The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-21 00:00:00

LOCAL SHARE MARKETS.

laynnroos., Masten 19. The share market has de-
clined again, but at the reduced rates, a considerable bail-
nen has been transacted. The stocks most pressed upon
the market have been Midlands and Leeds. Tne following
were the quotations:—Caledonian, 321 2 I—London and
t. North Western, 1181 —Manchester. Sheffield, and Lin.
coin, 291—Midland, 74 11 I—South Eastern and Dover,
231 —Wnitehaven and urness, 51 —York, Newcastle, and
1 Berwick, 171—York and Norm Midland, 291—North
Union A, 252—Dutch Rhenish, 21.
&UM:HESTER, MARCH 19.—The market was fiat, and
prices continue to decline. E ist Anglian, Pref. Six per
Cent., 31 ; East Lancashire, 181 • Lancashire and York
shire, 76, 1,6; Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire.
2291; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, New 6/.
Pre( ~ 1 p ; Midland Railway Consols, 751, 1,1; South
Eastern and Dover. 231.
Btaxisonast, MARCH 19.—There was only a limited
business done in this market to-day, but prices were firm.
Crystal Palace shares have been attracting some attention
here during the week ; in this stock business appears likely
to be in favour of sellers. . . . .. .

LIRDII. MAIC 19.—There has been a languid market
for shares of all kinds this morning, yet with no material
change in quotation". The closing transactions were as fol-
low": Caledonian", 32j; East Lancashire", 181; Lancashire
and Yorkshire", 76; Leeds Northern', 161; Midland", 75:
York and North Midlands, 291. In mines, Nouveau Monde
were dons at 21.

LIABILITY OF RAILWAY OFFICIALS IN FRANCE
TOR Nroxacr OT Doty.—M. Thouin, M. Degroebert, and
M. Rousselet, principal enaploy4 at the Northern Railway
station, and two labourers, named Deiillers and Dehainault,
were lately tried by the Tribunal of Correctional Police
for having, by not attending to the regulations, caused the
death of a man named Lemondes on the night of the 22ud'of
January last. A tender, it appeared, got off a line of rails
in the goods station at I:a Chapelle, and whilst some men
were trying to remove it, a locomotive was aceidentelly scot
on the same line. Lemondes, one of the men, had no time
to get away, and his arm was smashed between the locomo-
tive and the tender. He was conveyed to the hospital, but
died in a few days. It was by the neglect of Devillers and
Dehainault that the locomotive was sent on to the line, and
it was contended that the three superior officers oucht to
have seen to the execution of the standing orders. But the
Tribunal acquitted them, and convicting the other two,
condemned them respectively to a month's and eight days'
imprisonment. Dehainault was further condemned to pay
11.0001. damages, and his chief, M. Blanchet, was declared
civilly responchle for the payment.
STRANGE CIECUMSTANCE.—SinguIar as it may op-
peer at this season, the beach at Morfa Bychan and liar-
lech has lately been strewed with dead puffins and razor-
bills. A question here arises for the ornithologist as to
whether these birds are migratory or not, or is this the re-
sult of the very severe westerly Fr ties we have experienced
during the last winter.—North Wales CAronicfe.

FRIGHTFUL DEATII OF A CITY TRADESMAN—On
Saturday Mr. W. Payne, the City coroner, received infor-
mation of the following melancholy and fatal ac'ident,
which occurred near the Bank of England, in the i-resence
of several hundred persons. About a gunner past eight
o'clock on Friday night, Mr. Wonnacott, • plumber and
painter, of No. 60, Coleman-street, City, whilst passing
across the carriage-way from the end of Princes-street, in
the direction of Coleman-street, was knocked down by one
of Pickford's vans, heavily laden. Police-constable Oliver
rushed forward, in the hopes of saving the life of the un-
-I,rtunate man, but the wheels of the vehicle passed over
his body, literally fiatteniag it. He was picked up by
Oliver, the officer, and conveyed to St. B irtholomew's
Hospital, where he was examined by Mr. Wood, the bowie-
mricon, who declared life extinct.
A CONVICT SHOT.—On Thursday, ono of the con-
victs employed at time prisons on Dartmoor, endeavoured to
effect an escape. lie ran off, but was puou.d, and other
attempts to catch him failing, a sentry fired and hit him in
the leg at '250 yards—a good shut, and which will doubtless
serve as a warning.