The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-03 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKET&

litvgarooL, figp4. 4.—Bales this day:—Crest Western, Wes
Midland and Oxford, 4434—Laneashire and Yorkshire, 1164 16 4
London and North Western, 112} 12 e 111 12 Ilt ad.—
Manchester. Sheffield, and Lincoln, 65i I—North Lamm, Ber-
wick capital stock. 10*—South Eastern, Stif in., at—White-
haven and Furness, 2116—Spantsh Certificates, 14—Confederate
Loan, 74} 1 all—Bank of Liverpool, 29 -t Erchange
Bank ;Limited), 14 1 p. Mercantile and Exchange Bank
(Limited), 41 I I td. b. and nn.—National Bank of Liverpool
(Limited, 74 P.—North Western Bank (Waited). 64 6 e
Maritime insurance ;Wilted., 1-16 p.—Union Marine rumuted),
215-16 Ix—African Mordants, d.—National Steam Navigation
Company, * 1 11d.—Went India and Pad& Steam, ill 346 p.
MARcin/rzy, Bug 2.-1. fair bunion done, and prima rather
firmer at the close Confedersta Loan, 744 6—Consolidated
Bank halted), 61 p.—Great Eastern, 46}—Great Northern
(Ai. 141 I—Oreat Western, Or I—Geoeral Credit, it p.
—lllinois Central, 44 I—taacsahlre and Yorkshire, 1164 1—
tendon and North Western, 1124—Manchester and County
Bank, 6 p.—Manehorter, 805 11d, and Uncolnabire, tot
Ditto fit per
cont. prat, p.—Metropolltas, new, p.—North
Raskin, Berwick. los—aoen pastern, Iffit 4—Staveley Coal and
iron, 27i iv—Masao and Mersey Marine Insurance, 6 p.

NAVAL PSIS' MONTY. —Notioe is given in last
night's Gazette, that preparations are now being made for
the intended distribution of bounty awarded for destrectioa
of pirates on the 23rd end 25th July, 1860, by her Majesty's
ship Kestrel. A similar oinks is given with respect to the
bounty awarded for destruction of pirates on the 18th No-
veinier, 1861, by her Majesty's ship KestreL
Tstarrtc RECEIPT& —The traffic receipts of rail-
ways in the Baited Kingdom amounted for the week ending
the 27th of August, on 11,440 miles, to 708,8761., and for
the corresponding week of last year, oe 11,001 miles, to
642,3146, showing an increase of 439 miles, and of 61,5624
in the receipts. The gems receipts on the following 14 rail-
ways amounted in the aggregate on 8,030 miles, to 569,2861.,
and for the conespanding week of 1863, on 7,850 miles,
to 524,8724, showing ea increase of 180 miles sod 44,4144
in the receipts. The increase on the Caledonian amounted to
2,1201. ; on the Great Linters to 1,2271. ; on the Great
Northern to 2,0751. ; cc the Great Weaken to 4,20(4 ;
on the Lancashire sad Yorkshire to 6,2114 ; on the
London and North-Western to 9,6441. ; on the Loudon
and Brighton to 2,1321.; on the London and South-Western
to 1,7291. ; on the Manchester. Sheffield, end Lincolnshire
to 2,4664 ; on the Midland to 3,8916; on the North British
to 43634 ; as the North Eastern to 6,C654 ; and oo the
Routh-Rarest to 8764—total, 44,6334 ; bet from this must
bs deiLieted 2191., the decrease oa the Great Southern and
Western, leaving the increase, as above, 44,4141. The goods
and mineral traffic on these lines amounted to 265,4201.,
and for the corresponding week of 1863 to 243,9801., show-
leg an increase of 21,4406 The receipts for passeugme,
Fero.* he., amounted to 303,8661. against 260,892./., show-
ing sa therm.* of 22,1741. The traffic receipts en 62 other
lime amounted, ea 3,410 miles, to 134,5901., sad for the
corresponding week of last year, on 3,151 miles, to 117,4424,
showing an increase of 259 miles and of 17,148/. in the
receive The total receipts of the past week show a do-
coraee of 1,2336 as compared with those of the preceding
week ending the 20th August, and, se compared with the
corresponding week of last year, • considerable increase in
the traffic of the country.
nil ENGLISH CZNIITSSY AT SCUTAHL —The
/coast Herald of Aimed 24 says :—" The Tines gives
prominent type to an iaterestieg letter, signed' which
we reproduce in another column, en the subject of the Eng-
lish cemetery at Scutari, and the recent withdrawal, or pro-
peed withdrawal, by the Turkish government of the allow-
ance of 501. per annum hitherto paid to Serge.nt-Major
Lynn, who has charge of it. This letter we understand to
have been written by Lady Herbert of Lea, who, while re-
sident here and at Theme lately, took • great and natural
interest in the last resting place of so many gallant English-
men who died of wounds inflicted, or disease enquired, in
the memorable Crimean campaign. That cemetery will
ever possess • mournful interest for the British nation.
We think, however, that the politico of the Turkish govern-
ment is seenewhtt misapyreheeled, and that a little injus-
tice is thus unwittingly done to it in the letter in questa'.
The Porte does not pay Series/it-Major Lyre for taking
charge of the oemetery—there would be a manifest ano-
maly in the Ottoman government paying for the keep of a
British cemetery. The Foreign-office has always from
time to time advanced money for the tonnages of the
ground, though the Sergeent-Major derives no-
thing, we believe, from our government besides
hit well-earned half-pay. He is paid by the Porte
as one of Major Gordon's seeistants in connection
with the Council of Public Works, and his charge of the
cemetery is • separate matter, of his own and Major Gor-
don's election, entirely irrespective of hie official duties
under the Turkish government. But the government are
preposing a reorguisation of the Council of Public Works ;
they propose to reduce the board to three in number. sad
to substitute some &Meru copyere and plan-drawers in
lieu of thou hitherto employed. In this way it is proposed,
inter cilia— we presume the whole affair is yet in the project
st•t•—to dispense with the services under the board of Ser-
geant Lyon Be this as it may, we understand that Major
Gordon has strongly urged upon our home government to
give the sergeant Permanent charge of not Scutari alone,
but of all the British cemeteries on the Bosphorus. paying
him of course for his ernes*, and believe also that
the ambassador has strongly supported the major's
suggestion. We deem it an excellent one, and • man more
fitted for the poet than Sergeant-Major Lye. it would be
difficult to find. It would accomplish what we all, in com-
mon with Lady Herbert, heartily desire, end would remove
the care-taking of the last resting place of our dead from its
present undefined sod unsettled position to one of certain
sod methodical order and security.
The exact source of petrolenm is, up to the
present, uncertain--whether it has all been produced by
distillation from bituminous coal, anthracite being formed
at the same time ; or whether it has resulted directly from
the bituminous fermentation of marine plants antedating
the Goal, sad oostaioing • larger proportion of hydrogen.
The mount thrown out by some of the wells is enormous.
Owl of them ejected 3,740 barrels a day, three 1,C30
rise 800 barrels. To "strike ifs" has become
woos t that region the groom for tepidly growing
wealthy. It has entirely displaced all other means of
lighting, except us. The great desideratum is a perfect
chisineylees burner.—New York Journal of Science.