The Express. — 1868-08-22 (London, England)

MINES.-(THIN DAY.)  --+-  ONE O'CLOOE.  The Stock Exchange is closedto-daTiind no business is, therefore, going forward in mining shame.  The subjoined report on the metal market is from Messrs. von Dodds:en and North : The market remains "Inactive, and motel., without exoeon, show no change of importance sinoe our last circular. bon—The accounts from Wales and Staffordshire are cheering, and prices well maintained. Scotch pig iron continnes steady at 625. 71d. cash. Copper— English raw, from second hands. is still unsettled. Manufactured remains at 78/. A moderate amount of business has been done in Wallaroo up to 7W. 10s. cash and 801., with some prompt, at which there are now sellers. Burrs is obtainable at the mme price. Chili bars, after having touched 681. 10s., have become Eat again, with sellers al 681. Tin—Straits has kept its position at 931. ea* ; 931. 10s. asked to arrive. Banes. nominally 941. to 941. 10s. English tin is steady. In Holland the market is quiet at 54}f. to Tin plates in moderate demand at late rates. Lead is quiet ; good soft English, 181. 16e. ; L. 8., 191. Specter—Common brands in London have realised 201. 2e. &I. ; outposts, they are obtainable at 191. 158. ; specials, 20/. 7s. 6d. ; V. and S., nominally 201.  Great Wheal Vor United Mines sold on the 19th instant 53 tons 9 cwt. 0 qrs. 191bs. of black tin for 2,9931. 10s. ld.  An inhabitant of Berlin lately. during the great heat, experimented on the hatching of hens' eggs in sand. On the 22nd July he placed six in • cigar but filled with that material, and exposed the case to the eon on that and the following days. The first chick broke the shell on the 9th of August, the second on the 10th, the third and fourth on the 11th, and the other two on the following day. They are all going on well, being fed on boiled eggs cut up small and mixed with millet. The average period of hatching chickens is twenty-one days ; in the pr Bent case the first was produced in nineteen. The heat has been intense at Madrid this summer, and on Saturday last the thermometer stood at 39 deg. in the shade (102 1-5 Fahren.). The Ebro is described as almost dried up, and the small thread of water in it is so infected with earthy matter es to be unfit for use.  After a long drought rain has become general all over France, and especially in the South, ands now falling at Toulouse, Valence, and at Grenoble. "In the neighbourhood of Lyons," says the Saha Pu " the wet, which Ix*" CoPIC qp at lag) continues 4E lw;CrTala t. the great satisfaction of the farmers, who were complain• ing of the great heat and dry weather. The vines were losing their leaves on some hill sides, and the grapes were being burnt up by the sun. The present change will not repair the berm that has been done, but it will prevent a further extension. The moisture is softening the skins of the fruit, and is favouring their ripening, which is already advanced."  A boy 13 years of age has just committed suicide by hanging himeeLf at Deurne, in Belgium, because his father bad punished him for some trifling fault.  DEATH or LADY Bp. .—The announcement of the death of Lady Brand, the wife of the venerable Speaker of.the House of Assembly, will be received with deep regret wherever it is made. The deceased lady has been for the past two or three weeks in ap•said, date of health, having suffered from two M.. of apoplexy, but so early. a termination of her sufferings was by no means anticipated. On Monday evening her ladyship became much worse, and expired shortly after the return of Sir Chrktopher Brand from the House of Assembly. On Tuesday the house met, and adjourned until Thursday, and yesterday the remains of her ladyship were earned to the grave, followed by a large number of sorrowing friends and relatives.—Cape Arrirs,Jyul 9.  CAMBEIDGENIEBB Meters. Young and Brand, the liberal candidates for the Mhos of the county, arrived yesterday evening at Übe& by the 7.20 tram from Cambridge, and ware met at the station by a large assemblage of the inhabitants. A Iwo. cession woe formed, which, headed by a band of music, accosepaeSed the candidates' carriage into tho town. Both gentlemen addressed the elertoen Their reception was most enthusiastic.  3