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EXTBAOBDINAhY AND FEARFUL MaILWAY ACGIDBNT. A fearful accident happened on the Lancaster and Carlisle Railway shortly before midnight on Tuesday night, near Yanwath.bridge. It appears that as a goods train from the south was passing Yanwath- bridge, the axle of one of the tracks about the middle of the train broke, and threw several carriages off the metals and upon the up line. Among those was a powder van, made of iron, and of cylindrical form, bolted, b&rred, and locked, and containing, it is said, about five tons of powder. Almost immediately after. wards another goods train arrived at the scene of the accident from Carlisle, and consequently upon the other line of rails; and coming alpng at fall speed, dashed into the vans upon the up line, smashing among others the gunpowder van. The powder immediately ignited, and a fearful explosion took place. The engine and tender of the train from Carlisle were driven into one another with a fearful crash, the engine driver and stoker were killed, having been blown into the adja. oent fields frightfully mangled, and the other wagons of the train were many of them shattered to pieces. One effect of the explosion was to set fire to the train, which was Boon all ablaze; and the fire continued its ravages until the whole of the woodwork of the wagons was burnt, and nothing left but the parta which were of iron, and these were twisted and torn in a very remarkable manner. The engine-man and fireman of the down train were uninjured.

THE FEMALE BARMAN. At the Central Criminal Court, on Tuesday, Mary Walker, 22, a very maaonline-looking girl, who was dressed in the female convict garb, and who was de- scribed as a spinster, pleaded guilty to two indictments charging her with embezzling various sums of money belonging to Charles Edwards, her master. Mr. Straight said he was instructed to prosecute in this case, which was one of a somewhat remarkable character, inasmuch as at the time the offence was committed the prisoner dressed as a man, and was considered to be of the male sex. He was instructed to state thia fact to the Court, but the prosecutor had no desire to press the case harshly against the prisoner. Mr. Cooper, who appeared for the prisoner, said that she had pleaded guilty of her own accord, and without any suggestion on his part that she should do so, and she was most anxious to express her regret for the offence she had committed. He had to urge on her behalf that she was the member of a very respectable family, and her father formerly kept a large inn and posting-house in the country, but he had become re- duced, and at his death the family found them selves in very reduced circumstances, and the prisoner was com- pelled to oome to London to seek for employment, by which she could obtain a livelihood. She found, ho wever, that in her real character as a woman almost every avenue toemploymentwaa closed against her, and by the advice of a friend she assumed tbe garb of a man, and endeavoured to obtain employment as one of the male sex. According to his instructions, she had worked hard at the docks and other places, and had exerted herself in every possible way to obtain an honest liveli- hood, and she obtained a situation with the prosecutor as errand boy and porter, and for two years she conducted lierself perfectly well. and no complaint was made against her. Mr. Streight said that the prosecutor instructed him to state that this was the faot. Mr. Cooper then went on to state that the prisoner had unfortunately got mixed up with some loan office, and being pressed, she had appropriated some of her master's money, but she assured him that she never intended to defraud her master, and that her intention was to repay him. The Common Serjeant deferred passing sentence, and the prisoner, who seemed to feel her position, was removed from the bar.

