The Express.
London, England, 1851-08-07 00:00:00

LOCAL SHAKE MARKETS.

LortneooL, Aro. 6.—The market continues depresset4
with prime sill tending lower. Birkenhead, Laneaehire, and Cbs.
shire (121. AhAfeS), 7 d.—Ploat Lancnshire wrel. 1 olives), 34 —Mtn.
burgh end Glasgow, 294—Lancashire and Vookobire, 404 I
Ditto (fifth shares );81 d.—London and Nnrth W,ortrn, 1224—Ditto
(new 1 shares), p. 401 4—Ditto Ij shares, 211
"teeth E lateen and Dover, 221 1 211 2 14—York, Newcastle, and Her.
wink (preference, unpaid up), 34 d.—iork and North lb.
Leans, AUOVST 6.—'f he market this morning has to some
extent recomered turn the extraordinary inactivity of the past few
dayo, red an average amount col business has been done though yeses
rally at a slight decline on homer pratiokr. The cloning rake were
as follows:—Grist Northern, 17 ; East Lan-arhirts, 141 ; Lancsi
shire and Yorkshire, 4111; Midimd Stork, 411 • MM. Midlando,
die ; Tack and North Midlands, 1$; Leedo and Thireke,
MANCH R+TElt, Afro cur 6.—There was rather more tiusi.
yea thin on the previous day, but priors were again lower. teed,
slink declined from 44 to 4$ 7-14.
Act:. 6.—Thin market was very tint
to day, and all dooriptiona of ahem; were marked lower. Most of
the transactions took place he telegraph with the London market.
There is a krone feeling here on the ribjeet of the delay which taker(
place in the holding of the half.yrorly meeting!. 01 the railway coml.-
deo. It 1.4 'aid, and .t would se .111 with some Dionne, that if the
vamp ivies can publish their traffic return+ 14.-.0.h ouch apparent seas:
racy \very week, so they oeght to be euableil within • fortnight at
the expiration of the half year to be in r liorition to send out a states
went of accounts in order that rharehoblers might fee the enact poois
tiun of affair, There Romani to br no more reason for delay in thy
me. liege of railway enimoantes th in In three of joint stock
which are over by the tins wire In the stand month oPs:1
half year. Th. obeence of thin sort of principle in railwins ia gene.
rally regarded hers as most prejudicial, and by wee pareels. as a roe
gutsily orgonioct swindle for stoskyolhing viewer. To take acme
in point as regards dividends. the North Staffordshire
Carnpany held its meeting laet Wednerilay ; the directory
admit that they hare • certain sum in hand, lint
the thrideed dry is postponed until the lot of ileptenther, the try
verge of ururth,r quarttroolay. If the directors home the money as
hood os tkelared, why is it kept out of the handy of the shareholders!
These I idies In eat way management, creating doubt and misgivings
on the part eithareholders, um operating moat prejudicially In the
mote id railway speculation, hod ologusting the many respectable
persons who would teherwise invest their malign in this dearriptuna
of pmparty. lihareholders want to one melanin at least within • tort-
nightafter the closing o 4 the hook, at the end ~teach half-year.
Buteroc, Act:. G.—There is no alteration in the share
market today, and but little bueineor was dune.

