The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-31 00:00:00

MINES.-(THIS DAT.)

Oirn o'esoca.
British mining shares continue in active request,
and prices exhibit a fresh advance. North Tree-
ker!.y are now quoted :A to ; Clifford Amalga-
mated, 12 t : Tresavean, 6 to 7i ; Chiverton
Moor, 6to 7 ; West hiverton, 60 to 62i ; Great
Vor , '24 to 25 ; Vere3t.o Caradon, 6to ; Prince of
Wales, 20r. to 22i. ; Wheal Rose, 13 to 15 ; East
Car dos., to ; and Great Retallack, 16s. to 18s.
The Direct n, of the tit. John del Rey Mining
Company (E.uite.l) have received per Rhone the
following report : " Produce 2nd division of July,
II days, 16,403 oitavas ; yield 8.621 oitavas per
ton. P.omitt taco, two months' produce, 105.81'T
oitavas-1,01.;.51h5. troy."

STATE OF VC; CROPS IN IRELAND.—AII tho
letters or. our corr'sprnidents this week, says the Northern
Whiff, again fader to the check given to the progress@ of the
harvest or the laraken, unpropitious weather in the elves
of last and the c.drurn en oement of the present week. Cereals,
potatoes. and .itx, u meadows, have all suffered
more or less thereby, but the turnips and mangolda have
derived benefit from the moisture. Grain stocked under
such circumstances rans risk of sprouting, and it will be
iiiticult to sale lowland hay in gcod condition with
weather so variable. The same remark applies to du.
Such of it as bus been sent to the mill has turned eut
very well, and is e?.l.ected to prove a paying crop. Tbe
accounts from quartet, concur in stating that the grain
crops will be fairly up to an average, and the wheat some-
thing alone -t, ,b.)d!,l dry, warm weather continue for
some time. We regret to find that severaalla of our cor-
respondents, who •Lre free from anything
read very much
like rmist pro-
clivities, report that the blight has sp
among the potatoes during the last eight or ten day
the eites.
to
It
is impossible as yet to form any opinion sa ta nt
erhwit the rr.,p naBll,lle.red ; hut it is to be borne in mind
that at this se or, i its customary to hear that the disuse
has sppesred. 'innVolt, when the visitation does not eosin
earlier, its effects are not so much felt. We may therefore
indulge the hope that the proportion injured tubers will
not cwt.."( tit.' . o OW pet few years.
CC DIS—WEPS IN A PRISONER'S CELL.—
In the red of r ort'.rn cminte (sari the Northern Whip),
considered one of the bestdimnagad institutions of its
kind in Ireland, a gentleman is at present undergoing
sentence of twelve months' imprisonment, passed on bins
at the Spring Assites of this year. A correspondent it
us that on Saturday last Wee of the Board of
Superintendence entered his cell, and were greatly
amazed and scandalised on discovering therein a variety
of luxuries not included in the scale of dietary laid down
fur primmer+, and approved by the Lord lieutenant.
They found." ears our correspondent. " eases of pre-
served meats, a considerable quantity of 'John Miller' and
bed 'Coleraine,' and an exteasive supply of the ' weed,'
with three pip :5 to i-sist w its consumption. There was
also the nucleus of a compact library, colisectiu'ulfarprinci-
pally of novels, a:n0:41421a those with the bind-
ing indicitive of satpicious French works of fiction pre
dominated. In fact. the cell contained fitment everytt fhing
or-
caleniated to wile away the tedium of prises life. no
getting money, wherewith the prisoner might provide&- far
any wants which bis anxious friends had overlooked.
lure separating the noard of superiatendenue despatched a
letter to the Castle demanding an inquiry into this draws
affair, and it is now looked for with coneiderable intereet.
It is feared that this discovery may not only nip IR the
bud a memorial lately sent off praying far a commutates
of the semen e. and which was supposed to give tokens et
bearing the desired fruit, but possibly entail a further
term of imprisonment on the occupant of thit ACM
conduct in being in possession of the oontraband of prison.
I are
toll. R11101."1, to T011.1.M4W11?..
CRYSTAL Pozoan. Ofri
THURSDAY, 506015 T 39.—Adobskes se payeM
ditto by memo tioketa. 1,594. Total *Ogre, •