The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-04 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKETS.

LITEIPOOL, Nov. 2.—Sales: Caledonian, 881 0 81 7—Great
Eastern, 32$ I—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1261 eqllls—
and North Western, 113$ I—Manchester, Sheffield. and
Lincolnshire, 481—Metropolitan, 121 Wl—Midland, 1171 i 1—
South Eastern, 6711—Great Western of Canada, 16 7-16 i ;
British and Foreign Marine 'Malted:, Ip.
Mancunians, Nov. 2.—Market steady, but quiet. Folckow,
Vaughan, and Co. :Limited., par—Great Eastern, 32$—Great
Luxembourg, 81—Great Northern A, 1131—Great Western of
Lltnada, 16 9-16 I—Great Western, 451—Illinois, bOl 1 I—Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, 1261 0 51—Manchester and County Bank
(Limited , 31 p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 481
11—Metropolitan, 1201 1 -Midland, 1171—Caledonian, 661 to 81
B—British and Irish Telegraph, 100—Brighton, New, 71 p.
BIRMINGII•ll, Nov. 2—The transactions to-day were in South
Staffordshire Waterworks shares, at 51 Patent Shaft and
Allem. shares Limited', at t pm.: ditto, second issue. at 2$
pm. (losing prices : Great Eastern Railway stock, sellers, at
321 ; Worcester and Birmingham Canals, 10 to 111: Lloyd's
Bank shares, settees, at 71 pm. ; Midland Financial shares, at
111-10 to 11 .11s, Britannia Mill, at 11.16 to 1 dia.; and Rail-
way Rolling Stock (WolverhamptoW, buyers, at 15 per share.
1.111 Nor. 2.—New Three per Cent. Stock, 931 I—Bank
of Ireland 471001 paid). Ml—Munster Bank ,Limited) 'ES les.
paid) 4.l—National Bank (LSO paid', I—National of Liver-
Mad ;lied`.. (4715 paid), 114—Royal Bank ;110 321—
Dublin and Drogheda .47100 paid;, 814—Dublin and Kingstown
100 paid), 197—Great Sout ern and 'Western fr:loopuld , trd
—NI iiikuid Great Western (ZlOO paid', 671—Dublin, Wicklow,
and Weston', 6 per cent. perpetual ,47100 paid:, 117—Great
Southern and Western 41 per nut., 1 year unexpired, 991.

STARTLING INCIDENT AT ALDERSHOT. —An inci-
dent
of • very startling character occurred at Aldershot on
Friday morning which has caused some sensation in the
camp and town, and which, if correct, and there is no
reason to doubt the word of the man concerned, must
cause some uneasiness in the minds of the commandants
of the various garrisons throughout the kingdom. The
report is that an attack was contemplated on the prin-
cipal magazine at the camp, and these are briefly the facts
of the case :—Near the central or grand magazine
situate on the common between the North and South
camps is a email wooden hut used as • guard-house—
the guard consisting of a corporal and three privates,
who do duty over the magazine. The guard on Thurs-
day was furnished by the 56th Regiment, and accord-
ing to the statement of the sentry on duty at half-past 12
o'clock a.m. on Friday morning, he was alarmed by the
movement of several persons in proximity to his box. Ho
duly challenged them but received no response. He chal-
lenged them a second time and with no better results. Ho
then called to the guard to "turn out," but owing to the
wind blowing in gusts he failed to make his comrades
hear. The man's assertion is that he saw five persons
armed, and that they approached within 50 yards of him,
and on hearing his call to the guard they made off. Ho
was unable to communicate with the non-commissioned
officer of the guard until he was relieved, more than an
hour afterwards. The circumstances were reported to the
authorities, but whether the man's statement received
credence or not has not transpired. The magazine, which
contains several thousand pounds weight of blank ammu-
nition and a large quantity of ball cartridge, is, although
in the very cantre of the government property, so isolated
that a party could approach from any direction, unseen
and unchallenged by any guard on either *map. Various
absurd rumours were afloat on Saturday connecting the
affair with Fenianism, but nothing has transpired to throw
an additional light on the occurrence.—Tonee.
ELOPING WITH • GROOM. —At Bradford, on
Friday, William Croft, a smart-looking groom, of 24, was
brought up on a curious charge. It appeared that Croft
had lived in the service of Mr. Ridgeway Bentley Chewier,
who is the occupier of the Park Farm, Bolton, near
Skipton, and who, it is said, holds a responsible position
under the Duke of Devonshire. Croft had been in the
habit of attending the family when they drove out, and
in his capacity of groom he frequently rode out with the
young ladies. An intimacy sprung up between him and
one of the daughters, and on Thursday week they came
over to Bradford, applied for and obtained a license at
St. James's Church, and would have been married but
for the interference of the young lady's friends, who got
to know of the intentions of the couple, and took the
young lady home. Croft had obtained the license by
representing that be had resided fifteen days in Bradford,
and that his intended wife was of age. It seems, how-
ever, that although he originally resided in Bradford, he
has not been located in the town the prescribed time ;
and further, it is said, that the young lady is under age.
Croft says that she told him she was of full age to be
married. Under these circumstances a warrant was
taken out, and Croft was apprehended on Thursday, near
Skipton. The charge against the prisoner was not fully
gone into, and he was remanded for a fortnight, but was
allowed to go at large on entering into his own recogni-
sanees to appear when called upon.
RECENT POSTAL REGULATIONS.—The " Bast
Central" postal district is now extended so as to include the
City, also Old-street, and the whole of the City-road.
The " Returned Letter" branch has been removed from
the General Post-office to the opposite side of the way,
previously to its final removal to the new premises in-
tended for post-office purposes in Nevrgate-street.
The Savings Bank department is at 27, St.
Paul's-churchyard, for the present. The letter
boxes at the chief office in St. Martin's-le-
Grand are cleared for local letters at 7 a.m., 8. 15, and
9.4511. M., and subsequently every hour from I I a.m. to 6
p.m. (both inclusive), and finally at 7.30 p.m.; the delive-
ries follow in the district within an hour and a half from
the time of posting, the time being extended in the same
ratio as the length of distance from the district to any
other to which the correspondence may be directed. The
pillar letter-boxes (which are for letters only) are cleared
at 4 a.m., and hourly until 5 p.m., then at 5.30, 6.0, and
9 p.m., both for local and general post letters. Notice
has been given by the Postmaster-General that the follow-
ing names of streets, lie. in the City have now been
altered as under. His lordship moreover "requests the
public to be careful to direct their letter acconling to the
present names, to prevent delay in the delivery;:"—Cannon-
street West has been re-numbered, and re-named " Cannon-
street ;" Great Cuter-lane, Little Carter-lane, and Shoe-
maker-row have been re.numbered, and together named
"Carter-lane ;" Ludgate-street has been re-numbered, and
re-named " Ludgate-hill ;" Spread-eagle-court has been re-
named " Royal Exchange-avenue."
THE WRECK OF THE SCOTTISH LASS. —At 6 o'clock
this morning the captain and crew of the Scottish
Lass arrived in their boat at Devon. The schooner
stuck on the Varna, or, as the captain supposed, on the
mast of a sunken vessel. She went down between the
Verne and the Goodwin. The men took to their boat,
were oat at sea all nicht, and arrived at the Sailors'
Home cold, wet, and miserable.

