The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-27 00:00:00

LOCAL SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, Jets. 26.—Our share market has not ut all
improved upon the condition in which it was on Saturday
there is very little business doing. prices remain low, and
no inclination manifested to purchase stock. The follow-
ing are the transactions:—Caledonian, 14 16-16 15-..
Eastern Counties, 6 13-16—East Lancashire, 1511—Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, 601 I—Ditto (fifth shares). 7 15-16 d.
—London and North %Vestern, 1141 c.—Ditto (new
quarter shares), 2) i p.—Ditto (fifth shares), 2 7-16 p.—
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 30—Midland, 541 1—
Shrewsbury and Chester (preference, guaranteed 8 per
cent.), l 5 South Eastern and Dover, 19 15.16—York
and North Midland, 211.
klancrtrerea, JAN. 26.—Prices are still tending down-
wards, but we have a good business. The sales include:—
Cheshire Junction, 12) dia.; Rovers, 191 ; Midlands, 541;
Leeds, 601; East Lancashire", 15:: Kendal and Wind..r.
mere, 101; London and North Western, 1111; Leeds and
Bradford, 102.
BIFININGHAII, JAN. 26.—This market woo heavy to-day.
North Stafford' were done at 9 dis.

LEEDS, JAN. 26.—There has been a very fiat market
this morning, and receding prices. Lancashire and York-
shires, which closed on Saturday at 61i, have been done at
601 ; and, compared with Saturday, Midland Stock has
also fallen from 6S to 6411; North Westerns, 13 dis. , North
Western Prefs., 131.
BILIISTOL, JAN. 26.—The market was inactive. Great
Westerns were done at 841, closing at 841. Kennet soil
Avon Canal shares &tin ex die.

THE WRECK OF TIM LEEDS cSTF.AMER).—Somo
boatmen who have gone out to the Bel Buoy have picked
up, we understand, several articles of more or less value be-
longing to the sunken vessel, the Leeds. A committee of
gentlemen frequenting the Liverpool Exchange are engaged
in getting up a public subscription, for the purpose of pre-
%riding a suitable testimonial to Captain Russell, of tho
American ship Empire State, by whose brave end humane
etforta the whole of the passengers of the ill-fated Leeds
steamer were rescued from their perilous situation.
DEATII OF A Fox IN A DFLAWINO-KOO/4.—On Fri-
day last the meet of the old Berkshire bounds was at
Kingston Inn, near Faringdon when Reynard soots
broke from a covert in the neighbourhood, and led tho
hounds at a rattling pace to the coverts of Tubney, Ap-
pleton, and Besselmleigh. At the latter place, the sly one
made a double, and went back to Tubney, traversing nearly
the same ground again, and eventually retraced his kepi
to Bemelsleigh, but on arriving at that village, and finding
himself very hard pushed, he made a dash at the drawing.
room window of the mansion of the Rev. Dr. Foulkes,
principal of Jesus College, Oxford, and bolted through the
glass, to the no small consternation of the worthy doe-
toes domestics, and finally sought shelter under the sofa.
This proved of no avail. The hounds, waiving the
etiquette of an introduction, dashed also through tho
window, and in a few seconds poor Reynard was completely
run down, and killed under the sofa.

REMAEKABLE INSTANCE OF COURAGF..—At en
early hour on Saturday morning last, Mr. Edw. Smith,
baker, of Whaplode, upon entering his bakehouse found
it on fire : it had been burning probably all night. Them
appears to have been about halls ton of coals in the rooms
and them it i. supposed, were ignited by some embers from
the oven. The whole mass had taken fire. The •helves
were burnt, and two great beams above. Immediately over
the room was a chamber occupied by Mr. Nurse, grocer,
RR a warehouse, alio resided in the inljoinin't house. This
chamber, a very long one, was stored with drugs, nil, paper,
&e., and a quantity of gunpowder. Mr. Nurse was un-
nu diately aroused from his slumbers, and made aware of
the dreadful fact. Ills property was not insured, and he
felt that the nest minute might end in the lam of his pro-
perty and the list% of the inmates. Resolving at once to
avert such a eatndrophe or perish, he proceeded to the
chamber, and found the flames had already penetratod
the floor in the far corner, close to an open raisin•box
containing 231 b. of gunpowder: a quantity of apples around
the boa were thoroughly roasted, a knot in the box was
exuding turpentine from the heat, a cask of oil in the same
the box of gunpowder, whichT
corner was leaking from the heat, and some hampers of
realrewasadyafteverrwcha.ot,saub.nd
straw were on fire. The courageous shopkeeper took up
milunelve—yedLiewolisit "ft-lova:a; bewails
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