The Express.
London, England, 1855-09-24 00:00:00

LOCAL SHARE MARKETS.

Wilmot., SLIT. 2L—Then has been an average number o
transactions in the Sh ca Exchange today, and prices were a shade
lower than yesterday. Birkenhead, lanesuldre, and Cheshire (late
C. and B. 2141. shares), 14 —Lancashire and Vorkahire, 781 s 11 ad.—
London and North Western. 92 14 f—alanetester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire. 911 —Midland, I'3l f 4—Midland Gleat Western, 49 ad.
—North Britin, 9.B.9—North hasten (Writ Capital Stock), 224
South Eastern, 171 6e. Bd.-9:utch Ithenieb, p. 4—Great Western of
Canada, 214 4.
11•11CIIIZTal, Barr. 92 —The market bas been dull. and prine
easier. Ewe Lemmatise, 171—Leda stock, 774—hhethekl, 131—
Donis, 17 LIS.
LIILMING,4IIIII, Berr. 22.—Tble market was rather firmer today,
and mote turners) wait done. Birmivatam and Stour Tut eye closed
it 74 I—Great Weeturn Birmingham Guaanteed elects at 70 71—
and London and North Westerns at 22.
Laws, Sam 21.-7 ha decided iroprocement in the shore market
noticed in our last was tot owed yoterday morning by a re•fiIIII0/1
of about 4 per cent., and pries s remained tnavv, and with a declin-
ing tendency nn to about the close, when the tone was rather better.
We hare DO change to notice this morning In rit C.. The decrease
again in the " bullion^ did not produce any effect, a 3 it 1134 already
been demand by anttelpatton. Only a Ilmisti busters. doing
attention being mainly din cted towarr.s the arr.- neement of the
account. The rates of continuation are lieter than esptctcd. Leeds
and Midland, Ss. 9d.; Sheffield, to. 8d.s' comango." Snores done
today :—Thlrek Fifths, 7 prcm.—Caren Moor Mine, 18s. 9d.—Leeds
Stock, 771.25.
Mawr, Elm. 27.—three per Cent. Consols, 891 4—Ditto for as
nth Oct., 091 I—New Three per Cent. Stork. tor secant,
IStb Oct., 904—Great duuthern and Weateru,364—Waterkmil and
Limerick 8 per cent. prof., 40—Waterford:mil Trartiore. 54.

Faison RAILWAY Taunts.—The following are the last
returns of the gross receipts of the principal French rail-
ways :
Nomneare.—Frin Sept. 10 to Sept. 16: reasengtra, 635,2711.;
good*, 522,303 t: total, 1,157,575 f.
Warns Aso Noun( Wwritax.—From Sept. le to Sept. 16 :Pare.
Mpg, r5.681,25a ; Roods, 302,591 L ; total, P84,142L
°WAITS AND IMAM= LINIA—FSOM Sept. 9 to Sept. 11: Pram.
germ, 559,619 f.; rood., .07,615 f.; total, 1.195.1841.
Seaaseovao.—Prom Sept. 3 to Sept. 9; Pawners, 557,5661.;
rondo, 443,376 f. ; total, 1,000,822 f.
Mortmeatt.—Prom Sept. LO to Sept. 16: 'Walleye, 26,7951.
rove, 28,5151.; total 53,335 f.
LTONS.—Prom Sept- 9 to Sept 15: Pasrengers, 565,532. f.; goods.
561.3'21. ; total, 1,010,034 f.
Lyons TO MILDITILLIAN CAL—Prom Sept. 3 to Sept. 9: Parma
gars, 220,4'13f.: good% 357,3' 7f.; totni. 179,7831.
Gesso Cerrinia..—Prom Sept. 2 to Sept. 6 : Pareingets, 51,643 f.;
good., 142,3671.: total. 21 lAA
A CHEESE DODGE.—A man named Frederick
White, of Shrewsbury, is now in curtody of the White-
haven police on a charge of goios about the country impoe-
tog on the public by pretending to sell the real new milk
Cheshire cheese. He is provided with a number of inferior
Dutch cheese, which ere " plugged " with a 'roan quan-
tity of the " real article," of which the public are itivited
to taste. By this dodge he succee led lively in pastas off
to Joseph Fidler, grocer, George street, a DulLbi.r of hid
spurious articles,for which be was paid the SUM of 11.185.1}4.
Bhort4 after making the purchase, Mr. discovered
Ito " tske in," and gave information to the police, who,
consequently, apprehended White.
Tim Faunae " BLACK MAIL."—Fr. Maine, "ea-
ts**e de monnoye," Diet. Bey., 1684 Quant au mot de
Quadric on silt bleu que c'eetoit la quidnunc partie d'un
gene: male ici it se prend pour woe mains., nu (alette entre
piece de petite valeur."—Calvin cur L' Ham. Evoreg., p.
113., .4.1563. The wend seems to came origicaliy from the
same root as the mail applied to ~moor ; small money being
called mall from its resemblance to the minute steel plates
which made up this kind of armour. In this sense the
word mail is a correution of made or mire!.', which was
used to denote the meshes of a net, probably from macula.
The American mill is from another etiurce, mine, and is the
thousandth part of a dollar. B. H. C.—From Notes and
Queries.
ST. MART'S CHURCH, ISLINGTON, has been en-
tirely repaired and redecorated, the ezperues being defrayed
by uoluntery centrlbutleal. The churchersrdees abstaioed
from resorting to the power under the local cct.