The Express.
London, England, 1849-12-26 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.

TiUS DAY.

Two o'Cnocx.
Consols opened today at .96 to I with a firm
market, and were next done at i7..1.1; they teen be-
came weaker and marked 96/, be;nfr at present
quoted 961 to ex dividend for tits 16th of January.
'flee Three per cent. Reduced have been negociated at
96Z. The New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., at
974, and last at 97/. Exchequer Bills 565. and
59e. prem. Bank Stock, 2021.
In the Foreign-house there is scarcely any business
ring forward, Mexicans however are firmer, with an
improving tendency. The business rerrorted consists al
of: I)utchTwo-and-a-Half per Cents. at 56 and 1. //
Mexican (ex January coupon), at 28; and 29.
Spanish Five per Cent. Actives at 19; the Three 20
per Cents. at 381. 20

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MUSH FUNDS. 131
Bank Steck. In 1 to
1 per Ct. Red. AIM., 66 i I lrer Cut. 171 r . fed
4
8 per Ct Cee. Awn, shut Is:chequer Ms, 665. WM. go
FORRION FUN DO. 10
6 per Ct. Austrian 1 per CL Gnosis Rae. 18 1 100
41 per Ct. Belt. liouds.4s —8
Orem& Deferred lids, 11 ; 33i
11 per Capt., 6 Per Ot. Me:., 1646.1 W 1 171
6 per Ct. Brazilian Bag. IMO 6 par OL Perinea Bile„ 64 6 fit.
Ditto New. U 8 Portuguese COLIT.. 36 7
8 per el Buenos Ayres, 46 7 6 ler Ct. Rae 161.000 11 114
Ditto CltUlan Bits., 07 1011 DittoOpeoles lidu,.lBl 101 10
Nee Oolurb. Def. Mu,— 3 pertC egeolelt lief.. Rd 1 SO
Colombian lquidor 1144.. 31 4 epaulet Deterred Ms..— 16
8 per Ct. Danish 04... 77 4 Ditto Pall,. Wu 41 4 se
11 per CL Dutch lids., 656 3 per Ct. Defer
Ras.. eil Se 44
4 per (.11.. llutdi Lens., 444 11 Vearauele Deferred lids, 9IV le

MINCING-LANE.—THIS DAY.
This day must be oonsidered as a holiday, yet, esntrary to
to the usual custom, there has been a fair attendance of 6'
speculators ar.l ot• en, and a disposition shown to put- se
chase Rice and Coffee. Tea his also been actively in. So
quired after, chi. tly common Coups', which is quoted 91d. 15
to 101., showing an advance of nearly Id. per lb. on the late ry
lowest point of the market; yet the article is unaider,d to 23
be at a very low pea. po

TALLOW MARKET.-THIS DAT.
This being holiday time, there was Politico doing in the g
market. The nominal quotations are:—Petersburg Y. C. on
the spot, 33e. 6i. ; December delivery, 38e. 3d. ; January to m
Much, 38e. 3d. ; Oct. to Dec., 1830, 395. 64. le
P.

BOROUGH MARKET.—THIS DAY. 124
tat
Meseta. Pattenden and Smith report that there is no alter- tat
slim in the market. se
...

COAL MARKET.—THIS DAT. to
Bates Hartley. 15a.; Huddle's West Hartley, 15a. 6d.; 13
Can's R^rtley, 15e. ; Eden Main, 17e. 9d. ; liaatimes lto
Hartley, 15e. 63 ; Tantield Macir,lss ; West Hartley, Vis.6d.; So
Walls End Bee icke and Co., 17s. 6d ; Walls End Heaton, 23
17s. ; Walls End Roswell, Its. 9d.; Walls Sad Hatton.
16.. 911. ; Wall. End Lambton, 184. 3d. ,• Walls End ro
Stewart's, 18e. 91. ; Walls End Adelaide Tees, 17e. 9d. ; is
Walls End Tem, 161. 9d. Ships at market, 153.

