The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-31 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, , SATURDAY EVENING, AUGUST 31, 1867.

BURSTING OP A CAISSON AT CHATHAM.
(THIS DAL)

SERIOUS INJURY TO THE SCREW STEAMER
BEACON.
CHATHAM, SArransr.
Shortly after 2 o'clock this morning, during an
unusually high tide, the caisson at the entrance to No. 4
dock, in which the double screw stmmer Beacon is fitting,
suddenly gave way without any previous indications. The
water rushed into the dock with the roar of thunder,
carrying the Beacon to the brow of the dock and after-
wards throwing her on her beam ends, and causing con-
siderable damage to her.

The occurrence taking place in the night, there were no
workmen in the dockyard, and messengers had to be
despatched in various directions for assistance. The
Beacon was ultimately secured and shored up. Her star-
board screw shaft and propeller were found to be broken
off, and her port propeller also injured, while the vessel
was filled with water. Several hundred men have been
employed all day in repairing the damage done.
The cause of the bunting of the caisson is unknown. It
was believed to be in all respects in a sound condition.

ANOTHER SUDDEN DEATH ON THE UNDER-
GROUND RAILWAY.

Yesterday Dr. Lankester opened an inquiry at
the El
iephant and Castle Tavern, St. Pancras, on the body
of Eli seth Stainaby, aged 29, who died very suddenly
whilst travelling on the Underground Railway. This is
the third sudden death on the line within a few weeks,
and great interest attached to the irquiry on account of
an understood determination to extend it so as to ascer-
tain whether the foulness of the atmosphere of the Under-
ground Railway was the cause. Mr. Myles Fenton, the
manager, and Mr. Crapp, the superintendent of the line,
and several other officers of the company, were present.
From the evidence of a young man who was with de-
ceased at the time of her death, it was found that de-
deceased, who had been visiting some friends near the
Royal Oak on Wednesday night last, was returning to her
home in Featherstone-street, eq. Prior to entering the
Rishop's.roal Station she c.mplamed of a slight pain at
the chest. Upon reaching the platform she remarked,
" It is a nice station, but it feels very hot," and as soon
am the train started she exclaimed, " Dear me. what a
dreadful smell there is." These were the lest words she
uttered. When they had proceeded some distance into
the tunnel she exhibited very distressed symptoms, and
fell sideways with her head upon the shoulder of her
companion. After leaving Cower-street Station she
struggled and gasped and groaned a great deal, and upon
reaching King's Cross she sank apparently fainting. Al-
tFough Farringdon-street was her intended destination,
she was at once removed to the waiting-room at King's
cross, and a medical gentleman was sent for, bat it was
found that she was quite dead.
Dr. Popham, who made a post-mortem examination,
stated that death resulted from " constriction of the sortie
orifice," which ho said would only admit a large size quill-
pen, whilst a healthy one would admit the largest finger
of a man's hand. When pressed to sta.e whether in his
opinion the atmosphere of the Underground Railway had
hastened death, he declined to give a decided answer. Re
had no doubt, however, that air containing a large quan-
tity of sulphurous acid gas and carbonic acid gas would
hasten the death of a diseased person.
The young man who was with deceased stated that he
often found the atmosphere of the Metropolitan line very
oppressive, and it was particularly the case on that part of
the line between Portland-road and King's-cross.
The jury were of opinion that further inquiry should
be made, and the coroner said he would adjourn the in-
quest for the purpose of obtaining the result of &chemical
analysis of the atmosphere of the line.
Mr. Myles Fenton, the manager, said the company would
be only too happy to afford every possible facility for
the purposes of the examination. The directors were
very anxious upon the subject, and were desirous of con-
ducting the business in the safest and most perfect manner
They carried 25,000,000 passengers annually, and some
deaths must of necessity occur on the line out of that
number, but he was fully convinced that there was less
danger on their line than on any other where there was
• tunnel. The health of their servants whichwaa the best
test, was better than that of the servants of the Great
Western line. Where machinery was at work there would
of necessity be a perceptible smell, but he denied the dan.
gerous character of it.
The court then adjourned.

SHARE LIST-{THIS DAY.)

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Bristol and Exeter, 4 per east., 84.
Great Northern 5 per et. redeem., at 5 per it. pm., 101,
ex die.
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 6 per cent., 138.
Midland Consolidated 6 per cent., 130 ex div.
North Eastern 4 per cent. redeemable, 921, ex di...
North Pastern, Stockton and Darl. B 6 per cent.,3l.
South Eastern (Reading Ann., 14 06. 60 (ill Paid), 211.

MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

0,1 o'OLooz.

In consequence of the satisfactory tenor of the
news from abroad, combined with the fine weather
and the flatness of the corn market, there is an
increased demand to-day for stocks and shares, and
the general tendency of prices is upwards. Many
of the best securities have been further absorbed
by bona fide investors, while recent speculators for
a fall are closing their accounts by making
re-purchases of stoic. The improvement
would probably be still more important, but for
the usual curtailment of business on a Saturday.
Consols have risen per cent., and some of the
British railway stocks to 1. Great Eastern is
exceptionally flat, upon the publication of a letter
from Lord Redesdale with regard to the manage-
ment of the affairs of this undertaking. The ad-
vance in the speculative foreien bonds ranges from
to I per cent.

The demand for money has diminished, the
large amount of Indian paper which has arrived at
maturity to-day having been provided fur. The
rate is 11 to 11 per oent.

Consols are quoted so to 1 both for money and
the 10th of September, and so to § for the Bth
October. The Three per Cents. Reduced and New
Three per Cents. are called 94 to I.
The railway market is firm, and most of the
leading lines have advanced. Great Northern
original and A stocks have improved I to 1
per cent. ; London and North Western and
Midland, n; Great Western, /; Lancashire
and Yorkshire, ; and Metropolitan, 1. Great
Eastern, however, has receded 1. Annexed
are the present quotations :—Metropolitan, 1233 to
/, ex div. ; Great Western, 461 to / ; London
and North Western, 114/ to /, ex div ; Midland,
1181 to /, ex div. ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
1261 to 127/, ex div. ; Caledonian, 1081 to 9/ ;
South Eastern, 673 to /, ox div. ; Great Eastern,
301 to ; Great Northern, 1121 to 1131, ex div. ;
ditto A, 116/ to 117, ex div. ; London, Chatham,
and Dover, 171 to 18/ ; North British, 30 to 31 ;
and Brighton, 50$ to f.

Foreign stocks are in request, and an improve-
ment of 1 to 1 per cent. is observable in Turkish of
1865, Spanish Passive, the Committee's Certifi-
cates, Italian of 1861, and Mexican. Turkish
of 1862 are quoted 57 to 58 ; ditto of
1865, 301 to 311 ; Greek, 131 to ; Spanish Pas-
sive, 19g to g ; ditto Certificates, 15 to 1 ; Italian
of 1861, 48, to 1 ; Chilian scrip, lj to 11 dis. ;
Egyptian, 1864, 841 to 851 ; and Mexican, 141 to j.
Bank shares are steady, with a moderate amount
of business. London and Westminster are celled
70 to 71 ; Union of London, 38 to 39 ; Imperial
Ottoman, 11 to dis. ; Alliance, 121 to 14 dia. ;
Chartered Mercantile of India, 30 to 31 ; and Lon-
don and County, 56 to 57. _ _

Financial are unaltered ; the prices are as fol-
lows :—lnternational Financial, 21 to die. ;
London, 24 to 22 dis. ; General Credit, 22 to 22
die ; and Credit Foncier, 6 to 52 dis.
United-States 5-20 Bonde are 1 per cent. higher,
at 732 to g, but Erie and Illinois Central railway
shares are without change, at 44} to 46, and 762
to 771, respectively.

Anglo-American Telegraph shares are quoted
1.611 to and Atlantic Telegraph Eight per Cent.
Preference 31 to g, showing no movement.
Two o'CLocs.
Consols remain firm, at 94i to I for money, and
942 to for the account.

The following, with reference to the New Granada
Debt, has been posted in the Stock Exchange :
Messrs. Baring Brothers, and Co. have this day re-
ceived the following remittances on amount of New
Granada dividends :—From Custom-house, Banta Martha,
800 f. • from Custom-house, Barranquitta, 400/. ; total,
1,2001. The agent at Barranquitta writes that there will
be no occasion to enter a formal protest in consequence of
the non-payment of the sums due to the bondholders, as
during the last month the collector of customs has been
making payments on account, and he hopes in a few days
to receive the balance of what is due to date.—loodon,
August 28, 1881.
There were no transactions in bullion at the
Bank yesterday.
The Teutonia, from New York, has brought only
5,0001. in specie for England.
The Mexican dollars by the Alice, from New
Orleans, amounting to about 70,0001., have been
sold for the continent at 4s. 11d. per ounce, show-
ing no alteration.
On Ohange yesterday afternoon the rate for bills
on Holland and Belgium showed a further slight
movement in favour of this country. The other
exchanges were firm. The usual list is subjoined :

