The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-07 00:00:00

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Feb. 0, 1882. 31

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MARSHALL, Chief Clahler.

THUZBDAT
Consols, which closed yesterday at 9n for the
new account (6th of March), opened this morning
at 92f to 1, and closed at 921 " buyers." For
money the last prim was 92f to 1. The official
business report is as follows:—Three per Cent.
Consols, for money, 92f, f, 1 ; ditto, for account
(March 6), 92#, f; Three per Cents. Reduced,
921, f ; New Three per Cents., 921, 83 ' • Thirty
Years Annuities, 1885, 151, ; Bank Stock, 241,
239, 242 ; India Five per Cent. Stock, 106}, 1, }};
ditto, for account, 106 f ; ditto Four per Cent. De-
bentures, 1863, 991; ditto, 1864, 991 ; ditto, 1864
or 1866, 961, # ;ditto Bonds, 255. prem. ; Five
per Cent. ' enfamd " rupee paper, 1011, f ; ditto
Five-and-a-Half per Cent., 107, 1061.
The India Five per Cent. Stock was study at
1061 to 1.
The Five per Cent rupee paper, being scares,
was firm at 101} to f, while the Five-and-a-Ralf per
Cent was flatter at 1061 to 1071.
Exchequer Bills fell 2s. to 38., the March issue
being quoted 13s. to 16e. prem. ; and the June
15e. to 18e. prem.
There was less animation in the foreign stock
market, but the transactions were still numerous,
and the tone was better at the close than at the
opening.
There was an active demand for Ottoman Bank
shares, which, being in limited supply, have risen to
dia to prem., or par. Other bank shares were
generally firm, with an active business. In mis-
cellaneous shares scarcely any alteration occurred.
Crystal Palace debenture stock was inquired for.
The closing quotations for shares in new under-
takings to-day were as follows :—Ooesin Marine fa-
sursnoe,6l to 1 prem. ex div. showing a fresh rise;
Thames and Mersey Marine, 1 11-16 to 13-16
prem. ; Universal Marine Insurance, l f to if dia. ;
London and Provincial Marine, 1 dis. to } pram. -
Mercantile Fire, 9-16 to 11-1 G prem. ; Commercial
Union, } dia. to par ; and Warmley Colliery, f to
f prem.
The new Victoria Government Debentures were
last quoted 103# to f.

MINES.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'CLoca.

The mining market is inactive to-day. Wheal
Beton shares are quoted 127 to 129 ; East Basset,
52 to IA ; East Osradon, 30 to ; Marko Valley,
10 to ; Cook's Kitchen, 29} to ; East Cara
Bres, 1O to f, and East Devon Great Consols,
it to 2.
United Mexican Mining shares are inquired for.
Other foreign, as well as colonial undertakings, re-
main steady.

PLYMOUTH AND THE COAST DEPENCTS.—The
government are now spending millions of money in the de-
fence, of the principal naval ports of the kingdom, and
Plymouth has come in for its full share, as the government
is likely to spend some two or three millions in the con-
struction of Jolts and batteries within ten miles of
it. Formidable forte and batteries are now in amine
of construction at the following places :—On Stailden
Heights, by Baker and Soo, of London •
the, by Kirk and Parry, of London • Scri;esdon and
Ca;reand, by Roach, of Plymouth ; Picklecombe and
St. Nicholas Island, by linbbards, of Stonehouse ; Polhaun,
by Wilson, of London ; and some ides may be formed of
the extent of these works when we state that some of them
will cost more than 100,000/. to complete. The mammas
entrance to the harbour of Plymouth is immediately oppo
site Mount Edgcumbe gardens, to command which the
government have decided to erect a formidable hat-
tery, magazine, and store, thereon, and purmission
having been freely given by the noble owner, the Earl
of Mount Edgcumbe, more than ordinary attention
has been given to make a chaste and ornameotal design for
it, and as the proper construction of it is likely to reflect
some credit on the contractors, it has canoed mare than
ordinary competition for it, especially amongst several of
the large London contractors ; but we understand that
within the lest few days the War Department has accepted
the tender of Messrs. Over and Sons, the government con-
tractors, of Falmouth, who erected the whole of the bat-
teries on the Cornish eciast.—Plyinourk Journal.
SmouLaa Aceinitarr.—A singular and fatal acci-
dent occurred two days since at Beauchamp ILoiret). As
IL Sunnier, a miller of that place, was at work in his mill,
he was &United by cries for help, and on running out he was
amazed tome his shepherd boy and dog suspended to one of
the sails of the mill, which was in rapid motion at the time,
and both were almost instantaneously thrown to the ground
with great violence. The boy was so much injured that be
died a few minutes afterwards, without being able to give
any explanation as to the cause of the accident. The dog's
leash was found tied round the boy's body, and it is supposed
that the sails had either caught that or the boy's cloak, ant
taken them both tip together.
REFUSAL TO BUILT BY • ROMAN CATHOLIC CUILE.

—The Pharr de la Loire of Nantes relates the following feet
"An humble funeral cortive, at the head of which walked /1-
Vaurigaud, president of the Protestant Consiatory, proceeded
two afternoons back towards the cemetery, the body being
that of a weaver, named Bourdin, who !Addled on the pre-
vious day. The deceased did not belong to the protestant
creed, and the family had only called in the minister of the
reformed religion in consequence of the refusal ol the curd
of Saint Croix to inter the body. The can': bad been celled
to the sick man in the afternoon previous to his death.
but had withdrawn without giving him absolution.
and on asking the dying man whether he should call again,
he received as answer, ' What good can you dome!' In
oomegneace, when Bourdin died, the cur,' de-
clared, that he should not say the last prayers
of the church over the body. The family of
the deceased did everything in their power to over-
come the determination of the can', but sit being iu vain,
they protested, and adopted the only course open to them,
that of applying to the protestant minister, who showed is
much Christian kindness iu performing the ditty as tites
catholic pried, doubtless from conscientious motives, had
evinced of obstinacy in refusing it. This affair has not
failed to produce a certain degree of emotion, particularly
among the class of workmen to which Bourdin belonged.,•