The Express.
London, England, 1860-07-18 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKETS.

LitrgiGOOL, JOLT 17.—The market km been very good to-day,
but ebbs Mt stags at the best—Birkenhead, TYS 711-4bledonlan
Stock, 94195—!astern Count Ism 11640 11f --Great Northern Stock,
11S 110—Great Westerns, ;Of 71—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1074
107; I—London and Korth Western, 103$ 103 f—ditto faharas,
131546 124-11aacbarter, Sheffield, and I.l.,instilre, 41 ell..
Midland Stock, 1191120—North British Stock. eel 641—Xerilt bat-
tordittire, 34 34 d. —North Tasters, Berwick capital stock, 99994
1.022 capital stock, se; SO—Ditto, Leeds stock, 611 511
—South Estero, 9.10 254—Mart Midland, Oxford, GS 46
Dutch thenish, 44 td 4; d.—Great Lexensboarp. 7 71-4lraad
Trunk of Omuta, 7 74—Great Western of Canada. 111111—Ditto,
now shares, 91 91 d —Deftly and Lake Herm 44 s—Great Ship,
lb., 13s.—Thames and Merry Shrine Company, 1 1 p.
811111111011.111, JCL! 17.—'Wes were made to-day of Birmingham
Dank shorts at Y9s, and Binningluen Wagon shares at 24 prem.
General baba Navigation were •luoted 25 254{: Birmingham
Canal, 96 90; and Birmingham Guaranteed, 751 701. Market
arm

--aialiewearrih Jute 17.—There arm a *trona market all day,
eosins at the hest.—Leeds, 1071-1/Idland, 1191—Lenvera 2M—
Great Western, 711—Itoehdall Canal, 86—Landaus. 103t—lharnee
rid lteetay, I p. —sheath* 41 i—Berarlcka 981—Caledonhina, at.
UM*
Old 17.—Eaatern Counties, 664-341dlanda, 120—Leeds
Elsa 179 i.

&JOCUND ACCIDENT AT RATCLITT GAB WORK&
A lamentable accident occurred at these works yesterday,
whereby one man lost his life and several others were
severely injured. For some time past workmen have been
engaged in the erection of a new gas holder, capable of eon.
tainhig 80,000 cubic feet of gas, and which had been so far
completed as that the holder, being finished, was suspended
by chains attached to the pillars, which were to be its
=anent support, and which were some 60feet in height. Tus.
tardily it was raised bv means of these chains to the height
it will attain when full of gas, in order that the workmen
mkht fuilah off some of the points which could not be done
with the holder in that position. There were a number of
workmen employed als.tit it in one shape or other, some of
them on the top of it, some of them on the pillars to which
the chains are attached, and • considerable number em-
ployed in various ways on the ground outside the tank,
when, about 12 o'clock, with a crash which resounded
throughout and alarmed the surrounding neigh-
hoorkoud, the holder got detached from the chains
MeMg It, which snapped into a hundred pieces,
fell • distance of twelve feet into the bottom of
the tank, while the immense pillars—some of them smamhed
into half-a-dozen pieces— swayed some outwards and some
inwards, crushing and nattering the workmen in all direc-
tions. One of these, a man of the name of David Craig, was
employed arranging some iron plates at the south-east cm.
per of the tank, when he was struck on the head by • piece
of the coping which connects the different pillars at the
top, and killed on the spot. Robert Stewart, the foreman of
the workmen employed in the job, who was at work some-
where about the top of the holder, was also severely injured
Omit the had and lee. He was conveyed to the London
Hospital in a state of insensibility, where he lies in a very
precarious state. Michael Connelly and James Doherty
were also 'merely injured, theformer having one of his legs
broken in two places, and were both conveyed to the Lon.
doe Hospital. There were • number of others more or leas
injured, and who were promptly attended to by Dr. Arthur,
a High-street, Shadwell, tint who. after having their
mann& dreamed, were able to walk to their own homes.
The number of patients relieved at the Sama-
ritan Free Hospital fur Women and Children, Edward.
Amt. Portman-square, during the week ending July 14,
was 636, of which 136 were new calm