The Express.
London, England, 1866-08-25 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE Kamm.

lITIMPOOL, AUGCIet 24. —Sales to-day :Treat Emdern,
261 / I—Great Western, 641 4—Lancashire and Yorkshire,
111/I 4 / ad. and n.—London and North Western. 119 18/ /
Manchester. Aeflield, and Lincolnshire, 581 —Routh Eastern,
03 f 4 ti I—Lancaster awl Carlisle. 1134—Buffalo and Lake
Huron. 44 .1-10—Grand Trunk of Canada, 21—Great Western of
Canada, 14—Erie, 444—United States 5-20 Bonds, 704 f I /
Great Luxembourg shahs, 13 !.16—Eastern Exchange Bank
Limited , 3,s 7-16 (I.—Liverpool Financial Assurance 'Limited),
11 d -Mcreantileand Exchange Rank Limited i.—North
Western Bank Limited', 4 d.—Albion Marine limited, I/ d.—
British and Foreign Marine !Limited p.—Mercantile Marine
Limited . l l d.--gneen Insurance. 4 d.—Angto-American
11i;--Ebbw Wale .Lictutedi, 102 d.

Lnrd Alfred Churchill, formerly the member for
Woodstock, is a candidate for Brecknock, in the liberal
interest.

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It has been generally understood, says th© Dub-
Ii Erining Mail, that the vacancy in the office of the
Master of the Rolls would be filled up by the appointment
of one of the judges of the superior courts, and that Mr.
George would be appointed to the vacancy on the common
law bench. It has been also stated that Baron Hughes
may be the judge selected to become Master of the Rolls.
Certainly no lawyer has been identified with that court to
the extent that Baron Hughes was when a practising bar-
rister ; and the appointment could not but give satisfaction
to both branches of the legal profession.

The representative prelates for Ireland (says the
Dublin Errning Mail) in the next wagon of parliament
are, nocoriling to their rotation, the Archbishop of Dublin
and Bishops of Down, theory, and Cork.

Mr. Eyre, the ex-governor of Jamaica, has re-
ceived invitations to banquets at Bath, Chippenham, and
Cambridge.

We (Army craft Nary Gazett,) are asked in more
than one quarter to bring to public notice the serious delay
that is taking place in the transfer of the supernumerary
captains from regiments at home to the vacancies that
have been caused in regiments abroad through officers
having taken unattached. promotion. Until these tranefers
take place, not only is promotion in regiments at home
entirely stopped, and officers who want to sell have only
the alternative of taking the bare regulation price of thew
commissions from government, but some are unable to
find anyone weak-minded enough to exchange until all
chance of transfer is removed. Whatever is about to be
done ought to be done at once. These changes are in
themselves prod active of inconvenience enough without
the additional and avoidable one of delay.

In addition to providing the finest fleet of tran-
sports hitherto built for the conveyance of troops, it is in-
tended, says the Arley and Navy Gazette, to erect a com-
modious hospital at Sues for the reception of any invalid
soldiers who might require rest and medical treatment
after the passage from India and before undertaking the
run across the desert ; and if, on arriving at Alexandria,
soy man should be foaled too ill to embark immediately,
arrangements have already been concluded with the au-
thorities of a foreign hospital by which the doors of their
establishment will be thrown open for the reception of our
sick people.
The Arms and Nary Gazette says it has good
reason to believe that Colonel Willurdo' C. 8., late
Inspector-General of Volunteers, will succeed Major-
General the Hon. Ale:soder 3onlon, C. 8., in the ooze-
mend of the 2nd Infantry Brigade of the Dublin divides,
upon the expiration of that officer's period of staff serriee
next mos*.

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CRYSTAL Peirce. —A farce by the company of
the Strand Theatre will be performed this attenteca. An
the great fountains will be played at six o'clock, when
Ethardo will make an went. The palate will be Ehud-
dated until nine &cloak for promenade.

MONEY MARKET.-(THI8 DAY.)

Oita o'CLucr.
The dealings in public securities to-day are not
vary numerous, and prices present few variations.
The tendency generally, however, is rather favour-
able. The funds have impruved 1 per cent., and'
some of the British railway stocks to 1. Baking
shares are also firm, but foreign bonds are inactive.
There is little business in the discount market,
and choice bills are taken at 1 per cent. below the
Bank minimum. The supply of money is consider-
ably in excess of actual requirements.
Consols are now quoted 881 to for motley,
and 881 to 89 for the account (September 6).
The foreign stock market is quiet, and the only
changes in the speculative descriptions are a rise
of 1 per cent. in Greek, and a reduction of 1 in
Turkish of 1865. Turkish Bonds of 1862 are
quoted 50 to 51 ; ditto of 1865, 251 to 1 ; Greek,
12 to / ; Spanish Passive, 20 to ; ditto Certi-
ficates, 141 to / Italian of 1861, 521 to 53 ;
Brazilian scrip, 21 to 21 dis. ; and Mexican,
161 to 1.

United States 5-20 Bonds are per cent. worse,
at 701 to it ; but Illinois Central shares have ad-
vanced I—viz., to 77i to 78. Erie are unchanged,
at 44i to 45.

Anglo-American Telegraph and Atlantic Tele-
graph shares are rather lower at IN to lit and 31
to 1 respectively.

