The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-24 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL BHARI MARI=

UntaPOOL. Prix 23.-Sales today: Caledonian, 1091-Orisat
Eastern, 271 7-Great Western, 411 21f -Lancsahlre
and Yorkshire, 128-London, Brighton, and South Coast,
61-London and North Wooten, 1121 f--Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 45 5 541 1--MetropoUtan, 1215-111d-
land, 1145-South Eastern, 64-tinited States 5-Al '62, 721-
Ditto, 1805, 71-Great Luxembourg shares, 10-Liverpool and
London and Globs The and We Insurance, 54 p, -Queen In-
surance, 5 d.-Britielt and Irish Magnetic Telegraph A,
96-West India and Pacific Steam 8 d.
Mancßigivint, JOLT la -A fair business was done, but at lower
prices. Anglo-American Telegraph (Limited), 181-Consolidated
Bank (lamitad), 9-I.6ol:—Distriet Bank, 175 p.-Zries, 47 f 5
-Great Eastern. 275 7 arest Luxembourg, 105 5 1-16-
Groat Western of C 14Y{-Great Western, 42 2-11uthon's
Westerre andorkshlre, 126-London and North
1125-Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnakire,4sf I f I
-Metropolitan, 1101 I 5 1 20F-South Eastern, 114; 4-Thanies
and Mersey Marine Lowrance (Limited), 31 p.-london and
Brighton, 61 505 I 5.
BIRMINGUAII, JULY U.-Business dose: Birmingham Town
end District Bank shares at 115, and Munta's Metal (limited) at
1-16 dla. Closing pries: Severn Valley Railway, 15f. buyers-
Birmingham Canal, 89, buyers-Birmingham end Midland Bank,
141, buyers-Midland Financial (Limited), 1 9.16 to 15 dia.-Bir-
mingham Wagon (limited, second Inoue, 7-16 to pm. -Metro-
politan Railway Carriage and Wagon (limited), third issue, I to
1 di. -Patent Shalt and Axletree (limited), new, If prem.,
sellers.

Dimity, JULY 22.—Three per Cent. Consols, 941—New Three
per Cent. Stock, 94/ 911—Ditte, for account. 4th August, trii 93
—Munster Bank (Limitedi (raPaid), A—National Bank (130
4
paid), 61e I.—Provincial k 125 paid), 861—Ditto, ew
(all paid), 341-11toyal Bank (110 pald), 99—Union Rank
(Limited) (121 pfd 12i—Great Southern and Western (1100
paid). 961-11kiland Great Western :1100 pa. 66i—Waterford
and Limerick (all paid), 12—Dublin and nviosrn, Het

DEATH OF MRS. ARDY.—We have to record the
death of Mrs. Mira Abdy, • lady who has long been well
known for her poetical writhigs. Her earliest contributions
appmired in the pages of the New Monthly, under the
sature of " M.A. " and she subsequently became con-
nected with the Meiropontan, while it was under the edi-
torial care of Thomas Campbell. Her poems have been col-
lected in five volumes. The mother of the deceased was
the sister of Horace and James Smith, the authors of the
" Rejected Addresses."
MR. ERNEST JONES AND THE REPRESENTATION
or ELturas.—On Monday • public open-air meeting was
held in fruit of the Town Hall, Halifax' to consider the
steps deemed necessary to be taken at the next general
election. The evening being fine, there was • very fair
attendance. Mr. John Smith, carpet weaver, Stannary,
was elected to the chair. Mr. George Webber moved the
first resolution, which web, "That in the event of Mr.
Ernest Jones not becoming a candidate for the city of
Manchester, this meeting most cordially invites him to
allow himself to be put in nomination as one of
the Liberal candidates for the borough of Halifax
at the next general election." In answer to a ques-
tion as to which of the present representatives Mr.
Webber wished tot see displaced, be declined to say.
Mr. F. Wright, president of the Halifax branch of the Re-
form League, seconded the motion. He expressed himself
as strongly opposed to anything to endanger Mr. Stansfeld s
seat. If he thought the present movement would end in
displacing Mr. titansfeld, he would not lift his hand. Mr.
Joseph Greenwood, stuff finisher, moved as an amendment.
"That this meeting has full confidence in our representa-
tives Mr. Stansfeld and Mr. Akroyd." Mr. Thomas
Akroyd, Halifax Corporation Reservoir keeper, seconded
the amendment. A rather irregular discussion followed,
in the course of which a rider was proposed that the meet-
ing had full confidence in Mr. Stansfeld, and that a vote
be taken singly on each name before the meeting. This
was accordingly done, and the show of hands was declared
in favour of Mr. Stansfeld and Mr. Jones.

THUNDERSTORM NEAR BOLTON. —Yesterday after-
noon, about 1 o'clock, • tremendous storm, accompanied
by heavy thunder and vivid lightning, fell over the dis-
trict of Little Lever, near Bolton. In Hall-lane the
electric fluid played a singular and somewhat destructive
freak at the house of Mr. John Greenhalgh. Mrs.
Greenhalgh and two of her children were in the kitchen.
One of the latter, • little girl 6 or 7 yearn old, went upstairs
to see if the rain had penetrated the ceiling, when almost
immediately came • tremendous crash. The mother
rushed upstairs, and found the child lying helpless,
and apparently dead. It, however, shortly recovered, and
was found not much injured. It was then discovered
that the lightning had knocked down the chimney, having
descended by the chimney into the bedroom, thence into
the lower parts of the house, where it forced a cornice from
its position, and smashed the ornaments upon it ; it then
flashed round the room, swept the pictures from the wall,
and passed out at the door, most providentially without
injury to any of the inmates. A cat, which was lying on
the hearthstone, was struck dead. The gable of the house
was much shaken, and most of the window frames damaged,
the house being rendered untenantable. After raging about
three quarters of an hour with terrific violence, the storm
ceased. So other damage, excepting what has occurred in
various qaarters by float, is reported.
THE FRENCH WOREPEOPLE AND THE GOVERN-
MEKT.—It was thought a happy hit to get foreigners to
spend • million and a half sterling amongst French arti-
sans and mechanics in completing and fitting np their
respective departments of the Exhibition. But 'he regular
demand for hands not being suspended, the extraordinary
demand simply added about 206,000 more to the army of
proktaires quartered in and about the capital, and placing
the government very much in the condition of the en-
chanter who was compelled to find employment for the
spirit he had raised, under the penalty of being torn to
paces. When the laws of political economy agree with
common sense—and they are sadly misnamed when they
do not—they are never long transgressed with impunity.
As most of the large towns, Lyons, Marseilles, Bordeaux,
&c., have been emulously beautifying already, they afford
no outlet, and imagination is let loose to discover what
fresh marvels of expenditure will suffice to prevent or pro-
crastinate the crisis. Is the noble faubourg to be the next
victim to punish it for its legitimist recollections! or is
the Latin quarter, with its unruly students, to be treated
like the Faubourg Saint-Antoine ?--Qaarterly lie view, new
number.