GREAT BULLION BOBBERY. On Wednesday the news of a great robbery of bullion, the property of the Baron Rothschild-dom. mitted under very extraordinary circumstances during the previous night, on board the Waterloo steamer, lying in the Thames—excited considerable attention among commercial interests in the City. The steamer had been taking in cargo, and was in charge of the chief mate. The moment the bullion boat came up he saw to the shipment of the cases. They were hauled UD by the vessel's ERASE, two at a time, ana lowered into the forehold. The representative of Messrs. Rothschild reoeived from the chief mate a receipt of their safe delivery on board and left, lhe chief mate went into the hold with the boatswain, and saw them securely stowed away. The hatches were then put on and fastened by iron bars; these were seoured with a padlock, looked by the chief mate, who kept possession of the key. During the whole of Tuesday night and Wednes- day morning there were two persona on deck keeping watch, and if their statements are to be relied on, they never quitted the deok for a moment; and yet, by some unaooountable means, two of the cases of bullion were abstracted from the hold, and the thieves got clear off with their booty. The robbery was not dis- covered till six o'clock on Wednesday morning, when the chief mate unlocked the padlocks and removed the hars for the men to remove the hatches. It was then seen that the cargo had been disturbed during the nicht and upon the mate counting the bullion cases two were found to be gone. The cases contained bars of silver, and their value ia estimated at upwards of 22,000 The Waterloo proceeded on Thursday morning on her voyage to Rotterdam. One of the crew remained to give evidenoe on the subject of the robbery, and the chief mate, Mr. Richardson. These witnesses told what story they had to unfold on Thursday before the directors of the General Steam Navigation Company, from which the following appears to be the circum- stances of the case. The Waterloo was lying off the Tower alongside the Harpy, revenue ontter; and there were also several ligniera discharging freight on board the steamer. The chief mate saw that the twelve oases were all lowered into the forehold of the steamer without even touching the deok, they being lifted from the lugger by the steam crane on board the Waterloo, and counted them in the hold, for his perfect satisfaction, before giving the receipt, and that the boatswain who was with him counted them too. This was about five o'clock on Tuesday afternoon, and the loading of the vessel continued without intermission till six, when the crew knocked off for half an-hour to get their tea. It has been suggested that during this half hour a small party of "lumpers," engaged in stowing away cargo in different parts of the steamer, may have taken advantage of the absence of the crew to abstraot the two oases; but against this supposi- tion are two or three arguments which tend to clear the suspected "lumpers" from all charge of oom- plicity in the theft. They were all found at work on the return of the mate and crew to deok at half-past six; and, moreover, one of the sailors, a Dutchman, named Walsh, went down into the forehold with a lantern, aooompasied by one of the "lumpers" to resume the work of stowage; and he again saw and counted the oases, and found them all right. A little after nine o'clock, when the crew had nearly brought the work of stowage to an end, a large bale of merchandise was placed in front of the bullion oases, which, up to that time, had remained undisturbed. The theory maintained by the chief mate is, that the two cases were certainly purloined after the fastening down of the hatches, barred and looked though they were. He does not seem to have re- tained the key in his own possession, but to have hung it up in his berth, which he afterwards looked before going ashore to sleep. When he came on board next morning he found the key of the padlock still hanging where he had left it; but the cabin door was fastened only by an ordinary cheap lock, and might have been opened by any common key of a corresponding size. The Dutchman above mentioned kept on deck, and appears never to have left the deok, but he may never- theless have slept there very easily, for he had beon hard at work all day, and was in no condition for keeping a vigilant look-out. He, however, made the first discovery of the loss, for as soon as the hatches were removed he saw that the bale of merchandise placed in front of the cases of bullion had been shifted, disclosing the empty space which bad been filled by the two oases that were missing. After nine o'olook one of the crew coiled up the guy ropes attached to the crane on board, and eo left them on deok. The guy ropes are never used for hoisting goods up from the hold; but on Wednesday morning one of them was found uncoiled, and at one part there was a kink, showing that there bad been a heavy strain on it, such as would occur in lifting the bullion oases out of the hold. Besides, the rope is besmeared with now paint, and on examining the inner framework of the hatch, which has been newly painted, there are the marks of the paint having been rubbed off by the rope being drawn up against it. Another noteworthy fact is the disappearance of the empty lighter which had been left alongside the Waterloo