The Express.
London, England, 1863-08-13 00:00:00

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

In =craw irimosArn.l

READING MEETING.-(THIS DAY.)

EASTHA3IPSTEAD STA KE.S.
Golden Duet
Fouteuoy
Lioneas
READING STAKES. Holt' a mile.

Eradamante,Catastrophe f, Elsie, Telaaombe,and Bianca(
are here.
KING'S MEADOW STAKES. Straight seven furlong..
Fontenoy, Riegelwood, Subini, Churchman, Topsy,
Margery, Tom Sayers, and the Emerye are here.

BERKSHIRE STAKES. About two miles.

Earl of Surrey, Flash in the Pan, Blackdown, and Dotes.
tive are here.

NURSERY PLATE. About seven furlongs.
Lady Wild f, Attraction. Verbena, Damns, Heber, Flat-
ter, Nervous 0, Elise, anal Fairy are here.

STEWARDS PLATE. One mile and • quarter.
Melt in the Pen, Baliverne. Renumerater, Everluting,
LW, Emma. Kinpwood, and &Helm:try are here.
PAID Foarirr.—Church Militant and tittowelL

AISIVED.—Sweet Willie, Deerfoot, Eleanor, Toy f. Lau-
Midnight, Blanche of Loader, Rambling Kate f,
Abernethy, False Step, Neilgherry, Duke of Cambridge,
Pelham, Nervous c, Crisis, Churchman, Garotter, Sister to
Melecioby, Change, Trump.. Anglo-Saxon, Stainler, Nereus,
Balham, Eudora, Lady Williams. Drone, l)ux. Buckhnuod,
Vcluptus, Tailor, Signalman, East Sheen, Perseverance,
Calliope f, Ripon, Lofts, Wasp g, Golden Dust, Gibraltar,
Dictator, Longford, Berkley, Queen of Spain, Maid of Lin-
eage c, slant to Gladstone, and Oscar.

SUICIDE or A MAN IN WOMEN'S CLOTHES.—)
This morning information was forwarded to the cornier
of the following determined and somewhat singular suicide.
It appears that for some years past • man named Bygrave
bad resided its Redcrossetreet, in the Mint, Southwark. Of
late his wife had led a very improper life, and he in copse.
gnome refused to live any longer with her. On Wednesday
he dressed himself in some of his wife's wearing apparel, and
deliberately hanged himself in his bedroom. He was cut
down, and a surgeon was sent for. but life was quite extinct.
The deceased for some time past had shown great weakness
of intellect.

THE WILATHER.—It in • curious circumstantu i 3 " 'AU"... , poi
money, 93, I, k ; ditto, for account, 934 ; Three
that north of Paris the beat has not been so opp 're es '
in that capital. Is London the thermometer ham not are- • Per Cent.- Reduced, 93i, i ; New Three per
raged more then 72 F., and we learn from the French , Cents.. 93i, t i ; New Two-and-a-HAI per Cents.,
coast that both at Dieppe end Etretit last Sunday the :77 ; India 'tuck, 226 ; ditto Five per Cent.
weather was so chilly as to make a resort to great coats i Stock, loga i
neeswary. In the south of Fresco, and also last week
C t 61' ' "enlaced" Apee paper, 1071 ; ditto
at Harm, there hare been noticed extensive showers of i;r " ' en I • ditto, for account, 108! ; Five
midges. ghats, or flies, assuming the proportions of a storm i ve-and-a-Half per Cent.. 116 t.
of those Meseta. The India Five per Cent. Stock wee rather

better, at 108} to #. being in good demand.
St-
chequer Bills were firmer at ls. dis to 2s. prem
International Financial shares were steady at 31
to 4 prem. ; General Credit, at to 1 prem. ; Lon-
don Financial, at 11 to 11 prem. ; and Egyptian
Trading, at to 1 prem. Hudson's Bay shares
were firmer in the morning, and touched 2 dis., the
preparations for the settlement indicating that the
floating supply of shares has much diminished,
while the dealers generally appear to be oversold,
end were consequently borrowers of the shares in
the morning. The closing price, however-21 to 2
dis.—was no better than that of yesterday.
A fresh rise has taken place to-day in Agra Bank
shares. London and County Bank and Bank of
Egypt were quoted rather lower. As regards mis-
cellaneous shares the only alteration was a slight
decline in Copper Miners of England preference.
Ocean Marine shares closed to-day at 131 to I
prem. ; Thames and Mersey, 21 to 3 prem. ; Com-
mercial Union, 2/ to 211 prem. ; London awl Pro-
vincial Marine, dis. to par ; Universal Marine,
to die. ; North British and Mercantile Insur-
ance, 171 to 18 ; and Oriental and General Marine,
11 to 11 prem.
The nominal closing quotations for shares in new
undertakings to-day were as follows :—Brazilian
and Portuguese Bank, to 1 prem. ; Oriental
Hotels, 1 to 1 prem. ; Castle Hotel (Richmond),
Ipar to 1 prem. ; Marine Investment, to 2 prem.

MINES.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'Cwol.

In the mining market to-day, there is not much
general business, preparations for the fortnightly
settlement occupying chief attention. East Cara-
don shares have declined 155., on the receipt
of unfavourable reports from the mine. Wheal
Seton, Kitty St. Agnes, and East Russell are also
lower. On the other band, West Chiverton are
inquired for and better. Subjoined are some of
the present quotations, viz. :—East Cars-
don, 28i to 29 ; East Cara Brea, 8 to
; West Chiverton, 27 to 29 ; Chiverton,
7to ; East Basset, 79 to 80 ; Wheal Seton, 216
to 220 ; Kitty St. Agnes, 71 to 8} ; East Russell,
3 to 1 ; and Wheal Crebor, 345. to 365.
Foreign and colonial mining shares are inactive,
and prices are nominally the same as at 4 o'clock
yesterday.