SERIOUS ACCIDENT AT THE VAUXHALL STATION
or THE SOUTH WEST EILN RA I L WAY.—This morning,
about lialtpast eleven o'clock, au accident occurred in con-
sequence of the down-train and up-train coming in colli-
sion, which caused about 20 persons to be seriously injured.
Medical assistance was promptly at hand, and some were,
after a short time, able to be removed to their house% in
cabs, but some, who were not able to be removed, remained
at the station at the time of going to press.
THE WOLVERILAMPTON TIN-PLATE WORKERS.—
A public meeting was held lest evening, at the National
Hall, Holborn, "to receive a report from the dele-
gates appointed by the London Central Defence Committee,
to watch the proceedings on the trial of • The Queen on
the prosecutions of Edward Perry and Richard and G. Hs
Perry against Henry Rowlands and eight others, for con-
spiracy to obtain an assimilation of wages amongst the
master tin-ware manufacturers of Wolverhampton.' t
There was a crowded attendance, consisting chiefly of
working men. Mr. Thomas Holmes, shoemaker, of London,
was VOW' to the chair, who addressed the meeting at some
length upon the subject, sod contended that the workmen
were convicted of no violence, nor of any offence, beyond
that of persuasion, or of yielding to persuasion, neither of
which was before understood to be crimes in law. Several
speeches were made and resolutions moved by working men,
expressing sympathy with the prisoners, and a determine,
tion to obtain redress for them. Among the speakers was
French tin-plate worker, who with mono others had beet
brought to this country by the Jlesars. Perry, but who had
left when they discovered the real nature of the dispute
between the workmen and their employers. His address
was loudly cheered.
SINGULAR FATALITY, —Yesterday a highly res.
spectable master butcher named Vamell, living at 47, Firm-
street, Wilton-street, Chelsea, expired in St. George's hos-
pital from the injuries caused by an accidental stab, which
occurred in a most singular manner. On Saturday evenitis
Mr. Yarnell had been talking with another master butcher,
a neighbour of his, and the latter having sharpened hla
knife, placed the handle against his stomach so that the
blade was forward, anal in a few seconds afterwards the de-
ceased, who probably was not aware of its position, or from
the darkness of the night not seeing it, suddenly turned
round towards the other, and the blade of the knife was ig
an instant forced into the stomach. Tho injured man was
taken directly to St. George's Hospital, where he was placed
under the eare of one of the nrincipalsurgeons, but although
he had every all that skill could afford, he expired yester-
, day from the effects of the injury.
ATTEMPTED RODIIERY AND MURDER. Ott
Saturday evening a young man named Stone, a seaman on
board a ship just arrived at Sheerness from a foreign
station, having got leave of absence to visit his father, who
lives in Union-.treat, Maidstone' was walking from Ro-
chester, and on arriving about half-way between Bridge,
wood gate and the Upper Bell, was assailed by a fellow
who jumped out of the hedge demanding his money or his
life, and at the same time making a blow at his limed whiok
he parried with a stick. Another man thee appeared who
discharged a pistol at him, the contents of which took effect
in his right ear and the palm of his hand, his arm being
raised in the attitude of delence. lie exclaimed, " You
don't mean to murder me," and began to lay about hint
mootvigorously, when the cowardly villains made off into
the wood, which was searched immediately afterwards for
them, but without effect.—Maidstone Journal.
A FIELD ON PHIL—The extraordinary spectacle
of a field on fire was entneseed on Tuesday at Cheethain.
It was, however, not the indigenous produce of the field
that thus became ignited, but the produce of American
fields brought there to ha dried, but not intended to be dried
so annihiletingly as great part of it yesterday became. A.
quantity of cotton, waved from a fire in Liverpool, had been
purchased by Mr. John Blair, cotton breher ; and being
wet and requiring to be dried, and dirty and requiring to
be picked, Mr. Blair bad it laid lightly, about six inches
deep, over a field at Ogden's farm, Cheethara Hill, and set
some sixty personsto picklt. A spark from the pipe of one
of these persons is believed to have caused the loss which
Mr. Blair has now sustained by the burning of two-thirds
of the whole stock ; there bras about 3001. of cotton, and
only 1001. worth of thin has been saved. Assoon as the
fire broke out, the fire-engines from Clarence-street, Man-
chester, were sent for. Mr. Rose and his men obeyed the
summons, and took three machines tb the burning field;
but as, on arriving, they FoUnd that there was no water to
be had tbr the supply of the e'ngines, they could merely be
of use in Iniggesting theminakt tapered= of the uuburnt
from
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