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

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, AUGUST 8, 1867.

London,and why then should it suffer by the new principle
which had been referred to? (Hear.) With electoral districts
there might be some excuse for that, but at present there
was none. The man whom the minority in the City of
London would be likely to choose to represent them was
Mr. Thomas Baring ; but be was already in parliament,
and the City of London was, on the wkole, well repre-
sented. He hoped they would still be able to rescue the
Reform Bill from this most unjust, dangerous, and mis-
chie‘.ous arrangement. (Cheers.)
Alderman LAWRENCE, K.P., in seconding the resolution,
observed that voting papers resembled the proxies in the
House of Lords, and the next step would be to intro-
duce proxy voting in the House of Common..
If the bill passed in its present shape the members would
be distinguished as majority members and minority mem-
bers. (Laughter.)
Baron N. H. ROTHYCHILD, M.P., proposed • vote of
thanks to the Lord Mayor, which Mr. Deputy REED
seconded, and the meeting separated.

Howson, the pointsman, whose negligence, it
wu Alleged, was the cause of the recent accident near
Warricgton, was tried at the Cheater Assizes yesterday on
a charge of manslaughter, and was acquitted.

BREST, AUGUST 7. —The Transatlantic Company's
teamer Europe, from New York on the 27th ult., arrived
here this evening, with 111 passengers and 532,000 dollars
in specie.

BLeorioN Movexerers.—Mr. Bell, of the firm of
Thompson, Boner, and Co., has been named as a conser-
vative candidate for Hull. Mr. Bell was at one time a
candidate for Banbury. Mr. Sammie has been invited to
become a candidate for the Tower Hamlets. Mr. Warren,
the Irish Solicitor-General, has been invited to come for-
ward ass candidate for the representation of the Univer-
sity of Dublin, in the event of the promotion of Mr. Chat-
terton to the newly-created office of Vioe-Chancellor of
Ireland. Mr. H. Richards is a fourth liberal candidate
for Merthyr Tydvil.
REFILESH bizarr Houszs.—The number of refresh-
ment houses in England having wine and beer licensee in-
creases year by year. In Birmingham there were but 42
in 1862, there were 148 in 1866 ; in Manchester there were
73 in 1862, 181 in 1866. In this latter year there were is
England 350 refreshment houses with Becomes for the sale
o. wine only, and 2,02,i with licenses for the sale of wine
and beer to be drunk on the premises. In the last six
years there have been 53 convictions of keepers of houses
of the former class, and 851 convictions of keepers of
houses of the latter class.