for the night, and which was missing at daybreak. Some clue to the secret of this bold and skilful piece of nefarious enterprise has been found. The chief mate of the Waterloo, William Richardson, was again interrogated on Friday by the directors of the General Steam Navigation Company, at their offices in Lombard-street; and he then disclosed his reasons for suspecting a lighterman as having borne a hand in the robbery. Only two men belonging to the Waterloo were detained when the vessel left the pool on Wed. nesday morning. These were the chief mate, already mentioned, and the Dutch sailor who kept watoh, or was supposed to keep watch, during Tuesday night, on deok. The surname of Walsh" not very often met with in Holland-waii stated to be that of the seaman in question, whose true names, proper and common, are thus written, Laurense Olyehooke. It is scarcely questioned that this man, assuming him to be, clear of the plot, must have slept during the night; though we are now informed, on the authority of the ohief mate, that three Custom- house officers were also on deok throughout the hours in which the daring soheme of plunder was so successfully accomplished. The missing barge was found early on Friday morn- ing, above bridge. Beyond the mere circumstance of the booty having weighed more than two, or even three, men eould well have managed to remove, there are appearances which induoe the belief that a party of at least six in number was engaged in the felonious operations. -as

MAKING THINGS COMFORTABLE. Four wretched. looking- youths, from 18 to 20 years i of age, named Robert Parker, John Williams, John Jackson, and Isaac Bentley, were charged at Bow. street, on Saturday, with being in an archway forming part of the premises of the South-Eastern Railway, supposed for an unlawful purpose." Mr. Richardson, the station-master at the Charing- cross Station, said that for some time past there had been complaints from the inhabitants of Brewer's- lane of idle persons frequenting the arohes abutting on that thoroughfare, and forming a portion of the structure of the Charing-cross terminus and rail way. He went down to the place on Friday evening, and found the four prisoners in one of the arches. They had made themselves very comfortable. They had laid a quantity of timber down to form s. flooring, and had lighted a great fire in a sort of portable grute, called a devil, used by the workmen when fires are required for their work. They had collected a quantity of coals,and coke. The aroh was one of those used for storing timber, of which there was about 100 tons. The prisoners had made use of the timber to board the floor and close up the entrance. They had evidently been established there a considerable time, having even ornamented the walls with pictures. The inhabitants bad been much alarmed lest the timber should be set on fire, which would probably lead to the burning of the opposite houses, as the lane was very narrow at that part In December last an adjoining office was brsken into and some money stolen from a desk. The arohes", are en- closed by a fence seven feet high, over which the prisoners must have climbed to get in. Mr. Flowers: I don't know that you have done any- thing very bad, but, of course, the lighting a fire is dangerous. You know the place belongs to somebody else, and they have a right to prevent you from being there. Parker said he pa.id a penny to a stout man, with a billycock, for coke. It was the first night he had been there. He had walked from Uxbridge that morning, and was much fatigued. He coald not get a lodging, and was glad to get in anywhere out of the cold. Williams said he had only paid one halfpenny, but he had slept there two nights. Jackson also said he had no money to pay for a lodging. Mr. Flowers said it was quite clear that whoever took money from these people to allow them to sleep in the aroh had no right to do so. Mr. Richardson said somebody was making a harvest. He wished he could catch that person, and bring him up, instead of the boys. He understood In that the fellow had threatened the lives of the in- habitants if they interfered. Mr. Flowers would discharge the prisoners, but they must not go there again. He was afraid, however, that they had nowhere to go. Mr. Richardson said the company only wanted to get rid of them because of the anneyanoetothe neigh. bours and the danger. Parker, who is a cripple, said he was a shoe-riveter, and belonged to Leicester. Mr. Flowers offered him an order for the work- house, which he declined, preferring to walk back to Leicester. Mr. Flowers gave him 2s. 6d. from the poor-box to help him on his way. To persons who have a love of the drama, there cannot be a more interesting work than the Dramatic Almanac," brought out by Mr. J. W. Anson, .+ To persons who have a love of the drama, there cannot be a more interesting work than the Dramatic Almanac," brought out by Mr. J. W. Anson, secretary to the Royal Dramatic College. It bas_a chronological table of eventB, extending over 2,300 -,ears, besides other matters of interest, both general and dramatic. The profits arising from the sale of, this work is given to the Dramatic Sick Fund, and is especially given to bury the deceased members of the profession, who have never been able to join the society, and have died in a friendless and destitute condition.

