The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-12 00:00:00

Addis provisional official liquidator of Samuel
Easton and Co. (Limited).
The following is the official return of the cheques
and bills cleared at the Bankers' Clearing-home
for the week ending Wednesday, July 10. Thin
return includes th., dividend period :
Thursday SWOP*
Friday 1087,01:0
Saturday
Monday
Tuesday
Wednesday. .• 12,622.0‘0

Total 07,489,0X1
Geo. DZIUMII4IO.II, Chief Inspector.
The weekly return of the Bank of France shows
the following changes :
Cnin and bullion
Bills discounted
Government deposits
Notes in circulation
Private deposits
Advances

... Decrease tl,v2B,rke
... Decrease 80,000
... Increase sn,coo
Increase 672,040
Decrease 1,54°,400
Dech ass° :4,00!0

As usual at this period there is a considi.rabls
decrease in the coin and bullion, but it is of uo im-
portance whatever considering the enormous extent
of the recent influx. The demand for discounts
shows no revival.

The return of the Bank of England for the week
ending Wednesday,July 10, compared with that for
the previous week, shows the following changes :
Circulation issue £3 ,:190,030 Decrease .052,740
Circulation active 24,0 3,060 Decrease 300,7,0
Public deposits 5,121,300 Decrease 4,2'14410
Other deposits
Government securities in

banking department 12,830,773 No change.
Other securities in banking
Coinand
departmebullion in both nt 18,361,630 Decrease 2,u91,721

departments
Seven day and Other WM 4fiktS3 Demean) 14,9 U
The Rest 2,318,311 Increase 137.473

Notes in reserve
Total reserve (notes & coin)
is banking department... 13,488,151 Increase 346,156
The payment of the dividends, which commenced
on Tuesday, the 9th, has been attended with an
increase of 346,1561. in the reserve, instead of the
decrease which is usually experienced on such
occasions. Looking to the muses of this movement
we find that against the diminution of 4,235,4181.
in the government deposits, there has been au
influx of 2,364,341/. of private deposits, while at
the same time 2,094,7211. of loans have ben repaid
to the Bank. In like manner the payment of the
dividends has been accompanied by an increase in
the amount of coin and bullion in the Bank.
Raving regard to these figures it would aooear that
the Bank directors might have reduced the rate of
discount to-day to 2 per cent.

BANK OF 1
An Account pursuant to the Act
week ending on Wednesday,

1881:11 DZI
Notes Issued ......C.ki,a10,030

1:33.390,0::0
BAN[/NO DI
Proprietors' Caidtat A14,5:4.000
Rest
Public De 3,314:41
posits (in-
cluding Lychee.,
Say. Backe. Com-
mie. National
Debt. aud Dlv
Ace iunta, 5,121.308
Other Deposits 21,232,661
Serial day and other
Bills

ENGLAND.
I 7th and Sth Vle.. e. 32, for tha
F, the loth day of July, ibri7

I;:vernisient debt.. 111,016,1 M
Other securities.... 3,:a4,51011
Gold coin Anti Na-
tion
Silver bullion

2.1,39J,003

PARTMIENT.

t 36.394,00

OtWernnVoot Seen-
Titles 412,6'1.'73
Other Socerltles
Notes
Gold sad BUwer
WA MUILSOI

it44,6:10,164
July 11. let 7.

£44. 51,454
F. MAY, Deputy Quitter.

THURSDAY EVISKING,

The India Five per Cent.stockWas again in
great demand this morning, and bring scarce in
the hands of the dealers, purchases took place as
high as 111, being 1 above the highest pries
marked yesterday. The subsequent business was
at no* to 1111.

MINES.-(TI118 DAY.)

them o'Clacz.

The mining market is rather firmer to-day,
' with a some xhat increased amount of business.
Prince of Wales and Great North Downs sharee
are in request, at an advance, Cm former are
quoted 635. to £lss., and the latter 3,1 to 1. Chiver-
ton are also better, at 7 to 1. Wheal Seton are
called 110 to 115 ; Clifford, *Ti to 8 ; South Cara-
don, :140 to 350 ; Marke Valley, to 5 ;
East Basset, 18 to 20 ; Chiverton Moor, 5?, to :;
and North Treskerby, 20s. to 225. 6d.
Foreign and colonial mining shores are inactive.
St. John del hey are quoted 58 to 60, ex div. ; Don
Pedro, 3$ to $ prem. ; Anglo-Brazilian, 7-18 to 9-16
prem. ; Pestarena, to prem. ; Item Grande,
91. to l Is. ; Chontales. 3to fi prem. ; Port Phillip,
1 to $ ; Frontino and Bolivia, 9s. to 10s. ; United
Mexican, 11 to 21 • and Anglo-Italian, „ to 1 prem.
The directors of the Port Phillip and Colonial
Gold Mining Company have received, by telegram
from Suez, the following advices, in anticipation of
the Australian mail, from their resident director,
Mr. Bland, at Clunes :—" Three weeks' return far
May, 3,500 tons crushed, yielding 13 data. 17 gm.
per ton. Remittance, 2,0001."

