The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-01 00:00:00

' In the foreign stock market, on the whole,
realizations predominated.
In the market for bank shares the tendency of
prices is still upwards. An improvement took place
today in Bank of London, British and American
Exchange, Bank of British Columbia, London and
Buenos Ayres, Oriental, and London and Northern.
Bank of Hindustan were flat. A fall bas taken
plaee in British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph
shares. St. Katharine Dock, East and West India
Dock, East India Irrigation, South African Irri-
gation, and Joint Stock Discount shares, as well
as the Italian Irrigation Company's Bonds, were in
demand.
Ocean Marine shares closed to-day at 91
to 10 prem. ; Universal Marine, to t dia. ;
Thames and Mersey, 3 to 34 prem. ; Commer-
cial Union, to 14 prem. ; North British and
Mercantile, 17 to 4 ; and Oriental and General
Marine, 1 to 14 prem.
The closing quotations for shares in new under-
takings to-day were as follows :—lnteraational
Financial Society, 64 to 64 prem., being again
higher ; General Credit and Finance, 21 to 24 prem.;
London Financial, lf to prem. ; British and
Foreign Marine, 1# tot prem. ; Empire Marine, I to
prem. ; English and Scottish Marine, par to
1 prem. ; Cannes Hotel, 5 to 6 prem. ; Mediter-
ranean Hotel, Ito 1 prem. ; Margate Hotel, to
14 prem. ; Southampton Imperial Hotel, to 14
prem. ; Kingstown Hotel, 14 to 24 prem. ; Dart-
ford Creek Paper Mills, to prem. ; Clarence
Hotel, 1 to 14 prem. ; Public Works Credit Com-
wy, 4to prem. ; Nice Hotel, to 14 prem. ;
Copenhagen Railway, Ito 14 prem. ; Jersey Ho-
tel, to 1 prem. ; and-London and Paris Hotel, 1
to 11 prem.

MINES.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'CLocz.

The mining market is rather active to-day.
Tineroft, Wheal Ludoott, Wheal dryUs, New
South Caradon, Wheal Crebor, Wendron Consols,
Wheal Margaret, Great Fortune, and West Caradon
shares are in good request. Tincroft are quoted
19} to 20 ; Wheal Ludoott, tntroz64 ; Wendron
Consols, 11 to 12 ; Wheal it, 32 to 33 ;
Great Fortune, 384 to 37} ; W Crebor, 3to
3} ; New South Caradon, Bs. to 108. ; West Cara-
don, 25 to 27 ; Wheal Grylls, 28 to 30; East Basset,
110 to 112 ; East Caraon, 31} to 32 ; Wheal
Harriett, 34 to 4 ; Wheal Seton, 245 to 250 ; and
New Martha, 3} to 4.
Don Pedro shares are firmer, and Alemillos in-
quired for. Linares sad Dnitedidesican are steady,
at prelims quotations.
The following adman( dividends have bens declared during
the mouth of May
Mines.

Per 'hue. Amount
Misers £7 0 0 ... . £12,600 0 0
Devon Greet Consols 9 0 0 .... 9,216 0 0
Wicklow
South Cando° 4 0 0 .... 2,018 0 0
Wert Sanest 0 6 0 .... 1,800 0 0,
Providence 1 5 0 .... 1,400 0 0
Great Wheel Fortune Ol5 0 .... 1,348 0 0
01401
Poet Buret
Drakewalls
Wheel Marpret
South Tolgus
South Wheal Frames 1 0 0 .... 496 0 0
SR Ivor Consols
Wlical Olden
United Mexican

