The Express.
London, England, 1857-06-18 00:00:00

COMMRRCIAL AND MARKETS

MINCING-LANE.—THIS DAT.
@VOLS.—The market is
have
for both tow and refined '
eugar. •Of the former Wes have been made et *boot 2e.
under lest Friday'. wade, and buyers of the latter are die-
inclined to operate at previous priced, the transactions in both
being very limited.
Corers obtains full snd, in some oases,
_firmer rates.
Oood ordinary native Ceylon is worth 665. to Me. dd.
Tat.—Then is lees demand for common warm, but •
good businces doing in hyeou and black leaf coupes.
ffe.w.—.Demerant has been sold oft lower tense.
BALTPETRIL—The market is doll. Sams males of 11 pee
cent. tension= have been made Weakly et 87s. 6d. to 38s.
per cwt., and the parcels offered to-day,via., 3,600 bags, were
mostly bought in; refraction, 3to 41 sold at 40s. to 40s. 61. ;
refisctiorall at 375. 6d. to 36e.
Juts twinge full prima, 271. being paid for fine.
Corron.-600 bells have been said at steady rates.
Auer.-10,000 hags Bengal were offered and chielly:
bought is at 10s. to tea. 6d.; • portion sold at 10s. 6d. to
13.. The merkot is very quiet, and by private centraot few
and unimportant transactions took place.

TALLOW MARKET.—THTS DAT.
Maniastat is stoody to-day, at the following quotations,
via c.--Tows Tallms, 665. 6d. sett cosh; Potosolterg
ou dos spot, ; June, 600. • July to star, 6tio.
to 57i. 6d.; OcAlbor to Dooltator,

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET..—THIS DAT.
Kr. E. J. Davis reports a abort supply, but very
little demand. Prim. meadow ' hay, 65a. to 72a.; .
sweet ditto. 76e. to dd. ; loketor ditto, 60a. to v
SOL ; mw ditto, 600. to 70e. ; rowels, 60a. to We.; ,
clover, old, 80a. to 105 e. : @woad etd,7oe. WOOL ; mew, 60.. 't
to 76e. ; straw, Ele. to 30..

NORTE OP PUROPB BTNAM ZUVIOATIOK
COMPANY 07118 DAT).

This afternoon a special general meeting at
the above company was held at the London Tavern, for
the purpose of remising the report of the cortraittee al eon.
imitation appointed at the annual general meeting In Karel /
last. The chair was occupied by Sir fi. M. Faro, Bert., end el
,the 'Modena was noinereim but owing to the lots
hoar at which the proceedings were opened, we an do no
more than announce that at the time oar
left the meeting bad been formed, and appeared Illisty tree=
the whale afternoon. The substance of the repast has
already been published in our columns.

