The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-11 00:00:00

PBOVINOILL WARE MARXII7.

IrriarooL, Oct. 10.—Iencashire and Yorkshire, 11334}—Loo-
don and North Wad 110 1 g —Manchester, She .1(1, and
Untohishire, 631 4 3—Metropoditan, 1061—Midland, 129 81 951
—North Lot Berwkit capital stock,lo7 61—Birkenhead,
f &Mind Lakelinron,4l—Dutch Rhenish paid-op._l6—Confederate
Loan, 33f} 2 4—United States, 471—Alliance Bank. London and
Liverpool ;Limited), 11 p.—Livool }IMMO (Limited), i d.—
Mercantile and Rectum* Bank (Limited), p. ; ditto, new
guns, 1 a —British and Foreign Marine (Limited), 2 34.61 p.—
Union Marine (Limited,. 21 a—)lersey Steel and Iron (Limited),
p. National Steam Navigation Company, 114611 d.—West
India and PDCHIC Steam, 1 16461 p.
h! OCT. 10.—A pretty fair badness with rather
lower prime. Consolidaied Bank (Limited). 51 p.—Greet Western,
_684 9i
Yorkshire,
61111--John
c.Broanwndanx,d Co.,
mW l9 20 p.
aaterq
110—lianchestsr, Shetheid, and Lincolnshire, 631 31 1.--Metro-
Vatetaik 1061 6—Midland, 129—N0, th British, 511—South
fill 1 4—Spanish Passives, 30—Alliance Bank, 11 411
41 11 101 11 11! a —District Bank, 19 p.--Confederate Loan,
St 3 11 1 Conaolklia, 461.
ButnnettiLig, Oct. 10.—The sales to-day included Bing-
ham Canal, 861 ; Birmingham Joint Stock Bank, atcatttimrmipe-
rig Continental Gas, 84: Metropolitan Railway and
Waggon, first tame, 12: ditto, third lame, at 11 p. ming
prices—Wrmingham, Wolverhampton, Stour Vallee, 0 91 ; Great
Western, Five per Cent. Redeemable Preference, 1004 (Mien' ;
Midland, Rriatol, and Birmingham Six per Cent, 134 (sellers)
Booth Staffordshire. 101 104 Birmingham Bank, 324 (sellers; ;
Birmingham Gas, 134 to 160 Birmingham Fire, 100 to 105:
London, Birminglimn, and South Staffordshire Bank, S to 4 dia. ;
Montis Metal, 2 If, Ilia 9d. din

With reference to the statement in the Erpress
of the 7th lust, relative to an extraordinary meeting of the
Hastings and St. Leonard'. Hotel Company, preparatory to
a voluntary winding up," we are requested to explain that
the hotel built by the above•named company has been fur-
nished and conducted 'iry the " Queen's Hotel Company of
Hastings (Limited)," and that the meeting mentioned le a
legal preliminary step towards the purchase of the building
by the Queen's Hotel Company, which is now carrying
it on.

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THE GREAT STRIKE or COLLIERS IN STAFFORD-
affirur.—Yesteeday the largest meeting that has base yet
held of the colliers on strike in South Stafford- 1
shire, took place at Bilatoo. Detachments of men
marched into the town from Wedoesbury, Great
Bridge, 'Dotal), Dudley, Oldbury, and Brierley Hill, each
headed by bands of music, and men carrying mottoed
banners. They were followed by armed policemen, until
by the time the meeting 00211201/03d, the policemen in
the town numbered 150 sabres. At the meeting there
I were perhaps 8,000 persons, Dearly all of them miners.
1 The eighty Lancers who are in barracks in Birming-
ham have for some time been kept "saddled up," ready
to ride into the " black country" at a moment's notice ; and
a number of the Volunteers have been kept under arms in
Bingley Hall ready for any emergency to which the colliers'
strike might give rise in Birmingham, where there is •
strong sympathy with the colliers amongst all classes, and
where • rumour had got all.mt that the colliers intended to
march into the town in vast numbers with anything but a
peaceable intention. Yesterday the leaders of the move-
meat received an official communication from the Mayor of
Birmingham, in answer to • formal application which the
adhere have made to his worship desiring permission to
hold a meeting in the outskirts of the town. His worship
writes :—" Taking that application in connexion with the
conversation I had with you on Thursday last, I under-
stood it to be your intention. if such meeting were held,
to attend it with many thousands of your fellow workmen ;
and I have to say, therefore, in reply to your application
that I entirely disapprove of the holding of such a meeting
within the limits of this borough ; and 1 wish further to ry
that I do not consider such a meeting necessary for the oh-
ject you have in view, manly, to enable you to explain to
the inhabitants of Birmingham your position with your em-
ployers."—Leeds Mercury.
PrrnoLison.—Dr. Georges lies observed that the
emanations of petroleum have • weakening effect on the
muscular systems sad canes headache, especially in the case
of senor people sad these who live in • confined atmos-
phere exposed to these emanations. He states that the
latter contra a peculiar principle which may be eliminated,
and is found to act principally on the brain and heart.
Ether of petroleum may, he adds, be used to cool the
ferments during surgical operations, because it causes no
pain on the bleeding parta. —2ler York paper.
ARTIFICIAL Tana —A mole-killer of blonthey, in
the Valais, in Switzerland, was meetly brought before the
co:Tedious' tribunal of that place 02 a charge of swindling
the !authorities, which he effected in en ingenious manner.
The destroyers of those animals receive a certain sum for
each, but they are not boned to present the bodies in order
to °brie the reward, but only the tails. The man in
question delivered not lees than 2,000, and received • rim
of 300 fr. Surprise wee felt et the number, and on close
examination a great many were ford to be artificial,
menuteatnrod by annunhig a strip of the animal's skin on
• bit of wire award wish paper. The tail-maker was
cooctannot to throe months' imprisonment.