The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-26 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL &BARR MARKETS.

laTunrooL, OCr. 25.—Salea : Caledonian, 941 5 4 1 41 11 4
Great Eastern, 321 4 I—Great North of Scotland, 17—Great
Western, 474—Lancashire anti Yorkshire, 1.17 1 7—London,
Brighton, and South Toast, 531—London. Chatham, and Dover,
14—London and North Western, 1141 14 1 k I !I—Manchester.
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 491 9 I—Midland, 1194 11—North
British, 33—South Eastern, 67/ / f I—Lancaster and Carlisle,
207—D. n Pedro North del Rey, 2 1-16 p.—Great Western of
Canada, 161 xd. —l' nited States 5-20 TIND May Ito Nov 1,
/64 ex d.—Great Luxembourg shares, 84—North and South
Wales Bank, 204—Liverpool and London and Globe Pire and
Life, 51 p.—African Merchants, i d.—Liverpool United Gas new
£25 shares, 5 1-16 5 p —National Steam Ship Company (Limited,,
71 3-16—Pacific Steam, 741 xd.
MANCitaxnut. OCT. 25.—Market opened firm, with a slight
advance in prices, but subsequently declined, closing at about
the lowest point of the day.—Great Eastern, 321 rat Luxem-
bourg, St—Great Northern A, 1164 1 4 16 1 16 1/4—Grand
Trunk of Canada, 174—Great Western of Canada, 18 3-16—
Great Western, 471 7—lllinois, 701 19—Lancashire Insurance, 1
11.16 p.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1271—London, Brighton,
and South Coast, 5341—London and Cal Marine Insurance
Limited), 5 d.—London and North Western, 1141 14 14—
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 49—Metropolitan, 1231
—Midland, 1161 1 1 4--North British, 331 I—North Eastern
Five per Cents,(l4.66), 99—Soutb Eastern, 68 7/ 4 I—Staveley
Coal and Iron Company (Limited) New, 51 Ix—United States
120 Years' Bonds, 094 1 I—Caledonian, 94 1 1 541 431 / /
Metropolitan Extension.llll—itallan, 4.sl—SheepbcHge, 25 d.—
Great Western 6 per Cent as.
BIRMINGHAM, OCT. 5 —Business done: Birmingham, Wolver-
hampton, and Stour Valley Railway sham, at 91 ; Birmingham
Joint Stock Bank shares, at 501 ; Lloyd's Bank 'Luited , 71
prem. Staffordshire Joint Stock Bank I/totted), at 201 Bir-
mingham Wassen shares (Limited), at 111 and ditto, second
I-sue, at 1 prem. Closing prices: Stourbridge Railway, 54,
buyers; Midland Bank (Limited:, 4 dla, sellers: Britannia Mills
;Limited', lf to 4 dia
DUBLIN, Oct. 24.—Three per Cent Consols, 931—New Three
per Cent. Stock, Ditto, for account, 7th Nov., 921—Ditto,
for new account, 4—City Debentures, 4 per cent. of 692
6s. 2d., 82/—Dubtin, icklow, and Wexford, 3 years unexpired,
5 per cent., 1001—Ditto. 2 years unexpired, 5 per cent., 100—
Hibernian Banking Company (ELS paid), 391—National Rank
(f. 30 paid), 611—Royal Bank (610 /bald), 321 I—Union Bank
'Limited) (65 paid), 151—Cork and Bandon ;all paid), 101—
Dublin and Kingstown (6100 paid', 196—Great Southern and
Western (6100 paid), 951—Dublin, N icklow, sod Wexford, 0 per
cent. (1660, redeem. no (all paid), 47.

The Consul-General of the United States of
America, with the son of Mr. Seward, paid a visit to
Woolwich Arsenal this morning, on their way back from
the Paris Exhibition.

A meeting was held at Halifax, yesterday, of
the Voluntary Teachers' Association, when letters were
read from the Rev. Dr. Campbell, president of the Con-
gregational Union ; from Dr. Unwin, of the Homerton
Training College ; and from Mr. B. Morley, expressing the
opinion that Congregationlista should alter their position
in regard to the government education grant. Dr. Feld-
ing, the principal of Rotherham College, read • paper in
which he strongly recommended the aoceptance of the
government grant by congregational schools.

