The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-22 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKETS.

LITMMOok, Ocr. 21.—Great Western, 721-14dicashies and
Yorkshire, 113—Londou and North Western, 1121 13 12f 4—South
Eastern, b^_l—West Hartlepool, A, 60—Great Western, Birming-
ham Guaranteed. 734—North Union, A. 2+3—Datob Rhenish,
3 p.—Great Luxembourg Shares, 911-16 xd.—Metican Three per
2.51 6—Spanish Pumices. 29)—Confederate Loan, 66
Alliance Bank, London and Liverpool (Limited), 94 p.—Com-
mereial Limited., IS4 10—Eastern Exchange Bank (Limited),
5-16 e. d.—lnternatiocal Financial Company (Limited), 13-16 p.—
Mercantile and Radiance Bank (Limited), 104 1 5-16 ly 1 d.—
North Western Bank ,Limited), 313 p.—Lancashire Insurance,
y p.—Maritiroe Insurance (Limited), 1 5-16 J.—Queen Insurance,
1 11-16 p.—National Steam Navigation Company, SY d.
1113(11111f101, Gtr. 21.—A talc business was done, prices
elosinv not quite so good as they had been Consolidated Bank
(Limited), 5.1 Is—Great Eastern, 444 4-Great Northern, A, 141—
Great Western, fly 1 }—General Credit, 2 p—Hudson's Bay, 16
—Lancashire and 1 (mashie., 11311 I 113 12_1—London and North
Western, 1124—Manchester and County Bank, 3p.—Manchester,
Shealeld, and Lincoln/hire. 65 41 y f y 4—Ditto New Five per
Cent. Pref., sit paid, 913-16—Metropolitan, 1124 12 12 114—
IRtto New, 11-16 p.—Routh Eastern, 82 I—Thames sad Mersey
Marine Insurance, 44 p —Manchester Railway Steel and Plant,
d. Mercantile Bank, 11,2 d. Ebbw Vale, 411—Alliance
Bank, lu 9/ t 191 9 p.—Pretton and Wyre, .3—Queen Insurance,
1 1-16 p.—Confederate Loan, 64.

ATTEMPTED WIPE-MURDER AT WlGAN.—Yeater-
day a labourer named William Lyon, aged 25, was charged
at the Wigan poboe-offiee wi.h attempting to drown his
wife. Lyon is an idle worthless fellow, sad as be seldom did
say work he had frequent quarrels with his wife, who at last
left him and went to reside with her mother. Oa Tuesday the
husband and wife met, when they had one of their customary
quarrels, which Lyon ended by giving his wife. serious thrash-
ing. On Wednesday she asked him for money to buy fend,
which he refused to give, and leaving the house walked
towards Feedstock, followed by his wife. Arrived on the
beak of the Manchester canal, Lyon asked her to join
him, and they walked together for • short distance,
when he suddenly seised her and threw her deli-
berately into the water, immediately after running
away at the top of his speed. Lyon's brother-in-law
had accompanied the couple, and he rescued the
woman as she was sinking a second time. She was taken to
a farmhouse near, where she recovered from the effects of
the ducking. The police were sent in search of the can-
didate for the gallows, and he was apprehended the mme
seeping. On the hearing of the cue yesterday the wife
i seemed very loth to give evidence, and ultimately the
prisoner was remanded till the petty sessions on Monday.—
L.rerpool dicrrery.
THE ALLEGED BANKRUPTCY IRSIBOULARMES AT
BIIMINGHAM.—On this subject we fiod the following state-
manta in the Birmingham Daily Poet :—" hletere. Ayrtoo
and Harding have made reports calling upon the official
assignees and messengers to pay over large sums to the court
fund ; and, impelled by menacing letters from the
chief registrar, those officers have, in nearly every instant*,
rued* the payments required f them. Bat, so far as
we can learn, they bare done this only to ward off official
threats, reserving to themselves the right of appealing
to the Lord Chancellor for redress against what they
consider the harsh treatment to which they have been
subjected. As regards the question itself, it was partly one
of dry law, and partly one of official usage. The =MI
erected of the official assignees were made up of fees ac-
cruing since the present sot mem into operstioo, from
estates which were previously in their bands. As these
officers now receive a salary of one thousand a year (about
• third less than they formerly earned in the Birmingham
court), Meagre. Ayrtoa and Harding hold that they ought
to pay into tire court fund all the fees they receive, whether
on old estates or new. The official assigns.., however, con-
tend that the act of parliament does not take from them 1
the proceeds of business which was allotted to them before
the act cum into operation."