The Express.
London, England, 1861-05-11 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKErs.

LlTraeoett. MAT 10.—Birkenhead. P 24 T.3—Cidedonlan, 96 961
—Eastern Counties. VI Oi--tlreet, Northern. 100 110—Great Wes-
ter% 701 711—Lancashire and Yoeluddre stock, 104; 109—London
and North Western stock. 031 931—London and south Western,
91195}—Manchester, itherfield, and Lincoln. 41 411—Midland
stock, 1901 120!—D1ttn new shares, If 11p.—North British,
621 43—North staffordshire, 44 4 d.—North Eastern, Barwick,
lolllo2—Pinto. York and North Midland, 891691—Ditto, Leeds
capital stock, s.sls9—Routh Eastern and Dover, 23 15-16 94 1.16
—West Midland, Oxford, 47144—Buffalo and Lake Huron, 419-16
s—Dutch Jibe:ash. 3 1.16 2 15-16 d.—GrAnd Trunk of Canada.
41510 —Great Luxemhounr, 616 1516—Great Western of
(Made, II 111—Ditto new sitars', 91 94 0.-1111mA, Central,
39 S,l.l.—Thames and Mersey I nsurance, 1 11 p.
tufrosirridt. MAY 10,-The market was depressed all day,
eloshm at tie lowest. Great Western of Canada, 11 1-14—
Great Western, 711-111Inola Central, 381 A 14 d. 9—Lancashire
and Yorkslure, 1091 1 11 1 1961 9 81—Manchester, Sheffield,
fuel LinvoluALre, 42 14 2 1,1, I 1 I—Midland, 1211 1 1 14
20j—Noeth Staffordshire, 4 1-16 d. 1-Bouth Eastern. 24 1.10
Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance, 1 LH v.—Lancaster and
Carlisle. 202—Great Ship Company, To. W.—South Eastern
Sour-ands-Halt per Cent., 981.
li1e111:0114A7.1. MAY 10.--South Stiffords were sold to-day,
100. His M.—Midland Bank Sham. 150—and General Steads
Shares, 26/78tour Valleys quoted ell—.`hour Volley Gumantee .1,
60 61—Binnontimm Preference. 91 10—Birmingham Canals, 'w.
U2l—Birmlnahant Waterworks New, 14 11 Lloolngliata
Old Mill, 10; 101. Market quiet.

TRATVIC RF:tratca.—The traffic returns of rail-
ways iu the irnit.A Kingdom for the week ending 4th of
May amounted to 527,3501., and for the correatooding week
of last year to 531,290/. ; showing a decree.," of ;14910P.
The gross receipt" of the eight railway. having their termini
in the metropolis amounted to Z10.9i41., mod for the cor-
responding week of lee:0 to 240,1.163 f., ;Mowing .5 demean
of 9,099/. The decrease on the Great Northern Railway
amounted to lithe/. ; on the i;redit Western to
2,140/.; nn tae London and North• Western. to 7.3.51 f. ;
on the London and Blackwall to NV. ; and oa the Mouth-
Eastern to Ant —total, 12,3301. Rut front thus must be
deducted 1,22;W., the increase on the Riodem Counties, 3211.
on the London, Brighton, and Mouth Coast, and 1,68.1 t.
on the London and 'South-Western, leaving the de.
crew as oboes., !lOW. The receipts on the other lines
in the United Kingdom amounted to 294,4167„ sod for the
correspomling week of last year to 291,t171., showing an
iocrease of 113149/., which must be deducted from the de.
crease on the metropolitan lions, leaving the total decreas•
3,9101., as eomparel with the corresponding Meek of litigt
A Boy HAsciNn 111N7,41LP IN SPONT.—ON Wed.,
newt... a Any mimed Thomas Bishop, thirteen van of age.
was at the Railway, in Moretondu-Msrsb, taking MI. Of
some horses. The door of the stable was secured hy a cord,
which hung in 3 nixes from a staple. 'demi tiro feet from
the grouud, and the boy amused himself by placing his head
through the none. He was seen in this position by Mrs.
Bennett, the landl sly, who cautioned him of the danger he
incurred. About ten minutes afterwards the servant girl
found the deceased hanging by the neck from the imd, ap-
parently quite dead. She raised an alarm, and the carter
removed hint to the inn, and Dr. Wit, of Moreton, was
summoned, who pronounced life to be quite extinct, remarking
that death must have been almost instantaneous. It is a re-
markable fact that the boy's mother has had fourteen chil-
dren, four of wltorn were some years acre burnt to death,
and the father died suddenly.—Briatol