The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-05 00:00:00

COVENT GARDEN.-(THIS DAY.)

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Vegetables and most kinds of fruit still continue plan-
tifuL Plume may also be bad in great abundance at from
fis. to Be. a sieve. Of grapes and pineapples the supply
is sufficient for the demand. Of melons there is a good
stock of both English and foreign varieties. Then, also a
good supply of Williams' Bon Chritien prays. Kent Filberts
endear, the supply of them bang rather abort. Kept cobs
are coming 1111 in better condition than last week; pries
455. to 50s. per tOOths. For potatoes the market is still
heavy. Cut flowers chiefly consist of orchids, pelargo-
niums, asters, stocks, calceolariss, mignonette, and roue.

YZUIT.

Pine Apples, per lb., 2s to fa-
Grapes, per lb., to to 60
Apple*, p. I dere, lead to Seed
Pease, per der,, seed to 6a
Phuos per i sieve, Ss WM
Pigs per doz., Pa 64
Peaches, per dos, 36 to Ps

Nectarines, do., b to 6e
Melons, earn, Ea to 41
Lemons. per 100 12a to 16s
Musa, *mall, P. busk, 15s to 181
Almonds, do., 18s
Walnuts, do., 144 to 205

Cabbages, p. doz., 6d to la-
Non sbeued,per qt., la to Lad
Cauliflowers, each, toad
Potatoes, York Rogow; Tor
too, 100 e to 1101
iShalre, do.. 40s to 70.
Turnips, per bunch, ad to ad
Cerro* do., ad to iid
Spinach, per dere, le 64 to te
Cucumbers, each, le to laid
Beet, pea dos., le ad

I Tontatpes, each, id to id
' Celery, per bundle, Is ed to
Preach home per dere. Es toes
Shallow, per lb., ad
Garlic, Per W., id
Lettuces, aka, Id to Ed
lindlve, per score, Is to is
Efaseraaatrinch, laid to as
Washrooms, p.pott , ls to Is fd
Parsley, per bancheo, 34 to 41
Herbs, pi/ baba. 34

