The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-23 00:00:00

MINE&-(THI8 DAY.)

OM O'CLOCK.
In the mining market to-day West Chiverton,
Chiverton, Clifford, and Marke Valley shares are
in active demand. Subjoined are the present
prices :—South Caradon, 360 to 370 ; West Chi-
verton, 67 to 69 ; Chiverton, 7 to 17 ; Prince of
Wales, 45a. to 475. 6d. ; Clifford, to t ; Chi-
verton Moor, 4 to 5, call paid ; Great Vor, 161
to 174 ; Great Laxey, 18 to 19 ; North Treskerby,
14 to 1f ; Great Retallack, 4f to f ; Marke Valley,
5 to t ; and Wheal Seton, 105 to 110.
Foreign and colonial mining shares are rather
firm. St. John Del Rey have risen 11., viz., to 60
to 62. Don Pedro are quoted 14 to 14 prem. ;
Anglo-Brazilian, 1-16 to 3-16 prem. ; Pestarena,
par to t prem. ; Chontales, 1 to 14 prem. ; United
Mexican, 11 to 2 ; Rosati Grande, 4to ; Anglo-
Italian, to I prem. ; Frontino an Bolivia, fto
; Port Phillip, 1 l-16 to 3-16.

A TOWN UNDER Snour.frrnarrols. —The governing
body of Royal Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, are placed
in &position of great difficulty, in consequence of Mr.
Thomas Heath, of Warwick one of the plaintiffs in the
recent protracted litigation in Chancery against the Lea-
mington Local Board, having taken steps to enforce the
sequestration limed by the court for the infraction of an
injunction restraining the board from discharging the
filtered town sewage into the River Learn, so as to pollute
that stream. The penalty which the sequestration is to
exact is 5,0001. The four commissioners named in the writ,
which was issued several months ago, have given notice to
the board's collector of rates not to pay any more money
over to the treasurer, and a notice has also been served
upon the treasurer, who had a balance of 1,7001. to the
I credit of the board, not to honour any more checks drawn
upon him by that body. The local board, therefore, are
left without funds to meet the current expenses of the
town, and at present no plan has been devised by which
the existing difficulties can be overcome.
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.—During the night of
Monday last an awful thunderstorm passed over the town
of Sutton-in-Ashfield. It commenced about I a.m., and
continued without interruption until nearly 5 a.m., during
the whole of which time the fleshes of lightning were in-
cessant and the peals of thunder continuous. At the
height of the storm, about /30, the electric fluid entered
the Parsonage-house, occupied by the Rev. Charles Bel-
laire, doing considerable damage, and creating the utmost
alarm to the inmates. The lightning demanded first into
the bedroom occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Bellaire, tearing up
the carpet and throwing the fender and fireirous with such
violence that they were dashed to the opposite side of the
room. It then descended into the study beneath, scatter-
ing pieces of tile and brick on the carpet. From there it
appears to have made its way into the kitchen, breaking
three bells, scorching the ease of the clock, and, making •
hole in the ceiling, passed along the wires out at the bell
at the front door. Mr. Bellaire had just risen from bed
and gone into his son's room adjoining his own, and on.
returning found himself suddenly enveloped in • light like
that of magnesium, and beard an awful explosion, accom-
panied with a suffocating smell of sulphur, which pervaded
the house for several hours. It was discovered on the
approach of daylight that the electric fluid had struck the
corner of the house, tearing off some of the tiles and other-
wise injuring the roof, and then passed down the chimney
into the house.

CANOE VOYAGE ACROSS THE ENGLISH CHANNEL.—
We have to record the exploit of Mr. Bowker, a member
of the Canoe Club, who on Monday last crossed in his
canoe Octoroon, from Ambleteuse, a village seven miles
north of Boulogne, to Dover. After having put on board
two bottles of wine and a can of biscuits, Mr. Bowker
paddled out of Ambleteuse at 6.45 a m., and came in view
of the English coast, after running some 14 miles west of
Cape Grinner, having lost sight of lead only about a quar-
ter of an hour. About 10 miles from his destination be
was bailed by the South-Eastern steam packet, the captain
of which vessel pointed out the route, Mr. Bowker having
unfortunately lost his chart and found his compass would
not act. He saw during his voyage several shoals of
porpoises, one of these monetary rising within a few feet
of the bow of the boat. He reached Dover at 5.44 p.m.,
after paddling (with the exception of :10 minutes' rest)
about 11 hours, his arrival causing no little excitement
among the promenaders on the beach. The Octoroon is
16ft. long, 23in. wide, and Bin. deep, unquestionably the
smallest boat which has ever crossed the Channel. The
weather was fine ; but the sea not without Ind in some
Oases. Wind, S.S.W.