The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-02 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARI MARKETS. •

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LrynapooL, ocr. 1.-Bsles today:-Great lantern, 881
itt!
1 1-Orcat We.tern, 55- •lancashire and Yorkshire,
London and North Western, 1181 1 4 I i i k-Manchester, Bliel-
fteld, and I.lueoln, hi..; s}-Metropolltan, 1281-North Mellish.
431 1 4 31 1 3-Soutli Eastern, 871 7 01 7 el 7 011-North ADO-
ford, Pref. No. 2, 100--(treatWestern of Cluiada, I*-Erb.
4.. j v-umtot sutv, 5.21) Bonds, 71 701 -Oreat Imerationr/
shares, 1:4 12 h"...1u -smulish Passives, 23-" s and Xs-
, change Bank 'Limited , 71 it c. 7 A.-National Bank of Liver-
pad :Limited ,2. p -North and South Wales, 203-Queen In-
rnran,e, 1.1.8 d. par -.Anglo.Amerlcan Tel,-,..-rapli, 17 10 1!”11; 1-
Atlantic Telegraph e per cent., 4110.10 11 :140-National Steam
Lltnited , 111 it -Pavifle Steam, OS-Runcorn Soap and Alk.
'Limited,, 1-Telegraph Construction and 51aintenams company
Limited . lip.
Biruirmniem, on'. 1.-The transactions today were In Strat-
-1 ford-on-Avon Railway shares at 14; liimiingitam Ranking Coin-
pan, shares ,Limited-, 1 pin.; litriningliain Gat shares .18011 at
4 pm. , Birmingham au. Staffordshire Das ;Ca) shares ,at 14
pm.: Birrninzhani 1114 t'nlon Mill, at 5 ; Patent Shad and
Atkins shares, at 4 pal ; Lloyd's Banking Company alarm,
,it 71 to 8 pip.
1 D;'ills, SEPT. 9.t.-New Three per (rat. Stork, 87-Ditto
I for account, oth tict . ei7, 871-Ditto for new &uvula, 871, 1-
1 Notional Ilan% 4.:01..i.1 , 70; -NAt..binni of Liverpool .Liniltedr
tlO p. 1.), 121 - Royal Bank, els paid', 321--Cork, blacknat„
and Passage -all pahl , 71-Ihrtilin Rid Killi(MOW11 (Aliar M
paid.
1 Id-lirrat NOUtilrrit and Western, 4 per cent. perpetual, cit
-I...ndonleiry ant! LinneklUen, 41 per cent, deli. redeemide
4,100 paid., b 5.

A SPORTINC CHARACTER.—Racing gossip is not
plentiful, but I ant surprised the spurting papers have
omitted to notice the death of the well-known John
I /limn, of Stockbridge, which took place on the St. Leger
Day. He was a strange character, and will be recollected
as having the celelaated trotter, Nonpareil, and winning
some great trotting matches with her. He was at that
time an sate e cheesemonger in Knightsbridge, and
hail some animals in training with old John Day, whose
daughter he married. lie ran second for the Oaks twice,
111. with Meal and Kathleen, and he owned Blarney when
William Day rode Lire, and beat Frank Butler on
William the Cutiquelor for a two-year-old stake
at Ascot. He latterly lived at Stockbridge, les-
ting his house for the week to Lord Stamford for the
races, and be was wont :o boast his lordship left behind him
enough to keep ham and the family for a month. A_-•
miser he had scarcely his equal in the county, and when
lie stood such a lot of money against Cinema fur the Darby
he nearly died of fright, for Cinema' instead of being " the
aafe'un" he deemed him, was only beaten a head for second
by Sittinghourne in West Australian's year. He was
titogether a strange being, and, as nothing can be said in
his favour, I will conclude Try mention of him by stating
that the week la for. the St. Leger Le sent for his lawyer
to call upon him on the Monday in the followi
adding that
should die on the Wednesday. Of course, nobody be-
tiered him ; but on this occasion only he kept his word,
for on that very day lie expired. This must be admitted
to Le an instance of prescience of so/ rare occurrence.—
" Argus" of the Post.
