The Express.
London, England, 1852-05-19 00:00:00

LOCAL SHARE MARKET'S.

Livaneoot., M•T 18.—Our ;1;;r; .....t to-day on.
Manse Arm, but not active. There are very few buying
orders. The following are the transactions Caledonian,
=lent lAneashire, (preference 1-shares), 91—Lan-
and Yorkshire, 73—Ditto (filth-shares), 6 16.16 d.
laminaraft and Carlisle (third-shares), 91 p.—Lancaster and
Eriastan, 371 p.—London and North W. stern. 124—Ditto
asw i•dwites), 61 p.—Maneheater, She Meld, and Lincoln
shares). 131—Midland, 70 i—North Szafford-
-111 d. —North Union (Pres. and IV., 1, guaranteed by
and North Western and Lancashire and Yorkshire),
{ll-21wath Ecetern and Dover, 21}—SheMeld, Rotherham,
and Gust., N. D., 221—York and North Midland, 241—
'Dille (preference), par—Dutch Rhenish. 31 d.
MANCITNITIII. MAT 18.—Prices are still tending upward,
bat with a better business than yesterday, and the sales in-
elude--Caledonian, 191—Leeds, 731—London and North
Woolen, PM Midland, 701-6.uth Eastern, 21 7-16—
Earth hire, el die.
BIWIMION•M, Mat 18.—This market was very active
today. Coventry and Nuneatons were done at 123;
Shrewsbury and Birmingham A's at 71; Preference Shares
at 101; Shrorhire Unions at 3 1.16 die.
BRIPTOL, MAT 16.—The gullet WOO more active to-
day, and prices *reeler. The transactions were : Great
WeMerna, 921; Midlands, Ilegair Vale, 156; ditto New,
21 prem. ; eet CornwalL3i

THE LAST SLATE SOLD IN ESOLAND.—Oar friend
of " Notes sad Queries" gives the following as an adver-
tisement of the last slave sold in England, from the Publse
/Adger, Dee. 31, 1761: " For sole.—A healthy negro girl,
aged about 15 yeah; speaks good Englih, works at her
needle, washes well, does household work, and has had the
small pot " This is all very well, but quite a mistake as
to the last slave offered for sale in England. The last slaves
offered for isle. and bought, were at St. Albans, or at
Sudbury, and, if our unmet, do not Nil us, IMalle IA ',ere
about the time of the lu►t (41 Clitoll. I t is expsettil that a
few more will be pat up at the ensuing dissulution.—Punch.

SUICIDE OF A SOLDIER ON GUARD.—Yeeterday
morning, a considerable sensation was created at the Hone-
Mirtconsequence of a report that one of the grenadier
o in
committed suicide by cutting his throat. The soldier,
whose num could not be directly ascertained at the time,
bad been on guard all night at the above place, and was to
have been relieved, according to the usual routine of duty,
at 11 o'clock in the forenoon, having completed the
24 hours' turn at that time. He was relieved from his pest
as sentry at 7 o'clock, and about half-past 7, sa he would
.at have to turn out again before the general relief, he went
Ito have a short sleep in the " Black-hole," a customary
practice with the men when no prisoners were confined
there. As his absence was noticed to be rather too long
for the occasion, another of the men went to call him out,
and, on receiving no answer, threw open the door, and dis-
covered him weltering in blood, having nearly decapitated
himself with his razor, which was found beside him on the
wooden bed. bledieal assistance was immediately pla-
cated, but the unhappy man had been deed some time. An
inquest is to be held on the baby.
DEYEILRED EXECUTIONB.—A can somewhat simi-
lar to the Winchester one was told me by an old and re-
spectable inhabitant of Worcester, who was himself cog-
nisant of the circumstance, and had frequently seen the
convict. It occurred in the ganlenhip of the father of the
present governor of the city gaol. A boy of only thirteen
or nineteen had been convicted of some capital offence, but
on account of his youth was reepited indefinitely. He re-
mained in the gaol, was found to be a docile hid, and much
liberty was accorded to him ; the authorities expecting that
he would receive a pardon. Time flew on, many months—
I think my informant said nearly two years elapsed, and
his case seemed forgotten. If he was not actually sent on
errands out of the geel, so loose was his captivity, that he
might easily have alipt away at any time, and been
scarcely missed. In fact, he had the full run of the prison,
and was a great favourite with the debtors, whose sports
and smusealentehs joined in, for discipline was very las in
those days. He was playing at hall one day in the yard
with some debtors full of hie and glee, when suddenly, to,
the utter astonishment of the gaoler, and the ewe of his
associates, there came an order hum London for his execu-
tion. Why he had remnined so long forgotten, or why
such extreme severity fell on him an unexpectedly at la-t,
none could tell ; but his ease was considered a very hard
one, and was commiserated by the whole city. My inform-
ant saw the poor boy conducted to execution. The old
citizen who gave me this autoint is dead, or I could have
recovered 'he date of its oecurn nee.—Nofes and queries.

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SIC ITUIt AD ASTRA.—The celebrated Atago hu
resioned his office as dinsetor of the French Observatory
rather than take the oath of fidelity to the French die•
to nr. Ti Is noble act is a prix.l th .t Louis .N.tiwkott's
lucky star i. out auroug the that the honvst ,LaDunuener
can rcougniae.—Psosch.