The Express.
London, England, 1861-04-12 00:00:00

MINEII.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'CLoci.

A moderate amount of business has been done
this morning in home mining stocks. Marks Val-
ley Wheal Ludcott, Providence, Wheal relawney,
West T
Caradon, East Cam Brea, and Copper Hill
shares have been chiefly dealt in. In the Stock
Exchange East Basset shares are officially marked
104, ex div., and East Wheal Russell, 7.
!Foreign and colonial mining shares show no
alteration of importance. General Mining (Nova
Scotia) have been dealt in at 23i ; St. John del
Rey, at S 1 ; and United Mexican, at sf.
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We have received a copy of the prospectus of the
flan-y-pwll Slate awl Slab Company (Limited).
The quarries which it is intended to work are
situated in the parish of Feetiniug, Merionethshire,
and on the same mountain range as those owned by
Lord Palmerston and others. The sett referred to
adjoins their boundary, and is described as a direct
continuation of their seam, and as consequently
producing slate rock of precisely the same character
and quality. The property is held under lease for
forty years on conditions considered favourable.
As regards convenience of transport and water
power, the natural facilities of the property are
favourably spoken of. The purchase-money is to
be 10,0001, viz., half in cash by instalments, and
half in shams. The capital is fixed M 30,0001., in
51. shares.

DIABOLICAL ATTEMPT TO SUFFOCATE A FAlntt.y.
At a meeting of the Keane° magistrates, held at Lincoln
on Friday, • woman, named Fanny Moore, was charged with
having on the previous Saturday evening. attempted to
murder by suffocation • man named Holmes, he wife,
and four children, who reside is an adjoining house,
under the seine roof, at Baaaingham, midway between
Newark and Lincoln. The complainant said that
he was in bed on the night iu question, when he
wee startled by brimstone funies coming into his room
out of another rem, under which was one occupied by the
defendant, who had previously throateuel that she would
"do for them all." He ran for • police-offioer, and his cliff.
diet, were carried downstairs by his eldest son. He after-
wards went into their room, and saw brimstone in a utensil
near the door. The woman, in reply to the magistrates,
denied having committed the offence, and laid all the blame
upon her husband, who was present. As there was not suf-
ficient evidence to pia*, them on their trial for attempted
murder, it was only left for the magistrates to bind the hue-
bawl over in his own recogniaunoes of 101. for the good be.
haviour of hie wife for six months, and to order him to pay
all the expenses incurred.—Nutting ham Journal.
GUNPOWDES EIFLOOION AND Loan OF THREE
I.I%M—A fatal and most disastrous accident took place
on Wednesday, at Pool, near Ceinhorno, in consequence of
a violent gnopowder explosion on the premises of the safety
fuse inanufactory, which is situated near the railway sta-
tion. About one o'clock—at which hour, very fortunately,
the workmen were at dinner, or otherwise the loss of hu-
man life would probably have been much greater—persons
in the neighbourhood of the building were startled by bear-
ing a loud, booming report, and in a few seconds the id.,
was darkened with stones, wood work, Sc. Upou au ex-
amination of the deais, it was found that the explosion bad
most unhappily mused the instantaneous death ad two girls
and one boy; two other girls being badly injured. The
bodies presented a shocking sight, the injuries being of •
severe character. Tie roof and walls of the building were
quite demolished, and the machinery rendered perfectly
useless. The sad event has ocausiouial cossiderable gloom,
especially among the cnipluytp. The cause of the explosion
is at present unknown.
TBE FRENen ARMY 11113YRIA.—General Beaufort
Pus published the following order to the expeditionary corps
in Syria :—" %pont, March 27.—His Excellency had
Pasha has just received from the Sultan an autograph
letter, in which his highness expresses his congratulations
on the subject of the effort* made to solve iu a suitable
glimmer the important question of Syria. The Sultan, in
rendering justice to those praiseworthy exertions, deigns to
signify his satisfaction at the conduct of the officers and
soldiers of the brave army which the Emperor of the French,
his sincere friend atel ally, has emit to Syria conformably to
the terms tae convention of Paris. The general com-
manding the expeditionary cogs is happy to trutaimit the
expression of that satisfaction to the troops paced under
his ,alers as a ad of the services rendered by them, and
as a testimony that their action will not have bass fruit.
lax —Bnexruar."