The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-11 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE MAREITS.

LIVE3POOL. SKr?. 10.-Males to-day : Furness, new, 1864. 111
id.-Ditto, ditto, 1686,104 rd.-Great Eastern, 301 1-Great
Western, 471 -Lancashire aml Yorkshire, 127 64-London
Chatham. and Dover, lel-London and North Western, 11311
xd.-Manchester, Shellield, and Lincobribire, 47-Metropolitan,
I=l-Midland, 119181 y xd.-North British. 31}-South Eastern
I 681 1 1 1 rd.-Wbitehaven and Futuna 32-Blrtenhead
41 Per cent., - Buffalo and Lake Huron, 34--Great Western
of Canada, 16 6-16-Lancashlre Insnrsnce,l3.l6 p.-Liverpool
Exchange, 231-Liverpool United Gas, 2011, ad and u.-Ditto
new £26 shares, 6 p.-National Steam ;Limited', 121 d.
14 ascingaria, Barr.lo. -The market was steady, with a fair
business doing. Alliance Bank flaunted), 10 4.-Anglo-Ameri-
can Telegraph, 161-Atlantic Telegraph Preference 8 per cent.,
681 70-Ebbw Vale, lit d.-Great Eastern, 301-Great Luxem-
bourg, 101-Great Northern, A. 1181 1-Great Western of
Canada, 161 1-Great Western, 471 1-Lire: maths and Yorkshire,
1261-London, Brighton, and South Coast, 601 4-London and
North Western, Hsi 1 -Manchester, Saiefileld, and Lincoln-
shire, 474 1-Ditto, Redeemable Preference, 1-16 p.-Metro-
wiltan, 1234 4 '1 1-Midland, 119 1 1-North British, 314-
South Engem, 681-Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance
(lambed), 311.16 p.-Manchester Commercial Buildings, I p.-
Metropolitan new 6 per cent., 64. to fa 3d. p.-Caledonian, 1081
1- Stockton and Darlington 0 per cent. B, 311-Dover 5 per
cent., 1871, 96-Fairtains, 1 a.- ton new, 6p.
BIitNINSII.4I4 SIFT. 10.-Business done: Midland Financial
(Limited:, at 1 11-16 dia. : Railway Carriage (Limited), Oldbury,
at 1 prem. : and Birmingham Waterworks, at 38 per share.
Closing prices: North Statlonlshire Railway, 621 to 64; Blr- I
mingham Joint Stock Bank ( 301 to 304: Stourbridge
and Kidderminster Bank, 141 to 16; Birmingham Financial
(Limited.. 11 to 14 db. ; Imperial Continental Gas. 971. milers :
Metropolitan Railway Carriage and Waggon (lambed), 10 to 104 ;
and llenddul Mate and Slab (Limited), 11 to 1 dia.

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

The foreign stock market is very quiet, but
Greek bonds have improved 4 per cent., viz. to
131 to 14. Turkish of 1862 are called 59 to 60 ;
ditto, of 1865, 314 to 4 ; Spanish Passive, 19f
toy ; ditto Certificates,lsl to 16 ; Italian of 1861,
494 to 4 ; Egyptian, of 1864, 84 to 86} ; and
Mexican, 15f to 1.
Bank shares are dull, and London and West-
minster and London and County have declined
10s. to 11.-the former to 69 to 70, and the latter
to 544 to 555. London Bank of Mexico, however,
are 11. higher, at 12 to 10 dis. ; Union of London
are called 36 to 38 ; Imperial Ottoman, 1 to Of
dia.; Alliance, 104 to 94 dia. ; Chartered Mercan-
tile of India, 30 to 31.
Financial shares are still neglected. Annexed
are the quotations :-International, 24 to 11 dis. ;
London, 23 to 21 dia. ; General Credit, 21 to
24 dig. ; and Credit Foncier, sft to 54 dig.
United States 5-20 bonds have declined 4 per
cent., viz., to 721 to 73 ; but Erie and Illinois
Central railway shares are unchanged, at 44 to 4
and 761 to 77, respectively.
Anglo-American Telegraph shares are steady, at
164 to i; and Atlantic Telegraph Eight per Cent.