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A new bishopric for China, the seat of which
will be at Ningpo, will he at once founded. The Rev. \V.
A. Russell, M.A., of Trinity College, Dublin, will be the
bishop, and he will be consecrated without delay.
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CHICHZSTER CATHILDRAL.—It has been finally
arranged that this cathedral shall be re-opened for Divine
service on Thursday, the 14th of November next. The
Venerable Bishop of the diocese will administer the Holy
Communion, and the Lord Archbishop of Canterbury w;11
prrich the opening sermon. There will also be special
services on the Thursday afternoon, and the Friday,
Saturday and Sunday, when the following prelates are
expected to preach:—The Bishops of Oxford, Worcester,
CMined& hester, Rochester, Moray and Ross, Montreal, and

MERCHANT SEAMEN'S ORPHAN ASYLUM, SNARES-
BROIGL —A legacy of 506/. has been bequeathed in aid of
the funds of this institution, under the will of the late
Mr. George P. Vickerman, of Stockwell.
MIN EDGEWORTH AT PARIS.—The doors of all
the leading hotels and salons flew open at her approach
including those of the Fauxbourg St. Germain ; for the
connection with the Abb6 Edgeworth had now become a
safe passport to the houses of the ancient noblesse. The
French always spoke of him as the Abbe de Prmont, a
name he had taken on account of the difficulty they found
in the w and IA ; Edgerat: being their nearest approxima-
tion tethe sound. At one house, a valet, after Marie bad
several times repeated " Edgeworth," exclaimed, " Ak,
it renonrc a ca ; and throwing open the door of the salon,
announced, " Madame Maria et Memknoiselles sea ream"
Byron speaks of some Russian or Polish names as "names
that would descend to poatetity if posterity could but pro-
nounce them." Many English names are exposed to the
same disadvantage. An English traveller Fused the
better part of an evening at Tieck's at Dresden, in 1834,
vainly endeavouring to teach some German ladies to pro-
nounce " Wordsworth." Few of them got nearer than
" Vudvutt."—Edintiure4 Review, new number.
THE MURDERED SAILORS IN JAPAN.—A corres-
pondent in Japan forwards us the following concerning two
unfortunate seamen of the royal navy who were found mur-
dered in the streets of Nagasaki, each by a single sword
cut :—" On the night of the 5-6th of August two seamen
of her Majesty's ship Icarus, on leave from their ship,
lying in the harbour, were found dead in the streets of
Nagasaki. The corpses ley in the gutter outside a house
of refreshment. They had been last seen alive at 10 p.m.
by some of their shipmates, when they were sober, and
their corpses were discovered at 2 a.m. by the Japanese
police. The murder would appear to have been effected in
a systematic manner on perfectly unresisting victims, who
were most probably sleeping in • recumbent or semi-re-
cumbent position, as the wound in each case was single
and in both cases similar. It was a clean incision, like a
sword-cut, across the front of the neck and chest, passing
obliquely downwards from right to left, and almost sever-
ing the head from the trunk, so that death must have been
instantaneous; and, in fact, the bodies and hands bore no
sins of struggling, and were free from minor cuts and con-
tusions. There are only four sword cuts in modern Eng-
lish drill :-1, diagonal, from right to left of swordsman ;
2, diagonal, from left to right; 3, horizontal, from right to
left; 4, horizontal, from left to right. The fatal cut was
No. 2 in both cases."—British Medical Journal.
TRAFFIC Rzczipra.—The traffic receipts of rail-
ways in the United Kingdom amounted for the week
ending October 19, on 13,039 miles, to 775,7101., and
for the corresponding week of last year on 12,740 miles,
to 744,1861., showing an increase of 2.19 miles and
of 33,5241. The gross receipts on the following 14.
railways amounted, in the aggregate, on 9,390 miles, to
648.731/., and for the corresponding week of 1866, on 9,151
miles, to 624,6691., showing an increase of 239 miles and
of 24,062/. The increase on the Caledonian amounted to
7071. ; on the Great Eastern to 1,103/. ; on the Great
Northern to 3,792/. ; on the Great Western to 2,878/. ; on
the Lancashire and Yorkshire to 1,512/. ; on the London
and North Western to 3,388/. ; on the London and
Brighton to 2,4164. ; on the London and South Western to
; on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-
colnshire to 171. ; on the Midland to 2,286/. ; on the
North-Eastern to 1,2:141, ; and on the South-Eastern
to 3,4661.—t0ta1, 24,312/. ; but from this must
be deducted 144/., the decrease on the Great Southern
and Western, and 1464 on the North British, leaving the
increase as above 24,062/. The goods and mineral traffic
on those lines amounted to 363,576/., and for the corre-
sponding week of 1866 to 354,202/., showing an increase
of 13,3741. The receipts for passengers, parcels, &e.,
amounted to 281,055/., against 270,4671., showing an in-
crease of 10,5884. The traffic receipts on 52 other lines
amounted, on 3,649 miles, to 126,9791., and for the corm.
spending week of list year, on 3,589 miles, to 119,5171.,
allowing an increase of 60 miles and of 7,462/. The
total receipts of the past week show a decrease of 15,935/.,
as compared with those of the preceding week, ending the
12th inst.