The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-22 00:00:00

COVENT GARDEN MARKET.-THIS DAY.

Good Peaches and Nectarines from open walls are now
abundant. Apricots are scarcer than they were last week.
English Pine Apples continue to be well supplied. Plums
us plentiful, and Grapes of excellent quality are abun-
dant Both Apples and Pears are furnished in large
quantities. Kent Filberts are corning in plentifully ;
tory realise from 63i. to 60s. per 100 tbs. Oranges
fetch about 20s. per WO. Foreign Tomatoes are coming
in plentifully, and fetch from 12e. Gd. to 15' per box hold-
ing shalt five sieves. Potatoes are sufficient for the demand.
Lettuces realise from 6d. to 9d. per score. Cut Flowers
consist of Passion Flower,, Heliotropes, Eisphorb;as,
Verbenas, Japan Lilies, Cyclamens, Chinese Primroses,
Heaths, and Rom.
FRUIT.
_ _ . .

Pins Apple', per lb., 3s to 68
Gropes, per ib, la 64 to lo
Peaches. per doe, is 6d to 6,
Nectarines, ,Is fid to is
per sieve, 7r to it*
°teenage', per punnet, Is to 2.
Fatale, per sieve, be to 74

nth, Is to Ss
Fears, Jargonell,pardot.,9dtot
per bait Sleet, 9s to Ss
Apricot; per dos.. Is 6d to 66
Figs, per doz., Is tid to is
Filbert; per dos. he, Cato 9s

Cautilow, rs, per doz., le to is—
French ileanr, per half wave,

lABLEI3,
/Onions, p. 12 bundles, 2s Sd to Is
Leeks, per bun.n, 1d to 3d
Vegetable Mai rows, per dozen,
4l to Is
Shallots, per lb. 4d to 64
Wade, per lb., 6d to ad
Lettuces, Cab., p. more, 9d to to
1 (Ma, per more, Is te Is 6d
Small Salads, p. pun., 3d to 3d
Horse !Mash, per MM., 2a to 4.
Mushrooms, per pot., la 3d to 1.94
1 Punier, per bomb, 24 to 3.4
Marjoram, per Dumb, 2.1 to 34
Basil, per Sundt. 2d to 3d
Mint, green, do., 3d to 3d

i;rd tot,-

Pol:Sr'oos,".pr—r ton, 454 to 05s
per cwt., 3* 64.1 to As
per bush.. Is to 4*
Carrots, p. bunco, 4d to lid
Turnips, do., 2.t to 4d
0101031ha4. can, Zd to 6d
Tomatoes, p. Nutlet, Is to Is 6d
Splanakper PIM, Is to 2s
Best, per doz.. 19 to 2*
01Msry. per bua.. 1* to Ie Sd
Artlaboiss, per doz., Os to 6s
Capsicums, ter 10 •, 41

VACANCIES, APPOINTMENTS, AND PROMO-
TI,PIgs IN THE CIVIL SERVICE.

Consulate Department. —There is a vacancy canoed
in the consulate at St. Thomas's by the death of Mr.
W. J. Emerrin, ber Majesty's consul at that island ; salary,
2001.
Ordnance Department. —Mr. Munro has been appointed
deputy ordnance stcrekeeper under Captain Gordon to the
army in the Crimea. Mr. J. Nieholle has been appointed
deputy storekeeper under Captain Gordon, with the special
charge of engineers' stores. Mr. Eyre Lloyd has been ap-
oedema' Ordnance clerk. to do duty under Captain Gordon,
Ordnance storekeeper, BJeklara.
Queen's Remembrancer's•ofee.—There is a vacancy in
the office of chief clerk of the Queen's Remembrancer's-
I offioe, Exchequer, caused by the death of Mr. Charles Brown.
The Ccm•nivariat.—Deputy-Aseistaot Commissary-Gene-
ral Alfred Salney has been appointed madman' comminary-
general. Commissary-Clerk J. 'tackle Bade,. Commissary-
Clerk Alexander Clerk, and Commisary•Clcrk Arthur
Stout Baynes have been appointed depetyaaaistant com-
miesary•generale.
Customs.—Mr. Thomas Edward Morrow has been ap-
pointed a clerk in the Easminer'e•OSLe in Landon. Mr.
Thomas Willc:cks has been cppointtd a clerk in the Losg-
room in Linden. Mr. George Willcocks has been ap-
pointed a clerk in the Examiner's cffice in Linden.
Inland Revenue Department.—Stimp end Tax Branch.
Mr. Edward Thomas Krogh has been appointed clerk in
the Legacy Duty Department, having passed his exami-
nation. Excise Branch.—Mr. John Booth, a yisg•ge-
neral examiner, has been appointed collector of Thirst
Collection. Mr. Oliver Landreth, surveying general ex-
aminer, hits been appointed collector of Linlitt.gow Col-
lmtion. Mr. George Thorne, survtying•generel examiner,
has been appointed collector of Wales Micdle Cunt ction.
Mr. William Band Weisman has been promoted to be the
bead of the surveying-general examiners of the third elan,
vies Forbes, deceased —Civil Service Casino.