a; TEN IthS EXT nAORDI NARY. —On Friday evening
last a number of colliers near Cheeterfield, whose stock of
the " indis.pen•ihle " was exhausted, and who were, as
the saying "on the spree," ream ted to the following in-
genious expediei .to replenish their bottle. The leader of
the gang first putting into the bottle (which contains a
gallon) half a gallon of water, went to the Horns public.
house, near Che.tertiehl, and called for half a gallon of
gin, stating that they had already half a gallon in the
bottle. The unsuspecting landlord immediately measured
out the desired quantum, but the men showing no incline-
.ion to pays Le desired his gin to be returned —a request
they complied with molt willingly, coolly walkinff to
enjoy the half pllou of " gin and water " they had so
cleverly obtained.
FRIUHTFCL DEATH OF A HORAEBREA K EH. --A
horsebreaker, named Pilgrim, died at his house in Hawk-
ridge-street, Nottingham, on Friday: from the elf.aua of a
kick from a horse a few days previously. The deceased
was breaking-in a young horse, the property of a farmer
named Ellinor, at Colwick, near Nottingham, and while
di:ving it in girths he gave it a sharp cut with the whip,
when the animal, which was a spirited one, struck out with
its hind legs, one of its hoofs striking the eye and forehead
of Pilgrim. The blow was so violent that the bone was
forced in, and a portion of the brain protruded. The poor
fellow was iinine,lhitily conveyed home and medical assist-
ance procured, but without avail, as he died on Friday,
after having endured intense agony.
14aaftisoes iN INDIA.—It is true that w. mien
marry wily young in India, and that marriages are formed
after ve.; short acquaintance and with very slight mutual
knowledge of character. A morning call or two, a little,
conversation at the band, a dinner-party, a ball, and the
thing is dune. It is said, too, that what is irreverently
called the " marriage market" in India is not supplied
with produce of the best kind ; that at an early age girls
are deprived of parental care, are imperfectly educated in
England, under the supervision of strangers, and return,
whilst yet in their teens, to the care of parents in India of
whom they know little or nothing. But this evil has been
in recent years von much modified by the extension of
it. im communication and by the more liberal character
oa the furlou'li regulations. In old times a child was
often sent to England, and ten or twelve years afterwards
returned a grown woman to a father and a mother whom
during all that time she had never seen. But, in these
days it rarely happen,' that a separation of this kitt.! ea •
'lures during mazy years. The separation is of another
kind—the separation of husband and wife. And this is
another of the deteriorating circumstances to which we
have refereed. The domestic " scandals," of which. un-
happily, we have too nianv instances on the records of
the divorce court, are mostly the growth of these meowed
separations. The wife goes home to see her children or to
recruit her health • and either on the voyage to England
or daring her residence there may beesed to grievous
temptation. This, doubtless, is a peculiarity of Indian
life, though the mischief occurs out of India. There
is something, however, of the same kind in the
country itselt. " Scandals" do arise, at the hill
stations, where women temporarily separated from
their hushands—" grass widows"—enjoy themselves
in the invigorating mountain air whilst their hus-
bands are toiling on the plains. They are exposed to
the Ba and seductions of idle men, who have nothing
to do lotto make themselves agreeable to other* and to
amuse themselves. It would be strange if there were not
some shipwrecks of domestic happiness. But domestic
happiness Is wrecked at times in all parts of the civilised
world. We do not claim for Anglo-Indian society any
immunity from those stains and blots which deface social
life in Europe ; but we are disposed to
the think
East that,
swab
whole, the morality of our countrymen inie su
stantially on a higher wale than in other paits of the
world, where men are Leas wily found out.—ConiAßZ
I Magazine for October.