The Express.
London, England, 1866-05-30 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKETS.

LregaeoOL, MAY 29.--Itales today:—Great Eastern. 38—
Great Northern, 1211-lAurcashire and Yorkshire, 120—London
and North Western, 117.1 1113 174 I 4 4 lie I 1714—London
and North Western. St. llelens A, pref., 105c7Iiirkenhead.. 146

Buffalo and Lake Huron, 4 7-16--Grand Trunk of Canada, 191—
Great Westeni of Canada, 141—Erie, 45c ic I—lllinois
Central. 781 Ic—United States Five-Twenty Bonds, 661c—
Dutch Rhenish, 21 p. ; ditto paid up, 224—Great Luxembourg
shares, 124 i 11-16—Sambre and Ileum., 61—Mexican Three per
Cent., 174 Spanish Certificates, 145c—Bank of Liverpool. 26
Liverpool- Financial Association LlmitetD, 14 d—National Bank
of Liverpool ilimited', 31c p—North Western Bank 'Limited,
p—Empire Marine Limited'. 1.516 d—Queen Insurance, par—
National Steam ,Limited', 94 1 d.
MANCHESTER, MAT 29. —The market was quiet, with prices
steadier generally, hut with only a limited and very general
business. Alliance Rant. :Limited ,8 d. 7 d.—Consolidated Bank
Limited , 14 d.—Ebbw Vale Company • Limited', 8 d.—Fries, 46
c.—Great Eastern, 38 1 1 B—Great Luxembourg, 124
—Great Northern, A, 133—Grand Trunk of Canada, 191 4—Great
Western. 541 4—lllinois. 771 c 81 ic I—Lancashire and York-
shire, 1201—London and North Western, 118 cum new 117 x new
—Manchester and County Bank Limited', 11 p.—Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincoln, 614 1 ; ditto, Five per Cent. Preference.
97—Metropolitan, 1261—Midland. 124—North British, 551—
South Eastern, 714, 3 I—Thames and Mersey Marine
surance ,Limited , 44c p.—United States 20 Years Bonds, e
7 64 Ic 4—North Union, A, 214.
BIRMINGHAM, MAT 29. Business done:—Birmingham a.
at 87 ; Birmingham Bank at 24 ; Lloyd's Bank at V prem.: anti
Metropolitan Railway (*triage and Wagon, third issue, at I dis
Closing prices:—London and North Western, 1175 to 1184—Me-
tropolitan, 1254 to 1284—Great Western, Birmingham Guaran-
teed, 72 to 724—Midland Financial, to dia—Patent Shaft and
Axletree, 54 to 6 prem.
Dentis, MAY 28.—Three per Cent. Controls, B.s4—New Three
per Cent. Stock, 1144 I—lndia Five per Cent. stock transferable:
at the Bank of Ireland), 104 —Bank of Ireland !f 100 paid , 2244
—Hibernian Banking Company 4:25 paid), 354—National Bank
L3O raid% 67—National of Liverpool 'Limited`, (tlO paid, 124
—Provincial Bank 4:25 paid` 83 835—Royal Bank 'CIO paid, mei
—Midland Great Western (glOO paid), 69; ditto for account, 59
—Mater ,all paid`, 424.

JEWS IN A HOLY CITY IN PIEBSIA.—Now that I
am speaking of the Jews, I may mention the surprise one
of them, whom I had known as a fellow-traveller on my
way from 13okhara, caused me in Meshed. As I saw him
one day in the street, I called to him, " Yehudi, Yehudi."
He instantly approached me, and in a low voice said,
" For God's sake, Hadji, do not call me a Jew here.
Beyond these walls I belong to my nation, but here I
must play the Moslem." This fear and disguise on the part
of the Jews has its origin in the following characteristic
circumstances. A Jewess, who a few years ago suffered
from an eruption on the hand, went to consult a Persian
doctor about it. He advised her to plunge her hand into
the entrails of a newly-slaughtered dog. As this seemed
the only means of cure, in spite of her repugnance she had
one of these unfortunate street scavengers killed for the
purpose of following the prescription. Unfortunately this
medical experiment fell on the very day on which the
Mohammedans were celebrating the Eidi Kurban (Feast of
Sacrifice). The story of the slaughtered dog speedily
became public, and, as the Jews are universally detested,
malice and envy had no difnculty in misrepresenting the
affair as a profane parody of the customs of the faithful.
The snob, which only waited fora favourable opportunity
of gratifying their malignity and rapacity, rushed raging
into the Jewish quarter of the town, and robbed and
murdered to their hearts' content. Those children of
Israel who contrived to escape with bare life, were allowed
to exist only on condition of embracing Islamism. As may
be imagined, this compulsory conversion is of force only
within the bounds of Meshed. Elsewhere the Jew remains
true to the faith of his fathers. Although in course of
time, and under European influence, the intolerance of the
faithful has somewhat diminished, the Jew still wishes even
now to pass for a Mohammedan as long as he walks the
streets of this holy city.—" Arminius Vimbery," in the
Argosy for June.