The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-25 00:00:00

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MINB&-2H13 DAY.

Two oTt.ocK.
The transactions in British mining shares to-4v
have not been very important, and the market in
some instances is rather fiat. Alfred Consols shares
are officially marked in the Stook Exchange
41, and Tincreft 4t. Transactions have also
taken place in Providence, East Buset, West
Caradon, North Downs, and Hcrodsfoot. By
telegraph we learn that Providence Mines have de-
clared a dividend of 41., \Vheal Margaret, 2/., and
Wheal Clifford, 51, with a good report.
Pun Mountain Copper Mining shares are marked
Bs., and North Rhine Copper (South Australia)
totem.
The West Sharp Toe Mine • zuanti,r, prevented at the
mewing bald peter:lay, exhibPsod a balance in favour of the
mans of 31.9.. 9J. A call of per Aare was made.
The Sou•h Condorrow Mining Comp any, on the 19th inst.,
wade a (all of 2.. 61. per abuse.
T►e Bacilli'. and Auatralian Copper Mining Company
yesterday declared a dividend of 24. 6d. per share (8,7601.)
At a mewing of adventurers in Bryntail mine, held rotor-
' day, lbs sto.ounts showed a each b.dance in band of 5431.13 e.;
sad a balsams of &agate over liabilities of 2491. 13a. 4d. A
report was read of the operations during the peat quarter,
from Irbil' it appeared quit the very sultry weather had
owed the atria tee bottom level of the totes to teams bad,
remitting returns being m.de from that part of the maim.
This, have's:, it is expected, will soon be remedied by the
aladag oat of a shallow level, whirl% when accomplhhed
trill enable a whim which is sow down 6 fathoms below the
10. to be sunk re the 25 Whom level, thereby pining a free
can eat ot sir in chit level and thorcorzhly ventilating It. A
femur, rat great importance mate sled with this mine to the
oompletion of the Newtasn and Lesedioes Railwey, which
comes within three quarters of a mile of the work., thus
effecting a very conaiderable saving in the carriage of the ore
sod enabling the company to sill their Dayton, of which they
have an inexhaustible supply, at a price much below the
ordinsry rate.
A special meeting of the South Devon Iron and General
Mining Company is tailed for the let September, to contlrm
the level item for tette-tag the capital tram 100,0001. to
65,0001.
Cs barb. end Jane C,or aid. Mine bat sold 22 toes 3 cwt. of
lead are to Maitre. Newton, Mate, and Co., at 131. 18s. per

BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS.-(THIS DAT.)

This morning were Maud the Board of Trade
returns for the month and seven months ending the
31st of July, 1859. We subjoin a statement d
the total declared value of the exports of British
and Irish produce and manufactures during the
month and seven months, including only the" ear
merited" articles:
For the month. For erns math&
1857 A11,441,258 .. 467,787,929
1858
1859 10,1188,029 . 61,931,906
Including the "uneunmerated articles," the
aggregate exports stand thus :
For the mouth. For eerie months.
1867 £12,201,532 .. 573,027,913
1858 10,993,997 .. 66,461,801
1859 11,245,461 .. 74,288,610

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS
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MINCING-LANE.-(THIS DAY.)
800 A El anti Mel very dull, end pion ere with &dinky
supported.
Comm—This article wears a arm appearanor.
TILA.—The demand col:abases llmite bat holders resift
firm

Baca —Middlieg whits Haggai has been sold to some
extent at 10e. to 10s. 9d., which were previous num..
Rt. r. The Eels of a very large parcel, 1,400
.W. 1.10111 Demerara and Derbies, bag caused the market to
have an upward tendency, and leeward@ see quoted I. to
21,1 d.. proof Demerara 2.. ad.

SALTPETILL continues dull awls at the lute decline.

COCRINiAL .014 Irtthant

TALLOW MADHET.—(THTB DAY.)
The market is quiet, at the following prime :—Petesebnrg
Y.C., on the spot. 559. 6d.; September. 630. 63.; Ochther
to December, 565. 91.; ditto eeparately,

METROPOLITAN CATIII MARKET.
(TAN DAY.)

There are • few inorsebasetatistWon Thursday Mit; Ihe
demand is good, and Mondas quotations aratMlyespported.
fineep and lambs are not quite so al, they Mids=
sale, and in some instances rather prices are obtained.
There is no alteration is the calf- From Germany and
Holland there are 370 blasts 2,100 damp, and 980 calm%
Norfolk and Suffolk, 60 beasts; 480 Waste from the Norden*
and Midland ; and 122 mach taws from the limn
Canalise.