A destructive fire occurred yesterday morning a
the mill of Mr. W. Brown, spinner, Wigan. The damage
is estimated at a very large sum, the mill (in which 300
hands were employed) being totally destroyed.
SIR WILLIAM LAWRENCE, BART.—The remains
of this distinguished surgeon were interred yesterday ha
Ealing Churchyard, by the side of those of his late wife.
The funeral, in pursuance of his wishes, was strictly pets
vete, and the only muses itative of the council of the
Royal College of Surgeons, with which institution he wee
so long connected, who attended was Mr. John Flint
South, a former president ; and St. Bartholomew's Has.
pital was represented by Mr. G. W. Callender, one of the
surgeons and teachers at that ancient hospital.
On Sunday last the Rev. R. Maguire preached,
by desire cf the Dean, at the special evening service in
Westminster Abbey, in support of the temperance move.
meat The following are the preachers for the other
special evening servioes during the present month :—July
14, the Dean of Emly ; 21, Dr. Temple ; and S, Arch-
deacon Wordsworth.
DREADFUL BOILER EIPLGSION. —One of the
most awful boiler explosions that ever occurred is the
Went Riding of Yorkshire occurred yesteiday morning
at the works of Messrs. John Niamey and Co., cloth
manufacturers, Batley. near Dewsbury. Tim boiler that
exploded was one of three placed side by silo, and con-
nected by a large east-iron pipe fitted with valve., and it
has caused the loss of one life, and placed those of five
others in imminent jeopardy. Betides this, the explosion
has levelled one factory four stories high with the ground,
has made a breach in another from top to bottom about ten
yards square, and destroyed an immense quantity of machi-
nery, a great portion of which was quite new. In addi.
tion, a series of one-storied sheds have been thu own down
and much damage done to buildings in the immediate
neighbourhood. The amount of the loss cannot yet be
estimated, but it must reach 2,003!. or 3,0001. About •
workpeople are thrown out of employment. The explosion
occurred in the breakfast hour, when the operatives with
few exceptions, were away ; had it taken place a few
minutes later, the loss of life would have been immense.
The person killed is Elisabeth Priestly, the danghter of an
operative; and Maria Payne and Hannah Garrett are not
expected to survive. The cause of the explosion is not
known, but an examination of the boiler shows that some
of the plates are worn very thin.
ALLEGED ATTEMPTED MURDER.—A warrant has
just been issued for the apprehension of William Standish
Carr Standish, Seq., of Thishury Hall, nea.- Chorley, on •
charge of shooting with intent to murder. A few days age
three persons were shot at between Dolton and Chorley,
and cne of them definitely states that the party who fired
at him was Mr. Standish, had a riatiil with hiih, anti
was on horseback at the time. Two of the persons shot
at were Thomas Mess and James Wordsworth. The
former was hit on the head by two or three pellets, but
was not seriously hurt. Mr. Standish has since left home.
The following official description of him has been for.
warded to different police-station' : —" About :in yearn
of age, sft. Sin. or sft. Gin. in height, rather fresh corn.
plexion, thin face, dark brown hair, dark eye., whiskers
newly shaved 01, light and active, and of sentiment,'
appearance. Dressed in a snit of lea• eiothes and Scotch
cap, with two black ribands behind. When he left he arse
accompanied by another gentleman, from 40 to 50 years oe
age, and about Mt. IDin.
or Ilin. high, who was dressed iet
a gait of light gray clothes and soft billyeock hat." Mr.
Standish has been a magistrate of the county of Lancaster
for nearly nine years; be was formerly connected with the
army in India, and since his return to England he held •
commission in the Lancashire Hussars. About four veers
ago he was tried at the Liverpool Armoires, before Mr.
Justice Willes, for unlawfully shooting at Liithoin, near
Ormskirk, sad pleading guilty waa sentenced to a month'.
imprisonment in Lancaster Castle, sail fined 300/.. When
Mr. Standish was in fedi* tie had a ....emir.,
illy he is understood to be a very quiet, welloosikeledi
gentleman. He was man respects by the men in Tan
Lumanhire Humors during the time he was with them.