The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-25 00:00:00

-- • ----- Wednesday only a few small lots were exhibited Lein the ~,.._
FALL Or A Ilorse--Yesterday morning a hone Essex and Kent stands; and on Friday there was hardly a i;
in Iligh-street, Mite-end New Town, in the occupation of a sample fresh up. The millers base, however, acted as if m
31n. Mills, fell in. Several persons, attracted by the noke, they acre in no immediate want, and have shown no aua
ran to the spot, and found the premises a mass of ruins. anxiety to odd to their stocks ; business has consequently 11l
At the same time the aaiee• of sumo females were heard. A been inactive throughout the week, and Metiers have been ,I
body of men promptly set to work to extricate the suf erers. unable to establish any advance on the rates current ji.
In a few minutes Mrs. Mills was extricated, upon which it on Monday last. The improvement which the dry weather es,
was nwertaiswil that there were two other females in the experienced iu the early part of the month worked in the 23
ruins, a Mrs. alielatel and her daughter. Further smirch condition of the Wheat of home growth is shown by the rise
was made, upon which a voice am heard exclaintine in the average price for the kingdom, the last return— I!
" break down the wall." The voice came Irons the front 375. 2a. per qr.—being and. per qr. higher than that tor the ;`,"
parlour, in which Mrs. Michael had been sleeping. The preceding week. ae
wall was knocked down by some men, who succeeded in The arrivals of Wheat from abroad have been compare- le
dragging her out. Iler daughter, who slept on the second tively small; but a considerable proportion of the previous •t.
floor, woo afterwards observed upon a bed, surrounded with week's abundant supply still renaming undisposed of, on IL
bricks, tiles, and broken timber. The Mutates were taken board ship, there has been more or less pressure on the U.
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to a surgeon's iu the neighbourhood, and Mrs. Mills, who market. A somewhat firm tune was assumed by importers ;'t
was found to have received severe injuries, was taken to the on Wednesday ; but there was no improvement in the de- so I
London Ilospital. The other females were hut slightly hurt. mond; and the fact that several cargoes of Wheat arrived IS
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The house is supposed to have been built above 100 years. snits. quentle from Black Sea ports, caused sellers to be less
'fiat: NOTTINGHAM PltsT t)Yrice--A very re firm on Friday, and purchasers experienced no difficulty in
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mailable affair is being investigated at the post office in buying on quite as easy terms as those current earlier in the ;,
Nottingham, the whole of the particulars of which have not week. so
yet transpired. On Wednesday four clerks, names! Crosby Having had very few fresh arrivals off the coast, and the SS
(two brothers), and a young man of the name of Baines, greate.r part of the cargoes previously received having been at.
and another ekrk, wen• suspended, and their places filled placed, the operations in floating cargoes have been unite- 20
by four persons front London. An official, also from Lon- portant ; for tine red Polish Odessa wheat, 350. per qr., :
don, arrived in Nottingham on the some day, and is now cost, freight, and insurance, has been asked, and 31a. lid.so
engaged in investigating the matter. It is said that postage per qr. WI. et.
'temps to the amount of 1701. cannot satisfactorily be or- Quotations of town manufactured flour have remained 3
counted for. Other circumstances, of a most mysterious nominally unaltered ; the pressure of the French on the 2$
character, are connected with the affair, the particulars of market continues to interfere with the sale of that of home 19
which have not yet transpired. make ; but the firmness iu the price of Wheat has had more '4
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ADMIRALTY, NIARCII 24.—APPOINTMENTS.—Dc- or less effect, and has prevented millers making any cutlets• sc
puty-Inspertor of Hashir Hospital, W. Lindsay. Rion. The arrivals from abroad have beets to a fair extent,
Acting Surgeons, G. 11. Moore, to the Queen; G. T. 6:571 sucks having been received, during the week, 'triad- tie
Jones and I'. W. Govett, to the Southampton ; and James PallY from France. is
Sproule, to the Victory.- English barley has come forward sparingly, and the din- Is
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Assistant-Surgeons, Alexander Robertson, to the Queen ; Play of samples was trilling on WedawalaY as well as on so
and Henry Slade, to the Castor. Friday. The demand for this grain has not, at any period tg.
