The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-15 00:00:00

' ing nation—a position to which, by-the-bye, well
defined penalties are attached in our Stott Ex-
change—it is satisfactory to perceive that suitable
steps are being taken to call the attention of the
Austrian government to the fatal tendency of the
course threatened. An address, prepared by Mr.
%V. H. Bishop and Mr. S. W. Waley, both of the
Stock Exchange, was yesterday presented by the
former gentleman to the Austrian ambassador. The
signatures include those of all the chief firma and
establishments interested in Austrian securities.
In receiving the memorial Count Apponyi desired
that his sense of the courteous manner in which
the address had been drawn up might be conveyed
to the gentlemen by whom it had been signed, and
he added that it would be his duty to transmit the
memorial to his government, and urge its conside-
ration with the influence he might be able to
exert.

The commencement yesterday of the wool sales is
noticed as follows in a circular of Messrs. Dutton
and Ferry :
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The second eerie, of colonial wool sales commenced this
day ; the catalogue comprised 4,594 bales, viz. :—Sydney,
918 bales; Port Phillip, 2,380; Adelaide, 500; Cape, 463 ;
New Zealand, 3:33 ; total, 4,594 bales. There is a very
large attendance of home and foreign buyers, and the bid-
ding, are very spirited, the prices for all descriptions of
wool being fully maintained as compared with March
sales, and in some eases Ad. to Id. per lb. higher is
realised. The arrivals up to date are as follows :—New
South Wales and Queensland, 31,536 bales ; Victoria.
'9),8.57: Tasmania, 6,274 ; South Australia, 26,527 ; West
Australia. 3.030; New Zealand, 19,161 ; total Austral.
asian, 177,384. €'al.e of Good Hope—Eastern Province.
28,159 ; Western Province, 4,288. Totalcolonial, 209,8.12
bales.

Subjoined is Messrs. Culverwell, Brooks, and
Co.'s report of yesterday's hide sales :
At the ninth series of hide sales for the year, although
• fair buainess was done, prices were rather in favour of
buyers. East India.—Ox and Cow.—There was • fair de.
mand both for borne consumption and export, but prices
were easier, except for heavy averages (which were higher),
but they were upon the average id. per lb. lower. Of
89,732 hides offered, 83,204 sold. East India.—Buffalo
realised about late rates. Leather.—East Indian was in
good request, and brought advanced prices. Australian Kola
at rather easier rates. Salted Hides.—Australian did not
maintain previous quotations. Cape brought former prices.
Tangier' sold well. Gibraltar sold at full prices. Dry and
Dryaalted Hides.—Guatemala brought higher rates. Tan-
giers were in better demand. Cape realised about late
rates. West India sold fairly. Bark.—Mimosa was in
good request, and realised full to advanced rate..

The following is the official return of the cheques
and bills cleared in the Bankers' Clearing-house
for the week ending Wednesday, May 13 :
Thonday, May 7 29,740,000
Friday, May 8 09,042,000
Saturday, May 9
Monday, May 11
Tuesday, May 12
Wednesday, May 13 8,739,000

£55,314,000
GEORGE DERBTSR/RE, Chief Inspector.
Bankers' Clearing-house, May 14.
The total is 600,000,000/. less than last week.
The weekly return of the Bank of France shows
the following changes :

Coin and bullion lncrease r/13,700
Bills discounted lncrease :XlB,OOO
Notes in circulation
Private deposits lncrease 404,000
Advances
Treasury balance
There is a small increase in the discounts, buts
falling oti in the note circulation. With the in-
crease of 213,500/. now shown, the total of coin
and bullion is no less than 46,373,000!.

The return of the Bank of ingl;nd for the week
ending Wednesday, May 13, compared with that for
the previous week, shows the following changes :
Circulation hens £33,993,545 Decrease 5240,620
Circulation active 21,978,430 Decrease 476,455
Public deposits 5,774,277 Increase 645,950
Other deposits
Government securities In

—banilniiepartment — 13,277,696 Igo change.
Other securities in banking
depirtnient 19,330,487 Increase 17,2,001 l
Coin and bullion in both

departments
Seven day and other bills 485,139 [anew 6,009
The Rest 3,107,691 Increase 5,986
Notes In reserve
Total reserve (notes k cola)
in banking department 11,312,958 Increase 364,851
The increase in the advances on private securities,
and the withdrawals of private deposits, have not
been equal in amount to the increase of govern-
ment deposits, and the consequence is an addi-
tion of 364,8511. to the reserve. The decrease in
the coin and bullion is 111,6041., the net with-
drawals of gold for export during the week having
been 144,0001.