CAMBRIDGE, SEPT. 4. —There will be congregations
on the following dap of the natio; Michaelmas term :
Thursday, October 1, at ten ; Thoriday, October 15,
October 29, November 12, November 25, and December 10,
all at twelve.
Tait PRORATE COMM.—Sir Junes Wilde the
new Judge of the Probate Court, has at length bees
swan in, and there is now a probability that the business of
the office will be proceeded with. In cooeequenoe of the
delay which has occurred in filling up the judgeship them
are heavy arrests of business to bring up, which will
severely tex the industry of the jades even before the
commencement of Michaelmas tem.
Tax Snouts COINAGL —The efforts made during
the but 18 months or two yams to call in the old copper
coins and issue their brows rodertitutes have, it apneas,
been snooradol to a peat extent, so far, at leen, es the
Imes towns are emerened. We understand that old p:=
half-peas, and farthings to the oroninsl vein of
Zrd: have he reamed to the nester of the mint aid
The inhalant of the old copper coins in circu-
lates is supposed to have been about 750,0001. Vigorous
efforts are now hefts made to get in the !mid*, from vil-
Ines, hamlet., and the more remote districts of the country.
The notion that the old pennies of the reign of George 111.,
known BB the rim pennies, were more solvable than the
ordinary ones, is, we are informed, quite erroneous, as the
intrinsic value is now little more than half the nominal or
circulating price, and nothing like the quantity of coins can
be used by the mint in the new once. The rim pennies
were originally 16 ouncrs to the pound. Reduced by
(Acne°, they now run about 18 to the pound. In the
ounce. of a short time the tender of the 101 l coin will be
declared illegal, and can only be taken at the price of old
copper, which isnot. about 11d. per pound. Those persons
who have bees hoarding up the rim pennies under the idea
of °noising abetter price for them, sad who keep them
until they are declared no longer a legal tender, may name
gamily find themselves in the =plena, predioameet et
receiving only Ild. for IR. Under these circumstances they
will of course, if they are wise, lose no time in getting them
managed at their present full nominal valve—Liverpool
Mercury.
Tag WEST INDIAN INCIUMB/LRED ESTATES COURT.
—The Solicitors Journal has the following remark on the
lit of beeriness in this ooert, which reoeatly appeared in
on volumes:—"The acreage of the estates, so far as It
appears, exceeds 40,000. The nevem-moneys of the
estate sold within the last twelve months are 26,0301.
upon which there is a commission of on par cent, my
20W.. payable to government towards the expellees of the
commission. Besides the commission, we believe
there are some fees to be credited. The reunite
show very favourably as contrasted with the very num-
tisfactory return lately furnished by the land registry
for England. Although the English scheme has not sue.
ended very well, the experiment of an Incumbered Estates
Court, which certainly was a mimes in Ireland, has also
succeeded in the West Indies. The working of a com-
pulsory registry his never been tested ; but a partial acid
voluntary registry is, and we think always most be, a
failure. We nuderstand that an address, signed by twenty
of the most eminent City and West-end firms, and headed
by Messrs. Freshfields, the solicitors to the Bank of Eng-
land, has been presented to the Treasury, requesting the
immediate transfer of the West Indian Court to Lincoln's.
ion, sad we have no doubt that it will meet with the reedy
°emphases it deserves. On such a point the interests of the
profession and the public are identical." We entirely agree
so the recommendation for the transfer of this court from
Park-week Westminster. to Liocoln's-inn, when all the
law courts ought long since to have been concentrate/
GREAT MATCH FOR Two THOUSAND POUNDS,—
The clerk of the course of the Scarborough Steeplechase
'u been officially informed that an event is wronging
which is likely to cause more excitement in the wain
world than any match since the famous contest over York
between the Plying Dutchman and Yoltigeor. It will be
remembered that Bed Robin and Rainy, both horses the
property of the Mews. Simpson, of the Yorkshire Wolds,
woo the great events at both Scarborough sod York Steeple-
chases, when any amount could have been laid against them.
Certain gentlemen largely interested in turf meters doubted
the correctness of the runniest, and. in order to test the
stamina of the bosses, have challenged the Messrs Simomn
(the Mullane being sconted) to name two nst Red
Robin sad Rarely, over the York or Scarborough Courses,
about 34 miles, 14 stone, for 2,001, the first horse to have
1,5001., the send 5001. It te believed that Scarborough
will be selected for the match.
A btu( COISIMITRD row TRIAL FOR STEALING
• Hs/rrionre ! At the Wallington polio...mut, on
Thursday, before Captain Enon and Mr. St. J. C.
Charlton a man named Thomas Woodhull was charged
with stealing from the person of Benjamin Dolphin
the sum of one halfpenny! The prosecutor deposed
that he was drinking in a certain public-house,
and the prisoner was newt in the kitchen. Whilst he was
leaning his heed on the table he felt a hand is his pocket sad
on looking up saw Woodall drawing away. He accused him
of biking some money, and the prisoner thee opened his lend
and showed him a halfpenny. He then mot for the polies,
and gave him in custody. In reply to questions from the
beech, Dolphin said he had some silver in his pocket, but
meld not my whether he had a halfpenny. The magistrates
decided to commit the prisoner for trial at the next quarter
sessions.
Two MEN BURIED ALIVE.—On Thursday after-
noon a fatal accident took place at Woodbridge. It appears
that a well was being constructed in the yard of Mr. Joseph
Knight, the manufactarer of the Suffolk white bricks.
About half-past 2, on Thursday afternoon, it had been
excavated to a depth of about 60ft • the upper por-
tion for about 14ft. being a stiff age soil, while the
remainder was a loose send. Mr. Charles Dove, of
UPfords the contractor sinter& and a man named
Tyler, were at work down well. when, to hasten the
job, Dove ordered a portion of the brickwork to be re-
moved. This had hardly been effected when the side of the
well gave way, and some thirty feet of the sand with nearly
all the brickwork cared In, completely burying the two men.
Mean were promptly taken for the mosey of the bodies,
bat from the tedious nature of the openness they were not
removed from the rubbish till a late hour on Friday. Dove
leaves a wife and two children ; Tyler a wife.
RetLwav TRAFFIC RECRIPIM—The traffic receipts
of railways in the United Kingdom amounted, for the week
ending the 29th of August, on 10,882 miles to 641.7701,
and for the corresponding week of last mar, on 10,420
mask to 637,615/, showing an Increase of 454 miles, end of
4.1551. in the receipts. The grow receipts on the following
15 railways amounted, in the secreted*, on 7,663 miles, to
513.1894, and for the oorreeponMeg week of 1862. on
7,397 mile., to 515.422/.. showing an increase of 266 lam,
and a decrease of 2,2331. in the receipts The decrease on
I the Great Western amounted to 3,5054; on the hoodoo,
i Brigham, and South Coast to 2,6761.; ea the London and
I Seuth-Westery to 3,0101. ; on the Midland to 1,406/. ; and
oe the South-Eastern to 2,8441; total, 13,4411. But from
i this must be deducted SZ3L, the increase co the Celreloniau;
1 1.0351. on the Great Fustern ; 3381. on the Great Northern;
2,168/. on the Great Southern and Welters; 1,3051. on
the Lancashire sod Yorkshire; 8.501. on the London
and North-Western ; 662/. on the Manchester, Shef-
field and Lincolnshire ; 979/ oo the North British ; 3,348/.
es the North Eastern end Stockton and Darlinaton—tw-
pettier 11,2081., leaving the decrease as above, 2 ZZI. The
goods and minersl traffic on those lines amounted
to 236,646/ ; and for the corresponding week of 11462 to
223,4441., showing en increase of 16,21021. The reestees
for passengers, parcels, tea, amounted to 276,5431. splint
294,978/.. 'bowing a decrease of 18,4351.• the comparison
1 betas with an Intern:dined Exhihition week of last veer.
The traffic receipts on 63 other lines amounted, on 3.219
• ' miles, to 128,581.1.. sod for the oorresponding week of last
•, gissor,melie..3,oll.amilor.cto 122. ..ir.ll
tieshowinig an ii:rcrhe:steo of
tal
i receipts of the past week show a decrease of Val. se
I ooroperod with these of the penalise week, ending the
shed of August.
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