The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-02 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARI MARKETS.

Tivzernou APRIL 1.-Salss : Caledonian, 104 ul-
timo' Eastern, Mi I 4 1 1 I Western, 421 1112 11 2
-Lancanhi, Yorkshire, 1211 f-London and North
Western. 1171 17 1 4 1171,f, )17 Manchester, shellield,
and Lineshislare, 4711 f 1 f I-Mctroputitan, lit 4-
Midland, 114 111 nghain and Derby. £lB con-
' vertible. lip -North British. 34) i 161-North lantern. Berwick
capital stock. 1011-south Eastern. 881 4 8 71 8 4 8 4-
Maffei° and lake Huron, 4 1.10-Grad Trunk of Coaula, 191
-crest We ,tern of Cumuli', 134-Great Luxembourg shares,
10 146 orth and south Wales, British and Vorelga
Marine Limit .s 1 1.161-Atlantic Telegraph 8 per rent., 4.• •
Liverpool United Gas, 205 21-Runcorn Soap and Alkal
:Limited , 1 p.
MANtingsritg, APRIL 1.-There was a decidedly better market.
and a aonsnkrai.l... Widnes, was dons In Great Euless. Great
Western. ShOPlell. Midland, Metropolitan. North British, sal
South Eastern shares Atlantic Telegraph Prefers 8 prg
eot, Vanghan, and Co. ,LlinlterP, 7 4.--Consoll-
date., Bank. rsw 4 p. -District Bank, 17 p. -Ebbw
kale Compaav Limited , 151 d. --Great Itiatern, Si/ .1 1. 41
I -Great L'u..:llils 'um, 101 1-16-Great Northern A, I*-
Grand Trust: ft amnia, 14 1-Great Western of tSnada, 11-16
1-Great Wistern. 421 f
orth f 1 11-Lancashire and York-
shire. 125 41-Lo..don and N Western, 117 1111-Masiiiiester,
sty: Lincolnshire, 47f f /41)14 I-Ditto C 8 pref..
Of-Metrop 11.1 4 I 181 fII9 1 19 181-Midln•C 114
14 14 137 1 . I ii-North British, 35 41 S4l 61e 41 r.-Booth
Eagan, ttsa a,l a 1-London, Brighton, and south Coast,
741.5 41-Uhlon Bank. tip.
. APRIL 1.-The sale, to-day were In Birrnirughant
Canal shares At Wolverhampton and Statlonishlre Gas
shares at 91 ltirrnitszham and Staffor!shire Gas £l5 'hares at
; Glouceshr Wag ni shares at 1111.10 ; Metropolitan Railway
Carriage and Wagon shares at 9: ditto, third issue, at f
Closing priccs Panaingliss Banking Company shares ,Limltedi
at 11 prem. oilier% Itirminghani Joint Stock Bask shares at
to 304 Lloyd's hank shares at 74 to 7) prem. and Nottingham
Joint Stock LAM:a:tares at 21 din seller"
Dews, 51 st 7a :A -Three per Cent Consols. 004-New Tines
per Cent. Stock. 894-Dino, for account. 10th April, es,' 4-.
Ditto, for new necouot. OW-National Bank (130 paid'. 43) I rd
-Ditto, for 64-Royal Bank xlO paid% IC-Union Bank
Limited C,M . 12-Itellaat and Northern Counting (all
paid , 441-Deldin and Belfast Junction (AlOO paid}, 71-Groat
southern sod W -stern 4 per cent. perp. 11300 paid,.
and Kingstuvii, 71.

A vessel arrived at Poole, in Dorsetahire, on
Friday last, from Liverpool, laden with nitrate of soda.
She loft Liverpool on the 2nd of January last. She was
windbound at Holyhead a month, and at Falmouth another
month. She was at the latter port with 400 other reads
a fortnight since during the great storm on the Cornish
coast. In liter immediate neighbourhood, while she lay at
Falmouth, there were nine viands wrecked.
WRECK ON THE NORFOLK COAST.—PALLING,
MARCH —Daring a fresh wind and heavy see hurt night
(reports Mr. Frew:A. the officer of coastguard), the French
schooner, LA Pradence, from Newcastle to Seville, with a
cargo of pig iron and coke, was wrecked off this
The lifeboat Pareee, belonging to the National lifeboat
Institution, was fortunately the weans of rescuing thin
whole of the crew, six in number.
THE W SATHER.—tiumerons complaints reach us
as to the effect .4 the long-protracted wetness of the winter
season upon tia soil and Its interruption with agricultural
operations. What with frequent rains and the repeated
falls of snow the land has been so aaturated that the field
work usual to the season hasbeen greatly interfered without
retarded. In fact the land has been in a vast majority of
instances in such a condition that working upon it was
quite out of the qnntion. The r, suit is that tl ero
is • large breadth on which the usual sowing
has yet to be dune. Fortunately, the last tea
days have boon far more favourable, land another
dry week or two will du a va-t deal to restore
matters to a better condition. Speaking generally, the
season Is decidedly backward, the lowness of the tempera-
ture and the sl,..rp cold winds having considerably re-
tarded vegetation of ail kinds. A genial April, however,
would soon make up for any lost ground in thin respect.
The amounts as to the young wheats are satisfactory. The
reports from toe huckmariteis are generally :inuring. Thu
lambing has gone on favourably on the whole, and the im-
proved weather of the past week has come very oppor-
timely. A dry time is exceedingly important, for wet is
even more injurious than cold. The season has not, per-
haps, been • more than ordinarily prolific one, and moms
of the shepherds complain that twins are not so numerous
as usual. Another dry week or two will be a great boon
to the floammiters. —Sumer Adrert&rer.
A HIGHLAND Scesarririox.—A correspondent
informs us that a Corp en or crania was discovered in a
stream in this county about • fortnight ago. The body
was of clay, into which were stuck the nails of human
beings, birds' claws, bones, pins, hair, sic. It was partly
covered by. surd t.ed in, a black cotton apron, and had an
old beaver hut on its head. For the information of those
who are not learned in Highland superstition it may be
mentioned that u moven means an alp or representation
in clay of a person who has rendered himself so obnoxious
to some one as to make it desirable that be should not
live. When the c..rp is made it is placed in • river or
stream, and as the waters wear away the clay till nothing
is left, so gradually and inevitably wastes the life of the
person wanted to die.—larerness Courier.
DEATH THROUGH A CHIGNON. A sensation
newspaper bead. a paragraph " Death through a Chignon."
On reading it we discover that somewhere in laniand
girl set her dress on fire while twisting up her back hair.
We suggest that it should have been " Death through
being a girl," for had the victim been a boy there would
have been no hick hair to roll up, and no dazing dress to
swing over the grate. Let us have chignons and girls
abolished forthwith ; the one is as guilty of homicide as
the other.—Nero For; Times, March 19.
False ears of flesh colour—lndia-rubber—havo
been invented for the use of ladies with large ears. They
are used in front of the real can, which are drawn hack
and concealed under the hair.—Court Journal.