of the week, been particularly active ; but the smallnessof so
NEW CHURCIIES.—The Society for Promoting the the supply has caused factors to ask full terms, and fine re
Enlargement, Building, and Repairing of Churches, met malting samples could scarcely be secured on as easy terms 23
on Monday last, the Archbishop of Canterbury in the on Eriaay as earlier in the week. The arrivals of barley 7a.;
chair. In consequence of some of the applications before from abroad have been only moderate, and a good steady sl
the board being incomplete, they were able to make only inquiry having been experienced fur the article for grinding, to
two gnats in aid of the erection of new churehes—vise., at Milner rates have been well maintained. 30
the railway station, 'Tunbridge, and et Eastbury, a district The transactions in Malt have not been of muds ins- 00
of the parish of Larnborne, in Berkshire ; but six grants portance, and we have no change to notice in its value. et
were made towards the enlargement or increase of &mom- The market has been scantily supplied with oats since our ri
modation in the churches at Whaplode, near Spalding, last, only 432 qrs. Inning been received coastwise, CIO qrs. gca
Lincolnshire ; St. Peter Martin, in the town of Beelfonl ; from Scotland, 5,000 qrs. from Ireland, and 10,124 vs. from
St. Osyth, near Colchester ; Ideford, near Chudleigh, De- abroad. The principal dealers have confined their opera-
son ; Aylesbury, Bucks ; and Talkai-the.llill, in the 'wish tin as to us narrow a circle as their pressing wants have ad- so
of Audley, Staffordshire. The population collected tope- mated, end consumers have not in general manifeeted any
thee at the Tunbridge railway station is 2,114, and ra. disposition to buy more than needed for immediate use ; the 30
pidly increasing. A district will be formed and assigned trade has, consequently, been far from lively ; but factors
to theamposed church. have shown a decided inclination to raise their pretensions' IbTHEERPLOSIoN ATJOHNSTONE.—Theabseneeofany and the fine corn could scarcely be bought on as easy terms
public investigation like a coroner's inquest in Scotland at thence 118 in the begiunin the week. te
precludes our being able to give any further information re- Den and Peas have exciteg of
d very little attention since
'peeling the fatal and disastrous boiler explosion at John- Monday, and in the absence of business of importance quo-
stone ; but, from all that can be seen, there is little doubt thins have remained nominally un
altered. ie
but that the explosion maw simply from the over-pressure of Owing to the firmer reports from Ireland respecting In- 17,
steam. and not fromany more abstniseor mysteriuusagency, dinn cons, floating cargoes have been held at enhanced rate. •
The fire-box or flue was a large one, and nut strong enough here as well as at Liverpool. 22
to resist the pressure to which the boiler wail exposed. It TILE FOItEIGN CORN TRADE.
