The Express.
London, England, 1850-04-04 00:00:00

MINCING-LANE.-THIS DAY.

fluosta.—The public sales, consisting of 200 hhds of Bar-
ba?oe•, 1,600 boxes of yellow, and 400 boxes of white
Ilarannab have gone off without spirit, and • considerable
portion of the latter was bought in ; but we do not alter
general quotatioas. Barbadoes soli front 34s to 415.6 d.; yellow
liavannab, 365. 6d. to 415., duty paid; white in bond, 28a. 6d.
to 31s. 61. The refined market is firm, and high prices are
asked : grocery lumps, Itw brown, scarce, at 485.; fair to fine
steady, at 49e. to 50s. 6d.
COIIEB.-120 casks and 200 bags of plantstion Ceylon
were offered in public sale, and all bought in. We are again
without transactions to quota in good ordinary native Cey-
lon; the quoted price remains 545. 61. to 55e., but must be
considered part.y nominal.
Mon remains out of dem►nd.

BAverrews.—This article is inactive ; prices oonsiaelly
the ease u lut week

Braces —Ws are without transactions to report to-day.
Tru.—This article is steady, but t►e demand continues
limit, d.
In other articles no alteration.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—THIS DAT.
liners. Cooper and Davis report trade very dull, at the fol-
lowing quotations: Prime Meadow. 661. to 725.: inferior,
50s. to C3s. Clover, f3os. to 1100. ; Straw, 235. to 275.

OF THE LETTER-WRITING POELIC.

—ln an opposite side of the enormous apartment, • good
space and a few officials are devoted to repairing the careless-
ness of the public, which is—in amount and exient--seareely
credible. Upon an average 300 letters per day pus through
the General Put-office totally unfastened; chiefly in maw
queue of the use of what stationers ere pleased to call
" adhesive" envelopes. Many are virgin ones, without
either seal or diration ; and not a few contain money. In
Bir Francis Fueling's time, the sum of 5,0001. in Bank
notes was found in a " blank." It was not till after some
trouble that the sender was traced, and the cash restored to
him. Not long since an humble postmistress of an obscure
Walsh post town, unable to decipher the address on a
letter, perceived on examining it, the folds of serail
bank notes protruding from a torn edge of the envelope.
She securely re-clued it to the secretary of the Poet-office in
St. Martin'nle-Grand, who found the contents to be 1,5001,,
and the superscription too much even for the hieroglyphic
powers of the " blina clerk." Eventually the enclosures
found their true destination. It is estimated that their lies,
from time to time, in the Dead Letter.offiee, undergoing the
process of finding owners, some 11,0001. annually in cash
alone. In July, 1847, for instance—only a two months'
accumulation—the poet-huts of 4,658 letters, all containing
property, was arrested b 7 the bad superscriptions of the
writers. They were consigned—after • searching inquest
upon each by that efficient coroner, the " blind elerk "—to
the Post office "morgue." There were bank notes of
the value of 1,0101., and money-orders for 4071. 12s.
But moat of tnese ill-directed letters contained coin,
in small sumo, amounting to 3101. 9s. 7d. On the 17th
of July, 1847, there were lying in the Dead Letter Office
bills of exchange for the immense sum of 40,4101. 6s. 7d. !
Taking up • thin card-burd box of artificial flowers, which
bed been shaken into the form of an Irregular rhombold,under
the pre sure of several pounds' weight of letters and newe-
-1 pas, a " sub-president" remarked—The faith the public
have in us is extraordinary. Here is an article which is de.
signed to go safely to Dublin ; yet not one single precauticn,
except this thin piece of twine, ts taken by the sender to
ensure its preservatioe. Here, again, is • pair of white
satin shies, Emu losing their colour from friction with damp
newspapers and the edges of books. The other day the toe
of • similar packet protruded from he very thin easing, and
the stamper not being able to stop his band in time, ores-
mented it, in blue Ink, with the words "York, Feb.l, 1850.
D."—Dichessa's lioebiliold Words.

BOICIDII OF A ROMAN MI

the 22nd ult.,a gentleman entered the coffee room of the
Plough Tavern, Kensal-green, and ordered a pint of stout
Twenty minutes afterwards Francis Saunders, a stonemason,
entered the coffee room, and saw the deceased sitting at the
table with his head resting on his hand, and findieg the de-
ceased perfectly unmalicious, he endeavoured to arouse him,
and called the landlord and other parties to his assistance.
Some stimulants were administered, and the nearest surgeon
sent for, but on hie snivel life was extillet. No papers
whatever to give any clue to the deceased's rebates' could be
found. On Tuesday afternoon, at the adjourned inquest. *v.
G. Howse identified the body as that of. Mr. William Henry
Banyard, aged 49, of Belmont-terrace, Wandsworth-road. He
had Miliaria Crown-court, Bishopegate, and was an eaten-
sire Ruda& merchant. For the last six months witness bad
noticed deceased was somewhat depressed. He lived on very
affectionate terms with his wife, and witness bad never
known of his stopping out at night. The deemed hail not
visited his counting house on the da he left hie home. On
the morning of the same day the had expressed
great disappointment at not roessiviag some large remittances
from Russia. Hr. G. Brows, surgeon, made a post-iisorfem
examination ; on opening the stemma the odour of anizeig
oil of bitter almonds was quite apparent. TM
of the brain wets found greatly mageeled, all the
most extraordbary feet manected with the
of the brain was be mimeos of a =1111:17:
stance, es large a the half of a pigeon's_ess. geming
on the lobe of the brain, and wkieh-was fts ths
arachnid membrane and pia meter, the eibMwelashe
standing chronis lafiemmatioa. In siossequaes of b
discovered he was sure the demand's brain was series*
attested, but the death resulted from the undid ell Of
almonds, of which masiderably more them a theehM
been taken. The fast of no phial or WO"
coed might be aeseantad for by the deseasediNT
Meat time after taking the poison to throw the
into the middle of a large Are which was bombs he Me.
room, and thereby destroy ell trams. Vodka, " Died
from the effects of essential oil of almonds, but whether
administered by himself with the intention to destroy his
life, or by any other perm, there was no 'videos lti