The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-04 00:00:00

110,0091. in specie.
The steamer Pera, which will leave Southampton
to-day with the mails for Calcutta and China,
will take only X.V. in specie.
Bar silver and Mexican dollars were in demand
yesterday for the continent, and the quotations ad-
vanced id., viz., to ss. Old. and 4s. no. per
or•ice respectively.
The directors of the Delhi and London Bank
have declared an interim dividend for the half-
year ending the oth June, of five per cent. per
annum, paval.le on the 10th inst.
Mr. Matthew Marshall, jun., the late manager
of the Bank of London, has joined Mr. Joseph
Rich of 3d, Nicholas-lane, East India exchange and
discount broker. The title of the new firm is Rich,
Marshall, and C.
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The subjoine.l copy of a forged letter, purport-
ing to be addressed by the Imperial Ottoman Bank
to the Paris M has been forwarded for pub-
lication. Although, from the clumsiness with
which this device has been concocted, it could
hardly have done much harm, the intention is not
the less reprehensible. The object is evidently to
influence the market for stock jobbing purposes,
since there is no truth whatever in the statement it
makes. The Imperial Ottoman Bank arc offering
a reward for the discovery of the forger
(Copy).
Imperial Ottoman Lank, London, August 30, 1,406.
' Dear have just received instructions as to the
payment of the overdue hood of the Turkish 18/6.5 Loan,
and shall be prepared to receive the coupons Orel for
examination on and after the 7th proximo.—Yonm very
truly, d. RICHARDSON. HOT. Sec.
Addressed outside, " To the office of the Monateur,
Paris." (Immediate.)
The half-yearly meeting of the SurreyConsumers'
Gas Company is called for the 11th October.
The following on tl:e now American cotton crop
is from a circular of Messrs. Neill Bpi:hers and Co. :
Our speci,il Cot ruSlN,ll.lellt is now in the rich prairie and
cane brake lands of Alabama and Northern Mississippi,
snd is personally examinMg the condition of the crops
on hisroute. His long experience gives him great advan-
tar s for his duty. His last letters are dated 14th
August. He Inscribes the crops on the sandy lands as
better and more promising than those on the heavier soils,
wnich latter are small and poor, rarely over two feet high,
when they should. at this time, be four feet high. The
impressio r we derive from his le..ters is not favourable to
a le-ge yield per acre in that section of country, as he
fears it is too late for any great development to take
place. Everything will depend on a long, warm autnnin.
From sll other parrs of the country our ad% ices this week
continue extremely favourable.

MONDAY EVENTN4I.

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Consols, witi..ll closed on Saturday at 89i to
bolt for money and next Thursday's settlement,
opened this morning at the same quotation, and
left off at 891 to if. The price for the new account
(October) was 89i to f. The official business re-
port is as follows :—'three per Cent. COMO* for
money, 89i, g ; ditto, for account, 89i, 1 ; Three
per Cents. ItiAluocd, 871, 7, ex div. ; New Time
per Cents., 871, 7,1., ex dis. ; Annuities, 1885,
12 15-16 ex die. ; India Five per Cent. stock,
1041, ; ditto Five per Cent. Debentures, 101, ;
ditto Bonds, 20s. prem.
The Indian Five per Cent. Stock showed no
variation. The March Exchequer Bills closed at
bo. die. to par, and the June at 2s. dis. to 3s. prem.,
being Is. lower.
Foreign stocks were in good demand, and prices
experienced a fresh- improvement. Peruvian
Bonds of 1865 rose 2 per cent. ; Moorish, 1 ;
Egyptian. 4 to 1 ; Danubian, Mexican of 1864,
New Granaaian Two per Cents. and ex all, Turkish
of 1862, and Venezuelan Three per Cents., ;
Turkish of 1865, ; and Mexican and New Gra-
nadian Deferred, 1. lln the other hand, Greek
declined / per cent. ; Spanish Passive, ; and the
Committee's Certificates, }.

Tlir. FLOO.; iv YoRIESIIIRE.—The intindatio9a
in North Yorkshire were rapidly lessened on Saturday, a4d
on that day the North-Eastern Company had succeeded in
throwing a temporary bridge across the Eak at Grosmodt,
in place of that washed away on Wednesday night, and the
ordinary traffic was resumed. During the floods it appears
that in addition to the damage to mops, many cattle and
sheep were drowned, and some carcases were floating down
the Derwent on Friday. A remarkable escape occurred at
Howe-bridge, on the Rye. In driving through the flood-
water the road was lost, and a conveyance with a gentle-
man and four ladies was overturned. All got a thorough
wetting. but were rescued. Very great areas are still
under water, and since the Met report the banks abate
Ganton have burst.
SOUTH K.sMNoTON Mr 1711.—Visitors during
the week ending Sept. 1: —On Monday, Tuesday,
and Saturday, free, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.M., 18,997 en
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (admission 6d.) front
10 a.m. to 6 p.m., 1,00“—total, Average of oor-
responding week in fonuer years, 11,048. Total from the
opening of the museum, 6,232,8 A.