The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-23 00:00:00

PROTINCIAL SHARE M.4!MEIN.

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LEMPOOL, Jew 2t-Sales to-day : Great Eastern, 271 7 1 1
1 7 I—Great Western, 414 11+4 I—London, and South
Coast, 401—London and Nord Western, 1124 Metropolitan,
120-111dland, 114 4—North Eastern ), 100—Bouth
Eastern, 64—Lancaster and Carlisle, 200—Great Luxembourg
shares 101—Mercantile and Exchange Bah, 54 nk, 8 d—Anglo-Af-
can Telegraph, I.Bl—AUantic Telegrap 4.
MANctforrit, JULY St—Prices were steady, with a good busi-
ness. Anglo-American Telegraph (Limited), 171—Atlan Tele-
raph Pref. 8 per cent , 714—Consolidated Bank (Limited), tic
p.—
Bliss, 484 I—Great Eastern, 274 14 7 4 4 4—Great Northam A,
1111—Great Western, 414 4 2—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1184—
London and North Western, 1124 4—Manchester bilegleld and
LincoLnakire, 441—Metropolitan, 1901 4 XS 4y I—North British.
904-Bouth Eastern, 631 4 4 I—London and Brighton, 501 4 i I
1 4—North Stafford (I'. and N. Canal), 204.

Colonel Gregoire, the Commandant-in-Chief of
the Belgian Civic Guard, has addressed a letter to the
Belgian Reception Committee on the occasion of
the departure of the volunteers from England. The remem-
brance of the visit will, he says, remain among their
dearest recollections. They had heard of the
hospitality of England, but the result has surpassed their
most sanguine anticipations.
THE SULTAN AND TEL CORPORATION OF PORTS-
NOCTIL—The following reply was received yesterday even-
ing from the Sultan by the Mayor of Portsmouth :—" I
receive your address with sincere pleasure, and I thank
you for this mark of attention. To visit your country
and see the many indications of its greatness, one element
of which is always before you, gives me much satisfaction,
and I am happy to reiterate on this occasion also my
hearty sympathy for your noble nation."
A CONSERVATIVE PET.—Of Mr. Ferrand, the
candidate for Coventry, we need not say much. Exactly
30 years ago he fought his first parliamentary battle, and
ever since then, in good report and in evil report, he has
stuck to his colours. Outspoken in utterance, earnest in
purpose, unselfish in nature, strong in his predilections,
immoveable in his attachments, he has held on his
way, turning neither to the right hand nor to
the left in his endeavours to further the cause he has
espoused. Since the loss of his seat Mr. Ferrand has in no
jot relaxed his efforts, but has perseveringly promoted the
formation of working men's associations in various parts of
the country. And now, with these credentials, and having
performed these services, he comes forward to solicit the
suffrages of the most purely working-class constituency in
the kingdom, by whose members he has been received with
a warmth and cordiality which encourages the confident
anticipation that, all opposing influences notwithstanding,
the result of his candidature will be to insure his return to
that house in which he has already rendered such good
and such faithful service to hie party and his country.—
Morning Herald.
A SUPPOSED FENlAN.—General Fariola, the
Italian in the Fenian service, who was arrested in inden
lately, was brought before a magistrate at Dublin yester-
day. He speaks English fluently. He is evidently a
man of considerable intelligence, and put some clever
questions to the principal witness against him, the
proprietor of the Italian hotel in Cork, who deposed
that Fariola had interviews there with General
Condon, who was tried at the special commission in that
city, and that letters had reached the hotel for him di-
rected to General Fariola. Massey, in whose informations,
when he turned informer, Fariola's name first appeared,
had also been to the hotel whilst he was there, but the
witness did not see them together. It is said, however,
that Massey can identify
him, and the police are in
on of a number of letters addressed to him at the
tel. He was remanded, and asked for the free use of
pens and_papers to prepare his defence.
THE WEATHER AND THE HARVEST.—We observed
in our last that St. Swithin had asserted himself moat un-
equivocally on the first of hie recognised forty days. The
grain crops have been a good deal knocked about, and here
and there laid to a considerable extent, by the weather of
the last week, but we trust that St. !Within, having so
fully vindicated his sovereignty at the commencement, will
be content to exercise a milder influence during the re-
maining period of his legitimate reign. As yet there is
no reason to believe that the wet weather Las done
any serious or permanent damage ; indeed, should fine
and warm weather now ensue, the late rains may
prove to have been even more beneficial than injurious.
Some of the wheats are already indicating by their altered
colour that the ripening process has begun, and that har-
vest is rapidly approaching. So far as regards barley, oats,
peas, and beans, the rain has unquestionably been ser-
viceable, whilst as respects the turnip and root crops, they
will reap enormous profit, the long continued dry weather
during the hay season having made them feel the want of
moisture rather seriously. For these last mentioned crops
nothing could be more advantageous than the late rains,
and if we are only blessed with bright suns and a warm
' temperature there is no reason why our harvest should
not fulfil the ample promise our broad acres hold out.
The reports from the hop districts are by no means satis-
factory and rather conflicting. The showers have come
very opportunely, and are universally welcomed, but they
have not, upon the whole, proved so entirely efficacious as
might have been wished. In many places the rain has
washed away the fly and lice, but in others the vermin 4
have held on, and although the bine has made progress„'
and looks of a better colour, it seems scarcely able to stand
against its enemies. The high winds have proved dam- •
aging in all exposed situations and the young shoots have 4
been terribly battered. The burr has come out kindly 4
among the forward gardens, but the temperature has not
been sufficiently warm either day or night to force the pleat ;
on as one expects at this period of the season.—Slarez
Advertiser.