THE Moon..—Tho prospects for the opening on
Monday next on the vast range of moors running from the
neighbourhood of Penistone into Derbyshire and Cheshire
are so very bail that several of the largest proprietors will
not shoot this season over their grounds. Among others,
the moors of Mr. J. S. Stanhope, extending to between
7.000 and 8,000 sores, will be left untouched, and the same
will be the case with regard to those adjoining of Mr. R. C.
Clarke of Noblethorpe Hall, who goes into Scotland. The
Bradfield Genie Association have also 'greed not to open
the Bradfield Moors until the 12th of September. At
Broadhill, The Strines, and on nearly all the grounds, very
few birds are to be seen, and gamekeepers who have been
out during the week report very few coveys to be seen, but
a good many dead birds, the disease and the tapeworm
having made great havoc. There will, therefore, be few
guns out this season, and less bags made than for some
years past. On nearly all the grounds there will not be
many more young birds found thaa will be required for
breeding for next year.
THE RECKLESSNESS OF A CORNISH MINER. —The
300 men employed in Condurrow Mine, Carnborne, were
informed a few days ago that some among* their number
had been " scaled " (fined) to the amount of 81. or 91. for
riding in a skip ; that the dangerous practioe was strictly
prohibited, and that any man injured in the forbidden and
hazardous enterprise would receive no benefit from the
mine club. Yet, on Thursday, four or five men got into
the skip 220 fathoms from surface, and as it actually
moved off John Cock attempted to jump in. As the skip
ascended he *ell back, hie bead was caught by the par-
tition of the shaft, and the poor fellow was killed on the
spot—Cornish Tdeoraph.
A CURIOUS Swc RISTNO-PLACE FOR BEES.—A
swarm of bees was seen in Chnrch-street, Holston, on Sa-
turday, and, after various attempts, they ultimately
" pitched" on one of the town lamps near the shop of Mr.
Bishop, tailor. In a few minuAa Mr. Bishop ascended the
lamp, placed a butt above them, and covered it with a
sheet. He was rewarded, in the evening, by securing the
whole swarm. It was • moat singular place for the little
insects to select for their temporary residence, as there was
ach bustle ard noise in the street, it being market day.
—Cornish Telegraph.
THE AEcric Suiocza.—The sun does not set at
present at the North Pole, but moves in a circle round
the horizon once in twenty-four hours. In the parts of
that distant region which are inhabited, it approaches the
horizo r at 12 o'clock at noon, but does not dip beneath it.
In Iceland the finest print can be read at any hour for
many weeks to come. In Nova Zambia, in latitude 75,
veptaton during the month of July becomes quite rank ;
deer roam over the fields, and birds abound. At Not 111
Cape, the most northerly point of Europe, the sun nal
not begin to set till July 30, and has not ban beneath the
horizon since May 14.—As trican payer.
CRITICS, AND THEIR LIKES AND DISLIKES.—
Critics are human, like other people, sod have their likes
and dislikes, their whims and prejudices. One man
hates Shakspere on the stage, and has the courage to
say so ; another man bates slip-slop French translations ;
another man hates the pubre for their coarse and idiotic
tastes ; one man detests burlesque, with all its attendant
glitter and folly ; another man bates realistic effects, real '
cabs, real pumps, and real water ; one man admires the
old school of acting—the Tnrveydrop and deportment
school ; another likes the new and more flippant school ;
one man admires beautiful scenery and stage
upholstery ; another likes the pauper simplicity of more
" legitimate" managers ; but they all strive to do justice
to authors and actors, because they all have an affection
for authors and actors. If their criticisms are not gene-
rally more lofty in tone, the fault lies in a great mea-
sure with the pthlip. What is the use of proving, ac-
cording to AB received canons of criticism, that •
piece is bad, when theatres Call be filled by it for two or
three hundred nights ? If the public want a higher order
of criticism, they have only to ask for it. If theatrical
notices during the last few months have exhibited an un-
usual severity, the cause may be found in the revival of
hissing as a stage corrective. Hissing is the respected
parent of dramatic criticism.—From 2 he Broadway, 80. I.
MODERN "COUNCILS."—Let us hope that in
both these assemblies, if indeed they actually take place,
the lessons of the past may have some effect. if the
prelates who meet, whether at Rome or in London, de-
termined each to maintain his own independent judgment,
and not to be led by party feeling or fear of the majority ;
if they twist on deciding nothing against the parties m-
oused or interested without hearing fully from themselves
what they have to urge in their own defence ; if the ob-
noxious cardinal is welcomed from the Sabine hills, and
the obnoxious prelate from the pastures of Durban, to
take their places in the deliberations of their brethren ; if
they strictly confine themselves to the rules of law laid
down by the church and country to which they belong ; if
they determine, in the spirit of Basil and the two
Gregories, to do nothing which can circumscribe the exist-
ing liberties of the Church ; if they use every means; to avail
themselves of the superior truth and grace which Pro-
vidence has awarded to the nineteenth over the fifth
century ; if the Italian bishops will lend their whole
energies to reconcile themselves with the wants
of their country, and the English bishops to
remove whatever barriers prevent their church from be-
coming truly national—then they will have reaped for
themselves a glory which few, if any of the (Ecumenical
Synods have attained. But if, unfortunately, they fall
under the temptations which ensnared the fathers of the
ancient council—if party-spirit prevails over individual
conviction—if the absent are condemned and the accused
not beard—if the opinions which are condoned in the pros-
perous are censured in those who are in ill-favour—if the
control of the law is set at nought and the advance of
science and the claims of charity are disparaged—if the
proceedings are conducted in secret, and the objects pro-
posed are unknown—if they are made the mere instru-
ments of furthering the private views of some ambitious or
some fanatical leader—then the utmost that can be hoped
from such meetings is that theymay be utterly void of fruit
or effect ; then, with so much the more force because
charged with the accumulated experience of ages, will be
awakened once more the reproach of Gregory Nazianzen,
" Councils and synods I greet afar off—l never saw from a
meeting of bishops anything but an addition of evils."—
Edinburgh &rims, new number.
MEXICAN PRIESTS. Number, of the priests
have families and female relatives whose duties are con-
jugal. These, like the ladies who kept house for an (we
hope) extinct race of cardinals, sometimes peas under the
name of nieces or cousins, but they not unfrequently, in
open defiance of the professional celibacy of their protec-
tors, assume the title of wife. A woman of Oaxaca, when
the Abbe askedher about these singular unions, told him:
" My countrywomen prefer living with priests, because
they are better kept. The poor creatures are so wretched
that they look out for a house where they are always sure
of finding good clothe; and food." The priest and the
woman are not dishonotued by this ooncobirume : they are
even respected, if they get on well together. A trades-
man having asked the concubine of a priest belonging to
an episcopal household for the price of a gown, she told
him that she had no money, and he must wait. " I do
not choose to wait," said the tradesman, " and if you do
not pay me at once, I will summon you before the
judge."—" Try then. Do you not know that I belong to
the sacred mitre I"—Pram's kaganne for August.
THE FIEST Toast% —Observers of popular
Calliela, cannot have felled to remark • little ceremony
which often occurs when members of the lower orders are
about to quaff from the foaming pewter. He who holds
the full tankard pours • slight portion of it on the ground
before he drinks. He knows not wh7 and cares not where-
fore ; but he is really doing what has pagan ancestors did
at a very remote period—offering a libation to Mother
Earth ; selecting her by way of honour ; drinking, as it
were, " to her health."—CornAiff Magazine for August.

