The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-30 00:00:00

LOCAL SHARE MARKETS.

LivsarooL, Jrnz 29. Oar share market has been very
good all day, at steadily advancingumprices. Tke following
are the transactions: Birkenhead, cubit', and Cheshire
(late Chester and Birkenhead),lBl—Caledonians, 211 1 e.—
Chester and Holyhead, 231 I—Eastern Counties, 10 9.16 1
—East Lancashire, 191 1 I—Edinburgh, Perth, and Dun-
dee, 6 15.16.—Lanmbire and Yorkshire, 801 1 1 1 1 81
I—Ditto (fifth shares), 3 16-16 1 d.—Ditto (201.
shares), par—Ditto (fifth shares, West Riding Union),
2 15•18 y 3 2.—Lancaster and Carlisle (third shares), 11 p.—
Liverpool, Creel, and Southport, 201—London and North
Western, 1301 I—Ditto (new 1 shares), 61 p.—Ditto
(fifth shares), 5 -16 1 1•16 13-16 p.—Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire, 35—Midland, 731 c. I—North British,
815.18—Shropshire Union, Railway and Canal, 2 13-16 d.
South Eastern and Dover, 22 c. i—Vork and North Mid-
land, 251.
LINOS, JUNE 29.—The market has been rather weaker
this morning in all kinds of shares, except Lancashire and
Yorkshires, which closed at 81 for the account, middle of
July. The other closing sales were as follows :—Leeds
Northerns, 171 ; Midlands, 73; York and North Midlands,
26i ; South Eastern and Doren, 22.
MANCHESTER, J uric 29.—The market has been buoyant,
and a large business has been done at higher prices. Cale•
donian, 221 ; East Lancashire, 191 ; Lancashire and York-
shire, 801 and 821 ; London and North Western, 1311 ;
Sheffield, 341 ; Midland, 731 ; Doren, 22. The market
clams rather weaker. _ _ _ _

29.—Our market has been lint
to-day, and little business doing. Midland Stock was done
at 721 and 73.

DISTRIBUTION OF PRIZES AT KING'S COLLEGE.—
The annual distribution of prises to the successful students
at King's College, took place yesterday in the Hall of the
College before a very large assemblage of ladies and gen-
tlemen, friends of the students and the college. Amongst
the company were his grace the Archbishop of Canterbury,
his Excellency the American Minister, Mrs. Lawrence, and
Miss Lawrence, the Bishop of Lichfield, the Earl of
Btradbroke, &c. The Archbishop of Canterbury, having
taken the chair, opened the business of the day by an im-
pressive address; Dr. Jelf, the principal, then called
on the various professors to introduce their prize-
men to his grace, which was done amid the
cheers and hisses usual on such OCCRllithlll. The fol-
lowing are the subjects for which prizes wire awarded :
Department of general literature and science : Divinity,
classics (including Latin verse and essay), mathematic.,
English literature, French, Gersten, Hebrew, Italian, and
law. The 1L v. Professor Hell remarked that students
were taught in the werkshon of the college the arts of
construction, from cutting a piece of WWII up to making a
working steam.engine. One t.entleman, Mr. C. Cochrane,
wee a pitman in eight branches. When the prizes had
been all delivered to their holders the Bishop of Lichfield,
in moving a vote of thanks to the right rev. prelate for
taking the chair on the occasion, said that thou, students of
the institution whom he had met In after life were a credit
to the college. The archbishop then briefly returned
thanks, and the proceedings terminated.
CABINET News.—•' Ministers arc to eat their
white-bait dinner neat week."—Daily \ews. They ,have
already eaten their words —Punch.
ROYAL POLI"IECIINIC Hih-
ness Said Perim paid a visit to this institution yesterday,
accompanied by Captain Stopford Claremont and his suite.
His highaeu paid great attention to the proems of blowing
up sunken 'tads, the electricblight, and the atmospheric
models of steam-engines, with which his highness *as per-
fectly conversant, and which were all in full action, and
also the manufacture of needles by Morrall's regent im-
provements.