The Express.
London, England, 1863-10-21 00:00:00

MINES.-(THIS DAL)

Two o'CLocr.

The mining market is firm to-day, but there is
less business. West Chiverton and Wheal Hope
share* are firmer—the former at 54 to 58,
and the latter at 5 to 6. On the other
band, North Crofty are rather lower, at
4} to 5. East Caradon are quoted 27 to
; Clifford Amalgamated, 38 to 4 ;'wheal Crofty,
34 to ; Chiverton 12 to I ; Nast Basset,
70 to 72 • Wheal LudOott, 2 to , and East Chi-
verton, if to 84. Very littlebusiness has oc-
curred in the Stock Exchange.
Foreign and colonial mining shares aro neglected.
Yudanamuta.na are firm.
Sir Samuel Cunard, Batt, has joined the direc-
tion of the St. Cuthbert Lead Smelting Company
(Limited).
At the South Cern Brea Mine meeting, yester•
day, the accounts showed a debit balance of 3,001 L
A call of 10s. per share was made.
At Wheal Union meeting, yesterday, the accounts
showed a debit balance of 346/. A call of 2s. 6d.
per share was made.
West Cbiverton and Wheal Chiverton shares
have been introduced into the Stock Exchange daily
list, by authority of the committee.

The annual report of the chaplain of the Man-
chester City Gaol hears additional testimony to the fortitude
with which the cotton operatives have resisted the tempta-
tions of a period of severe distreee. Last year there was a
large increase in the number of prim:Ppm, bat the chaplsin
es premly states that that increase was not due to the
mamma of feetesy operatives or other unemployed classes."
This ear—thaty is, is the twelve months ending Sept. 30—
there has been a decrease of 149 io the total number of com-
mittals. Among the persons committed during the year
were 148 " returned convicts."
The protracted inquiry iuto the murder of the
man Chewer, at W. Iverhainpton, was brought to a dose
yesteeday, bat without unravelling the mystery which hae
hung over this terrible affair ever since the discovery of the
deoeased's body. The coroner's jury could only enter •
verdict of " Wilful murder against Wen person or penman
unknown."
A raid. has been made recently by the police on
the bakers in Farnham, Hants, and the neighbouring vii-
Loges, for selling bread short of weight to the poor. Om
21b. loaf sold to a poor was found to be short of
weight upwards of Joe ft appears to be doubtful, how-
ever, whether the law can reecb the bakers in question, for
they consider that almost every kind of bread can be proved
to be fancy bread ; and if this kind of bread is the proper
weight when pat into the eves, the bakers are not respon-
sible for the lase it Bedew in baking.
DEATH OF A PoACHEE.—Au inquest was 110111
last week at the Ssloplofirmary. before the borough coroser,
on the body of a man named Edward Jeffreys. lie wee
getting over a stile, and the top bar was loose; be stumbled
forward and fell, and the gun, which he was holdiegjiree bin
left shoulder. with the butt end backwards, fell -f
sward
sod starch the ground and discharged. The contents of the
goo entered his body over the hip joint and passed oat a$
the back. The jury found a verdict of Accidental
death." Jeffreys was a notorious pc. eher. He hail bees
several times in gaol, and was once sentenced to eve years'
maid servitude. He had twice before been badly shot.
A Suspicious DEATH,—CASTLERAII, 18.—
Suspicion being aroused as to the death of a farmer mined
James Gannon. of Taernashroore who died in his owe
house en the 16th inmost, the police with Dr. Cawley
proceeded to view the body, and on an examination by the
doctor be found an extensive fracture at the back of the
riaht ear, the skull driven into the brain. James Hellman,
nephew of deceased, has been arrested and committed until
the result of the inquest is known, ho having had a divot*
with the dammed about some land.—Fecriaeo's ./anneal.
Tun PROCUREVIAMPLILLAS AND UM COLLEAOUF.N.
—A somewhat singular iocident occurred • few days age
during the eating of the Correctional Tribunal of Ajaccio,
then occupied in hearing a charge against a schoonneeter.
for having, during the bet elections, made use of illegal
means to procure votes for the gm/eminent caudidate.
llareeggi„ an advocate, was speaking is sup.
port of the charge, when he was roughly in-
terrupted by the Procureur.luiperial, at' ex -
claimed— You have a wretched affair in band. 11. Car-
-1 coggi. to moms the lot of boobies who aro listeuing too
you The council of the Order of the Advocates con-
sidered the observation offensive. and on the following day
' drew up a protest against the language used as >wing not
only an insult to H. Stareiggi personally. bat to the whole
bar. This protest ma nosed by the buttoner end other
members, and sent to the Procureur-ImpiriaL—fieligensit.
th.avin DECLARED FREE IN Cl7BA.—Mann rebels,
in order to secure the value of their slave property, have
quietly sent their chattel' to Cuba ; but this dirnii.r reason
nas faded them, as, through the instrunicotality of Hr.
Savage, oar able consul, many of thew, slaves have her.
set free. It is a law of Spate that any slave bronglit front
the continent or adjoim
gisles becomes free from the
moment be touches the roil of Cuba. It is the mine in the
case of a slave being taken from Cuba to Spain, notwiti-
, standing the colonial relstioos.—Asscrieen paper.
MEANIE() OF WERTERE A ilEitli'AS
Basta Fe, Holy Faith ; the city was formerly e Wed
Santa Fe de Sao Fraaciseo. the Holy Faith of St. Fmecie.
The second city in aim in New ilexico— Albuquerque—
takes ito name from Doe Joao Albuquerque. its founder.
Les Vegas, The Meadows, so called from the beautiful
country by which it is surrounded. Colorado, signifying
Red, takes its sane from the reddish oolour of its river
basks. Las Cruses. the City of the CCUSMta. El PM.% the
Pass—here the Rio Geed becomes very narrow, while its
Imbue high and rooky. Came City, the City of the
Valley. Platte River was originally teem as Rio Plats.
River of Silver.—,thirrierio paiar.