The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-26 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE mARKErs.

livgarooL. Rite 2.5.-Sales to-day : Great Eastern, 281
1 1 1 }inter Western, 45} 1 }-Lancashire and Yorkshire,
1286 1-London, Brighton, and South Coast, 551 6 }-h
4,ndon
and North Western, 114 131.1111-Mancheater, libefiel and
Lincolnshire, 47} 1 1 1 7-31 tan, 1251 41-Midland, 1121
4 1 -South Eastern, 66 61 1 1 41 1 } 1-Grest Western of
Puede, 144 - Illinois Central, 79-Oreat Luxembourg shares, 111
7.16 1-Queen Insurance. 3-16 d.-Atlantic Telegraph 8 per cent.,
41-National Steam ;Limited', 171 d.
MANCHIMTIta, JOB 9 25.-A good business was done, and the
market was better. Great Eastern, 2SI } 1 i I I I I 1-01e61
Luxembourg, 117-16 1-Great Northern, A, 114 131 1
Think of Quads, 171 1-Great Western of Canada, 141-Great
Western, 41 6 1-11.11nols, 79—Lancashire and Yorkshire.
1281 1 1 -London and, North Western, 1131 I-Manchester,
shelled, and Lincolnshire, 471 } 1 7 ill 7 61 1 1 7 61-Metropo-
libui, 123} 64} 4 1 1-Midland, 113$ 13 1211-North British,
32L11 1 I_l 1 J-South ilasiorni..66l 661661 1 1
1 I-London and Mighton, 66 61 6 1-tWe Assurance, Id.
minim, JOUR 25.-The sales to-day were In Staffordshire
Joint Stock Bank shares, at 2 prem. ; Metropolitan Railway
Carriage and Wagon shares, second issue, at 1 dis. ; Patent Nat
and Bolt shares, at 4 db. Closing prices South Staffordshire
Railway shares, at 83 to 84 ; Birmingham Canals, sellers, at ii 01;
Lloyd's Bank shares, at 7s 111,m, buyers: Midland Financial.
at 19-16 to 11 dis. ; Imperial Continental Gas therm. buyers. at
96: Gloucester Wagon shares, at 12 to 124 ; and Druitwich Salt
shares. at 54 buyers.
DCIIIJN, Jung 24.-Three per Cent. Consols, 931 New Three
per Cent. stock, 921 ; ditto, for account, 10th July, 921 1;
ditto for new account, 921 I-Hibernian Smiting Company
(126 paid), 361-National Bank (130 paid), 68 576-Ditto for
account, SS--Dublin, Wicklow, and Wexford 4.106 CZ sad.);
-Waterford and limerick (all Paid) 171-07 rat 60t1
Western 4 per cent, perp. (ilOO paid), 96 961.

It is astonishing what life, energy, activity, and
enterprise the Union Pacific: Railroad has infused into the
cities, towns, villages, and settlements through which it
passes. Stores, habitations, schools, and churches spring
up as if by magic. Fremont, 46 miles west of Omaha, has
grown up from a quiet settlement to a brisk little town of
some 800 to 900 inhabitants. Columbus, 45 miles further
west on the road, has manifested similar improvements.
There have been 7,000 lots added to the city. The popu-
lation is now about 1,100, end rapidly on the increase,
Keenly City and Fort Kearny, heretofore known only as
a military post, have (by the railroad) been inspired by a
progressivegirit that creditable both to the city and
the reed.— pew York Herald.

TH R WOOL TRADE.—The first of the wool fairs
in the Southern counties was held yesterday in the large
Corn Exchange at Newbury, which building was filled by
nearly 3,000 toils of wool grown by the pnncipel agrieuf.
I turista in that part of the country. The attendance of
buyers was numerous, and included the representatives of
several important houses in Yorkshire and the metropolis.
The fair opened at 12 o'clock, and a dulness characterised
the trade, growers demanding higher prices than dealers
appeared inclined to give. There was a larger bulk than
in former years, and the fair appears to have become a
great and decided success. The cleanest wools corn-
' mended most attention, and the growers obtained satis-
factory prices, the quotations being 365. to 375. 6d. for
ewes, 38e. to 41s. for Down nags, and 38s. to 40s. for mixed
(one-third ewe). At the conclusion of business nearly 100
gentlemen dined together at the Town-hall.
AN ARAB PETITION.—The Emperor Napoleon
was returning a few evenings back from the Bois de Bai-
-1 love in a caliche, and as the vehicle was passing the
Pkos de l'Etoile, an Arab, whose white woollen burnous
swept the ground, rapidly took off his sandals, attached
them to his belt, and, barefoot, ran towards the Imperial
carriage, waving in the air • paper which he held in his
hand. He wan stopped by some aergens-de-ville, but im-
mediately the caleche drew up, and a footman sent by his
Nicety brought directions to liberate the Arab, whose
Feta= he carried to the Emperor,