The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-09 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKETS.

Tselntrook, OCT. 8 --Sales today:--flint Eastern, ,13
Great Western. 6311 f 3 3—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 101 3
I: 011101 i and North Western, 1171 18 3—Mauchester, the
and Lincolnshire. 653—Metropolitan, 126 3—Midland, 1333—
North British, 413 }--.South Eastern,ll4 3 3 Lancaster and Lae-
-26,— Erie, 493-I'nfteal States 5.20 Bonds, 703--Grang
Luxembourg shares. 130-16-4onsolldated Bank (thaited,, 13 st:
Liverpool Marino Credit ~IJniiteiP, par North sal
south Wales, "-I--London and Lancashire Fire Insurance, 3
Anglo-Arno 'ran Telebrapli, 163 —Atlantic Telegraph S par cent,
'dol—Mean Tug.. c —Great Ship Company, 36.
11114111MHAII, OCT. a. —The sales to-day Were in Sinni
companycompanyshares Limited:, at 1-16 prem. : Mti=
Financial abate',, at dia. : Birmingham Wagon shares TAtnited),
at 10. &losing prices: Loudon and North Wafter° Railway.
7173 to 114 shrewalmry and Hereford Railway, 121, sellers;
Great Weatcru, Birmingham Guaranteed 34 per cent., 701 to TI I
Joint Stiiit Rank ;limited , milers; 114:
it.mk Limited ati iim ; Railway C
and wagon 'limited 10 1.. 103; British Meant t:iiiiperaite sad.
;Limited., 4 dis., Luy4rs; and Mantis Metal .rode d•, 1311
, 1/ dis.

SUNDAY FUNERALS.—The Rev. Canon O'Neal,
.übo'nistrator of the Roman Catholic Cemetery, Reamed-
green, has issued a notice Mating that many complaints
having been male by the inhabitants of Keurial-green snit
Harrow-road of the " disorderly and disedifying ' conduct
of the crowds wl.o accompany funerals to the cemetery,
the trustees, knoe .ng the truth of these complaints, have
determined to discontinue funerals on Sundays on sad
atwr Sunday last. the 7th inst.
How COLLIERY EXPLOSIONS ARE CAUsEr,.—A
came caine before the Huddersfield magistrates on Saturday
which tended to show how colliery explosions may be caused
in cases where there is great loss of life and no one is left
to explain whet was the immediate cause of the disaster.
Jasper Brook, a miner, for 13 years employed in a colliery
at Fielflbouse, near Huddersfield, belonging to Mr.
E. Brooke. was charged with having unscrewed
the top of his safety lamp and worked in the
pit with a noted light, contrary to the regula-
tions of the colliery. He pleaded guilty. It appeared
that he coma working in the pit within ten yards al
a place which was considered dangerous on account of the .
gas, and where the ordinary danger signals were placed,
and he unfastened the top of his safety lamp and worked
with a naked light, although there were in the pit at the
time no less thin 67 men and boys, whose lives he thus
placed in jeopardy. A short time ago some colliers from
the same pit were fined for a similar offence ; but DOW
at the request of Mr. Drensfield, who prosecuted, the bench
I sentenced the defendant to one mouth's itnprisonment,
without the option of paying a fine, and ohserve.l that a
repetition of the otfeuce would lead to the offender Wag
scut to prison for three months.
HAD END OF A SURGEON.-011 the evening of the
117th ult. Mr. J. C. Gordon, surgeon, Primrose-hill, Hultne,
remained sitting at a table in one of the lower rooms of
his house at ter his family had retried to bed. He eventu-
ally fell asleep, and by some means his clothing caught
fire from a candle which stood
upon the table, and
he was burned very severely about the chest. Medi-
cal assistance was procured, but Mr. Gordon gradually
sank from the injuries he had sustained. and on Tuesday
he expired. The deceased man was about 59 years of
age, and was, we are informed, very much addicted to
drinking. An intest was held on Frirlfty by the (Sty
Coroner, and verdict of death from accidental burning
was returned.
UNITED STATES FINANCE.—The Vein York
Tribune irr,ta:—" The actual current revenue of the
Federal government is considerably over five hundred
millions of dollars per annum ; its expenditures, including
interest on its public debt and the payment of one hundred
millions of the principal per annum, are considerably lees
Ithan four hundred millions. In other words—we out
pay every current charge against the treasury this year,
and yet extinguish more than a fifteenth part of our
I public debt."
PoPULAR PHOTOGRAPHIC PORTRAITS.—A pope-
' lar singer or actor or a successful prize-fighter will wears-
' times have a run entering into tens of thousands of copies;
1 but the demand will suddenly collapse, and their names
will be heard no more. Public men, whose names are dia-
-1 tinguished in connection with the pulpit, with literature,
science, or art, or in the legislature, are in constant de:
mend, notwithstanding that the especial rage of this 'sol-
i lection of portrait+ has within the last twelve months con-
siderably subsided. Royal portraiture is always popular,
I and perhaps nothing can more strikingly illustrate the
loyalty of Englishmen than the constant demand for por-
traits of members of the reigning family. Just about the
period of the marriage of the Prince of Wales a photo-
grapher in Brussels had the good fortune to obtain sittings
from the Queen and several members of the royal family,
including the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alexandra.
and the sale of these portraits exceeded two millions an
at
r
copies. One photographer alone in this country luta,
during the lest few years, issued upwards of half a
million yearly of members of the royal family. After
ithe royal family, the popular statesmen are the greatest
favourites : Lord Palmerston during his life and for some
little time after his death being in greatest demand. If
the sale of men's portraits afford any indication of the .
popularity of their principles, it is tolerably manifest that
liberalism obtains very strongly in this country, the circu-
lation of the portraits being in the ratio of ten of Glad-
I stone to one of Derby, who is, however, judged by this
standard, the most popular of the oonservatives. On the
I other hand, the portraits of Louis Napoleon and Garibal&l
have about an e dual popularity, the rage for the portraits -
of the latter being more spasmodic, and of the farmer moo
steady. After statesmen, popular literary men and clergy-
men are most in demand ; end after these men of scheme
and artists ; and lastly, popular actors and Magma.
Bishops seem to circulate in virtue of their rank, the
Archbishop of Canterbury having the most extended cir-
culation, whilst clergymen and ministers are prized only
in virtue of their popularity. Mr. Spurgeon was for a
time in very large circulation ; Mr. Binucy less eaten-
, sively, het more constantly.—Britist Quarterly Baia..
new number.