The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-22 00:00:00

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PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, OCT. 21.--Bales: Caledonian, 901 f 90 88 74 6 4
46515678 4 9 1 f 1 1 11 84—Great Eastern, 311 41 4 11.
Great Western, 454 6 4—Lancashire and Yorkshire. 1461654 14 6
—London, Chatham, and Dover, 161—London and .-oath
Western. 1121 1114 111 1 f 11—Manchester. Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, 48 71 17 1 / I—Midland, 1174 117 161 1;17 161
17 117 16j—North British, 321 I—South Eastern, 861 1 5 11 /
Erie, 441—United States 5-30 :62) 1 May 1 November, flea f
ad—Great Luxembourg shams, 81 6 916—North Western
Bank (Limited!, 21 —Liverpool Exchange, 351—National Steam
Ship Company (Limited), 7 3-16 1 1-16 7—ditto 8 per cent.,
4-16 p.
Mancligeria. Ocr. 21.—Market all lower, with a very large
business doing. Anglo-American Telegraph (Limited . 171—
(treat Eastern, 311 1 1 1 1 I—Great Luxembourg. 151—Great
Northern 110 109—Ditto A, 112 111 12 13 121 1 12--Grand
Trunk of Canada, 174—Great Western of Canada. 1531346—
Great Western, 45 446; I—Lancashire and Yorkshire. 1281 1—
London, Brighton, and South Coast, 511 2 I—London and North
Western, 1124 12 6 14—Manchester, Shellield, and
Lincolnshire, 474 1 7 /—Metropolitan, 1211 1 211 2
Midland, 1161 17 17 161 1 17 161 17 161 I—National Steam-
ship Company (Limited, 7—North British, 341—'both Eastern,
a.cpn 5 1 11—Ines and Mersey Marine Insurance :Limited
3 1146 pm.—Caledonlan, 901 90 81st* 15114 5, 7 61 189 8/
9 84 9 e 4 I—Belgian Eastern Junction, 11—Great Western Six
Cent ,93.
BIRMINGHAM, OCT. 24—Business done :—Eirtningham Canal
shares, at 87: and Birmingham Financial Limited:, at 14 die.
Closing prices: --Great Eastern Railway Stock. sellers, at 311:
Stourbrbige Railway Shares, buyers, at 51 : Staffordshire and
Worcestershire Canal, sellers, at 300 ; Birmingham Om elaimß ,
sellers, at 14}: Birmingham Alliance Fire Insurance -Limited.,
sellers, at 1 din. ; Gloucester Wagon sth Issue . 3-16 to 4 Pm. ;
South Staffordshire Waterworks, Mayers, at 51; and Thomas
Adams and Company :Limited', buyers, at 1 pm.

Miss Helen Faucit (Mrs. Theodore Martin) is
about to appear in the Theatre Royal, Manchester, in five
of her principle characters—Portia, lolanthe, Rosalind,
Beatrice, and Pauline. Her first appearance will be on
Monday next, the 28th, in the character of Portia.
MRS. SIDDONS IN HER FIRST ACTINO OF LADY
Macegru.—To Miss Edgeworth Mrs. Siddons relates an
incident of her career which it was worth going a long way
to hear from her own lips :—" She gave us the history of
her first acting of Lady Macbeth, and of her resolving, in
the sleep scene, to lay down the candlestick, oontrary to
the preoedent of Mrs. Pritchard and all the tra.
ditions, before she began to wash her hands
and say, Out vile spot ! ' Sheridan knocked
violently at her door during the five minutes she
had desired to have entirely to herself, to compose her
spirits before the play began. He burst in, and prophe-
sied that she would ruin herself for ever if she persevered
in this resolution to lay down the candlestick ! She per-
sisted, however, in her determination, succeeded, was ap-
plauded, and Sheridan begged her pardon. She described
well the awe she felt, and the power of the excitement
given to her by the sight of Burke, Fox, Sheridan, and
Sir Joshua Reynolds in the pit."—Ethoturyh Review, new
number.
AN OFFICIAL SPECTACLE IN BAVARIA.—It is the
practice that when a train is going to start, notice shall be
given of the event to the assemblage labouring hard at the
consumption of sausage and beer in the restauration, in
order that all concerned may know the fact. In other
places the notice is given by an ordinary porter-looking
functionary without ceremony. In Bavaria, indeed of a
mere intimation, it may be counted a preclamation, made
by a man in long blue and white robes, standing under the
shadow of a vast and gorgeous cocked hat. and holding in
hie hand a long pole with a silver coronet on its top, some-
thing like a gigantic mace stretched out to the length of
some eight or ten feet. I don't know where anything else
so sublime is to be seen, unless perhaps it upy be among
the satellites of the Lord Mayor of London. Having long
looked at it with respectful awe, it was my good fortune on
my last trip to have an opportunity of seeing its getting up
in a sort of incidental peep behind the scenes. I was
speaking to a shabbyish and insignificant-looking porter.
Hearing the sound of wheels be started, and, as if seized
with sudden mania, tore off his jacket and pitched away
his cap. Then he arrayed himself in the solemn rat:, of
blue and white, mounted the brilliant cocked hat, took into
his hand the wondrous staff of office, And walked into the
reitattration with solemn stride to make proclamatinn."—
Blackwooct's Magathic for October.