The Express.
London, England, 1853-01-11 00:00:00

LOCAL SRAM MARKETS.

LIVIRPOOL, JAY. 10.—The market has been very
quiet to-day, without any change on Saturday's prices.
The day's quotations are as follows : Aberdeen, 151—
Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire, 61 d.—Chester and
Birkenhead, 221—Caledonian, 311—Eastern Counties,
113 7-16—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 83I—Liverpool,
Crosby, and Southport, 14—London and North Western,
1241—ditto (fifth shares), 31 80I—North
British, 9 13-16--South Eastern and Dover, 241
York and North Midland, 29j—Midland (Founand-a-1111
per Cent.), 1 p.—St. Helen's Railway and Canal (5 per
cent. and div.), 1831—North Union A, 263.
MANCHISTER, JAN. 10.—There has been a fair business,
without much change in prices. Cheshire Junction, Bl—.
Daver, 241—Leeds, 841—Sheffield, 301—North British, 9/
Eastern Countits, 13 7-16—Great Southern and Western,
53—Sheffield pref., 11—East Lancashire, 191—London
stock, 125—Midland, 80—Caledonian, 341.
LIIDS, JAN. 10.—There has been a somewhat improved
tone in the market this morning, and the transactions have
been more numerous than for tome days past. The follow-
ing are the closing sales :—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 81/
—Midland stock, 801. 3s. 9d.— North Westerns, 81—North
British, lot c.—South Eastern and Dover, 25—Great Nor-
thern New Frets., 11s. pm.—Colonial Gold, 4j.

SINGULAR CASE OF ROBBERY.—On Saturday, in-
formation was given, with a description of Joseph Rogers, a
miller, who had absconded from Whitehaven, charged with
stealing a cash box containing upwards of 901. Ile is a
native of Egremont, in Cumberland, and on New Year's-
eve was seen in a small plantation near that place looking
anxiously about him, but, finding that he was observed, he
made a precipitate retreat, and the spat where he had been
standing being approached and examined, it was discovered
that in his haste he had dropped between 501. and 601. in
gold and silver. _ _ _

SUICIDE IN MILLBANK PRlSON.—Yesterday Mr.
Bedford held an inquest in Millbank Prison on the body of
Thomas Wilkinson, aged 20, • convict under sentence of
transportation, who committed suicide by nearly severing
his head from his body with a razor. The deceased, de-
scribed as a cloth-dresser, was, on the 12th of July, 1651,
convicted of robbery and wounding, and sentenced to 20
years' transportation at the York Assizes, pursuantto which
sentence, oa the 25th of August last, he was received into
the above prison, apparently in good health. After being
there two months, being ill, he was removed to the Infirm-
ary, where in a short time recovering, he was transferred
back to the prison, and placed in separate confinement, to
follow the trade of a tailor, of which he had some previous
knowledge. He never appeared desponding, or intimated
by his demeanour that he meditated selfelestruction. On
Saturday last, Warder Thomas Roach gave him into his cell
some shaving tackle, which he left with him while he pro-
ceeded along the passage, when on returning he found the
cell door shut, and on looking through the signal hole
discovered blood on the fluor and table. Immediately
calling the religions instructor, Mr. Postance, who
happened to be passing at the time, they entered
together, when deceased was discovered lying on the
floor with his head nearly severed from his body, the fright-
ful wound which was exposed having been inflicted by the
razor given him to shave with, and which lay open by his
aide clotted with blood. Mr. Itendle, the resident surgeon,
followed by Dr. Bailey, physician of the prison, were in im-
mediate attendance, and pronounced life to be extinct. In
answer to the coroner, Dr. Bailey said that he considered
the act of suicide by deceased was induced by the impres-
sion on his mind of kis length of sentence, and the separate
confinement he underwent. It was a question he would
rather not give an opinion. upon, but leave it to the legis-
lature as to the abandonment or not of the silent and sepa-
rate system. It was impossible for him to say, but he
thought it probable that the solitary system of punishment
deceased had undergone had affected his mind. Captain
Groves observed that ho would express what he formerly
had done, which was that separate and solitary confinement,
however mitigated, was injurious to body and mind,
although he was not an advocate for making prisons plea-
sant places. The Coroner having summed up, and remarked
that the system of classification and separation was one of
vast public vital importance, the jury, after a few minutes
consideration, returned the following epecialverdict: " That
the deceased, Thomas Wilkinson, destroyed himself by cut-
ting his throat with a razor while in a state of temporary
insanity, produced by separate confinement."
MANCHESTER, SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLNSHIRE
RAILWAY.—The parliamentary declaration of this com-
pany, with reference to the extension of their Barnsley
line, to be made in lieu of the Barnsley junction breaches,
states that it will be made out of a surplus amounting to
100,0001. of the company's " additional capital,' to
600,0001. authorised in 1649. The cost of the original
Barnsley junction and branches would have been 348,0001.
CENTRALISATION OF THE METROPOLITAN RAlL-
war 9.—A correspondent has forwarded to us a proposal for
the centralisation of the southern as well as the northers
railways in Farringdon•street. The southern lines, he
remarks, would all unite at the Waterloo station by the
long projected west-end extension of the Bricklayers' Arms
branch ; and thence they might run by one common trunk
to Foniog.lon-street ; Blackfrian Bridge being rebuilt
double, to serve for the trains as well as for the ordinary
traffic. Farringdon-street he regards as a singularly appro-
priate spot for a central station.—The Builder.
ROYAL POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTION.—A special
general meeting of the propriatry of this institution was
held on Saturday, to determine upon the new hyi.-laws in
connexion with a supplemental charter just obtained, by
which each 1001. share has been converted into ten shares
n bey i
of 101. each, a holder of two shares having a free admission
for himself at all times, the effect of which Will no doubt
be, that the proprietor ...
greatly extended, and the
institution proportionately benefited thereby.