THZ POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

BOW-STREET.
DOTING OATS OP AM arm=
William. Robins, artier to Mr. George Barham, dairy-
man, Musellmvitreet, was charged with stealing a sack of
corn and a quarter of a cwt. of chaff from his master's
stables in Charlotte-mews, New Oxford-street; and Thomas
York, a corn dealer at Islington, was charged with unlaw-
fully receiving the same.
Mr. Barham stated that he happened to pass by to the
stables and noticed the
standing
and another man there,
and a pony and cart @tan • at the door. A few minutes
later he returned and saw the prisoner York leading the
pony out of the mews into New Oxford-street, when
he got into the cart and drove away. Witness took
a cab and followed him. He went by a circuitous
route to the Caledonian-road. He drove to the
top of the road, back to the bottom, and
then to the top spin after which he suddenly drove away
at a quicker rate. Wither still followed him in the cab,
overtook him, and gave him in custody. Witness aaked
York what he bad in the cart. He replied " Corn." Wit-
ness asked, " What sort of corn ?" Befreplied, "Oats
Being asked where he got them he said he bought them
,of a man whose name be could not remember,
who had a warehouse in Charlotte-mews. Afterwards he
said he thought the man's name was Robins or Robinson,
and that he gave 12s. for the oats. There was in the earl
a seek of oats, and another sack containing about a cwt.
of chaff. York said that Robins gave him the chaff in.
Ile afterwards said that be took the oats in payment of •
debt which Robins owed him. After York was locked up,
witness went back to the stables, and asked Robins
if he knew a man of that name. He replied
is the affirmative. Witness asked if he bad sold him a
sack of oats. He replied that he bad, but had not re-
ceived any money, as it was to go to a running account,
and 6s. of it was to go off an old debt. Witness knew the
the third man, but did not think there was any evidence
to implicate him.
Pollee-constable Y 319 corroborated the proarautor's ac-
count of the circumstances under which the prisoners were
taken into custody.
They reserved their defence, and were both committed
for trial.

ASSAULT ON A CUSTOM HOUSE OFFICER AND RESCUE OF THE
PRISONER,
Frau Joseph, a very old man, John White, August
Abraham' and Mary !Cutup, natives of Germany, were
brought before Mr. Paget, charged with assaulting
Thomas Smith, an examining officer of Customs, and
rescuing a prisoner from his custody.
Last night between the hours of 9 and 10 o'clock Mr.
Smith proceeded to a public-house known as the " Clock
House," in Rosemary-lane, now Royal Mint-street, White-
chapel, with a warrant signed by Mr. Woolly*, of the
Southwark police-court, for the arrest of George Killer,
the landlord, for causing to be imported 1291 b e. of foreign
manufactured cigars. He was accompanied byJohn Henry
Briscoe, another officer, who went into the public-house
first to reconnoitre, and saw George Kellar there.
He then called in Smith, who said to the land-
lord, " I want you ; I have a warrant from a
magistrate for your apprehension." Killer said " I shall
not go without my hat and boots." Smith said, " Yon
can have your hat and boots, but let your wife and
servant get them for you, for I can't let you go." At that
time only Smith. Briscoe, and Killer were present in an
inner room. Killer called to some one in the German
language and all the prisoners except Joseph came in and
made an ittack on Smith, who wasdragged intoan adjoining
room, ill-used, his clothes torn, and the prisoner George
Killer rescued from him. While this was going on Briscoe
was absent in search of a police-constable. He returned

