The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-07 00:00:00

With regar,l to the cotton crop in the United
States, Messrs. Neill Brothers and Co. report :

So far the prospect Is excellent, except In porde as of
Louisiana, Texas, end in one or two of the low. lying coo-
ties of Mississippi, which have suffered from worms, sad
at present the t'alucem are in favour of a yield of something
like:1,000,000 bides. Some of the greatest cotton-growing
Staten, indeed, afford promise of doubling their defective
yield of last 1.0,11100 ; and should there be a late frost and
tine picking season, we think, from the glowing accounts
reaching us from nearly all parte of the country, that it In
quite fair to look for an average increase over the whole
south of from 64) to 70 per cent. This would, of course, be
subject to modificltion in case of any great extension of
the ravages of the worms or other serious casualty before
the crop is gathered. American spinners are, it is be-
lieved, but lightly stocked, and it is probable that they
will be under the necessity of buying 8,000 to 11.1,000
bales weekly for their consumption, however much they
may desire to keep out of the market. This may partially
support prices for n few week., but the receipts will pro-
bably exceed no,uou boles weekly in October, and perhaps
70,000 or 80,000 in November; and if buyers for Europe
be judicious, they will doubtless by the latter month tied
the factors willing, and indeed under the necessity, of
meeting them on their own terms. We therefore urgently
recommend caution for the present, and a determination
to avoid either hulling stocks on this side of the Atlantis,
or buying abroad till the weekly receipts are sufficient to
establish prices cn a fair level in view of the increased
crop.

FHIDAT EVENING.
Consols, which closed yesterday at a4l to I,
for money and next Tue‘day's settlement,
opened this morning at the same quotation, and
closed at 94} to N. For the new account (October)
the last price was 94 11-16 to 13-16, or 941. The
Three per Center. Reduced and New Three per
Cents. were quoted at 3 o'clock 93 to k, ex div.
The official business report is as follows :—Three
per Cent. Consols, for money, 94/, I, I ; ditto for
account, 941, x ; Three per Cents. Reducea, 931, k,
ex div. ; New Three per Cents., 931, 3, ex dw. ;
India Five per Cent. Stock, 113, 12i, 131; ditto,
Five-and-a-Half per Cent. "enlaced"- rupee paper,
109 k
The Indian Five per Cent. Stock was again in
request, and showed a further slight rise. Ex-
chequer Bills were also somewhat better, at 26a. to
30s. prem.
It is notified in the London Gazette of this even-
ing that the interest on the March Exchequer Bills
will be reduced from 3 to 2 per cent. per annum
on and after the 11th inst.

Foreign stocks were little dealt in, but prices
showed firmness. Turkish Bonds were inquired
for, and a rise of 1 to 1 per cent. occurred in those
of 1814, 1858, and 1862. Spanish New Deferred
improved 1 per cent. ; Italian of 1861, 1 ; and
Spanish Passive and Certificates, 1-16; Greek, and
Turkish of 1866, however, declined 1.

MINES.-(17118 DAY.)

Olts o'Cuxoi.

There is a good amount of business to-day in
British mining shares, and prices show firmness.
Annexed are some of the present quotations :-
Great Vor, IS to 4 ; East Lovell, 7 to ; ;
Prince of Wales, 625. to 545. ; North Tres-
kerby, to 11 ; Drakewalls, 15s. to 17s. ;
West Chiverton, 64 to 65 ; Chiverton Moor, 5; to
I ; Chiverton, 6; to 7; ; North Chiverton, 4 to 44
Wheal Buller, 24 to 26 ; Clifford, 7,1 to 8 ; Wheal
Seton, 110 to 115 ; North Crafty, 3; to 4j ; Wheal
Trelawney, 7 to 8 ; Tincroft, 13 to 14 ; and
West Great Work, n to 4.
Foreign and colonial mining shares are in re-
quest, and better in some cases. St. John del
Rey are quoted 59 to 61 ; Don Pedro, 13 to 2
prem. ; Anglo-Brazihan, ;to prem. : Chontales,
ri to 1 prem. ; Frontino and Bolivia ;to 1 ;
Pestarena, ; to ti prem. ; Port Phillip, 11 to
; and United Mexican, 11 to 21.
The subjoined report on the metal market is
extracted from the circular of Messrs. Von Dadelszen
and North :
A fair amount of business has been transacted in metals
during the past. week, and a hopeful feeling prevails.
Iron : Bars continue to be quoted from 51. 15s. to 61. ss. ;
:ails, 5/. 10s. to GI. Staffordshire iron is more inquired for.
Scotch pig iron closes firm at 545. 3d. cash. Copper is •
shade easier, but holders are firm. Manufactured, 821. to
841. ; tough, 80/. to 811. In Australian no transactions.
84/. 10a., cash, for Wallaroo, sad 861. for Barra. Chili is
lin buyers' favour, and quoted 72/. 10s. for bar, and 791.
for ingot. Ore anti regul us, 14e. 911. to 15e. par unit. Tin:
After the large business lately done there has been a pause,
a few holders are more anxious to realise, but the quantity
offered is small. The market closes firm ; we quote
Straits, 89/. to 90/. ; Bence, Mk In Holland the market is
steady, at 54j dela. to 55f dole., cx sale. English is firm,
at the recent advance. Tin plates steady. Lead without
change, and in moderate demand, at 19/. 15e.. and L.B.
201. 2e. 6d.; W. 8., 211. 15s. Spelter again slightly dearer,
but nothing reported ; we quote spot 21/.5e., and specials:
outporta, same price.

