The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-13 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

MINCING-LANE.-THIS DAY.

The markets generally have beta dull and inactive to-
day.
600A5.-18,000 bags of Manilla were offered in public
tale, and bought in at 345. to 355. &I. 60 baskets of Java
were also bought in at 365. 6d. to 3941 The refined market
is also dull ; grocery lumps, fair to fine, 455. 6d. to 48s.
Corria.—l6o casks if plantation Ceylon were offered
and bought in at 625. to 595. A parcel of native Ceylon
has been sold at 475., and there appear to be buyers at that
Price-
Tis..—The arrivals have been large during the last week,
but the market is firm.
Corrox.-200 bales of Madras were offered in public sale
and bought in, 31 to 4.
In other articles no material alteration.

TALLOW MARK.ET.—THIS DAY.
The market is heavy. The demand is moderate, and
there is little disposition to buy for forward delivery.
Town Tallow is quoted 461. 64 nett cash ; Petersburg
Y.C.*con the spot, 465. Od. ; January to March, 465. 9d.;
October to December, (new), 465. 9d.

SUSPICIOUS DEATH IN • COMMON SEWER.—This
meriting upon the workmen engaged in repairing the main
sewer, running through Portugal-street, and immediately
opposite Ring's College Hospital, resuming their labours,
they were considerably alarmed at not finding the night
watchman, William Reedits, an old man, whose duty it
was to have remained in charge of the works until the
appearance of the foreman. Upon one of the men
descending into the sewer he called out that Readen was
at the bottom quite insensible, and upon assist-
ance arriving the poor fellow was found to be
dead, and the body was conveyed to the hospital.
It is suspected that the man must have been thrown
in as his supper, which had been brought to him on the
previous night by his daughter, was found untouched, and
a small bottle of gin she had provided him with was in his
pocket, also not partaken of. The deceased was very tem-
perate in his habits, and the cutting to the sewer was not of
a character likely for him to have slipped in by accident.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT A COTTON MILL.—On
Friday last an accident, by which one man was killed and
several others injured, occurred at the new fire-proof cot-
ton mill in course of erection by Messrs. Orenroal, Bullfield,
near Bolton. The building is four stories high, and the
workmen were engaged in fixing the girders for supporting
the roof. Six men were engaged raising a large Iran wall
plate, when the scaffolding upon which five of them stood
gave way, and they were precipitated, one of them to the
ground, and the others to different stories of the building.
Thomas Tong, a joiner, had his ribs broken, and died the
same evening, and the others were mere or less injured, but
ere all in a state of recovery. An inquest was held on the
body of Thomas Tong on Tuasday, wnen it appeared from
the evidence of Mr. Thomas Isherwood, one of the con-
tractors for the stone work, that the scaffolding was not
sufficiently. secure, but the fault rested with the deceased,
who superintended the work on behalf of Messrs. Musgrove
and Son, the contractors for the roof and iron work. A
verdict of "Accidental death" was returned. One of the
other men injured, named Michael Murray, is not expected
to recover.
I inn FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE EASTERN COUNTIES
RAlLWAT.—Yesterday Mr. William Baker resumed and
concluded an inquiry at the Crown and Anchor,
Cheshire-street, Bethnal-green, respecting the death of
Mr. Richard Pratt, aged 53 years, late landlord of the
above.named public-house, who lost his life from certain
injuries received by jumping from • train on the Eastern
Counties Railway, some particulars of which appeared in
this journal of Monday last. The jury having received
some additional evidence, returned a verdict of " Accidental
. death."
. ROYAL HIGHLAND SCHOOL SOCIETY.—Iho Duke
r of Wellington has consented to become a vice-president of
this ancient charity, vacant hy_the death of his father.
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' LONDON AND NORTII-WESTERN RAILWAY.—The
hallt statue of
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