with one, and Smith char'Wthe four ptisoaen with
rescuing his prisoner. Smith gave a long detail of the vio-
lence offered by the prisoners, their assault on him, and
their rescue. The old man who gave the name of Joseph
ia the father of the German who was rescued, and his real
name is Killer.

Mr. Paget said the old man gave his right name last
night, and perhaps Frans Joseph were his Christian names.
A solicitor's clerk, for the prisoners, cross-examined the
witnesses, and elicited that since the 14th of June, when
the sileged offence was committed, Killer, the smuggler,
had been to the Custom-house several times. Killer was
present when the offence was committed, but he was not
arrested.
The prisoners were remanded.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

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Roches Point 2366 68 W.S.W.
11Uv=1:::11:73t 141.1 W.
Peusaace 129.81 61l W.
Brent 12292 03 B.W.
Lorteat. 0.8604. W.& W.
zochataii 10.06 a W.
Pirmocal 29.78 63 W.S.W.
Weymouth —.29.77 62' WA W.
Portsmouth_ 29.7769 W.
Loudon 29.7360: W.
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MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

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The share markets are generally firm, and the
tendency of prices is upwards. It is thought that
the large purchase of stock made yesterday on
account of the London and Westminster Bank may
be followed by similar transactions in connexion
with other establishments, owing to the extreme
slackness of trade, and the consequent inability
to employ the whole of their large resources in
banking operations. The improvement in the
weather has also helped to strengthen quotations.
Consols present no movement, but British railway
securities are in active request, at a fresh advance
upon the satisfactory traffic returns just issued by
most of the principal companies. Foreign bonds
are quiet. London and Westminster Bank shares
exhibit a further important fall. The monthly
settlement in the home funds will be completed
this afternoon.

The applications for discount are still upon a
very moderate scale, and the charge for choice i
paper is unaltered, at 1} to 11 per cent. Loans
for a few days on English government securities
are offered in the Stock Exchange at 1/ per cent.
Consols are quoted 94} to ft for money
and 943 to for the account (Sept.), and the
Three per Cents. Reduced and New Three per
Cents., 94 to 94.
British railway stocks continue in request, and
have further improved. London and North-
Western has risen 3 per cent. ; Midland, ft ;
'Metropolitan, Caledonian, and Brighton, ; South
Eastern, ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, ; and
Great Eastern, I. Subjoined are the quotations :
—London and North Western, 112/ to 113 ;
Great Western, 411 to 42 ; Midland, 117 to / ;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 128} to ; Caledonian,
110 to 111 ; Great Northern, 111 to 112 ; ditto '
A, 110 to 111 ; Great Eastern, 27/ to ; South
Eastern, 64} to 65 ; North British, 34 to 31/ ;
Metropolitan, 124 to ; London, Chatham, and
Dover, 14 to / ; and London, Brighton, and
South Coast, 44 to 50}.
Foreign stocks are rather quiet. Turkish of
1865 and Mexican are / per cent. higher, at 30/ to
1, and 15} to / respectively ; while Italian of 1861
have receded to the like extent, viz., 48/ to 1.
Turkish of 1862, are steady at 56 to 57 ; Greek, at
12/ to 131; Passive, at 21 to ; and the Committee's
Certificates at 16 to }.
In the market for bank shares, the chief feature is
a fall of 21. 10s. in London and Westminster, viz.,
to 89 to 91 ; Alliance are quoted 12/ to 11} die.,
being heavy ; Imperial Ottoman, 21 to 12 ilia. ;
Union of London, 39 to 40, and Chartered Mer-
cantile of India, 25 to 27.
Financial shares exhibit no alteration of import-
ance, but General Credit are dull, at 2/ to 21 dis.
International Financial are called 2/ to 2} dis. ;
London, 24 to 23 dis. ; and Credit Fonder, 5/ to
dis.
United States 5-20 Bonds are still inquired for,
and have experienced a fresh rise of / per cent.,
the present price being 73/ to 1. Erie Railway
shares are quoted 44 to 46/, and Illinois Central
77 to ft.
Anglo-American and Atlantic Telegraph Eight
per Cent. Preference shares are steady—the former
at 171 to 18, and the latter at 34 to 1.
The half-yearlymeeting of the London and North
Western Railway Company is convened for the
23rd inst.

