The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-21 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL EINAR' NARZATB.

LETIO/001. Dee 20.—Birkenhead, 814 824—Caledenian Stork,
Stack 4 Counties, 10 1816 10 1416—Great Northern
1104 11}- —Ear Wederns, 744 76—lancsahire and
Yortshire, 194—London and North Western., 102 1024—Man-
charter, Sheffield, and Lbieoln, 65—Midland Stock, IMl—Dltto
New shares, 2 2 1.16 p.—North British Stock, 661 664—Nceth
Stafforlabite, 24 21 —North Latent, Berwick Capital Mock
1064 --Ditto York Capital Stock, 96 964—Ditto Leeds Stock, 611
664-Bonth Latent, 964 6.l6—Wed Midland, Oxford. 50 604—
Dutch Rhenish, 24 24 d.--Great Luxembourg, 7 1-le—Grand
Trunk of Canada, 6 64—Great Western of Canada, 11 114—
Illinois Central, 284 d. —Buffalo and Lake Baron, 44 A—Great
Ship, 6a. to 6s. 6.l.—Thames and Meru) Marine Calumny,
1 S-16 p.
IlaiwaSMS, Duo. 20.—The market opened firm, and after
some decline closed steady. —Caledonian, 94—)astern Counties,
1-Grand Trunk of Canada, 6—Great Western, 744—Uncs,-
shire and Yorkshire, 1204—London and North Western, 1024—
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 66--Midland,
North Eastern, Berwick, 1064—North Stalforda, 24 .1 —Aoutaa
Eastern, 26e—Illinois Central, MI 4.—Alieland, New, 2 1-10 p.—
North Union, A, 229—Lancashlre Insurance, I d.
iliasinioliell, Dec. 10.—This share market waa flat again tc-
day, but there was not mach doing. The biuiluesa reported Ih-
eluded London and North Western at 1024 and 1024, Birmingham'
Ranking Company shares at 254, and Gloucester Wazon at
1-16 prem.

AYERlCA.—Souramtrrox, Dgc. 21.—The United
States steamer Arago, Captain Linea, from New York on
the Bth inst., arrived oft Hunt Castle at 1.45 p.m.
BOARD or TRADE, WHITEHALL, Dac. 18. —The
Right Honourable the Lords of the Committee of Privy
Council for Trade have received from the Secretary of State
for Foreign MYsirs a copy of a despatch from her Majesty's
ambassador at Paris, enclosing a copy of a French imperial
decree, dated the sth inst., permitting, until the 30th of
September, 1561, the importation into France of dried ve-
getables and their meals, in any vessel and from any
country, at the duty of 25 centimes per 100 kilos., and ex-
empting from tonnage duties, during the same period. all
vessels arriving with cargoes of the above articles. The
above regulations will apply t, all vessels and their outgoes
of dried vegetables and meals which may have left a foreign
port previously to the 30th of September, 1861. —Gozette.
UNIAFTIEED CHILDRIII.—A correspondent writes
to us from Elham, rays the South Eastern Gazette, re-
questing us to state that recently an inhabitant of that
place lost a young child by death, who had not been bap-
tised. The consequence was that the clergyman when re-
quested to do so, refused to read over it the burial service,
and would not even permit it to be buried iu the church-
yard till after dark, as though the infant had committed
filo de at, or the berialgrouod was the property of the
officiag minister for the time being, instead of belonging
to the whole body of the parishioners, who have had to my
for it twenty times over. In a neighbouring parish a similar
incident lately occurred, when the cle rityman there told the
mother that all unbaptised children • become hobgoblins
after death," and are not permitted to go to heaven.