The Express.
London, England, 1861-12-17 00:00:00

MINCING LANE.-(THIS DAY.)

Smut —The market is steady, lint it still continues in-
active, 750 bap brown Kauritius sold at 325. M. Raised:
the market baring been mostly cleated of goods ready for
delivery, there are now no sellers mikes at some &dramas.
Corru.—A cargo of common Rio has been sold, but per-
dealers us not green. On the spot the demand is steady,
but quiet.
TEA is dull of sa:e.

Itru.-120 puncheons of Demerara sold at Is. 10d. for
fair qunlity.
Rtc2.--100 bags of Rangoon sold at Ile 3d.
Faun.—TM market still continues dull.
SALTPETRE—No .des reported.
Cortex.—The •nerket is dull and inactive.
liner.-Bt. Petersburg clam, quiet at 351.
TALLOW MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)

The market is quiet. Town Tallow is quoted 5705.
nett cash ; Petersburg Y. C. on the spot, new, .51t. 9d.;
50s. 9d.: Dec., 51a. ; Jan. to March, llarah„
52t. 6d. to 535.; April to Juno, 525.

SMITHFIELD HAT MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
Meows. Davis and Co. report trade slow at the foam-
ing prix..:—Rime meadow hay, 50s. to 90s. ; superior ditto„
960. to 1004. ; inferior ditto, 555. to 70a ; clover, 44
98.. to Ins. GL ; ditto, slew, second cat, 85.. to 100 a. ;
straw, 30s. to 3tio.

lt ELL:44IIOLT CASE AT E DENBILIDGE. —On Wed-
nesday lest • niarried woman of the name of Jeffery left
her leene to go to her mother's, taking her infant et eiOt
months old in her Arius. She bad passed over the bridge
between Staufurd's-end and Timliwbarn, and appears to
have rested at the Weirs. where the noise and sight of the
running stream seemed to have turuod her giddy, sad
she fell with her babe into the stream. Though weak
from the effects of a long illness, she managed to
get nut without help, and went to the house of
Mn. Hama, at" Broonetes."at which time she was almost
paralysed, and the child was dead in her arms. Mrs. Rem-
mil, with great kindness and energy, set to wort to resters
the mother, and most fortunately succeeded. Had she not
f.dlea iato such good Leads, there is every probability that
in • short time she too would have been a corpse. The in-
fant, a fine gown child, shows plainly on its arms and sides
the marks made by the poor affrighted mother grasping
it to save its life.—.Vaidstone Journal.
A HEIFRIL AFLOAT AT PRTERSFIRLD—OR Friday
afternoon kat a streets object presented itself in the Heath
Pond. a piece of water containing upwards of twenty awes
in extent. It appears that a gallitut sergeant-major of •
rifle corps, who had "mixed in ware alarms," was, is
passing along the road, struck with the singularly of ea
object strange is appearance, in the middle of
this beautiful piece of water, and he therefore called
the atteution of the person in charge of Heath Home,
the mansion of Sir W. U. Jolliffe, to the circumstance.
exclaiming, "What ghost is that r After sonic little time
spent in consultation, with no result, the boat was manned
by the person before alluded to, and who rowed off neon his
adventurous expedition. Upon nearing the object it was
discovered to be a heifer, with its head only above water,
and on reaching her she was taken by the ear, and in this
state, after considerable diffieulty, landed on terra firma
evidently to her great satisfaction. It cannot be aconieted
for why she should have taken this strange freak into her
head, except there being some cattle on the opposite Mk
of this wide expanse of water.—sheers EXpIYM.
EXTRAORDINARY EFRIPT.-011 Thursday evening
last, about twenty minutes to ten o'clock, Mr. and Mrs.
Lake, of Mobil/on. were sitting in their drawiag-roma,
when a bullet was fired through the window, sod broke the
glass of the lamp behind which Mr. Like was sitting, and
extingnished the dame. Mr. Lake immediately promenades
the window, but thevillain had quickly decamped, for nesse
could he eeeu ; upon further examination it was found that a
large mirror was broken, and that the bullet must have
within two or three inches of Mr. Lake's heat
rhereed can he no doubt that the act wan intentional, and a
reward is offered for the discovery of the miscreant y
house stands in close proximity to the high road, mid a
might fire from the road into the drawing-mem.
neaten
eislay add that Mr. Like formerly kept the well-kaessa
lake's Dining Rooms in the nistropolis.—Suseez Repress.
Oltreetg PALACX. ONE SHILLING DAT.
MONDAY, Dee. 16.—Admissions on payment, 573 ; digit
by erases tickets, 566; total visitors, 1,139.
NiZTROPOLITAN FREE HOSPIT/J, DITON3IIIII.
furnar, Ctrl.—Tbe aggregate number of patients Miami
during the week ending December 14 was
1,439 ; surgical, fill—total, 2,013, of which 617 were saw
cases