The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-15 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SMARR MARKETS.

tzeinpoon, Jots 14.—fisles to-day: Caledonian, 114—Great
Eastern, 34 41 4341 4 31 1} 1 1 31 3—Great Western, 47
7} 7—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1291—London, Brighton, and
South Coast, 60 591 001 1 60—London and North Western, llifil 1
1 I—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 481 I—Me-
tropolitan, 127—Midland, 116} I—South Beaten, 68 81 1
—Buffalo and Lake Huron, 4—Grand Trunk of Canada, 171—
Illinois 79—Five-Twenttes, 73—Great Luxembourg, M.
lisnenaltergg, 'Ong 14.—A fair business was done but prices
were generally lower. District Bank, 174p.—Great Eastern. 33
213 2/ / 1 3—Great Luxembourg. 12—Great Northers A, 116 }
In I—Grand Think of Canada, 171—Great Western of Canada,
15110--Groat Western, 461 7—Laucashireand Yorkshire, 1294 y
London and North Western, 1161; 1 I6l Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire, 484 11--Metropolitan, 1264 1 7 1--Mklland,
MI I—North British, 341—North Staffordshire, 09—South
Eastern, 671 871 81 1 }—Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance
(Limited,.3 13.16 p.—London and Brighton, 6011 GU 1 60—Ash-
bury Carriage, 15•I.—Caledonian, 113.
BIRMINGHAM. JUNI 14. Business done: Birmingham Canal
shares, at 901; Lloyd's Bank shares Limited', at 71 prem. :
lienddol Slaie and Slab shares. at 1 ills. closing prbes
mitighani and Stair Valley shares, sellers, at 101: Staffordshire
and Worcestershire Canal shares, buyers, at 296 ; Worcester
and Birmingham Canal shares, buyers. at 11; Shropshire Banks.
3to 4 ; Metropolitan Railway Orriage and Wagon shares, at 91
t 3 10; South Staffordshire Waterworks, buyers, at 6; and Bri-
tish and }foreign Railway Plant shares, at 10 tog; dia.
DUBLIN, PINE IL—Three per Cent. Consols, 94 I—New Three
Cent, stock, 921 1 1 - Ditto. for account, 10th July, 921
1p—India Five per Cent. Stock ;transferable at the Bank of
Ireland', 110—Hibernian Banking Company (L 25 Paid). 361
National Bank (C3O paid), 601—noyal Bank (SlO paid`, 321--
Ulster Banking Company is 7.2 105. paid), 91— Dublin, Wicklow,
and Wexford. 5 per cent. 118001 redeemed 1804 'all pall ~ 49
Ditto, ditto, paid In full, 461—Great Southern and Western 4
per cent perpetual (LlOO paid), fr.—Midland Great Western
6 per cent. ,alOO paid), perpetual,

