The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-06 00:00:00

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The Northern Banking Company 24 MAIO Ina.=
The Ulster Banking Company 311,0 437,111131 212,018
The National Bank

MONDAY iVM.=6.

Consols, which closed on Saturday at 341 to
both for money and next Thursday's settlement,
opened this morning at the same price, and closed
at 941 to 4. For the new account (September) the
last price was 944 to 4. The Three per Cents.
Reduced and New Three per Cents. were quoted
at 3 o'clock 931, to 94. The official business report
is as follows :—Three per Cent. Consols, for money,
944, ; ditto, for account, 941, 1 ; Three per
Cents. Reduced, 931, 4 ; New l'hree per Cents.,
94, 31, 4 ; Annuities, 1885, 13 1-16 ; India Stock,
220, 2 ; ditto Five per Cent., 1121, 4, 111, 121 ;
ditto Five per Cent., " enlaced" rupee paper,
1021, 4, ; ditto Five per Cent. rupee Debentures,
101, i; ditto, Debentures, 1051 ; ditto, Bonds,
70a., 68a., 655., prem.
The Indian Five per Cent. Stock was firm, at the
improvement of Saturday. Exchequer Bills wets
steady, at 225. to 28a. prem.
The foreign stock market did not participate in
the improvement observable in the other depart-
ments of the Stock Exchange, the movements in
prices, with the exception of a rise of 1 per cent. in
Turkish Bonds of 1858, being unfavourable.
Russian bonds were offered, and fell about 1 per
cent. Spanish Passive declined 1, and the Three
per Cents., New Deferred, and Certificates, 1.
The market for bank shares was inanimate, and
the only change was a reduction of 11. in London
and Westminster. Union of Australia met with

inquiry.
Hudson's Bay shares were last quoted 14;i to
and National Discount 6 to 81 prem. ex div.,
showing no change. In the marketfor miscellaneous
shares, the principal feature was an advance of
11. 10e. to 2/. in Peninsular and Oriental Steam.
London and Provincial Marine improved 55.,
while East India Irrigation and London and Cale-
donian Marine fell 10s., and New Consolidated
Discount, ss.

Financial shares were unaltered, with the excep-
tion of a rise of 2s. 6d. in Credit Foncier. Prices
closed as follows :—lnternational Financial, 2} to
n dia. ; General Credit, 21 to 2} dia. ; London
Financial, 25 to 23 dis. ; and Credit Foncier,
to si: dia.
United States 5-20 Bonds were steady, but Erie
Railway shares showed extreme depression, and
fell 31 per cent. Illinois Central were also
lower. The closing prices are annexed :-5-20
Bondi, 721 to 73i ; Erie Railway shares, 44i to
45 ; Illinois Central, 76 to ; Atlantic and Great
Western Railway Debentures, 26 to 28 ; and
Consolidated Mortgage Bonds, 22 to 23.
Colonial government securities were little dealt
in, but some of the Cape of Good Hope and New
Zealand debentures rose to 1 per cent.

MINES.-(T1118 DAY.)

Oirs o'CLoox.

The mining market is rather more active to-day,
with a good demand for shares in most of the fol-
lowing mines, at the prices given, viz.:—West
Chiverton, 64 to 65 ; Prince of Wales, 555. to
' 575. 6d. • Wheal Basset, 674 to 70 ; North Tres-
kerby, Ito ; North Chiverton, 31 to 41. ; East
Russell, Itolf ; North Crofty, 3,1 to ; Prosper,
21 to I ; Chiverton Moor, 4,1 to 5 ; Chivcrton, 7 to
f • Clifford, 5 to 61 ; Wheal Grenville, I to 1 ;
%Vest Great Wurk, 4 to 3 ; and West Kitty,
12s. 6d. to 15s.
Foreign and colonial mining shares are steady.
Subjoined are the present prices : St. John del
Rey,ss to 57 ; Don Pedro, 11 to prem. ; Anglo-
Brazilian, par to prem. ; Chontales, to
prem. • Pestarena, f to i prem. ; United Mex-
ican, if to 2 ; Rosso Grande, to 4 ; Frontino
and Bolivia, to l ; and Port Phillip, Ito 11.

A number of emancipadoa from Havana arrived
at Southampton on their way to Lagos, on the West Coast
of Africa.
THE CITY TOA.TMASTER IN THE OLDEN TINE.
The City toastmaster, who proclaims with such a roaring
eloquence at a Lord Mayor's feast, that the metropolitan
magistrate is about to pledge his guests in • loving-cup,
probably is little aware of what used to take plate on former
occasions of a similar nature. At the old Plough-Monday
banquet, for instance, the yeoman of the cellar used to
stand behind the Lord Mayor, sod at the close of dinner
he produced two silver cups full of wins. He presented
one to the mayor, the other to his lady, or her representa-
tive if there was one, and then the form of proclamation
was to this effect:—" Mr. Swordbearer, Squires, and
Gentlemen all—My Loral Mayor and my Luly Mayoras
drink to you in a loving-cup, and bid you all heartily wel-
come !" The cups were handed in imecession to all the
company, who drank to the health of my lord and lady.
When the time came for the latter and other ladies to
retire, the chaplain passed up from the bottom of the table
and led her ladyship right solemnly away. The male
guests did not neermarily leave the table when his lordship
withdrew. For then a mighty bowl of punch used to be
introduced, and with it all the servants of the household,
from the highest to the lowed, housekeeper and house.
maids, groom of the chambers and grooms from the
stables. They passed in procession, and drank of the punch
to the health of the guests, who then made a collection for
them in the silver punch-bowl. According as the maids
were fair, merry, and not unkind to the gallantry of the
guests, the collection reached • greater or less Will. The
old aaluiatio and the tibatio, the " saluting" and the
" tasting," were never more favourably manifested than
at these Lord Mayor's feasts of the olden yet not rrr,
remote period : a period when, as the •• loving-cup " went
round, it was the custom for the two guests on the right
and left of the drinker to hold the Loge cover of the cup
over his head while he leisurely quaffed.-o,rohill .Maga-
:ine for August.
THE LAW OF DIVORCE IN HUNGARY. If a
young couple are unhappy, and desire to be divorced, they
address • joint petition to the court ; or one alone perhaps
can thus petition. The court appoints two or more medi-
ators, generally from the kinsfolk, to hear the complaints,
to give advice, and try to reconcile them. Reconciliation
is often thus effected. But if failure be reported, the
court replies, that they must repeat the application foe
divorce after three years, and then it shall be granted. If
the quarrel is very severe, they probably separate, and ob-
tain the divorce at the expiration of the period. The de-
lay infallibly prevents any from seeking divorce in order
to take • more acceptable partner ; for no one can hope
that another will wait three years for such a reversion. It
may even seem that two years would suffice. When the
aversion is so decided on both 'ideal that no one expects
reconciliation, we suppose that no social impropriety is
felt in beginning a new courtship before the three years
is spent. Bat Ilun,prians say, that in the great majority
of owe the young people are reconciled by their friends
long before the time is complete, and do not come to the
court again.—Pruter's Mapa:ine for August.