The Express.
London, England, 1857-03-12 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKET&

74LNCLNO-LANE.—THIS DAY.
SUOAR.—The market continues inactive, but primes aro
unaltered. Tha email public 04110 et foreign was bought in
above the market value. Refined steady.
Correa.—The public mice are progressing without any
material alterition in prices.
T6A.—The large public wiles commenced to-day. The
importer. are buying in largely, but the portion sold has bees
at full prices. Common Coogan quoted 130.
RICE.—Tbe market has been dull to-day.
Rtm remain. steads.
Corros.-2.50 Wei Tinnevelly sold in public We at 40.
to 41d.
SALTPETI:E.—We arc without transactions to report.
JITS sold, 181. to 19/. l2s.
Hem r.—Somc fair quality bought in at 191.; Bombay
sold, 221. to 231. 10s.

TALLOW MARKET.—THIS DAY.
The market is fins to-day:—Town tallow is qfioted
545. nett es.ilt ; Patersborg Y. C., for March, 61.. ;
to April, 545.; Nay to Jane, 52.6.6 d.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARBET.—THIS DAY.
Mr. E. J. Davis xps,rtsa full supply ; trade without alte
ration. Prune meadow 635. to 09.; superior ditto, 70s.
to Ns.. interior ditto, 50.. to 5564' rowen, 601• to 605.:
clover, to 1006. ; gonad cut, 801. to 80s.; straw, 261.
to 10..

The subscriptions up to the present time for the
sufferers by the Lunilhill Colliery explosion amount to &bon
5,0001., including 2001. from her 'Majesty the Queen, and
1001. from his Royal Highness Prince Allot. At the
Wombwell station on the South Yorkshire Railway, as also
is other places in the neighboochood of the works, collecting
boxes have been placed, under the direction of the clergy of
the distikt.

AS, ttL 1".4 ON We EN AND CHILDREN.—A i
turn published this morning, of the convictions and ern-
ten, es within the polies districts of the metropolis daring the
year 1856, under the Act for the Better Prelention and Pa-
nieltmcv Agy,r.ivated Assaults upon Women and Children,
shows the number of convictions at the various polite courts
to have been as follows :—At Bow-street, 16 ; Clerkenwell,
69; Greenwich. 2u; Woolwich, 23; Hammersmith and
Wand.w,ath, 23; Lambeth, 24; Marlborough-ritreet, 27;

Mary'ebony, 11 ; Sou:lisonok, 47 ; Thrums, 55 ;-Westminster,
2; WorsLip-strat, 43; making a total of 374.
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Placards have been posted on the walls of Glou-
cester announcing that some person at Brigol is in want of
2,000 eats for Australia. Those who have any of the feline
species to dispose of are requested to bring them to a place
appointed in the bill, on a given date, when the captain of
the ship will be in attendance to negotiate with the pro-
prietors.
THE MURDER OF MRS. KELLY.—On Tuesday,
application woo made to Chief Justice 3fonaha.n.hitl.ho
Watmenth non-use, to release Mr. George
from tae reeognisaneo into which he entered at the last
wiser to attend at the present, on a charter of having been
.enaceeued in the murder of his relative. Mrs. Staab Kelly.
No bill hod been found against him, and counsel contended
that he woo entitled to his release under the Habeas Corpus
Act. The judge erid Le would leave Mr. Strevano to apply
to the Queen's 13 melt, and continued .—" He abstained &d-
-efiantly from mating his reason, but knowing the nature of
the ewe, and the dittir ulty on the part of the crown of obtain-
ing infennotion. he woo of opinion he should not interfere.
It might be different if the party were in custody ; but the
gentleman was not in custody, and he could only say that he
wenn not advise him to surrender and go to meson, as pos-
sible if lie did, he might feel it to be his duty to keep him
theie."
FIELD-LANE Nude Rerroz.—Yesterday evening
a public rum, it. in support of a new effort of the cane,...)
of the Field-tone Ragged Cehool in opening a night refuge
for hornet,. young females was held in the school-room,
Went-;treat, lieltornshiU, under the presidency of the Earl
of Shaftesbury. Mr. Toren. the wereterv, reed a detailed
statement of the causes which bad led to the opening of the
refuge and the oltiert contemplated. Among the tint who
had come forward to the assistanee of the committee was
the Earl of Shnftesbury, who had placed at their divas.
1504 The refuge was situated at the bottom of Hatton-
lane, rind wee mew to public inspection day and night. It
was presided over by a Christian matron, afforded a tempo-
rary or even permanent shelter to homeless women, and
per. ital them wi:lt clothes that they might go forth in
search of empi oao.mt. The noble chairman, in addreesing
the meeting, mid that he could not reneeive a deco with
higher elaime on the eytupathy of mankind than there
wretch-al women. They were brought into distress by
carious causer, 001110 .41 arriiinr from the country to get
into service, other. Dion being suddenly end harshly turned
out cf their eitnerione, and other,', again, from sheer dip-
tress. Many were married women nud girls of untainted
character and this eirennotance, added to their downright
derpMr. Called upm all in the most imperative manner to
come f..rwarel to their relief. The scheme was simple very
pereti !able, and nice in the extreme, and could not fail to
aehiev.r rum*. Resolution's approving the institution were
moved And named. the speakers being the Hon. A. Kin-
mint M.P., Dr. Cumming, Mr. Joseph Payne, Mr. Ford-
ham, Mr. Vandertint, and other gentlemen.
TRJPPING BEArts.---A spot is chosen in somO
remote part of the mountains, where it bas been ascertained
that bears are pretty numerous. Here to species of raga ie
built, abont twelve feet square and eic fret high, conetructed
of pine logo, ant fastened after 11,0 manner of a hog-cabin.
This is au.porole4 between two teem. cc. or Morn feet fret.
the ground, and ins:le in hung a huge pier eof beef, comma-
°Untie r by a etrin,e with a trigger, FO contrived that the
slightcrt tug at the beef draws the trigger, and down comes
the it tp. which has more the appearance ref n I,g•cabin sus-
pcndoi in the air th,m anything elm. A regular locomotive
cage. lined with iron, bran also to be taken to the spot, to be
kept in marline's for bruin's accommodation. for the pine-
lolf tap waal not hold him hug he would soon eat end
ten his way out of it. The enterprising bear-catchers hove
therefore to merlin in the neighbourhood, and keep a sharp
Removing the bear from the trap to the cage is
the newt dangerous part of the businese. One side of the
teen i. so enntrivcd as to admit of being opened or removed,
and the cage is drawn up alongeide, with the door also open,
when the tear hoe to be persuaded to st..p into his new abode,
in w1...41 he trey rte down to the more populous parte of the,
country. to tight bulls for the amusement of the public.
POrlt i fOrPie. By J. D. Borthwick.
By the latesidates from Melbourn . to the
16th of Dee.last, the Oneida, the first steamer uhf inropan
and Australian hail Company which took out a nail trent
tide country, bad not arrived out at Vieteria : the was then
M deys nut. She would not have te leave Melbourne with
the homeward mall before the 25th of January.
SECRET SERVICE.—The estimate for " secret
...tee" for the comsat year is 32,000 L, and 10,00 W. in to be
voted " on account."