The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-29 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKETS.

livizroOL. Tilt .27 —Sales to-day: Lincashlre ahl V..kahire
1101 z d—Lomlni. and North Westrm 108+ ,—Mon,.,tor. gad
Md. and Lincolnshire, 521—Midland. 1311 z d.-6...uth Eastern.
91.1 1 Scd.—Buffalo and Lake Huron, sl—Dutch Nh. nigh, lip.
—Mealean Three per Cent. 431 I—Spanish1—Spanish P.,sirts, 351.1
I—Banir go( Liverpool, t Of—British and Aulerieen eh
Si p 4—Mercantlle and Eachange Bain., erir
sad n p.. ditto new shares, p Marine,
15-16 p. - British and foreign Marine 31 p e d.-
14ineas6lre lasoranee, 9 16 11-16 1 16-14 1 1.16 p.— London sat
Inneashire, 51 11-16 p.—llereanUle Marine, 1 1 1•I6 Iy, quiets
insurance, 1 p. —Union Marine. 2I p —Liaerprol •hange
Buildings, 561—National Steam Navigation Counp..l, 916 1 p.
West India and Pacific steam Conipsay. V 3-16 p.

'serest ts
day were in °testi Warders litrminghas Guaranteed Railway
Nock at 77 ; Worcester sot Birmingham Canal mum U 15;
Maffordshire Ou Mart, at 3: peens. Iletropofflau Waegoa
Company new shares at 4 prem. with die • and '.loutz Metal
shares at 1-16 prem. South Staffordshire Railway it!eires wen
quoted at 11 to 1111. Dudley and West Bromwich I:anse at 7 to
7 es dlr.. Birmingdun Yamada! at g perm., . Latest
Shalt and Ante Company Wares at 11 buyers
lame, Fri V.—Sheffield, 520.1 d 1 7-16-311d1arid, 1:01 c.
cash.

Mmaillerint, PBS. 97.—A good loudness has been dons, Mil
prices were rather Omer. Great Northern A, 1311 Ail —Greeks.
93—London and Korth Werner% Mel —Mancheotrr, sheigaia,
and lAncolushire, 92; }—hew ditto Fire per Cent, Port . ; d.—Me-
tropolltan, 104 7f 1 sd.-3lerlcans. 43f I I—Booth Eastern,
AM f rd.—Spanish Passives. 3S;—Thames sad Mersey Maine
Ingsrance, 6 p.—liudsoi:s Bay, 19 I 3-16—Lancaalnre
lasa-
rasee, 9-10 I I p.—General Credit, 4 p.—Leaden and Calcutta
Maine, p.
vend, Fig. 27.—Yew Three gm Oent. Meet, 90 iref go—
Ditto, for new account, PM—lndia Five per Ont. Stock. 104,—
Dublin and Kingstown, 4 percent., Mr—Bonk of Ireland 1000.
paid , r.t—tebernlan Link ;26L paid), en—National Bank
of Ireland 300. paid', 92—National Bank of bedew 31. paid),
124—Cork and Bandon ;504iaid). 17—Dublin and Br Ifaat Junc-
tion AOl. ped'. 37} ad—Dublin and Kingstown (1001 p.l4'. 204
Dublin, Wicklow, and We on& 9l—!treat Southern and West.
ern (1001 paid,. ad.—Midland Brent Western and Roc a/
Canal 604. paid', 464—Dublin and Wicklow (101. pao: , 6 per
cent. porn., Wicklcw, and Westord. d per rent.
Peep. 501. paid 331 I.L—Geese eontbern and Wo•ftern, 4 per
cent. Perp. Yee& paid), 99.

