The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-10 00:00:00

MINES-THIS 114 Y.

Two o'CLocw.
The mining market today presents no feature
of the least interest. Business is limited, and prices
are generally nominal at former quotations. There
are a few inquiries for Great South Tolgus shares,
which are marked 14f.
Lusitimian Mining shares continue in demand, and
are marked If to if ex div.
The following may be given as the nominal closing
quotations yesterday:
Alfred Comas, 10 to 11; Bedford Consols, 61 to n ;
Biiit6t
Bon Accord, 1 le prem.; Cern Brea, 47 to 9
Devon Great 460 to 80 ,_• East Alfred, 11
to
LI; Beet to 71; Towey Consols, 3
to 4 ; Great Wheal fibs 1; Greet South Tagus, 1
to ; Great Wheel Vac, 11 to 2; Hiupton Downs, 61 to
1 ; 11Ceily_Bray, 11 to 1; Lady Bertha, 1 to 1; North Robert,
4to 1; North Roskear, 271o30; Per Consul., 17 to 18;
Padres Consols, 21 to 3; Providence Mines, 63 to 70; Soy-
*ridge C 011•0111, 11 to 1; Wheel Buret, 210 to 20; South
Cern Brea, 41 to 6 ; Tamar Cessols, 1 to 1 1 ; Tincrott, 31 to
4; Vali of To 26e. 26e. to 27e. 6d. ; Wart Basset, 22 to 24;
Wheal Arthur, to 41; Wheel Rdwerd, 61 to 1; Wheel
Mamma 47 to ; Wheal Mary Ann, 43 to 6; East Wheel
Beret, 64 to 6 ; Wheal Wady, 17s. 6d. to 205.; Wheel
Tramway, 24 to W.
Annexed is our usual weekly report of the metal
market :

Differences of opinion (mist as to whether symptoms of
improvement in business are visible or not, but certainly we
must report the metal market still decidedly fiat. Foreign
copper finds a few buyers at low figures, but English is dull
of sale. Tin has had some attention, and a small tranaao-
tire or two is reported, bat coneumers hold aloof. Lead is
little inquired for. Iron has been strengthened in Stafford-
shire by the circumstance of the quarterly meeting supporting
present prices ; but, like the Welsh makers, they are run-
ning short of orders in Neff ,rdabire. Tin plates are low in
price, and but little sought after.
At the last general meeting of the shareholders in the
Mariquita and New Granule Mining Company, a resolution
wee peered—. that a commitiee be appointed to confer with
the directors on the means to be taken to bring the company
under the sot of limited liability." The company have now
issued a circular, expidning the proceedings which have
taken place. Owing to legal objections, the accomplishment
of the object in view is impracticable ; but a letter from
Memos. Maples, Maples, and Pewee, the company's soli-
citors, contains the folio :—" We may be allowed, as
solicitors of the company, to observe that we hardly think the
shareholders of this company are
:quite aware of the many
advantages which ensue to them from this company being
incorporated, even as an unlimited company. The share-
holders oennot be rued individually ; all actions must be
brought spinet the company ; and it Le only through the
medium of the winding-up clauses that shareholeers can be
reached; and then they are called upon in proportion to their
sham, and not for the whole debt of say one creditor. The
act of the 19th and 20th Victoria, cap. 47, gives shareholders
much greater protection than heretofore in these
.particulars
in a company such sa the present."

OREM' NORTHERN RAlLWAY.—Mr.WalterLeith,
forromiy the superintendent of the Great Northern, kr been
appointed secretary in the room of Mr. Mowatt. This
las induced, we understand, Mr. Denison to withdratanht
resigorSon.—Nereparh.
RAILWAY RECEIPTS.—The traffic returns of rail-
ways in the United Kingdom for the week ending April 3,
amounted to 419.9401., and for the corresponding weak of
Let year to 418,8201., showing an Inmates of 1,1201. The
genes reoripta for the eight railways having their termiai in
Ur neetropolis amounted for the week ending ea above to
176,2701.; sad of the corresponding week of last year to
174,1471., showing an revere of 1,7231. The In-
crease oaths Eastern Counties Railway amounted to 1,1961.
the Great Woolens to 1,3301.; as the London sad
Blackwell to 411. ; on the London, 13=1, sad South
Coast to 9171. • on the Lad= sad Wears to
7611.; sod on the South laden to 2.687 L; total, 6,11321.
Bat from this must be dedastsd 1301., ale decrease on
the Great Northern, and 4,9791. ca the London and North
Western, leaving the increaser above, 1,7231. The receipt@
on the other boss in tie United Kingdom amounted to
244,0701., and ha the aorreopoading period of 1867, to
244,8731.; showing a decrease otBo3l. thereceipta of those
lies ; which ideated from the increase on the metropolitan
lines, leaves as total increase 1,1201. se compared with
the corrasFsaikar weak of 1857.

.
PARLIAMENTARY CONTESTS OP 1742.—The great
struggle was on the 21st ; and how graphically heo Horn
Walpole deserited the unequalled scene in the hour
when " the sick end the dead were brought in on both
raides,"
and the luna, paralytie,the idiotic—Mr. Hopton carried in
with his ankles Mid by his side, and Sir Wm. Gordon, lifted
from his bed "with a blister on his head, and flannel hang-
ing out from wader Ids wig," to swell the tanks of the oppo-
sition. The ministerial party were just se seam hut in one
instance with less success; for Sir Robert's eldest son
who, se auditor of the Exchequer, occupied a hoar adjoin-
ing the II ouae of Commove, with which his beck-door com-
municated—had secured two or three invalids, who being
too feeble to go round by Westminster Hall, he proposed to
carry in through this convenient door. But aka I the oppo-
ation, " who bad tether more contrivance, than their puede-
meson el Ore m sad Roman memory," had taken the
cruel precaution of stopping up the keyhole with seed I
Brifiek Qwarterly Review for Aril.
CRIMINAL LUNATICS AT BETHLEHEM HOSPITAL.
—To talk of a parson escaping the extreme penalty of the law
OM the plea of insanity as one being subjected to no kind or
degree of punishment, is a perfect mockery of truth and par-
MAO& Of kayo.. law so punishment 1 He is exposed
to the severest pea and tortes of body and mind that can
be Inflicted upon a hater assists short of ring publicly
strangled upon the gallows. If the fact be doubted, let a
visit be paid to the dreadful des at Bethlehem Hospital—
" sewer ef meow, *Mehl shade., where mace
Lad me, em never Meek tees one: come,
That maw to air—
when the criminal portion of the eelablishmeat are confined
i like wild besets in an iron oar. I—Dr. Forbes Winslow, Ia
Journal of Psychologies! Afedivise, for April.
NOTE ON THE LATE EcUrer..—The late pre-
tended eclipse of the sun, se a lady called it in writing to
me. appears to have disappointed "the public," by being
lees hurray* than the descriptions of astroamars
had led the public to expect; a lesson to teach
astronomer to moues their expressions as well
r their phenomena, and not to make it their
object to impress the public. But the object of
my note is not to moralise, but to show that such disap-
printritent tit not a new occurence. In the " Remains of
John Byrom," lately printed by the Chatham Society of '
ltenoheeler, vol. li., p. 440, is the following parser, Ia a
terse deer July 14, 1748 .—" This day the eclipse took ap
the attendee of the public ; but I fancy the comers peoPlot
having been so much alarmed about its darkness end 'bads
filling to the ground, will think the learned were out in
their °skeletons, for It wee so light at the very height of it
as sot to be thought on without being told."—.Neres sisal
Oreriss.