The Express.
London, England, 1851-07-17 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

MINCING LANE-THIS DAY.

SUOAR.—The public sales arc doing off heavily, and the
importers arc buying in largely to sustain the market. Re-
fined dull grocery lumps ;low to fine, 4G4. 6d. to 495.
M tans sa.-200 puncheons Porto Rico offered and bought
in, lrks. Gd.
Corn:E.—The public tales are progressing steadily. Good
ortlisury native Ceylon dull of sale and quoted nominal
375. Gd. to Mc

Cocos.-400 bags sold in public sale, 38s. to 445.
Tea.—The trade is occupied with the samples uf the pub-
lic sales declared for to-morrow.
Cotton continues dull of sale.
In other articles no material alfrration. Markets gene-
rally dull and inactive to-day.

TALLOW MARKET.—THIS DAY.
The market is quiet to day, with quotations rating u fol-
lows :—Town Tallow 365. ; Petersburg Y. C. on the spot,
375. 6d. ; last three mouths, 39.. 3d. ; January and March
395. 6d.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—THIS DAY.
Messrs. Cooper and Davis report a short supply, at the
following quotations :—Prime Meadow Hay, 75,. to 855.;
inferior ditto, 551. to 855.; new, 555. to 705.; Itowen,
60s. to 655.; Clover, old, 70s. to 953.; new, 60s. to 805.;
Straw, 28a. to 325.

COTTON.—IIAVRE, JULY 16.
The market to-day was very calm. Sales up to 2 o'clock
about GOO Lalei. Prices undimmed.

RAILWAYS FOR CANADA. A Canada paper
says : " A convention of the friends of the Eu-
ropean and North American Railway has been held
at Portland, Maine. Resolutions were passed, expres-
sing the opinion of the committee that the favourable
conclusions arrived at by the delegates from Maine, Ca-
nada, New Brunswick, and Nova Scotia, who assembled in
convention in July last, to consider the feasibility of the
undertaking, had been amply realised ; first, by the liberal
charters and facilities, or promised aid given by the v trious
legislatures, with the exception of Nova Scotia ; second, by
the able report of A. C. Morton, Esq., which shows that
the road can be easily and cheaply made, and that it will
pay when made; and third, by the hold which this under-
takinq has taken on the public mind, both in Europe and
America, and the unanimous verdict which has been pro-
nounced in its favour by the railway press and practical
business men, whose interests have led them to investigate
the matter."

SHREWSBURY AND BIRMINGHAM RAILWAY.—
Traffic for the week ending July 13: 6601. 13s. 641.; cor-
responding period last year, 6531. 12a. Ild.
PATENT KAMPTULICON COMPANY.—A call of 31. 18
declared, to discharge this company's liabilities.
LIVERPOOL MANURE ASSOCIATION.—A call of
per share has been dictated, to pay off the liabilities of this
company, estimated by Mr. Hutton, the official manager, to
amount to upwards of 13,0001.
BENEVlCES.—Yesterdaysreturn to parliament
was made of all benefices, rectories, or vicarages which have
been united under the act 13 &14 Viet., c. 98. Since the
passing of the act, on the 14th August last, two orders for
disunion have passed the privy council, and six orders
for separation of chapelries, creating in the whole ten new
benefices.
NARROW

Saturday last a labourer
named Charles Musty, accompanied by a lad named John
Powell, proceeded to a well at about half a mile from Pains-
wick, for the purpose of getting up a bucket which had
fallen to the bottom from the breaking of the rope. He
was lowered down the well, which was about forty feet
deep, by a rope round his waist. On getting to the depth
of about thirty feet, he placed his foot un a projecting stone
for the purpose of taking the necessary means to get the
bucket, when the stone gave away, tearing with it a num-
ber of others, and immediately the walls of the well, which
were built of large loose stones, collapsed around him, and
he was completely buried in the atones and rubbish, a small
space only being left above his head, from several large
stones lying across each other. The boy above, on seeing
the well give way, immediately ran back to Paiuswick, and
gave the slants, though not with the remotest idea of sav-
ing the poor fellow, the whole mass of earth and stones,
thirty feet in depth, having closed above him. From
six!een to twenty men got to work to dig through the
MEWS of earth, it being necessary, from the nature of the
ground, to work upon a large surface. About one o'clock
on Sunday morning, one of the two men who were at work
in the well (there not then being room for more) was
relieved, and another went down in his place ' • but imme-
diately afterwards, from unmistakeable signs below, they
were pulled up again, and instantly a large quantity of the
earth gave way, and to a great extent closed up the space
the previous labours had effected. Men again set to work,
but their operations were necessarily slow from the large
stones they frequently encountered, one of which weighed
five cwt., and to remove which a triangle had to be erected;
and it was about eleven o'clock on Sunday morning before
they got down to where their tools had been previously
buried. Shortly after this another fall took place. On
getting down about 16 feet the poor fellow below was heard
to speak in reply to questions put to him. The whole of
his body was fixed in the earth and stones, there lying only
a small space above his bead, which enabled hint to breathe.
The men continued their labours, and between flee and
half-past five on Sunday afternoon the man was drawn
from his subterranean prison, where he had been fixed
without nourishment for thirty hours. He was carried in
a sheet to a house near, when it was found he had sustained
no material injury, his legs and wrists only being badly cut,
and parts of his body bnused.—Gloneester Journal.