The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-28 00:00:00

BOARD OF TRADE RETURNS.

The exports of November were leas by 882,9874
or 8 per cent., than the same month of last year,
and less by 983,2391., or 9 per cent., than in No-
vember, 1869. The figures for the eleven months
show a decrease of 8,369,2721., or 711 per cent.,
compared with 1860, and a decrease of 4,268,1811.,
or 3+ per cent., compared with 1869.
Examining the chief items of the exports, we
arrive at the subjoined general figures for the
month—viz. :

Month of Notembor.

1859. 1860. 1691.
Apparel and slops £2,14,100 £225,967 6906,9113
Beer and ale 186.915 91,602 94,719
Books PAM 41,115 31,789
Batter 82,890 61,315 39.189
Coals and main
Cottons
Cotton yarn
Counterpanes and small
mew

13,Na 17,121. 117412
Earthenware sad porce-
lain
Furniture Men 18.384 MAO
alas; common bottles
Haberdashery and milli-

nery - 291,1160 257,488 269,9713
Hardwares and cutlery 193.,275 311.918 MEM
Leather, anwrought . 19,467 51,060 /KIM
Ditto, wrought 120,441 107,602 114196
Saddlery and lumen 26,1011 30,134 27,710
Linens (clothed all Made
and cambric')
Linen yarn
Machinery, stews engines 61,117 128.921 74.019
Ditto, other aorta
Iron, pis 67,900 101,575 77,000
Ditto, bar, bolt, and rod 168,9611 182,134 140,992
Ditto, railway of all kinds 140,002 166,991 1114,091
Ditto, wire

Ditto: coot 4B _„
,4/16 37,108 ..__
95756
Ditto, 'wrought 161.951 210.869 160.447
Ditto steel, =wrought 79,74 88,139 65133
Copp, anwroeght
Ditto, ershale and malls
Lead
Ile, unwrought
OO
Tia.plates
811 k manufactures (silk
only)
Other artickaird slikonly) 25,993 14,007 11,478
Bilk manutaeleirsa nixed
with other nMensla
Rilk, thrown_ _
- 31.797

Dia°, twist and yarn 18,609 33.877 .
12,0113
h&j* Latakia)
45,666 122.009 106.773
Woollens ;cloths, he.) 245,008 207,702 411,716
1311 to lulled studs, flan-
nels, ac.)
Worsted staffs 017.227 197,027 268,241
Woollen and Worsted

Yarn
On a comparison of the present figures with
those for the corresponding mouth of last year, the
principal decrease is shown to be in cottons, cotton
yarn, linens, iron, and earthenware. A noteworthy
feature is the increase in the exports of woollen
and worsted manufactures, which arises probably
from the demand on account of the Federal army.
The same cause has probably influenced the exports
of hardwares and leather manufactures. Those of
haberdashery, linen yarn, and some kinds of
machinery, have kept up well.
The following shows the quantities of the prin-
cipal imported articles that have been taken for
consumption during the month :
Mitered for home consumption, subject to duty.
Month of November.

Com 1869.___._ _. .......--..
1800 1818.
lbs. 836.771 811.090 404,886
Oar lbe. 3,225,862 8,070,186 2.888,647
Whoa gra sa,sis 988,024 802,882
rare ewes. 174,111 816,148 268.788191
P•lre lba 411,178 382,011 414,
lan gala 108274 808380 V 814140
real)gela 113,171 117,48! WON
IMpr, earoleed .. cmllta 5,741,a. 764779 817,144 717,861
Tea 73S ,144,779
tyres gala 881,485 6,
304490,291684 4 846,680
The large and oostinued increase in the imports
of wine forms a feature of interest. The supplies
1 of foreign wheat and flour amounted to only half
the quantity received in the corresponding month
of last year.
The statement of imports stands thus :
. Moo* et November. __ _
_ __

1068. IWO. 1001
Oioess lbs. MIK nis,sis 6113,677
= lbs. 4,790190 7,1119,990 7.013,307
qrs. 937 .275 618.126 602,032
W6l6* .1.1. Saw osts. 174,111 614140 2e6,1500
PSVW Um 369007 1,619006 1.067,530
lion
111•903 gala 191,000 108.401 233001
&am, battled owls. 494010 415.861 009,103
Ts.

Wire Pie.The consumption of foreign commodities, stitch
as cocoa, coffee, tea, sugar, and wines appears to be
going on upon a very large scale.

THE WINDHAM LUNACY COMMISSION.

