The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-06 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKET&

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
(THIS DAY.)
(HE ELECTRIC AND INTERNATIONAL TELEGRAPH.)
(FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT.)
Market ►ery dull, and prices fa►onr purchasers. NAN
between 8,000 and 10,000 tales.

MINCING-LANE.-(THIS DAY.)
Scow.-The market continues dull, and prices are now
6d. below those of last week ; the private sale' include •
Trinidad. low, at 26e. rid. to 27.. ; Jamaica, 295. lid. to
31s. 6d. ; Granada, 275. to 27a. 6.1. Refined-Prices cone
time to rule in buyers' favour ; brown lumps, 425. ed.
G'orres.-The parcebr brought to public sale continue
to realise the full valuations. Plantation Ceylon, triage,
40s. to 675. ; fine ordinary to lowmiddling, 735. to 79a. ;
middling and good middling, 80s. to 86s. 6d. ; native
Ceylon sold at 68a. 11.1. for fine ordinary ; 72... to 725. 6.1.
for superior; and low to good ordinary, 641. to 675.
(locos.-Business has been done at firmer prices. Tri-
nidad middling to floe red, 80s. to 915.; superior, 109 s. to
1235.; Granada, 70.. to 73a.; Surinam, 775. 6d. to 87s.
TRA.-The public sales are progressing steadily, with.
i out material change in prices.
Rus.-A mall parcel sold at the previous currency.
Fanir.-There is a fair demand for new currant. and
Valencia raisins at the opening rates.
SPICES.-There is less diapositiou to purchase
and JIIIIIIIiCS ginger, and the value of the Ist=
slightly declined. Pepper sold, Singapore, 30. to 3fd. ; •
cassia lipea, second pile, 100 a. to 101 s. • pimento, ordi-
nary to good., 21d. to 2id. ; nutmeg, small to middling,
ls. 2d. to 2e. 2d. ; ginger, Jamaica, ordinary to good, 60a.
to 121 s. • Coobin, 69a. to It/a. ; Bengal, I.Trs. fid. to 28s.
SAGO 66 sold at the previous value; small and medium,
17s. lid. to 17s. ed.

Aititowsoor.—at. Vincent's sold at 2itl. to 41.
SALTPETEE.—sou bags sold at 225. for refraction 74,
short prompt.
INDico.—The next quarterly sales of FAA India an
trod for the 9th October.

Corrinc.—Holders haring accepted reduced prices, a far
busisedis has been transacted.

JCTIS has sold at an average decline of 20s. per ton :
common to fine, 131. 10a. to U. 6s.

TALLOW MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
The tallow market to-day is quiet, at the following
prices :—Town tallow, 445. 91. net ; Petersburg Y.C. ma
the spot, 43e. :id., old; ditto new, 46e. ; October to De-
cember, 46a. 3d. ; December, 475. ; January to Kaiak
475. 3d.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
(THIS DAY.)

There are a few more beasts than on Thursday last,
still the supply is not large. Trade is not so brisk as
on Monday, and it is difficult to realise on top
quotations. Although the number of sheep is by
no means large we have difficulty in effecting
a clearance. Trade is slow and prices generally rather
lower than on Monday. There are a few more calves but
choice qualities are still dear. Our foreign supply ?waists
of 530 beasts ; 1,040 sheep ; 190 calves ; and 115 pigs.
Per stone of BThs s. d. it Per stone of Blbs. ad. ad.
Hein Scots, Herefds. 6 6 6 10 Best pnsetHf.bdsBh 0 0 0•
Best Short.horns 6 4 6 8 Best Long-w00f5.... 5 6 6 141
B.v-end quid. Waste 4 0 4 6 Do. do. Shorn.... 00 • 0
Calves

Ilgs
Beet Dna&llll.breds 6 2 0 4 Lambs

Beasts at market, 1,010 :
910, WO.

sod lambs, 6,670; eaves, fah

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.--(THIS DAY.)
Mr. Charles James Easton reports trade at the fal-
lowing prices :—Prime old plover, from 110 s. to 1205.;
inferior ditto, from 955. to 1055.; prime old bay, •
from 9.'u. to loos. ; inferior ditto, from 85s. to 90a.;
prime new clover, from 90s. to 100 s.; inferior, 60a. to
80s.; prime new hay, from 755. to 86s. ; inferior ditto,
from 40s. to 6:is. ; straw, from 36e. to 455.

