The Express.
London, England, 1864-07-18 00:00:00

MINER.-(THIS DAYJ

Two o'CLocK.

The mining market is quiet to-day, with little
business. Wheal Seton shares, however, are in
good demand, at 2271 to 2321, being 2/. 10s.
above the last price of Saturday. East Grenville
are quoted 5# to #, being firm • East
Caradon, 28 to ; West Seton, 210 to 2io ; and
Great Vor, 281 to 29. West Chivertou shares have
been dealt in in the Stock Exchange at 65.
Foreign and colonial mining shares are inactive.
St. John del Rev are officially marked 291, and
Yudanatnutana _ _ . . .

The Commuisioner in Bankruptcy charged with
the winding up of the Cumberland Black Lead
Mine Company (Limited), propcees ou the 30th
inst. to make a call of 51. per share on the contri-
butories in class A.

THE LATE Ma. Bitmon, or Hicnntr.—The
frightful outrage of which this amiable man was the victim
has roused public sympathy with the bereaved family, and
abhorrence of the crime which destroyed • most useful life
in a degree seldom in our experience surpassed. He wee
born, we believe, in the year 1793, in the picturesque
village of Cart rue!, in the northern extremity of the
county of Lancaster. His family were of the
middle class, sod members of the Church of
England. His education was received in the grammar
school of his native place, the school is which Dr. Edmond
Law (afterwards the Bishop of Carlisle). received the early
rudiments of his education. At sixteen years of age
Mr. Briggs left Cannel and came to London, when
he found • situation at once in the banking•house of
Sir John Lubbock. Here Mr. Briggs remained until
the firm wu amalgamated with that of Messrs.
Roberta, in Lombard•street. He had, by the steady per-
formance of his duties and his spotless character, raised
himself to the highest post in the establishment which wee
open to those not actual partners in the hem. Whoa the
amalgamation took place Mr. Briggs was appointed to the
same important post in the establishment of the Messrs.
Roberts. He was well qualified for the important duties
of his post, u well by SU long experience as by his
calmness of judgment and his frank and cordial manners.
The severe toils sod responsibilities of his post, especially
at and soon after the amalgamation of the firms, at ow
time proved too great for his strength. He broke down,
and suffered for some months front severe Moen. A
visit'suteequent to convaleemince to his native place seemed,
however, to have re-established his health, and his
friends were happy to coogratulate hint oe he renovated
looks sod strength. Mr. Briggs was is his domestic and
social mistime vary happy. The head of a tarp family, he
was always affectionate and kind, and in the pleasant cow-
teem of social life no one could better perform his part.
He was united by marriage in relationship with the late
Mr. John Edwin Netherville, of the Stock Exchange, • man
of singularly benevolent heart and genial manner.
Inquirer.
MALT TOR FEEDING CATTLE.—AII experiment was
concluded in Cumberland list week which is interesting to
farmers and others, as showing the relative feeding proper-
ties of malt and beaky. On the 9th of April lug eight Irish
heifers, as nearly equal in quality, size, and weight as it
was possible to find them, were fastened up in the premises
of Mr. Wyndham, brewer, Cockerusenth, to fatten. Four
of these were fed upon barley, and four upon equal measures
of malt. The result at the sod of 13 weeks was in favour
of barley by 30Ib. upon the four, which sold for 61. 10e.
more money than those fed upon malt. The owner lost Is.
per bead by the experiment.
SUPPOSED MURDER NEAR Norm:mums. —A mur-
der, accompanied with violence, is supposed to have been um-
mitred late on Friday night, or early on Saturday morning
lent, on the Loudon-road, • mile and • half from Notting-
ham, the victim being Mr. Themes Henley, a master black-
smith, whose body was afterwards leered in • canal, a
quarter of a mile from his shop, the skull being fractured
and his watch and money stole°. There are various
rumours as to the manner is which be met his death. Os
the previous day he had been drinking deeply, and
about 11 o'clock at night be was in the Bell
publiehouse, Parliameatetreet, Nottingham. He was
decidedly the worse for liquor, and wanted • cab to
take him home. A cab was procured. and he then said he
had no money to pay for it, as be had been robbed of 7t.
Hs then started to walk home, and was taken by some of
his companions part of the way. Some time afterwards
he was asses on the Trent-bridge, SOO yards from when his
body was found, in company with a woman. On Saturday
morning, between 3 and 4 o'clock, two men discovered hint
in the canal. His head and feet were in the water, but his
back was quite dry. There were several wounds on his
head, but ne marks of • scuffle having taken place on the
bank were perceptible. A basket and fork belonging to
the deceased were found on the haulieg•path. An inquest
will be held on the body on Monday before Mr. Brown.
OPERA DI CAIIERS.—We understand that im-
mediately after the close of the present season at the
Gallery of Illustration, Mr. German Reed will follow up his
previous success in the production of Opera di Camera, with
• new work from the pea of one of oar most popular
composers.
TURNING Lor.itturr To Accounr.—An Italian
gentleman, with greater sagacity, devised a more productive
pump, and kept it in action at far less expense. The prides
wall of his villa adjoined the go-at bleb road leading front
ow of the capitals of northern Italy (Tenn), from which it
was distant but a few miles. Possessing within his garden
• fine spring of water, he erected on the outside of
the wall • pump for public use, sod &tinier to it •
small iron ladle, he placed near it some rode
seats for the weary traveller, and by • slight
roof of climbing plants protected the whole from
the mid•day sun. In this delightful shads the tired
and thirsty travellers on that well•heaten road ever and
anon reposed and refreshed themselves, and did not fail to
put in requisitioo the service of the pump so opportunely
preseeted to them. From morning CI sight many
• dusty and wayworn pilgrim plied the beadle,
and went on his way, blaming the liberal pro-
prietor for his kind unaideratiou of the passing
stranger. But the owner of the villa was deeply scquaioted
with human nature. He knew in that sultry climate that
the liquid would be more valued from its scarcity, and from
the difficulty of acquiring it. He therefore, to enhance the
value of the gift, wisely arranged the pump so that its
spout was of rather contracted dimensions, and the heoille
required a moderate application of force to work it. Under
these circumstances the pump raised far more water then
could peas through its spout; and, to prevent its being
wasted, the surplus was conveyed by an invisible chemist
to • large reservoir judiciously placed for waterlog the pro-
prime?, own bonsai, stables, and garden—into which about
five pints were poured fot every spoonful passing out of
the spout for the benefit of the weary traveller. Even this
latter portion was not entirely neglected, fur the waste-pipe
conveyed the part which ran over from the ladle to some
delicious strawberry beds at a lower level.—Passages frost
She Lift of s PhilosspAer, by Charles &saws