The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-08 00:00:00

CO VENT GARDEN. -(TH IS DAY.)

Supplies and prices about the same as last week.
Peaches and nectarines, French cherries, and apricots may
still be obtained at moderate prices. Grapes are plentiful.
Strawberries from the open ground have begun to make
their appearance. Forced vegetables comprise French
beam+, potatoes, and rhubarb. A few Kent Cobs may
still be -bad. Green peas are now coming in plentifully.
New potatoes are arriving from the Continent in large
quantities, and meet with a ready sale at moderate prices.
Flowers chiefly consist of orchids, pelargoniums, caleeo.
larias, cytisus, mignonette, and roses.

IRUIT.
Apples, per bushel, 4s to S. I Lemons, per 100, 7s to Se
Grapes, per lb., 4s to se Oranges, per 100, 4s to IS.
Note, Kent Cobs, per 100 lbs., Pine Apples, per lb., Ss to Se
75a to SC. Strawberries, per lb. , Se to 8s

HAY MARKET.-(THIS ]?AY.)

Mr. Charles James Easton reports trade at the follow:
ing prima, viz. :—Prime clover, from 100 a. to 110 s. ; in-
ferior ditto, 80a. to 905.; prime second cut, 90a. to 100 a. ;
Inferior ditto, Ms. to 80s. ; prime meadow hay, 80s. to
85s. ; inferiot ditto. 60s. to 70a. ; straw. 40s. to 465.

CRYSTAL PALACE. —This afternoon a more than
usually varied afternoon'. entertainment is to be given at
the palace At three o'clock the opera concert will com-
mence, and later in the afternoon the band of the Cold-
stream Guards will play. At half-past seven Herr Liphard's '
troupe of highly trained animals will perform on the stage
in the centre transept. At about nine o'clock the display
of fireworks and illumination of fountains (postponed from
Wednesday last) will commence, and the palace will be
illuminated for promenade until half-past ten, during
which Mr. Coward will play on the great organ.
THE BELGIAN VOLUNTEERS.—A public meeting
was bald at the Town-ball, Manchester, yesterday (but
generally restricted in attendance to volunteers), to take
steps to aid in obtaining funds for the purpose of securing
• proper reception to the volunteers from Belgium about
to visit this country. Resolutions were adopted acknow-
ledging the hospitality accorded to our own volunteers in
Belgium in 186 b, and in favour of • subscription to enable
Manchester to do her share in the proposed return visit,
as well as to enable the committee, if possible, to invite
the visitors to this city during their stay in England.
Captain Mercier had tendered his gratuitous services as an
artist to take a likeness of the Kind of the Belgians.
A PULPIT MIBTAKE.—Lest Sunday a local
preacher connected with the Primitive Methodist per-
-11111408 was planned to preach at Elland, he residing at
Huddersfield. Being a comparative stranger to Elland be
inquired the way to the Primitive Methodist Chapel, but
by some mistake he was directed to the Unitarian Chapel.
Arriving at the verge of time for commencing the service,
be introduced himself as the preacher, requested to
conduct the service for the day, and as the regular
minister was away, no particular inquiry was made, and the
" local brother" mounted the pulpit and gave out • hymn.
All went well until be came to prayer, which was of so
fervid and evangelical a character that suspicion began to
be aroused if some mistake had not arisen in the preacher.
At the close of the prayer he was asked where he was
planned for, and he answered Elland Primitive Methodist
chapeL The mistake was at once apparent, and he was
made aware of it. He, of course, descended the pulpit,
The person who had been arranged to conduct the service
had taken a seat in the body of the chapel, imagining that
he had been "pdted."—Leeds Mercury.
A woman a suffrage association hail been or-
ganised in St. Louis, and some of the moat prominent
ladies have been selected for officers of the organisation.
Upwards of 70 citizens, male and female, have petitioned
the Connecticut legislature for the erasure of the word
"male" from the state constitution.
How MRS. JONES GOT HER SUBSCRIPTION. —At
the earnest request of Mr. Wilberforce, she set up a school
in her parish, and at once became a mark for the deter-
mined and insolent hostility of the farmers and the
smaller gentry. She and her sister were mobbed by angry
agriculturists, who wished to know what the ladies meant
by turning their labourers into Jacobins. In vain the
poor women protested that all they Mined at wee to enable
the girls to sew and cook and read their Bibles. In vain
they disclaimed the monstrous charge of teaching the chil-
dren of peasants to write and cipher. Mrs. Hannah
More has embodied her sorrows in one of her admirable
tracts. She tells us how good Mrs. Jones resolved to set
up • Sunday school, and called upon the neighbours to
raise funds for its support. When she came to Farmer I
Hooking, she told him that as be was the richest farmer
in the parish she looked to him for a handsome subscrip-
tion. "Subscription !" said he, " it's nothing but sub-
scriptions, I think. A man had need to be made of money.
Well, madam, what is the subscription now "I am
going to establish • Sunday school, farmer; and I come to
you as one of the principal inhabitants of the parish,
hoping your example will spur on the rest to give."
" Why, then," said the farmer, " as one of the principal
inhabitants in the pariah, I will give nothing; hoping
that my example will spur on the rest to refuse. Of all
the foolish inventions and new-tangled devices to ruin the
country, that of teaching the poor to read is the very
worst" " And I, farmer, think that to teach good prin-
ciples to the poor is the most likely way to save the
country. Now, in order to do this, we must teach them
to read." " Not with my consent or money," said the
farmer ; " for I know it always does them more harm than
good." But Mrs. Jones, who evidently knew the way to
the hart of Mr. Hoskins, took pains to let him know that
all the genteel and wealthy people had subscribed ; so at
last he said, " Why, as to the matter of that, Ido not
value • crown; only I think it might be better bestowed.
And lam afraid my own workmen will Sy in my face if
once they are made scholars; and that they will think
themselves to good to work. But, to please you, if you
do not think that religion will spoil myung servants, I
do not care if you do put me down for half-a-guinea.
What his Farmer Dobson given!" " Half.a.guinea," said
Mrs. Jones. " Well," said the farmer, "it shall never be
said that Ido not give more than he. Put me down for •
guinea. Scam is guineas are now, I'll never be put on
the same footing with Dobson, neither."—irrsuer'sMagazinc
for June.

MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

011 o'Czooz.

The markets for public securities are generally
flat to-day, and prices have declined in many
cases. The Stock Exchange will be closed on
Monday next (Whit Monday), and this circum-
stance has led to num: roue realisations by recent
speculators for a rise. The members, as a rule, do
not like to be away from business for a couple of days
with any large transaction' opened. The introduction
of the New Russian Loan, and an expectation that
applications from other quarters may soon follow,
have likewise added to the depression. Consols
have receded per cent. ; home railways, 1 to 4 ;
and some of the speculative foreign bonds, to 4.
There is a fair demand for money to-day,
owing chiefly to the arrival at maturity of a large
amount of Indian paper. The rate for the best
bills, however, is still 21 per cent. Loans on
English government securities are offered in the
Stock Exchange at 2 to 24 per cent.
Consols are now quoted 934 to 94, ex div., for
money, and 94 to 4, ex div., for the account
(July 10) ; and the Three per Cents. Reduoed and
New Three per Cents., 93 to 4.
The scrip of the new Russian Railway govern-
ment loan is quoted 1 to 14 prem.
Foreign stocks show dulness, and a de-
cline of to 1 per cent. has occurred
in Turkish of 1865, Spanish Passive, the
Committee's Certificates, and Mexican. Turkish
Bonds of 1862 are quoted 594 to 604 ;
ditto Five per Cents. of 1865, 334 to ; Greek,
154 to ; Spanish Passive, 241 to 1 ; ditto Certifi-
cates, 154 to f 7 ; Italian of 1861, 511 to 524 ; and
Mexican, 161 to 17.
Financial shares are unchanged, apart from a
recovery of 2s. 6d. in General Credit, viz., to
14 to It dis. International Financial are quoted
14 to 14 dis. ; London Financial, 20 to 18 dis. ;
and Credit Fonder, 54 to 51 dis.
Bank shares exhibit a drooping tendency.
Alliance and Union of London are 10s. worse, at
74 to 64 dis., and 44% to 454 respectively.
London and Westminster are quoted 108 to 110,
and Imperial Ottoman, 4 to 1 dis.