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

ENGLAND.
Ttb and atit Vie., a. St, for the
the 13th day a May, lads.
.amintax?.
Government debt.. £11.015,100
other securities—. 498000
Gold coin and bal.

- INV' Diil
Notes Issued £33,903,5461

833.993,643

113/111111 DJ
=Mori Capital £14.163.000
1,107,tiel
Public Deposita ,ln-
cluding Fsehsq.,
Bat. Banks, Com-
mis. of National
Debt, and Div.

' -ilOn--- --
bullion 18,993.643
Eittver

-GoT-apnoWlit s.c.

MO, i 911,646

Titles m 413,277,098
Other Secunttes 19,390,487
Notes
Gold and tither

Coin .. _.. _ 1,297,843

Acelunts; 5,774,277
Other Deposits _ 20,001,004
Seven day and other
BUla

£43,961,141

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C. FORBES. Chief CuMit.

MINES.-(THIS DAY.)

ONE O'CLOCK.
There is rather more business in the mining
market to-day, and prices have improved in some
cases. Annexed are the quotations for the shares
which have been chiefly dealt in, viz.:—West
Chiverton, 631 to 641 ; Trelawney, 8 to 9 ; Cal-
beck Fells, 12s. to 14s. ; Great Vor, 16 to 17 ;
Chiverton Moor, 6/ to 1 ; Wheal Chiverton, 21 to
1 ; Emily Henrietta, 39 to 41 ; North Treskerby,
18s. to 20s. ; Prince of Wales, 50s. to 525. 6d. ;
East Lovell, 8 to 81, ex div. ; East Trumpet, 2
to 21 ; and New Lovell, 17s. 6d. to 20s.
Foreign and colonial mining shares are inactive.
St. John del Rey, 17 to 18 ; Don Pedro, 2 to
21 prem. ; Anglo-Brazilian, 3-16 to 5-16 prem. ;
Pestarena, gto 1 dis. ; Chontales, 21 to ; Roma
Grande, A to prem. ; Anglo-Italian, par
to prem. ; United Mexican, 11 to 1 ; Prontino
and Bolivia, 7-16 to 9-16 ; and Port Phillip, 11
to e.

A working man's club is about to be established
at Andover, in Hampshire.

The royal mail steamer Tasmania, will open the
Colon route on the 2nd proximo. She will tab out the
Pacific and New Zealand mails.

QUEENSTOWN, M& 16.—The National Steam-
ship Company's steamship Virginia, from New York,
arrived here at 9 a.m. to-day, with 84,000 dols., and
200 g. sterling, in specie. She landed passengers, and pro.
needed foe Liverpool.

G Hems, rat Scru-roa. —He had a good many
friends in his youth among medical students. His anato-
mioal studies led him into their society, and he red to
say that his marvellous knowledge of the proportions and
muscular development of the human figure was shady ac-
quired in the directing rooms he frequented with than.
There was • difficulty is procuring 'objects for direction
at that time, so that medical ardente were often em-
ployed themselves, or employed rime, in procuring dead
bodies for that purpose. I have beard him toll with
simple 0.1
and graphic force, aneodotes of thie of his
life which might have been worked up by Poe into
awful and fear-inspiring romances. One of stories
he told with great tenderer. He and some of his
friends had obtained the right, by payment of
• considerable sum of disinterring the corpse of •
person who had lately died in the hospital. They went to
the churchyard at night sad dug up the coffin. No parti-
culars of the sex or age of the corpse had been von. It
was a bright moonlight night, and when the lid was re.
moved, • beautiful young woman was discovered beneath
the pauper's shroud. She had been too lately buried for
death to alter her beauty, and she laid before them so
white and lovely, with her smooth hair braided over her
forehead and hanging down round the delicate throat, that
these wild youths creamed. "We stood quite still look.
fug at her he mid, " sad they, without a word, the coffin
was closed and we lowered it into the ground again. We
had not spoken a syllable, but we all had felt alike that it
was impassible to touch kw." I few I have traced soma
shadowy recollection of thin incident on one of hie moan-
'boatel baselesliovi. —Cent/tilt Magazine for May.