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

LOCAL MIARE 31 ARRETS.

LIVZIIPOOL, Nov. 10.—The share market has been gene-
rally better to day, and we note an improvement in prices.
The following are the transactions:Birkeithead, Laneash ire
and Cheshire (late Chester and Birkenhead), l6.l—Cale-
donian, 12: 7-16—Eastern Counties, 6 3-16—East Lance-
shire, 141 I—Great Western, 82—Lancashire and Yorkshire,
.I.A —Ditto (fifth shares), B:d.—London and North Western,

11 li—Ditto (new) shares), 21p.—Ditto (fifth shares), 24.
—Manchester Sheffie:d, and Lincoln, 28—Ditto (1 shares,
1-7 j till 184, 49j—Ditto (new preference
4i per cent.), :d.—North Staffordshire, 811 id.—South East-
ern and Dover, 19j 19—Belfast and Ballymena, 119:—
Great Southein and Western, 341.
MANCHESTER, Nov. 10.—There was a very good market,
prices being higher, and a better tone manifested than has
been for sonic time past. Lecds Stock, 541—Mithand, 491—
North StaNbrdshire, South-Eastern, 191 —Sheffield
North-Western,Stock, 28—London and North-Western, 11 I—East Lance-
shire, 144—Caledonian, 121—Great Northern, 191.
LEvos, Nov. 10.—There was considerable buoyancy in
the share market this morning. The transactions were
numerous, and show an advance upon Saturday's quota-
tions. The closing sales were :—Leeds and Bradfords,
100; East Lancashires, 11j; Lancashire and Yorkshires,
-iii; Midlands, 49; Doyen, 19; North Westerns, 13j dis.;
York and North Midlands, 19a Eastern Counties,
Banner, Nov. 10.—The market remained without much
activity, but with prices somewhat better. Great Westerns,
which opened at 82, afterwards improved, and closed at b 2,1
firm.

NEWLY ELECTED MAYORS.—Liverpool, Mr. Thos.
Littledale ; Manchoter, Mr. Robert Barnes; Salford, Mr.
Frank Ashton; Leeds, Mr. 0. Goodman; Oxford, Mr. W.
Ward ; Bath, Mr. W. Lung ; Ex..tcr, Mr. W. W. Hooper
(re-elected) ; Nottingham, Mr. Felkin (re-elected).

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CIIARGE OF CRUELTY AGAINST A SEA CAPTAIN.—
On Monday evening, three Swedish sailors named respec-
tively, Nelson, Ekinanson, and Laquest, were brought to
the North Infirmary, fur admission. On being examined
by the medical gentlemen of the infirm:ay, their bodies were
found to be in an extreme state of emaciation, and covered
with wounds. The untortunate men were at once attended
to and prescribed for, and in the course of Tuesday the sus-
picions of the officers of the house were roused by some signs
and other movements of the sailors, which led the atten-
dants to think that they had not been fairly treated by the
captain during the voyage from Galata, and consequently
an investigation was held yesterday at two o'clock, in the
infirmary, before the mayor. C. M. Aberg, Captain of
the Hydrous, the vessel in which the three sailors were
shipped in the Danube, was present, and William Meldahl
was sworn as interpreter, as none of the parties spoke
English. In reply to the interrogations put by the mayor,
through the interpreter, Nelson, who appeared to be the
worst off of the three, and whose body exhibited every in-
dication of great suffering, being worn almost to a
skeleton, stated that he had no complaint to make
anainst the captain. Sometimes the captain gave him
the " rope's end," but he thought he deserved it on
some occasions, and therefore did not complain of that.
There was a plentiful supply of provisions on board,
though deponent got very little of them, but when he
asked for any, his request was generally complied with.
He did not attribute his illness to any harsh treatment or
neglect on the part of Captain Aberg, who was himself
during a long portion of the voyage confined to his berth
with lever. It appeared that Nelson, and the other two,
had, while in the Danube, been attacked with ague, and
subsequently at Constantinople they were afflicted with
fever, and the medical man who attended them there gave
the captain strict directions to keep the three sailors on as
low diet as possible ; but this, the captain stated, he
found impossible, as every time an opportunity offered,
the three unfortunate men cat and drank whatever came
within their reach. Dr. Dullen, who was also in
attendance, stated that the wounds on the bodies
of the sailors were but superficial, and did not
indicate any amount of serious injury. The emaciated
state they were in might be the result of having to
work, or havieg been subjected to the fatigue of a sea voy-
age, while in a state of convalescence from fever and ague..
He did not think the wounds on their bodies to be of that
nature that would justify • charge of criminality against
the captain. The other sailors were then questioned by the
interpreter, and stated they had received no bad treatment
from the captain; they believed their emaciated state was
caused by having to work before they were perfectly reco-
vered from the combined effects of lever and ague. Under
all the circumstances, and from the admisaions of the
sailors themselves, the mayor was of opinion there was not
sufficient evidence to ground a charge against the captain.—
Cork. Reporter.