Preference, at 34 to f.
The Council of India will receive tenders on the
18th inst. for bills on India to the amount of only
100,0001.
A petition for the winding up of Hodges' Dis-
tillery Company (Limited), presented by Mr. Fre-
derick Hodges, is to be heard before Vice-Chan-
cellor Melina on the 19th inst.
It is notified that a committee of shareholders in
the Great Eastern Railway Company has been
formed in connexion with the Railway Share-
holders' Association, and that the affairs of that
undertaking require their serious attention.
An instalment of 71., making 611. paid, falls
due on Saturday next on the Clulian Loan for
Mr. Titus Salt (says the Leeds Mercury) yester
day laid the foundation stone of • block of buildings 2,000,0001', introduced in January last. An.
intended for a tradesmen's home at Bradford. In the Instalment of 21. is also payable by the 20th inst.
first instant*, it is proposed to erect 18 houses, but it is on the Russian Loan for 12,000,0001., brought for-
hoped the number will be eventually increased to 30, ward in August, but the amount subscribed here
and of the latter number Mr. Salt and Mr. Alderman was very small.
Brown have promised to provide two. The cost of the
first lBwill be 7,500/., and nearly the whole of that sum has There were no transactions in bullion at the
been promised. After the ceremony there was • luncheon, Bank yesterday.
at which Mr. Forster, spoke, and briefly touched The New York, from New York, has brought
upon the more prominent points of the session. only 4,0001. in specie for England.
The Bishop of London has (by his commissary)
.
licensed the Rev. William Thomas Thornhill Webber, The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon were
M.A., to be minister of the district of St. John the Evan- generally firm. The rates for bills on Frankfort,
gelist, Holborn ; the Rev. William Borland, M.A., to the Vienna, and Italy were quoted slightly more
curacy of Ashford ; the Rev. Moses Clarke to the favourably for this country. The list is subjoined :
curacy of St. Paul, Dock.street, Wlitechsl; the Rev.
Robert Dell, M.A., to the curacy of St. Mark, North Antrterdam, 3 months, 12.01 te 12.1 ;ditto, short,
Audley-street ; the Rev. George Monet Keith Ellerton, 1_1.19 to
twe. 13L.19.1 ;ttaßotte.
25.4eniamt.,253.4m50e; th8ru5,..121..0,13t0m0n12.0.1
M.A., to the curacy of St. Simon Zelotes, Bethnal-green An
25.40 to 25.45 ; Hamburg and Altona, 3 months, 13.10 to
and the Rev. Robert Burchall Tongs, 8.A., to the curacy 13.101 ; Berlin, °elope, 3 months, 6.2 m to cly
of St. Jude, Islington.
Petersburg, 3 months, 321 to 31 ;Paris, short, 253 FL
END OF THZ TAILORS' STEINS AT BRIGHTON.- St.
25.25 ; ditto, 3 months, 25.35 to 25.40 ; Marseilles,
The strike among the operative tailors of Brighton has 3 month.; 15.3, te vs.4o ; Trookionthomoiso;
ended. The " pickets" have been withdrawn, and the men months, 120 a 6o 120 a • vim.. 3mo
nths, 12.60 to
have requested to be re-employed, offering, should any. 12.65 ; Trieste, moall's, 12.60 -lo 12.65-'; Madrid, 3
objection to them still exist, to take the matter into their months, 491 to 49; Santander, 3 months, 491 to 49- Cadiz,
ocesaideretion. There is, however, but little work now 3 months, 49 6.49 ; Berme; 3 month,, 94 to 49; 'Kano;
gang on, and the masters are already well supplied with months, 4, to 49 vol000lo; 3 mono.; 496 to 49; Bor.
