The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-02 00:00:00

COAL MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

Walls End Hctton, 225. 31. Walls End Tee., 225. ;
Walls End Russell liettons, 205.; Walls End l'enshire
Primrose, 18s. lil. ; Walls End Acorn ('lose, 3d. ;
Walls Ent Iletton Lyons, 19s. ltd. ; Hely well Main,
77a. lid. ; West llartley, 17s. fa—Ships tit market, 30; ;
at sea. 10.

I eaterday a few member!' of the Emancipation
Society met and preseutevi to Mr. F. W. Chesson, their
honorary secretary,a very handsome testimonial as a token
of their appreciation of his exertions in the caurcof human

freedom.- -
HiglittOßS OF THE FAMINE IN —The Rev.
J. Buckley, stationed at Cuttack, flrissa. writes:—
" Orphans have been brought dying to our door, and many
that we have received have been too deeply famine-stricken
for nursing and medicine to restore. After a few short days
death has closed the scene. Tender and delicate women
lying in our verandah have implored rice, ur money to
purchase it, with cries that have pierced our hearts. Two
cases of eating human flesh have been reported ; in the
one case it was proved that the person was lineage ; in the
other a child was found eating its dead father's flesh,
which had been roasted, and a few days after the child
Mothers have left their children in the upsilon (dung-
hill) to die, or have sold them fur a few lice. In one
case an only son was sold for a pint of milk ; the
mother eagerly drank it, gave up her child, walked a few
steps, and then dropped down dead. The dying and
the dead have been seen lying in our streets ; though this
has not been so much at Cuttack as at Balssore ,aril some
other places. At l'ooree it has been common for the
police to find, morning after morning, in the g-treets and
lanes, bO, 70, SO, or more corpses! In the Cuttack
district 4,000 deaths from famine and pestiletice were
reported in one week, and it is generally believed that at
Bidasore and l'ooree the distress has been : everer than
here." [Mr. Buckley is a General Baptist Mils:ion:try, who
has been at Cuttack many years. He is a 1,, icesterahire
man, and preached in Nottingham several times during
hi. last visit to England ten or twelve years ago.l-- Notting.
hula Journal.
A FAirr FOR GEOLooprric—ln sinking a shaft at
the Garden tin mine, in Morvab, the in ii have met with
a perfect pillar, about eight inches in diameter, standing,
so to speak, in the solid rock, and very different in its
compontion from the surrounding granite. Angl, what
is stranger still, at the hese of this pillar they have come
upon what they say is a fly-wheel of the same material.
Large pieces, both of the pillar and wheel. were exhibPed
to the adventurers at the account meeting in Priglay last,
and some portions of both are still left unbroken in the
rock, that the curious may see for themselves.—Cornish
A. DANOEROUS PINCUSRION.—On Saturday last
Mr.'. Catherine Bawling, of the Quay, I'cm:once, was
hanging out clothes to dry, and had made it. pin repository
of her mouth, when she was suddenly called to come in to
!ger baby, and turning, 17 pins slipped down her throat.
need of them lodging to her gullet. Iktween the sense of
choking, the pain, and the fright, she was sae' -" zl:
Neighbours came to her assistance, and one of ileum, Mrs.
Michael Ituberta, resorted to the old-rash I, but in this
case efficacious, method of persistently slapping the
patient's back. In the course of two hours 11 pins were
sl,pped lip and three down, but beyond the pain and irri-
tation of the throat, no unpleasant results have yet
followed.—Cornish Telrfrraph.
A FACTORY DIsEASE.—In the recently issued re-

t
ports by inspectors of factories attention is called to a
curious form of disease which has appeared iu some of
the flax-mills at lielfast. It is thus described by a Belfast
physician:—" In Belfast, a very painful malady is pre-
valent amongst the milhworkers, more so, 1 ihiok, than
in any other places—l mean o:,ychis. maligns.' The
subjects of it believe that it is neiinly caused
by having to stand, whilst at work, in the
water which drops from the spinning frames.
They usually get a knock upon one of their toes,
which inflames; the nail drops off, and an exquisitel
painful ulceration, with reproduction of a deformed nail,
follows. They are thrown out of work, and it is only by
a severe operation and protracted treatment in hospital
that they are finally cured. Last year, in the general
hospital, out of 1,300 cases, we had 314 cases of onychi ;
several, however, were relapses." This painful disease, it
is said, occurs much more frequently in Ireland than in
England, because in the Irish flax mills tile men and girls
work barefoot all day, " with the water from the flyers
dropping upon them."
Woof on:gs.—Woodcocks are very plentiful in
Cornwall this season ; the supply is considerably larger
than has been known for more than twenty years. In
Devonshire the birds have only appeared during the last
few days.
A TORT PROPOSITION FOR I REL AN D. —The
priests must be, by some process or another, rendered
independent of their congregations. There are among
them many excellent men, who would he glad, if they
could, to give as much promirence in their teaching to
loyalty to the crown, and obedience to the laws, as to
loyalty to the church. In the present temper of the
people this is scarcely possible, for priests must live, and
Fenian, secret and avowed, will hardly ray their fees to
the teachers of good citizenship. This is a fact that all
who know anything of Ireland are aware of, though fans.
tics and ignorant men refuse to credit it. For it is with
the priestly order as with other orders of men, that the
n&sy few bring discredit on the respectable many ; and
the best way of putting a stop to such a "We of things is
to let the whole body use that the laws are good, and the
crown well-ilispoaa towards them. Glebes and glebe-
houses provided at the public expense, with the same kind
of aid in money which is rendered to the Presbyterian
clergy in Ireland, would in no degree affect their perfect
liberty of action, while it raised the priests above a state of
absolute dependence on their flocks. As to the Mate-
bliahed Church, we do not believe that any rational
Irishman, be his creed what it may, desires to destroy it.
Ireland cannot afford to Ices more resident gentry fmm
its rural districts.—Blackwood's Napa/dee for November.
CaLerrta AND CHINA ( HILAVY ) MAI Uls—
GIBRALTAR, OCT. 29.—The Ceylon leaves at 7 p.m. for
Southampton, where she may be expected on the 3rd
Noveleher.