The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-18 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL COTTON & CORN MARKETS.

rum DAY.)
(Sr SWIM AND mut maairria rnso RAPS.)
Moir oar owic commarowourr.)
Oorros.—Market keeps quiet. Probable sales, 2,000
bales.
COSN.—Nsrket thin,Seended. Wheat—moderate con-
sumptive demand, co in prices. Flour dull and un-
changed. Indian rote y. No change in beans and
rata Oatmeal in favour of buyers.

MINCING LANE.—(THIS DAY.)
&Cc:mt.—The market continues quiet, and no sales are
reported by private contract ; the public sales are ra-
mming heavily, without spirit, at about previous pnoes.
Refined : At the recent decline a moderate amount of bug-
ntle is only doing.
Corm—For plantation aid native Ceylon there is a
steady demand ; foreign aorta are also in request.
Taa.—The market is dull. Public Bales will be held to-
morrow.
Rica —About 3,000 bags have beendispoewl of ; common
cargo Bengal. sir.
SALMTILE continues dull of sale.
Rm.—Bushier bat been done at firm prices. Com-
mas to fine Demerara, ls. 6d. to is. 11d. ; Leeward', la. sd.
Corros is dull of sale at a decline of id. per lb.
lirwr.—The market is firm.

TALLOW MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
The market is quiet. Town tallow is quoted 45.. 3d.
net cash ; Petersburg Y.O. on the spot, 465. 6d. ; all the
year. 465. to 46. 3d.; Dec., 465. 3d. to 465. bd. ; January
to March, 46a. 9d. to 475. ; March, 475. to 475. 3d.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
Masora Harvey and Easton report trade slow at the
following priors :—Prime meadow hay, 70s. to 755. ;
superior ditto, 80a. to 85a. ; ishrior ditto, 40s. to 60a.
rowan, 36a. to 60a. ; 'clover. aid, 90a. to 110 s. ; ditto,
'second cut, Ws. to 100 s. ; chew.BBll. to 3011.

FATHER THAMES AND THE SESSION.
buy notices have been given for next session for private
bills for new bridges to be built oversize the Tower, oppo-
site St. Paul's, opposite the Temple steamboat pier, oppo-
site Cherie-walk, Chelsea, and at Wandsworth, Hampton,
Walton, and Shepperton. The Metropolitan Board of
Works have given a notice for continuing the embankment
on the north side of the river to Qnceohithe, on the wester&
side of Southwark-bridge, and for a new street from that
point to the Mansion-house. and also for an embankment oa
the Surrey side from the foot of Chelsea suspension-bridge
to near London.bridge.
Ricans° A IS sax.—The ceremony of receiving s
nun took place at the Roman catholic chapel, Kidderminster,
on Saturday. The novice was a young lady mimed Mary Au-
gusta Ann Theresa Tyran, from the county Meath, in Ire-
land. The USXO.3 by which she will be known among the
sisterhood at Kidderminster, however, will be Sister Mary
Theresa. The young lad 's friends are 0-..ted to be persons
of position and wealth in the above-named county.
At the close of an address from Dr. Ullathorae,
the novice advanced front her seat, and knelt
before the bishop, who asked her if she was
thoroughly aware of the obligatiocs she was going to take.
' The novice responded, io a subdued voice, that @be wee.
Having prostrated herself on her face before the bishop,
prayer was offered. The black veil having been placed over
her heed, the bishop said that the habit she now wore was
the livery of Jesus Christ,* and it should remind her
that she had for ever (waken the world and was in
future to serve God alone. Another prayer fol-
lowed, the nun again prostrating herself as before. The
bishop asked if it was with willing. heart she renounced
the world and all similar pretensions. An answer was
given in the affirmative. The bishop then gave the now
professed nun a crucifix, which he told her to receive u •
token of the fidelity which she owed to her spiritual vows.
The bishop :—" The hour of your sacrifice is come. Do you
cheerfully, without reserve, give yourself to God!" The
nun returned answer that she did. Mass was then per-
formed with the usual ceremonies, during which the reia
made • recantation of the world, and devoted herself to •
religions life. The bishop epee this declared that he ad-
mitted her into the institute of the Blessed Virgin, and he
promised her, if she kept her vows, everhuitieg life.
GLINKILRIE. —MISERABLE STATE OF THE CROPS
IN THE Mom ANDS.—Never did the close of harvest present
a more threatening and ruinous sanest in the Highlands
than it dose at the present time. On most farms which
are favourably situated the crop is well secured. but on late
plate* and is high glens, where the sod is cold and heavy,
comparatively little has been done to the in-gathering of the
grain—so little, that on some farms in this neighbourhood
only two and three stacks have appeared in the stackyard;
and the fields present a miserable aspect. So little of the
crop had been gathered in. that " ratting" bad to be ra-
j sorted to. This is done by binding the sheaves below the
ears, and spreading out the lower part of them, ro that
every sheaf is made to stand by itself —a process which has
failed in giving satisfaction this year, as snow has now
covered the ground to the depth of five or six inches, which
has broken down the " pita " and lodged them among the
snow, like bushes of mountain heath in the middle of
winter. The only cheering feature we have under these
disheartening circumstanoes is the fact that most farmers is
this district depend chiefly on their sheep and cattle for the
wherewithal to pay their rents ; and if a sufficient quantity
of straw could be secured for the wintering of cattle most
parties might come pretty well out of it slier O.—Duet/es
Adoestiar. _

SINGULAR RAILWAY ACCIPENY.—The exprefiq and
other to Scotland on the North-Eastern Rail-
were traissing
delayed some time, on Saturday evening, by a sin-
golar thedeet which occurred at the Felling station, the
station next to Gateshead, between 3 and 4 o'clock in the
afternoon. The local train, which left Newcastle for shields
and Suederlsod at 3 o'clock in the afternoon. was standing
at the Felling station about a quarter past 3 o'clock, taking
in and discharging passengers, and while some of the
passengers were alighting a goods' "pick up" train
CAM from the south upon the opposite pair of rails
on the down line at full speed, the local train standing
on the up line. Just as the gooda train was flying past an
of the tire, of a truck io the centre of it broke, and in as
instant several of the Imagoes were thrown off the hue. and
driven in every direction. Huge fragments from the broken
waggons struck the carriages of the standing passenger
train, and did extensive damage to them. Bat, singular se
it may seem, none of the passengers were seriously hurt. and
but few of them slightly so. The front, a portioo of the
roof, and the sides of two compartments of a second-class
carriage were broken into splinters ; the footboard was torn
off a first-class carriage and the door broken in ; the win-
dows of a third-clue carriage were smashed aid the rider
broken in iu several places. as if struck by cannon balls.
How the passengers escaped as they did I a perfect mi-
racle. Of the goods train one of the trucks was broken up
into splinters, and scattered piecemeal oven the platform
of the station and embankment, and two or three inhere
ware seedy demolished, and the merchsadise scattered it
every dieestioa. The engine-tender was not injured. It
took three hours before one of the limas of rails could
be awed for traffic, sad. ea it was markst-da at New-
castle, the block-up of trains mused great •oe and
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