The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-17 00:00:00

MINES-THIS DAY.

Two o'Croca.
In the Stock Exchange to-day Tin Croft shares
are eat, and are marked 41. Stray Park have been
dealt in at 27 ; and Vale of Towff, Shares
in Great Retallack, East Basset, BArodsioot, Lady
Bertha, and Brat Caradon, have also met with
business; but the market generally is rather quiet.
Foreign and colonial mining shares remain.
steady. Fortuna have been dealt in at S
and 3} ; United Mexicans, at 2 ; Great
Northern Copper (South Australia), at 14 prem.
Imperial Brazilian, at 7s. 6d. ; and English and.
Australian Copper, at 2i.
The half-yearly meet rag of the Linares Lead Mining
Company is awned for the Nth last; and the annual meals.
ing of the Fortuna Mining Company for the same day.
The directors of the former undertaking have declared a
dividend of fm. &L per share.
Subjoins.' is our usual weekly report of the metal market:
Metal, show no revival A reduction was notified in English
oopper on the lath instant of 6L per too on bars and fd. per lb_
on manufactured. This has had little effect upon business. Iron
L generally steady. Tin in hardly so buoyant for foreign, boa
Wall holds up firmly, and is in moderate demand. 'Metter and
lead show no change. Tin plates are mostly firmer in price.
The following is from the Central American Mining Company:
" The Central American Mining Company .limited) have received
advice of the shipment of PM bags about 00 tons) of rich silver
ore to England : and on the other hand, that the agents have
drawn for 6,080& to provide coin for the erpensee of severd
months forward The mines continue to look well and the re-
dustiest works ass progressing, but will not be in operation fug
lamest months to cane."

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS %

TALLOW MARKET.-(THIS DAT.)

The market is steady at the annexed prism :—Tows
tallow, 55a. net cash ; Petersburg Y.C., on the spot, 69a ;
March, 575. ad.; April to June, 645. 9d; Oct. to Dec., s:ia.
;WAILE' ATIMAO3S.—Town tallow, 68s. ; tat by ditto,
;fellow Rusian, 595. esL ; melted , 41s.
nitigh ditto, 245. ; tallow graves, He. Good dreg., '7l„

HAY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

Trade dull ; prices without alteration. ' Prime toesdoir
hay, 70s. to 80s. ; superior ditto, 84a. to 90s ; inferior do.,
555. to 60a ; rowen, 455. to 60s. ; clover, old, 90s. to 105 s. ;
ditto, new, second cut, 755. to 88s. ; straw, 25a. to 30s.

COVENT GARDEN.—(THIS DAY.)
Supplies of most things, especially vegetables, are scarce.
Pine apples and mum have not alteredsance our last report.
Good 'Wes and pears are sewoely to bad. Oranqess are
plentiful and cheap. Good mks realise L. to la dd. per HZ
Rhubarb, axParagnas and .Mb: MY finking in meg
quantities. Par deT g and with the exception of •
few timp sop LA scene good Cornish broccoli thcre ro
iittla in the way of greens in the market. Potatoes realise
4s. 6d. a bushel. Xushrooms can still be had in small
cumantities. Cucumbers are dear. Cut dowers chiefly con-
sort of orchids, gardenias, violets, mignonette, camellias
mks', heaths, primulas, and mem.
FRUIT.

Plus Amiss, per IP Si to 10; —Fiera, per dos, Si to Si
Grapes, per lb, Si to 101 Oranges, per 100, et to 104
Yabous, each, Os to 4s Lemons, per 100, ros to 8s
plausgranates, each, ad to Id Filberts, per 100Ibs, 50a to tag
Arcata. Par des, 211 i 0 am Cobs. do., 100 s
VEGETABLES.
1
mpuesas, per beadle, Si to all Artichokes, per dor, Si to Si
jwilimreb ,
.. tpar basket, Si to Si Beet, do, Is id to 2a
per banes, Si to Si Celery, per bundle, Is Od to Si
preach kaaaaper 100. lobbed Onions, per I dere, Is to Is id
8r00011.P40 down. Site Si ___ portage], each. 2d to ad
Goasos,p doz. lausehmeadd tolls Shallots, per to, Si to 8d
Cabbages. do.. 111 Od to lis Od Garlic, per lb, ad to 8d
Potatoes, p too. We to lOU Lettuces, cab. ,p. ecore,ls to all
per boa, Si to 4a 1d Endive, per score, 1s to 21 Od
prowl, Si to Si Hormadtsh, pertain., Ltd told
carrots, par bunch. 114 told Mushrooms, p. putt., bto hs Od
Turnips. per bunch. 5d to 7d Pardo, per 12 bunches. 44 tolls
aplualsh, p. dere, Is Od to ra Savory, per bench, 2d to ell
Cussimbers, each, la Od 67 Is

THE TIMID BEAT use PART/AY/MT FOR LEEDS.--
The Hon. Stuart A. Donaldwa, of London, late Colonial.
Beeretag and Minister of Finance aml Trade in New
South Wales, has issued an address to the Leeds electors,
in anticipation of the perm& of the Reform Bill, by which
a third member is given to Leeds. Mr. Donaldeon footais
his claim to the candidature on his extensive colonial ex-
perience in
_political and commercial life, and his 'ibex,/
opinions Re avows himself a churchman, bat nays he is in.
favour of perfect religious equality, and opposed to church.
Mee. Mr. Forster, candidate at the last election, has since
issued an address.
ihusinuso rim Barman —Flushing consists in
pounding back the sewage wester by means of gates fitt PI in
the sewor, and by opening the gates, allowing the accumu-
lated water to rush forward with a bound, arying with it
whatever deposit nay have accumulated in the coarse of
the sewer. These are many disadvantages attrnd-
ing this proem Sometimes the sewage leaps into
house drains and @striates the sera nts in the
kitchen by the sadden outbreak of damp in the floor find
walls, and with it an intolerable steam and stink. T"eq
if it only rushes in the direction intended for it, the
nighty stirring up ei the raw seta free such a volume of
I=7:gases that at sere serous of the year a few
would almost suffice to strike an entire population
with diarrhea and cholera. Besides this it is not boned.
It may be all very well, say. at the top of Stamford-kill, or
the top of Holborn-hill, to Slush away with all our might;
lint what of the lower levels that have to receive it? Why
eregow the penpleAcellars, and fill 'their dwellings and
erre with filthy gases, lust to get a clear way in a few
yards of channel When once we learn to construct sewers
On right principles, gushing will no longer be thought of.--
City Prem.

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