The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-17 00:00:00

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IiAItBBALL. Chief Cashier.

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lan. 16. 1862. M.

"Sam Slick," the Hon. Mr. Justice Haliburton THURSDAY Eveinlo.
is announced to deliver a lecture, in connexion with the Console,
which
closed
"denial at
93}
tthhe same
ea
blewerth Public Reading-room, on the American Question, the 6th February, opened this morning at
es the 27th of this month. quotation and closed at 93} to j. For money the
Sea air WRITING.—At the Great Exhibition at last price was 93} tot}. The official business report
Florence last year, Professor Pietro Giusti, of Siam, oxhi- is as follows :—Three per Cent. Consols, for money,
fatal so article of quite a novel character, being a few lines ion ~,
written in cypher,
_t:iulcictictedisannouncement '''',
added ni, 1
iii. :..,,,a* teitx;* -citcliitaagto,
ifo24oaoaaunTthrTssebper. 6),cm 92t4i.k, I
that be who ahmld rte the exhibition lasted, in I i i Dan
reading these Hass, good& entitled to a prise consisting I need, 921, f, 93-;—±kew Three per Cents., 921,
of a work of art is ivory et Illgs value of 20,000 fr., to be exe- ;I. 93, 921, 931, 93 ; New Two-and-a-Half per I
en=Pretoria. Giusti banal', the subject to be at the zsenta., nil . I,,,dij, Stock, 220, gni • ditto Five i
ul conipetiter's own M. A sealed packet, r Cent. ;tack, UN, Hai, 1061, lilt% 1061 ;
deposited with the Royal Commission, contained the in- .1r . 1061, ltd; ditto 1864 ar 1866,
teroretatimi of those mysterious lines. The inventor ditto for account,
had expressly announced that even the persons of his ac• 991 • ditto Bonds, an prem. ; Five per Cent.
quaintance to whom he had revealed tag oature of his . ~ entaoed" rupee paper, 100, 9n ; ditto Five-and-
system, should be admitted to compete for SU prise. The .
a-Half per Cents., 106, 106 f.
exhibition closed, however' without any candidate for the
peas presenting himself, and at length, on the Sth, Pro- ' The India Five per Cent. stock was firm at 1051
feseor Giusti, in the presence of the Gontaloniese of SiellN , to 1061.
and a number of distinguished inhabitants of that town, : Excheqqar Bills were steady at 18s. to 21s. prem.
explained the contents of his secret writing, and gave the India Bonds were purchased at 265. prem.
key of the cypher, which consisted in making out two 1 Foreign stocks retain an upward tendency.
letters which meant nothing, and then arranging the I Bank shares are awl
rising . Higher
prices
were
remaining letters in squares like three gloi chess-board. 1
when they might be ramie f
wilt ease. The %noted to-day for Bank or Australasia, Bank cf
advantage of hie system are :-1. Simplicity, because the Egypt, City Bank, London Joint Stock, and Otto-
seeder writes his despatch in the common ad then then man Bank. In miscellaneous shares there was an
modem it unintelligible by the addition at me
without
tit.
km:et": ,
wim_aptzvweomacent in Oriental Inland Steam and Berlin
only known to the perms who is to Maya It ; 2. WM ex-
passibility of &cyphering the writing
when the system is known •3. The facility with mkt* the 1 Tlie closing quotations for shares in new under-
sender may send the same &spa& todiffereat peewee, sad takings to-day were as follows :—Oosan Marine
yet render each wary natassiligittis to all but tb:Lageeirson Insurance, 51 to 1 prom. ; Thames and Mersey
to whom it is individually addrisserdhl mitel7a LA Marine, 1 11-16 to 1 13-16 prem. ; Universal Marine
laggabab:a isybe.ibleirtribee^Kisgb. 6:ll7''tain waorime:Vjr,Z Insurance, If to 11 din. • London and Provincial
Dia admiration 01 Vas "dm. . Marine, 1 to 1 tbs. ;• Mercantile Fire, # to #