American securities and Atlantic Cable shares
are without change of importance. The 5-20 Bonds
are quoted 72i to 73 ; Erie Railway shares, 39 to
40 ; Illinois Central, 78} to 79 ; Anglo-American
Telegraph, lBg to ji ; and Atlantic Telegraph
Eight per Cent. Preference, 4i to b.

Two o'CLocx.
Consols are without variation, at 93i to 94, ex
div., for money, and 94 to it, ex div., for the
account.

About 7,0001. in gold was bought by the Bank
yesterday.
The England, from New York, has brought
31,0001. in specie.
On Change yesterday afternoon there was a de-
cline in the rates for three months bills on Hol.
land, while the Italian exchanges were rather
higher. The list is given below :

Amsterdam, 3 months, 11.191 to 11.191 ; ditto, short,
11.18 to 11.19 ; Rotterdam, 3 months, 11.19, to 11.191 ;
Antwerp, 3 months, 25.40 to 25.45 Brussels, 3 months,
25.40 to 25.45; Hamburg and Altona, 3 months, 13.91 to
13.10 ; Berlin, Cologne, &0., 3 months, 6.26 to 6.2t31;
St. Petenburg, 3 months, 314 ; Paris, short, 25.15
to 25.25 ; ditto, 3 months, 25.35 to 25.40 ; Marseilles,
3 months, 25.35 to 25.40 ; Frankfort-on-the-Maine,
3 months, 1201 to 1201 ; Vienna, 3 months, 12.70 to
12.80 ; Trieste, 3 months, 12.70 to 12.80; Madrid, 3
months, 49 to 481; Santander, 3 months, 49 to 484 ; Cadiz,
3 months, 491 to 49; Seville, 3 months, 491 to 49; Malaga,
3 mouths, 481 to 484; Valencia, 3 months, 481 to 481 ; Bar.
melons, 3 months, 491 to 49 ; Mhos, 3 months, 484 to
48/ ; Saragossa, 3 months, 481 to 484 ; Leghorn, 3
months, 27.15 to 27.25 ; Genoa, 3 months, 27.15 to
27.25 ; Naples, 3 months, 27.15 to 27.25 ; Palermo, 3
months, 27.15 to 27.25 ,• Messina, 3 mouths, 27.15 to
27.25 ; Lisbon, 90 days' date, 52 to 511 ; Oporto, 90 days'
date, 52 to 511.

At Paria and Hamburg the rates of discount are
somewhat below those current here, being 2 and
l per cent. respectively. At Vienna and Turin
the rate is 5 per cent. ; Frankfort and Brussels,
2} ; Amsterdam, 3 ; Berlin, 21 ; and St. Peters-
burg, 8 per cent.
The failure is announced of the Messrs. Harford,
old and highly respectable underwriters, of Lloyd's,
with liabilities for a considerable amount.

Messrs. Thomson, Bonar, and Co. have now
issued the expected prospectus of the loan of the Pro-
vincial Orel Vitebsk Railway Company. It appears
that the Emperor of Russia having granted a con-
cession of this railway, the Provincial Estates
agreed to constitute a company for the purpose,
with a capital of 0,000,0001. Of this amount
1,500,0001. is represented by shares, and the re-
maining 4,500,0001. by bonds guaranteed by the
State. Upon this guarantee the prospectus is very
explicit, stating that his Imperial Majesty has
granted to the holders of the bonds of this loan the
unqualified absolute State guarantee for the punc-
tual paymentof the interestthereon, and repayment
of the capital to them free from all contingencies
whatsoever." Of the above amount applications
are now invited by Messrs. Thomson, Bonar,
and Co. for a first series of 2,000,0001. in bonds
of 1001. each to bearer, with interest at
5 per cent. per annum from the 17th of April
last. The sinking fund is to redeem the loan at
par in 86 years. The price of issue is 77} per
cent., reduced by allowances to 75, apart from the
option of paying in full under discount. The
interest is payable half-yearly in London, Berlin,
Frankfort, and Amsterdam, so that the new stock
is adapted for a European currency. Forms of
application may be obtained of Messrs. P. Care-
nove and Co. and Messrs. Hittchinson and Son.

