The Express.
London, England, 1863-12-24 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE NAILKATS.

LITOPOOI4 21.—Saie le-day : Great Modem all—Laiff
main sod Yortabire, 111—leodon and North Western. 071
11 5 74—Manchastar, inalleld, and Lincolnshire, 491 f 10 404
50—MkBand, 13114—North Eastern (Berwick) capita stork,
1984--Donut Ewen., 964 1 —Copiapo and Gliders, 135—Great,
Laxmabourai_shares, 12—Mexican Three per Cent., 344 7—Bank of
British and American chew Banking/Company
fla= p.—M examine and Exchange Bank, (Umited),
61-16 346 p.—National sank of Werpoolllamited), 91 13.—
North and South Wales, 244—Albion Marine (Waited), 11.16 p.
—British and Foreign Marine (Wattedl, 313-16P.—LiverP001 and
Landon Elbe and Life, 11 p.—llereantile Marine, f p.—Thames
and Mersey Marine (Liallied), 4 1516 4 p.—Union Marine
(Limited) I p.—National Stearn Navigation Company, if if 1
1146 e p.
MAIICEIDSZI, DEC. n—There has been • very good (market
with steady prices. Great Eastern, 4914—ditto, 6 per cent. pref.,
new, par—Great Ship, pref., 4.. ed.—Great Western of Csneda,
16-I.4reat Western, 611—Lancrubtre and Yorkshire, 1111 14—
London and North Western, 1071 I I—London and Roan
Western, 102—Mancheeter, nelleid, and Lincolnshire, 401
1 0 494 50—New ditto, 11 re cent. preL (paid up), 91—N etro-
poLtan, 1111 e f 4—Mexicans, 381 1 71 Idland, 1401 1 4
—South &astern, 964 i—Thantes and Mersey Marine Inouye',
44 p.—Wed Midland, Se pea cent., 106—Union Bank, te
in.—last Anglian, Ns. 1, 6 per cent., In —Merchants
Bank, 4 p.—District Bank, is 4 p.—Confederate Loan, 38—Thamen
limey, and Humber, 4y d.—Great Ship, la—National Steam, 14
4—Southport Hotel, 1 d.—Hudson's By. 24 d.
ElMMlliarism, Due. 23.—The sake marked to-day were South
Staffordshire Railway shares, 11 1.16, and Birmingham Bank,
274. Of Stour Valley shares there were buyers at 9; of Severn
Volley. at 17 ; of Orford (first Guaranteed, at : of afrODDR.
ham Nnal, at 064: of Dietrict Fire, at 74 of Birmingham
Wagon, at 111; and of Gloucester ditto, at 111. Markets all
Oro. London and North Western stock was quoted worth 1011,
looking up.

CHILUITM.II3 GUTS TO TES POOR.—(THIB
The customary gifts to the poor at this festive MUM were
distributed by the respective clergymen, assisted by the
churchwardens and morasses, is the severs/ districts. The
gif la consisted chiefly of bread, meat, coals, and votaries.
In the parishes of St. Marylebone, St. Pancras, St. Mary,
Lambeth, and St. George-the-Martyr, Southwark, the ladies'
Mailing societies dismissed warm clothing, blankets,
woman's shoes sod cloaks, and cods end potatoes.
This morniog the ward *Moses throughout the City dis-
tributed bread, coals, meat, and small sums of money
amongst the poor inhabitants of their respective wards, and
the City kitchen was opened for the supply of oasis sad
potatoes to poor penoes by tickets.
Dam' ON THZ MOORS.—The Glasgow Herald
semouseas the death of Mr. Alexamler Mitchell, clerk to
the emanaissiocers of supply for the ocredy of Argyll.

trader vesy aselaocholy ciWnin' steam. He was as. of a
party who went out on Friday last white hare shooting,
with tie Dake of Argyll's giunekcepers. Tlis party atm•
rated after a few hours' sport, nun coming oa ; each left
the armed as bast he could. In the evening it was dis-
covered that itt. Mitchell had not reached home. As there
was mist on the hills, his 'berme calmed much aoxiety,
and immediately the duke's gamekeeper', accompanied by
shepherds rod tomtits in the neighbourhood, made a
search over Um shooting ground. The search was an.
fortunately unavailing. and though renewed ow Saturday
was attended by to better result. On Sunday nearly
all the people of loverary, as well en the tenantry and
their shepherds, set out at daybreak, and about 1 o'clock
Mr. Mitchell's body was found on the moor, between
Loclfyoe sad Loehawe. From the position in which the
t o.was found, death is supposed to have resulted from a
stoppage of the circulation of the blood.

