The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-22 00:00:00

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2,060,604 est. Nast and Wet India . 100 124 137
11,070,1101 St. London diSt.Hatharin. 100 60 01
1,402,500100 Do. Deb. St. 4p. cent. an
340,1611 St. Southampton
11.47.071, St. Surrey Commercial

PREFERENCE SHARES.

Great Northern 4A per cent. redeem. at 10 per cent.
prem., 92.
Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire 6 per cent., 113
to 161.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Anglo-American Telegraph 161, I.
Atlantic Telegraph, 381,-3, 5.
Atlantic Telegraph 8 per cent., GBl.
Berlin Waterworks(Limited),l2i.
Credit Fonder of England (Limited), 2 15-16, 13-16, 3.
Etat India Irrigation and Canal, 12i.
General Credit and Disoount (Limited), 4.
General Steam Navigation, 28.
Hudson's Bay, 16, a.
National Discount Company (Limited), 13, 12g.
Ocean Marine Inauranoe, 19).
Peninsular and Oriental Steam, 61), 1, 24, an.
Peninsular and Oriental Steam. hew. GUI, an.
Rio de Janeiro City Improvements (Limited), 19g.
Telegraph Construction and Maintenance (Limited)
(15/. pail), 14.
Viceroy of Egypt (Mortgage) Loan, 721.

THE "SOILED DOVE" CASE.—The following fur-
ther correspondence has passed between Mr. Henry Chap-
lin and Admiral noes p 9, Dover-street, Piccadilly,W.,
March 21.—Dear Admiral Rous,—Your letter places me in
• most difficult position, for though, as you will well be-
' have, I most unhesitatingly accept your assurance, yet my
entire belief in what you say does not alter the fact that in
point of law the tribunal was actually illegal, and, as you will
see there is therefore the possibility for backers that a
future decision might be given in their favour, you will
not, I think, ask me to withdraw my protest now on those
grounds. —I am, yours very truly, HENRY CHAPLIN."
13, Berkeley-square, Thursday, March 21.—Dear
Chaplin,—l have no objection to place your letters before
the committee on Monday. If they decide that it shall
be reopened it will be very mischievous ; • quorum of
three having decided every case since the Huntingdon,
these gentlemen will have good right to complain.—l
am, truly yours, H. J. Roes."
MR. RECORDER WARREN'S FIRE GRATE.—The
iron plate for the fire grate, remarks the Chelmsford
Chronicle, we find is being very generally adopted in this
neighbourhood, and is found to be a great moms. A Mr.
Woodman, writing in the Builder, says:—" Having read
the recommendation of this grate, I told • poor men to
get one, try it, and I would pay the oast (Is. I for it. He
found it excellent. The plan I designed is, to cut • piece
of paper 4-inch smaller than the bottom of the grate ; get
a smith to make a plate of iron the size of the paper pat•
tern, of the thickness of • halfpenny, with three small
holes in it the size of • straw. One hole in the middle and
one hole one inch from each end ; the burr to be filed off
level. These holes prevent the plate from warping with
heat, and being small, and covered with fuel, do not allow
cold air to pass up, nor hot air below it to escape. On
this principle wooden straight-edges have seven small holes
bored in them, one in the middle and three holes in each
end, to keep them from twisting. If in round wooden
bread plates a hole the size of • small pin were bored, they
would always be fiat."
LOCUSTS AT MALTA.--011 Saturday last our
island was visited at about 1 p.m. by small clouds of
locusts (red), which made their appearance in groups at
the beginning, but after an hour their number increased
considerably, and continued so until very nearly sunset.
Their flight was very rapid, about the same as that of a
splrrow. The wind was dead calm, and the weather very
warm. The direction these locusts came from was east,
and they took the course of south west. Luckily they did
not settle on the island, except a few that were G.tigned
and could not continue the journey. Had these destruc-
tive insects come down, the little green there is in some
parts of the island would have been immediately attacked
and deloured. We are told that they have not been seen
here since the year after the plague which visited Malta
in the year 1814, and then they also passed over in very
considerable numbers. The weather here has become ex-
ceedingly warn, and unpleasant for this season of the year,
and the scarcity of water is much felt throughout the
country.—Malta Observer, Much 11.