The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-04 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKETS.

3.-teles to.lay:-Great Eitatern. 301 130
tai—tare .1 Western, 651 3 2 1-Lancashire and Yorkshani.
1211 1---Lin..ien and North Western, 1181 11 1
che,ter, SS, llieid, and LIIICOIO, bbi .51 1211-
North bit i", 21 -South Eastern, 651 11 1 -Grand Trunk
of ('anwis. 'treat Western of Canada, 13 1116 • Erie, St
11-1' tilted Mates 5.20 Bonds, 701-11reat Luxembourg shares,
12 1, ; 13.16-North Western Bank 'Limited . par-All:4ot
Marine Limit- d , 1-Ind.-British and. Foreign Marine • Limited),
par-Nia•itime hearance 'Limited , 1: it -Queen Insurance.
pun-12. al li,suraucc, 3 p.-Anglo-American Telegraph, 1134..
-Nati. -nal Steam Limited 111 d.
3Lascnrerga, ts'r. 3.-There was a tolerably fair bitsinem,
and pre vs w.-re generally better. Anglo-American TelereMill
Lirdir... I . 15.16-Consolidated Bank, New, 1 ii
511 1 211111 1 1 1-Great Lodern, 30 21,1 30 /30 291; 1-fireek
Northern A, 1271 -nrand Trunk of Canada, 1554-Great Western
of Can:Pi& '.'.l--nreat Western, 531 11 1 13 2: j 1
eashtra and V.irkshirc. 1241-Ismdon and North kt extern, 1184--
Slat. bester and County Bank :Limited'. 2 15-16 p.-Manchader.
Sheffield. and Lincolnshire, 6618 51 4 1-North British, 43 11
f 4 5 2 south l'-lsterti, 06 61 1 1--Thames and Mersey Marine
Insura.e, Limited., 117-161 p.-Untied States fe2i(i Years Honda.
65t 7,- North Union, A, 210-London, Brighton, and South Coast,
63-31anehester Carriage Company, 1 d.
BikuissilAss, (Kt. 3.-The sales to-day were to them
Banking company shares at 4 pm.; Birininghant Joint
Banks. et. 32; : Birmingham Financial, at and 1 3.ledis. ; Metro.
politan Railway Carriage and Wagon therm. at 10; seated
issue. at 1 dis : Birmingham Waterworks, at 30!. Clueing
prkes Western, West Midland Oxferil Second Otiarmi-
teed six per Cents., sellers, at 112 ; Dudley and West Brom-
wle:. Dank., 11 to 111 ; Lloyd's Bank shares. at 6 to 81 pm.;
311.11 and Bank . Limited:, at 24 dia. : South Staffordshire Meter:
work,. 61 ; Patent Shaft and Azietree shares. bnyers, at 5 pm.
D:: rata, t kt. 2.-Three per Cent. Consols, 5n4-Now Three pa
Cent. Mot i, e72,-Ditto for account, oth Oct., 671-Ditto for
new 674-National Bunk • 4.30 mild, 70-Ditto fie ac-
count, 7; -National of Liverpool in ;610 palil,, for as
nut, 12 -Pr..eincial Bank ;625 paid . s(11-Royal Lank, !Lid
paid , 1--Great Southern and Western (6100 paid , 01.

The evcessive rains in the south of England have
causei the production and growth of fungi to an enormous
extent. An infinite variety of these plants, parasitical
and others, have sprung up, differing in form, magnitude,
and colour. Some are no bigger than small beads, and
others are 12 inches in diameter. Some are white, others
are green, and many are of a scarlet colour.
MUItDER IN BIRMINGHAM.—Yesterday at the
Birmingham police-court Thomas Grayley and Catherine
Grayley, man and wife, were brought up charged with the
murder of William Francis Sullivan under the following
shocking circumstances :—On the 29th of September there
was a riot in Chapel-street, at which the deceased inter-
fered to separate the Grayleys from the parties with whose
they were fighting. The male prisoner turned savagely
upon Sullivan, and smashed in his skull with a poker, and
while he was lying senseless on the ground the female
prisoner seized a brick, and tieing over to the deceased
commenced to beat his head into a pulp. She was tarsi
away, but the unfortunate man, on being removed to the
hospital. died. The prisoners were then arrested, but the
male prisoner denied having struck deceased. The female
prisoner said, " I know I beat some one's head with a
brick, but whose I don't know." They were committed
for trial at the assizes for wilful murder.
THE FLOODS IN FRANCE.—The flood of waters
in the Loire, after gradually disappearing from all the
higher parts of the river, has now reached &Inner sad
Nantes, in its progress towards the sea. In the former
town tile 1113IiMUM was attained during the afternoon of
the Ist, and since that time the waters have been
subsiding. The embankments there remained intacdril
little lower down the rise was more serious, and owe-
muuicationa by railway between Angers end Nantes
had to be suspended from Varadea to Anetz. There is
even a danger of the line being cut at that point. At
Nantee, on the evening of the 2nd, the Loire had almost
attained the height reached in 1856, and was still swelling
slowly. The low streets in the city were submerged, and
the country around the city was inundated for a disteeee
of four miles. The inhabitants of those districts being
warned in time had abandoned their homes. A letter fres
Perpignan of the 2nd announces that the Agit has over-
Sowed its banks ; the vineyards of ltivesaltes and a }emu
Lion of the plain of Salanque are inundated.