The Express.
London, England, 1851-09-27 00:00:00

LOCAL SHARE MARKETS.

Lretwoox, Sart% 26.—The market has been rather
easier to-day, with more disposition to realise at present
quotations. Midlands, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and
posers are all lower. The transactions are:—Est Lan-
cashire, 141—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 631 1 I—Lon-
don and North Western, 114—Ditto (new 1-shares), 21 p.—
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, preference shares, 111
—Ditto, 61. new preference, p.—Midland, 451 11 1 5--
-Ditto (1-shares), 181 d.—South Eastern and Dover, 19/.
MANCHESTER, SEI.T. W.—There has been a very dull
market; one cause of flatness being the approach of
settling day. Prices are a shade lower. Leeds, 54, 531, 1 ;
Chew Junction, 12° • Dovers, 19.
Lana, SEPT. 26.—There has been more business done
taring, though without any material change in quo-
tations, though on the whole the principal stocks are
weaker. Closing sales: West Riding tnion, 61 d.; Lan-
rmshire and Yorkshire, 54; Eut Lancashire, 14/. 6s. 3d. ;
Midland Stock, 451 ; York and North Midlands, 181;
Leeds Northern Extensions (No. 2), 2 d.; Leeds Nor-
them, 11.
BRISTOL, SEPT. 26.—Our market was firm to-day, but
without any improved activity or material alteration in
values. The better tone of the London market made holders
reluctant to operate at the obtainable currencies, which had
the effect of limiting transactions.
Braursousts, Seer. 26.—There eau rather more busi-
ness done here to day at yesterday's quotations. Midland,
Birmingham, and Derby' at 23:; Shrewsbury and Binding.
ham B's at 41 dis. • Stourbridgo and Kidderminster Banks
at 10 ; Birmingham: Gas shares at 143 ; and Birmingham
and Staffordshire Gas at 95.

TO TEE EDITOR OF TEE EXPRESS. Oil
Sir,—l was yesterday one among a hundred or so of
sufferers by a trick of the North Western Railway Com- to
pany and its speculators. so
With a friend and a servant I went to town on Tuesday
by the excursion train from Oxford. The placards declared. ,
that " passengers may return by a special train at 11 a.m.
on Wednesday," &c. I returned by this special train ; but, gs,
on reaching Bletchley, was coolly told to wait there till 3
o'clock, exactly two hours, for the train on the Oxford line, fe
I call this an unworthy trick—one that ought to be ex- St.
posed. If they state—as, in common honesty, they should Gl*
—that the " special train " shall take the passenger as far
as suits the company, and that he must then await tke
company's convenience to go further, of course we know to
the value of an excursion train, and avoid it accordingly. 33
If an omnibus cad stops, for his amusement, and keeps
too long between Charing-eras and the Bank,
CTligblect to information and fine. Surely every public se
conveyance, whether cad or company, should be taught et.
in like manner that the servant of the public must execute 13
his &AM honestly.
Year Constant Reader,
D. C. L. i is

Winslow, Sept. 25.

SWEARING IN TILE SIIERTFFS OF LONDON.—Thin
morning a breakfast was given at the Cordwainer's-hall to
the members of the corporation and sheriffs and sheriffs
elect of the City of London ; after which the corporation
proceeded to the Guildhall, where the sheriffs were duly
sworn in.

DARING BuitGLART.—On Saturday night last a
lodge house in the parish of Washingley, near Stilton,
known as Pack's Lodge, and occupied by Mr. Thos. Per-
kins, a respectable farmer, was entered by burglars. Mr.
Perkins had just before arrived from Peterborough market,
about 9 o'clock, and the family not having retired for the
night, the doors were not fastened. A party of five men,
disguised with masks and crape over their faces, and with
guns, pistols, and bludgeons, suddenly made their appear-
ance. The man who first entered exclaimed that be was
Dick Turpin, and that he had brought his men with him.
He then demanded the keys of the bureau, and on Mr.
Perkins hesitating to give them up, the fellows immediately
broke open the drawers, and obtained the following articles :
—About 301. in money, including several crooked sixpenny
and fourpenny pieces, a single-barrelled gun marked " 8.
' A.," three tablespoons not marked, ono ditto marked " C.
R.," seven teaspoons marked "A. P.," four plain tea-
spoons, and a watch (maker's name Robt. Tyler, Melton
llowbray). They locked the inmates in a room, and drank
six bottles of gin and between six and seven gallons of ale,
and danced and sung till 2 o'clock on Sunday morning,
when they leR, taking in addition to the above-mentioned
property three hams and a side of bacon. They beat Mr.
Peddas severely, cutting his head, and otherwise im-treating
him. The lodge is some distance from any other house, and
the road being unfrequented, the thieves had the opportu-
nity of plundering with impunity.—Stassfmi Mercury.