The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-25 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, APRIL 24.-Sales today: Great Eastern, 401-
London and North We6tern,l2o/ 1 I-Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, 621-South Easteni, 751-Lancaster and Carlisle.
210-Buffalo and Lake Huron, 4 15.16 1 ; ditto 7 per cent. 610
shares. 01-Grand Trunk of Canute. 234 4Si 24 1-Great
Western of Canada, 151 7-16 1 xd -Mc, 52 11 2-Illinois, 80-
701 70 701 a coupon --Great Luxembourg
143 7.1615-161 d.-ABlance Bank, 11 d, -Barned'sftanking Com-
gr'cift,..2se). d
otelrsnl4 ,jachlntz eh tt.i4ktem2l Bank. Y} I'p.—British
A.-5l ercantlle and
and Foreign Marine. 4 p -Queen Insurance Company, 13.161
p.-Union, 11 p.-National Steam Company, 41 d.
dasulitgridt, APRIL 24.-The market has been quiet. and In
some instances prima are lower. Bolckow, Vaughan. and Co.
(Limited , 51 p. -Pries. 52 1-Great Luemhourg, 141- General
Credit Limited'. par -Illinois, SO -London and North Western,
1201 1-Manchester, Sheftleld, and Lincolnshire, 621 1-ditto,
Five per Cent., 974--ditto gai preference. p. -ditto Mx per
Cent., 121-Metropolitan, 134-Midland, 1231•-Overend, Gurney,
and Co. (Limited., 1 d.
BIRMINGHAM, APRIL 24.-The transactions to-day were In
Sfetropolltan Wagon shares, third Issue, at 5-16 dts.-and British
and Foreign Railway Plant at 51 dis. Amongst the closing
prices were-BirmingitarultankinaGomPanY &bares, sellers at 274
-Birmingham Town and District Bank. at 14 to 14I-Lloyd's
Banking Company shares, at 101 to 101 preen-Birmingham
Financial. at 1 to 1 preen.-Birmingham u,
Class A, at
131-Etinninghatu Fire Insurance, 110 to 114-Blimilngtiani New
Union Still. at 21 to 2 5-10-Railway Rolling Stock Wolverhamp-
ton . buyers, at 14-and 31untis Metal shares, at 1 to f dis.
DCRLIN, APRIL 23.-Three per Cent. Consols, 861-New Three
per Cent. Stock, 851 1-Ditto for account. May 9. 851 -
National Bank ,g3O paid 75 751-N ationalof Llverpoor(LUnited)
(.810paid;,for account, 16-Provincial Bank X 2.5 paid) SS/ 1-
Royal hank -£lO paid 331-l'idon Bank Limited 622 paid .171
-Dubllß and Belfast Junction Elflo paid , 71-Great Southeni
and Western:6loo paid , 91:. Midland Great Western -100
paid'. 601-Dublin. Wicklow, and Wexford, 6 per cent. perpe-
tual £lOO paid`, 118.

CHURCH OF ENGLAND SCRIPTURE READERS' AA-
IiOCIATION.—The twenty-second annual meeting of this
association was held yesterday afternoon in Hanover-
square Rooms ; the Archbishop of Armagh in the chair.
His Grace the Archbishop of Canterbury had promised to
preside, but in consequence of an unexpected summons to
attend on her Majesty the Queen, he was unable to be
present. The report of the operations of the society during
the past year was of a very elaborate character, and bore
testimony to the good which had been effected by the
labours of the scripture readers, notwithstanding the
counteracting influences against which they had to work
in the shape of Sunday excursion trains," the attraction
of the halls of science,falsely so called," and the number of
cheap publications of a demoralizing tendency which con-
tinued to be issued from the press. The income of the
association for the past year,including 2,8671.145. 11d. from
the Bishop of London's Fund, amounted to 13,7301. 2a.,
being an increase of 1,1401. 7s. 104., as compared with the
receipts of the previous year. Th
hoe
so
ocvanceiety's grantto a,
.which
at the last meeting w 168, dad 76
ladies throughout the country had sent for the seventeenth
time their annual contribution to their own special fund,
amounting this year to 1,067/. 15" s. 5d., making P. total of
12,639/. 12.5. Bd., the whole of which had been expended
on the poorest districts in the metropolis. The report was
agreed to. After which addresses were delivered by the
Rev. Edward Garbett, on " The moral and spiritual con-
dition of the working classes in London," and by the Rev.
F. S. Coney (Deptford), on " The adaptation of an ergs.
nised lay agency to meet the exigencies of our overgrown
population."
ROYAL COLLEGE or SURGEONS.—The following
gentlemen, having undergone the necessary examinations
I for the diploma, were admitted:members of the college, at a
meeting of the Court of Examiners on the 24th inst., viz.:
Messrs. Henry Warlow, L.S.A., Haverfordwest ; John
Williams, Finhguard, Pembrokeshire ; Edward Lodewyk
Crowther, Hobart Town ; George Spearman, Plymouth ;
Arthur Matthews, Selhurst, Sussex ; Henry Kirwan King,
Camberwell ; Edward Matthews Owens, L.S.A., Sutton,
Surrey ; Frederick William Fowke, Byfield, Northampton-
shire ; and Henry Maynard, Durham, students of Guy's
HospitaL Richard Bond Moore, Wolverhampton ; David
Hawley Burn Anderson, Edinburgh ; Henry Aubrey
Husband, L.S.A., Jamaica; William Square, Plymouth
Joseph Goodall,llWalworth ; and William Barnett Burn,
Limehonse, of Kt. Bartholomew's Hospital. Hugh Fer-
Haverstock-hill ; John Homey Casson, Ironville,
Derbyshire ; and Arthur Griffith Evans, Narberth, Pem-
brokeshire, of the Middlesex Hospital. Frederic Morell
Mackenzie, Tiverton, Devon, and William Edwin
Ditchett, Louth, Lincolnshire, of the London Hospital.
James Webb Booth, L.S.A., Huddersfield, and Thomas
Baron, L'lceby, Lincolnshire, of St. Thomas's Hospital ;
George Henry Snape, Liverpool, and Eli Crew, Tetbury
Glonoesdershire, of King's College ; and Samuel
Shaplanil
White, Barnstaple, North Devon, of the Charing-cross
HospitaL
MG DAYS EITRAORDINARY.—In consequence of
the alarm excited by recent cases of hydrophobia, dogs
have been " proclaimed ^ in Manchester and Salford some
months earlier than usual, and within the last two days
have been destroyed by the police with prussic acid. Every
dog found at large, contrary to the Mayor's order, is taken
into custody and punished with death without any dis-
tinction.