hands. The masters, moreover, decline to treat with the month.; :19a 49, Bubo.. 3 mood.; 49 kr,
Bar-
men a. • body, thoughthey are willing to meet them indi-O°loaa
ogooro; 3 looney: '49 to ; Leg 3
vidually.-Brigkut Guardian. months, 27.40 to 27.50 ; Germ, 3 months, 2F,41) to
Trauma' Starks IN BIRMINOHAII.-Sisty-seTen 27.99 ; Naples, 3 month., 27.40 to 27.50 ; less, 3
journeymen tailors are now on strike in Birmingham, in months. 27.40 to 27.50 • Marina 3 months, It f. 40 nal
conserence of • (limpet* with some of the masters on the 27.e0 ; Lisbon, go days' ; oper4e, M dew
"log question. Theactual differencein money between the day.sl7 to 613.
regulations the men require and those which the masters
insist upon, is roughly estimated at 3a. or 3s. 6cl. a week The. Metropclitan Railway traffic return shows
for each man. The funds of the workmen's society are inyear, and
good week an increase of 3061. Over last
good condition. The men have been paying 2s. each all the Glasgow and South Western 1111 increase of
through the summer for the support of the London tailors 1,3691.
on strike. 300 in-door and 90 out-door worker' are mem- The traffic return of the Grand Trunk Railway
ben of the Birmingham society.-Birmingliam Port.
kEDLR-OOHS FOR ITALY.-The transformation Company of Canada, for the week ending the 24th
of the firearms in the Italian army has been commenced at nit., shows a decrease of 1,3731., compared with
Turin. The government has decided that the Bersaglimi the corresponding period of 1866.
shall be the first provided with needle-guns ; and, in order An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of
to arrive immediately at a uniformity in the exert se of
the new musket, the Minister of War has ordered each of the English and American Bank (Limited) was held
the 45 battalions of those troops to send an officer and yesterday, when a dividend for the half year, at the
three sergeenta to a special school established in the former irate of 5 per cent. per annum, was declared. The
capital of Italy. chairman stated that a call is desirable, in order to
Tas Diners OF Tan Acerraatraw Cor.otriss.- enable the directors to meet properly the demands
South Australia. with a population of 165,934 souls, owed
at the ekes of 1866 751,6001., or 41. 10s. per head; whilst of an increasing business. lie added, in reply to
for the ether colonies the returns were as follows :-New the remarks of several proprietors, who referred to
South Wales-Population, 421,000; debt, 5,630301. or the present heavy discount on the shares and the
131. Bs. per head. Victoria-Population, 632,998; debt, unfavourable effect which a call just now would
8,73:3,4451., or 137. 16s. per bead ; and Queensland-Pope- have upon the price, that the board will take the
lotion, 95.100; debt, 3,021,186, or 311. 15e, per head.- whole matter into consideration, and bring it
-Australian paper. before a special meeting to be held shortly.
Cole to PIISONS.-The total number of con-
victs received late the various government prisons during Subjoined are the quotations of insurance, gas,
the year 1866 was 2,106. Of 2,534 convicts disposed of , dock, waterworks, and canal shares, as given in
during the year, 594 were sent to Western Australia, 21 the Stock Exchange lint of last evening :
to lunatic atylums, and tit to county prison., 1'598 "1" Insurance-Indemnity Marine, 116, ; Ocean Marine,
granted licenses, 179 sentences expired, 32 received
191 Thames and Mersey Marine (Limited), 51, 9-16;
pardons, one "asPed, but maa recaptured, and 103 died Union Marine Liverl (Limited), 73, 3-16, 4.
Then are 11 convict prisons in England, two of which, Gaslight and Coke-City of London B, 15 ; Great
severally at Pentonville and Millbank, are devoted to I Central, 131, 13 ; Phoenix, New, 341 ; Surrey Consumers,
men under sentence of penal servitude ; three, at Pats 13 United Gomm; 34.
I mouth, Chatham, and Portland, are cleaned as public •
works prison. ; two, at Woking and Dartmoor,
Decks-Etat and West India, 1261 ; London and St.
Bothonoo; 364; 7f
invalid
Surrey Commercial, 111.
asylum ; and three, at Parkhurst, Brixton end Fel-
invalid prisons ; one, at Broadmoor, • lunatic Waterworks-Berlin, 12j, ex div. ; East London, 1101.