The annual meeting of the Metropolis Sewage
and Essex Reclamation Company is called for the
23rd inst.

For the next week or two the movements in the
fundawill be entirely influenced by the state of the
weather. At the present season of the year public
attention is prominently directed to the probable
result of the harvest, and, in the absence of any
important political complications, this considera-
tion is likely to have more than ordinary power.
Thus far the aooounts appear good. Hitherto the
rain, it is believed, has caused no injury—an
opinion which is strengthened by the comparative
quietude in the corn market. At the same time,
it is not to be disguised that we are passing through
a critical period. The question is of the more
importance, seeing that in France, Spain, and other
countries of Southern Europe, the yield is much
below the average, and that in Algeria the scarcity
from bad seasons and the ravages of locusts is de-
scribed as actual famine.
The list for the new Russian Loan was opened
yesterday, and will be closed to-morrow. It is
understood that the applications in this country
thus far are upon the most trilling scale.
About 87,000 sovereigns, received chiefly from
America, were sent into the Bank yesterday,
making a total of 327,0001. since the date of the
last return. _ _ _

The bidding. for bills on India took place yester-
day at the Bank of England. The amounts allotted
were :—To Calcutta, 16,73,000 m. •, to Madras,
2,10,000r5. ; and to Bombay, 10,00,000r5. The
minimum price was fixed as before, viz.. at Is. Ild.
per rupee on all the presidencies. Tenders at
Is. Hid. on Calcutta and Madras will receive in
full ; those at that price on Bombay about 48 per
cent. ; all tenders above that price will receive in
full. These prices indicate a slight increase in the
demand for export of specie to the East.
With reference to the approaching election of a
director in the Union Bank of London, Mr. J. W.
Sutherland, the chairman of the committee for
promoting the appointment of Mr. Walker, one
of the candidates, wishes to state that the
present occasion is not the first where the
choice is left exclusively to the share-
holders. He observes that three of the
present members have been elected in this manner
by the vote of a general meeting. Mr. Sutherland
also denies that Mr. Walker is a nominee of the
board or of any portion of it, and affirms that his
candidature proceeds from "an entirely spontaneous
and independent movement of shareholders."
The London and North-Western Railway traffic
return shows this week an increase of 4,330!. over
last year ; the Midland an increase of 7,988/. ;
the Great Northern an increase of 3,470/. ; and the
Great Eastern an increase of 3,1881.
The half-yearly general meeting of the City of
London Brewery Company (Limited) was held yes-
terday, Sir James Duke, Bart., in the chair. After
setting aside 1,5001. for depreciation of the com-
pany's leasehold properties, and placing 10 per
cent. of net earnings to reserve fund (which fund
will then amount to 39,6551.), an interim dividend
of 31. per cent. for the half-year was declared, which
division will absorb 17,6001., and leave a balance to
be carried forward to next account.
A meeting of the Mediterranean Extension Tele-
graph Company was held yesterday, when dividends
were declared at the rate of 8 and 3 per cent. per
annum respectively on the preference and ordinary
shares.
At the meeting yesterday of the Electric and
International Telegraph Company a dividend of 5
per cent. for the half year, free of income tax,
was declared.
The annual meeting of the British Electric Tele-
graph Company will be held on the 23rd instant.
An ad interim dividend, at the rate of 10 per
cent. per annum, will be payable to the share-
holders in Charles Noon and Co. (Limited) on the
20th inst.
The subjoined circular has been issued by the
official liquidator of the Joint Stock Discount Com-
pany (Limited)
In the matter of the Companies' Act, 1862, and in
the matter of the Joint-Stock Discount Company (Limited I.
—To the Shareholders and Creditors,—Herewith 1 beg to

