The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-28 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE MARMITE.

Livnio43l, 27.-11sIna 163-tlai: -Great Beedeni.eiroll96orme.
-Gnat Western, 68-London and ere; Irsaissu, Int 3 PR
-Manchester, Sheffield, end Lincolnshire, IMO 1)-1(
11114 1I 1 Mink Boum, rtk 7-Legation and North
Buffalo and
Western, St. Be
elens Baron, ur-andu-half per Cant. H, 0411 c. ad.-
71-Grand Trunk of
41 2 1$ 2-Me, 410 I I $- note Cientatl,
States 6.10 Bonds. Of 7 '244-Duteit Umiak% p.-Great Luzern-
dues, 16*--Alliance Bank et Drakes and Liverpool
(limited). WO 1246 p.-Conumeredal (Llalawi). Ifie-Reatera Br-
change Bunk (limited), 11-16 d.—Mersuitile and lichen*
Bank (Limited), S 16-16 i d.-British and )noels Marine ,
(Limited), 1$ z all p.-pre Marine (limited), 6.-Thames
and Mersey Marine led), 63 7-16 p. -Nadonal Steam
(Limited), 111.16 f I 16 to. d.
MAUffiniffillit, lam 27.-A moderato badness wu done at
generally lower prices. Bolduc, Vaughan, and Company
(LLmited), 6p.-Consolidated Bank (Limited), 61 p.-Erke, 644 ;
-Great loam, WO-Great Luxelarg, 161}-Greaa Northern,
A. 1412 xd. - Great Western of Canada, 161-Great Western.
68$ * 3-Illinois, 78-John Brown and Co. (Limited), 4 9--
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1192 20 ad.-London and North
Western, 122$ zed.-Manchester and County Bank (Limited), 4 c.
p.-Manehester, Sheffield, and Linea 64$ 411$ ;
redeem pref. 7-16p.-Metropolitan, 1232$ nd,
ad. ; ditto, New 181. shares, 2 is. p.-North -
Easters, 77$ 7-Thames and Mersey Marine Insaranos
iLrluitted), 6 7-18 p.-United States 640 Years' Bonda, 704 I-
Fourth Prei, $8 -East Lancashire, 6 per out., 1304 Id.
anaseatig, Fin. 27.-The transastions today included:-
( London and North Western Railway. at 1264-Birmingium
Joint Stock Beak (Limited), at 87$ and 37f-ilinsingisarn Wagon
(Limited), at 12 -Mousatu Wagon (lAsolted), at 18$-Manta
Metal (Limited), 1 dia-Patent Pile (limited), at dis.-ead
Patent Nut and Bolt (Limited), at Anciaast, the closing
peace were Worcester and 11 to 120
-Birmingham Bank. 30 to 601-Lioy s Bank, 12 to 121 prem.-
Wolverhampton Mill, to 21 per shire.
UMW, lax 16.-New Three per Cent. auk, 861 O }-
ditto, for account, 6th Match, 86}-ditto, for new account, Da
Hibernian Banking Company (2.1. U-National Be
Cr: paid), for account. 76-National of Li (Limited)
MI. paid), for account, lef-Previncial Bank (WI. paid). 831 -
yal (101. paid). 343 3-Oreat &withers sad Matsu (1001.
paid), for account, 10-Great Southern and Western, 4 per cent.
perpetual (all paid), 90-Irish North-Western, 6 per cent. per-
petual, (all pild), MN A, for account, 4 O.

The amount of the purchase-money to be paid
for Gloucester House, which le to be pulled down In the
emerald the Perk-lane improvements, is said to be 60,0001.
Of this, 20,0001. is to be paid to the Duke of Cambridge
for the unexpired hew of 14 years, and 40,0004 to the
trustees of the will of the late Sir Richard Sutton for the
freehold.
BarOsir Golersantron. Moe DAT.) This
morning a reform conference wee held at St. Martin's-ball.
It was attended by delegates from various parts of the
country, all of whom expressed themselves strongly in
favour of extensive changes is the reeneseetation of the
people in the House of Commons. It was unanimously re-
solved that a greet public meeting should be held in the
hall on Friday.
