The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-19 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHAER MARKETS.

UTTRroot, Dec. 17.—Crept Western. ;SI —lanceahire and
Yorkshire, DlM—London ant North Western, 1204—Manches-
ter, sbefheld, and Lincolnshire, 6.l4—Midland, 191. shams, 4 1.16
p..—Sowh Eastern, MI {—lllinois Central, 52—Stronlall Passives.
31I—Alliance Bank, London and Liverpool 'Limited., 124 12 p.
—Dank of LiverpnoL 26 7—Eastern Exchange Bank (Lhinitedl.
A.—Mercantile and Exchange Bank (Limited', 6.16 3.164
1-16 1 1-16 par d. 1:16 par 1-16 p.—North Western Bank ,Limited.,
41L—Ittit:iI,Iri.nie,'Iut— it:4;6%1'12 u:t.Liatnedd,FrAigj.'
--Queen Inuirance, 0-16 p.—Vnion Marine ;Limited;, p.—
Mersey Steel and Iron 'lJmlted.,_ p.—National Steam Limited',
Gi ;le; 646 did 74 .I.—w net MAU' and Pacific steam, p.
NIA:VHS:NM lac. 17. Ihe market was quiet, and prices
rather loner. C. Carmel' and Co., 24p —Great Western. 714-
-I.4..coehlre and Yorkshire. 116' London and North Western,
1294—Manchester and Counts Auk, 44 c. ix—Manchester,
Sherlield, and Lincolnshire, 6.11 B —South Eastern, !lot —Ashbary
New, S p.—London New, 110;—Confederate Loan, CCl—Mer-
eantile Bonk. d.
DentM, Dge. 12.—New Three per Cent. stock, 674 4—Ditto
for account, Jan. 10, SO—National Bank. new, (151. paid, SO
e)4 Q4—Ditto for account, Sl—National of Liverpool ilAmited)
(161. paid 16L—Vitio for account. 184—Royal Bank of Ireland,
106 paid , for accotnt, 91—tnion Bank (Limited) la. paid;,
20)—Cork and Bandon .101. paid IS—Dublin, Wicklow, and
Wexford, lot paid, te) }—Great Southern and Western fjool.
paid Wl—Ditto foe account, no—Midland Great Western and
Royal Canal. Wu./ paid.. 35;—Midland Great Western, ht. shs.
paid . 17e--litvat Southall sod Walters, a par cent, pref.
,loot paid., tr 2.

MINES.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'CLooz.

The mining market is flat to-day, and prices
have declined in several instances. East Cara-
don shares are especially heavy, having receded
to 171 to 18. The following are also all
lower, viz.:—East Grenville, 4/ to ; East Lovell,
14/ to 1 ; and Great Vor, 33 to }. East Vor are
quoted 2to b. Lady Bertha, 17s. Gd. to 20s. ; and
East Russell, 41 to 5. No transactions are officially
reported in the Stock Exchange.
Foreign and colonial mining shares exhibit no
alteration in the abser.ce of business.

CRYSTAL PALACE.--(TllIS DAY.)—At 10 o'clock
this morning the sue shone out brilliantly at Sydenham.
The Crystal Palace grounds, with the varied vegetation of
rare trees and plants. partly covered with snow, presented •
beauti -ul aspect. The bright sky lit the Palace itself.
Not a particle of snow remained en the roof of the
Palace, the temperature maintained within the build-
ing being sufficient to melt it re it fell on the gime. During
Saturday night the thermometer outside registered 13 de-
grees of frost ; bet eight it did not descend more than 5 de-
grees below the freezing point. Within the Palace, by
means of the fifty miles of hot water apparatus, the tem-
perature maintained was comfortably warm, about 55 de-
gree*, the temperate point of Fahrenheit.
By the kind invitation of Professor Anderson
the following schools were present in St. James's-hall on
Saturday, admitted free, to share the treat Imo generously
afforded s—AU lslingtor, 10$; Aaylunt for Father-
less Children, lOrt ; Bloomsbury Chapel Day School, 56;
Scottish Central School, NO ; Training Refuge for Destitute
:13 ; St. Bartholomew's Girls' School, 46 ; St. Thomas'
Charter-house, 410. Total, 841.

%TUE COLLISIoN UN THE GREAT WEATERN RAlL-
RAT.—Notwithstanding the efforts made to remove the ob-
stractioos on the Grist Western Railway occasioned by the
collision between a Birmingham express and a special
narrow gauge goods train at Parigbourne station on Thurs-
day night, the up line could cot be worked for the ordinary
traffic until Saturd■y afternoon. The way in which the
wheels of the guard's break and those of owe of the salt
vane were imbedded in the earth, 'beneath the Imagine of the
express train, rendered the task of clearing the floe a long
sod difficult one. sod the fire, of the engines of the different
goods trains waiting on the taphole between Peagboaroe and
Goring to proceed on their journeys had to be got no, sod the
trains were not ell despatched until after mid day. The
traffic during the morning was delayed, but the special train
conveying her Majesty and suite from Windsor to Seeing-
■toke was only a few minutes late, and its progress was not
in the least degree impeded by the confusion at Reedits(
consequent upon the accident.
Uu Saturday night, in Peter-street, Manchester,
an explosion of oxygen gas killed a man and • little bn,
and ly injured the man's wife (who was prematurely
I confined in cousequenam), besides destroying that part of
the house in which the accident °marred. The name of the
suffering family is Crowther, and the husband, Samuel
Crowther, was once property-master Lithe Theatre Royal.
His son Arthur, aged two yearn, was in the kitchen, his
wife was in the doorway. . . .

Qree.NsLANI Eld I•RATION. —Tile /lb ip Flying
Cloud, heloriging to Meters. T. 11. Mackay and Co., *ailed
cm the 13th iostant front Gravesend for Questiolasd, Captain
Jones, commander ; Surgeon-Seperintendent Dr. Plowman
assisted by Miss Howe, mitres. The Thiel Cloud is thl;
48th vessel that has sailed oo the Iced order system of .
(Tahoe.i under the immediate die/Mies of the Quesnsland
government. She contains 417 souls, divided into paying,
assisted, and free passengers, and ocesistieg of 188 members
of familia, 159 single men, sad 80 single females.