The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-10 00:00:00

EXHIBITION OF HOPS AND BEER AT DIJON

BOARD OF TRADE, WHITEHALL, AVOCET 30.
The Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade have received, from the Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, a copy of a despatch from her
Majesty's ambassador at Paris, enclosing a copy of an
announcement with reference to a contemplated exhibition
of hops and beer, to be held at Dijon, in the month of
October next, and of which the following is a translation :

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INTIVINATIONAL 6x HIBITION 07 HOPS AND BLEB.
The Central Agricultural Committee of the Cote d'Or
has decided upon organizing an International Exhibition
of Hops and Beer, in the year 1866. This exhibition will
take place at Dijon, towards the middle of the month of
October next. All producers of hope and manufacturers of
beer in France and in fore4n countries will be permitted
to take part in it. Several gold medals, of at least 300
francs in value, medals of silver, and other rewards,
'lithe distributedto the exhibitors of the best productions.
Besides the samples of hops and beer, all kinds of instru-
ments and apparatus employed in the cultivation of hops
and in the manufacture of beer will be received, as well as
papers treating of matters connected with either subject.
Applications from persons desirous of becoming exhibitors
can at once be addressed to 31. Ladrey, Secretary to the
Committee, Dijon. The liith of September is fixed as the
latest date for the seeding in of such applications. A
detailed programme will very shortly be published, which
will make known the dillerent arrangements for the
exhibition, as well as the precise date at which the
packages should be forwarded.

WEST AFRICAN MAILS.—LIVERPOOL, SATURDAY.
—The African Royal Mail steamer Calabar, Captain Croft,
arrived here this morning with the usual mails from the
west coast of Africa, Madeira, and Teneriffe. The Calabar
brings 40 passengers, including four distressed seamen,
3,460 ounces of gold dust, 242 ounces of bar silver, and 20
packages of specie, valued at 3,5001. The following are the
latest dates :—Benin, July 2.5 ; Fernando Po, August 3 ;
Cameroon*, July 30 ; Old Calabar, August 2 ; Brass
River, August 5 ; Bonny, August 5 ; Lagos, August 8 ;
Accra, August 10 ; Cape Coast Castle, August 12 ; Cape
Palmas, August 14 ; Sierra Leone, August 20 ; Bathurst,
August 24 ; Teneriffe, August 29 ; and Madeira,
September 1. The news by this arrival is unimportant.
At all the stations except Sierra Leone and Bathurst, trade
and health were both good, but trade only was bad at
the former, while at the latter the ravages of yellow
fever had almost put a stop to business. The Calabar con-
firms the report of the capture at Madeira of the screw
steamer Tornado, by the Spanish war steamer Gerona.
REI7TEE'S TELEGRAPH CABLE. LOWESTOFT,
Su/DAY, Szwr. 9.—The shore end of the Norderney cable
was landed here at 4 p.m. to-day, and the laying of the
cable was commenced immediately. Weather fine. Sea
calm. Tests perfect.
FATAL ACCIDENTS AT LONDON-BRIDGE STEPS.—
On Saturday Mr. Payne held an inquest at St. Magnus
vestry-room, on the body of a man unknown, found
drowned at the foot of the steps of London-bridge, near
Fishmonger'-hall. Deceased was found dead at 5 o'clock
on Wednesday morning, lying face downward in the mud
at the bottom of the steps in question' and had apparently
been dead five or six hours. John Anderson, who keeps
the dead house of St. Magnus, and other witnesses, ex-
pressed their conviction that the deceased had walked
down the river steps, supposing they led to Thames-street.
A great number of cases were cited, and in one instance,
that of three soldiers who bad lost their lives from a simi-
lar mistake. The coroner confirmed this, and said in the
case of the last soldier drowned the jury had recommended
to the common council that they should devise somemeans
to prevent a recurrence of such accidents. The jury in
this case returned a verdict of " Found drowned," and ex-
pressed regret that the recommendation of a former jury,
that a chary should be put across the steps as a protection.
bad not been acted upon by the proper authorities, as if
it had the present fataht/ might have been prevented.
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