The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-25 00:00:00

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COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

MINCING LANF..—TIIIS DAY.
6voan.—The market has opened without spirit, and the
public sales are going off without heavily. Refined steady ;
grocery lumps, 435. to 48s. 6d.
Coerce.—The public sales of 120 casks and .500 bags of
plantation Ceylon went off freely, and confirmed the ad-
vance of ls. paid yesterday by private contract, chiefly 475.
to .535. 50 bales of Mocha said at 72.. to 745. 61, which
were full prices. 70 cases Tellieherry sold fruits 41s. 6d. to
575. Good ordinary native Ceylon quoted firm, 395.
to 40s.

Tza.—The market is steady, but not active.
COTTON wears a firm appearance.
Rust remains steady, but the demand is limited.
Rica.—This article is firm; none offere.l in public sale
to-day.

TALLOW MARKET.—THIS DA/.
The market is firm to day, at the following prices, :
—Petersburgh Y.C. on the spot, 375. to 375. 3d. ; last thrum
months, next year, 38s. ; January and March, 375. ad.

SOUTIIWARK POTATO MARK ET—YESTERDAY.
Since our last report the supply both coaatwiae and by
rail, has been very limited, which has caused an advance
in price for all sorts of potatoes. The following are this
day's quotations :—York Regeuts,7o4. to 80s.; ditto Scotch,
606. to 755. ; Kent and Essex ditto, 645. to 80s. ; ditto
Shims, GOs. to 655.

SMITHFIELD HAY NIAHKET.—THIS DAY.
Messrs. Cooper and Davis report trade very heavy.
Prime Shadow liar, 70a. to 7d,. ; interior, 60s. to 6131.;
itowen, 60s. to 635. ; Clover, 765. to 80s.; second cut,
60s. to 70s. ; Straw, 22.. to 268.

COALS.-I4n(DO1. Nov. 24.-Cwax or TOR Mai
ant.-Care's Hartley, Ifis. 6d.; Chester Main, 16s. 6d.;
Dean'. Primrose, 15s. ; Hastings' Hartley, 15s. 6d.; Holy-
well, 17.. ; Howard's West Hartley Netfierton, 151. ad. ;
Hartlepool West Hartley, 15s. 6d. ; Longridge's West
1iart1ey,156.64.; New Twill. 1d,165.; Newcastle Hartley.lss.;
Itedheugh Main, 155.; Tanfield Moor, 16. ; Wylain, 164.6 d.;
Walls End Acorn Close, 18s. 9.1. ; Walls End Elm l'ark,
185.9,1.; Walls End Go-forth, 18s. 3d.; Walls End Marton,
18.. 3d.; Walls End Heaton, 18s. 3d. ; Walls End Medley,
18s. 3d. ; Walls End Lawson, 17s. 6d.; Walls End Mor-
rison, 18s. 3d. ; Walls End Riddell, 18.. 3d. Eden Main,
19s. ; Walls End Bell, 18s. 9.1. ; Walls End Belmont,
18s. 9d. ; Walla End Braddyll, 19s. Gd.; Walls End
Helton, 19s. 6d.; Walls End Plummer, 191. ; Walls End
Itichmund, 19a. ; Walls End Itussel's Helton, 19s. 6d.;
Walls End Stewart's, 19s. 641. ; Walls End Caradoc,
19s. 3d. ; Walls End Hough 11.11, 18s. 9,1. ; Walls
End Kelloe, 19s. Gd. ; WQII% End Thornley, 195.; Walls
End Whitworth, Lis. ; Walls End Backhouse, 183 6d.;
Walls End klaeleau's Tees, 17s. 3d. ; Wahs End Richard-
son's Tees, 17s. tid ; Walls End Tees, 19s. 6d. ; Nixon's
Merthyr and Cardiff, 20s. 6d.-Ships at market, 93;
sold, 79.

LOCAL %hAHH

LivaarooL, Nov. 21.—The market was not so Rood to
day a, on Saturday. The fallowing arc the transactions :
Amberuate and East Junction, 31,1.—Caltalunian, 151—
Ditto (pref. shares), 71—Chedter and Holyhead, 20I—Great
Northern (B), 121—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 57I—Ditto
(fifth shares), SO.—Lancaster and Carlisle (third shares),
9p.—London and North Western, 1161 I—Ditto (new
shares), 31 1 1 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln,
30I—Ditto, (pref. shares), 124—Midland, 661 j 1 7 :Ail 7
—Ditto (new pref. 41 per cent.), 9-16 d.—North British, 7
—North Staffordshire, 80.—North Western, 121 d.—South
Eastern and Dover, 201 1--Whitehaven Junction, 81.16
York and North Midland, 214 I—Dutch Rhenish, sd.
MANCRESTEK, Nov. 24.—A good business was done in
this market, and prices were rather firmer than on Satur-
day. Eastern Counties, 61; East Lancashire, 151; Leeds
Stock, 671; London and North Western, 1161 ; Sheffield
Stock, 31; Midland, 571; South Eastern, 20/.
LEEDS, Nuv. 24.—There has been an active market this
morning, with a further advance in Midlands of 11., and a
slight improvement in other shares. The following are the
closing sales:—Great Northern, 171; Leeds Northern",
14 ; Ditto (Extensions, No. 1),2 dis; Lancashire and York-
shires, 481 ; North Westerns, 121 dis; Great Westerns,
85 ; Midland Stock, 671; York and North Midlands, 211;
South Eastern and Hovers, 20t; Caledonian Preis., 71;
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lineolnshires, 301,
BIIIMINORAK, Nov. 24.—This market was more active
to-day. Midlands were done at 461 ; llristol and Birming-
ham, (Midland 6 per cents.), at 134; North Stuffords, at
8 dis. ; Shropshire Unions, ut 31, 3 7-16 dis.; Old Birming-
ham Canals, at 951 ; and Birmingham Banking Company
Shares, at 281.
BMIOTOL, Nov. 24.—The market to-dry was firm as
regards prices, but there was a manifest inclination not to
invest at present rates.

