The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-24 00:00:00

LOCAL SHARE MARKETS.

Livitaroor., Ocr. 23.=--Theshare market 11•4 been
better this morning, with very little stock oirering fur sake
The following are the trassuctions:—Birkenhead, Lanca-
shire, and Cheshire, late Chester and Birkenhead (221.
shares), GI d.—Ea,! Lancashire, I 1/ —Great Northern, 14—
:Lancashire and Yorkshire, 511 1 c. i 4—London and Norsk
Western, 114—Ditto (New Quarter Shares), 21 p.—Mat-
lock and Midland, 31 el.—Midland, 481, 1,1, 1, 481, 1, /
Ditto (new preference), 1 d.—Shrewsbury and Chester
(preference guaranteed 8 per cent), 16—South Eastern
and Dover, 181—York and North Midland, 191—Dublin
and Drogheda (third shares), 101.
MANCHEATER, Ucr. 23.—There was a very dull mar:ict,
little business being done, and no alteration in prices.
Leeds stock, 44; Dowers, 18 11-16 ; Sheffield stock, 2h;
North Statfords, 9 d.
BIRMINGHAM, OCT. 23.—This market was exceedingly
dull to-day, scarcely anything having been done. Birming-
ham Banking Company shares were done at 28s.
Lanus, Ocr. 23.—We have had a rather less active
market this morning than yesterday, withou , however, any
material change in prices. flu following arc the closing
quotations :—Great Northerns, 151; East Lancashire-6, 14 ;
North Westerns. 14,' dile; Midland stuck, 481.
BRISTOL. OCT. 23.—Our market remained without any
improvement, and the sales were to the most limited extent.

CHARGE OF Fe/MI:BT.—A young man named
Frank Stephen Simpson has been some tune in custody in
Bangor on a charge of forging, and uttering a chequ, for
134/. upon the Lichfield Branch of the National Provincial
Bank, in the name of his father, Charles Simpson, who is
understood to be a gentleman of property and high respec-
' tability resident in or near the latter town. The prisoner,
who has something of a fashionable exterior, had been
staying at the house of Mr. Thomas Naylor, the British
Hotel, and being pressed for payment of his bill, gays
Mrs. Naylor the cheque, at her solicitation, on the under-
standing that her husband, who had had business at the
Queen's Ferry, should go on to Lichfield, and get the
cheque cashea. Toe prisoner had unsuccessfully endea-
voured to get it cashed at the branch of the bank in Bangor.
He subsequently asked Mrs. Naylor to return the cheque,
but was told by her that her husband had it, and that he
would be at the Queen's Ferry that night, and would pre•
sent it at Lichfield the following morning. The prisoner
then borowed 10.. from Mrs. Naylor to scud his wife for-
ward to Lichfield. saying that she would get the mousy
paid sooner than Mr. Naylor could. The cheque had
however been sent to Lichfield by post, though the prisoner
was unaware of that circumstance. The next day he ab-
sconded, leasiug, however, all his property behind him, ex-
cept one dog. Oa the day after this a reply came trots
Lichfield that there was no authority to pay the mouey,
and that the signature was not genuine. It being suspected
that the prisoner had gone to Liverpool, the electric tele-
graph was put iuto requisition, aud Tomlinson the con-
stable, with Mrs. Naylor, went after him, and found ham
in custody at the police office. A cheque book wee
foundupon him, with a number of the leaves filled up for
large sums, signed with his father's name. Ile was brought
back to Bangor, and has several times been examined be-
fore the magistrates. After a hearing on Tuesday before
the Hon. Colonel Pennant, M.P., and John Vincent
Hawksley Williams, Esq., he was remanded till Tuesday
next, at one o'clock (the magistrates declining to admit him
to bail), in order that the evidence of the manager of the
bank at Lichfield so to the forgery of the signature may be
obteined.—Nornt Wales CArenick.