The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-24 00:00:00

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BETTING IN LONDON.-{TrnB DAY.)

THE QUERN% THEATRE, 11A)NG-AORE.

Mr. Byrosee four-act play, 7b Laaraakire Lou,
is runeing is prosperous career. which at .this season of the
year is somewhat `
remarkable, or rather it would be
remarkable if it were not for the strong attractions which
the pieos elem. la fact, we do not remember a melodrama,
even in the palasieltdaye of the " little Adelphi," which
presented era strong a combination of thrilling "situations."
It may be very true that a good many of the- incidents
of the piece are not of a nature likely to occur k everyday
life ; but the melodrama has its own law of probabilities.
Assume these,. just as at the opera you lemma the exist-
ence of noes who converse in recitative, and whose pas-
Aims never betray themselves but in song, and every step
in the plot of The LanoarAire Loss seems to be the most
natural thing in the world. Another very strong point is the,
admirable Manner in which the play is performed. Bracy
character, down to Mr. Bedbarn's gossiping clerk, is
really acted ; and the leading parts are played with life-
like fidelity. If one were critical, one might perhaps be
disposed to suggest that a little more vivacity in Mr. Dan-
ville's earlier scenes would be desirable, and that Mr. L.
Brough does not seem quite to have mastered the laws
which regulate the use of the A superfluous in the Cockney
dialect, and which forbid its appearance anywhere save
in accented, or at least in emphatic syllables. But on the
whole, nothing could be better. Miss Nally Moore* as Spotty
would observe, " the very moral" of a domestic heroine ;
and she is well supported by Mr. Wyndham, who sustains
the character of her faithful lover. Mr. Brough and Mr. S.
Emery also illustrate, with great success, low life in it.
virtuous and slightly essitimenti, as well as in its -rascally`
and slightly cask, phase. The scenery is remarkably
effective. The steamer which comae across the stage,
apropos of nothing particular, but which Ids off real
steam, is rather isCrusnmlesian touch ; though it somber
iMiteriewhilkumete Um Ishmael& imik•-blteirser of
London playgoer, who, if he has not seen the old pier at
Egremont, is tolerably familiar with what have been
termed " Thames 'busses." This whole scene, it may be
observed, is extremely beantiful. A long run may be pre-
dicted for the piece ; and, when London fills again, it will
probably turn out to be as great a hit as the Colleen Bean.

2.30 'AL
Speculation prowl "eosnembat tame -
imp Pm the Bt. Leger, 6to 4 war gin *bred ea the
held. King Alfred appeared be have palmed a "bad
night," as ha gradually receded to 11 to 2 (offered), and
aimed% aa 6 to 4 was laid against him forfora piaci.
Ylaoount continued in good request at 7 to 1, andryphoeue,
at 20 to 1, had some good bueinems dais in his favour.
Quotations as follow :
BT. LEG R.. •
6 to 4 art The Bart t6to 4)
11 to 2 King Alfred' (off, t7to 1)
100 to 16 Formosa (t)
100 to lb Visoount (of, 7to 1 t and w)
100 to 0 Typhoeus (off, 20 to l t).
100 to 3 ()rem Sleeve (t)
to 1 Restitution (t)
4040 to 1 • 8t Ronan (t)
6 to 4 King
ta e Alfred 1,2, 3 t and off;
evert money had been
ken.

WOO to lb opt Paul Jes (t) 1000 to 15 Howse ( on 1)

ChICIRT.—ITHIB DAY.)
THE OVAL
FILMSET V. TOMEI= (111141111).
This the last of the great county matches to be
played on meth:golden grounds during the present
season was coma ended at about 12.20 at the Oval
to-day. The weather was flue, and the temperature
agreeable, the wickets were exoellest, and the company
large. Surrey won the-Soes, and sent in Humphrey and
Jupp, who kepi their wickets up until 47 were put
onWn. when Humphrey was caught at =d-
Th; second and third wickets fell with the score
at 76. Mr. Calvert joined Jupp, and the play was steady
up to the time of our despatch leaving, when the score
was as foUowit4 litow Opt isl/11410) NIL • . . ,

EXTRAORDINARY SCENIC AT TIIR ST. JAMES'S
Tuzsvag.—A scene of a very unusual kind for a London
theatre, and moat of all a West-end theatre, occurred at
the St. James's on Saturday night. The special attrac-
tion during the week was a performer placarded as "The
Great Mexican Tragedian." He proved the reverse of a
succeseful veculation. On Saturday niAt he was cor-
dially hissed during the earlier acts of Richard 111, and
on the dropping of the curtain on the second act the
manager came forward, announced that the performance
vr: not proooed, and entered into explanations that led
to the inference that insufficient capital was the cause.
The uproar was intense, and the " gods" with a shout
ed to take out their revenge in tearing up the gal-
rerireVats. This destruction was, however, prevented by
the intervention of some of the employa, and after an
hour's indescribable confusion the house was cleared at
10 o'clock. It was stated that the actors and aetresees
brought about the dinoueffient by striking, in consequence
of the nonpayment of their salaries.