is, we believe, rarely that so simple a ease of caplusioa from The tone of the grain trade has remained firm at :
over-pressure occurs.--NortA British Mail. the leading continental markets, but the amount of business 124
MEETING IN ST. ANDREW'S, lIOLBORN.—Last done appears to hare been very small. ao
night, a very large meeting of the inhabitants of the united The latest advices from Danzig state that hardly a trans- 11l
parishes of St. Andrew, Holborn, and St. George the action had occurred in wheat ; the rates asked by holders
Martyr, was held in the board-roost of the workhouse, having been considered ton high to encourage anything is:
(trayii-inn-lanc. for the purpose of considering the Eeele- like speculative purchases, and no English orders having
siastieal Titles Bill—Mr. Talbot presided. Resolutions been received. lteally fine high-mixed old wheat, in so
moo pureed by large majorities asserting the danger which granary, had been held at equal to 4*2s. to 41s. per qr. free
Means civil and political as well as religious rights in the on board—prices quite out of proportion with quotations 50
reseeding+ of the Pope, and demanding a strung lefrialas here. The weather had been cold, and the ricer navigation U
flue enactment limiting the catholic, to that just equality was not expected to open until the end of the mouth. Ha
which was established by the set of 1829. l'he meeting Letters from Stettin, dated 17th inst., inform us that so
farther demanded, for private persons as well as the the demand for wheat had rather improved; still, the
Attorney-General, to prosecute individuals pretending to actual sales had not been important. Freights to the cast Si,
Illtereiee in this country authority derived from the court coast of Great Britain would, it was expected, open at I
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Home. 2.. fiel. per v. Prices of wheat had slightly improved, 41i
TITS NtrauttL COLLIERY ENTLOSION.—On Friday and for white Polish, weighing 61 to GI ',lbs. per bushel, I
morning Mt. Bennie, of Mr. !);son's works at Govanbill, 3.iii. bil. per qr. free on board had been asked. Barley ss '
arrived with • party of his men at the Victoria pit. '(hey had become liCarCe, and good l'umeranion, of 5241b5.
Immediately proceeded underground, and after great exer- we ight, had uot been offered below 17s. 6d. per qr. free Mr
Lion, and overcoming many difficulties, about three o'clock on board.
in the afternoon they discovered a group of sixteen bodice., The accounts from the Lower Baltic ports report no w-
all of which were shockingly disfigured by the explosion. titular change. The deliveries of grain from the growers ~
It was hoped that the remaining bodies, sixteen in number, seem to 1188 e been small but the expor dend having '•
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would be found during the evening.—Giasgow Citizen. been very circumscribed, prices had nut proved. Good is
ILLNESS OF TILE Ile OT DEaltv.—Very nn- Mecklenburg and Pomeranian red wheat, 61 to 621bs. a
weight, might have been bought so as to allow of its
favourable accounts have ben received of the state of
health of Dr. Ponsonby, Bishop of Derry. being put un board at 345. Cal. to 345. 6d. per qe. The !
weather had, we are informed, been rather trying fur ,1
THE STATUE TO THE iIUEEN AT 110LYROOD,—
tistation' the nights having been frosty and the days hut. *1
The Lord Prevost of Edinburgh has received the following "slortibur,g letters of Tuesday's date state that wheat had
affienanication regarding the statue of the Queen, about to been held very firmly ; a parcel of 614 to 621bs. Holstein I
he erected be the citizens of Edinburgh, in commemora- had changed bands at lis. bd. per qr. free on board, and r
lion of her Vajesty's occupying, fur the first time, the some contracts had been closed fur forward delivery.. Spring 2
ancient palace of her ancestors .—" Office of Woods. Ac., corn had been in improved request, and barley had risen
20th March, 18.51.—My Lord.—l am directed by the Com.
ou— .
per qr. in value. j
inissioners of her Majesty's Woods, de., to acknowledge In the Dutch market but little appears to have been done
the receipt of your lordship's letter of the 12th inst., repre- for export, still the tendency of prices was upwards at Bait.
Denting the very general desire of the subscribers to the tartan on Mond., wt.
statue of her Majesty, that it should be placed in the centre • The value of wheat and flour has undergone some fur-
of the front quadrangle of 410Iyrood Palace; and I am, in they rise at several of the principal French markets. At
i reply, to acquaint your lordship that the board accede to Paris, on 'Thursday, the sales were very extensive, but
your request ; and Mr. Matheson has been directed to supplies haring been liberal, the stocks had not been climi-
isilow the pedestal, when ready to receive the statue, to be .„, ~d.
placed on the site selected.-1 hare the honour to be, fie., "'.
