The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-15 00:00:00

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PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKETS.

Ltrisimot, Jowl 14. Salsa to-day :--Great IVeetern.
Londe's and North Western, 1171 4 1 117 131. Manchester,
Sheffield, sad Lincolnshire 6 per cent., 1201—North kastern.
West Hartlepool A. 781—Buffalo and lake Huron, 4 3-10—
United States 5-20Bonds,631—Eastern Exchange Bank
`.lArnited),
21 d.—Mercantile and Exchange Bank (Limited'.,, d. National
Bank of Liverpool prnitedl, 41 e. p.—Quern Insurance, 1.16 d. par
—Ebbw Vale illmitedl, Md. d.—National Steam (Limitedl. 10 d.
MAMMOTHS, Julia 14.—The market was very quiet, and but
little change took piece to prices. District Bank, 16 p—Elabw
Vain Company (Limited?, 8 8-16, 4 a. d.—Erles, 01—Great
FANtern, 374—Gresi In:amateurs, 11 1346-1111nola 754—Lance-
ahire and Yorkshire, 1211—London and North Wtstern, 111 /
Manchester Sheffield, and Llmsolnaltire, Gll 11 1 1 _-Mll7
ropoll-
tan, 1271 1-311exican, 151—South Eastern, eh—United State.
b. ill Years' Beads, 66—London, New, In p. 13 p.— Turkish Five
per Ceuta., 261--Atlantic and Great Western Censol Motioge
Bonds, 1699 60—Credit Fonder, 3441—Lancashire Steel. 10 d.
BIRMINGHAM, Juan 14.—Bwanws done :—London and North
Western Railway, New, at 113: Birmingham Canal, at 861 ;
Birmingham New Union M. at 21 ; Birmingham Wagon
101 ; Birmineharn Waterworka, New B. at n pm. ;
Limit
,fiouth Staffordshire Waterworks, at 7 ; l'Atent Shaft and Axle-
tree Limited;, 6/ pm. ; and SWING Cuumnige and Cask
'Limited!, at 11 dis. Closing prices :--Oreat Western Birming-
ham Onaranteed, Three-ands-Half per Cent.. 7'21 to 724: Birm-
ingham Banking Company. 27, sellers ; and Gloucester Vi egos
iLimitedi. 12, sellers, per share.

THE CHINESE Mtentos.—Hie Excellency Pin-
To-Jin, accompanied by Kwang-Ying, Fung-Yi, Tib-ming,
l'eu-ilsruy, Major Brince, R.E., cad Mr. liowra (inter.
preter), yesterday! bad an interview with the Earl of Cla-
rendon at the oreign-offiee, on their return from the
manufacturing districts end previous to embarking for the
Continent. They afterwards paid their respects to the
Right Hon. B. Hammond, Under Secretary of State.
Scorries thsrvtn.srrtEn.—A parliamentary re-
turn gives the number of members on the books of the
general council of the universities of Scotland, whether
by degree or by attendance on classes during the re-
quisite number of sessions. Edinburgh is returned as
having 2.400 names on its register ; Glasgow, 1,16"5: Aber-
deen, 89$ ; St. Andrew's, 369.
ANOTHER GREAT GUN BURST AT SHOEDCRY-
NykS.—The 9.2 inch, 121 ton wroug
W ht iron gun, with
double coil wrougist-imon internal tubes rifled on the
Woolwich system, burst on Saturday last, at the 37fith
round. Can these failures go on for ever at the oust of
1,500/. per gun'—Herald.
THE CLYDE LOCK-OCT.—WEDNESDAY EVENING.
—No change in the relative position of parties concerned
in the Clyde lock-out can yet be recorded. Severa
ings of workmen have recently been held, at which various
proposals were brought forward. One of these propoeitions,
which was agreed to, was to the effect that the whole dis-
pute should lse submitted to arbitration, but it is feared
this will not be agreed to by the employers.
The once notorious Confederate cruisers Tala-
h and Sumter were yesterday sold, by order of the
um
United States Consul, at LiverpooL Th.. brokers were
Messrs. C. W. Kelloek and Co. The Talabaise (now the
Chameleon) was knocked down for 6,400/., and the Sum-
ter (now the Gibraltar) for 1,150/. The two steamers
have been for some time idly lying in the Liverpool docks.
The vacant public lands in Alabama at the pre-
sent time amount to 6,732.06$ acres, in Louisiana to
6,228,102 acres, in Florida to 1,132,286 acres, in Mississippi
to 4,749,796 sores, and in Arkansas to 0,296,013 acres.
There are no public lands in North and South Carolina,
Georgia, Tennessee, and Kentucky.
A French paper says that a commission, consist-
ing of town councillors, masters of vessels, and fishermen,
has been sitting some days in Granville, for the purpose
of assimilating the interests of the fishermen of Granville
and Cancel..