The Express.
London, England, 1865-02-07 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL 4.l+W MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL COTTON AND CORN MARKET.
(THI2I DAY.)
(sY =craw LID iirrissanosa, russiars.)
MOM OUR OWN 001118PONDIMIT.)
COTTON.—The =That continues to improve Is prim.
Salsa probably 8,000 balsa.
Ocan.—Malarate attandanc• at market. Wheat is fair
denssad, at &boat Friday's rates. Flour unchanged. Indian
corn weak : Gusts, Xs. to 28a. 3d. Bans unaltered.
Oats and oatmeal slow sale.

MINCING-LAMS.—(THIS DAT.)
Soon—The narks' bee Quad rather quietly, the sales
is lads 4,000 begs of cloyed Manilla at 275. 9d., sod 600
bags of Heopl white Saporta, 35e. to 36e. Based : Drown
lupus remaia at 425., at which there is oily a moderate
hrquir7.
COFFIL —The market for all qualities is Armee ; pri•
vataly, about 100 outs of ploatatioa and 100 Mini native
sold, the latter at 695.
Ter.—No sales of important* reported at present of the
portals put as the market out of nowt arrivals.
Rum-5,000 begs of Neon:one Amain sold at fle. 6d.
Rum LID /Mum= —The demand mutinous inactive.
Carrox.—Ths market °option's firm. Prioss now show
on odium" of fully gd. per lb., and is some cues ld. per lb.
Jars—About 5,000 balsa sold on the spot &adios. arrival.

TALLOW MARKKT.-(THIS DAY.)
The market is steady. Tema hallows quoted 41s. 9d. to
425.; Potashes' Y.O. as the spot, 41s. 6d. ; March,
41s. 94. to 42e. ; June, 49k 6d. ; October to Desesebos,
4.15. to 43e. 3d.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARSST.--(THIS DAY.)
Yawn, Harvey aad Sagan moot Inds at ta fol-
lowing prior :—Prboa hay from 960. to 110 a. Prim alma,
old,lloa. to 1300. Straw, 27a. so 34a.

Tan GYM NORTHBAN RAILWAY DIVIDIND.—
We undersea that the directors have today determined
to recommend to the proprietors to declare • dividend for
the het half-year at the rate of Si. 15s. per cent. per annum
oa the original stock of the mammy.
biewnwo or BISHOPS.—The Archbishop of Can-
terbury be. invited the Archbishops of England end Irelaad,
with such of Me colonial prelates as are in Ragland, to et
him to-morrow (Wednesday) at Lambeth Poises. It le
node stood that amongst other 'objects of interest I. the
church their lordships will direct their semen to the
omostitution of the final court of appeal iu maissisetlosl
causes, and the various alterations which have hese sus-
t maed.
A SERVANT SITIFFOCATID aY FUMIS or CRAROOAL.
—On Wedeesday afternoon ea lamest was held at the reel-
deem of 0. H. S. Poole, Req., Almer-road, Wray-park,
Reigate, before W. Carter Eq., coroner, on view of the
body of Marla Bentley, era 29 years, housemaid, who had
been suffocated by thefumes of charcoal on the previous
Saturday. Ann E. Gertoe, a mot in the service of Mr. Poole,
Mated that the dimmed entered her master's servile on the
previous Friday implies, and the following day she
complained to her (witness) that the room was vm cold,
sod witness asked her if elle would have the charcoal stove,
and deceased told her not to light it supremely for her. She
lighted the stove, and deceased took it into her room about
half-past twelve o'clock. At half-past four o'clock deceased
retired to her room to change her dress, and as she did not
return she (witness) went to the room about half-pat four
o'clock, and on opening the door she saw the deceased lying
on the floor, with her head reviles spinet the bedstead and
her face turned upwards. She touched her and celled her by
name, but perceiving no movement she ran down risks
sod with a fellow servant returned to the room, when she
observed a etrom effluvia of charcoal, and immedistely
opened the window, and bathed the deceased's fame with
water, and medical mildews was obtained, but life was
found to be extinct. The charcoal in the patent stove was
mot eatingniehed. The stove was in the middle of the room
sad the erepleca was boarded up. The bed in the room had
not been laid moo, sad deemed appeared to have sunk
down on the floor. She law nothing to indicate that the
deceased had intended to destroy her own life, and she fully
believed she had been eicklentally suffocated by cheroosl.
The deceased was a &serf al person, sad ay pea:djanbexl
spirits. The coroner expressed a hope that the u n
sult of the indiscreet use of charcoal in • lesdr000;
in this instance would at se a warning to cams. Mr.
Pools explained that he and his family were from home
when the accident happened, but he never allowed the
stove to be kept burning in a room to which a
sitting or sleeping. It was generally placed on tLerle=
The *toe was produced, and it was found that the exemive
beat bad so worn the top away that the ventßator had
fallen sad thus the fetal effects of combostica
would bey socalarated. The jury returned • verdict
of " A death."—Susser Advertiser.
EXTRAORDINARY TALL OF CATB.—last Friday
Caroline Stedman aid Nary Ant Donovan were brought
before the beech at Brighton under the following pecu-
liar ciremostancee. Polies-o=6lWe Betts maid from infer-
mem be received be followed the prisoners and overtook
them in Ormoset-place. They bad in their
seven rate ell alive, and they mid they wseisladat:
drown thane. Suspecting the cats to have been ,
took the peaces's into custody and brassie them to the
hall. The eats were all produced, but no one claimed
them. The chief Alcor said ha received the charge this
maniac sad salted the prisoners what they were
goiog to do with them. The elder prisoner wa
she me going to take them to • lady aimed
Dear, living at Ivy-eolotage, Boetimplean, whe pee m
mush as le. or le each for than, aoeorlie she.
Them had been a greet many cats oblige WO4, and
there was no doubt they were seam andhe new
eliszied pleceses with Assling them Aa Mime
=to the Society for the Promolice ad
CP
Animele, mid that this at Retilingdeas
bed as mew as 80 eats, and bed Men Oen for
a hog tiese--Tbs phooey Stelms add imbed t the
eats of seethe/ wean, MR PM MA If teem and
Deem= odd she howl than—Tbe imeghtells
was us doubt Polo, sod emetaseei esob of
the pitmen te weds' isphammeat eith- bald