The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-20 00:00:00

MINDING LANE.-(THIS DAY.)
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BOOM—There is still but little disposition to 'parches°
at preview prices, and as holders mime to sell under the
former , the bosun.. transacted is limited. Refined
ematiame tared.
Conn—Fall prices are paid for all descriptions.
Jamaica sold at 72.. to 80s. for good ordinary and middling.
A cargo reel good first Rio sold afloat for a near port

COCOA. —Triaided has mold at a decline of ls. to 2s. per
cwt. • gray to good red, 52a. to 63a ed.
TaL—A. fair bushier is doing at about previous prices.
Bow has sold freely, chiefly parcels in second hands.
Demerara, to 7d. to lc fled. ; Leeward' and Berbice, Is. 6d,
Kim —At rather easier pica, 9,000 bags Necranzie sold
at 9s. 9d. to 10s.

fimio is dull of sale at previous pros.
Tarfoca has sold at steady prime, ordinary to good
Pease', lid. to 30.
Sr em— Pepper found buyers at previous prices. Sin-
w'abite, 6d. to 60. Pimento sold at full rats:
to to good, 3d. to 34d. ; macs sold at ls. ld.
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—liiii.—Crirrants, at about ?As., are in fair requcet, but
the demand is not active. Raisin* and lip are rather
dearer.

&airs= is dull and inactive.
COITOIL-600 bales sold at Arm prima.
Jtmi has sold at about prevlomi prices ; very common to
good, 121. As. to 191.
Haw is quiet, but steady ; St. Petersburg clean, IR
COCIIIIIIAL at the public sales went off briskly at Id. to
2d. advance ; Honduras, low frosty to time silver, Is. 6d. to
3s. 3d. ; Tenants, silver, 2a. Is. to 3. lls. ; black, 21. 9d.
to As.

TALLOW NARIEZT.—(THIS DAY.)
The market is steady to-day, prices are quoted as follows :
—Town tallow, 465., set cub ; Petersburg Y.C., on the
woe, 46e. 3d.; all this mouth, 465. ; April to June, 461. ;
July to September, 47..; October to Decmber, 48.. to
48a. 6d.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
(THIS DAY.)
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The number of besets. is rmallr than on Thursday last
and demand pretty good, consequently on the avenge
prior are higher. The supply of sheep is un-
usually ma& The few choice qualities on offer
are readily sold at higher rates. Good calves are
mane sad dear. Oar forgive supply consists of 12 beasts,
lOD sheep, sad 77 calves. TM amber of mdch cows is 83.
Per slew et Ma a 0. aO. Per mesas of alba a d. s. d.
Dot Sesta Ilerelds. 4 4 8 DestDes& Ilf-Msalt 4 8 4 10
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Orem 4 6 • Iwo t wooed qua 4 4 4 8
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BWITHYDILD HAY WASP.—(THD3 DAY.)
Kama. Harvey and &As mod bads very slow, at
kit day's prior staeAow hay, 70a. to Ws. ; sops-
rise ditto, 154 a. to 95a. ; Werke. ditto, 40a. to 50a. ; TGWU.
KW to 70s. ; clover, old, 80a. to 110.. ; ditto, sow, wooed
it, 80a. to 100. ; atom, 30a. to Xs.

AN ENORMOUS COLONY OF Rata.—A most ex-
traordinary circumstance has occurred at Melted Marsh
Farm, in the occupation of Mr. W. Tipper. It
hem various signs which be had seen, th►t he th n
ought he
had rats in his barn, and therefore determined to lessen
them, consequently, on the 25th of February, he with two
mr three others caught 52 full.growo rats without the aid
of dog or ferret. On March 10th, being an interval of a
fortnight only, they killed in the same place 18 more ;
the following day 24 live ones were caught, and one killed.
To make a little additional sport Mr. Tipper proposed
that the rata should be turned out in an open field, and
shot one by one, a /a rabbits ; this was quickly seconded, and
carried out enceessfully, not losing a single rat.—West
Sussex Gazette.

A LIVING FROG FOUND IN Cos.L.—The follow-
ing is an extract from a letter received on Wednesday last
im this city, by John Emma, Feu, from the manager of
his Tyr Nicholas Colliery, Cwm Tylery, near Newport :
" Our men in the heading in the rock vein ooal yesterday
(March 10), in a fall of coal in the face of the heading,
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found, in a bole in the pricking, in the top of the coal and
in the nine-inch bed of coal, a m frog. The bole was not
more time 31 inches in diameter, and this found in the soft
holing. There is a slight hollow over the coal where it
was found. It began moving about as soon as it was
released, but seems larger and more lively to-day. It is
kept shut up in clay to exclude the air from it ?low this
is WO yards below the surface where this little thing was
foiled, and I do not suppose any one can form an idea how
long it must have been there. I intend having it kept for
you when you return." (Signed) L. W. Itirse.—Wr.
Russell is going to send to the Great Exhibition a block et
coal, between seven and eight feet long, selecting the piece
in which the frog was found, the locus is quo being exactly
in the centre, end the block will be so out out that the frog
and its strange domicile will be clearly shown in front.]—
Worr.sterrhire Chronicle.
The sugar crops in Barbadoes have been much
Injured by rats, which have become exceedingly numerous
is that island. On some estates ose-fearth et the crop has
been destroyed by those vermin.
LONDON GENKRAL OMNIBUS COMPANY (LIM1210).
—l'radic receipts, week eliding Nara 16, 10.4064 12e. 10d.

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