The Express.
London, England, 1861-10-15 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SNARE MARKETS.

Coup.
t=ilol—Oreat Northern, 111 118—Great Western, ID hi—
re and Yorkshire, 1091 f 1 4 I—Lontion and Nor*
Western, Wl—Manchester, Sheffield, and Unruh', 43i 44-1114
land Stock, 1247754 1--Ditte, new shares, If itp.- North British,
62 fin—North Staffordshire, 41 44 el.—North /intent
1004} 1001-141tto, York and North llidland, 00, 1104—Ditto,
Capital Stock. 581 581—Smith Ireton' and Dover, 231 al—
Wan Midland (Orion!), 46 47—Buffalo and Lake Huron, 4 4 1-111
—Dutch Rhenish, 0.16 1 d.—Grand Trunk of Cumin, 4 13-164
Great inssulboarlL 81—Great Western of Canatis, 91`
Illinois Central. 351 381 d.—Thames and Mersey [usurious;
1 146 lf p.—Erie ex assessment. 23 231.
ManctlallTrn, OCT. 14.—The market opened firm, with little
doing. but at the settlement of the account. stock proving ',arm,
prices advanced, closing steady.—Great Western, 681
Central. Stif d.—Lancashire and Yorkahlre, 1031 / 14—Midland,
1241—North Eastern, Berwick, 1004—South Eastern, 28)— Borer
Five per Cent. 11. paid', 1-16 p. dentate Guaranteed, 1011 p,
—tercet Ship, h.—Eastern Counties, Nu. 2,104 —Pmatuft snit
Wyre, 441—Great Luxembourg. 81—Fast Anglia., len.
ifiaXitonlitg. OCT. 14.—1 n this market to-d..y there were
Stour Valley shares sold at B—Birmingham Waterworks, new, an
21-16 prem. and Gloucester Wagterm, new, at 11 press.
lik-
millghan Guaranteed quoted 741 to 75—West libtland Hereford,
89, sellers—South Stafford*, 10f. 13s. ikl., sellers—Birmingham
and Derby, Wi North British, 614—and 1.011•1011 and North
Western, 02. Sellers were more plentiful than buyers today,
which Is not often the cue in this market.

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THE GREAT EANTERN. —Captain Walker, the
Commander of the Great Eastern, writes to the Tiara :-
"In the Liverpool Mercury of the :kit inst. I find s para-
graph, taken from your paper, relative to the last pnwsures
of the Great Eastern. the Persia, and the city of
New York, which. I think, requires some comment. No
nautical man could come to the conclusion that if the
vessel met with a hurricane sir days before another
reached the same latitude, both must be exposed to the
same adverse circumstances, but rather that, as Wl*.
noctial gales only blow from 24 to 4$ hours, the latter
vessel would find calm weather, but probably • heavy swan.
On comparing the log of the Great Eastern with that et
the City of New York. I tied that on the 13th of thee
Umber they were distant 1 deg. 30 min. lat. N., Ilia
6 deg. 60 min. long. W., the latter resatl making tidy
82 miles ; while on the 12th. when the accident had net
occurred to the rudder, the Great Eastern 'wide 253 nuke
through a strong breeze and cross sea. On the 14th
the Ctity of New York made only 126 miles, sod this per-
formance of a venial considered by nautical men to he a
very good model, and the float ship of the '
line, ought to go far to disprove, instead of substaa.
Meta your conclusion, s' that the weather in which the
Greet Easternwax disabled was nothing unusual at this
season of the year in the North Atlantic! The disabling
of so mac,' of the Channel fleet, and the logs of veneis
tailing near us during the gale, teed to prove that it was not
the usual weather, as the harbour at Queenstown might
witness. Among many there alongside us, the Jam
Davis put iu disabled, with uo less than three crew
on board, pickesl up at sea. Had not the accident
to the rudder occurred, placing us at the mercy
of tits wire!. and waves, the Great Eldora
would have more than upheld her former prestige, as her
great superiority is most show, when beadle,: a stiff bruise
and bead sat, and her log bean favourable comparison with
the September and October passages' of any vessel afloat."
FATAL AND MELANCHOLY ACCIDENT. —A moat
dims:ming accident occurred at Huntoo on Monday evening
last, under somewhat peculiar circumstances, by which a
young woman, named Charlotte Hodge., met with se
untimely death. The deceased, who was the daughter et
a widowed mother living at Yaklitig, had been to
street in quest of a situation, being accompanied thither
by her brother, a petty officer io the royal navy.
who had been home to spend • few days' holiday. The
brother went on to Maidstone, whilst his sister retuned
towards the home she was destined never to reach alive.
At the top of Hunton-hill she wee met by a young maw
named Reeves, who bad been " keeping ocenrany" with her
for some time, and who bad been requested by her mother
to see her safely home. A short distance down
the bill a gate opens into a private path, which nine
parallel with the road, skirting the edge of a precipitous
bank which towards the bottom of the hill rises from
twenty to thirty feet above the level of the highway, the
only protection consisting of a thin growth of uuderwood. A
little way beyond its steepest point the bank shelves down
gradually, and it appears that, notwithstanding the path
is strictly private, some people are in the habit of
using it in preference to the high road. The deceased seem
to have had a fancy for this walk, and, at her suggestion.
the two quitted the road for the path. At this time it was
quite dark, and Homes, who states that he had never
been that way before, sllowed his companion to
take the lead. Thus groping along it seems the
deceased mistook the spot where they ought to have
descended into the road, end, paving no Lena to the matures
of her swain, she pushed through the underwood by the aide
of the path, and the next moment fell headlong down a
height of more titan td feet. Reeves returned, and ran
obtaindAr oawindtbieig.h
lilloutocerntalitlheesptilrelzregirsibehaladv,bbrbautttedforeherliewmaldt._
A gatuekeeper was mold brutally beaten by
poachers at Deddingtoo, on Saturday last. The poor Mew
was engaged in his dangerous occupation of watching gassy
hi company with two others, when he was set upon by sheet
• dome men. The companions of the keeper belted, bat the
poachers retained their hold of the unfortunnte mat, sad
best him in a dreadful manlier. He now lies in a pre-
carious state.