I Tug EectignAwrteAL Comnitemite.—Tae Bishop
of London Ms been appointed_ by the Board of Eccle-
siastical Commissioners for Eaglood to be the episcopal
member of their " Estates Committee," rice the Bishop of
Winchester, who retires. The position had been filled by
the Bishop of Winehester since the reitimaseut from it of
the late Bishop Bloinfield in 1856.
PRIVATE iNQUIRIEn THROIRJH THE Y. .g.
Lignites* et-Owen I Caitieright, her Majesty's Inspector
of Coestatiolsry for the midland districts of Euglend and
for North Wales, notices in his report for the cost ye.: mode
to the Secretary of State that in the course of his inspection
he discovered it to be a common practice in many comities
foe individuals and compasise to communicate with the
police, seeking private information se to the character, re-
spectability, and means of penoes residing on their ibstricta,
sad offering remuneration for the service. Litatenant-
General Cartwnght regards it as • most dangerous trans-
gression of police duty, quite foreign to the pirposes for
which the force was established, sad seriously ooperilling
its popularity and efficiency. He reports that in his circuit
of inspection wherever he mentioned the practice to any of
those in command of forces it met with their immediate
reprobation, sad this may check the spites ; but he consi-
dered the subject of such vital importance to the form
that he thought it his duty to bring it wider the .2opsolera-
tion of the Secrethay of State, sad to express Is. opinion
that the practise must be at mos sad completely suppressed.
THE LIVEUTOOL •WD LONDON FIRE AND Lire
Iwernieca ComeAgr. —The twenty eighth annual report
of the Liverpool and London Fire and Life Insurance com-
pany is issued. To the fortunate shareholders it must be
gratifying, the dividend being 40 per cent.. lees income tat.
The undivided profits now amount to •210,63.4'. Is. Bd.,
while the invested fund of the company represents
1,566,4341.4.. 3d.
Tar BURIAL SERVICE AND CONVOCATION. —A
committee of the Lower Hosea of Convocation was ap
pointed last July to consider the alleged difficulties in the
ass of the Burial Service, and to report thereon. The
report, now punlioliell, goes through all the passages of the
service which have been supposed to declare alooltitelr
I the salvation of the deceased person, sad acquits them of
that meaning,. The committee attributes the grievance to
the want of that "godly disciplim" of which the church
of England ever since the Reformation has been lamenting
the &hoopoe. The report proceeds to suggest that
the rubrics and canons supply • nucebievry which
may be applied, if it be only divested of tumors/ perm).
ties and temporsl eacumbeaticer. IA effect, it is proposed
that if a man sever communicates, or lives styli a life or
avows such opinions that he ought not to communes*
then the churchwardens, or, in their default, the clergy-
man, shall have power to present him, sod, on his contu-
macy or impeoiteace„ bring down upon him a sentence of
excommunication, which shall deprive him of the right of
Christian burial. The committee suggest that the came
will be only those of a scandalous character, is which
the church is driven to purge itself in self.defeace ; where,
in fact, the deceased person has been the assailant by
weed or by deed. In such cases, it is presumed, pnblie
minima and common sense will be on the side of the clergy-
man. and will support the judgment he has invoked upon
the evil liver or the open unbeliever. As the law sow
stands,even is a mitigated state, as excommunicated pesos
may,uoder certain contingencies, find himself thereby visited
with six months' imprisonment. This temporal penalty
only prevents excommanioation being ever resorted to, sod
the report thorefoes recommends its abrogation. " We see
Dot surprised to observe,* says the T. sue, l• that seven"
members of the committee, and they not the least sensible
aid informed, dissent from the prieeiple and recommeadit-
time of the report."
DEPLiiR ABLE ArIDF:NT.—Two YOUNG MEN
PROwNED.—Yeeterday, we are sorry to say. two young
men were drowned while skating in the pond at the rear of
the Queen's Island, Belfast. This portion of the chasm,
was thi..kly covered with ice. and was apparently well
oriented for skating. During the day many persons skated
at the place, sod the two young moo whose deaths we have
to record went there for the purpose of an hour's amuse-
ment. About half-past 5 o'clock, Mr. John Beggs and
Mr. James Chew (we of the Quartermaster of the
Antrim Rifles) went up n the ice. Beggs having skated
to a place which woe considered dangerous, broke the ice,
and west dews, sad Chew, who was following in the same
track, could sot stop himself till be unfortunately mask
with his companion. The greatest consternation prevailed
among thous present, but it was evident that there was so
possibility of saving the young men except by breaking the
ice in every direction, which was done, but all the exertions
made were of so avail. Some men at work at the new
graving dock, seeing the occurrence, did all they possibly
meld to save the lives of the unfortunate young men, bit
to no purpose, as they bad been in the water upwards of IS
minutes before their liodien were recovered. Both the ye
mea are deeply regretted. After their bodice were fogad
as imam, was held in Millen's public-house, Qome's-quay,
when • verdict of accidental death was returnat —Northers
Whig.