BARNET FAIR. --(THIS DAY.—THURSDAY.—This
morning (Thursday) a few droves o Welsh ponies and aged
horses were on sale, but were cleared out of the meadows
to make mom for the horse races. The pleasure fear is
crowded with country folks, and the metropolitan holiday-
makers are arriving at Barnet by thousands. A lugs
force of police is also in attendance.
CLARE MARKET RAGGED SCHOOLS—On Tuesday
nearly 200 of the children belonging to the above schools,
accompanied by their teachers, made their annual country
excursion, Petersham park being the pLice selected. The
weather was moat ttuplopitious, frequent showers of rain
interfering moat annoyingly with the sports of the chil-
dren. Notwithstanding, running matches were organised
and spiritedly contested, and games of football, cricket,
kiwin-the-ring, Ac., found their usual admirers. An ex-
cellent dinner was provided by Mr. Earee, of Hackney-
road, and the whole party returned home safely, some
what damp perhaps from the rain that had fallen during
I the day, but in the most exuberant spirits. The children
I were accompanied by the Rev. M. Rose. the minister of
I Clam Market chapel, and Mr. Palmer, the hon. secretary.
SHOCKING OUURRENGE.-011 Tuesday afternoon,
on the arrival of the train from Briglitlingsea,due at Wives-
hoe station at 1.20, the stationmaster, Mr. John Hammond,
was seen either to fall, or what has obtained more general
belief, to throw himself upon the metals in front of the
train. The driver of the engine instantly shut off the steam,
' but so sudden was the act, and so near the train, that it
I mold not be stopped until after the engine, tender, and
one or two of the carriages had passed over his legs,
almost cutting them off close above the ankles. He was
immediately placed upon a stretcher, and the train from
Colchester having been stopped, the engine and guard's
van were used to convey the sufferer to Colchester, whence
he was removed to the town hospital. On his arrival
there he was promptly attended by Mr. Johnson, the
house surgeon ; but he was so much exhausted that it
was hared he could not bear the amputation of his legs,
and it is very doubtful whether he can recover. The un-
fortunate man. who had only recently been appointed to
the office of stationmaster, having been previously a
booking clerk at the Ipswich station, had been noticed to
be in a very desponding state for some days past.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE AT A COLLIERY. —SHIELDS,
WEDNESDAY.—A destructive fire occurred last night at
Backworth new pit, in the Northumberland Steam Colliery
district, not far from this town. About 11 o'clock a boy
had been in a cabin taking some oil from a naphtha cask,
when it took fire, and the wooden erection was soon in
dames. The fire extended to the screens and other wood-
work at the mouth of the pit, and it became extremely
alarming. A large number of men were employed in ex-
tinguishing the fire, and the engines were brought oat
from Shields ; but it was 8 o'clock this morning before
it was got out of the woodwork and coals at the bank. A
considerable amount of mischief was done. The machinery
for hauling the men and materials out of the pit has been
disabled, as the spear legs upon which the pulleys ma
have been burnt away. Bat t'ortnnately Backworth pit is
double shafted, and the men and lads who were working
in the mine at the time of the fire were got out by the
shaft of Beck worth old pit. Thu damage done is roughly
estimated at between 21101. and 300 f.
CORNISH /41nrnste.—The surplus mining popula-
tion of Cornwall is being rapidly cleared out ofthe county,
some hundreds haring commenced work in various parts
of England in the course of the last three weeks. North-
umberhued and Staffordshire bare each taken a fair awe
for sesploymeat in mines, and heavy contrasts in ANL
i and Rent have provided labour for a large number Muslims
counties. Yorkshire, too, has had an instalment, and
1 there is every prospect that before long Cornwall will not
have more miners within her borders than she needs.