMN
of Much-ha Farm, Wooddittem were engaged ie loading
a winos at the Dullieghim railway station, on Monday,
the 19th inetaat, one of the bones was left unyoked, and
on the Nutlet( of • down train took fright, sad
before it mold be secured alerted off at lull speed, sod
kept pace with the elegise for some considerable dis-
tance down the line. The eagine-driver, seeing the horse
was in danger, at ones determined to stop the train, but
Nation the animal might run in the way of the engine
before be could do so, be pot on steam sod ouMamd it.
Being left far behind, the home slackened his pace, and
was eventually stopped shout midway between Dullingham
sod Newmarket. Here one of the men, named Robert
Halley, who had followed the horse, came up, sad having
taken charge of him, was in the act of fastening the chain.
trace upon the hareem, when the hone, which could still
hear the train, man started off. The roddenoese of this
mused the chain to become twisted round Haiku's leg, and
bete g unable to release himself therefrom, the poor fellow
was draggedalong the line Rod his thigh was badly broken
in two ols.• sad be ens otherwise dreadfully out and
bruised upon the body.—Bery and Nora** Port.
CRIMINAL LUNATICS. —At Michaelmas, 1863,
I there were 929 criminal lunatics or insane persons under
detention in asylums and licensed houses in Fieghad sad
Wales, 717 males and 212 females. Their offences ham bees
various—from murder down to that of being a wandering
lunatic. The slumber in monody in the coarse of the year
is stated at 817 males and 331 females, bet it is probable
that Dearly 100 of the letter are counted twice over, manly,
in Broridenoor Hospital. to which they were removed, and
also in the asylums from which they were brought. Only a
small poetical of them priapism were sequittad on the
ground of insanity ; the majority became hum after trial,
and many were oommitted being found insane. Nearly half
have lime more than four yens in melody. severed more
than 20 years. In the mum of the year 137 mew and 40
Wallin were added to the number ; on the other band, 63
died, the escaped, and 45 (32 men and 13 worm) having
below* sane were either discharged or removed for trial or
punishment. It is stated that he 37 amuse asylums the
average cost oer heed for the year was 23/. sa. ; that at
Bethlehem Hospital the charge payable from the public
funds gave an average of 46f. lie. 2d.. and at Fieherton
301. 14s. lit. ; and that in some of the Hemmed houses Jodi-
virtual cases will be freed where the eosin defrayed from
private fowls, =out to 1501., 1001., 4001., 4801., sad eves
5301. _ _

THE. RAILWAYS AND THE LONDON COAL TRADE..
—For the halfieer midis, the 30th of Joao last the
Loadon cod North Western Railway has required to the
mrempolis 480,140 toss 12 owl. ; the Great Northern.
354.701 loos 4 owl ; the Great Eastern. 93,340 tons 15
cwt. ; the Greet Western, 91,506 toes ; the Midland.
66,898 toss 8 awt. ; the South Western, 10.630 toss 10
ant : the Loudon, Chatham., and Dower, 8,950 toss ;sod
the Tilbury sad floutherel, 344 toss. Of the teksl railway
sepply the Clay-areas pita, ow Chesterfield, have 'applied
melees than 118,229 toss ; Cod k.
i3i3.4360 60.4 ; Kirk-
lees bell, 30.531 toss 17 cwt. ; 1 23,544 toes 9 owl. ;
Lesglee. 13.943 toss 8 cwt. ; Langley 27,540 toss 12
owl ; Babbingtoe, 29,75610663 cwt. ; Oawber Bali, 19,177
tow 18 owt. ; Staveley and West , 40.060 toss 19
cwt. ; Pisiton, 44,682 tow 13 owl ; tea, 17.078
teas; Plastree. 15, 771 toss 14 cwt. ; Vitoria, 13.781
tons 15 cwt. ; Baddealey, 15,139 toga 19 cwt. ; New Birch-
weed, 13,784 tofu 12 owt. ; Elegant. 13,078 tome 5 cwt. ;
Lambkin. 21,956 teas 1.2 owl. ; and Bashes% 74.591 tows
6 owl. The latter ban chiefly bean u follows :—Wharn-
elite, 14,366 Is.. 19 wt. ; Oooper and Oct's 24.687 tone
12 owl. ; Newton end Co.'., 19,813 teas 14 art. ; sod
Club and Os.'s 7,021 Uwe. The above tessege relates
solely to the supply front the eaallkilds of
Derbyshire. sad Yorkshire. While the ge="tt
shows • van large bureau with the ogrrespeedisg half of
the year 1863, the &Disease seal has &slimed reardeeshly,
but as the lock out has now guard Uwe is artery pubs-
-1661 tbs tamp will var ismasse.