The Express.
London, England, 1866-05-12 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKETS.

Lresitroot, MAT 11 -Sales today:-Great !astern, 2.6:-Los-
don and North Western, 114 4 4 164 17-Manchester, Sheffield.
and 58 --Midland 11141-. South Eastern, 71-Bahl
and Lake Homo, 31 1."-In I--trued Trunk of Canada, 191-Erie,
45--Illinots Central, 76-Great Luxembourg shares, 114 4 4 6-16 f/
Sambre and Meuse,e4-Mercantile and Exchange Bank tUrnitedu
to al d.- National Hank of Liverpool a Limited:, 21 p.-North
Viestern Bank 'Limitexl., 2 c p.-Albion Marine (Limited), I
13.16 d.-British and Foreign Marine Limited', 141 p.-Waritinse
Incur:vire . 1 d.-Queen inscumice, 1.10 d. par Had-.
Union Marine Limited , 4p. National Steam .IJmited), 10d.
MANettir,7llll, MAT 11.-The panic this morning led to egos(
deal of 1)41%i1101111, hot the market chwes steadier. Alliance Bank
.Limited , 11 II td -Buffalo and Lake Huron, 41-Confederate
Loan, 51 -conodidated Bank 'limited . 3 p.-Fries, 44 6 41 9-
Great Rasters, 1174-I;reat Northern A. 132, 4--Grand Trunk d
Canada. 14-41reat Western of Canada, 14 1-16.- Great Wester;
111innis. 764-lAncashlre and Yorkshire. 1174 f- London and
Ncrth Western, 1154 16 -Manchester and County Bank (Llaited).
24 e. -11anch,ster. rdieffield, and Lincoln, 572 1 111 i Itl 411 4-•
OrmonGurney, and Co. 'Limitedl4 1 1211 4.
-South Lantern. 701 4 1 1-Thames l
and M3ersey 13
M 124 el
lM oser-
since 'Limited., 41 15-16 p.-Credit Fonder, 44 d- Vire A.
lance. 1 p.
BIRMINORAII, MAT 11.- The transa,tinns to-day were in Bb6
mingham and Staffordshire Gas Mb shares, st 47 : Metropolitan
Wagon shares second issue .at dis. ; Muntes Metal shares, s 6
1 di, , and Patent A xletree shares, at 04 pin. (losing prices :-6
Birmingham. Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley Railway, 1114
sellers London and North Western Railway. 115 to 1164 ;
mingham I 'anal, Br 4 to 864 ; Staffordshire Joint Stock Rank,p
prem. d ; Midlanagon, 07 to BB; Midland Contrad
Limit'ed •par, sellers; auWd Steam cooperage and Cask 11Aoiltedi,
I 41e., c.liert.
Drams, 11 Ay 16.-Three per Cent. Con ads, 3,41-New Three
per Cent. Stock. gad d-Ditto, for new account, dtb June, 33111
-National of Liverpool Limited., 'A.IO paid 13-Royal Beak
,tin paid', 31-1-nion Bank Limited (£22 Pahl), 161 1--Greln
Southern and Western ,LlOO paid'. 804 90-43reat Southern nal
Western. 4 per cent. (all paid!, 90-Waterford and Lisnericik,
5 per cent. redeemable all laid_, 40.

CLERICAL Smu:;c:LEss IN SCOTLA ND. —The
whiskey manufactured in these illicit stills was secretly
hawked about the country ; awl men who were strictly
religions and conscientious in all other matters, had no
scruples about purchasing it. Stalwart Highlanders, with
small shelties or ponies loaded with kegs or bladders of
" mountain dew"—the popular practical name for smuggled
whiskey—paid periodical visits to quiet country houses,
and replenished the cellars at a rate which defied al com-
petition on the part of regular traders. We have heard
old men talk with much glee of their encounters with
Gillespie and other noted excisemen who tried to rob them
of their " mountain dew ;" blows were freely exchanged
on those occasions, and the smugglers had not always the
worst of it. On a sudden alarm the whiskey was some-
times concealed beneath the pulpit stairs, the last Ow
liable to suspicion. When the danger was past, p.rt of
"the unclean thing" found its way to the minister's
cellar, and was used without compunction. We know •
Scotch laird whose grandfather purchased the estate from
which he derives his title with the proceeds of illicit dis-
tillation, in which he was an adept. We renumber ea
one occasion, while digging with some other schoolboys in
the dominie*s tail-yard, we found " The ewie wi' the
crookit horn" in the shape of the pipe of a whiskey-still.
We had not a long time to examine it ; the owner seised
it and concealed it in the house.—Froser's Mc sine far
May.