The Express.
London, England, 1853-12-14 00:00:00

MINCING-LANE.-THIS DAY.

oar..—Tbe market is quiet today ; the only pubic
sale consistedof 220 hhds. Cubs, which went off at pre-
vious ratan ; prices ranged from 31s. 61. to 37.. 6.1. Refined
witroat alteration.

COFFEE.—There has not been a public sale today, but
the article general:y has a firm appearance.
TEL.—WC are without any business of importance to re-
port to-day. The letters by the China Mail may be t
pected on Friday morning.
PEPPER.-400 bags Malabar sold steadily in public sale
at full prices, 41d. to sp.
NUT"tECIS.-20 eases sold in public sale at 2s. sd. to 3s.

t-i.—The demand is steady and prices are fully sup-
ported.
Cotrox.-350 hales sold yesterday on 'Change.
In other articles no material alteration.

TALLOW MARKET.-THIS DAY.

The tallow market is steady, the demand improN our, and
prices do not advance. Town tallow is quoted 665. ; Peters-
burg Y.C. on the spot, 565. ; Dec., 565. ; January to March,
569. 6d.

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.-THIS DAY.
Messrs. Pattenden and Smith, hop Actors, report that
there is very little doing in hops. Prices continue about tue
same.

COAL MARK) f.—THIS DAY.
Eden Main. 275. ; Walls End Buten, 265. ; Walls
End Haswell, 285.; Walls End Hatton, 285.-37 Ships at
awake:.

FIRE AND LOSS OF LIFE.

Yesterday Mr. Brent held an inquest on the body
of John Rogers, aged 37 years, a travelling draper and silk
mercer, who perished in the fire which occurred about 8
o'clock on Saturday morning last in the premises belonging
to Mr. Mustard, a baker, No. 24, Grafton street, Fitzroy-
square, some particulars of which appeared in this journal
of Monday.
Mr. Paul Gerrard, head engineer, at Wells-street brigade
station, said that on Saturday morning last he found the
body of the deceased in the third-floor hack of Mr. Mus-
tard's premises, burnt in a frightful manner. The front
room on the same floor was also partly burned ; and on the
floor he found another gentleman named Cannon. He was
burnt very much, and was at once carried to the hospital.
The deceased appeared not to have been to bed the night
before, but there was no means of ascertaining how the
fire wee caused.
Williata Thurlow, • farrier, of Tottenham street, said
that he had known the deceased for years. He was • free-
man of the Drapers' Company. He saw him last alive on
Friday night, and he lett him at his late residence at l 2
o'clock. For some time past he had been in a very des-
ponding state, and had complained of being unwell. He
had often said that he was afraid he should never get
better, as the doctors were playing with him. He talked
rather curiously to witness, and prayed that " God would
take him that night." Ho also said to witness, If you
don't see me any more after this night, come and take my
goods, fur I cannot live in this England." Witness re-
, ceived a lever from the deceased, which induced him to
call upon him that night. Wisest he arrived he told him
that be had sent for him to collect some debts
in, sad what he received he begged might be
handed over to his mother, as he was going off to Aur
trans. Witness told him that he owed him some money.
which he would pay at Christmas, when he replied, If I
die to-night the debt dies with me." He then gave wit-
ness a 201. note, end asked him to take it to his mother.
Witness said that as he was going abroad he might want the
money. The deceased replied that he had got caliber and
folded the note up like a screw ot tobacco. He was quite
sober at the time. There was a fire in the stove, but not
larger than a pint pot. A candle was burning on the man-
tel piece, with a long snuff. When he first went into the
room the floor was strewed with paper, silks and satins.
There was a pile of paper in the room, perhaps a foot high.
The deceased was in the act of pulling off his clothes when
witness left.
The coroner was informed that the other unfortunate
sufferer in the hospital had stated that he was up at seven
o'clock on Sunday morning, when he detected not the least
appearance ot tire.
The Coroner said it was possible that the deceased might
have been seized with a At, or have become Insensible from
some other cause, end whilst in that state have dropped the
candlestick, and hence the melancholy occurrence. In fact,
he might have been suffocated before he was burned.
The jury, after consulting, returned an open verdict as to
the cause of the fire.

PHARMACY IN PARIS—A report from the Minister
of Public Instruction recommends the suppression of the
chair of medical chemistry, left vacant by the death of M.
Orfila, and the ,substitution for it of a chair of pharmacy,
and being of more general utility. An imperial decree
approves of the recommendation of the report, creates the
chair of pharmacy so proposed, and appoints to the new
' chair thus established, Dr. Souheiran, professor at the supe-
rior School of Pharmacy of Paris.
EXTRAORD:NART SLAUGHTER OF RATS.—About
1,400 of these pests of the farmers were recently killed iu
some very old-standing wheat ricks on an estate in the
neighbourhood of Upton-on-Severn. The quantity ot grain
consumed by the vermin must have been very great, as they
had long held undisputed possession of their comfortable
quarters. What a speculation for a Chinese purveyor'
How mue'l he would regret the loss of so much dainty
food !—O.'oreeester Chronicle.
ELOPENIENT.—On Wednesday last, the wife of
Mr. Stocker, proprietor of a hikhly repeetable academy at
Boughton, near Faversham, left her home in company with
one of the ushers, named Chattcrton, and has not sines.
been heard of ; the gui ty parties took with them all the
plate, and a considerable sum of money ; the faithless
womb left three children and a husband in a state border-
ing on distraction, and the worthless scoundrel, the compa-
nion of her flight, has succeeded in victimising several trades-
men in Boughton and Faversham, to rather a large amcunt.
—South Eastern Gazette.
GLASOOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.—
Traffic for the week ending Dee. 10. 1853, 4,5091. 10s. •id.
Corresponding week, 1862, 3,8734. 101. M. Immo in
1868, 635,. 19i. 90.
SOUTH EASTERN RAlLWAT.—Traffic for the week
ending Dec. 10, 18.53, 12,6744. ; ditto Dee. 11, 18.52,
11,6551.2 e. Od. Unease in 1 '8.13, 1,019/. Bs. Id.