The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-10 00:00:00

MINCING LANK-{THIS DAY.)

SUCAL—Ttis market bee spew! Eatiy, Lad at mead
without impottaot sake by private coati-act. 400 orb et
Barbadoes offered by auction were chiefly sold at I& to
435. M. Refined—prises are steady, bat the dosaand in dill
limited.

COFFiE.—l'be public sales of Plsetatioe Ceylon are wig
off without spirit, atabout hat week's quotatiosts. Privately
Duthie; does.
TEA. —At theaiblie sales oommee broken lest News
shows a further tit decbse; also commas sosaind upon
the termer sold at id. to Std., sad the letter 7fd. to tit
Rou.—The market continues hmetivit.

RICE.—No farther Wet are reported is thh article.

Sevrwritz.—Bessal has sokree oasis, terms retractile
6f, sod 44 to 3f at Me 9d., the Weer far cash ; and refs,-
two 10 as 335. cosh. Refined. 38a. to 380. HL
Corms =Misses is good request at arm priors.

TALLOW MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
Tits market is doll. Tura tallow, is quoted 40s. ; Polar
berg Y.C. tbe spot,Joss. 40s. 9d. to 41s.
J aly to September, 41a 9d. ; Octobsr to December, 441.

SMITHFIKLD HAY MARKET.--(TRIS DAY.)
Mews. Harvey mid Easton report Mule miry slow at
following prices :—Prime meadow hey, Vie. so flOs ;
prior d:tto. 644. to 90s. ; inferior ditto, 60.. to Tillea;
clover, old, 90s. to 11.2 s 6d. ; Mawr, 25.. to 320.

Dicremtsiso Surme.—Yesterday morning
, painful sensation was created in Dudley by the report that.
young man sawed Thomas Bettaney, son of •
able tradesman, had shot himself in the Prior=
It appears that deceased left his borne at about breakfitse
time, having, it is said. some frivolous dinagreemselt
with his parents. He purchased a pistol at the slap d
Mr. Kendrick, pawnbroker. and afterwards some powder
and shot at 3lfr. Sheppard's. He then preceded to Saew-
hill, and wrote a letter to hie father, stating that it
he wished to see him again he would Sod him
in • field in the Priory, below the poliorstation. Thin
letter he despatched to its destination by • wawa.
and the father was proceeding in the direction indicated at
about a quarterfto eleven o'clock when the sad news we
conveyed to him that his son had terminated his ezistese•
The report of a pistol was beard by several peirorete die
were near the iteart-hoagie. aid the suicide was witatemeg
by a boy who was bird•neeting. He saw the deceased set
over the hedge, and directly afterwards beard the meek,
and saw him fall, and upon going up found him frightfully
mutilated, the right eye and front part of the bead be*
completely blown away. He is said to have groaned twice,
and died instantly. The report of the pistol oatmeal
several persons to the spot, and Dr. Hatton and Ms.
Standish, his chief assistant, were almost instantly upon
the spot, but found life quite extinct. In fact, frees the
nature of the injuries death mast have been ioateetansem.
The deceased has served in the Federal army, and has edp
recently returned home. He was twice wounded while is
America, bat appeared in good health sod spirits since hie
return to England. The deepest sympathy is expressed
for the bereaved parents and the friends of the decimal.—
Birmingham Gazette.

THE' AGITATION 7'oli ADVANCE Or W AGM —Ai
Hastings. in Saws, the cerpestere aid joists. are agltstisg
foe as mimeo. of wages to the =lost el 6d. a dry.
C,ogst-mrriog or DIAMOND& —The most Godly
article in tin ad valorem tax list, diamosda, contrast* to
the Rational revenue 6.1,940 dollars. This, at the rata of 3
preset., shows that more them two million &Uwe worth of
that precious otos. wee ntasafactured is jinwidlery off
Tarim kinds, sod absorbed into um during the paid year.—
Antrim n paper.
THE RE-rs or BANTINO IN VERSE. —Lame am-
ben of esti-corpulent people are buying Kr. Bastises
pamphlet on the cure of corpulence, for the purpose of
following the opposite of its direetiose is ardor is
cure leanness. When WO Hunt visited Lord Byres is Baty
they hardly knew each other, for Byron had grows on id
and Hunt so leas. Such "metamorphoses" will, poi\age
no imager be knows. The Falstaff. and Renders will vaof+
oat of thla coustry, and PADUA weds will be dietiaguilbed
foe uniform rotundity.
Msrgorourgg FEDI HOIDITAL, Divomaines-
NOLA& CRT. —The aggregate number of patients relined
during the week aiding -Nay 7 was—undisal, 995 ; surgimi.
591 ; total, 1,590, of which ISM yen sew eassa

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.
1101JSZ OF LORDS—hioNDAY, MAY 9.
Sikask. no Um OiANCIMJAS took k;. ...t .s th• woolsack it

00IINTY COURTS.

