The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-05 00:00:00

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MINES.-(THIS DL Ti

Two e'CLocw.
There is little business in the mining market
to-day, but there is a demand for Great Vur hares
at 35} to 3G, being 10e. above the List
price of Saturday. Ou the other hand, East Gren-
ville have receded to 5 to I. East Caradon are
quoted 18 to 19. East Lovell shares have been dealt
in in the Stock Exchange at 16.
Port Phillip and St. John d-1 Rey shares are
flat ; the former have changed hands ot 11„
and and the latter at 36.
A call of V. 6s. is to be paid on the shares of the
Hendre Ddu Slate and Slab Quarry Company
(Limited) by the 7th of March.
The following raining dividends ha,. been doclared daring
the month of November:
Nines. Per share. Amount.
11.,iners_ £7 0 0 .... £12,600 0 0

Devon Great Consols— . 10 0 0 .... 10,210 0 0
SJuth Candoll
West agrarian Ol5 0 .... 2,250 0 0
West Beast
Frank Mills
Provideoce Minas
Wheal Bitty (St. Agnes) 0 5 0 .... 1,072 15 0
Cargoll Ol5 0 .... tier 0 0
Etst Beret 1 0 0 .... 512 0 0
Torbay Hematite
Miners Boundary
West Darosel
Vancouver Coal 0 5 0 .... 2,500 0 0

Total fM,MI 15 0

THE LOSS OF THE STEAMSHIP STANLEY.
SCENES ON THE BEACH.
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The A berdeen Free Prra.4 publishes the folllowing
affectiog incident of the wreck :—" Mr. and Mrs. Williams
Anderson, of Elizabeth-terrace, lelingtoo, snivel et Shields
on Sunday, in quest of their lost sister, Mies ILirper. Their
father, an aged man, had been up to London visiting his two
daughters, and whilst amongst them he told his sore-in•law
that be ha.l not boon so happy for many a day aii with his
two lames beside him once more. He persuaded his
dambter to see him to Aberdeen, sod she was returning to
London, after performing this set of filial duty. when she
was lost in the ill-fated Stanley. Her body ham not yet been
found. _

M►ny diagraoeful scenes occurred on the beach during the
night and morning of the wreck. Hundreds of wreckers
were busy plundering and carrying off what was most port.
able. One most revolting act was witnessed. The body
of • fine young woman was cast saltine. and • brutal ruffian
was actually seen plundering the corpse of a few articles of
jewellery which the poor girl bad concealed f u her bosom be-
fore she was washed off the wreck. Amongst the waifs and
strays drifted ashore were several casks of whisky,which were
speedily pounced upon by the thirsty portion of the wreckers.
The heeds of the maks were promptly knocked out, and in a
brief space of many of these topers, of both sexes, were
skewed about the beach in • disgraceful state of intoz-
ioatioe. Men and women laden with sacks sod basket•
might have been seen staggering under their hardens, and
wending their way to the "place from whence
they came" in some of the gimlets courts and
alleys in the lower part of Shields ; while hundred
of others, empty handed, were unceasingly press.
iog forward to ...ore their share of the spoils of
the sea which thickly strewed the beech. It was something
revolting to witness this insensate thirst after plunder while
the lives of so many human hemp hung, as it were, in the
balance, and when the corpses of so many fellow-creature,
were lying stiff and stark amid the dank tangle covered rock,
over which the sea • few bow before .wept with
such irresistible fury. In one part were piled fragments of
wreck, splintered masts, torn sails, and tangled cordage.
all jumbled together in chaotic confusion by the fury
of tba waves, interspersed with many carcases of data
bullocks, sacks of flour and oatmeal, either widen or burst,
►nd their contests drew along the sands. At an angle of
the rock, in the midst of this confusion, was • noisy group
worshipping at the shrine of Racchum The flickering of •
fire lighted up • knot of semi.drnnken timbered faces. Ice
the midst was the altar, a large cask of rum, the head of
which had been forced in, and every one who came within
the charmed circle was invited to We "a pull." A elms
had been improvised for the occasion out of a stone bottle.
and many were reeling about under the madde•ing
inflowce of the fiery liquor. A melancholy sight wee wit-
nessed nest this group of noisy bacchanals, the might et
which for some 111101011111t1 dredged this ill-timed mirth. This
was the corpse of a young woman which had been fowl II
• hollow of the rooks almost imbedded in tangle. The dis-
hevelled wow fill in dank maws access her pallid marble-
like face, and the blood was oozing from a weed in t►e
temple, evidently caused by being dashed against the rocks
by the fury of the sea.

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