Among the witnesses heard yesterday after our
left was the following
repast
Oliver (a sergeant in the A division of the metro-
politan police)-1 was last summer on the Duke-street
district. I used to see Mr. Windham almost every night in
the neighbourhood of Jermyn.street. Duke-street, and the
Haymarket. I have seen him at night-houses three or four
times • week. He was generally in company with prosti-
tutes, and shouting arid hallooing. I have not seen him
wares for *liquor on more than two or three ones.
aims. His conversation was always eighty. He
would call me old fellow, and ask me to come
sad have • champagne dinner with him. He told
me when be came of age be would treat all the police. He
was always very excitable. I treated him as I
would a school boy. I was on duty in July, 1881, at the
Wimbledon shooting meeting. He got on the knee at the
gateway, and made a disturbance. My attention wee called
to him by persons on the ground, and I got him away, and
saw him to his phaeton. He knew me very well. On one
occasion, when the police were crossing Jermynatreet, be
drove a phaeton through the men at a furious rate. I fol-
lowed him to Duke-street, not knowing till I got there who
it was. When I remonstrated with ham be said, "Oh, it's
all right, old fellow, it's only me." Finding who it was, 1
took no further notice, for I always looked upon hint as •
man of unsound mind. I met him one morning in Jerrayn-
street about 12 months ago cryiag like • great child. Sums
girls were following him. I wanted him to wipe his hoe,
but be had Ito handkerchief, and I took him down • bye
street and wiped his face, which was ell in • slobbering state,
with my hauilkerchief. He maid his girl had run away from
him. Ido not *amides he is capable of managing himself

C;;;;;;;ined by Mr. Karslake—l first met him at the
night houses in the Haymarket. Many young men frequent
those houses. I hare seen him at such houses three or four
fitness week when I hare been oo night duty. Mr. Windham
did what other young men do who frequent those night
houses ; that is, treat the women to ch.impagne and some-
times make a noise. It wan ten o'clock when he drove
through Jur rank and scattered my men. He was driving
two hones, and at • very furious rate. I think it probable it
was shoot the time of the Derby or the Ascot races, but I
caa't As the date. I did not know till then that he lived in
Dukestreet. He was using disgusting language at Wimble-
don as the carriages entered. It was about race time that
I saw him in liquor. I saw him three or four times a weak
when I was ou duty during the 6rst half of the year 1860.
By Mr. Chambers--I cannot speak positively to the
period when I used to see him, for I have no memorandum
of it. I saw him frequently when I was on night duty,
which was not always regular. He did sot act like the
other young men who frequent the night houses. He would
make noises which they did not. He would howl and
shout, and make a noise like a dog or a cat, making • merri-
ment for the people who saw and heard him. He treated
the women at the night houses like other young men, but
they ridiculed him more than they did other men. U I
had heard he had committed any act of extravapoce or
wrong I should not have been surprised, for 1 thought Its
was not light in his head.
The inquiry was then further adjourned.

SHOCKING ACCIDOIT AT 11111 Nice-stars RAILWAY
ftvcriox.—A shocking and fatal accident to a youth and
serious injury to his brother, a young man, occurred on
Thursday afternoon, at the New- eras athlete of the Loedoe
and Brighton Railway Company. It appears that &tout
200 persons were waiting for the down train to the Crystal
Palaos, and among them were two sons of Hr. Samuel
Ambrose Denim, a gentleman residing at 4, Boathktreet •
terrace, Rye-lase. Peckham, aged respectively 12 mid 22.
As mesa ea the train acme into the station a rook wee made
by the poems assembled to get into the carriages, when
tine deosseed fell between the platform and the line of rails,
the wheels of the still moving train passing completely over
his body and mutilating him in a shocking manner. His
I brother, seeing him fall, endeavoured to rescue him, and, in
doing so, austaioal severe injury to one of his feet, two of
the toss of which were severed by the wheel' of one carriage
peeing over them. When extricated the deceased pre-
seated a frightful spectacle, sod expired almost immediately
after being taken into a waling-room at the station.
TTAPIRANCI AT WARLIT BA/MACK& —SOTO/a
hoods's& of the ems-ormtmesiosed adieus and men at War-
ley barracks have recently biome teetotallers. Three sr-
meant-major, *se esrgeent. three corporals, and thirteen
prawn of the Royal Artillery signed the pledge no Thus.
dNaliseaay omel gTerspersaos League.as, after a lector* by lir. T. A. Smiths of the