The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-08 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL MARI MARKETS.

LTVERTML. Noe. 7.—Sales : Caledonian, set 1 t--(beat
Eastern, 2.11 }L—Lancashire and Yorkshire. 1.44 411 t—Lendon
and North M astern, 114 1 131 14.; I—Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire, 481—Sletmpolitan, 121 201 I—Midland, 117
—North British, 34—North Enstern, Berwick capital stock, 101
—South Eastern, 661—Lancaster and Carlisle. 217-1111nois Cen-
tral, 82—United Mates 5-20 Bonds ;1402', 1 May, 1 Nor., 70)—
Butch Rhenish, new, I—Great Luxembourg shares, St—Mari-
time Insurance Umited), 1 (I.—African Merchants, 1.16 cf.
Atlantic Telegraph 8 per cent., 3i—Mersey Steel and Iron
(Limited% 03 d.

Mancintsina, NOT. 7.—Market flat especially for Leeds and
Caledonian. A fair amount of business done. Great Eastern,
321 /, 2 j 2-Great Luxembourg, b.; 11.16 I—Great Northern A,
1121;---grand Trunk of Canada, 171—Great Western of Canada,
It 15-16—Great Western, 464 1 6—John Brown and Co.
36 .I.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 12.4 546 4/ 1
}—London, Brighton, and South ('oast, S3—London and North
Western, 1141—Manchester, Sherneld, and Lincolnshire, 481 4
—Ditto New 5 per cent. pref., 84 I—Metropolitan, 121 20}—Mid-
land, 1171—Ditto New £22 shares, 13 p.—North British, 321—
North Eastern Berwick., 1014 South Eastern, 661 I—Thames and
Mersey Marine iIIVIT■IIOO (L(mlted‘,3 WIG p.—United States 6-20
Years' 800116. :01—Birkenhead, 904-t'aledonlan, WO 1 6 16 4 1
61 1 1 j 6 - Great Western, 6 per cent., 92—Union Bank, 24 p.—
United States 5-20 1865,, 691.
Butunionan, Noe. 7.—Businees done :—Blruslntebtun Banking
Company's shares f Limited!, at 11 poem ; Lloyd's Bank shares
Limited„ at 0j and 7 prem.; Gloucester Wagon ;Limited), fourth
issue, at 21 pro: Birmingham Waterworks, at 31 ; and Iluntis
Metal 'Limited', at 21 dia. Closing prices: North Staffordshire
Railway Preference 6 per cent., buyers, at 21 Staffordshire
Financial Limited , buyers, at 21 dis. Britannia Mills (Limited,.
14 to 1 dla ; Mouth Staffordshire Waterworks, buyers, at 51 : and
British and Foreign Railway Plant shares Limited), 11 to 10 dis.a
DOWN, Nov. ft—Three per Cent. Consols, 031 I—New Three
per Cent. Stock, 921 —Dit t o for account, Nov. 7, 921 I—lndi
live per Cent. Stock tramderable at the Bank of Ireland), 112/
—Bank of Ireland (XlO9 paid, 2321—National Bank ,X-50 paid),
CO—Belfast and Northern Counties 411 paid . 464—Dubl!n,
Wicklow, and Wexford S per cent. 16410) redeemable 110.13'a1l
461—Great Southern and Western 4 per cent debenture
stock ;CIO° paid), 961.

The English squadron, under the command of
Admiral Warden, left the Tagus on the 26th October to
proceed to Gibraltar and Madeira. Two United States
Teaseled war, the Tanandega and Ticonderoga, have arrived
at Lisbon.

The editors of the Prussian journals have been
called upon by the government to express their views on a
reform now in contemplation. The abolition of the stamp
duty on political publications is decided on in principle, to
be replaced by a tax on advertiseinenta.

"The members of the ex-royal familyof Naples,"
says the Union," sleep at the Vatican since affairs have
become so serious. The Pope himself insisted on this step,
SO am to be able to watch more narrowly over the safety of
his august guests."

QUEEN;TOWN, Nov. 8. —The National Steamship
Company's steamship Pennrylvania, from New York,
arrived off this port at ti o'clock this morning. After
landing passenger., she proceeded for Liverpool. All
well.

THE ADVANTAGES or GOOD LISTENING.—In ordi-
nary society perhaps nothing will so soon embarrass, and
finally shut up, the empty talker, supposing him to have any
hriius at all, as to catch the eye of an intelligent listener.
There is often a more mortifying conviction of his own
incapacity forced upon such a person by the marked and
pregnant silence of one who has evidently taken in every
word that he has been Paying, and from whom, in the
natural course of things, he looks for a reply, than by the
most emphatic contradiction. lf, as we are so often told,
" speech is silvern, but silence is golden," in this case it
may he said that while speech might chastise him with
whips, silence stings him with scorpions. The probability
is, that he will flounder on with some attempt either of
reiteration, explanation, or qualification, which, in the face
of that attentive and merciless silence, plunges him into
irretrievable confusion. You may choke off the most
inveterate teller of long stories by listening with an eager
interest ell through, and preserving a look of expectation
after be has finished, en if still waiting for " the point."—
BlncOreod's Af a! sr.ine for November.
QUEEN ANNE'S FARTHING.—About One English
coin there exists a very singular delusion—Queen Anne's
farthins. Often and often have the officers of the British
Museum received letters asking whether, as the writer was
in possession of the third of the farthings, of which the
Museum had the other two, he was not entitled to some
I,OOW. or so ; and grievous no doubt has been hie disap-
pointment at being told that hie fancied treasure might
possibly be worth some four or five shillings. How the
delusion ever originated, it is impossible to say ; but one
account tells us that slyly in Yorkshire, having lost one
of these farthings, which she valued as the bequest of •
dear friend, offered a very large sum for its recovery, and
this gave rise to a false impression of the value of any
specimen. It is commonly believed that only three
examples ef the farthings were struck off, because it was
found that there was a flaw near the bridge of the Queen's
nose ; another account says the die broke in two. There
are really no less than fire or six different patterns of the
farthing, but most of them were struck for approval only
and never issued.—Cornhill .I(agn:int for November.