OUR "CITY" ARTICLE. A THE state of trade and general financial affairs has been rather unsettled latterly through the prospects of politics, and it has yet to be ascer- tained whether the future course of business is to be satisfactory or otherwise. According to the season of the year, having now advanced con- siderably into the spring, there should be a move- ment in the favourable direction, and the con- dition of the money market, which, with other auxiliary circumstances, must eventually produce an effect upon the current of trading operations in general. It will be necessary now, to enable activity to be resumed, to see greater animation in the provinces, and with the rate of discount another half per cent. lower, and incl e-t.Bed supplies of capital from Australia and America, the tendency cannot fail to be encouraging. Trade has now so long been sluggish, and the channels for the employment of capital so circumscribed, that almost every one feels a change is at hand. The twe elements of success in the shape of revival exist in an abundant degree-first, the perfect plethora of capital; and secondly, the want of animation in business. Let one work upon the other as it must, before a month has passed ever our heads, and we shall appreciate the consequences through increased prosperity and more expanded mercantile relations. The £ 250,000 Ceylon Six per Cent. Debentures ought to be taken at the price of 108. They are a good security, with a sinking fund, and the appli- cations will, there is reason to believe, be numerous. Already £350,000 has been placed, and this amount will make £600,000 nut of the £1,000,000 to be raised. The money is required for railway purposes, for the construction of a line from Colombo to Kandy, a distance of 75 miles, a considerable portion of which is already complete. The cost ot finishing and stocking the undertaking is not expected to exceed ZI,285,000, of which the .um of £585,000 has been contributed out of the public revenue; £ 350,000 has already been raised on debentures, and the remaining £350,000, including the present instalment now offered will be pro- vided in a similar manner. Tne revenue of the colony has gradually increased from £ 478,000 in 1855 to Y,1,000,000 in 1866, whilst the annual ex- penditure has been invariably and considerably below the receipt throughout that period. The market for colonial securities has been greatly flooded of late, but this is an exceptional issue, and its character will command subscriptions. Little change can be noted in the money markets. of Europe, the quietude of trade and the absence of active speculation reducing the demands for loans and discounts to a minimum degree. There was reason to assume that with the success of the appearance of the Chilian and Danubian Loans, a fancied channel for investments had been op-ned, but eo sensitive is the pulse of the public in manipulating the vast resources at their command, that even the breath of a suspicion regarding the security of Chili, sent both the financial scrips to a heavy discount, and not only stayed other similar projects, but likewise interfered by causing dulness in the progress of affairs at the Stock Exchange. The returns of the Banks of England and France show a continuance of accumulation, indicating contracted enterprise, commercial and otherwise, yet it may be con- sidered anomalous when statistics show an increase of business. The Board of Trade returns which appeared on Saturday, for example, exhibit an increase in our imports and exports of mer- chandise; also a larger amount of tonnage employed in the foreign commerce of the country, and likewise in our coasting business. Yet, as already observed, there is continued ease in the Money Market, and those interested in the subject are waiting to see what new fashion will spring up and give vent to the prevailing excess of unemployed capital. Meanwhile, the rates for the best bills are as low as 2 to 2| per cent., and 4 in the Stock Exchange loans on Q- ■ vera ment secu- rities have been negotiable at 2 per cent. and lower. On Saturday there was a little more demand, on account of the