The Express.
London, England, 1858-08-19 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

BOMBAY, POLY 19.
The Pealeveler and Oriectil Company's steam. ;
*dm, with the Bnghtti mails of the 9tb sal 17th Joh;
reached Bombay on the flth inettat. There bee been
break is the weather for the lest few days, rnd the WI er
rein at the presidency bat been about 38 rocket.
The money market continues vet y rev.
IMPORTS.

Corrow Placa Boons.—The basins troniacted la tin
market has bent to a way large extent, each es could ad
be expected at this mama of the peer. The mime of non td
the merlons denriptions of goods have advanoed.
Steam= AND Fancy 000136.—The market dolma
the fortnight has participated in the general activity.
ireaxe.—The whet has been brisk, sad the petal no
wen sustained.

Exporrs.

CorroN.—The state of the market u regards this napis
during the fortnight under report, may be described u gee.
rally quiet; but sines the last English and American ed.
vkes, the prices have to a slight extent given way. n,
following are the transactions which have bum reported it
u bales 80-et end Broach, Ra. 167 per candy ; 700
ditto ditto, Rs. 166. 400 ditto ditto, Re. 166; 100 ditto Dot.
leas, at Rs. 149 ; 400 ditto ditto, Ea. 160; 400 ditto ditto,
Rs. 149; 100 candle* Otarawany, Rs. 148; 26 dittoCompta,
Ba. 127 8; 26 ditto ditto, Rs. 128.
OIL Basin —Tines have been in very good demand daft
the fortnight, and on account of the small enpply avail=
able in the market., have maintained excellent pi:cei,
The following an the transactions that have bees
brought to oar nodes in the course of the period rods
report :-600 es.e. rapeseed, at Es. 6 14 per candy; 1,003
ditto linseed at Rs. 6 7 8 ditto ; 2,000 ditto ditto, at Rs. 6
ditto; 1,600 ditto ditto, at Re. 6 7 6 ditto ; 1,000 ditto
ditto, at Rs. 6 7 9 ditto ; 1,600 ditto ditto, at Re. 6 8 ditto.
Tosuaos.—There has been a alight improvement notice-
able in the rates of freighta to England, end we quote 11. to
11.65. for both London end Liverpool.
!LICH AWOL—Thar* has been b 0•1•••• to a slight extent,
on account of very few bills offering. We quote the rul'ng
rates on London, at ids month's sight, Is. 110. for doca.
meat hills ; for credits, Is. 111 d. ; end for bank bills, la.
On Calcutta, at sixty days' eight, Rs. 10%; on Madras, se
thirty days' sight, Be. 190 i ; end on China, at sixty days'
eight, Ra. 218.

SUICIDE OF MO OENTLEMSN OS

HJIMPBTI,4I).HEAtIN.

Yesterday afternoon Mr. Wakley, the Coroner for
Wait Middles; bold on lammed at Hampstead Workhouse,
on the boar of two gentlemen, who died by poison, ad-
mintateard by tbeinsalvas, on Hampstead-heath. Both cases
were of • very &streaming character. . . .

The first ases was that of Mr. Edward Prior, who has for
scene yearn pet tallied oa the business of a harder, in Finn
bury-piece North.
• Mr. Edward Prior, the father of the deoeseed, said be Ime
sew his sort Owed his residence, N 0.22, Meachester-terraes,

Liverpool-road, Islington. He was then poorly, and witnei
sent for a medical man. On the Friday previously, the
mother of the deceased went to his house, in Finabtry•place,
and offered to mind his business, as was her custom on a Fri.
dey,when the slummed usually went out. He declined to area
himself of his motbees services, and afterwards wrote her a
letter stating that he knew his family intended to betray
him, sad that he had at last discovered a safe way of patting
ma end to his miserable life. Be mentioned the name of a
young lady, which the coroner very properly refused to make
l'oBosman, 413 8, deposed that he found the demised
gentlemen on the Heath, about 2 o'clock on Monday morn.
tag, near the Spaniard public-house, in is stag of hunk
bilk,. At first be thought he was intoxicated, but he ice
mediately afterwards forted that he was at the point d
death. He removed hf 01 to the workhouse, but he vu
dead kefcee he arrived there. He took from the porno ct
the deceased three half-sovereisos, eight shillings, ad

eightpenoe In ulcer, thirteenpenoe halfpenny in ammo
smell bottle full of tincture of myrrh, and a testament, the
ribbon of which pointed to the 6th chapter of St. Mark and
the 9th chapter of St. John.
Dr. Winter said that when the deceased was brought he
him he at AIM saw that his death bad been OCCSWINd by
some aarostio poison. He opened the body, bat there NI le
Mai of poison in the stomach.
Geo►ge Saunders, assistant to Mr. Allen, &Wet, d
Morgan's. place, Liverpool-rod, Islington, proved that 10
sold the deemed sight drops of laudanum on Sudsy sm.
tog. He said be wanted an ounce fur the tooth-21U
witness would only let him have the eight drops.
The jury returned u their verdict that deceased degroyd
himself by poison while In an unsound state of mild, .1
pared a aulogium upon the chemist's maistaut for the Pr
oration be had exercised in refusing to serve the deceased Oa
the large amount of laudanum applied for.

Thesecend CAM wee that of Ir. William Ashman sr
gun, of No. 5, King-street, Chsepside.
Mr. Needed& Metemtford, of Woodbine Cotter, Valid
Heath, Hampstead, said he was a wine merchant, tad rs
%doge friend of the deceased, who called upon him •
Tuesday evening. Deceased called upon hint at abut WI.
peat 7 o'clock last night, and purposed returning by Ike it
cernibm for London, which left Hampstead at halflest
Witness offered to accompany him as far as the dstthg
place of the omnibus, end had proceeded as far aphis gettler
gate, when he found that his friend was not following hi.
Re want back, and found him sitting in a dying state
the may chair.
Mr. Richard Gossett Brown, the medical gentleman vie
wee sent for, said he found that the demand bad takes
lame dose of prude sold, and this was coalirmal by the it
that the policemen, on searching the place, found s• woplf
bottle, labelled "Acid= hydrocyanum."
It appeared from subsequent evidence that the dowsed
bed had an mud= put in his house for 511., and ihei Oh
probably preyed upon his mind. At Mr. Itotuttked's hoes%
however, he wee eswey, end appeared to be very henry.
The jury retuned as their verdict "That the deceased IF
strayed himself by eating poism, but that them was se et 4
dont* to lead them to a conclusion on to his state of lola*