Pura al 48a. 8. 4. 44. to 'sap 0111188. 44.4 4.
evi
w 118840816- 4 8 410 DM ilimilt, - -
Bea ShartAcer. -.- 4 4 4 8 Pm ...... 4 S I•
&COW gager boos- 84 4 0 De. 40 -....- -.
041,18 ---- ...... - 4 II 4 8 lbw I ipo4lo. 4 5 4,
4 4 Do. 418.
Mt b.. a 1160-ne• 5 0 4 1 larate_...". _ .--.11170 1f...
Blob. at risiket. MU; limp tad 18444.4,45: Wu. 810:
?twin.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.7(THIS. DAY.).

The following are the cpsotstioso:—Pritie meadow tbjr
80e. to SU., superior do., Ms. to 90s. ; Wilda ditto. 0016
to 705.; ewer ditto. 76e. to fits.; rowan, 60e. to ao".; doter,
old, Me. to 110,.; ditto, sew. 80s. to 905.; strew. 38s.

LOCAL BRAM IL4X32W.
larismar., Avern U.—Pjfea advisee.' shoal pe. SM.
octet eking at the bat. I—Mabwu. t
Oilakalur. di ie 110—tirism Opriley
pli—Onst aver.W SO ex lic sad UM"
ism and pll4 ire
NM. U— ex etc —York ..4 Nash
Ilkillasd, TS 0 as Ory.—Losar 414 4 as &V.—
'S-16-1)1:1dt Plead 111 d.—dead at Ors ..irite4.l
Wakes of Oirds.l4; Ui.

REDUCTION or DUTY ON LACE.—Oar i
will be 'retitled to learn that our worthy repteeentstlM
Charles Paget, has been ancoiereful in his repeated applica
don to the late es well as the present government to
effect an allegation to the &Atoka tariff upon crochet
toll., which, through their representelions, and the ex-
ertions of Sir Tomes Hudson (our minister at Tails), hie
been altered from 6fr. the kilos. (21ba.Anglish) to 2fr. 60e.;
and, considering the additional territory acquired by the
King Sardinia, thin greet reduction met prove very
to the Ism trede.—Nottiaghom Amino.
THE AGRICULTURAL LABOURERS AND TILE HAIL-
TEST.—Parmees in the west of England, and specially in
Devonshire, have experienced great inconvenience by rearm
of the scarcity of labourer', which has in many instances re-
tarded harvest operations. Several reasons are given for this
scarcity. Many tabouters have talented ; others have
been atteseted to the railway works, where they get much
higher wages, and a large number of young labourers have
enlisted in the army. The farmers complain bit+ orly of the
abolition of the apprenticeship system, to which canes they
' mainly attribute the present scarcity of labourers. Thane
can be but hale doubt that another cause is the nasalize=
of the wages paid to the agricultural labourers. In enemy
mess there have been improvement in this respect, bee
eves now 12e. per week is about the highest sum paid to the
labourer, while in some Instances 9e. per week only n pelt
It most, however, be barns I mind that the Ill:tourer has
other small privileges, such em a supply of cidtr daily, and,
in some cases, a plot of ground at a mullesl rent, for the
cultivathn of vegetable., de, Still there can be no doubt
that one cause of the present dearth of able bodkd
labourers is the lamas of the wages which are paid. The
weather for harvest operations In Devonshire and the other
western counties has been favourable at the whole, and the
cereal crops are good and of excellent quality. Potatoes are
In some places effected by the disease, but the yield io abun-
dant. Ihe recent heavy showers had a moot beoeficiel effect
on the green crops and the peitures, which were much in
need of moisture. The apple crop is abundant, and cider, it
L mid, will be cheep end good.
THE ALLEOED ABDUCTION Or A ROMAN
CATHOLIC CHILD AT BLLTAST.-011 Tneeday. Margaret
blare and tsar daughter ,etid in the Queen's Bench
Chanter at Dublin, in with the order made by
the Lord Chief Justice, when the above case was We
btought before him. Tee chili having now attained Ise
fourteenth year, she was informed that she was at liberty
to choose with whom she would go. The Chief Justice
advised her to be guided by her mother, and Mated to her
that if she wished to have a Bible, or to go to any parti-
cular place of worship, she could do so. The girl, le a drug,
decided voice, said wish to go with my mother, and
I will go with her." The Bev. Hugh Hanna. the Treellyta-
Mae minister who had been charged with the abduction of
the child, was prevent during the proceedings, in order' it
was stated by his legal adviser, to guard spirit the girl
being left in the streets by herself, In case she refused to go
with her mother. _