settlement of the account in foreign bonds and shares of all kinds being in course of completion. Everyday seems to bring forth some new de- « mand from foreign countries for loans, which accounts for the very low prices of all foreign se- curities. The public, however, do not seem eager to subscribe, nor will they until the enormous armaments of all countries are reduced. We wish our readers to bear this fact steadily in mind, for unless these enormous armaments cease those who indulge them are on the high road to bankruptcy and if the public steadily refrain from subscribing they will be obliged to look their yearly increasing financial deficits in the face. A very important opinion has been given by Sir R. P. Collier, the late Attorney-General, as to whether or not merchants and others, on being sued in England by the Government of the United States for property or money held by them at the termination of the war belonging to the Southern States may not successfully plead the Confederate Seven per Cent. Cotton Bonds, contracted for in this country by,Erlanger and Co. and J. and S. Schroeder and Co. as a set-off to the extent of the amount that each defendant may hold of them. Sir R. P. Collier is of opinion tha.t they can, on the ground that this counter-claim will be founded on the principle, that if the United States Govern- ment assert in our courts claims accruing to them through their succession to the property and rights of the late Confederate Government they are bound by the liabilities of that Government. On the strength of this opinion Confederate Cotton Bonds have risen II per cent. The following summary of Australian news is extracted from S, W. Silver and CO.'H Circular, published at their offices, 3 and 4, Bishopsgate Within, London:— YICTOBXA.-A much more healthy tone prevails in com- mercial circles. An abundant harvest, but great difficulty experienced in obtaining hands for reaping, even at the ^NEW SOUTH WALES.—A gradual improvement in trade. Wool clip excellent in quality and quantity. Gold received Sydney mint this year to November, The news from the pastoral districts very stock in good condition, and feed and water aburidant. area is cleared every year, imp" -m mi to to 22nd £ 2,5)4,621; exports, £ 1,840,464. i! Lour, Mito QUEENSLAND.—1Trade slowly recovering. BAM had fallen for several days, and both agricultural and pastoral pros- pects were improved, Excellent account? fr-m the cotton and sugar plantations the cotton crop m the neighbour- hood of Ipswich alone will, it is said, exceed 1,000 bales. A new gold field reported at Port Mackay. WESTERN AusTRAHA.-Harvest completed, and the yield the largest known. Wheat grown almost to the exclusion of other corn, and it is stated 60 bushels to the acre was not an uncommon yield. TASMANIA. — An improvement M trade reported, but a want of confidence still prevailed. There had been a super- abundance of rain, which, while it retarded agricultural pursuits and shearing, proved beneficial to the crops and feed. NEW ZEALAND.—Business quiet. Wool clip above the average, and quality improved. A rush has taken place to the newly-discovered diggings near BuHe- River. The yield of gold on West Coast still on the increase, and discoveries of new diggings continue. CAPE COLONY.—Cape Town.—Weather intensely hot. Port Elizabeth.- Business^ quiet. Money abundant; imports, quarter ending 31st December, £ 324,156, showing an in- crease of £ 159,538 on corresponding quarter of previous vear; exports, £ 414,389, or £ 89,900 increase on like period NATAL,—The first public wool show mas held in this colony at Maritzburg on 25th December. It was; a decided ) success; 64 bales entered for competition. Copper ore discovered at Griqualand. Government has opened a I registry of private lands for sale or lease. Sheep farming I rapidly on tiie increase. The settlement of the unoccupied 'lands is progressing..

