The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-03 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKETS.

LirEsponL, NT. 2.—llales today:—Great Eastern, 204 30 2
30 29; —Great Stawtern, F. 4} 4 Lanmalitre and Vork-
sliire, 124} / 4 I—Lontion and North Western, 1184
t 14 1414 14 I—ltancbeifter, tibetfteld, and
Lincoln, 121 I—North British, 431 9:—Sttth
Eastern, 64D, 1 1- North statford Preference, No. 2, 100—
, Birkenhead, e7i-4creat Western Of Canada, 134—Erie, T 4 f
1 1 4 4—l :lite State; 5.20 Is.nds, 014 70 001 To—(treat Lux-
embourg shares, 12 15-141 13 124—Liverpool Financial Associa-
tion , 21e. d —Men:Anti:eland Exchange Bank ,kimited),
7s .I.—Braish sod Foreign Marine (Limited, par —.l.lVi'rpOld
And imu.lon ;OA Globe her awl Life, 13-10 P —Anglo•Amerirall
'felecraph, IR l'oln 17--Allantie Telegraph S percent., 64 1146
f —BritiM awl In ab Magnetic Telegraph A, 1471—National Steam
,Limited:, 11fd.--tirest Ship Company. 30
inanixortati, (KT. 2.—The sales lo this market today were in
Stratford-,1-Aron Railway shares at 14; Lloyds' Bank shores at
s pta. Birmingham Gas nnw ordinary shares, 1800, at 4 pin. ;
and Birminsliam Waggon shares Limited ' at 10/, per dime.
thoing prices :-11irtninghani Canal, at 86 to 8G1; Ilirmircham
Banking Company shares et par to fpm.; Biniiiinthani Joint
,toek Bank limited', at 33, sellers; Staffordraire Joint Stodr
lit Limited at 31 pm loiyers : Birmingham Eioancial .bans
at If to 11k ; south stati•rd,ldre Waterworks, buyers, at o 4;
and Mantis 3tctal shares, at 1/ to If dia.
briltin, tar. I.—New Three per Cent. Stock, 1:71 /, I—Ditto
fir a:eount, 4th Dd., 871—Ditto for new accont, 8711. f
India X per cent. stock /transferable at the Rank of Ireland , 104
—Hibernian Backlog Comnany '4,23 paid , :4:4—National Bank
paid , 701—National of Liverpool Ltudtcsi; 'US pd. , 121—
Royal Bunk, ..ClO paid`, 321 I—Dublin1—Dublin and Belfast .11:m.tion
xlil4 paid , MidliuniGr,mt Western ' 1100 paid) 01I—Imidin,
I Wick:ow, .n.l Wexford, 01.er cent. perpetual (ElOO paid , 113.

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SOUTH AltrroN, Ger. 3. —The North German
Lloyd's steamer Hermann, from New York, passed the
Needles at 12.40 p.m. to-day.
Two rare birds belonging to the Grey Phalorope
tribe were shot last week on the river Axe. Thus species
of bird visits the Arctic regions in the height of the sum-
mer. The two birds are supposed to have been driven out
of their migratory course by the recent high winds.
DI>:PATCH OF THE 'WEST INDLi AND NEW. ZEA-
LAN:, MA.I.A.—SOCTHAMPToN, OCT. 2.—The Itord Mail
Company s steamship Atr. to, Captain Jellicoe, sailed this
tate:noon with the mails for the British and Foreign Weat
Indio,. Mexico, the Pacific. California, Centred -lune ica,
Awitralia, und New Zealand. She took out 192 passengers
and very large cargo on freight, including English jewel-
lery, 2.M$l. ; French jewellsry, 8,3001. ; and G 25 bottles
of quicksilver, value 4,3001. Amongst the paasuorers by
the Atrdto arc Lady Arrinde: and the Rev. Mr. Webber,
for Demerara ; Lieutenant Coombs, Captain O'Connor,
Assistant Commanding-General Sbortt, and Dr. Clarke.
for Jamaica ' • Captain Duncan, for Grenada ; Pr. Lee-
coos, for Colon ; Sir C. Clifford, for Wellington ; and
Captain Bell, for Sydney,
A PETSONER AT FLORENCE. —Stopping before
a cell in a remote part of the prison, the warder shot back
the ponderous lock:bolts, and throwing open the door we
beheld a man of middle age, by no means repulsive in
in appearance, but giving evidence by his unquiet eye and
haggard expression that solitary confinement was doing its
certain work of mental destruction on him. This man was
Berniardno de Cosimi, one of the most determined and
diabolical murderers that the world has ever been Mined
with. For the sake of acquiring a few francs. he was in
the habit of lodging with widows and other unprotected
women ; and luring them into fancied security by his en-
gaging manners, seized an opportunity when they were off
their guard. of stabbing them in the neck with a mall
knife, holding them down until they bled to death ; and
with is devilish perversion of religion, the days on which
he committed these fearful crimes were marked by bins in
an alutanack with a red cross ! In this manner he killed
seven poor creatures in Borne and Florence. Justice at
length overtook him but not such justice as many persons
would conceive to haft hi. due. In consequence of a sad
mistake wade shortly r tho late Grand Duke Toe=ny
came to power, the punishment of death for murder was
repealed in 'Tuscany. A young man found guilty of twir-
der was guillotined, although protesting innocence to the
! last moment of life. Soup years after the execution, the
i real murderer confessed the crime, and the Grand Duke.
who, whatever may have been hie faults, had a kind and
! sensitive heart, decreed that there should be no more capi-
tal punishments in his dominions ; and so strongly was he
supported in this opinion by his subjects, that it has been
stated, and probably with great truth, that were the law
. repealed, no jury in Tuscany would be found to convict a
; murderer. Attempts, however, have been made to set up
the guillotine in Florence, which, according to popular be-
lief, has been sent front Turin to the new capital along
wifwee,tlhinaltghpoetrotiblip,of government. But so antagonistic is the
p and elninisenhmtle7ntq,uslifithateds gentleman tis:re
inofps.Thighia.
went, lately lost his election, because he declined to give
a positive pledge that he would not vote in favour of capi-
' tal punishment.—Frater's diapering for October.