Toe CORN Hariverrr.—ln an elaborate article on
the history of harvest, the Agnes/tura/ Gazette quotes the
following opinion of Mr. June■ Edwards, of MarthaHerten:
—•' In the present year the wheat amp will be full average,
excepting on wet, undrained lands, which are sure to be
very late with the harvest, and of a small yield. Oats
and barley suffered very much from the wet spring, and,
excepting on dry land; the crop will be found. deficient.
The whole of the cereal crops this year have shown •
marked difference between the good and inferior lands,
perhaps snore than in any season of late years; and unless
by thorough drainage the strong land can he made to a
certain extent to shed the w►ter, it is impossible it can be
remunerative to the fanner."

BATHING AT TRouvitl.E.—A bathing costume is
of course essential, and the fair sex take especial care that
so far as they are concerned this shall be sufficiently co-
quettish and engaging. It will be either it la pepfuos,
dreassienne, chimps', or turque, or se ronnier, debardeur,
or tridtefrif, with miniature yachts or anchors figured on the
flap of the collars and the cuffs of the natty little sailor-
jacket. Other requisites are canvas slippers with reed
soles, to protect the feet ; • serve the, tosave the hair from
getting wet a peignoir, to throw over the shoulders
after emerging from the sea ; • tub of hot water,
to remove the loose sand from the feet ; and baked line%
with which to dry yourself. Besides the ordinary bathing.
cabins, there are ea/ernes d 64—that is, machines
wheeled right into the sea, after our vulgar English fashion
cabana de lu.re, which, if their name don not belie them,
ought to combine all the luxuries of the ancient Roman
and the modern Turkish bath. The bathing quariiers of
the two sexes are marked out with flags, and divided by,
ropes ; and when bathing is going on at high water it IS
difendu for the individuls of the male sex even to walk in
front of the (mute domes; and such is the prudery of
the authorities of Trouville, that, spite of all these re-
strictions, there are posted up all over the bathing-ground
no less than from a dozen to fifteen police ordinances, pro-
pounded with a view of insuring public decency. There
of course, nothing to prevent person, of opposite sexes
interchanging any amount of courtesies with each other
while bathing, provided they only keep on their respective
sides of the rope. Thus • lady will pass down to her bath
with • gentlem an gallantly holding a sunshade over her bead,
and which he only relinquishes to throw a peignoir across
her shoulders when she emerges, Venus-like, from the sea.
The ladies, too, come up to the rope and converse across
it with their male acquaintances, to whom they will hand
bonbons, which their Ferrante have carried down to them
to the water's edge.— Tifisley's Magazine for September.
Fimif-LirE.—Not to speak of the eggs that alto-
gether escape fructification, it is certain that the
young fish when hatched are destroyed in myriads. It
seems the husine.s of one kind of fish to prey upon
another kind. It has been estimated of the salmon that
in its natural state only one egg in a thousand ever ar-
rives at the stage of a table fish ; and, if that proportion
holds good as to a comparatively well protected fish liko
the salmon, what can we say of eggs dropped in the raven-
ing waters of the sea' These may fell in millions, but
they fall only to be lost. Hundreds of thousands of them
are never fructified ; and even those that fulfil the con-
ditions necessary for their ultimate development into fish,
perish in countless quantities, while the new-horn fish
fall • prey to millions of enemies who are ever on the
watch for them, and who instinctively know the places
where and the seasons when they are to be found. We
have an example of this in the case of the young salmon.
When the 'moults arrive for the first time at the sea, they
have, so soon as they reach the salt water, to run the
gauntlet through a horde of hungry enemies, who, with a
fine instinct, know that for a few weeks of the spring
time they can count on having a daily banquet of young
salmon. So far as this valuable fish is concerned,
this loss upon the eggs, which in the natural
way of breeding is enormous, can be greatly re-
duced by artificial spawning. At the Stormontfield
salmon-nurseries the per centage of unfruitful eggs is com-
paratively small ; and, as all the fish that are hatched out
are protected for one year, and half of them for a period of
two years, the per center; of the young which is destroyed
has been largely reduced. But in the sea such protection,
either to eggs or young, is hopeless, and the multiplying
power of all fishes would require to be even greater than
is, if the fishery power is to be multiplied in the future in
the same ratio as it has been in the post —Macmillan's
Magerier for September.
GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY.—The Spoiling and
March Extension of Ws 83 stem has now been opened for
traffic.
THE ROYAL HOSPITAL TOR DISEASES OP THE
CREST, CITT-ROAD, E.C.—The number of patients under
treatment at this ho.pital during the past week amounted
to 835, of which 69 were new MM.