The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-19 00:00:00

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PROVINCIAL SHARI mAREsra

14YUPOOL, VAS. 13—Miss to-day: 'Furness, new, ISM,
111—Oreat Eastern, 344 4; 1 } 4 -1-1111sagow anti South
Western, 1174—Great Western, 544—Lancashire and Yorkshire,
1314—London and North Western, 1:40111 4—Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 541 # It—Me tan,1314.} }—Ditto
Extension, II 3.16—Midland, 1244 s—Sou Eastern, .3—Buffalo
and lake Boron, 4 7.16 }—Great Western of Canada, 13 15.16
—National Bank a Liverpool %Milted% lf p.—Maritime
Inw-
rance(Limited,,}4.—Thames and Mersey 'Marine ,Limited;,3l p.
M summits, JAS. 13—A very good business was done, at
lower prices. Consolidated Bank (Limited,. 15-16 p.—Ebbw
Vale Company (Limited), 13d. 13} d.--Great Eastern, 341 4 }
4444114115 gs I—Great Luxembourg, 124—Great
Nortbeni, A, 133 2 3 244 1 2—Grand Trunk of Canada, 4th
pref., 254—Great astern of Canada, 14—Great Western, 544
4 }.—London and North Western, 124—Manchester, Sheffield,
and LitlCOill. Mt 11 1} 1 1 4—Metropolitan, 131} I } 4—Mid-
land, 125—Ditto, eonvertibk glit shares., 21 p.—Nmth British, 36.4
1 4—South Eastern, 73 24 31} 3—Thames and Mersey Marine
Insurance (Limited‘ 34 546 p.—EatAnglian, NO. 2. 7
--Consolidated Built, New, p.—Whltehavim and Furness, 32161
ed.—Atlantic and Great Western Consolidated Mortgage Bonds,
33 re —Belgian Eastern Junction, 14—Union Bank, 24 p.
lintinsousn, Jag. 13—The sales were—ln Birmingham and
Staffordshire Gas £lO shares, at 36 : Metropolitan Railway Cyr.
riage and Wwn shares at 9# per share. Closing prices:
Wellington and Severn Junction Railway shares, at 94 to 10 ;
Great Western, West Midland, Oxford Second Guaranteed 6 per
cents., at 106 to 110, Birmingham Banking Company shares,
at 14 to If prem. Birmingham Joint Stock Bank Limited ,
at 341 to ; Birmingham Town and District Banks, at 9} to
iH ; lindky and West Bromwich Banks, at 101, buyers; Glows-
Semidry Banks, buyers, at 47 ; Lloyds's Bank Limited), at 8#
to 9 prem. ; and Nottingham Joint Stock Bank, at If die.,
seller
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JAM. 17.—Three per Cent. Consols, 00j—New Three
per Cent. Stock, ON—Ditto, for account, Feb. 7, 001—India
Flee per Dent Stock (transferable at the Rank of Ireland,, 1071
tilbernten Dank:lag Compan ,d 25 paid 864—National Bank
tan paid , 081 o.B—Dubtin and Drogheda £lOO pabP, 70—Oreat
them and Western 'CIOO paid .1031—Stldland ()rest Western
(gioo paid. 01—fork and Bandon, 5 per cent perpetual
itilighths, all paid), 0 81—Ditto 4 per cent. perpetual all paid',
3 31—Dublin and Drogheda 5 per cent. convertible, redeem.
1468 XlOO paid!, 241.

SIR ROBERT G. BOOTH, M.P. —We regret to
hear of the serious illness of Sir R. G. Booth, Bart.,
M.P. Bo been suffering for some (lays from a HMO
attack of inflammation of the stomach. The accounts
this morning are somewhat more favourable. Dublin
Errning Mail.

CRYSTAL PALACE. —The flue which works the
heating apparatus for the north portions of the nave of
the Palace, destroyed in the late fire, has now been repaired.
and the whole of the interior will from this day forward
be warm and comfortable.
A LEMON FOR A FATHER. —" You WORM4 not
know there was a child in the house," boasted an arbitrary
father to a friend. The friend pitied him, and would
have pitied the children. But he perceived that on every
oocaaion of the father leaving home, the mother, pale and
gentle-eyed, having struggled in vain to give the children
their proper place in the house, made up for it by allow-
ing them every when he was absent. On one occa-
sion, on a signal being given that the father had ridden
away, the children trooped down in noisy glee to their
mother. Each began the play they liked best, and the
drawing-room was as littered with toys, and as jocund with
laughter and happiness, as any nursery, when the dreaded
voice of " papa" was heard in the hall. He had forgotten
• letter, and returned for it. Without looking to their
startled and paling mother for help, the instincts of the
children prompted them to hide away in the quickest
manner they could. Some wrapped themselves in the
folds of the window curtains, others ran under the table ;
a fat chubby fellow rolled himself into his mother's dress.
His glee had been so great, the disappointment was too
touch for him ; and though the father was somewhat
astonished at the disorder of the room, he was too honied
to stay to inquire, and the children might have remained
undiscovered had not a sob burst from the disappointed
little heart. His father extracted him from his mother's
dress by one leg, and placing him before him, commanded
him sternly "to speak the truth, and answer directly,
what are you blubbering for, you booby!" The fat little
fellow, thinking his last hour had come, obeyed both com-
mands, and with a roar of crying, exclaimed, "Because
you have come home, papa."— The Ar9ogy.for January.