The Express.
London, England, 1864-09-22 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKETS.

nil 1

7% 80

LIVIIPOOL. ear. 21 —Lancashire and Yorkshire, 114 1 131—
London and North Western, 1101 11—Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire. 621—Midland. 1191—South liastern, 821—
Buffalo and lake Huron, 6—Dutelt Rhenish, 41 p.—Confederate
Loan, 7411 4318 24 3i131 j 4 81 $1—Liverpool Finance
(Limited:, 1 d.—Mercantlie and &chine Bank (Limited 11 1
1-16 211 p. —North Western Bank kUmitedi, 4 p Albion Marine
Waited , 116 1.116 d.—British and Foreign Marine (Limited),
p —Maritime Insurance Limited), 3-16 d —Liverpool Fix-
thange, 161—National Rears Naript4on Company. 7 siesisbi
616 4 1 1 7 11 1 1 d.—Wert India and Pacific Steger, 21 p.
ILAnclinsign, SEPT. 2L—Fricea ware steady with a prettilfsailj;
si buness. C. Cammell and Co., .—Consolidatod
(Limited). 6 p.—Great Luxembourg. 9 lll6—Great Northern
A, 136—Great Western, 461—General Credit, 21 p —Lencashfre
and Yorkshire, 1131 1 I—Manchester and County Bank, 6.
Manchester, Rheffiell. and Uncolnahtre, 621 I
New'. 5-16 1541 I—South Eeetern, 82 tug
4—Thames 'and Mersey Marine insurance, 41 p.—Conl
an, 74 3 21 4 3 4 611—London and Caledonian Marine, 1 p.—
Ebbw Yale, i d.—Mercantile Bank, 21 2 p.—Natlonal Steam, 61
d.—District Bank, 10 p.

A PHILOSOPITAR% JOKL —Who would lure be-
lieved that Professor Max Muller could hays bees caught
oat on a simple point of philology ! Bat the Reader has
actually performed the feat The Pr0f....,, in an article
in Maciniffan's Magazine on the language, ho., of
Sleswig-Holstain, observes :—lnstead = saying the sun has
has set, the Holateiners, load as they are of their
beer, particularly in the evening after a hard day's work.
say, 'de Stine pas to Beer," " the sin goes to beer."
" Beer." as the Reader shows, in this sentence, is simply
our word " bier," a bed, appropriated in England to the por-
table bed on which corpses are canted to burial. The pro-
, lessor's judgment wee probably warped in this cabs by the
pleasure of making a joke—dangerous ground for a philo.
sopher to verdure on.—Ottoretien.
Couvreitrzrr SOVZREIGNS.—A few counterfeit
sovereigns of a rather dangerous character have within the
last week been detected at the bank counter,. They are
made of gold, but of an inferior quality. being? aerate Ili
grains worse than etandard gold, of which the genuine sore-
reigns are nude; that is to say, instead of having 9,16 T
parts of pare gold in 10,000 they have only 8,138 puts,
which makes them oily worth about 17s. The coins are
new, but seem to have been purposely soiled to gin them
the appearance of having been worn in circulation. They
have more of the greenish-yellow colour of pure gold than
the genuine sovereigns, with the exception of the old George
and Dragon pieces. All of them are struck from age *rot
diet One of these dies, the reverse, is cracked in two
places, and the coins have been touched up by a band-tool
after striking in the prate • and the effect of the crack,
which runs diagonally et:wards, through the Scottish
quarter of the shield, and through the E of " Regina," is
in this way, from some of them, partly removed, although
sufficient remains for the purpose of detection. lo the
Irish quarter the harp is almost erued by this after-
manipulation, and the ooesequet smoothes= and want of
definition strike the eye at otos. The quality of the engraving
is ocame, and does not appear to be the work of a person
accustomed to engrave coin dies. The lettering =mien.
laxly is toughly executed by as unprsotised head ; yet,
after all, the imitation is sufficiently close to deceive on a
casual inspection. The sound, which is dull and wants the
sharp clink of the true sovereign, is one of the best means
of detection to those accustomed to the ring of the genuine
metal. It is not apprehended that there are many in cir-
culation, end, indeed, the whole facts point to operations
on • limited scale.—Times.

RIBBON Orraame. —An alarming Whiteboy or
Ribbon outrage—it is not early to dietiognish between the
achievements of the two lawless confederacies—wee perpe-
trated a few nights ago in the village of G•rtlowney, war
Loughorew, in the oonnty of Meath. At midnight a party
of armed ruffians attacked the house of • farmer named
Monaghan, who keeps a shop in that village. They first
knocked at the door, demanding admissioe, which being
denied, they fired several eaters through the windows,
smashing the glass, sod putting the inmates, who IMO in
bed at the time, in terror and dread of their lives. Attar
announcing that they would gin Monaghan another call
before long, the party went array. No cause whatever can
ha assigned by if °caches for this outrage, as be is not aware
of having moored their displeavare or merited their hos.
viskt.