The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-15 00:00:00

BANK OF ENGLAND.

An Ac: ont pennant to e. At for the
week ending on Wednesday, the 13th day of March, 1867.

lan DM
Notes Issued 1..1.5,U6,990 I

t.;l7e7nnient debt Z 11,015,100
Other arenritlen 3,1184,1110
Gold coin and bul-
lion 18,295,990
Sliver Wallop

£33.236.590
KINKING DI
Proprietors' Capitaldl4,sAll.ooo
Rest . 3,11110,i37
Public Deposita (in-
cluding Exam.
Mar. Banks, Coo:
of National
Debt, and Div.
_

£33,236,1X1

"ARMOR.
COOrniment Secu-
rities Jecluding
Dead Weight An-
nuity',
Other SecuritJes 1N,C04,4u4
Notes
(told sod Silver
1 Coln

Acc :unta) 8237,911
Other Deposita
Seven day and other
Bllb

L43.9=1,122

C.43,1,22,1fri
F. SLAY. Deputy Okehter.

March 19. 1967.

TIitRBDAY BrBIIRICG,

Consols, which closed yesteicl4ii9l4 for the
10th April, opened this morning at the same
quotation, and closed at 911, • buyers." For
money the last price was 911 tot. The Three per
Cents. Reduced and New Three per Cents. de-
clined 1 per cent., leaving off at 89} to j, ex
div. The official business report is as follows :
—Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 911, 1,1,
1, 1 ; ditto, for account, 911, 1R ; Three per
Cmts. Reduced, 89k, ?, ex div. ; New Three
per Cents., 89?,, k, cc div. ; Annuities, 1885, 122
ex div. ; Bank Stock, 253 ; India Five per Cent.
Stock, 1081, 4, 9 ; ditto Five per Cent. " enlaced"
rupee paper, 1031 ; ditto Bonds, 40s. prem.

The government broker bought to-day 34,000 f.
New Three per Cents. at ex div.
The demand for the India Five per Cent. Stock
continues, and the last transactions recorded were
at 109.

The March Exchequer Bills were quoted 12s. to
17e. prem.
The foreign stock market was inanimate, but
there was a demand for Chilian scrip and Vene-
zuela Bonds of 1864, at an advance of per cent.
On the other hand, Brazilian of 1852, &c., declined
1 ; and Italian of 1861, and Turkish of 1866, n.

MINES.-(THIS DAY.)

Owi o'Cioci.

The mining market is quiet to-day, and prices
generally are quoted the same as yesterday.
West Chivertcn, Prince of Wales, Chiverton
Moor, and Wheal Seton shares have been chiefly
dealt in. The settlement will be completed this
afternoon. Providence are quoted 30 to 32; Wheal
Seton, 102 i to 10711 ; Chiverton Moor, 81 to ;
West Chiverton, 59 to 61 ; Wheal Grenville, 20s.
to ars. ; East Grenville, 2to ; Great Retellack,
3to ; Great Vor, 194 to 204 ; Prince of Wales,
51s. to 535. ; and North Treskerby, 1i to 2g.
A general meeting of the Carmaux Mines Com-
pany is convened for the 3rd of April at Paris.

RAILWAYS.-(THIS DAY.)

Oirs o'Ciocrt.

The railway market is extremely heavy to-day,
and a further general fall has occurred in prices.
Great Western stock has declined 15 per cent. ;
Midland, / ; London and North Western, Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, Caledonian, Great Eastern,
Great Northern, and North British, 4
Do; and South
Eastern and London, Chatham, and ver,
Metropolitan stock is now quoted 120;, to ex
div.; Great Western, 395 to 40 ; London and North
Western, 116} to 4, ex div. ; Midland, 114}
to 5, ex div. and n. • Lancashire and Yorkshire,
1244 to 1, ex div.; Caledonian, 114 to 115 ; South
Eastern, 665 to ex div. ; Great Eastern, 27 ;
Great Northern, 115 to 116, ex div. ; ditto A,
1215 to ex div.; London, Chatham, and Dover,
IN to ; and North British, 315 to 325.
Canadian and foreign lines are dull. East Indian
Railway stock, however, has improved per Lent.,
viz., to 1071 to 108/.
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NATIONAL PORTRAIT Ex HIBITION. —lt is probable
that this exhibition will extend over three seaming in the
whole. It will be held in the upper arcades overlooking
the Royal Horticultural-gardens. The cost is expected to
be defrayed by the entrance fees.
THE LASH. —Yesterday morning the whole of the
officers and men of the Chatham division of Royal Marlins
assembled on the parade ground and marched to the drill-
; shed recently erected at the rear of the barracks, fur the
of witnessing corporal punishment inflicted on
purpose
Drummer Nodding. The culprit was recently tried by
court-martial on charges of being absent without leave,
and striking Corporal Hall, of the garrison police. with
his clenched fist about the face and shoulders. The ac-
cused was found guilty, and was sentenced to receive 50
lashes, and to be unpnsoned for Eel days, with hard labour,
in Fort Clarence. Yesterday morning the Bogging was
administered. When the last lash fell the drummer made
an exclamation, with great firmness, that that was the
'last
THE THREATENED STRIKE OT ENbINL-DRIVERS
AND FIRINEN.—AII the memorials have now been seat in,
and deputations of drivers are to meet the directors on
appointed days, at the request of the latter. It ex-
pected that the drivers and firemen of the London,
Brighton, and south Coast Railway will meet the directors
to-day. The notices of the men, which, it will be remem-
bered, were sent in on Monday last, expire to-morrow.
Meetings of the various branches of the society in which
the engine-drivers and firemen are combined are being
held daily in all parts of England.
POLITICAL WALFAXE IN MELEOORNE.—It has
heretofore been the practice of an opposition journal to
fabricate some outrageous charge against the government
or some individual member thereof, and to give it pub-
licity on the day of the departure of the mail, so that,
although the slander might not have more than a day's
life in the colony, it would circulate for a whole month
encontradicted in England. The particular 'louder cir-
culated on the 27th of last month was of an unusually
contemptible character. It was an attack by the Arhus
on two little boys, aged seven and eight respectively.
the sons of the Hon. J. G. Francis, Commissioner of
Customs. It accused these two little boys of swearing
in a hairdresser's shop, where a brother of one
of the proprietors of the paper was getting his hair cut.
To make political capitol out of the charge this
remark was appended— A man who seemed so little able
to lead his own offspring in the paths of rectitude could
surely not be well calculated to shape forgood the destiniesot
a community like ours." The minister of the Crown referred
to was further described as "one who, by bad example and
wrong precept, rears a pack of young ruffians to demoralise
their associates, and shock and annoy respectable people
in public places." Next day the hairdresser made affirms-
don that the charge was unfounded, and that the only bad
language used on his premises was uttered by the informer
himself ! That respectable gentleman afterwards ecknow.
ledged that he might have been mistaken, but the wende
was tardy and ungenerous. What the next development
of this style of attack may be we shall not know until after
the mail has gone.—Melbourne Aye, Jan. :NI