The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-22 00:00:00

LOCAL SHARE MARKETS.

LrrEneool., Mann 21.—flake today: Caledonian. 904 z d
Great Northern. 1104—Laneriehlre and Yorkshire, 1004
London and North Western, 98—Midland, 1114 I 4—Newcastle
and arlisle, 112—North Eastern Berwl nth9ll Eastern, 944,
Da ad., d—Grand Think of lik M.—Great
Western of Canada, 12$ ce Company.
IL Is. fkl. p.
IlastWarlan, MAWR 21.—The mark* was again rather
actin. and closed Ire. Bank of Manchester —Leeds, 1001
—Landow, 011—Ifklland, 111 I—Dovers, Ida, el/—
Canadair, 12 1/616-lEleaad lourand-a-Half per Cents., 1024--
Trunks, II 16441.—North etallorda, d.
Iludensanan, 'Luton EL—Badness was brisk la this market
toda Larosetw and 111rmfachain Canals wore drat In at 19—
Dlrm lhanldne Ossepan4 shame at 10—Dndlay and West
Broca er h Beak *MO at ll—Wolverhampton and Btaffordshke
Bank shares at 10—Great Western Eiranneliant Guaranteed
stock at 751. 13s. 9d.

EXTRAORDINARY Arraca.—A GiorrizitAN Snot
i.e BRADIoRD. Mr. J. R. W. Thompson, solicitor,
of Bradford, was, about ten o'clock on Monday
night, peeing •on the road between Carr Syke,
Heaton, and the Cleekhouse Gates, in limning-
ham • when under the high wall which bounds the Clook-
home grounds, opposite the end of Jumbles.lane, a man
suddenly thrust out his arm, placed a pistol to Mr. Tlncz
son's head, and discharged it. The bullet passed thi
the left aide of the upper lip, took away two of the teeth
from the upper jaw on the right side, also broke some of
the teeth in the lower Jew, and then, peeing outw.lrds,
=ita eel the right cheek. Mr. Thompson s smailant then
in the direction of Jumblee.lane. No re: sum
for the murderous attack can be assigned. Whether the
pistol warn fired in mistake, another victim being intended
or it was the act of a maniac cannot be determined. Mr.
Thompson is now out of danger, but is shockingly disfigured.
His assailant has not been discovered.
AN KirwtuoN Amicoirra.—A correspondent in-
forms on that previous to the terrible calamity at Wails.
end Colliery in 1836, when 102 persons lost their lives,
the men were exceedingly apprehensive of the =e-
minent danger they were in. Many of them, cape.
cially the younger portion, used to meet in a neighbour's
house, the house of the sister of our eterespoodentr
and talk about the explosive condition of the pit
at that very time. Among other things they talked
of how much persons were sometimes dis6avtekl us
that they were not able to be recognised by their own
friends. A very few evenings before the explosion this was
the subject of talk, and one young man remarked— " Mother
mended my =moon a few days ago, and put such a curious
patch on that I said to her, 'Mother, I think you have psi
a mark upon me to know me should the pit fire.' " The pit
fired, and true enough, though his mother had not designed
this, it wee the colt mark by which she could recognise her
child. —Names*
EirNotrian RIIOOIIRRY OF Loter MONEY.--Ore
Tuesday morellos a respectable woman, somewhat advanced
in life, and living in Wolverhampton, left the Queen-street
Railway Station to go by the Stour Valley Railway to a
station near Birmingham to attend a sale of furniture. To
make the necessary purchases she took with her between 60L
and 601. in notes and gold, and wrapping the money in a
paper parcel placed it in her pocket. Upon getting to the
station where she had to alight she was much distressed to
find that her gooney wee gone. She took the first train
back to Wolverhampton, where she had reams to believe
that she dropped her mosey. As the return train entered
the station she was observed to look out of the window
with Rt eagerness, leap out of the carriage before the
train well stopped, and run rotted to the departure
aide. • ere she jumped from the platform on to the line
and picked up her pared of money, which her 7•1133011.4 eye
had perceived lying upon the space between the platform
and the nearest lines of metals.—Weteeraampton Chronicle.
Tan Cams-CoNewre nr Panie.—The Korn et
Ourette des Thfittres says .—"The attention of the Minister
of State has for some time past been attracted to the ea-
t:coachmen= of the cafés-concerts in Paris. At first these
establishments confined themselves to causing performers to
sing detached airs ; then they gave duce, thentnes, and then
little by little entire scenea. The singer, too, who at first
figured only in plain clothes, afterwards appeared in cos-
tume; and eventually entire operettas were executed. Is
this manner, more than one café became a veritable theatre,
in spite of the formal directions of the authorities. The
minister has resolved to put an end to this competition Mlle
or lees direct to the privileged theatres. He bas called the
attention of the Prefect of Police to the matter ; and boa,
moreover, caused one cafe-concert, which wen particularly
bold in its violations of the regulations, to be temporarily
closed."
The inhabitants of the valley of Andorre, on the
southern slope of the Pyrenees, between France and Spain,
the political organisation of which is as is well known,
quite primitive and patriarchal, have just been witness of a
sad spectacle. A young man had been condemned to death
for murder, and the whole population of the valley is
arms, and headed by the authorities, were present at the
execution. The executioner, an inhabitant of the valley,
and who had his heed and face covered with a thick veil,
displayed considerable agitation is the performance of his
duties, for which he received 150 fr. This event produced a
deep sensation throughout the whole of the little republic,
where an execution has not taken place for the last two
centuries.
Tan Suarziasiritsx RAILWAY.—It having been
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ascertained that the bed of the new sewer sow conetnictial
in the St. Paismaa-roakßattle-bridge, for the purpose
diverting the channel of the old sewer, which would other.
wise interfere with the works of the Subterranean Railway,
is nearly seven feet above the required level, the tunnelling
has been suspended, and workmen are actively engaged ta.
sinking abate to the depth required.
OXFORD, WONAMETIR, AN D WOLV ZRH A M PTON'
RAMWAT.—The total traffic receipts of this employ for
the fortnight ending the 11th of March were 9.878/. 9s. 61.;
and for the corresponding fortnight of 1689 Sher were
8,5131. 19s. 11d. The expenditure amounted to 4,1101.
Is. St, or at the rate of 41.62 per cent.; whilst those for
the corresponding fortnight of 1860 amounted to 3,7901.
la. 3d., or at the rate of 44.19 per cent. The •
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reeeipta for the first five fortnights and one day oft =
year amounted to 46,793/. 16e. 7d., as against 43,583/. 10e.
lid. for the ocereeponding five fortnights and two days at
the previous year. And the aggregate expanses for the first
five fortnights and one day of the half•year amouififil to
20,8021. lea. 7d., being at the rate of 44. per cent:, to
against 19,5831. 10a. ld. for the corresponding five fortnights
and two days of the previous year, or at the rate of .44.911
per cent.