The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-02 00:00:00

PROTIECIAL SRAM HAIRNET&

BIRMINGHAM. Nor. L —Business done: Lloyd's Bank tarot
:limited , at 7 pm.. Illtiland Financial shares :Limited), at
1 11 16 rift. ; Birmingham New Union NIB, &est. and British
and Foreign Railo.o Plant shares .Limited). at 10{ die Clewing
prices . Great Western Railway stock, buyers, at 461 Warwick
and Napton Canal, buyers, at 16: threPthire Bank, tellers, at
n. Dudley Gaa seller., at t 7: Birmingham Wagon :Limited)
preference shares, 6 per cent., fit to 9/ South Stastonlehlso
Waterworks, buyers, at 4 : and Patent Shaft and Asletree
(Limited), 4 to 41 pm.
U 4.1111.111. OCT. 31.—New Three per Cent. Stock. 94 ;—Ditto.
for account, 7th Nov., 1124 1-11ftto, for new ae“unt, 921 {—
India sine per Cent., 119.—Ilibernian Bank CS". paid', *—
National Bank ,g...1n igla {—National of Liverpool 'Limited).
(CS paid]. 113—Ditto fur account, 11(—Belfast and County
Down £5O paid,. 17—Great Southern and Western £lOO paid%
*—Treat Southern and Western 4 per cent. Debenture Stock
;ClOO paid , 94.

I Her Majesty's commissioners for inquiring into
the standards, weights, and measures held a meeting yes-
terday at 7, Old Palace-yard. There were pr cut the
Astrouoiner-Royal (chairman), Mr. H. W. Chid:mho, wee-
den of the standards, Lieutetisnt-General Sabine, I'.R.S.,
Sir John Shaw Lefevre K.C.8., the Master of the Mint,
and Professor W. H. hillier. Mr. H. J. Cheney, secretary,
attended.
TKAVFIC RECEIPTS.—The traffic receipts of rail-
ways in the United Kingdom amounted for the week
ending October 26, on 13,072 miles, to 764,6681., and
for the corresponding week of last year on 12,773 miles,
to 724,9221., showing an increase of 33'2 miles and
of 39,7661. The gross receipts on the following 14
railways amounted, in the aggregate, on 9,45 t miles, to
639,730/. 1111.1 for the corresponding week of 1866, on 9,151
miles, to 605.7101., showing an increase of 272 miles and
of 33,800/. The increase on the Caledonian amounted to
369/. ; on the Great Eastern to 1,4971. ' • on the Great
Northern to 3,983/. ; on the Great Southern and Western
to 9771. ; on the Greet Western to 2,5201. ; on the Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire to 1,549/. ; on the London and North
Western to 4,997/ ; on the London and Brighton to
2,421/. ; on the London and South Western to 7r41. ; on
the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire to 3611.: on
the Midland to 3,1741. ; on the North British to 1,7571. -
onthe North-Eastern to 5,310/. ; and on theSouth-Eastern
to 4.2111.—t0ta1, 33,360/. The goods sod mineral traffic
on those lines amounted to 374,4701., and for the cone.
spending week of 1866 to 353,1736/., showing an increase
of 21,4341. The receipts fee passengers, parcels,
amounted to 265,1901., against 2u2,6741., showing an in-
crease of 12,446/. The traffic receipts on other lines
amounted, on 3,60 miles. to 125,0981., and for the °erre-
@winding week of last year, on 3,589 miles, to 119,212/..
showing an increase of 60 miles and of 5,1056/. The
total receipts of the past week show a decrease of 11,022!..
as compared with those of the preceding weak, ending the
19th Oct.
TFIE " PONIATOWRKI 0/114:4."—The most gigantic
fraud ever perpetrated was the Poniatowski par-
-3,000 in number—which were all forgeries. The Bri-
tish Museum luckily declined to purchase them whoa
they were offered for sale. So highly were dr
esteemed at one period that a gentleman who had gut
1,200 of them actually refused 60,0001. for his
treasures. But at Lord lifonson's sale in 1854, though
some of the choicest specimens were put tip, they fetched
no more, gold-setting and all, than front 25 to 33 shillings
each. The prince had inherited a genuine cope-tien from
his uncle Stanislaw, the last King of Polsad. Whoa taws
were sold in 1839 the gems had got such a had name Unit
the masterpiece of Dioscorides, In, instead of fetching, as
it would have fetched some time hefore.l MOO guineas, was
actually knocked down for 17/.—CornAill dispazisc for
November.