The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-03 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKETS.

Lwritroot, Ann 2.-114184 to4or: great Estero. is? 8-
Great Western, 4111 1-Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1941-London,
Chatham, and Dover, 171--London and North Western, 1171 17
14 17 161 17 161 1-Mmichester, Sheffield, and Linos' nshire,
471 11 11 7 1 7-31etrtlitan. 1101 164-Midland, 1131 14 171 1
14 ISI 141-Midland, Minthehain and Derby, £lB convertible.
11 p.-North British. 851 4-North Eastern. Berwick capftal
stock, 1011-South Eastern, 671 8 71 1 1-London and North
Western, St. Helens 6 per cent. G. IM-Birkenhead 44 percent.,
98-Buffalo and Lake Huron, 4-Grand Trnnk of Gimlet's, 19-
Great Luxembourm shares, 10 9 15-16-Bank of Liverpool, 27-
Mercantile and Exchithee Bank (Limited , 71 d.-Liverpool and
London and Globe Fire and Life 4 11-16 p - Birkenhead
. .

Amalgamated Brewery (clefte7ll), 1} d.—National Steam
(Limited-, 161 d.
BIRJII BOHAN, Arent—The sales were in Birmingham Canal,
at 88: Dudley and West Bromwich Bank, at 101. Stationishire
Joint Stock Bank, at 41 prem. ; and Birmingham Wagon shares,
at 11 per share. Closing prices Greet Western Birmingham
Guaranteed Three and-a-Half per Cents., sellers, at 06: Great
Western West Midland Oxford Second Six per Cent. Guaranteed,
sellers, at 103: Lloyd's Bank (Limited at 74 to 71 prem.: Mid-
land Bank, buyers, at 2 dia.; Staffordshire Financial shares,
buyers, at 2 dia. : Birmingham Alliance Fire, buyers, at } die. ;
and Railway Carriage sharesiOldhury'. at 1 1-16 to 13-16 prem.
MAICRRftIa, APRIL i—The market opened better and after-
wards declined, closing not quite at the highest. Anglo.Ameri-
Can Telegraph (Limited', 161--Consolidated Bank, new Limited
} p.—Hries, 394—Great Extern, SKI 1871 8 71 8--Great
Luxembourg, 10 9 IS-lb—Gre rthern A, 11:41—Great
Western of 131—Greet Western, 42 11 I—Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 166 41 I—London and North Western, 1171 1
17 1 t 1 I—lianasda. Sheflield, and Lincolnshire, 471
78 Iletropolitan, 110 18— Midland, 114 131 k—North
35} } } 11 }--South Eastern, 68 71 !--BPIIIIIA
22 Busk, 28 p.—Great Eastern, Five per Cent., 1863,
67}—London, Brighton, sad South Coast, 78—Matlocks. 5 S-16.
DUBLIN, APRIL I.—Three per Cent. Consols, 901—New Three
per Cent. Stock, 694 I—Ditto, for account, 10th Aprll, 891 }—
lint*, fur new account, 891 I—lndia Five per Cent., 109—
National Bank (430 paid), nßoyal Bank (SIO }mid), 321
Unlon Bank (ors paid', Ili—Cork Mid Bandon (460 paid).
10—Great Southern and Western 14100 paid . 90--Dublin sad
Drogheda, 5 per cent. redeemable, 1366 (445 paid,. 24} es
div.—Great Southern and Western, 4 per cent. perp. (4100 paidt,
921—Dublin and Kingstown.

THE FAVERSHAM POWDER WORE6.—YOliteltilly
evening Mr. T. T. Delasso', coroner for East Kent. held
an inquest on the bodies of Mark Coe. George Love, Henry
Adey, and George Back, the unfortunate men who lost
their lives in the explosion which took place in the
mixing-house of Mews. Hall and Son', powder works on
Monday afternoon. Mr. Tassel, solicitor, attended on the
part of the firm to render the coroner any assistance that
lay in his power. The first witness examined was Thomas
Johnson, the foremen of the works, who identified the
bodies of the deceased, and said they were all engaged in
the mixing-house when the explosion took place. He saw
them shortly before, and then everything was going on
right. He could not tell what caused the explosion, nor
did he believe any one else could. To the beat of his
belief it was an accident. John George Sega said that on
the previous afternoon he was employed in serving the
mixing-houses with saltpetre from the refinery. He was
in the mixing-house three minutes before the explosion
took place, and, as far as he knew, all the men were in
their proper places and attending to their duties. They
were all quite sober. He was within 25 yards of the
mixing house when the explosion took place. He could
not tell what caused the explosion, and be did not believe
any one else could. He believed with the last witness
that it was entirely an accident. The coroner and jury
thought this was sufficient evidence, inasmuch as nothing
could be elicited as to the cause of the explosion,and they
had already clearly before them another material point,
namely, the cause of the death of the deceased. A verdict
of " Accident. .I death" was then unanimously recorded.
A FACT WORTH KNOWING. —lt is a remarkable
fact that persons losing themselves in a forest or a snow
storm manifest invariably a tendency to turn round gra-
dually to the left, to the extent of eventually moving in
a circle. The explanation of this is found, probably, in
the fact, that the limbs and muscles of the right side
are generally better developed than those of the left
side. Under the excitement felt when one is lost, and
in the absence of any guiding line, the superior energy
of the right limbs throws the pedestrian, insensibly,
round to the left.
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Seven large steamers left this port in one day
for Europe last week. Next year all fixed mail subsidies
for the conveyance of American mails will cease, and it is
expected that a mail will then be despatched both from
England and the United States across the Atlantic daily.
The postage will be tkl. a letter. We trust that before •
long period has elapsed the postage will be reduced to 3d.
There are 40,000,000 of people in North America, meet of
whom have soquaintatices, friends, or relatives in Europe;
200,000 persons in the course of a year travel to or from
the United States, British America, and Europe.—New
York Sun.