The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-22 00:00:00

RAILWAY SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, MAY 21.—There was quite a panic in our
share market this morning, and up till !o'clock prices of all the kad.
leg stocks were 4to 5 per cent. lower. Bat at the latter part of the
day an improvement took place; prime somewhat recovered, and
there was a more healthy tune in all transmittal. Tie sales ate:—
Caledonian. l3—Cheater and Holyhead, 19t— Ditto (pref. guar. 54
pit tient), 151—last Lancashire, 131144—Lancashire and Yorkvlilre„
514 6 —Ditto (filth shares), 71 ti.—London and North Western, 120—
Ditto (new 4 sham), 3e 3 21 34 4 p.—Ditto (fifth shares), 34 p.—Ditto
(4.aharee, C), 21 p —Mancliewer, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 274 7 4
Midland, 53 41 I—Ditto (4 shares), 164 IT d.—North staffordshire,
7/ d.--Slutor.bury and Chester, is -south raitern and Dover, 234 1
I—York, Newcastle, and Berwick (Extension No. I and 2), 54 el.—
York and North Midland, 22 14 2 4 Ureat tiituthern and Western, 394
—Ditto (pref. lsiltsres). 13-141 p.
MANCHESTER, MAY 21.—The prices of shares have
undergone a farther decline, hat there has been a pretty fair business
in Leeds, East Lancaahire, and South.Fastet n stocks.
BIRMINGHAM, MAT 21.—Our market wee very had this
morning. but eligkaly recovered towards the eluee. Shrewsbury and
Birmingham Ws were dame at 44 di..

DIsCIIARGE OF CAPTAIN PAULET SOMERSET.—
Yesterday morning Captain Paulet Somerset, having com-
pleted his sentence of imprisonment, was discharged from
the House of Correction, Culdbath-fields. A great number
of persons had assembled to witness his departure at the
usual hour, but he had been discharged about one hour
before that time.

Aoser.stosE.—According to the census return
which was made by " Henry James Prince," as head of the
family in the Abode of Love, 65 individuals were located
there on the night of the 31st of last March. It appears, by
the description of the persons in the census paper, that all,
except Henry James Prince and Julia Prince, his wife, are
enjoycn of this local board on very slight tenure indeed, as
they are described under the head of " relation to head of
family," some as visitors, and the others as servants. We
give the following analysis of this pious sect :--5 clergymen
without cure of souls; I civil engineer; 1 landed proprietor;
1 member of the Royal College of Surgeons, not practising ;
2 annuitants; 1 solicitor and master extraordigary ; 1 gen-
tleman; 6 fundholders • 1 farmer, of 509 acres, employing 30
labourers; 1 groom; poetboy ; 3 helpers in the ;dallies ; I
shoemaker; 8 women house-servants; 2 dressmakers; I
*errant boy ; 3 carpenters ; 1 mason ; 6 laundresses ; I tailor ;
9 wives of visitors; 7 unmarried female visitors ; 1 unmar-
ried male visitor, 16 years of age ; 1 ditto, 7 years of age;
2 ditto, 3 years of age ; and two female visitors, one of them
G and the other 4 years old. Total of males, 30; total of
females, 35. Thera arc but 5 children, of the respective
ages of 7,6, 4,3, and 2 years. It is evident from the re-
turn that this " Abode of Love " does not depend for its
population on an increase from members residing within
its precincts, as, although the males and females are so
nearly balanced, those who have been paired are not blamed
with "pledges of wedded love."—Sonserset County Ga-
zette.

THE CROPA IN GERMANY.—Our correspondent
at Frankfort writes, on the 20th May, as follows, with
regard to the agricultural prospects in Germany The
expectations of a good harvest in this and the central wt
of Germany are very great. The winter crops, which had
sprung up with great rapidity in the warm days of Fe-
bruary and March, have suffered slightly from the cold
weather during the last month ; but the damage is very
trifling, and, with a tine summer, of no consequence what-
ever, Ten days ago rye was in the ear in the Saxon pro-
vince of Prussia; the wheat stood well, and the potatoes
were just beginning to show. In Hessen everything wsa
a little more backward—perhaps advantageously so. The
German farmers are complaining already of the prospects
of a good harvest with such low prices. Farmers are alike
all over the world. The fruit trees have everywhere dis-
played a profusion of blossom. There has been little or no
blight, and but Tory little injury has been done to the
earlier kinds by night frost'. Plentiful crops will do more
to keep Germany in oaks than all the armies, press laws,
or police, the governments ma mate."