SUICIDE Or A CHILD. June, aged eleven,
daughter of James Sharp, of Nrwhill-lane End, Sheffield,
was found drowned in a well, in her father's garden, on
Monday night. In the afternoon of that day the deceased
was charged with stealing an accordion, belonging to •
neighbour's chile; and her protestations of innocence were
disbelieved by her mother, by whom she was chastised.
The punishment was keenly felt by the girl, who was
missed shortly after; and though her absence did not
cause any alarm until night set in, fears were then enter-
mined for her safety, and a search was commenced, which
terminated in the discovery of the lifeless body of the child
in a well 27 yards deep, in the garden. The general im-
pression is that the child, in the bitterness of her grief at
the false accusations, had thrown herself in.—Derbyshire
limnie►.

ONE OF THE MOST GIGANTIC ENGINEERING
OPERATIONS ever effected took place a few days ago near
Welschmets, in the Italian Tyrol. A quantity of stone
being required for the construetiou of viaducts :1111.1 bridges,
for a railway, it was resolved to use a huge ruck 360 feet
high and tia wide, which rose like a wall. In two places
only was this rock connected with the chain of Alps. First
of all it was entirely separated from the mountain (a very
difficult operation, which occupied 800 workmen for some
time) ; then seven or eight lingo openings were effected at
the ba,c, so that the immense minx was supported on
columns ; and then trellis of gunpowder were placed in each
opening. Everything having been prepared, fire was setto
the trains. In eleven minutes a frightful explosion took
place, and the mass came down. Thu fall ehcok the earth
for a distance of nearly two leagues, and the pieces of rock
spread over nearly ten acres.
MARSHAL HAYNAU.—A letter from Pcsth, of the
16th, says Field Matshal Haynau, who is at present
residing on the estate he possesses in Hungary, is accus-
tomed to sleep in a little room ou the ground-fl or, in a de-
tached building in the garden of his chateau. In the night
of Monday last he wan awoke by a thick smoke, which
tilled the chamber. Ile immediately jumped out of bed,
acil leaped out of window into the garden. Sonic moments
after all the building was in flumes. A strung wind having
arisen, the fire extended to three barns filled with the corn
of the last harvest, and they and their contents, together
with the building, were destroyed. No fire having been
lighted in the day, it appears certain that the fire was caused
by a criminal, in the hope, probably, of killing the gene-
ral. It has not been possible thus far to discover him."
A FATAL AFFAIR occurred at Leigh a few days
since, through the practice which prevails too commonly
amongst ignorant country people of doctoring " them-
selves. A woman, named Hannah Brown, nearly forty
years of age, having been taken ill, sent a messenger to a
medical man living two miles from the village, and re-
ceived a bottle of medicine, the medical man promising to
call and see the patient in the evening. Before he arrived,
however, the woman determined to be bled, and the opera-
ion was performed by a shoemaker of the neighbourhood,
who had bled her several times before. She died a few
minutes after he had tied up the arm. A coroner's inquest
has resulted is the verdict of " Died suddenly, from the
effects of having been bled by a non-medical
bury Jot•rnal.
BObIEILSETSIIIRE CENTRAL RAILWAY.—The ma-
naging committee of this undertaking arc completing their
arrangements loran application to parliament in the ensuing
session. The proposed line is to branch from the Bristol
and Exeter Railway at Ilighbridge, and to follow the
general direction of the present canal to Olutonbstry,
a distance of 121 miles. The line will be made so as
to admit of its being continued to the city of Wells.
It will also be connected with the harbour at Ilighbridge.
The Bristol and Exeter Railway Company have agreed
to work the proposed line, without profit, and to allow
the proprietors all the proths arising from it, together with
10 per cent. of the gross receipts upon the Bristol and
Exeter Railway in respect of all traffic brought or taken by
the proposed line or harbour to or from their railway • such
per tentage upon goods to extend from Bristol to iridge-
water, and upon passengers to Taunton. One great ad-
vantage is that the line is perfectly level, and can therefore
be worked at a very moderate cwt. The gross receipts
from traffic, exclusive of the present harbour tolls, are esti-
mated at not lees than 9,0001 per annum. The estimated
cost is 70,0001., being about per mile, not one-sixth
of the average cost of railways in the United Kingdom,
and it will be one of the first cheap lines of railway in Enaj,
land. The permanent way for a considerable distance will
be laid on the present surface; and it appears from the
terms given by the Bristol and Exeter Company that they
entertain a favourable opinion of its utility as a necessary
link of railway communication in the county.
IRON: IN FRANCE.—The annual iron fair held in
in the month of November, at Chalons, has just concluded,
and has been remarkable for the exceedingly limited
amount of business transacted. Prices, however, were
fairly maintained. The great subject of conversation
amongst the forgemasters WWI a new preparation known b
the name of *harems Vialcain, and which, it is said, both
Yrom its economy in fuel, and from the superior results
which its produces, is likely to effect a great alteration in
metallurgical matters.