The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-09 00:00:00

LOCAL SHARE

lARKETS.

LrvinrooL, Dsc. B.—The market opened better again
this morning, and has remained firm all day, with a good
business doing. We note a rise of 3 per cent. on all leading
stacks; since Saturday a. The following are the
transactions:—Caledonian,l4 I I—Ditto (preference
guaranteed), 7 9-16—Eastern Counties, 61—Lancashire and
tnire, 641 1 I—Ditto (fifth shares), 81 d.—London
and North Western, 1141—Ditto (new 1-shares), 3 21 p.—
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 311—Ditto (preference
shares), 121—Midland, 63 21 3—Northern Union, A. (gua-
ranteed by London and North Western, and Lancashire
and Yorkshire), 250—South Eastern and Dover, 201 20—
York and North Midland, 201—Belfast and Ballymena, 331
—Dutch Rhenish, 41 d.
MANCH LISTER, Due. B.—There is a good deal of improve-
ment in prices owing to better news from France, and a
fair business, including Caledonians 141, 1 ; Leeds, 641,
61, 641; Sheffield, 311; Dover, 211 ; Midland, 531, ;
East Lancashire, 141.
Blum MOHAN, Dac.B.—Thia market was very dull again
to-day; in rails scarcely anything was done. In local
stocks, Worcester and Birmingham Canals were done at 34 ;
Birmingham and Staffordshire Gas Shares at 96; and Bir-
mingham Waterworks at 461.
LIEDS, Dec. B.—There has been considerably more
activity in the share market this morning, and a consider-
able rally in prices The closing sales were as follows :
Caledonians, 141; Leeds Northern, 131 ; York and North
Midlands, 201; Midland stock, 631 ; Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 6.5; South Eastern and Doyen, 201 ; East
Lancashire*, 141.

Urnvzitarry COLLEGE, LONDON.—Tho council, at
their session on Saturday last, received notice of the fol-
lowing vacancies: In the office of assistant surgeon at the
hospital, by the resignation of Mr. Cadge, who has ac-
cepted an appointment at Norwich ; and in the office of
dental surgeon at the hospital, and lecturer on dental sur-
gery at the college, in consequence of the decease of Mr.
Deuranci George. The vacancies were ordered to be &deer-
' timed. At the same session, the Fellow.' Gold Medal for
the summer term, 1861, for the best observations on
I medical cases at the hospital, and the Loagridge prise of
1401. for general proficiency in medicine and surgery, were
conferred OA Mr. Joseph Lister. An offer from the Court
of Directors of the East India Company of specimens of
the raw material of India from their contributions to the
Great Exhibition was thankfully accepted.
REDUCTIONS IN OMNIBUS FAREf3.—The large
body of proprietors of omnibuses on the Oxford-street line
forming the London Conveyance and Paddington Associa-
tion Companies, have announced an arrangement which
affords facilities for omnibus travelling on this most import-
line of road which have not hitherto been attainable in the
metropolis. The most remarkable portion of the new table
of fares is, that it not only enables the public to ride from
the Edgewere road to Tottenham-court-road for hi., or to
Parringdon-street for 2d., by any of the regular omnibuses
on the line, but also to and from Tottenham-court road to
the bottom of liolborn-hill for Id. also ; so that there are
two distinct fares of Id. each, or 2d. for the whole distance,
from the Marble Arch, through the heart of the metro-
polis, to the bottom of Holborn-hill, a distance of nearly
8 miles. These concessions to the public feeling in this
matter will afford universal satisfaction.

SUICIDE ON A BAILWAL—On Monday morning,
at an early hour, the body of a younr man named John
Charlton was found dead on the line of railway which runs
from Nottingham to Man.field. He is the nephew of
Richard Charlton, a gamekeeper and publican, who was
accidentally shot and killed by the explosion of n gun
barrel in his pocket at Radford, last Friday. This seems to
have affected the young man's mind so much as to induce
him to commit suicide by laying himself on the rails, near
Buford workhouse, just as the last train was approaching
from Mansfield on Sundaynight. The engine and carriages
had completely smashed his head and one shoulder to pieces,
severing them from the body. At a coroner's inquest, be-
fore Mr. Swann. yesterday afternoon, a verdict to the
effect that deceased committed suicide while is an unsound
state of mind was returned.

iiiiltafttssiiii.=there are few readers who
will not feel an interest in the subjoined statistics of the
river Miuiesipni and Its tributaries. The navigable riven
of the Mississippi alone show a navigation of 20,000 miles,
while their entire length is 51,000 miles. Thus: Mississippi
and tributaries, not including those given below, aggregate
length, 14,385 miles; Red end all tributaries, aggregate
leagth, 4,125; Arkaasas ditto, ditto, 5,540 ; white ditto
1,1150; Ohio ditto, ditto, 10,730 ; Miasmal ditto, ditto, 12,170 ,
Illinois ditto, ditto, 1,270; Wisconsin, 675. Total : Mis-;
shrine', with all its inlets, 50,545; outlets or bayous (in all),
456.—T0tal length of " The Great River," with all its
parts, 61,000 miles.
FEVER AT ST. VINCENT'S.—WhiIst the Retribu-
tion and St. Vincent were at St. Vincent's fever of the re-
mittent type was raging to a fearful extent, producing
fifteen or sixteen deaths a day in a population consisting of
about 600 persons, of whom 350 were laid up with this,
fever, no doubt produced from the malaria arising from the
adjacent fiats and churchyard close to the town, which the
recent heavy rains not only flooded, but exposed numerous
dead bodies to view in every state of decomposition. The
extreme heat of this place, acting upon both vegetable and
animal decomposition, together with the extremely dirty
and badly ventilated state of the houses or huts, fully ac-
counted for this fever being generated, but as the cold
weather was sawing in there was no doubt of its subsiding.
The surgeon of tae Retribution and assistant-surgeon of the
Sidon were constantly employed in attending on the sick.