,
Imo, prisons for (emit]. convicts. The total number of Canabi-Grand Junction, 777, 4.
them latter sentenced during the year was 287, and of those The following prices were realised yesterday at
disposed of 283 were discharged on license, 42 on expire- the sale at the Open Stock Exchange (Limited) :
tion of sentence, 5 removed to lunatic asylums, 18 died. and I East India Land, lie., Company, 31. ss. ; Alexandra
183 removed to the refuges at Queen's-square, Bloom& ' Hotel, 3/. 35.; Confederate 6 per cent., 1864, 1,000 dole.,
bury, sad Eagle-house, Hammersmith. The estimates ga. 6d. ; Wandswor;h and Putney Gas, 10/. 17s. 6d.; Con-
fer the service of the convict prisons for the financial year federate 7 per cent., 1863, 6s. ; London Tavern, 31. 10s. ;
1867.8 amount to 248,6151., which represent. a deer.... Confederate 6 per cent., 1864, 1,000 dole., 6s. ; London
of 47,0831. as compared with the estimates in 1864-5. The Financial, 71. ' • China Steam, 2/. 2s. ; Commercial Union,
directors report that there has been • ressarkable decrease N. 16s. ; General Credit, Si. to 51. ss. ; Natal Land &hen-
both in fresh sentence/ and reoonvictione, which demean ewe, 77 per cent. • Atlantic Coupons, 12e. ; Longharn
has been observable Mace 1863, and shows a ditnination in Hotel, 31. ; Hop anti Malt Exchange. V. 15..; City of
four years of more than 32 per 4,c-It. as to fresh sentences, Milan Improvements (fully Paid). 131. ; R•••• Grand*
and nearly 29 per cent, as to reconviotices. There is also Gold, Bs. to Bs. 6d. ; ditto, 1/. paid, 13s. ; Varna Railway,
a great decrease of mime, with a rapid increase of pope's- 31. gd. to 31. 6r. ; Imperial Land of Marseilles shares,
tion, for whereas in 1854 out of a population of 187 minions 11..; ditto bonds, 41. 6e.
there were 20'338 persons senterced to imprisonment and The vo of the screw steamer Ajax, from
2'742 to penal servitude or transportation ;in 1866, out of „hats to London, • attracting much interest in
• populaticn of 21/ millions, 11'582 were sentenced to lin- u
prisoument and 2'016 to penal servitude. The directors shipping andmcanistile circles. This vessel loaded
recommend that • power of dealing with each ewe on its at Shanghai At fa. per ton, to be reduced to 31. 10s.
merits should he given with reference to convicts under
ton in the event of the ship not accomplishing
sentencesentenceof penal servitude for life, inasmuch as after eery-
ing 20 years on the public works it might sometimes be
thee run to London in 75 days from passing the bar
Shanghai. The China papers and the correspond-
d:areiedah.cdealeatetle to remove the convict to work of a I•..at woosung, which is about two hours' steam from
p

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DONCASTER MEETING.-(THIS DAY.)

MUNICIPAL STAKES. Three quarters of a mile.
The Parson, Proctor, and Cotytto are here.
CORPORATION PLATE. Seven furlongs.
Xi, Vespasian, Archimedes, Mrs. Stratton. The Palmer,
Czar, Knight Errant, Verulam, Castanet, Corporal, Man-
drake, Ines, Wohey, Opoponax, Repulse, Lady Rosehill,
Grey Stocking. Minster Bell, My Love, and Prince George
are here.
BRADGATE PARK STAKES. Three quarters of a mile.
Janet Rai/chile, Lady Diana, Spitfire, Examiner, Scotch-
man's Pride, The Earl, Athena, Leonia, and Viridis are
here.

ST. LEGER STAKES. One mile and three quarters.
Achievement, Hermit, Vauban, Julius, Grand Duke,
Fervacques, Taraban, Van Aniburgh, Maid of Masham c,
Miss Sarah o, Tremble, Brown Bess c, Mochrie, Mins' er
Bell, Duchess, Ines, The Palmer, Padiabab, Charles 11.,
Tynedale, Loagchamps, Cerf Volant, Mandrake, May-
flower, Weather Guide, Vereilam, Challenge, Ravioli, Sir
Oliver, Catalina, and Priest are here.