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BIRD MIIRDERR.—Certain birds annually occur
in this country, but not in sufficient numbers to become
familiar to everybody. Many of them are conspicuous by
their bright plumage, and when they do occur are seen to
attract attention. Now the practice is, whenever one of
these birds, such as the hoopoe or the golden oriole, is ob-
served, that some person should go and shoot it. The
person who does so is never, we may say without exception,
a naturalist, and his act is " bird murder" without any
extenuating circumstances beyond that of ignorance. The
death of that unhappy oriole or hoopoe does nothing to
advance the study or the taste for natural history, while
thereby the species is prevented from permanently estab-
lishing itself as a denizen of this country ; for, he it re-
marked, the hoopoes. orioles, and other birds falling into
the category of which we are speaking, &boort invariably
visit this country in the spring of the year, most usually in
pairs, and, if unmolested, would unquestionably build
their nests here, lay their eggs, and hatch their young, re-
tire to the sunny south when the summer is ended, and
return she following spying to the settlement of their
choice. —Fraer's Magazine for November.
THE COMETARY SYSTEM.—The remarkable dis-
a lately made, that the great November star-stream
travelsv in the track of a telescopic comet (whose period is
331 years), that the August stream, in like manner, follows
the track of the great comet of 1862 (whose period is 142
years), and that other noted shooting.star systems show a
similar relation to the paths of other comets, opens out
the most startling views of the manner in which comical
space—or at least that part of space over which the sun's
attractive power bears sway—is occupied by myriads on
myriads of bodies more or less minute. If those comets—
not one in fifty even of discovered comets—whose orbits
approach that of the earth are attended by such important
streams of cosmic matter: if, for instance, the minute
telescopic comet (known ea I. 1866), in whose track the
November meteors travel, is attended by a train capable
of producing magnificent star shower.' for nine hundred
centuries—what multitudes of minute planets must be
supposed to exist in the complete cometary system ! This
disovery has been made too recently, however (though it
appears to be thoroughly established), to admit of our here
discussing in full the results which seem to flow front it.—
Corn/till Moeaziae for November.

At Sandown, Isle of Wight, the sewage is con-
veyed in pipes clear of the town into cerapite, where it it
filtered sod deodorised by a chemical process. The clear
portion finds its way into the sea miles away from the
town, and the solid residue is mixed with ashes and road
sweepings, and forme good manure.
HOSPITAL TOR DISEASES OF THE CHEST, VICTORIA-
?AEC.—The number of patient. relieved at this institution
during last week was I,=, of which 291 were sew oases.