The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-08 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARI NABERTS.

LITSIPOOL, JAL 7.-sales to-day: Caledonian, 124-Great
Pastern, 311 4444 1 2 11 2 11 2--Ureat Western, 50 61-Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, 1301-London, haltham, and Dover, 161
1-London and North M extern.l234 31 14 4 3-Manchester'
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 561 i 651 04 4 ; 1-Metropolitan,
1229 01 - Altdbind, 12415 si-North btltish, 31194- North East&
1091-Sou Eastern,
th Easte, 70/ 1 1 1 11 1--Buffalo and Lake Huron,
-tlrand Trunk of Canada, 21-Great Western of Canada, 12 15-3
-Illinois, 621 2-lire-twenties, 72/ 72-Great Lux-
embourg, 124 13 -24ambre and Meuse, 71•- Alliance Bank, 6 d.-
Liverpool and London and Globe, 51 p.-Maritime, 11-16 d.
111•XCHffi9'Et, Jaw. 7.-A good business waii done, and pecan
were steady at, the quotations. Credit Fourier of England
ILindted , a/ d.-District Bank, Ds' p.-Great Esatern,
31141 E 11 / 21 2-Great Luxembourg, 13 Great Northern A.
1311301-Grand Trunk of Canada, 71-Ditto Fourth Pref., 25-
Great Western of Canada, 13-Great !Postern, 50 4;444444
-Lancashire sod Yorkahlre, 1364 1-Ditto, New Ordinary.
London and North Western, I_i 4 1-Manchewer, Sheffield,
and Lincoln, 561 6 61461 1 1 -Ititto, Au Pref., 414-
Metropolitan, 1294 911 1 1 4-Midland, 12, Ditto, HFive
per Cent.. 105-North Britie , ail II e.aith Eastern,
(I 11 70 1 1 1 1 4 4 4-!'rated States 5-20 Yeare' Bonds, 73-
Manchester Carriage Company. I'. p.-Nlatieliebler Contitiercid
Buildings, 1 p.-London, Chatham, and Doter. 174-Whitehaven
and Furness, 32
Bil:111Nu3A11, JAL 7.-Rosiness done : Midland Railway Bir-
mingham and Derby, at 05 ; Great Western itimlingliam Railway,
Preference gper et., at 116 Birmingham and Ntallonlshire Gast
ark. at 97. Closing prices : -London and North Western Rail-
way, 123, sellers. Great Western Birmingham Guarantied 3} per
cent., 70 to 701 Birmingham Banking Company Limited.,
1 prem., buyers : Birmingham Joint Stock Batik Limited :St
buyers; Glimeestershire Bank, NG, buyers ; Lloyd's lien
Limited , si to U preen.: and Staffi;nlshire Joint Stock Bank
,Limited., 3 prem., sellers.

It appears that the church at Croydon was in-
sured to the amount of 10,800/. The Superintendent of
the Croydon Volunteer Life Brigade says an overheated
flue was undoubtedly the cause of the fire.
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FATAL OMNIBUS ACCII, E NT. —Last evening, Mr.
W. J. Payne, the deputy coroner, held on inquiry at
Guy's Hospital, respecting the death of Edmund Alfred
Calcutt, aged 20 years. The deceased was a carman in the
employ of a ginger-beer manufacturer, and resided at
Wilmer's-gardetui, in the Kingslend-road. On Boxing-day
he had been to see a young woman to whom he was en-
gaged to be married. After he left her he joined four
young men, and they nU went and visited two public-
houses. While at them they drank two quarts of ale,
half a pint of gin, and some spruce. The deceased and
two of his companions hailed a " Havelock,"or Camberwell
omnibus, in the Hackney-road. The three young men
got up outside, and sat upon the knife-boanl. After
the omnibus had stopped, near Lombard-street, the de-
ceased felt ill and vomited. When they reached Grace-
church-street the omnibus conductor mood ot, the wheels
of the omnibus, and said to the deceased, " You must get
down," and he caught hold of him by the leg of his trousers.
The deceased then got down, and in doing so fell for-
ward, and his head was dashed against the pavement. One
of his corn 'ow, named Hewitt, said to the conductor—
"We shall look to you for this." The conductor ordered
the omnibus to drive on, and its number was not &seer-
tauThed. The polio. carried the deceased to the hospital.