gtoto attfc (tountrd gftarktte; Money Market. CITY, MARCH 5.—The stock markets remain quiet, with little business. There is no new feature in the discount market, the demand for money being fair, and tbe oharge for the best paper 2| to 1 per cent. Consols are now quoted 91 to i both for money and the next Thursday's settlement, and 911 to i for the April account. The tendency of the railway market is better. Metropoli- tan stock is now quoted 122t to i. ex div.; Great Western, 4lt to i; London and North-Western, 119 to ?, ex aiv.; Midland, 118| tof, ex div. and n.; Lancashire and York- shire, 126J to i, ex div.; Caledonian, 116 to 11?; South- Eastern, 68§ to £ Great Eastern. 30| to f; Great Northern, 116 to 117, ex div.; ditto A, 123 to I, ex div.; London, Chatham, and Dover, 18 to t; and Nor! British, M! to 35t, BAKE OP ENGLAND.—An Account, pursuant to the Act 7 and 8 Vict., cap. 32, for the week ending on Wednes- day, February 27, 1867. ISStTE DBPAETMEKT. Notes issued £ 33,406,285 Government debt £ 11,015,100 Other securities. 3,98^,900 Gold coin & bullion 18,406,285 Silver bullion — ¡Other £ 33,406.285 £ 33,406,285 BAlO IUJiO DEPARTMEirr. Proprietors'eapit'l £ 14,553,000, Governmentsecu. Rest 3 54"> 921 rities (inc. dead Public Deposits 6,734 959; weight annuity) £ 18,111,068 Other Dei osits 17,847,021 Other Securities 18,045,819 Seven <lays and [Notes 11,030,450 other bills 490,463 Gold & silver coin 98,4,027 £ 43,171,364; £ 43,328,364 February 28, 1867. F. MAY, Deputy Cashier. The Corn Trade. MABK-LANE, MARCH 4.—The quantity of English Wheat on sale here to-day was very moderate, but in improved condition. For both red and white parcels there was a fair demand. The traneactioos in foreign Wheat were slightly on the increase. The supply of home-grown Barley was rather limited-of foreign rather extensive. Malt moved off slowly. The supply was tolerably good. There was only a limited sale for Oats. Beans were in moderate supply. Grey Peas were steady. The sale for both English and foreign Flour was rather heavy. COBKBNT PMCNS.—ENaUSH. Per Qr. Per Qr., WHEAT. S. S. OATS. B. B; Esx.,Knt.,rd., old 60 to 64 Scotch, feed 24 to 30 „ new 54 to 62 Scotch potato 29 to 35 Esx., Knt., w., old 60 to 68 Irish, white 22 to 30 „ „ new 54 to 63 M black 21 to 26 Norfolk and Lin- BEAKS. coin, red, new 51 to 63 Mazagaa 85 to 39 BABLEY. Tick 38 to 45 Malting 33 to 52 Harrow 42 to 46 Distilling 39 to 43 Pigeon. 36 to p7 Grinding 30 to 33 PEAS. MALT. Grey 37 to 38 Essex,Norfolk,and Maple 39 to 40 Suffolk 70 to 75 White 40 to 41 Kingston and Ware 70 to 75 FLOUB. Brown 56 to 64 Town made, per BTK. 2S01bs 53 to 57 New. 32 to 38 Household 55 to 56 OATS. Country 44 to 50 English,feed 24 to 30 Norfolk & Suffolk, „ potato 27 to 35 ex ship 43 to 45 FOBEIOH. WHEAT. OATS. Dantzic and Konigs- Danish & Swedish. 24 to 29 berg S9 to 70 I Bussian 23 to 28 Eostock & Mecklen- I BEAKS. burg 56 to 65 j Danish 38 to 42 Danish 56 to 61 j Egyptian S9 to 40 Bussian, hard 52 to 58 I FEAS. „ soft 55 to 61 Maple 36 to 38 American, red — to — j Boilers 37 to 39 „ white — to — | IKDIAH COBW. BAELEY. White .35 to 28 Grinding 29 to 311 Yellow 34 to 31 Distilling 34 to i5 FLOUB. Malting. 36 to 39 French, per sack .45 to 52 OATS. Spanish, „ 46 to 52 Dutch brewing 22 to 31 American, per barrel 26 to 32 „ feeding. 21 to 27 Canadian „ 27 to 32 LIVERPOOL, MARCH 5.—The market well attended. Wheat in good demand at best prices of last Friday. Flour in better request and rather dearer. Beans, Oats, and Oatmeal unchanged. Indian corn steady, at Is to Is 3d advance. WAKEFIELD, MAKCH 1.—Bather more tone in the wheat trade, and last week's rates maintained. Barley the turn I cheaper. Beans and oats steady. Meat and Poultry Markets. NEWGATE AND LEADENHALL.—There are moderate supplies of meat, and the trade is steady. Per 81bs. by the carcase s. a. s. a B-Ajto ju a. Inferior beef 3 2 to 3 4 Capons, each. 0 0 0 0 Middling ditto 3 6 4 0 Chickens, eaeh 3 0 5 0 Prime large 4 2 4 4 Ducklings,each 2 6 5 0 Ditto small 4 6 4 8 Babbits, each. 10 lb Large pork 2 10 3 6 Hares, each 3 0 4 0 Inferior mutton 3 6 4 0 Grouse, each. 0 0 0 0 Middling ditto 4 2 4 6 Partridges,each 0 0 O 0 Prime ditto 4 8 4 10 Pheasants,eaeh 0 0 O 0 Veal 4 4 5 41 Piteous, each. 0 10 > u Snail pork 3 8 4 4 Ostend fr. butter, Lamb 0 0 0 0 per doz. lbs. 12 O lo U Turkeys, each 4 0 10 0 English ditto. 