The decision given on Thursday by the Lords J no-
tices, wherein Mr. J. M. Smith was removed from
the list of contributories and also from all liability
in respect of his 100 shares in the Reese River Sil-
ver Mining Company (Limited) in liquidation, is
considered to have a most important bearing upon
the disputes of the Defence Association with the
liquidators of Overend. Gurney, and Company (Li-
mited.) It appears that originally Mr. Smith ap-
plied to the Master of the Rolls to be relieved from
his liability as a shareholder, but that that judge re-
fused the application, and ordered Mr. Smith to pay
all the coats of the suit. _ _ _

We understand that at the meeting of the Im-
perial Ottoman Bank on the 27th inst., the
directors will recommend a further payment of Ba.
per share, which, with the interest paid in
January, will make 18s. per share, or 9 per cent.
for the year ending December 31, 1866. Besides
this it will be proposed to add more than 21,0001.
to reserve, leaving a balance of about 4,0001. to be
carried forward to the present year. When it is
recollected that these results have been attained
during a year of disaster, it will be seen that the
shareholders have great cause to be satisfied.
At the meeting of the African Steam Ship Com-
pany, held yesterday, the directors report, which
was adopted, stated the amount to the credit of the
revenue account at 5,3421., and recommended the
payment of the usual dividend of Bs. per share
for the half year ending the 30th of April last.
The Caledonian Railway traffic return shows
this week an increase 6121. over last year.
The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of
the London Joint Stock Bank will be held on the
18th of July.
Subjoined are the quotations of insurance, gas,
dock, and waterworks shares, as given in the Stock
)change list of last evening :
Insurance—Commercial Union, 41, 1, 1 ; Eagle, 71 ;
London and Provincial Marine, lf ; Marine, 98 ; North
British and Mercantile. 151; Ocean Marine, 191; Uni-
versal Marine (Limited), 31.
Gaslight and Coke—Bombay (Limited), 41. 5, 41 ;
City of Moscow Gas, 16f, 1 ; Commercial, 32 ; Great
Central, 121. 13 ; Imperial Continental, 96, 4A, 51 ox div. ;
London, G 2, 3; Phcenic, 26; Westminster CGartered, 64;
Ditto New, 36, 74 ; Western C, 6.
Docks—East and West India, 126, 1 ; London and St.
/Catharine, 59, 1, 9.
Waterworks—Berlin, 121, 1, I.

FILWAT ZVLIIIIC.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 94k, "sellers,"
ea div., for the 10th of July, opened this morning
at NI to and clue iat 94,t to 1. For looney
the last price was 94 to 4. The Three per Cents.
Reduced and New Three per Cents. were quoted
at 3 o'clock 931 to k. The official business
report is as fellows :—Three per Cent. Consols,
for money, 94g, 4, t, 4,1, 4ex div. ; ditto, for au-
ootmt, 94k, 1,4 ex div. ; Three per Cents.
Reduced, 93f, k ; New Three per Cents., 934, 11,1 ;
Bank Stock, 253; India Stock, 2204 ; ditto Five
per Cent., 109, 4, ex div. ; ditto Five per COIL
enfaced" rupee paper, 1041, 4 ; ditto Bonds,
L7s. prem.
The India Five per Cent. Stock was steady. The
Five per Cent. rupee paper has improved.
_ _ _

The March Exchequer Bills were quoted 225.
275. prem., and the June 18s. to 235. prem.

The foreign stock market was flat, and the
course of prices unfavourable. Russian stocks,
including the Scrip, were offered, and fell 4 to 1
per cent., owing to the attempt on the life of the
Czar, combined with the issue of the new Railway
Luau. Spanish Passives declined ; the Com-
mittee's Certificates, d ; Chili= Scrip, 5 ; (lreek, 4 ;
Italian of 1861 and Turkish Five per Cents. of
1865, t tian, sto 15 • Buenos Ayresn Six per
Cents. a. Deferred, Brazilian of 1863, Turkish
of 1858, 1862, and 1865 (Six per Centa.), qua
Peruvian of 1862, 1 ; and New Grenadian "ex all,"
and Three per Cents., 4to 4. Creek Coupons,
however, rose I.