EXTENSIVE FIRE.—On Wednesday a serious fire
broke out in the stackyard of Mr. Thomas Law, of 'Ogg's
There is every reason to fear that this is an act of
Mangan, m. The lose is estimated at 70 qrs. of oats, 60 qrs.
of wheat, GU
she. of baney, besides gram aries sod out-build-
ings. One sheep was burnt; and one man. named Cole,
received injuries by the I'lll4 of part of the w`.eat hovel.—
Stamford Mercury.
SUICIDE BY TAXING OXALIC AClD.—Yesterday
evening Me. Lsugharn held an inquest on the body of Sarah
Livens, aged 43, a married woman, who had committed
suicide by mixing and drinking the enormous quantity of
a }lb. of oxalic acid at No. 10, Tower-street, Seven dials,
in the afternoon cf Tuesday last. The jury returned a ver-
dictTomporary insanity." The deceased was a person
of dissipated habits, and had been separated tress her hus -
band on that account.
SUICIDE AT WATERLOO-BRIDGE.—Last evening
Mr. Lsngham held an inquest on the bode of Fano), Elliott,
aged 19, woo bad committed suicide by throwing herself
from Waterloo-bridge on the previous morning. The de-
ceased, who was within two months of her ctinfliternent,
had latter:y been in low spirits in consequence cf her deser-
tion by a young man named Mason,_ with whom she bad
cohabited abut a year and a half. Verdict, " Temporary
insanity."
A MAN BURIED ALIVE.—AD inquest has been
held at Clay Cross on the body of Jam iidgoote, labourer,
aged 44 years. The deceased was working iu a cutting near
a coal pit; one side of the hole fell in, and it was an hour
and half before he could be extricated, when life was
quitea extinct. A verdict of "Accidental death" was re-
.

turned.
EASTERN COUNTIES COMMITTEE.—This Committee
is prosecuting its labours with great assiduity. Mr. Levi,
toe chairman, has almost " ewaekuated," as Cockaeys
would say, his business in the Stock Erihatige for it. Ile
M generally there long before the rest of the members, who
meet at one, and rarely leave nail six. It is expected that
they will not be able to does their labours until nearly the
time for the adjournment ex,ires.—Flerapneh.
THE CLOAK CLASPS of Russian offictra are read.
of plating inlaid with gilt. These clasps are not very highly
finished. Specimens are now exhibiting by
been Mr. Pegler,
the silvenmitb, at Southampton. They have olPained
from the fallen Muscovite officers on the Crimean battle
fields. A thriving trade is carried on is that town with the
Russian atolls. They ars sent home in the transports by
the English sailors and soldiers to their wives and friends!
who disposeof them for small sums to eke cut their limited

La ;fees;
LOWESTOPT.—Arnong the visitors who are now
etayir g in this fashionable and healthy seaport, are Lord
and Lady Petro, Sir Arthur Brooke, Sir George Nicholls,
Lay Bigitlid and family, J. H. Gurney. Peg.. Mrs.
Leboschere and family, Verey, Eig , Mr. J. K.
and family, J. Jemnup, i• Gregory. K.
J. Siospsm, . Rev. Mr. Bill, Rev. Dr. Irving end
family. Rev. H. V. Shortiand and family, Rev. Phillip
Gall, 8. Pedley, Erg ,F. liarford, Es Soon, Esq.,
Lient,Calonel Christie,
Bag., Capt. Leckie and family. Means. Cannon, Paall,
Tapper, Rills, Waymaa, Iv.