The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-06 00:00:00

AflNEti.--(THI8 DAY.)

ON, o'Otome.
The mining market is steady to-day, with
moderate transactions. Some of the present
quotations are as follows :—Clifford Amalga-
mated, 15 to 16; East Basset, 18 to 19 ;
East Grenville, 3/ to ; East Lovell, 12 to j ;
'Great North Laney, 325. 6d. to 375. 61 ' • Great
Vor, 30} to 31; North Treskerby, 31, tof ; and
Hollybush Colliery, Ito prem.

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.
MINCING-LANI.—(THIS DAY.)
Suoix—The market has opened steadily. The private
salsa include British West Inxia, at last week's ourrensy
700 bap of grainy Mauritius, at 375. 6d. ; 1,500 bags of
japery Madras, at 26a. 6d. Refined, at pirev.ows prises
there is • limited denuitd.
001Pl11. e market is firm for all colonial descriptions.
TILL —Kest of the desirable parcels ex rec. rat arrivals
having been disposed of the demand his become limited.
The public sales are progressing without material &asp
from private contract Wes.
Rutz.—A small parcel of Jamaica sold at 3a. 4d.
Brae sad flammrom—The demand for both mails's'.
inactive.
Cerro/I.—The market, is steadier, a fair business having
hem traassoted at fell prises.

TALLOW MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
The market is quiet. Petersburg Y.C. ea the spot is
quoted 47u; March, 475. ; April to Jose, 475. ; Ootober to
Besesber, 495. to 486.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)
Mr. Charism JIM@ Heston reports trade slow it thstollow-
ing prices :—Prinss clover, from 1275. 6d. to 1355. ; Work*
ditto, 110 s. to 120 s. ; prime second cut clover. 1101. to
; inferior ditto, 965. to 100 s. ; priors hay, 106 a. to
110 s. ; Wades dittos, 90s. to 975. 6d. ; straw, 365. to 40s.

SHEFFIELD SMITHFIELD PA ?STOCK MARKET.

MONDAY, Fn. 5.

The confidence of success entertained at the
opening of the fat stock market in Suffield last
week. has been fully justified by the number of
cattle and sleep brooeht hem for sale this morning.
Upwards of two hundred head of cattle sod five hundred
sheep were in tee market. The former were front
the north of Englead, a poetics coadeting of
prime polled Scotch bollocks, which had evidently
been fed for human food, and not merely for the
tallow °headier. Dish and other stock were well np to
the mark in point of condition, and included well made
op barren heifers from two to three years old. Most el
I the sheep were of • superior clam, the
.peon costa/sing a
very chaos lot of Soutbdowes from the farms of the Duke
of Portland, and some splendid Lineolnahire hop shown
by Mr. Henry Salmon. The principal salesmen were from
the north and the adjoining (aunties, also from Ireland,
and a few of our local dealers cootributed to the exhibi-
tion of sheep. The Sheffield butchers appeared by their
neivernal presence and deep interest in the business of the
day to appreciate the immense advastages to be pined
by buying cattle at their own doors. Buyers were like-
wise from Manchester, Nottingham, Derby, Chesterfield,
Penistose, and Dearly all the principal local towns sea
populous villages in the neighbourhood. The bed made
from Ta. 9d. togs. per stone of 141b5., and mutton from 9d.
to Rid. per lb. Soon after 12 o'clock all the stock bad met
with ready buyers ; and it was the optima of salesmen that
the demand far exceeded the supply. It is proper here to
stale that many more cattle and sheep would have
been brought to-day but for the stringent regula-
tions is Nottinghamshire, which prohibit the removal
of cattle from farms before sunrise. Mr. Wilkinson sad
the salesmen from ftetford and other pert of Notting-
lasinehim would have contributed largely to the day's show,
had there been time to remove their stock imfficiestly early
for this market. Thie difficulty will probably be got over
before the next muket-day, by sending the cattle on
Saturday instead of a Monday. Peniing the steps which
are being taken to organise and establish this additional
marked in the borough, eo tolls are takes for the present.
We may safely, then, predict that the highly successful
beginning which has bees made will justify the hope that
Sheffield will ultimately become one of the most noted and
popular fat cattle markets is the Uinta Kisgdom. It would
be strange, indeed, if Sheffield, with a population of more
than 200,000 inhabitants, and its surrounding hives of in-
dustry, menet attain a position which hate been len en-
joyed by towns of less importance. The Sheffield and
neighbouring butchers have only to stick to their present
resolution—on them chiefly swoon or Don-moons will de.
peed—and their valuable patronage must commend ent-
reat stock from every part of the country. We may add
that every precautionary vigilance is exercised by the in-
spector (Mr. Cartledge) and his staff, io the close examina-
tion of every heed before a oertifioate of health is pasted.
—Sheffield independent.

SHOCKING AND FATAL ACCIDENT AT KILNALL.—
INQUIST.—(THUI Dar.)—This morning Mr. Humphreys,
Middlesex almoner, held an inquiry at the Bleck nom
Tavern, Poplar, relative to the death of Basjamin Drurfs
aged 48 yeas,. It appeared from the evidence that the
deceased was a foreman of labours!, employed in the con-
struction of a new dock at Mllwall. Os Thursday last
some of the pumpina-gear got out of order, and the
deceased went to examine the machinery. While so swell
one of the pumping "buckets," weighing 14 cwt;, feU
upon his bead, crashing his skull and killing him on the
spot. As l appeared that the occurrence was quite acci-
dental the jug returned a verdict to that effect.
DOUBLY FATAL OCCIIERINCL-011 Friday morn-
ing a man named Sewell west down an old well at Chalfont
St. Giles. Bockinthatoshlre, for the purpose of cleaning it
out. He had sot taw the precaution to lower a lighted
candle in the first instance, to ascertain if the air of the shaft
was in a prr condition, and the result was that be beams
insensible shortly efterr reaching the bottom. A brave
nese, named John Tyler, a labourer, volunteeeed
to rescue him, and was lowered into the welL He reached
the insensible man, raised him up, and gave the signal to
wind up the rope. He bed almost reached the
mouth of the well with his btuthan whee—to Use
horror of the spectates—the rope brook, and both men fell
• distance of 120 feet to the bottom of the pit. Twenty
hours elapsed before safe mass was got to the bottom of
the well, and then both men were quite dead. Tylor has
left • widow and two infant cbildrea.—Bedford rine&
In the State of South Carolina there are now 48
Freedmen's schools in operation, attended by 6,000 pupils,
and taught by 108 teachers, et whom 60 me from the
North and 28 are Southerners. In Columbia, Greenville,
Orangeburgit, Summerville, Georgetown, and on the Goad
islands, schools are already established ; they are in pro-
cess of organisation at Camdee, Florence, Dsrliegton,
Sumter, and Cheraw, end it is confidently hoped that
before the spring at least nee teacher will be at week in
Nth vaulty lows.—Auiiaiwo ow.