hand you a statement of the affairs of this Campos', made
up to the 31st July last. It will be observed that the
debts and liabilities, which at the emsmenetroent of the
winding up, March 7, 1866, amounted to 3,667,2291. es.
9d., have been reduced by 3,089,5121. 18e. 96., leaving
567,2861. Be. still to be provided, exclusive of interest, and
there may possibly be an additional amount of about
8,0001. in respect of the claims which have not yet been
established. Although there are debts and unpaid bills
to the amount of 1,903,9261. 14a. 3d., there is
no probability of any important or immediate receipts
therefrom, and from the character of the securities
held, as well as from the exceptional condition of mone-
tary affairs, it has been and still is impossible to realise
from them sufficient to satisfy the creditors, notwithstand-
ing their large nominal or face value, and it would, even
at this date, be useless to endeavour to estimate the
amount they will ultimately produce, or to ax the netted
by which they can be sold ; indeed, the attempt could be
but a purely speculative proceeding of no minded utility,
and only calculated to mislead. Under these dream-
stances the Master of the Rolla has, upon the application
of the creditors representative, ordered the necessary
steps to be taken for calling up the unpaid capital, and, in
obedience to that order, the notice of an application for a
anal call of Si. per share has been served. In order that
all parties interested may have the opportunity of forming
an opinion ea to the unrealised assets, a schedule oft m
has been prepared, which may be inspocted at my amok
R. P. HANDING, Official Liquidator.
8, Old Jewry, August 7.

WZDNIIIMAT Emma.

Consols, which closed yesterday at at to 1 both
for money and to-morrow's settlement, opened this
morning at the same quotation, and dosed at 94
to . The last price for the new account (September
was 943 to }. The Three per Cents. Reduced an
New Three per Cents. were quoted at 3 o'clock
931 to 94. The official bnzinees report is as follows :
—Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 94, ;
ditto, for account, 94, /, 4 ; Three per Cents.
Reduced, 93k, /, • New Three per Cents.,
9, I, 0, 4 ; Bank Stock, 260, 2 ; India Stock,
220 ; ditto Five per Cent., 112/, 12, 11; ditto Five
per Cent. "enlaced" rupee paper, 102 i ; ditto
Bonds, 705., 655. prem.
The Indian Five per Cent. Stock was again in de-
mand, and showed a further rise, transactions
being recorded at 1121. Exchequer Bills were
rather firmer, at 235. to 28e. prem.
Very few variations were reported in foreign
stocks. Danubian and Turkish of 1854 rose 1 per
cent., while Russian of 1850 and 1862, as well as
Brazilian of 1852, &c., fell to 1. Italian of 1861
were 1 higher.
The market for bank shares was inanimate, and
prices were unaltered. London and Westminster
showed no recovery from the severe fall of yes-
terday.
Hudson's Bay shares were last quoted 141 to 15,
being 2s. 6d. better, and National Discount 61 to
prem., showing a rise of ss. The amount of
business in miscellaneous shares was small. Lon-
don and Caledonian Marine declined 10s. ; Com-
mercial Union Assurance and Indian Carrying, 55.;
and Egyptian Trading, 2s. 6d. On the other hand,
Electric and International Telegraph (new) rose
ss. • and Crystal Palace Perpetual Debentures, It.
Italian Irrigation Six per Cent. Bonds fell 1 per
cent.

American securities were firm, with an increased
amount of business. The 5-20 Bonds were in good
demand, at an advance of I per cent. Erie Rail-
way shares rose 2, and Illinois Central I. The
closing prices are annexed :-5-20 Bonds, 73i} to
; Erie Railway shares, 45} to 46} ; Illinois Cen-
tral, 77 to ; Atlantic and Great Western Rail-
way Debentures, 26 to 28 ; and Consolidated Mort-
gage Bonds, 22 to 23.
In the market for financial shares, General Credit
were in request, and advanced 7s. 6d., but the
other descriptions were without variation. Prices
closed as follows:—lnternational Financial, 24 to
2} dis. ; General Credit, 2j to 2} dia. ; London-
Financial, 25 to 23 dis. ; and Credit Foncier,
tc. N dia.
Anglo-American and Atlantic Telegraph Eight
per Cent. Preference shares declined about 2s. 6d.,
closing at 17} to 18, and 3} to j, respectively, but
Telegraph Construction were unaltered, at 24 to
2 dis.