Mr. H. Dense, house-surgeon, said that the deceased ex-
pired on the 3rd instant froin compreseion of the brain, the
result of his injuries. His nose was broken and the bones
at the base of the skull were ilisloc.ted. The jury re-
' turned a verdict of "Accidental Death...
SEVERS WEATHER IN NORTH WA LES. —A WIW-
I spondent, writing from Bangor, says :—On Saturday
night this locality was visited with one of the most severe
snown storms known for many years, and the lines of rail-
way from Holyhead to Chester were completely blocked
with snow. Men were sent out to clear the rails, but were
obliged to give it up as hopeless, snow drifting faster than
they could clear it away. The mail train leaving Bangor
at 9.30 p.m. for Leeds met with a very serious accident a
few miles from Aber. The train ran off the rails owing
to the heavy drifts of snow, and the engince having broken
away from the carriages, they, including the Post-
office carriage, rolled over down an embankment ; for-
tunately and miraculously no lives were lost, but some of
the passengers and post-office emplonis were severely
shaken. Owing to the severity end wildness of the night,
no help was at hand until dawn, when gangs of men were
employed to clear away the snow which Mocked both
lines, and the Irish and London mails suffered a detention
of more than twelve hours. The London mail, which
should have arrived at Bangor at 4 a.m., did not reach
there until 4.40 p.m. The snow was in some places from
seven to twelve feet deep, and the telegraph posts were
blown down by the force of the wind and the weight of
the snow. Altogether such a night has rarely been wit-
nessed in Great Britain of late years.
COMMITTAL FOR EMBEZZLEMENT. Yesterday
Robert Caesar Bacon, the son of Major Bacon, and him-
self recently a lieutenant in the lard Fusiliers, was taken
before a magistrate at Hythe, Kent, charged with obtain-
ing money under false pretences. In November, Deal,
Mr. Bacon was residing at Sandgate, near Shorneliffe
Camp, and just before leaving obtained MIMS of money,
exceeding 1001. in all, on various cheque. firtwo on the
Albert-gate (Knightsbridge) Branch of the London and
County Bank, with which he had at the time no account.
Warrants were issued against hint a few days efterwanle,
and then Major Bacon made proposals for payment of the
cheques and stoppage of proceedings ; but nothing coming
of those proposal, Mr. Bacon, on the 22nd ultimo, gave
himself up at Bow-street, referring the inspector to the
Polite GaAte of December. 1565, in which his person and
offence were described. Two cases only were gone into.
In both the prisoner appeared to have obt tin.,l change
for cheques on the bank at the time he had no account
there. Re was committed for trial.
DEATH OF A CENTENARIAN PAMPER.—On New
Year's-day—per own birthday- -there died in Shrewsbury
Workhouse Mary Galligall, aged 102 years. Mrs. Galli.
F‘all, who knew herself best and we:, better known as
Granny," was, up to the very hour of her death, a singu-
larly shrewd and lively old lady, and, propped up in her
comfortable bed, held her regular receptions, and was
wont to crack jokes and bandy repartees with her visitors,
in which encounters she not always come off second
best. Although her body was waatoll away till her arm
was not thicker than a mans foree tiger, her animal spirits
never seemed to flag, and her senses asst intellect were in
a remarkable state of preservation. By the kindness of
Dr. Keate, the house surgeon, she had many privileges not
usually accorded to paupers. anion,: which were her lunch,
her glass of gin, and her pipe, which were duly prevailed
at ll o'clock each morning. On New Year's-day she
finished her gin and smoked her pipe as usual, and then
quietly lay back and died, without a struggle or sign of
pain.
ABANDONED Mmes.—During the past year Corn-
wall suffered severely by the suspension and entire aban-
donment of a large number of mines. In the extreme
western district alone the following were among the mis-
fortunes which occurred:—Wheal Hearle stopped, after
an outlay of 5,0001. ; St. Just ynitiel, worl:e.l under the
Limited Liability Act, was %impended lifter an outlay of
about 25,0001. ; Wheel Reath, on which above 30.000/. was
expended, was entirely abandoned, as was also Treloweth,
after an outlay of nearly 40,000 i. St. dust Consols, the
Tolvadden Mines, Charlotte linited,'Prevelyon, Treharvah,
all yielded to the depreseed times and the remarkably
low prices of minerals. Carnforth Mine was suspended
for a long time, seal then purchased by the Botallack ad-
, venturers, and merged into their very extensive enter-
prise.