MILDNEM OF THE SEASON.--Ou Monday week,
Mr. Zanily. gardeser, of Bishop's Cleave, picked from his
garde. eight quarts of fine ripe strawberries, and three
quarts of raspberries, which he despatched to Leedom for
sale. Hie strawberry beds are sow in full bloom. At
North Barbour.., Claims, some peas have been in
blossom for the last fortnight, end in • girds. near
Swan-pool, St. John's, there are also some in Wasson.
A piece of hawthor• is fall bloom, with berries as
the mime piece, was picked from • bush at Barbourne
yesterday (Tuesday). Violets, gillyflowers, marigolds,
' end primroses, am to be seen in blossom in several
places. A laboroum tree in blossom may also be seen in the
garden of the Rev. W. Thom. Thames House, Berbourer.
Kr. Cl. Butcher, gardener and florist, Malvern. on Wed.
sesclay last, gathered a very beautiful bouquet of flowers,
comprisiog verbenas, double daisies, and roses of various
kinds, grown is the open air. Swarms of bees have been
seen during the week in the gardens of the Link Hotel and
other places. One day bat week, a strange visitant at this
swum, no other than • wasp, fresh and vigorous, stung •
woman employed in a warehouse is Foregate-street. Until
the persons employed with her beheld the malignant lo-
baler deed upon the floor, the victim of jest retribution,
they would not credit her account. Worcestershire
Chronicle.

Tux WZATHER rx FRANCL—The international
balietia of the Paris Observatory for yesterday gives the
following :—"Tbe tempest has invaded Frames, aid is
rapidly eztendieg toward+ the south, the klediter-
ramose beginning to be stroegl► agitated. On the
wester, toast of Fraeoe, in the Chemed, in the
North See, and very probably in the Baltic, • strong
wind prevails, and this morning it was the same
at Dunkirk wed Cherbourg, and violent at Havre. The
tempest is therefore general. and only spans the porflora
and southern waste of Sleds sod those of Portage!. And
even at Lisbon, a strong wind from the N.E. blows which
is geeerally regarded as a bed omen. Rain fell this morn-
ing in • part of France, bat as the wind wss leading towards
the oath, it was sot likely to continue long."

Pareirrrva Snirucrry.—A man named Hugh
If 'Kenzie was arrested in Brooke-etreet, Smyth/medal., on
Saturday evening on a charge of being disorderly and using
obscene language in a public idiom. One night, about two
yearn ago, the same person got drunk on the township, and
after leaving the hotel at which he had been drinking, he
stripped off his clothes, and placing them under a log, went
off into the bush in a state of almost perfect endity. Os
his being missed the police commenced to search for him,
sad (or three or four days kept grappling the waterholse is
the vicinity, but of course to no avail, avid just when they
were about to give up all hope of his being recovered, be
returned in the none light and airy style in which be left,
expremiag his seta/faction that his clothing bad, in the
interim, escaped the wear and tear that bin skin bad sue-
tained.—Oreerafe ddrorste.

SCUOOLH AT NAPLIA. —A Naples letter in the
Drtats contain the following :—" The Technical School,
meintained at the cost of the goverement and sneezed to
the Victor-Emmanuel College, was opened on the Ist
Der. The number of pupils already inscribed reaches
100. and is ineniesiog. Their ages vary from
10 to 16, and they belong to all classes of
, society ; some are from noble and wealthy (moi-
-1 lies. mesh as the Melodis, who are relations of the Princess
Malone°. They are all seated together, the children of
the middle &mess with the rest. Yon cannot imagine with
what sermon the people here rusk to the schools. As
moos as a new 000 is opened, it is filled immediately.
One might my that the habeas are a *atlas
thirsting for inetructioe, from which all the sources
of knowledge had been carefully withheld. The
distribution of medals to the pupils who distin-
guished themselves at the University lest year, bee
just taken pleas. The hereditary Prince distributed' them
himself to the young men, whose esthuaiaam would be diffi-
cult to describe. The ceremony took place at the Univer-
sity, and Profeseor fiettembrini and Senator Imbriani deli-
vered addresses welch were much spplauded."