14 0 19 0 Goslings, each 5 0 10 0 French eggs, 100 10 6 11 0 Fowls, each 3 6 4 61 English ditto. 11 0 12 0 METROPOLITAN. — A statement of the supplies and prices of fat live stock on Monday, Mar. 5, 1866, as oom. pared with Monday, Mar. 4, IS67:- Per 81bs. to sink the offal. Mar. 5,1866. May. 4,1867. s. d. s. d. s. d. B. d. Coarse and inferior Beasts 4 0 to 4 4 3 4 to 3 6 Second quality ditto. 4 6 4 10 38 4 4 Prime large Oxen 5 0 5 2 46 410 Prime Scots, &c 5 4 5 6 50 5 2 Coarse and inferior Sheep 4 2 4 10 310 4 4 Second quality ditto. 5 0 5 8 44 5 0 Prime coarse-woolled ditto 5 10 6 4 5 4 & 10 Prime Southdown ditto 6 6 6 10 ^2 5 5 Lamba 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 Large coarse Calves 5 8 6 2 50 5 4 Prime small ditto 6 4 6 8 5 6 6 0 Large Hogs 4 0 4 6 3 2 3 6 Neat small Porkers 4 8 5 0 3 8 4 0 Fruit and Vegetables. COVENT -GARD EN.-The unfavourable weather of these last few day s has somewhat checked supplies, but not so much as to advance our quotations of last week. Good hothouse grapes are in better request, and a slight improvement in business generally is perceptible. Large quantities of inferior apples are still arriving. Forced vegetables comprise French beans, potatoes, sea. kale and rhubarb. Pines are plentiful Among pears are still good examples of N A Plus Meuris, and Easter Beurre. Apples still consist of Court of Wick, Cox's Orange Pippin, and a few other dessert varieties. Oranges continue good and cheap. Kent cobs may still be had. Broccoli con- tinues to arrive from the West of England. Prices of pota- toes are about the same as they were last week. Flowers chiefly consiet of orchids, Chinese primulas, violets, pelar- goniums, mignonette, and roses. London Produce Market. MINCING-LANE, MARCH S.-ScGAB.-The market has opened steadily at the full currency of last Friday. The private sales include 1,600 bags of Mauritius, at 30s to 35s for brown to good yellow. Eefined also sells steadily; common to fair lumps, 42s 6d to 42s 9d. COFFEE —There is .till a fair demand at full prices. TEA.—The market privately continues very quiet. BUM and BICE are dull of sale. PEPPEK.—A parcel of good West Coast Penang sold at 2IS.16d. INDIGO. The quarterly public sales of Guatemala have commenced steadily at last sale's rates for parcels up to 58 9d; the finer kinds being rather cheaper.

PRICES OF BUTTER, CHEESE, HAMS,&c.,at per cwt. —Butter: Friesland, 132s to 136s; Jersey, 96a to 116s; Dorset, 128s to 132s. Fresh: per doz., 14s Od to 18s Od; Cheese: Cheshire, 78s to 88s Double Gloucester, 74s to 78s; Cheddar, 80s to 90s: American, 66s to 71s. Ilaras: York, news 90s to 100s; Cumberland, new, 90s to 100s; Irish, new, 90s to 100s. Bacon: Wiltshire, 62s to 66s Irish, green, 56s to 60s. COTTON, LIVFBPOOL, MARCH 5.—The market un- changed sales about 7,000 bales. TALLOW, MARCH 5.-The market is steady. Town Tallow is quoted 41s 9rl; Petersburg Y.C. on the spot, 42s 3d; April to June, 42s 6d October to December, 43s 3d. HOPS, BOROUGH. MARCH 4—Messrs. Pattendenand Smith report that the demand for all descriptions continues quiet, prices remaining unchanged.

X AAA PIANOFORTES, by C. HAMPTON, • )UUU attest the worth of this maker's principle of construction. The new Illustrated Catalogue, ibewing re- cent improvements, free. 74, Charlo&te-st., fitzroy-sq., W. Two Women Burnt to DtjatH.—Two inquests were held at St. Bartholomew's Hospital on Monday night, on the body of M'ss Susannah Rotchford, aged 47 years, and EHztbeth Davis, aaed 17 years. On Thursday night M1 s EJotohferd was teizsd with a fit while poising the fim She fell into the Sreplaoe. acd was so badly burnt that ebe died on Friday. iUiza- beth D'Lvis was a domestic servant at d, Clinger- street, Hoxtor. and while dressing her hair on Ihure- dav evening in fr<>nt of a chimney glass, her drees oanght fire at the i-r,te, and before it could be extin- guished ehe w»s to i-' vere'y onrnt# that she died on Saturday. The jury returned s verdict of Accidental Death by fitein each ease. In consequence of tile ikciMcticTi m Wf. Teas are supplied by th.^euts.^ETP^CB per, ,). cr, Gtnuim Paclxts are signed "Hormman £ Co., Undo*.