£55,505 5 0

Tai BALLOT SOCIZTY AND THI CITY ELECTION.—
At the adjourned weekly meeting of the committee held on
Saturday last, the following resolutions were agreed to :
" 1. That this committee, considering the weight which the
opinion of the capital City possesses with the other consti-
tuencies of the kingdom, regards with great satisfaction the
selection of G. J. Goschen, Fag., • supporter of vote by
ballot. as • candidate for the repreasatation of that City, in
pelf ereooe to • gentleman who would not promise to support
that measure, and appeals to all friends of free and protected
voting to give that gentleman all the rapport in their power.
2. The committee begs leave to record its dimwit from Mr.
Geschen's statement, ' that political iadependence has so
far advanced that the introduction of • new mode
of voting would rarely affect the result. of elec-
tions,' and to record its conviction that such
statement is inconsistent with the existence of the large
dam which Mr. Gamlen truly dates ' claims the protec-
tion of the ballot bemuse they are liable to suffer for •
ciotiatientiona vote.'" By way of illustration the committee
refers to the ease of Wales, where an overwhelming majority
of the people are diameters ; but a majority of the members
for Welsh boroughs and counties vote against the abolition
of church rates, • state of things which this committee be-
lieves would not exist under the ballot. "3. The committee
would else express its surprise that Mr. Mackay does not yet
feel that the • indifferemee' on the subject of the ballot, of
which be speaks in his address, is not so past as he bad
supposed, teeing that his lukswarmnem on that quentioa was
the priocipal came of bis rejection as • cambriate."
Arrsispran MUDD= BY POPION.—An ertraordi-
nary poisoning case was brought before the Chester roses
trate. on Friday. A woman named Louisa Cram was
charged with administering poison to her husband. Thomas
George Cram, on Monday and Thursday lest. Mr. Cram,
who is • respectable artisan, deposed that be was suddenly
taken ill after breakfast on Monday. He experienced •
burning pain in his mouth, throat, and intestines, midi&
bowels were excessively relaxed. He procured BOOS
medicine, and the relaxation mead entirely. The homing
pain continued until Thursday, bat he had become so con-
stipated that be could not est. On Thursday
morning be found that he could not eat his
breakbuit, so his little daughter drank part
_of the coffee
placed before him by his wife. She immediately became ill.
and vomited. He procured some tincture of rhubarb, and
asked his wife to bring him some coffee. She took it to him,
and gave it him in presence of an assistaut. As soon as he
took the coffee his stomach rejected it, and be again became
very ill. Having some slight knowledge of poises, be ob-
served the coffee narrowly, and found a sediment at the
bottom of the cup. The powder was in sufficient quantity
to cover a shilling. Finding that both himself and his
daughter were very ill, he collected this 'sediment
and went to the Chester lafirmary. An emetic was
then given to the girl, and an antidote to
himself. The girl vomited very much, and the matter was
lreaerved for analysation, as was the powder also. Before
eaving his house complainant had told his wife to preserve
the matter which passed from him, but on his return he
found the vessel carefully cleaned, and that his wife had
absconded, taking with her every article of value in the
house. Dr. Brittain, house surgeon at the infirmary, de-
posed that the statement of the man as far as regarded his
'symptoms and what took place at the infirmary was true.
le submitted the powder, and requested the bench to order
it to be analysed by a professional chemist. The prisoner
was remanded until Wednesday. During the whole time
she was in court she bung her head, and appeared to feel her
position acutely. As soon as her daughter was led in, she
hosed her passionately several times.
ROYAL NAVAL REIERVE.—The following ap-
pointments have been made in the Royal Naval Reserve :
To be lieutenant, Richard Gully ; to be sub-lieutenant,
Alexander Oughtoo.
THE PRIMMEST ELECT or COSTA RICA.—The
newly elected President of Coats Rica, Don Jesus Jimenez,
is now • man of 42 years of age. He was born in Cartago,
which place be has frequently represented in Coogresa, and
was, for • time, Secretary of State after the overthrow of
President Mora. Senor Jimenez lived seven years in Guate-
mala studying medicine.—Panaumpaper.
Three steamers from America will be due the
middle of this week, via., the City of Washington, sad the
City of Cork, which left New York oa the 23rd alt., and
the Bohemian, which left Quebec the same day.
In 1862 the imports of anger into the United
Kingdom amounted to 101 million cwt, nearly 4 million of
which were from British West Indies, 11 millions from
Brazil, and nearly 400,000 from Jam sad the Philliopine
Islands. The imports from British West Indies sad Brasil
are increasing. and from Mauritius, British East ladies,
Java, and the Phillippioe Islands, decreasing. 'fie decline
in the imports from Mauritius arises from • better market
being fond in Aususlia.—West /ndia paper.
THE TRUE DIFFICULTY IN SOUTHEUN ITALY.—The
true reason for the greater part of the antagonism which
exists against the new state of things in Southern Italy is
I the terror of that i 030311060 army of priests and maths who
now live io idleness on the masses—the priests, thousands
of them without core of mule, or connexion with any edu-
cational movement, living on the payment. made for masses,
ors of which every day in that country will, with extra
pickings which had better not be too closely inquired into.
amble bin, at least to live ; the mocks, from the beaedie-
tine of Catania—who has his carriage and ambling mules,
an unstinted table and unlimited whist, and who pays the
Capacities for doing the night mares which might give him
cold-down to the miserable brutalised mendicant Cepucine
himself, drawn from the dregs of the people, and taking
the last mite from the widow sod crust from the beggar ho
support himself in idletess, rotundas them the scraps he
does not want himself as alma—all living in idleness oa the
poorer classes, and bringiog the thunders of the thumb,
and terrors of eternal punishment to bear oa the accursed
and sacrilegious Pueblos:item. I was snored by a Sicilian
nobleman of the highest rank that there are 4,000 priests,
monks, and nuns, in the town of Messina alone. There is a
priest for every 200 inlmbitaots of the Island of Capri, amity
living in utter idleness, and making money
by cursing the
rpoiess (for • consideratioa) when they gel into the refs
porpoises
of the fishermen. Until these burdocks have been removed.
it is melees to dream of a happy Southern Italy.—Macesil-
fan's Magazine for June.