Amsterdam, 3 months, 12.01 to 12.1 ; ditto, short,
11.19 to 11.194 ; Rotterdam, 3 months 12.01 to 12.1 ;
Antwerp, 3 months, 25.40 to 25.41; Brussels,: 3 mouths,
25.40 to 25.45 ; Hamburg and Altana, 3 months, 13.10 U.
13.101 ; Berlin, Cologne, ke., 3 months, 6.264 to 6.27;
St. Petersburg, 3 months, 314 to 314 ; Paris, short, 25.171
to 25.25 ; ditto, 3 months, 25.30 to 25.40 ; Marseilles,
3 months, 25.30 to 25.40 ; Frankfort-on-the-Maine,
3 months, 1201 to 1204 ; Vienna, 3 months, 12.75 to
12.80 ; Trieste, 3 months, 12.75 to 12.80 ; Madrid.
months, 491 to 49; Santander, 3 months, 494 to 49; Cadiz,
3 months, 494 to 49 ; Seville, 3 months, 494 to 49; Mala
3 months 49 to 484 ; Valencia, 3 months, 49 to 48i ; liar.
oelona, 3 months, 491 to 491 ; Bilboa, 3 months, 49 to
483 ; Saragossa, 3 month. 49 to 484 ; Leghorn, 3
months, 27.25 to 27.30 ; Genoa, 3 months, 27.25 to
27.30; Repko, 3 months, 27.25 to 27.30; Palermo, 3
months, 27.25 to 27.30 ; Messina, 3 months, 27.21 to
27.30; Lisbon, 90 days date, 62 to 614 ; Oporto, 90 days
date, 52 to 51j.
Annexed is a list of the continental rates of dis-
count, via.:—At Paris, per cent. ; Hamburg,
; Frankfort and Brussela, 2 ; Amsterdam and
Berlin, 2} ; Vienna, 4; Turin, 41 ; and St. Peters-
burg, 7 per cent.
The Caledonian Railway traffic return shows this
week an increase of 948/. over last year.
At the meeting yesterday of the Tahiti Cotton and
Coffee Plantation Company (Limited), the direc-
tors' report was adopted. By the next meeting it
is thought a dividend will be declared, notwith-
standing the present low price of cotton. The
manager in Tahiti had been able to pick from
12,0001b5. to 25,0001b5. of cotton daily, and on
some days as much as 30,0001b5.
At a meeting of the Northern Assam Tea Com-
pany, held yesterday, the report and accounts were
unanimously adopted.
Holders of new shares in the Linoleum Manu-
facturing Company (Limited), are required to pay
the first call of 2/. 10s. by the Ist of October.
•

Subjoined are the quotations of insurance, gas,
dock, and waterworks shares, as given in the
Stock Exchange list of last evening :
Insurance—Atlas, ; North British and Mercantile,
16.
Gaslight and Colo.—Bombay (Limited), new, 21 ; Great
Central, 121, 131 ; Imperial, CAI ; Imperial Continental,
97. t, 7 : Surrey Consumers, 13.
Docks—London and St. Katherine, 56',
Waterworks—Berlin, 134 ; Lambeth, 1031.
_

Advices by telegraph announce that the autumn
sale of Banes tin by the Dutch Trading Company
will be held on the 26th of September next, at
Rotterdam, and consist of 65,000 slabs, with a re-
serve of 6,000 slabs should they arrive in time.
The quantity sold in September last year was
109,300 slabs. The conditions will be the same as
in former years.
The following is from the Lerant Herald of the
21st inst.:
The Imperial Ottoman Bank communicates the follow-
ing comparative statement of the revenue encashed by it
from the 13th of July to the 12th instant, for the service
of the foreign loans and the general debt for the second
six mouths of the financial year 1867.68:
Current math. Total.
Indirect contributions . 12,115,V08 30
Constantinople taxes 951,621 28
Sheep tax
Provincial taxes ... 82,'243
... 18,765,4 A al
Bills receivable falling due after Julyl3(n.s.) 21,538,546 20

T0ta1.......,

40,303,902 1;

