The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-24 00:00:00

LOCAL SHARE MARKETS.

LteastrooL, Nov. 22.—Our share market has not been
quite so good to-day; there has been less stock offering on
the one hand, and fewer buying orders on the other, clos-
ing with a trifling decline in quotations :—Birkenhead, Lan-
cashire, and Cheshire (late Chester and Birkenhead), 16
Caledonian, 141 1 11-10--Lancashire and Yorkshire, 071
I—Lancaster and Carlisle (third shares), 81 p.—London
and North Western, 1161—Ditto (new shares), 3j 1 p.
—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 301 30—Mid-
land, 56 16 51 1 6 I—Ditto (new pref. 41 per ceut.), 1 d.—
South Eastern and Dover, 201 1 1 I—. York and North
Midland, 201.
Ilaisvot, Nov. 22.—The stock market was very flat, and
there was very little business done. The closing prices
were—Bristol and Exeter, 79 791 ; Great Westerns, 84
20 1
8411. Midlands, 551 66; South-Eastern and Demers, 201
MANCHESTER, Nov. 22.—We have had a dull, flat mar-
ket, and sales were effected at rather lower prices, but at
the close the balance appeared to be restored. Leeds stock
sold at 571 ;Sheffieli, 30 n.; Midlands, 56/ j ; East Lanca-
shire, 151 ; Great Northern (Five per cent. pref.), 131;
Ashton and Oldham Canal, 138.
Leans, Nov. 22.—Business on 'Change to-day has been
of a more limited extent than for a few days previous. Mid-
lands, which closed yesterday at 561, opened and closed
to-day at 561. The other closing sales were as follows:
Caledonians, 141 ; East Lancashires, 151; Lancashire and
Yorkshires, 571 ; Leeds Northerns, 101 ; Malton and Drif-
field Junction, 51 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln-
shire, 301.
BIEMINGRAX Nov. 22.—This market was not so firm
to-day, and bllllllllOl6 was done. North Staffords closed
at 71 dis., and in local stocks, Warwick and Napton Canals
at 211.

PRINTERS' ATRELEUM.—On Saturday evening a
well attended meeting of daily newspaper compositors was
held at Anderton's Hotel to consider proposals forcarrying
out the project of an institution bearing the above title
and combining the conveniences of a club-house with the
advantages of a literary society. Several gentlemen prac-
tically engaged on daily newspapers developed the pro-
posed scheme, and urged the necessity of securing for a
class of workmen so intimately connected with the work of
enlightening the world, and especially for the junior por-
tion of them, every advantage of an educational character,
while it was shown that the Introduction of arrangements

wouldfor providin refreshments at the ro _tee-Wt~~
not only effect a saving to the members, but would
also tend to the growth of worthier social habits than can
be expected to grow in the coffee-shop, or the nearest
public-house. Many suggestions of a practical nature were
made in the course of the evening, and adopted by the
committee. The names of several eminent authors were
mentioned as having expressed their pleasure in anticipat-
ing the establishment of the Printers' Atheneum.
STATISTICS OF CONVICTS.—A parliamentary blue-
book has just been printed, containing Lieut.-Colonel
Jebb's report on the discipline and management of convicts,
for the year 1850. On the 31st December last there were
6,128 convicts accommodated. Of this number 2,269 were
in separate confinement, '42,689 employed on public works,
6.54 in invalid depots, and 516 in the juvenile prison at
Parkhurst. There was accommodation, as it is termed, at
the end of the year, for 6,481 convicts. On the Ist of Ja-
nuary, 1850, there were, in the convict establishments,
6, 929, and the number received in the year was 2,949. In
the year, 2,495 were disposed of, leaving, as already
stated, 6,128 in the prisons. In the same year, (18500 the
number transported was 2,092, of which 1,386 were sent
to Van Diemen's Land with tickets of leave ; 384 to
Western Australia for public works, 938 to Norfolk Island
as incorrigible, and 284 fur public works at Bermuda. There
were 14 removed to lunatic asylum., and 13 to the Philan-
thropic Society's Farm School. There were 247 pardons
granted in the year, of which 11 were free, 20 conditional,
106 on medical grounds, and 111 on the expiration of a
moiety of sentence under a rule. There were 13 escape.
and 116 deaths. In Millbank, the average expense was
24/. 19s. 7d. per head; Pentonville, 251. 91.; Portland,
231.151. Bd.; hulks, 221. 4s. 10d. In Millbank, the earn-
ings of the prisoners averaged 21. 15s. 5d.; in Pentonville,
31. 19s. 11d.• Portland, 151. 195.; and in the hulks,
81.6. 10d. The average coat of each prisoner a year in
England and Wales was 211. 13s. 3d.
INFANTICIDE.—An inquest was held on Saturday
at the King's Arms, Old Brentford, on the body of a new-
born infant, which had been strangled by its mother,
Catherine Bridges, a servant girl, about 18 years old. The
girl not attending to her work at the usual early hour, her
mistress went into her bedroom, and discovered what bad
happened. On being asked where the child was, she
pointed under the bed ; and it was found there dead, and
tied up In a handkerchief, with a garter round its neck. The
inquest was adjourned till this day.