The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-03 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKED!.

Lin t:U.OOU JAN. t —Balm to-day: Furness, new, 1867. 1 p.—
Great, Eastern 504 111 141140 tr—Great Western, all
6 6—Dimmable and Yo 1 1 301 1 I ;—London
and North Western, IE4 it: 4'41 1 1 I—Maw:hada,
Bheeleld. and Lincolnshire, bt 6 1-11etiopolitan„,
11E4 B—Midland, 126 64 Idland. ERtunnthant tlB one-
rertible, p.—North British, 381 1 1 4—North Eastern Emrich
aspitalatock, 100-80ath Eastern, 704 1 krl 794 e9l 704
—Buffalo and Lake limos, 44 6-16 7-16 1 7.l6—Grand
Think of Canada, 191 20 1 20191—Great extern of Canada, 121
—Ede, 664-111Inols Central, 811 2—Vnited States 5.i0 Bonds,
1967, 72f—ditto 1863, 724—Deitch Rhenish. paid up, 244 ad_—
Great Luxembourg shares, 121—AnglmAnserkan TelegraM
Atlantic Telegraph 8 per cent., 5911-10 I—Natkutal t.
Steam
(Limited), 134 d.
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llastettneria, JAN. t—A good deal of business was dose,
but at pekes about 1 per cent. lower than yesterday. Alliance
Bank ;Limited G d.—Buffalo and Lake Huron, 4 546—Great
Eastern, 301 3 1 / 1 30 2511 to Si 1 1 1 I—Great Luzern
13 4.16 111.16 1 13-16—Great Northern A. 1311 2a01m1:1
—Dread Trunk of Canada, 20—Great Western of 1
13-16 I—Oreat Western, 561 1 5111inuts. 814 2—Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 1311 1 1 tof I—London1—London and North Western,
1224 &lei 4.—umehoter, slieflield, and Lincoln, 51) 1 5 4/
j 1 1 11 4—Metropolitau, I_Ja 1 8-111d-
lam.% 1241 1— North British, 381 I—South &stun. 70! 1 1
70 1 1 1 70 1 I 70—Surreley Goal and Iron Company Limited).
121 p.—Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance (limited ,34
15-16 1 p.—United States 520 Years Bonds, 73 1 3.
BIRIMUIRAN. JAS. -Bnabeea done:—Binningiunt One,
New Ordinary, at 50; and Patent Shaft and Auld's* United),
at 61 prem. Closing prices :—Birmingham Joist Stock Bank
Limited), 53; to 41 ; Birmingham Town and District Hank, 91
to 41 . Birmingham and Midland Bank, 141. buyer, : etro-
politan Railway Carriage and Wagon (thiliteir. Third lean,
to din.: South Staffordshire Waterwuelo, 6to6} : British
and Poreignßailway Plant Shares (WIWI , 10 tuto dia.; and
Patent Nut and Bolt tLimited:, 11 dk, sailers.

DOBL/N. JAN. I.—Three pm Cent COMM*, lint/iew Three
per Cent. Mock, 834 i—Dltto for aneteutt, 81.121 tt,, for saw
account, 94—hank of Inland (Via - Slwwter Bank
Limited) (Si 41—National Bank ttSO pal , n7l
Wicklow, and Wexford ,SlOO paid`, for account, t33.-Grad
Southern and We,tern 'LIOO paid', 9S 9111—Slidland lire*
Wederu. (Elan paid . 614—Oreat Southern and Wes:, ni, 4 per
cent. perpetual, ,4:.1)0 paid, 94.

FATAL EFFECTS OF DRINIC.—A respectable young
man, named George Crouch, aged sixteen, living with his
parents at Lisson-grove, met with his death yesterday
morning under the following circumstances : —The
do ceased, who was for some time past a member of the
Marylebone Temperance Society, went on Monday with
some companions to Drury-lane Theatre. After the per.
formance the party adjourned to a public.houee, and
whilst there deceased was prevailed upon to take some
beer and spirits. Subsequently they went to several other
public-houses, and ultimately arrived at a hairdresser's
shop at Great James-street, Marylebone, kept by a man
named Bryant, and here deceased got so drunk thlt his
companions were afre.id to send him home, so they put
him in a back room and locked the door. Half an hour after
this (at three o'clock yesterday morning) a loud crash was
heard which proceeded from the rear of the house, and on
the party going there, they found that (ht.-eased had
opened the back window and thrown himself on to the
pavement below, thus severely fracturing his skull. He
was at once taken to St. Mary's Hospital, when it was
found that be was quite dead. At the same hospital lies
the dead body of a man named John Worrell, aged
twenty-three, who lived at 54, Great Carlisle-street,
Marylebone. On Christmas night deceased and a woman
with whom he cohabited were drunk and quarrelling in a
narrow court in the Harrow-road. Shortly after the man
was found insensible and bleeding profusely from a wound
in the chest, and on his being taken to St. Mary's Hos-
pital it was ascertained that he had been stabbed with a
knife which bad penetrated the region of the heart. He
lingered until Monday evening last, when he died from the
effects of the stab.
BEIGAN UA AND "POLITICS." Three British
officers, aterompanied by a somewhat celebrated and
superior dragoman, " all proper," am the heralds say, were
on their way back to Athens after a very pleasant expe-
dition to Penteliems, when they found themselves sud-
denly performing in the well-known tableau of a party
surprised by brigands, who present guns at every
button of their waistcoats. Resistance was useless ; and
the British lion, thus caught in a net, submitted to have
his claws cut. The country gentlemen took the rings,
purses, and watches of the officers, and then politely al-
lowed them to return to the city. There they made in-
dignant complaints to the English minister, who at onto
applied to the Greek government. Profuse were the
apologies, and eager ware the essurances of speedy resti-
tution. A few days afterwards a distinguishol member
of the Greek cabinet himself called at the British Lega-
tion to express his gratification et being enabled to an-
nounce the fact that the brigands had been discovered,
and induced to disgorge their prey. It had been all •
mistake, a sad mistake. Saying which, the amiable
minister with his own hands produced the spoiL It was
all right, with the exception of a single ring. This was
a sad blot upon the general happiness. The brigands
were perfectly grieved at having unfortunately lost that
ring; but they were rich, and would gladly pay its
value if has excellencywould would only condescend to declare
it ! There was a courierge at the British Legation, an
elderly Greek. of singularly handsome form and counte-
nance. There he was, erect in his picturesque national
costume, end it was really pleasant to see the native
dignity with which he performed the duties of his office.
He looked as if he could on the shortest notice play the
part of Ulysses or Agamemnon with equal ea,' and suc-
cess. Unfortunately, though I believe his own conduct
was in every way excellent, he bad rather a ma 1,048 skirt
for • son. It was discovered that this son had been sae
of the party who robbed the officers on their way from
Pentelicus ; and the good old father, when informed of
this by his master, replied in en sy of grief, "(1h !
your excellency, have I not always beaed and entreated
him to abstain from pulitica r—Prauer's Nera:ine for
Januar
Theclerks and employ& of the U. S. Post-office
Department have not beea well paid for the services they
have performed. The 'salaries of clerks in the Post .office
Department during the four years of war were not in-
creased, while all the expenses of living were more than
doubled. The salaries were fixed in times of peace and
low priees. They were not raised when war raised prices.
United States Postausefer Gemertsts &port.