The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-09 00:00:00

TALLOW MARKET.-THIS DAY.

The 'fallow market remains very dull, at the following
quotations :—Town Tallow, 38s. 61. ; Petersburgh 1.C.,
ou the spot, 38s. 6d.; last three months, litis.; January
and March, Us. lkl.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—THIS DAY.
Messrs. Cooper and Davis report a short supply, and
the trade hooey, at the following quotations: Prune Mea-
dow Hay, 70s. to Mi.; interior, ;30s. to 605.; ltuwen, 1i o.
to ; Clover, old, 60s. to 84s. ; Straw, 225. to 265.

COALS.—Lommg, OCT. B.—CLOSE OF VIE MARKET.
—Walls End Brown, 16s. 61.; Walls End Gusforth, 175.;
Wads End Belmont, 176.6 d.; Walls End Braddyll, ;
Walls End Iletton, Ms.; Walls End Haswell, 18s.; Walls
End Lambton, 18s.; Walls End Scarborough, 17s. 34.;
Walls End Stewart's, 18s.; Walls End Whitwell, 174.;
Walls End Denison, 17s. 31. ; Walls End liefloe, 17s. &I.;
Walls End Thoniky, 171. 6d. ; Walls End Seymour Tees,
17s, &I.—Snips at market, 21 ; sold, 21.

SHREWSBURY AND HEREFORD H.AILWAY.—Tho
works ea the Dinmore Tunnel have been commenced by
the contractors. _

A SomN.lmilutlsiT litrOsTOß..—A somnambulist
of some note (Mad.une Saucerutte), living in the quarter
Montmartre, has been tried by the Tribunal of Correc-
tional Police for swindling and sellinir secret remedies.
She pretended that she could plunge her-elf ut is ill into a
magnetic trance, by merely applying to her nose a little
bag containing, as she said, some rare substance, but
which turned out to he bits of a common plant ; and when
in the trance she professed to reveal the past, to state
what was passing in distant places, to predict the future,
and to cure all manner of diseases. She charged
fifteen francs for a first consultation, and ten francs for
every one following. ller remedies consisted of different
species of waters, which she called eau du lthio, eau
du Jourdain, eau de consulte, eau du Nre Antonio, and
eau des Carmelites ; she had also, for grave cases, other
remedies, called the pommude de Mela, the topiquc lndien,
and the baurne de Harleim. Some of these things were
common quack medicines; others were made from bran
and other articles. The price the woman charged for her
waters was five francs a bottle, and her balms and pommades
were equally dear. She had is very extensive connexion, and
was accustomed to make trips into the country, in the
course of which she also made numerous dupes. Some of her
patient,' had great faith in her. One of them, for example,
a M. Jules, baker, Rue St. Honore, 175, declared that she
was better than all the physicians in the world. She had, ho
said, frequently cured him of headache and other indisposi-
tions by prescribing a cup of tea with a few drops of runs
in it. This declaration made the auditory laugh, but M.
Jules said he did not care for the laughing, and that ho
was convinced that she was a wonderful physician. She
had only charged him, he added, five francs tor each pre-
scription, though her regular fee was 10f. Another wit-
ness, named lilaise, wood-dealer, Quai do la Rupee, said
that his house had once been bewitched—the doors refusing
to open, the keys dancing about in all directions, the win-
dows refusing to close, &c., but that the accused by her
exorcisms had set all right again. He bad had a pain in
the back, fur which she prescribed him drugs and waters;
ho had applied them to the part affected, and blisters
had been produced; but admitted that he had found no
relief. In two years he. hail paid her as much as 1,500 f.
for her remedies. His mother-in-law, who had also con-
sulted her, had, however, paid much more (5,000 f.), but
then she had had the advantage of having administered an
invaluable remedy concocted by two friends of the
prisoner—one the Hermit of Posey, the other the Arch-
bishop of Constantinople. Amongst the sums which his
mother-in-law had paid the accused was one of 500 f. for in-
ducing the archbishop, by the exercise of a certain magic
art he possessed, to obtain a tenant for an unoccupied
house at Bourg-la.Reine. The accused, being interrogated
by the president, pretended that all she had done was for
the sake of suffermg humanity. She was condemned to 13
months' imprisonment and 315 f. fine. A man, named Mar-
tini, whom she had picked up in the street, was sentenced
to six months imprisonment, for having aided her in 601110
of her frauds by pretending to be the Archbishop of Con-
stantinople, and by reciting prayers which she prescribed in
serious cases. A druggist, named Busquet, was fined 200 f.
for having supplied some of her prescriptions, and sold cer-
tain secret remedies at her order.—Gaiignani,