The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-06 00:00:00

MINCLNG LANE.-(THIS DAY:)

St.an.—The luarket opened without annuatio.n. The
public sales are progreeting.
COMM remains steady.
Corrox.—The demand continues limited.

carg OUrisTecr;;;;W;;;;;llias been sold at
10a. 4}d.
REAL —The market continues dull.
SaLrevrar dull of sale, refraction 8 to 91 sold 345. 6d.
to 34e. 9d.
Tit.—The market continues quiet
Markets generally are dull to-day.
TALLOW MARKET.—(THIS DAT.)
The market is sandy. Tows tallow is quoted 46.. 9d. ;
Petenbarg Y. 0., ea tie spot, 465. ; September, 475.
October to Dee., 475. to 475. 3d. ; Jaavary to Muth, 48e.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
Mean. Davis said Co. report trade at the followiir,
pricey Pi ime meadow bay, 755. to 84. ; superior ditto,
Ws. to 100 a. ; inferior ditto, 36a. to 50a. ; new ditto. 50s.
to 80a ; clover, old, 90e. to 120 s. ; straw, 30s. to 40a.

°MUT FIRES.-(THIS DAY.)
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This (Tuesday) morning about 7 o'clock a
destructive lire broke out in the Temporaries coffee-house
and assembly rooms belongiog to Mr. Blackwell, situate in
Bunhill-row, St. Luke's. The engines were quickly at
work ; but in spite of the axertionsof the firemen, the whole
of the front was destroyed, and the lecture hell was seriously
damaged. The inmates had a narrow swaps, being obliged
to mount the rod, whence they were taken down a ladder
by the Royal Society's escape conductors and the neighbours.
The loss will fall upon the Royal Fire-office.
Another fire troke out in the premises of Mesas. Sullivan
and Mills, lb, Great Pearl-street, Spitelfields, sod was
&Heeded with serious consequences to some of the firemen.
The Farringdon.street Brigade engine was following others
of the establishment, when, on turning out of Sun-street,
the horses fell, and the ponderous machine toppled over,
throwing the firemen upon the ground. Some escaped with
a few ',iruises, but one of the men, named George Cola, fell
under the engine, the whole weight of which, 26 out, rested
upon his abdomen. He was rescued as soon as pos-
sible, and taken to the hospital, where he remains in
a very precarious condition. The fire spread with fear-
ful progress to the lack workshops, nearly forty feet
long, which soon presented a regular blaze, the light
of the fire being visible over the whole of the eastern
portion of the metropolis. The fire was eventually
extinguished, hut not before the second floor was burned
out, the roof off, and the silvering room under severely da-
maged by water. Fortunately the sufferers were insured in
the Phenix Fire-office.

TAOCth;rfire happened oo the premiss' of Mr. Jobs
Batumi, artist in designs, No. 8, George-street, Perlman-
square, and was not extinguished until a serious amount of
mischief was done. The contents were insured in the Liver-
pool and Loudon Pim-offices.
Another destructive fire happened in the premises tamed
the White Post, Hackney-wish, belonging to Mann. G.
Spill and Co., waterproof manufacturer'. The fireman
were unable to extinguish the flames until a building
fifty feet long was, together with its contents, con-
Burned. Unfattutately the Deforms were uninsured.

ANOTRZR Fiat ix LITZRPOOL.—A fire, entailing
an estimated loss of between 12,000 f. and 14,0001., occurred
on Saturday night in a stack of warehouses situated in
Upper Wilham-street, oty Great Reward-street, Liverpool,
and close to the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway. The
warehouse in which the fire broke out was stored with
grain, cotton, and various kinds of produce, tbotryb cotton
was the only article which suffered to a great extent. The
origin of the fire is unknown, but it was first discovered in
the top floor, which was stored with cotton belonging to
Mears. Shand, Higuon and Co. To this portion of the
building, owing to the promptitude of the fire police, the
destruction was confined, else the damage would have been
far more serious. The property. is insured. The following
Liverpool firms bed property in the building :—Brears.
Shand, Biwa and Co.; brough and Co.. Adamson
and Co.
well and; Rathboot, Brethren, and Co. ; and Maim Max.

itoWllll4 COWED.—Within the last ten years
there have been coined at the Miat 4011,848 sivereigne,
14,416,569 half-mvereigns, 466 crowns, 1,493 halfmrowas„
15,633,372 florins, 2.1,025,506 shillings, 21,735,183dxpa5em,
1,N0,874 groats, 41,580 fuurpenoes, 13,606,101 throwers's,
47,520 silver twopences, and 78,408 silver peon, The
° and bronze muoey coined bas been 23; ,384 peewee,
361n„421 hallpeme, 22,456,276 farthings, and 3,536,776
half-farthinp
"How NOT TO Do IT."—The chronology of as
ansmaceishil bill is worth recording as a memorrl of the
snake aid a specimen of the way in which the Roan of
Commas will keep touching a bill without ever really
handling it. If we take as our instance the Trade Marks
Bill of the late Lord Chancellor, we find it passing the
Lords early in the session, reed a first time in the Coin-
moos on the 16th of March, and after two postponements,
read a second time on the 15th of April. TM 22nd was
sondnted for going into oommittee 'woe it. Whin it was
called on apes' the nod it was put off to the 29th ; on the
29th to the god of May, as the god of May to the 13th, on
the 13th to the 16th, as the 16th to the 27th, on the 27th to
the 3rd of June, on the ard of Jane to the 10th, on the
10th to the 17th, ea the 17th to the 24th, on the 24th to
the 25th, on the 25th to the let of July, os the Ist of July
to the Bth, on the Bth to the 15th, °tithe 15th to the 16th,
On the 16th to the 18th, and oa the 18th, instead of being
an 16th time put off, it wee put out of Se misery by being
withdrawn. Any member who attended to oppose &donee is
that bill must have had a pleasant two months of it. Seven
times, when the bill was postponed for several days, there
ow. either no house made on the next night or the house
was counted out.

IMPROVEMENT IN STREET LIGHTING. It hag
been ascertained that by placing near the flame of ordinary
pa burners a receptacle containing coal naphtha, the bnl-
Haney of the light is much increased. An invention based,
upon thin principle is already the subject of a patent vested
in a public company. The patentees state that by the use
of their process a saving of one•half may be made in the es•
pew, of lighting by gas. To test the accuracy of this weer-
tiers, experiments have just been made in London, under
the authority of the Commissioners of Sewers. hfoorgate-
street was selected for the trial, there being in it few shops,
and only one or two private lamps. The lamps erpen-
mented upon were 12 In number, six upon the western side,
fitted in the ordinary way with burners, and consuming
upon the average five cubic feet of gas an hour, and six upon
the eastern side, fitted with burners having attached to
them the apparatus of the patentees, and consuming two
and a half cubic feet an hoar. The experiment ex•
tended over 30 nights. The burners without the appa-
ratus consumed about 419 cubic feet per hour; while
the burners with the apparatus consume& only 209 cubic
feat per hoer. The district inspector of the commission,
who MVP the lamps nightly, reported his opinion that
the light given was perfectly equ.d, an opinion in which he
is supported by residents of the neigbourhood. Mr. Hey-
wood, the engineer of the commission, who principally con-
ducted the experiments, is, however, inclined to think that
the lights are not quite equal in intensity. He states
that three cubic feet of gas, carberetted by means of the
naphtha, ars equal to five cubic feet of gas not carburetted.
Oa this assumption be shows that by the adoption of the
sew propos. the reduction of the cost of each lamp a year
would be 20a., and that there being 2,823 lamps in the city,
as annual saving of 2,8254 might be effected.