International Financial shares are quoted 1i to
1i die. ; London Financial, 13* to 12* die. ;
general Credit, 2; to 1; dis. ; Credit Foncier,
n to 31 dis. ; and National Discount, 81 to A
prem. _ _ _

Two o'CLocx.
Consols are still quoted 881 to / for money, and
88i to 89 for the account.

About 22,0001. in gold was sent into the Bank
yesterday, while 73,000/.' in American eagles was
withdrawn for shipment to-day to New York, and
it is possible that some further moderate amounts
may follow. As an exchange operation these ship-
ments afford no profit. They arise, however, from
payments for 5-20 Bonds, the demand for these
securities, simultaneously with the opening of the
Atlantic Telegraph, admitting of some profitable
arbitrage transactions between the two countries.
The failure is announced of Messrs. Walley and
Co., cotton manufacturers, of Blackburn, but the
amount of their liabilities has not been ascer-
tained.

The advioes from Birmingham announce the
failure of Messrs. Woolf and Co. fire-proof safe
and iron-bedstead makers. The following circular
has been sent to the creditors :

Midland Works, Moseley-street, Birmingham, Au-
gust, 1.806.—1 t has become our painful duty to inform you
that in consequence of several failures, in which we are
heavily involved, together with the depressed state of
trine, we are compelled to suspend payment for the pre-
sent, and we solicit your forbearance until we can lay
before you a statement of our affairs.—We are, yours
obediently,THoB. Woor.r and Co.

It is announced that the whole of the 1,000,003/.
of East Indian Railway Five per Cent. Deben-
tures recently offered have been subscribed for.
At Paris and Hamburg the rate of discount in
the open market is 3 per cent. ; Turin and
Amsterdam, 6 ; Frankfort and Brussels, 3. ;
Vienna, 5 ;Berlin, 4 ; and St. Petersburg, 5i per
cent.

In the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon the
rates on Holland were rather less firm. No change
occurred as regards France. The quotations on
Austria are higher, showing a fresh depreciation in
the currency of that empire. Subjoined is our
usual list :

Amsterdam, 8 months, 12.03 to 12.1 ; ditto, short,
11.18 to 11.19; Rotterdam, 3 months, 12.01 to 12.1 ;
Antwerp, 3 months, 25.573 to 25.623 ; Brnssels, 3
months, 25.573 to 25.621; Hamburg and Altona, 3 months,
13.10 to 13.10 i ; Berlin, Cologne, ke., 3 months. 6.1$
to 6.29 ; St. Peterslmirg, 3 months, 28} to 2$ ; Paris, short,
25.23 to 2.5.35 ; ditto, 3 months. 23.473 to 25.55 •, Mar-
seilles, 3 months, 25.473 to 23.55 ; Frankfort-on-the-Mine,
3 months, 1201 to 121 ; Vienna, 3 months, 13.33 to
13.50; Trieste, 3 months, 13.35 to 13.5 C; Madrid, 3 months,
443 to 44 ; Santander, 3 months, 45 to 443 ; Cadiz, 3
months, 46 to 453 ; Seville, 3 months, 46} to 46 ; Malaga,
3 months, 46 to 451 ; Valencia, 3 months, 461 to 46 ; Bar-
celona, 3 months, 48 to 471 ' • Lillis°, 3 months, 46 to
45 ; Saragossa, 3 months, 451 to 45 . • Leghorn, 3
months, 27.85 to 27.95 ; Genoa, months, 27.8 i to 27.95 ;
Naplees, 3 months, 27.85 to 27.93 ; Palermo, 3 months,
27.85 to 27.95; Messina, 3 months, 27.85 to 21.95 ; Lisbon,
90 days' date, 5111 to 51* ; Oporto, 90 days' date, 5l
to 511.
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Mr. C. F. Kemp and Mr. H. Chatteris, liqui-
dators of the English Juint Stock Bank (Limited),
have intimated to the creditors that they have
been prevented by legal difficulties from paying so
early a dividend as had been contemplated, but
they will commence a first distribution of Bs. in
the pound in the week beginning the 10th Sep-
tember.

A meeting of shareholders in the Contract Cor-
poration (Limited) will be held at the Guildhall
Coffee-house on the 29th inst., "to consider the
expediency of forming a league for mutual defence
and protection."
The prospectus has been issued of the United
Kingdom Patent Fuel Company, with a capital of
100,0001., in shares of 101. each, of which it is not
proposed to call more than 51. The object of the
undertaking is to purchase and extend the opera-
tions of the London Patent Coal Company, a
project formed in the latter part of 1804 for
the utilisation of small coal or dust. It is
stated that in the working of coal mines an
enormous waste takes place at the pit's mouth,
and that the dust often contains the most valuable
properties of the coal, and can be converted under
the company's patent into blocks at least as
valuable as large coal for manufacturing and loco-
motive purposes. It is also intended to prepare
the dust in small blocks for household use.

Payment has been advertised of the September
coupon of the Danubian Loan.
The interest on the Five per Cent. Bonds of the
Melbourne and Hobson's Bay United Railway
Company, due the let September, is announced for
payment in due course.
the Caledonian Railway traffic return shows this
week an increase of 091., compared with the cor-
responding week of last year.
The creditors of the National Coal Company are
required to send in the particulars of their claims
to the liquidator on or before the 21st Dec.
The following relates to the overdue dividend on
the Turkish Five per Cent. General Debt. The
total amount required is about 787,0001. :