DEATH OF DE. Lin, Q.C.—The death is recorded
this morn* of Dr. John Lee, Q. 0, et Hartwell, a gentle-
man who won known not only se a lawyer, but as a poli-
ticise, a scientific man, and a social reformer. He was an
energetic radical, and frequently appeared on the linearly
at Aylesbury an an opponent of Mr. Disraeli. In some
oases be west to the poll, but was never sueosesful. He
was • signed teetotaller, and a determined enemy to the
use of tobacco. His house at Hartwell was a per-
fect museum, and scientific men always found a
welcome there. In his general =anent Dr. Lee was some-
what eeoentric. Although a lawyer, and one of her MA.
*We counsel, he always appeared on the beatings attired
in • light blue tail coat with lots of brass buttes', and
generally with a buff waistcoat and light trousers, some-
times breeches, madel in the quaintest fashion of the old
times. He was se active member of several of the learned
societies. The rectory of Hartwell and the vicarage of
Stone, Buckinghamshire, which were in his gift, he made
over some years ago to the Royal Astronomical Society.
who have remained the patrons ever since.
Tax iiiiincinn AT GUILDIroRD.—On Monday even-
ing the inquest on the body of Elisabeth Wesley, who
drowned herself in the river Wey oa the 18th inst., was
opened at the Railway Anus Inn, Guildford. The
evidence revealed that the unfortunate woman had been
the subject of the most cruel treatment at the hands of
her reputed husband. Many detaih of shocking treatment
were given, whioh treatment caused the decamped to
to Wesley at Healey-on-Themes on the 14th inst.
bear was sentenced to six months' impreponment she
appeared very sorry, and, after an unsuccessful attempt to
get some portion of his punishment remitted, her manner
appeared to the superintendent of pollee and others to be
very strange, and her eyes were observed to roll with a pecu-
liar wildness. She appears to have sold off her furniture,
and re-assumed her maiden name, with the idea of obtaining
• situation. She left Henley on the 17th ioet. for Reading.
She previously told the landladf the Three Tees that she
was married in Shoreditch. There wee so direct proof
afforded as to Wesley having aaother wife living, but there
were several hearsay statements upon which such a suspicion
might be founded. Evidence as to the deceased sleeping at
Guildford on the night of the 17th hat, and her suicide by
jumping into the river on the following morning, was next
given. together with the fact of a savings-bask book, 161.105.
in gold, Bs. 4d. io silver, and some coppers, besides a portion
of her clothing, being found in the room in which she slope.
The jury returned • verdict " That the deceased committed
suicide while in a state of temporary inseeity, brought on
by the ill-treatment received at the hands of her husband."
Tax Law or 11(817P.ANCE.—An important case
was decided la the Court of Common Pleas, Dahlia, on
Monday, before Chief Justice Monahan. It was au action,
brought by Lord Creftoe, to recover from the &deadens'
the sum of 10,00 W., the amount of a policy of immunises
effected on the mansion-house and offioes of Moats
Park, in the county Roscommoo, with the Globe
Insurance Company. it appeared that • omisbikr-
able portion of the insured premises was destroyed
by fire in May, 1866, sod Lord Crof toe complained that the
insensce company had neither rebuilt the proteins Weep
nor paid ever the *menet of the policy, altitaingli fre-
quently requested to do so. The defence was that by •
stipulation la the policy of ie/RLTSDOO the eorapaay had the
option of rebuilding the plase or paying the 1111110 net far
which it was insured ; that the company had elected to rebuild
the premises, but that a reasonable time for doing so bad
not elapsed. Lord Crofton also soeght to recover the
further sum of 2,0001. for special damage ordained. His
lordship railed that if the jury toned there was no *lntim
to rebuild, sad the breach of the contract wee the ase-pay-
meat of the mosey, the claim for special damage could net
be sustained. The jury found for the phiiteiff—dareaps.
9,0001.
Tax Housman Poore Acr.—Yesterday Mr. H.
B.[Farnall, C. 8., the Peor-law Board's Commissioner for the
inspection of Poor-law Unities, visited the workhouse of
St. Cisme* Hasever-equare, in Mount-street, to Inquire
into the worideg of the Hoeselem Poor Act.
As lITILLOEDINAIT CEO*.—A Missouri paper
&moaned a 'herb time since that the "wife mop in Os&
'comas county yielded 5,000 gels." The next weak tbe
editor came out with an 1"
erratum—for wits rood wino."