The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-31 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKETS.

UYWOOL. JOLT 30.—Bales to-day : Great Easters, 1111 6 k
1---Great Northern A, 1081—Lancaahlre and Yorkshire. 1.261
yy I—London. Brighton, and South toad. 501—LonJon and North
Western, 110 110 111 k 1 1 I—Manchester, eheMelti.
and Lincolnshire, 43—Metropolitan 1191 14 19-31idland,
114 It 134—North British, ffif 1 I—'South1—'South Eastern, 621 11 3
Lancaster and Carlisle, 2061—Great Western of Canada, 14 3-16
—Great Luxembourg shares, Wl—North Western Bank
'Limited', 1 J.—M.4%DM Telegraph 8 per cent., S 9-16—Pariflo
Steam, 911 C.—Great Indian Penhaular, new, 1 3-10 p.—
Brlihton. new, 11 p
MANCIMITIR, JULY 30.—There was only a small Mishima
doing, and the market was flat. Great Eastern, 1161—Great
Luxemboure, 11} 1 5-10—treat Northern A, 1101 I—Great Welt-
ers, 411 I—Lancsalthe and Yorkshire, 1251 I—London and North
Western, 1091 1 1-llanebester, bkelield, and Lincoln-
shire, 44-9letropolitan, 1181 1 I 1 191 19-11idland, 114 lel 131
I—North British, 9il 1 I—North Staffordshire 66—.uuth
Eastern, 841 3 I—United States 5-93 Years' Bonds, 7El Lon-
don and Brighton, 44 50 491 cum new.
BitKINOBAY, JOLT 30.—Business dose: Birmingham and
Midland Bank, at 14.1 per share. Closing prices: Great Western
Railway, Stour Valley Guaranteed, 7-1, sellers—South Watford-
shire Railway, 83, sellers—Warwick and Illnuingharn Canal, 45,
sellers—Lloyd's Bank ‘United;, 8 to 81 prem. —Eirmingbana
Financial (Lhnited 11 to a db.—Birmingham Old UnlontiZ
foi to 5:--4.llnueuter Wagon (limited'. 14 to 1411ui
Wagon. 96. sellers —and Patent Nut and Bolt (Limited;,3l to
1 DcMUM, /MY 29.—Three per Gent. Consols, 931 I—New Three
arCent. Stock, 94 I—liadla nye per Cent. Stock (transferable
the Bank of Ireland:, 111, 1111—Bank of Ireland ;4100 paid).
234-111bentlan Banking Company (125 pald, 351-31 unmet.
Bank (Limited; (43 10a paid), 41—National Bank (130
61/ I—koyal Bank (f.lO paid,. 34 —Ballad and Northern
Counties (all paid , 49—Dublin end Belfast Junction (4100 paid
76-direst Southern and Western 6 per cent., perpetual (glOO
Paid). Fli.

Tun AGRICULTURAL PRAEATITTRT.—WE have been
shocked by the former revelations of the commissioners of
little girls wielding sledge-hammers and working as black-
smiths, of young boy. exposed night and day to the fearful
heat of glass furnaces, of infants pent up in fetid garret"
and cellars sinking under the effects of premature and ex-
hausting labour, and we cannot fail to be impressed with
the frightful evils which seem to he inseparable from agri-
cultural gangs. The children employed in them may not
be liable to the same physical deterioration as those en-
gaged in lace-making and straw-plaiting, for they breathe
the pure air of heaven while occupied in their yearly round
of toil, but they are enveloped in an atmosphere of moral
corruption, paralleled probably only in the interior of
Africa. It is for the state to interpose to avert the evils
which the country is threatened from the continuance of
this frightful abuse, and to become the protector of those
who are unable to protect themselves. Its interposition
has been invoked even by the parents of the little victims
of cupidity and oppression. The true remedy may be
difficult to discover, for it will necessarily involve some
interference with the liberty of the subject, but, if we are
left without any remedial measures whatever our female
peasantry will assuredly be reduced to that state of utter
debasement in which remedies will be no longer available,
for their ruin will have become irretrievable and complete.
—Quarterly Renew, new number.
ANOTHER " SECURITY" REDANOERID. —There is
no doubt that the wine of Oporto is slowly but steadily
dring out of use, going to the same limbo to which
Lisbon has long been banished. In 1859, 2,201,306 gallons
were consumed at our tables, equal to 30-97 per cent. of
the whole quantity consumed ; but year by year this per-
centage has declined, until last year it bad fallen to 7.1-57
per cent. It is quite clear that the disappearance of the
once favourite port is only a matter of time, and, if we
may prophecy, a not very long time. The late Baron For-
rester spent his life in showing that in order to obtain.
port we were destroying very fine vintages for the sake of
manufacturing a very inferior-flavoured and adulterated
drink. The result has been that all true wine flavour is
destroyed, and a standard set up Inch as the juism of no
grape can produce. To use the words of the siesta of the
British wine merchants of Oporto, as far back aa1754, who
say that acoording to our tastes '" it (port wine) should feet
like liquid fire in the stomach ; that it should 'mini film
inflamed gunpowder ; that it should have the 'tint of ink r.
that it should be like the sugar of Brazil is inleettlefa, acid
like the spires of India in aromatic firoot-,e." The per-.
&fence of this vitiated taste in a minx il epee, it is tree.
is the only explanation that can heaßei,ed for the absence
from our tables of a number of Port ~,,eye wines that we
might have expected to have rear.,",l upon the reduction
of the duty in 1860. Portugal,- ...ow immense resource'
in good natural wines of a ari•.. silty stouter than the clarets
of France, but poresmin,
.stir -fine qualities, which are
alone sufficietit tit sew *tme- whole of England. -
Mete
have uo doubt tb—at it j ' • • Ire
When '..a• real twee ,; ~r9rUCEI and in magi' "Austria,
formed and wow at the llritiah consumer has been
nerd, th.i.., ..ined, abundant means will be found to
io,iiidrAi:lo. thisnoles..turiddte.ivrgoeßiidanutztitrhemantaspdite in wine which has ex.
mug= of , :Autry for the last 150 years was an artificial
Usti is dprnidibicotmilpelleatews.chasignr.
„„,„, mite have, no doubt, a great influence on all such
""" era, and it will require one or two generations to teach
ar
. Englishman to drink wine like the rest of the world.
and
at
meantime
f.reeedareomnoanw dhapnpsitiuyreatwliibe,ll
liberty to
selecttlir from
lall the vintages of the earth those which are best suited to
oar palates, our puree', and our climate.—Zifintourgt
Brien, new number.