The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-04 00:00:00

LOCAL SHARE MARKETS.

LImPooL, Nov. 3.—The mead boo not been so stiff
to-day, and closes easier than yesterday. The committee's
li-t gives the following quotations :—Birkeehcad, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire, 6 d.—Ditto (late Chester and Birken-
she'd), 22—Ditto (221. shares), 2f (I.—Blackburn (late
Blackburn, Clitberos, and West Yorkshire), 71—Caledo-
nian, 271 I—Eastern Coanties, 121—Lancashire and York-
shire, 88—Ditto (fifth shares), 3 1-16 d.—Leeds Northern
(late Leeds and Thirak), 181—Liverpool, Crosby, and
Southport, 191—London and North Western, 1241 }—
Ditto (fifth shares), 41 p.—Ditto (quarter shares), 11 p.-
-Midland, 791 1 I—Shrewsbury and Birmingham (London
and North Western guaranteed stock), 70—South Eastern
and Dover, 24 14—York and North Midland, 26I—Newry
and Enniskillen, d.
MANCHESTER, Nov. 3.—Prices were rather firmer, and
there was an average amount of butane's. Chester and
Birkenhead, 221. 21 dis.—Caledonian, B—Midland, 80--
Leeds, 88—Dover, 24—London and North Westerns, 1241
—Cheshire Junction, 64—Eastern Counties, 121—Kendal
and Windermere, 14.
BIRMINGHAM, Nov. 3.—Our market has been Very dull
all day; bat late in the afternoon prices became better.
Londnis and North Westerns were done at 126.
LEEDS, Nov. 3.—The transactions this morning have
been quite of an average eatent, and prices remain firm and
looking upwards. The sales were as follows : —Leeds
Northern', 18; Caledonian, 271, 274, 271, 271. 8.. ftl.;
North Western, 81, 81; Leeds Northern Extensions, No. 3.,
1 pm,; But Lancashire 191. 18s. 9J.; South Eastern and
Dover, 231. 18s. 9d., 241.; Leeds Nothern Extensions, No.
1.,1 pm. ; North British, 91.

MAILS FOR NASSAU. GENERAL POST-OFFICE`
OcVonen.—The mails for Nassau (Bahamas) will, in
future, be made up in London for transmission by the Wort
India contract packet leaving Southampton on the 2nd,
instead of that leaving on the 17th of each month, and the
return mails for Nassau will be due by the corresponding
packet arriving at the beginning of the month.
A CHEAP TRIP.—The gentleman who went out
in the Australian mall packet Sydney, and who refused to
go farther then the Isle of Ascension on account of the bad
accommodation he experienced on board the packet, has
had his passage money ri turned to him.
SAILING OF THE ATLANTIC.—The United States
mail steam-ship Atlantic, Captain West, with the u.usl
mails and passengers for tho United States, and British
possessions in North America, sailed yesterday afturri4on
j from the Mersey for New York direct. The Atlantic took
out 72 passengers, and bad a large cargo upon freight.
SACRED HARMONIC SOCIETY, cargo
Hall, which
for thu put few months has been closed for extensive altera-
tions and appropriate embellishments, is now completed,
and is to be opened on Friday by a performance of Men-
delssohn's " Christus," Spobr's " Last Judgment,' &c.
Great additions have been made to the large organ.
THE NATIONAL GALLERY AND GREAT EXIIIBI-
TIoN SURPLUS FUND.—We understand that the report of
the government having purchased the plot of ground near
Kensington as a site I,r a new National Gallery is incor-
rect. The property it, question has been purchased by tho
Royal Cominis.inikrs. with the surplus funds of the Great
Exhibition. We beli-se it is 'winded to present it to the
nation, and to kipe k the gov:rnment to erect upon the
land auildiog. suitable lot a m W National Gallery, for a
antrum lor the Dories collectior. f ,rmcil from the late El-
-1„1„tic„. which will Is uteri) numented when suitable
is tl.riled also suitable premises for ti.e
Saesd 01 et preorrit temporarily located in Marl-
nn I for aff,irslina the means of carrying
out a system of " industind education" similar to that
suggest:At in the first report of the Royal Cowmissioners.
Mot nisi or (101011'c/ft
TILE FAT t L SEWER ACCIDENT IN CLERKENWELL.—
Yesterday a Jury sat at the Workhouse, Clerkenwell, under
the pnoidenq of Mr. Waktry, to investigate the circum-
staliesm attending the death of two men while. making a
sear 16 Compt,,n a riet, on Monday. The jury, alter
iteelviug evidence or Ilse I Ws 'showily reported, returned in
verdict of " Acrid-Witt di oth, " the foreman dissenting,
thinking that the Memo must lie somewhere. A similar
verdict was rseurniol by the jury who sat at St. Barthoio-
mew's Respite], on the body ut Thompson, the third
who wee taken haa the strain alive, but dkd on Tuesuay
evening.
LONDON AND SOUTH - WESTERN RAILWAT.-e-
Amouist of ',A.: on the Lia,,en and South-Western Rail-
way for tile wok cedilla Oct. 31, 1852:—Psasengers.
7,413/.los. bd.; goods, 2,6141. ; total, 10,0321. 13s. 742.

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LONDON, THURSDAY, NOP-EMBER 4.

THE Manchester Free Trade meeting—three thou-
sand strung--endenied a proposal that, on one point at
least, the Ministry should be made to speak out
forthwith. This great meeting testified its enthu-
siastic approval of the recommendation, that either by
as Amendment to the Address,or by a substantive reso-
lution in the house, the Free Trade majority should
signify that no government will have the confidence
of the House of Commons which dues nut distinctly
avow its determination to odium to the policy of
Free Trade, as hitherto adopted, and to carry it out
in every practical way. Less than this ought not
to sundry the nation. Less than this no Miniatry
which undertaker to e °duct the alLairs of a nation
ninoeen-twentieths of which are in favour of Free'
Trade, ought to be satisfied with affirming. In
making this demand we are guilty of no factious
opposition to the existence and the proceedings of
the Ministry. We are simply asking that which we
have a right now—after years of struggle fur
its establialiment, and after its recognition by
the immense majority of the nation—to con-
sider as much a part of the constitution as the
Habeas Corpus. We cannot afford to be for ever
fighting the same battle over again. It is not be-
fitting the dignity of the greatest—we had well nigh
said the only—constitutional assembly in Europe,
that it should be said of it as of the drunken con-
queror of the poet,