N.B. The payment., made at the branches and agencies
are included in the .o.ove account to the following dates :
Aidin, July 22 ; Magnesia, August 8 ; Lerma., August 2 ;
&lamina. Aulugt 5 ; BeYrout, August 3 ; _
4.ugust 1 ; Smyrna, August 10.
N.B. Sums belonging to the first six mouths, notice of
the encashment of which arrived after the publication of
the official notioe of July 16, 1867.—P. 12,245,043—W.
Constantinople. August 14, 1867.
E. (II L BEHTsON, Assistant Director-General-
Eti. DavaAux, General Secretary.
The anneked is from Mr. Helmuth lichwartre's
Wool Price Current, dated yesterday :

The following quantities have been catalogued up to
date in our London colonial wool sales :-11,761 bales
Sydney ; 16,263 train Port Phillip ; 2,480 bides VAa
Diemen's Land ; 3,724 bales Adelaide ; 17,463 balsa New
Zealand ; 10,= bales, Cape ; 1,503 bales sundries ; total,
63,4'21 bales; leasing about SO,OOO bales still to be disposed
of. Though the sandy of Port Phillip wool was large, there
is a great scarcity of good brands, the majority consisting
of inferior flocks in most faulty and heavy condition. As
a natural consequence, the former enioya spirited compe-
tition, and readily fetch last sale's closing priors, whilst
the latter are comparatively neglected, and all very irre-
gular. The same may be said with regard to the New
Zealand Hocks, amongst the lower sorts of which some very
cheap parcels may be picked up. For Capes the demand
is steady, and prices rule firm. The value of this descrip-
tion has been, perhaps, irremediably lowered by the
immense increase in the production of River Plate wools.
Taken altogether the result of the sales hitherto may be
pronounced satisfactory, and though we are not yet- half
through the quantities, there is reason to believe that
present rates will be maintained to the close.

The proposed sale by auction of important re-
versionary estates, in connexion with the winding
up of Overend, Gurney, and Co. (Limited), is ad-
vertised, by direction of the official liquidators.

FRIDAY 8YR14440.
Consols, which closed yesterday at :mg to both
for money and the 111th of September, opened this
morning at the same quotation, and closed at 944
tog . For the Bth of October the last price was 94
to 2. The three per Cents. Reduced and New
Three per Cents. were quoted at 3 o'clock 944
to a. The official business report is as follows :
Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 94/, , a
ditto, for account, 944 ; Three per Cents. Re-
duced, 94n, 4, if -;
New Three per Cents.,
94/, I, ; bank Stock, 261 ; India Five per Cent.
Stock, 112 k, 113 ; ditto Four per Cent., " enfaced"
rupee paper, 87/.
The India Five per Cent, stock was quiet at the
slight decline noticed yesterday.
Exchequer Bills were quoted 265. to 30s. prem.
The amount of business in the foreign stock
market was not large, but the tone was better.
Spanish Passive Bonds and Certificates were in re-
quest, and closed at a recovery of to per cent.
Turkish of 1865 improved f ; Italian of 1861, / ;
Mexican, / ; and Brazilian of 1863, 1. Turkish
Bonds of 1862 and the Viceroy of Egypt's Loan,
however, were to 3 tower.
In the market for colonial government securities
Canadian Five per Cents. of January and July,
New Brunswick, and Nova Scotian debentures im-
pro red / to 1 per cent., but Queensland relapsed

MINES.-(THIS DAY.)

Oita o'CLocc.

The mining market is very active to-day, and
quotations have further improved. Subjoined are
the prices for the shares which have been chiefly
dealt in, viz. :—Prince of Wales, 51s. to 535. ;
North Crofty, 41 to ; West Great Work,
3 to 4 ; Wheal Seton, 1125 to 1171 ; Clifford, 7f
to 81; Great South Tolgus, 1 to 1 ; Prosper
United, 2/ to 31 •, North n w.kerby, If to 2 ; East
Lovell, 7to 1 ; Great Vor, 17 to • North Chiver-
ton, 4to 1 : and West Kitty, 128.'6d. to 15s.
Foreign and colonial mining shares are inquired
for. St. John Del Rey are quoted 60 to 62 ; Don
Pedro, 14 to 11 prem.' ex div. ; Anglo-
Brazilian, 1-16 to 3-16 ; Pestarena, par to 4
riem. ; Reese Grande, 1 to 1; Frontino and Bolivia,
to 1 ; Port Phillip, 1 to 11, ex div. ; United
exican, 1/ to 21 ; Chontales, 1 to 11 prem. ; and
Anglo-Italian, 1, to f prem.
A meeting of the Great Western Colliery Com-
pany was held yesterday, when a dividend of 4s.
per share was declared.