SOCIETY FOR THE PROPAGATION OP TUE GORPEL.
—This afternoon the annual general meeting of the friend,
and supporters of the Society for the Propagation of the
Gimped in Foreign Parte was held ln the Egyptian/ hall, •
Masionthonee ; the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor presiding.
The attendance was numerous and fashionable, and it was
understood that the Lord Bishops of London and Oxford
were to take pert in the proceedings.
DEATH Oft Mies ANNA (117/1111Elf. Mile Anna
Gurney, • member of the well•known Gurney family, and •
lad yof some little rote in the literary and scientific world '
died e few days sine at the residence of her brother, Mr.
Hudson Gurney, at Keswick, near Norwich, Mies Gurney
published au excellent truncation of the Samos CAroniels,
and. living at Northrepps, near the coast, she took a lively •
intense in inventions for timing the lives of shipwrecked
mariners. To promote the latter object she had • gas ma-
nufactured at her own expense to fire off a Ilse to a storm-
tamed wreck. Mils Gurney at the time of her death was
slily-one years of age.
lIE ATLANTIC TELEORAP/L—The nitersticns in
the United States corvette Niagara, Captain Iftideon, will
be comp'sted on Satnrdey, on which day she is reported to
I eve Portsmouth for Liverpool, to ship her tureen of
the great Atlantic Telegraph cable. Six cabins, • por-
tion of the temmee. and • portion of the regimen•
department, the hulkheads of which have been taken
down, ham been tbr.twn into the area required. There
is a circle in the wardroom, occupying twonhirds e it at
least, which has been enclosed and plinked almost to the
hews. There is a flooring also on the deck, and this will,
bra ,OV,.red with sheet lead, end be laid with about 500 mile(
of cable. The stanchions ender the beanie are secured by
iron trusses; the fore-hold is also undergoing the like alters-
non, and one of the coal-bunker, in the fore-bold bats been
knocked away to give adeitimial room, temporary banker,
having hem made—one on each side en the mats deck. A
guard is being mode to cover the propeller and protect it
from fouling or being fouled by the atble. Captain Hudson
and Lieut./neat C. li. Wells were entertained by Rear-Ad-
a/Iml Superintendent Martin at dinner in Portsmouth dock-
yard on Tuesday evening.
ERECTION OF A MONASTERY.—The Benedictine
Order are about to erect a moesitery at Belmont, near Here-
row, en a seta unknown in England a nee the Reformation.
Mr. Welby Pugin bas advertised for tenders for the work.
A handsome catholic church has oleo recently been built at
Belmont, at the into expellee of F. 11. Wegg Prosser, Esq.,
formerly a mentber for Herefordshire, and whoa few years
since tolceded from the Church of England.—Chettereiest
Errootener.
TERRIFICTRUNDERSTORM.—InEiIdowen'eareum.
GoryJamenel of yesterday, we reed—" Last evening a terrifies
thunder stony swept over this town. The that clap wee
heard about al: o'clock, and thesecond, which followed eau at
immediately, resembled the sudden discharge of a park of
heavy artillery, and was succeeded by several others almost
en loud. By a quarter to seven she storm was over, bat.*
hate unfortunately, left its mementos behind. The sale
tower of St. Chad's narrowly escaped, the figure vi. upon
the clock being totally obliterated, and the Mom beneath
chipped ,dr. The beautiful and but recently completed
chapel of the cemetery did not two fortunately escape. The
electric fluid struck the 'mire of the chalet, bending the vane
and feting the gilding off, then passing the solid etenework,
glanced down to the first turret window, where it entered the
Monewerk, splitting it down to the tower, a &trance of about
70 feet. It is bele/v.4 thin eau be rr paired at a moderate cost,
and that the spire will not have to be taken Cern. A person
',using at the time, with a basket of teas on his back,
steeped the electric fluid by • miracle. he being, to use hie
own words, s enveloped in aUm of lightning.' This is the
emend Onto the cemetery has been injured by lightning, •
storm about am/nth ego having split a torte tree, the/Ong a
large piece of bark a distance of 30 feet. We trust the storm
has done no further Menage."
NETLEY HOSPITAL.—SOUTHAMPTON, WEDNES-
PAT.—In consequence of the debate in the Helm d
Commons on Teri/ley. the oth reepectioe the site et
Netl, Hospital and the alleged unhealthinen of Its realm,
the Medical Society of Southampton held a preliminary
meeting late amnia, to adopt measures for counteracting the
mischlevoue tendency of such a statement, so much at
variance with the selArity of the neighbourhood, the nature
of the moil upon which the hospital is to be erected, end the
health of the 10h/detente. Dr. Oke occupied the chair, and
the following resolution was unanimowdy adopted, and for-
warded to John White, Esq , the mayor te—e The Medical
Society of Southampton having born requested by the
to mate a report on the 'Warily of Southampton end its
neighbourhood, with special reference to tle site of Netley
Hospital, agree unanimously that the public elatements in re-
ference toile unhealthiness are entirely oppierel to their saps-
rience, and that ague and other forma of melariceut disease
eta unknown in the. district, excepting when imported. They
affirm further, en the authority of Mr. Cooper, the officer of
health, borne out by their own obeersetiono, that the mar-
' tatty of Southampton and its neighbourbotel ie below the
t average of other towns of equal population and extent." A
gamed meeting of the medical preferaion of the town end
neflrlEtbnurttond will be held at the Audit-house to-morrow
evening, at the request of the mayor, to take into eonsiders-
lolkthe unfounded public otatemeste teepee/Mg the site of
Baler HospitaL A meeting of the town council is raped for
Monday next to receive the report of the medical profession.