The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-28 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKETS.

Llegarool., AnaMt 27.—Sales to-day : Caledonian, 1114—
Great Easton, SO} }—Great Western. 45} Il6} } }—lanca-
shire and YMrAhlre, 127} xd.—London and North Western,
1171 17 f 17—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lineolniddre, 47 ad.—
Meb•optan,i 1241 xd. and u.—Midland, 1201 i3I }1 }—North
British, 31} I—North Staffordshire, 68} ed.—South Beaten%
67} 871 6-12rie, 464—United States 6-20, 1862, 731 f—Ditto,
1865, 71}--Great Luxembourg shares, 104—Queen Insurance, } d.
—Thames and Mersey Marine (I.lmitM), 3 11-16 P.—Natiolisl
Steam (Limited), 144 } 14 } f d. - Pacific Steam new dlr.,
April, 1868, 74--Runcorn Soap and Alkali (Limited); 2 d
MANCHIOTIII, ACOVIff 67.—The market was lower, with
but MU* business doing. Anglo-American Telegraph 'Limited),
17—Great Pastern, 301 f }—Great Northern A, 117 }}}jil
16}—Great Western of °toads, 151—Great Walken, 48 6
f I—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 127i—Londno and orth
Western, 117—Manchester and County Bank (limited% 3 P.—
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnahire, 47} 7 6} 7 61 7—Metro-
politan, 1241 54} } } ll} 1 f I—Ditto,1—Ditto, new 5 per Lori, ss.
y.—Midland, 13210} 1 1--Zo he333uBritish, 30(}Lind Jr3Pastern,
Unitol States 5-20 lean' 731—Caledonian, 111} re;
WilitiornionAN, AUGUR? 4T.—Business done :—Birmlughain,
Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley Railway shares at 10 ; Great
Western, West Midland, Oxford Ist guaranteed 6 per cent., at
W
, Birmingham and Midland Bank shares at 135 and Metro-
t. Laniam Railway Carriage and Wagon (Limited), second Issue, at
d pm. Closing prices :-• South Eastern Railway 69 , seller*;
ley and West Bromwich Bank, 10, sellers; Midland Bank
(Limited), par, sellers ; Midland Financial (limited), 1} din,
Gloucester Wagon !Limited), 121, buyers: Railway Un-
to* Stock tWolverhanniton), 15, buyers ; and General Meant Na-
vigation, 110 f, buyers, per share.

THAD' UNIONS INQUIRY IN MANCHISTRIL—Mr.
Plokeriag, Q.C. and Messrs. Barstow and Chance have
been appointed as examiners to inquire into any acts of
intimidation, outrage, or wrong alleged to have been pro-
meted, encouraged, or connived at by trade union or mau-
-1 elation', whether of workmen or employers, in Manchester
and the neighbourhood, and as to the muss of mob acts,
and the complicity of such trade unions or associations.
The examiners will hold a public inquiry which will com-
mence at the Assize Courts on the 4th of September. They
have appointed Mr. James She% barrister, to be their
secretary.—Manchester Gliisrchsa.
TER SHOOTING OF • YOUNG WOMAN AT CRAY-
TO/M.—Yesterday Afternoon John Skinner wee brought up,
on remand, before Mr. Maude, at Woolwich police-court,
charged with feloniously killing Mary Ann Willis, at
Owen's publichouse, Crayford, by shooting her with a gnu
on the 19th inst. Mr. John Grantham, surgeon, ofCrs-
ford, deposed that he was called in to see the deceased,
whom he found quite dead, in an outhouse, and the pri-
soner crying over her, and much excited, so much so that
he doubted if any reliance could he placed upon en, of his
statements made at the time. From the nature or the in-
jury the deceased had received he tboughtdeath mart have
been instantaneous, as the charge of the gun had entered
the base of the brain, carrying away the face. He also
thought the grin could not have been more than a foot or
two from the deceased when fired. The prisoner, after
being duly cautioned, said he had nothing to say. Mr.
Maude then said he had resolved to send him for trial, as,
although it might have been an accident, it was neverthe-
less, a most reckless and careless thing for a man to take
up a gun and point it at a person without seeing if it were
really loaded or not. He had no wish to interpret the law,
but, in his opinion, when a man killed a fellow-creature by
such gross carelessness it was decidedly manslaughter, as
persons should take are to guard against such terrible
accident., which were so frequently occurring that, in his
opinion, they should be severely dealt with. The prisoner
had the option accorded to him of being liberated on bail,
but he was unable to produce any. He was then own-
mitted to take his trial at the next assizes at Maidstone.

A Doo Birrste BY AN ADDER. —At Ide-hill, last
week, • dog (belonging to Mr. Pankkurst, gamekeeper),
confined in • kennel, was beard howling very furioualy.
Mr. Pankhurst proceeded to ascertain the cause, when he
observed • short distance from the dog • large adder, in the
act of making a spring at the dog's head. He killed it,
and on going to the dog found that it had been bitten in
the face. He then opened the adder and took some of
the fat and rubbed over the plaoa. The dog's heed was
soon swollen twice its natural size, but it is now getting
quite well again.
THE POTATO DISEASE. —ln North and East
Yorkshire both growers and dealers report the potato
disease to have appeared very generally this season, attri-
buted to the prevalence of continued wet weather and a
low temperature. The most faulty crops are upon the
strong clay lands which are most retentive of moisture,
and the early sorts of potatoes are stated to have suffered
mast, and in many eases to have gone bad after being
taken up. It is hoped the present hot and dry weather
will check the decease. _

LEGALISING OF GAMBLING-HOUSES AT HONG-
ICONG.—A great innovation (rays the Orertaad Trade
Report of July 12) is about to be introduced in Hoeg-
Kong, namely, the legalisation, under revere restrictiono,
of native gambling-houses. Opposed as thiameasure seems
to the ordinary spirit of English legislation, it is very
generally admitted to have become inevitable. The
Chinese are devoted to gambling to on extent that puts
the efforts of the police to suppress it in Hong Kong, com-
pletely at defiance. Raids used to be continually going on,
but no effect at all wee produced, and meanwhile the
keepers of the illicit gambling-houses offered such bribes to
the constables that it was found utterly impossible to keep
thepolios forcefree from corruption. Toattempttbe defence
of the repressive system on moral grounds,a defence which
would have involved the assumption that th e colonial govern-
ment expected to reform a floating population constantly
recruited from the hundreds of millions in the Chinese
empire, would he too absurd, even for the most fanatieal
purist. The introduction of gambling-hove, will put en
end to a state of the law which in a colony mainly
harbiied by Chinese we en cmtrege on common muse.