The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-06 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE HAREM.

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LITIRPOOL, Nov. s.—Sales to-day : Great Eastern, 26
Great Western, 53 21—London and North Western, 1174 1--
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 4644 4 4 91 81—North
British, 351 61 6—South F.astern, 641 / I—Buffalo and Lake
Huron, 4 146 4 1-16 IYle, 511 1-I'nited States 5-20 Bonds, 661
—North Western Bank (Limited., par—Thames and Mersey
Marine ,Limited(, 31 p.—Anglo American Telegraph, 141 1 }—
Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent., 41 1.
Msgffiligrtga, Nov. 5.—A moderate busiress was done, at
generally lower prices. Anglo-American Telegraph (Limited',
141 --Atlantic Telegraph Preference 8 per cent., an 24 103—
notcanw, Vaughan, and Co. (Limited`, 11.16 (I.—Buffalo and
Lake Huron, 4—Erlea, 511 I—Great Eastern, 26—Great Luxem-
bourg, 12 11.16 I—Great Northern A, 1261—Grand Trunk of
Canada, 181—Great Western, 52/ 3 2/ 3—London and North
Western, 117 i I—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 494 9
84 I 414—Dittotallererence, p.—Metropolitan, 1214
Meskan, le 4 I—North British, 351 1 R i 1 4 18—South Eastern,
659411—Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance ;Limited:, 3/
15-16 p.--Tnrkish Five per Cent., 314.
9 Ilial4o6llSll, Nov. s.—Business done: London and North
Western Railway, at 1171: Birmingham Town and District
Bank, at 101 and Staffordshire Juiut-Stock Bank (Limited ,
at 31 prem. Closing prices: South Stafford Railway, 821, sellers
Great Western. Itimiingluun Guaranteed, 31 per cent., 704 to
701: Birmingham and Midland Bank, 141 to 144: Dudley and
West Bromwich Bank. 101 to 11 :'Lloyd's Bank 'Limited,. 74 to 71
prem.: Shropshire Bank, 5, settlers Midland Wagon, 95,
sellers: Munts's Metal (Limited;, 11 to 11 dia.

Rossini met with a alight accident a few days
back by falling on his staircase. No serious consequences,
however, ensued, and he is now entirely recovered ; he has
also been able to resume the work on which he is now
engaged for adapting for the orchestra the mass which
he executed about two: years back at the residence of M.
Fillet-Will.

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The following strange story is going the round of
the Paris journals :—" M. de It---, having acquired •
fortune in business, retired to a handsome property he
possessed near Fontainebleau. Soon after, his daughter
Julie, 21 years of age, was asked in marriage by • gen-
tleman of the neighbourhood, and in spite of her opposi-
tion and avowed repugnance, the wedding took
place. In the evening the bride was missed and
the result of the researches made was only so find
that the groom's man, who had been • friend of
the young lady's from infancy, had likewise dis-
appearea. The father, like every one else, believed in an
elopement, and all the usual means were employed to trace
the fugitives, but unsuccessfully. This occurred five years
ago, and M. de R— having lately purchased some ad-
joining property on which was • quarry long out of use,
set some men to work, who found at the bottom of an old
excavation two skeletons, which from the remains of the
clothes and the jewels were recognised as the missing bride
and her lover." _ _

TUE EASTERN FISHERIES.—The catches made of
herrings by the Great Yarmouth boats have been consider-
able during the past fortnight, although somewhat
rougher weather has interfered with the deliveries during
the last few days. Prices have ranged from 81. 10s. to
211. per last (13,200 fish). In the course of last week about
1,400 lasts were landed at Lowestoft, and the season may
be pronounced a prosperous one upon the whole.
lintwe's Lasr ILLNESS.—Fortuns'eli for him
the allowance which he had received throughout life from
his generous uncle was doubled by his heirs, so as to place
him in easy circumstances. For nearly eight years ho lay
in this state, and it was no wonder the process of dying
seemed rather tedious both to him and his hiends.
Gradually his gay French companions dropped off.
Theophile Gautluer, who had been fond of him enough
in the days of his health, visited him only when com-
missioned by Michel Levy to write a preface to the new
edition of the " Reisebilder." Once a lisitor was and
nounoed ; it was Berlioz. " What !" exclaimed
the dying poet, " some one visits me !" and on re-
cognising Berlioz, he added, " You were always ori-
ginal." After three years of illness his body was like a
skeleton, covered with a transparent akin. Nothing but
the short beard betrayed that he was a full-grown man and
not a baby. Still he continued literary composition, and
on most mornings dictated to his amanuensis, or had him
read to him. Ile not only kept up his knowledge of cur-
rent literature, but studied the whole physiology and pa.
thology of the disease. " Some day," he said to his phy-
sician, " I shall be able to give lectures in heaven on the
insufficiency of terrestrial remedies in the cure of spinal
diseases." Violent Its of coughing and retch'ng aggra-
vated his nervous sufferings. After one of these fits, he
asked his physician whether these fits did not greatly acce-
lerate his death. " Not at all," was the reply. " !Pray,"
said he, " don't tell that to my wife ; she has trouble
enough without that." Another day, on being asked,
" Pouves-vons siftler?" he replied. " Helm ! non, pea
memo les piOces de M. Scribe." On the day before his
death he sat up and tried to write out a new will, but did
not get beyond the first few paragraphs. Frequent fits of
retching exhausted his bodily strength, without subduing
his old gaiety. Re even expressed hopes of getting over this
attack. On the morning of the 16th of February,
at last, he was relieved from his suffering&
Dumas and Theoldule Gauthier were the only illustrious
friends that followed him to the pave. He lies belied
in the cimetiere Montmartre ; a simple marble slab, with
the name of " Henri Heine," marks his last resting.
place.—Preser's Magazine for November.