The Express.
London, England, 1866-05-10 00:00:00

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19S 205
13 15

iPdl CL prices. I Bales.

St. Fest and West India .1100 ' ISO IS3
10 General Floating Dock! 5
St. London &At. K atharin. 'lOO 70 72
.100 Do. Deb. St. 4p. cent. all 87 90
I St. Southampton
; St. Surrey Cununertial

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.

Bahia and San Francisco (Limited), gua. 7 per cent
121, 13j.
Great Luxembourg, 111, f.
Imperial Mexican ItAilway (Limited), 10.
South Auxtrian and Lombardo-Venetian, 111 xd.

)lISCELLANEOUS.
Atlantic Telegraph (Lim.), guaranteed 8 per cent., 21, a.
Amax:Alan Mortgage Land and Finance (Lint.), 41, ad.
Credit Fonder and Kohlliez of England (Limited),
2, A, 1.., A, A, A, xd.
Egyptian Commercial and Trading (Limited), 21, 2.
General Credit and Finance of London (Lim.), lt, 2.
Hudson's Bay, 14A.
Imperial Merc. Credit APSOC. (Lim.). 81, 9, 81, 91, dis.
International Financial Society (Limited), 21.
London Financial Association (Limited), 10, 91.
London General Omnibus Company (Limited), 31.
National Discount Company (Lim.), 101, 1,9), 101, 91
Ditto New, issued at pm.. 3) to be pail, 21, 1.
North British Australasian (Lim.), 45.
Overend, Gurney, and Co. (Limited), 12), 111, 1, 11, 1.
Peninsular and Oriental Steam (New), 49.

The Redistribution of Seats Bill was issued this
morning. It consists, with a schedule, of 14 pages. The
clauses are 31 in number. They relate to, in addition to
what is already known, various regulations as to groups
of boroughs, how the votes are to be registered and taken
at the first and at the subsequent elections, the pollin7
places, the temporary provisions consequent on the forms
tiers of new boroughs, the constituency of the university
of London, where the poll may continue for three days,
and details as to the boundaries of the new boroughs, &c.
The Representation of the People (Scotland) Bill is more
than double the size of the English bill, filling as many as
37 pages.
The Select Committee on the Kitchen and Re-
freshment Rooms in the House of Commons, In a report
petted this morning, again complain of the deficiency of
accommodation, and they recommend that an enlargement
of the rooms be executed accenting to a plan prepared by Mr.
I E. M. Barry in 1863, at au estimated cost of 4,650/. During
the present session, they say, the want of sufficient se-
.' c(miriodation has been more manifest than in any former
year. Tlv.: average number of members dining during
I las. t month has been 125 per day; and one even-
in; before Eater as many as 239 dined in these
rooms, while the tables acoommodate only 96 persons.
Nearly 100 members have signed a paper in approval of
the alteration, and many more have since expressed them-
selves in its favour. With the report is an account of the
proceedings of the committee, as in the case of more im-
portant investigations. We find the committee at one
sitting adopting a requtet to the wine merchants that they
supply better brandy and sherries, and complaining that a
drunken mail who had come from a wine merchant's to replace
, some of the wine had taken away with him a rope and a
pulley, "the property of the House." At another sitting
a wine bin was the subject of a resolution, and at a third
sitting a resolution in favour of a supply of Hungarian
wines was adopted and a rebuke agreed to with regard to
the dilat niness of the waiters. At one sitting the
Serjeant-at-Arms, it was agreed, should be requested " to
send a requisition to the Office of Works " for 40 dozen
table napkins, 12 dozen glass cloths, and 12 dozen coarse
cloths. Of three of the sittings, we are told, with be- I
coming reticence, that "the committee deliberated."
The wine bill for the session of 1865, amounted, it seems
to VS/. ls. 83.
A letter from Sebastopol in the Cromtadt Mes-
seng-r aaya :—" The government has applied • sum of
130,030 roubles (521,000 fr.) to repairing the soldiers' huts
on the north side of this place, and to restoring Fort Con-
stantine to a habitable state, in order to place there a
resiment of infantry and two batteries of field artillery."
We read in Galigwmi :—" A dispute has for
some time existed between the English minister, Adminsl
Harris, at Berne, and the authorities of that canton. The
origin of the difficulty was a coachman attached to the •
enalsks.y who had been several times condemned for
assault and disorderly conduct. The minister denied the
competency of the Swiss tribunals to judge anyone be-
longing to his establishment, and the question having been
brought before the federal council that body informed the
minister th it he himself and the persons immediately
about him enjoyed the benefit of not being amenable to the
tribunals of the country, but that the exemption did not
extend to mere menial servants. A second appeal made to
the federal council produced a similar reply."
The citizens of South Danvers, Connecticut, the
birthplace of George Peabody, have prepared to receive
him on his arrival in America. A committee of his fellow-
citizens will meet him in New York.
AseeNsto9 DAY. —This being Ascension Day, the
boys belonging to the various parochial schools, accom-
panied by the beadle and other officials, performed the
customary ceremony of " beating the bounds " in the me-
tropolis. The proceedings in some instances excited some
curiosity, owing to the peculiar situations of the boundary
marks. The honourable societies of the Temple, as usual,
observed the occasion by closing their gates against the
juvenile invaders.
A LoNo PASSAGE.—Yesterday, there arrived in
the roads the ship Mary Fly, of Quebec, Captain Fry, from
Calcutta, with a cargo of linseed, consigned to Messrs.
Brown, Atkinson, and Co. We understand that the Mary
Fry left Calcutta so long ago as last autumn. She arrived
I in the English Channel either at the latter end of 1865, or
the beginning of the present year, and was caught by the
gales which prevailed for so many months, principally from
the S.W., and which were so severely felt both in the
English and Bristol Channels. After being buffeted about
for many weeks the Mary Fry reached Briefs:4 in a very
shat and disabled state. Having undergone repairs
at that licit she started for Hull. We understand that
during her stay at Bristol the captain offered to send the
cargo of seed per train ; but that the consignees, owing to
the terms on which the cargo was sent, were unable to
reesive it, except from the ship.—lasted Coentia Herald.