Lel CRANWORTH moved for certain returns connected
Intimeenty courts, which were agreed to.
THE DANISH QUEITION.

Ms* Earl d cAaNeivoN, who hada notice on the paper
IhrooP sitaction to thopsesont detect the Danish question,
ME —Wheel I gave noties to briog this question under the
tinwitionlita of your kalabips, I did so wider the belief
Iliattbo contersion, white was then sitting, was practically
Am mai I bawl hoard since then that it has beets stated
bawdier piers then the conference is still sitting, and
list an semidlos is bees agreed to and accepted by all
wild It is my intsmtko, if that report be true, to with-
Amor ay notice. I alwil be glad to hear from the noble
kali Ste Saaekazy for Foreign Affairs whether that is the
moo; aid perhaps be will be good awash to inform us
weber what cirmansleaces it was that an armistice was
ogprod te, and what the terms and conditions of the
amillie are.

Ihed BIMIELL --I hare to state to your lordships with
gpmg satiefactiou that at the conference to-day a suspension
elf InstaTities haa been agreed upon between Austria and
MIMI. ot the one side and Denmark on the other. The
Ineneien which this suspension of hostilities has been agreed
bre co the basis of on possicistis, each party retaining its
era poetise by see and by land. The blockade is to be
rank and the suspension of arms is to be foe one month.
lari conference will meet again on Thursday.
TM Earl of DONOUGHNORE—Do I understand that
Jutland is nob to be evseasted ?

Earl RITSSELL—Tke qnsetiuu was between a snepension of
am and an annistiss, and the German powers were
osehied to apes to a propoidticn made in conference by
which Jutland would have bean evacuated by the Germane,
gad Alien monied by the Danes, but the Danish govern-
mat preferred a simple suspension of arms, each
power retaining its position.

The Earl of CAIINARVON—Under the circumstances. I
stall postpone my notice, but I cannot say that the state-
mat which has fallen from the noble earl has bees altoge-
ther satisfactory to ma lam not sanguine enough, I must
mg, to expect any great molts from the conformal now
witting. I shall not, I bops, say anything whatever to em-
blems bar Majesty's government, but under the cireum-
sinaces, insomuch as a result has been obtained, a very
medsrate result however —I know not whether any subse-
quent result will be obtained worth speaking of—l wall act
say anything that may tend to embers= her Majesty's go-
vernment. At the same time, I cannot my that I have
beard with any great utiefactiou the terms on which this
armistice hoe bees agreed to. It seems to me that it is one
of the most one-sided armistices I ever heard of,
as armistice all the advantage of which is for the
Germans. I am sure of this, that Denmark by her
moderation in accepting these terma leas entitled herself as
much to the sympathy of Europe as she has for the ex-
traordinary gallantry she has shows. (Cheers.)
Earl RUSSELL—As I have stated before, the proposal
was that then should be an armistice, that Jutland should
be evacuated, but the Danish government preferred a simple
suspension of hostilities, and I cannot my they were wrong
in making the preference. The noble earl says he ham very
moderate expectations from the conference. I cannot
quarrel with hirn on that account. The conference met for
the first time on the 2.5 th of April, and the noble earl seems
to have been surprised that the conference has not come to
• conclusion in that time on a question which has been
seder discuaeioa for 14 years.

The Etrl of ELL6iI3OROUGII-00 what day is the
enspension of arms to take place as regards Jutland?
Earl IZUSSELL—It is to commence on the 12th of the
}swot month.

The subject thu dropped.
PRIVATE BILLS.
The following hills were read a third time and passed :
Phenix Gag North Easters Railway (Micklebeld branch);
Waadawnrth Bridge ; Salisbury Railway and Market
Beim ; Llankßoos and Newton Railway ; sad the Andover
sad Clifton Road Improvement Bills.

LONDON DOCKS, ST. KATHARINE DOCK. AND
VICTORIA DOCKS AMALGAMATION BILL.

On the order for the third reeding of this
Lord TAUNTON said is the committees on these private
bills the public were not represented, and their lordships
right to be very careful bow they granted to companies
powers which took away the rights of the public. The
legislature bad always sedulously gauded the freedom of
the waters of the Thames, and they had sever allowed the
paters of the Thames to be so interfered with as
to prevent the free communication of lighters with ships.
By this bill the power which wu given to the
proprietors of St. Katharine Dock, and which had been kept
in check Ly the competition of the other dock companies,
was given to all the three companies that were amalgama-
ted. He had not heard the other side, hut he thought this
matter ought to be carefully watched and looked into.
Lord STANLEY of ALDEILLEY was nederstood to say
that the matter was one of considerable importance, sad
he would undertake that the attention of the Board of
Trade should be called to the subject on the passage of the
bill through committee in the other house.
The bill was then read a third time and passed.