HARK-LANE.-THIS DAY. toil
St.
The supplies of foreign grain have been less liberal than Lis)
of late, and the quantity of English Wheat on sale this 100
morning was trifling. The attendance in Mark lane ck e tay !?
was very small, and in fact we had a complete holiday mar- `"
20
ket, and, in the absence of any business of moment, the u
quotations of Monday last must be repeated for all articles. 10
aRHIVALa INTO LONDON Fitosl 24th DEC. TO 26th DEC. 20
Qrs, English. Watch. limb. Percent. 00
Moat .
.
Barley .......
3390341 I I 2690
I
124
Oats 3420
Dour. 610 auks;
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SUICIDE ON THE You AID SCARBOROUGH RAIL- 6,
WAY.—On Claistmes-eve a frightful event occurred at the It
foot of Matton-bridge, within a short distance of the station eta
at that town. The line crosses the Scarborough turnpike- et.
road at this point on a level, where the latter passes etat of 9
Matton to the adjoining parish of Norton, with, of course, ,
the usual gates, and a gatekeeper in attendance to close and ""
open them as the teethe on the line or road requires. The so
mail train from Scarborough is due at Matton at 6 o'clock, to
shortly before which period a man wee observed lingering to.
about this thoroughfare, which is one of the leading ones of 25
the neighbourhood. He entered into conversation with the 210,„
gatekeeper, asking when the train was due, which line it ,"
came upon, and questions of that nature, when at length the se
gatekeeper signalled its al preach, and warned the deceased 40
Ito remove himself out of danger. Instead of doing so he end- to
duly cried out that his object was to meet the train, that he r.
as w tired of life, and darting forward threw himself across ,"
the rails in front of the approaching engine, which passed
over; him, severing his limbs. and scattering them about es
the line in venous directions. The act was witoessed by 12‘
several persons, one of whom endangered his own life by an 10
ineffectual attempt to rescue the deceased. The progrese of t?,
the train is slackened at this crossing, in consequence of Its 111.
Proximity to, the station, but it had sufficient impetus 97
rto effect the object contemplated by the deceased, in os
consequence of t destruction. nd determined manner in which OS
las courted his The deceased was named Si.
Skelton, aged about 21, the son of a labourer living at Old w„.
Melton, and bad for some time been employed in repairing 7§,.
the roads in the vicinity. The only presumed reason for his Ay
committal of this act I. that he laboured under an inter- 50
nal disease of a peculiar character, and which he cortidered, St.
as perhaps it was, incurable. The mother of the deceased is 20f
senant and charwoman in several familes in the neighbour- Is'
hood, and happened to be engaged at the house of a gentle- 21
man not far from the scene of the catastrophe, when a ; 12
messenger came in on other business, detailing in the we- t.
sence of the mother, but without knowing who she was, the
particulars of the incident which had happened to a persoo
of the name of Skelton. Thelpoor woman at once felt snared ro ,
that the deceased was her can, a fact which was shortly is
afterwards confirmed by the arrival of her husband.
MURDER OF A PUPIL, AND SUICIDE OF MS St.
Turoz.—The Lyons Gazelle of the 19th of Dicember re- r
ports an extraordinary and very mysterious cue of aimons.
tion and suicide. The crime was perpetrated at the Chateau
d'Arcy, near Marcigny, in the department of the Saone-et- 00
Loire, and the details are sufficiently dramatic to obtain for
it a place in the annals of "celebrated crimes." M. de St. 1.,.°
C— the owner of the manor in question, which he in. 1e
id throughout the year, had en only son, an interest- 10
lag child 9 years of age. He was not only handsome, but 20
very precocious ;he was the pride of his parents, and their 10
opulence rendered this heir of their fortunes doubly dear. 10
In order to avoid the pain of separation, and to prevent 11
their child from being contaminated by the pestilent moral 34
atmosphere peculiar to schools, in which a hireling is allowed 30
to usurp the plane of the parent, M. de St. C— had Iris 10
son educated at home. The chi d loved his master, and pro- 10
fited by his instructions. Oa Wednesday, the 12th of Ds- 30
cember, the child left his mother for the purpose (u he tl
alleged) of copying a theme. At 3 o'clock the dinaer-bell
rang, and Madame de St. C— ordered the master and lo
pupil to be summoned to the board. But, ales! what a 50
spectacle did the school-room present! The unfortunate 115
child lay stretched on the floor, and the tutor also, the
latter in a pool of blood. The wretch had cut his own et
throat after having murdered his pupil with a bludgeon. as
The deepen of the mother and the grief of the aged father
on his return in the evening laden with Christmas presents St.
for his child we will not attempt to depict—the task is too 23
painful. The detestable deed was, it appears, the result of
a long and premeditated design. The monster of an assassin
had been treated with the utmost kindness by his patrons, el
and enjoyed every comfort. An infernal envy et the pros-
perity which he witnessed around him prompted him to to
plot an act of fiendish vengeance. He could not brook the 20
superior fortune of his employers •he was disgusted with ?,51,
his own subaltern part, and Satan accordingly prompted LI
him to perpetrate a deed the object of which was to resins
to hopeless misery the objects of his rage and jealousy. The
guilty ruffian was too cowardly to await the consuming' SO
of his crime, and" breathed his sullen soul away," a re- 60
20
pauseless and h -abandoned suicide. 20
ESCAPE OF TWO BURGLARS FROM DOTER 20
POLICE•STATION.—WaIker and Ayres, two men who were 20
under committal to Maidstone gaol to take their trial for 20
burglary at Swingfield, escaped from Dover police-station on 10
Tuesday morning about five o'clock. They effected their C
escape 'by breaking through the ceiling of their cell, which u,
was composed sae evly of lath and plaster. After making a
hole large enough to enable them to get through, the pri-
soners crawled along the coping, between the ceiling of the
cell, and the outside roof, and broke through the lath and
plaster composing the ceiling of the adjoining cell, into
whioh they got down. This cell had been left unhooked for
the purpose eel drying it, the rain of the previous day hung
made it very damp, and utterly unfit to plate a prisoner
into. After this they opened the station-house door and
made their escape. As yet no clue is known of their lurking
place.—Doper ClWOMielf
ATTEMPTED ESCAPE FROM CARNAHVON COUNTY
GAOL —On Thursday an attempt was made by six prisoners
to escape from this gaol. A person named Junes Healy
led the way, by scaling the wall of the ward, which is con-
nected wilt the boundary wall at nht angles. He poems-
.
plished this by lashing logether thew long tidsh haitalei,
on which he climbed. He soon snceeded in reaching the
outer wall, which is only about eight feet higher than
the other ; and by means of a rope tied to the pro-
jecting spikes, descended into the adjoining premises.
Fortunately, however, Mr. Dixon's (the gaoler) sae-
picions having been excited during the day, he bad
ordered the turnkey to keep a close watch upon the primer
nen; and when a second party named Griffith was prepar-
ing to make his descent, the turnkey entered and gave the
alarm. Mr. Dixon immediately procudid to the other side
of the wall ; and, having secured Griffith, went is march of
Healy, whom he eventually found sougly situated under a
flight of stairs leading from the garden to the parapet of the
town walls, resting his body on g ".22:21e width projected
from the prison wall and thetered from view by the lath
work.—Calwaroces Herald.