WESTMINSTER ABSEY.—The sermon at the 7 p.m.
service in the nave to-morrow will be delivered by the
Archbishop of Canterbury.
MADRAS MILITARY FUND.--Since the transfer of
the military funds to the office of the Secretary of
State for India, the question of the appropriation
of the surplus of the Madras Military Fund in •
manner favourable to the sutocribers and their
families has been under consideration, and has now
been decided. The satisfactory position of that fund
which was reported on by the actuaries, Messrs. Brown,
Hardy, and Col. Smith, has enabled her Majesty's govern-
ment to concede nearly all the recommendations asked for
by the directors. The 10 per cent. increase on donations and
subscriptions imposed in 1844 was discontinued in 1804, and
the following additional benefits have been now gnuited,viz.,
The extra donation for daughters is to be reduced from
282 n. to 200 rs. The donations of widowers with offspring
are to to reduced to bachelor's rates. All demands on ac-
count of minimum are to be abolished. And daughters
hereafter born will be allowed to revert to their pensions
on becoming widows. An addition of S per cent. will be
made to all widow's pensions.—Allen's Indian Mail.
FATAL ACCIDENT TO A YOUNG LADY.—FERMOY,
Jung 12.—A frightful accident took place here to-day to
Miss Furlong, only daughter of Mr. Furlong, of Richmond,
Fermoy. She was out riding with her brother in the
country when her horse took fright and ran away, and
threw her. She was taken up insensible, and brought
home in • carriage, but died in a few hours.—Dstlin
Evening
LARGE CAPTURE OF GAME COCKS.—Yesterday
forenoon, Captain Sylvester, chief constable of Salford,
received information, acting upon which he despatched Po-
lice-constables Pritchard and Redfern to the Pedestrian
Tavern, Cook-street, kept by John Jackson. Upon en.
tering the house the officers found a number of men talk-
ing about • fight that had just come off between two game
cocks. They tried to make their way upstairs to the garret,
where they understood there was a cock-pit, but they were
prevented for a time owing to the door at the bot-
tom of the stairs being locked. Upon their knocking,
however, Mrs. Jackson came and opened the door, when
• large number of men rushed from the place. The officers
then went upstairs and entered a bedroom, where they
found the landlord and a number of other men, and in
the room were eight game cocks in pens. One of them was
nearly dead, having evidently just been engaged in fight and
received severe injuries. In another bedroom they found
nine more cocks together with • dead one, which had been
killed, probably in a fight with the wounded one in the
other room, and thrown into the grate where it was co-
vered with paper. In yet another room eleven more cooks
were found, making V. Meantime the chief constable
had arrived with such men as he could obtain, nearly the
whole force being at the racecourse, and they went
up to the garret, when they found the cock-pit,
but it had evidently been newly cleaned out. There
were • number more men here. A cart was procured,
upon which the pens containing the birds were placed, and
conveyed to the Town Hall, amidst the loud remon-
strances of their owners. The poor birds have all been
prepared for fighting by paring their hind spurs to admit
of replacing them with steel ones, by the cutting of their
combs, and by clipping their wings. The names of •
number of the men in the house are known to the police,
by whore, probably. proceedinge will be taken again 4
them.—Manchester Examinee.

TRAFFIC RECLIPTR.—The traffic returns of rail-
ways in the United Kingdom amounted, for the week
ending June 8, on 12,792 miles, to 783,531/., and for the
corresponding week of last year, on 12,516 miles, to
719.8921., showing an increase of 276 miles and of
63,6301. The gross receipts on the following 14 railways
amounted, in the aggregate, on 9,247 miles, to 657,172/
and for the corresponding week of 1866, on 9,054
miles, to 601.703/., showing an increase of 193 miles and
of 53,4691. The increase on the Caledonian amounted to
7551. ; on the Great Eastern to 3,301/. ; on the Great
Northern to 5,803/. ; on the Great Southern and Western
to 6211. ; on the Great Western to 7,255/. ; on the
Lancashire and Yorkshire to 4,11011. ; on the London
and North Western to 4,332/. ; on the London and
Brighton to 2,914/. ; on the London and South-West-
ern to 5,5861. ; on the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-
colnshire to 1,287/4 on the Midland to 0,745/.; on the
North British to 1,7691.; on the North Eastern to 5,849/. ;
and on the South Eastern to 3,921/. ; total, 53,469/. The
Wand mineral traffic on those lines amounted to
4.391., and for the corresponding week of 1866 to
324,8661., showing an increase of 14,5731. The receipts for
passengers, parcels, lie., amounted to 317,'"3.31. against
278,8371., showing an increase of 38,8961. The traffic
receipts on 52 other lines amounted, on 3,545 miles, to
126,359/., and for the corresponding week of last year, on
3,459 miles to 116,13'.1., showing an ncrease of 86 miles
and of 10,170/. The total receipts of the past week show
an increase of 42,9151. as compared with those of the
preceding week, ending the Ist inst.