The advices from the Mediterranean are without inte-
T. J. nutters." test. At Marseilles the stocks of foreign wheat haul been
TRADITIONAL NOTICE or RICHARD lII.—I have nearly exhausted, and prices had become nominal. From
an aunt, now eighty-nine years of age, who in early life.. Leghorn we leans that but little bad been done in wheat;
knew one who was in the habitof saying : " I knew a man, but good Marianople, weighing 614 to 621 lbs. had not
who knew a man, who knew a man who danced at court in , been offered below 345. 7d. per qr. free on board—a price
the dips of Richard: III." Thus there have been but three ' out of all proportion to the value of similar qualities in our
links between one who knew Richard 111. and one now • market.
alive. My aunt's acquaintance could name his three pre- I By the steam-ship Cambria we have advice* of recent
deeessors, who were members of his own family: their dates from America. The markets fur brew stuffs had re-
names have been forgotten, but his name was Harrison, twined quiet, and the reports from hence bad checked any
sad he was a member of an old Yorkshire family, and late disposition to consign to Great Britain.
in life settled in Bedfordshire. Richard diel in 1164. and . -=_. ..--
thus five persons have sufficed to chronicle an incident I AMALGAMATION OF THE LIVERPOOL AND BlRKEN-
which occurred 370 years since. Mr. Harrison further' nests DielKS.—We understand that very important nego-
stated that there was nothing remarkable shout 'licher& tiations have been opened with the Dock authorities of lig-
that he was not the hunchback o lump of foul deformity" kenhead for the transfer of their estate to the Dock l' rust of
so generally believed until of late years. • The foregoing Liverpool, in order to promote a wise and comprehensive'
anecdote may be of inures., as showing that traditions may settlement of the affairs of the estuary of the Mersey under
come down from remote periods by few links, and thus be a uniform evstem of government. at e believe the probes-t ,
but little dilfering from the actual occurrences.—From , lion of the Liverpool Dock Trust embraces the nurchase, nu ,
Notes and Queries. a only of the docks of Birkenhead, but *hoof all warehouses,
DRESDEN CHINA.—The fabrication of the Dresden lands, &c., in their vicinity ; and, if we are not misinformed,
china is a monopoly of government or rather of the crown. i the only question which presents any difficulty in the way
The sale is effected in Breeden in large warehouses, of .of a eettlement refers to the valuation to be accepted, and
which the profits are reserved for the royal treasury. The ! the rate of interest to be paid by the Dock Trust of '
which, in the form it is used, es an opaque white Liverpool on the capital invested. The negotiation on the i
maelaytervarial:mbline chalk, comes from Ave in the Ertzgevirge, I part of the Liverpool Dock Trust is being carried on by Mr. I
about sixteen leagues from Meissen. It is used nearly pure, ° North, the able eolicitur of the estate ; and, us we have falli
which requires a mixture of quartz and ' coutideucc in that gentleminam abilities as a aiplomatist, we
twice through the furnace before being doubt not that shortly we shall be enabled te announce the
ercste.epp.tr.forlgtlap...zingi.
painted, and once after, when the external surface becomes sucesestal arrangement of an details. We may even now,
eufficently melted tor,
produce enamel. Of a pale cream perhaps, venture, without much presumption, anticipating
colour when baked, this material may appear to some to is
• result, to offer our conratulations on the restoration •
woofthe transparency of the Poreclaine de Sevres, as the et the estate of Birkenhead to its orig Mal proprietors ; and
specimens seem also to be inferior to it with regard we at least trust that the estuary of tau Mersey will hence-
fo though in the Meissen fabrication fancy forth become something more than a merely nominal unity.
toeleerelegisesanctif far wider range, and its amusing and ever vary- However much them,purchase of thekeuhcad Docks
ing subjects afford ample proof. of the v. ersatile imagination, muy,.in soma q6uairt. be
_objected_ to,hthedre can be no uni
that Baleen ea , as a nature
if not of the genius. of its artificers ; indeed the hest opens certainty ot t fact,
mess of this art could not he produced, unless by men
amend
ausiliary and overflow to Liverpool, will be much less dan-
...ina a more titan ~,,diaary degree of refinement and gerous than as a rival and foe, resolved, at any price, to
least away our commerce.—Lirerpool Albion.
eultarr.—Ati Journal.