•••-,
IHE BUNKER FLIRT AT ERBAIVTOPOL.—The
rival of the barque Gainsltan (Mr. K. Hammond, agent) la
this port, enable. us to confirm the statement which we
published a few weeks ago respecting the radian appearance
of the fortrem-city of Sebastopol. The Cluisachan left debase
tom.' on the 30th of May, after taking in a part cargo of
guns and bone*, and arrived at Balaclava the fdlowing day.
Here she completed ber cargo, consisting of 420 tons of
cannon and 250 tones of ems., end finally left for England
on the 23rd June. No efforts are being made to restore
Sebearopol, and the houses, excepting each ee are occupied
by the venous government functionaries—rho are the
chief, if not sole residents—are in the tumble-down data
they were left by a victorious foe. Of legitimate trade there
1. absolutely none, and when the shipment of gm and
bones shall bare ceased, and the sunken fleet of Rus..kipc,mal
Ametican ingenuity and enterprise, null have been
from oblivion, utter Inanition appears to be the fate of this
memorial of despotism. Operation. connrctr3 with the
waken fleet are proceeding rapidly and succerefully. Before
the Outewhan leg only some twenty-three vessels remained
to be mimed, while the timeof the contract, It was understood,
does not expire until May of next year. Art attaupe wig
about being made to raise the Twelve Apostles, which is by
far the ingot vessel sunk in the harbour.—Re/1 Adeerair.
INDIAN FINANCE,—Io the year 1857-58 the
amount of debt at the end of the year in India was
60,704,0841.; the debt osotracted in the year, 9,267,3441, at
6,5, 4. aim n per cent. The mount of bona., and °thar
debts is England, 6,799,4001., and the mamma of bade
issued. 2,905,0001. (the 4 per cent. di benture loan, under tits
21st Vicaoria, cap. ; the total loans comacted in India and
England, 12.181.3441.; in. total mount of deb-a redeemed
la India. 4,099,-1111.- the total amount paid for interest,
2,196,6721. in ladle, and 159.1661. at bone : the
mount of the gross revenueol intim, 31,706,7761.. and the
percentage preesum of the interest on debts in relation ro the
gross revenue, 7 43. In 1800-1 this meantime was 13.63,
and wee so high as 10.15 in 1833.34. la 1852.63 it wam
9.07. and ever since It hos been 7 and a decimal.
CRIMINAL STATISTICS.—From a review of the
criminal atatotks of the last 15 yearn, It appears that 1848
was the most productive of committal. in England and
Wales. the total baring risen in that eventful tweivemouth
to 30,349. Is 1855, the total wan 25,972, and the operation
of the Juvenile Offendets' Act and the Criminal Jantics Act,
giving magistrates power to convict immreardy in metals
ems, Is even in a seduction in 1858 to 17,855 committals
for trial by orditou7 proms. at SOIO,OOII and isseim. This le
the lowest point reached in the while period owlet review.
The convicoon- in 1844 were 71 per cent. ; in 1866, 76 per
oent. ; and in :858, 74 per cent. The proportion of the
eerie in the committals was as follow.-1844, maim 811
par cent.: fete's., 18} per ant. ; 1855, nude, 77 per
teat., footsie. 23 per cent. ; 1838. make 78 per cent., Os-
manli 22 per cent. In Scotland. 1848 was slam the worst year,
but the number of committals in 1858 was gmator
than In 1844, the operation of the arta already men-
tioned being limited to England and Waite The tax&
were, In 1841, 3.575, and in 1838 3,781, theconvictlons being
77 and 75 per cent, respectively, and the proportion of tewols
commitments 26 and 27 retpectively. The diereses of
crime m Ireland Is very remarkable, the tot.' eutiontuals
having fallen tram 41,989 In 1849 to 6,308 in 1859. Another
setiraloprdrotipoouji.fnear thevica.retrirxrentLt.tAirn„,g.to,ylrebonrlandwis
the
commi,ul., the percentage having been only 4 t m ICH, 47
in 1848, 59 in 1852, 57 in 1855, and 52 In 1859. It will. be
mon, however, that even In this respect the adminiairation
of justice In Ireland Ms improved, greater care being pro-
bably now taken with Papa to the commitments, while
juries give a fairer consideration to the caeca before them.
Trot propnrion of the sexes In 1844 woe 62 males gimmicked
to 31 women in 1858.66 men to 34 women. Crimea un-
happily, woo& therelore to be to the =masa mum the
broalien.