The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-04 00:00:00

MINCING-LANE.-(71.18 DAY.)

SCGAR.—There is au improved demand, chiefly from
refiners, at firm prices. Grenada, 295. to 31s. . • Antigua,
30e. to 31s. ; St. Lucia and Trinidad, 30s. to 31s. ;
Demerara, 31e. fwd. ; Berbice, 295. to 3'hi. ; brown Mimi-
tins, 2Ss. ; clayed Manila, common, 295. ; good, 30e. 6tl.
Refined is in moderate request, but firmer prioes are fully
maintained.

Corrre.—The public tittles of Plantation Ceylon have
gone off with low spirit. Good ordinary to fine fine or-
dinary., 666. Gd. to i4e., being rather cheaper ; oolory at
full prices, from ysa. to s3e. 6d.

TiA.—the public sales are progressing very steadily at
fully current rat,.
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limited business is doing in naw ; prices are
without change.
RICF.—The market is firm but quiet.
Rum.—Good Demerara sold at is. 10d. up to 2s. for
small packages.
SALrrermr..—A parcel of Bengal sold at 19s. 4id., short
prompt, refraction 41.
CorroN.—There is a more active demand at precious
priori.
Herr.—St. Petersburg clean quiet at MI. to 381. 10s.

TALLOW MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
The market is stead,/ at the annexed quotations. Town
Tallow. 435. 3d. ; Petersburg Y.C. on the spot, old,
435. 9d. ; ditto new, 445. Gd. ; October to December,
435. 9d. ; December. 44e.

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.—{THIS DAY.)
Messrs. Pattenden and Smith report a continued steady
demand for consumption for 186Ws at declining prices. A
few new hops have arrived at market, which are more or
lase diseased, szd have realised from 101. to 121. per cwt.

EXTRAORDINARY HOAX ON BIRMINGHAM TRADES-
MEN.—A short thick-aet man, assuming the garb
of an engine-driver, has been amusing himself
during the last two or three days—and is perhaps,
still punning his "little game, --by calling upon
various tradesmen in the town sad freely distri-
buting orders for goods in the name of the Birmingham
Small Arms Company (Limited). Since Saturday last, and
up to :1 o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, numerous vehicles
laden with provisions and other articles were driven along
the Coventry-road and the vicinity of the company's
extensive factory at Small•heath, with a view to
depositing their costly freights on the premises ; and
no little chagrin and disappointment was felt by
the persons in charge of the goods on learning that their
employen had been made the victims of a cruel and senseless
hoax. Amongst the property thus supplied to the verbal order
of the wily rogue may be mentioned immense quantities of
bread, meat, vegetables, cheese, hams, a number of sucking
I pigs, a hundred gallons of ale, and several barrels of cement.
In addition to this, a large number of persons were in-
formed that their services were required at the company's
works; and bricklayers, plasterers, carpenters, chimney-
sweeps, Le..—a perfect horde of them, in fact—were induced
to rush up to Small-heath in the delusive hope of doing a
large stroke of business, but, alas, only to find that they bad
been duped. The operator in this stupid hoax has given the
name of Griffiths to some of the persons whom he has begui led, I
and from the description of him supplied to the autho-
rities there is little doubt be will soon be in the hands
of the detectives. It certainly says little for the busi-
ness shrewdness of Birmingham tradesmen when they
are so readily caught napping, eves:Wily when a moment's
reflection would have satisfied them that neither the Small
Arms Company, nor any other well-regulated mercantile
establishment is in the habit of ordering goods except by
a printed order signed by the responsible manager.— Mr-
mitiyiass Ga:eite.

PATRIARCHAL RACERS.—The Darley Arabian
was brought to England about the year 1700, by a Mr.
Darley, of Yorkshire, who, when following his profession
as • merchant abroad, became a member of • hunt club,
through which means he acquired this home. He was not
much used by breeders, except by his owner, who bad not
a large stud of thorough-bred mares. With hisfew chances,
however, he got, among others, Flying or Devonshire
Childers, said to be the quickest horse ever foaled, his
own brother Barnette Childers, and Aleppo. from one of
which half-brothers the celebrated racer Eclipse was de-
scended. Bartlett, Childers was we of Lord Portmore's
Squirt, whose son Marske, bred by the Duke of Cumber-
land, was generally supposed to be the sire of Eclipse.
Indeed, so esteemed did this horse (Marske) become as a
sire, that for one season he was advertised at the enormous
price of 300 guinets, although his selling price a few years
before had only been fifteen pounds.—(hire a Werk.
MIRAMAR. —lt was a rough gusty day of October,
with an ugly sea on in the upper part of the Adriatic, that
a party of Austrian naval officers on board one of the fish-
ing craft of the gulf sought shelter from the coming
"Bora." They had in succession visited creek after creek
in hope of finding a spot sufficiently land-locked to ride out
the gale; but such is the violence of this peculiar wind,
careering down through the clefts of the bare mountains
and swooping upon the sea without let or hindrance that
men who have experienced the wildest hurricanes of the
' tropics pronounce •Trieste Bora as far and away beyond
anything they hare met elsewhere. On the occasion I have
now to speak of, the wind had given an unusual amount of
warning, and the party had in turn entered and left Doles,
than fire of the small bays ; when at last, just as the gale
had burst out with its full fury, the small fishing-vessel
glided into a little narrow cleft, defended to the north by
a tall well of rock, and within which the sea lay still and
waveless ; while outside a tumbling mass of foam surged
and boiled in all the fury of • tempest. Here the party
landed and lit a fire, and while some employed themselves
in cooking and others arranged their clothes to dry, one
strolled carelessly along the shingle, and after • half.
liour'e absence came back to way that be bad found • most
picturesque spot to build • fishing hut. This was the
origin of Miramar, and he who discovered the 'pot was the
Archduke Maximilian.—Blackersed's Maga:me, for Sep-
tember.