AlilaritlCA.—NEW YORK, AIIOI7BT 23.—The In-
man royal mail steamer City of Antwerp arrived here
to-day. All well.

SOUTHAMPTON, AUGUST 24.—The United States
steamer Ariel, from New York on the Bth inst., has
arrived here. She landed 26 passengers for this port and
proceeded for Bremen.

INDIA AND CHINA (HRATY)MAILI3.--GIBRALTAR.
Avotter 23.—The Peninsular and Oriental ,Company's
steamer Delta left at 7 p.m. to-day for Southampton,
where she may be expected on the 28th inst. All well.
OUTWARD INDIA, CHINA, AND ADEITRALIAN
Mina OP 8.14 m Anonirr.--Sun6, Aim= 24.—The Pe-
ninsular and Oriental Company's steamer Simla left at
6 p.m. yesterday, and the Malta at 5 a.m., to-day, for
Calcutta and Bombay respectively, clearing off all cargo.
ORRWICASTLE, AuousT 23.—The Allan steam-
ship Peruvian, from Quebec on the 15th inst., arrived in
Lough Foyle at 11.30 p.m. to-day, with mails and 60
saloon and 63 steerage passengers. The London mails
were not landed, and she proceeded for Liverpool
immediately.

According to the arrangements at the time of
the departure of her Majesty and the junior members of
the royal family for Lucerne (says the Morning Pot
was expected the Queen and court would return to -
land about the commencement of next month. Should
these arrangements be adhered to, her Majesty may be
expected to :Lime in this country from the Continent in
the course of the ensuing fortnight. It is believed that
ber Majesty will make a trip this autumn to Balmoral, and
that the Queen will stop at Windsor for a day or so on the
way to the north.
DurMg the absence of her Majesty and the
royal family from Windsor Castle some important repairs
are being carried out there. The stone facing of the
North Terrace, which crowns the picturesque portion of
the private grounds known as the "Slopes," is being
repaired by Metiers. Watson and Burfoot, of Windsor,
in various places. The stonework is about Eft. is thick-
ness, yet the roots of the ivy with which it is covered
have so penetrated between the joints of some of the
massive stones as to cause them to bulge outwards. In
order to execute these repairs, scaffolds are slung from
the battlements. Other repairs are being executed within
the castle.

The Court Journal says that during the Queen's
absence from the Castle it is customary to employ a large
number of workpeople on the necessary repairs of the pri-
vate and servants' apartments, but at the present tame
scarcely more than from twenty to thirty mechanics are
engaged, including carpenters, painters, gliders, masons,
&c.

The marriage of Mr. Percy Oxenden with Miss
Isabella Finch Hatton is, says the Morning Post, postponed
on account of the death of the elder sister of the Wide,
which took place on the 19th.
At a meeting at Carlisle on Saturday of the
sobsesibers to the Cumberland memorial of the late Earl
of Carlisle, it was resolved that Mr. Foley, MA., be en-
gaged as sculptor, and that the statue should be placed on
the Moat at Brampton. There is a sum of 700/. available
for the purpose.
PRINCES AND PICKPOCKETS.—It has been stated
that the Prince de Joinville was lately robbed of 2801. in
money and some bills and letters of credit, at the Hotel
des Quatre Saisons, at Wiesbaden. The thief was pounced
upon by M. Seyfried, the director of police, in the public
gaming rooms, where he was playing at roulette for very
small stakes. Being seized by the collar and publicly
taxed with the theft he at once confessed, and most of
the money was found upon him. The man, who is a
German, was very speedily tried, and sentenced to a
year's imprisonment. Prince Narischkine, who was
robbed at Baden-Baden of 4,000/. and a necklace worth
400/., won, it is said, more than the whole amount of his
lees by a run of luck at the tables the next day.
THE NEW DOCKS AT BOULOGNE. The formal
opening of the grand docks has just takenplace, when the
imperial yacht, having on board his Imperial High-
ness Prince Napoleon, steamed up the harbour and, enter-
ing the lock gates, bore up for the east quay, where she
was made fast. There was a great crowd, chiefly English
visitors, collected on the pier-head and quay to witness
the opening, who, seeing the prince on the bridge of the
yacht, loudly cheered hi-u, his imperial highness receiving
the congratulations by repeatedly. bowing. The dock was
commenced in the year 18.59, and has been nine years in
eourse of completion. The total cost has been a little under
300,000/. The space it occupies is on the weed side of Bou-
logne harbour at Caperure. The basin for shipping occupies
asap-tildes of more than 17acres, with& quay wall front-
age of 3,600 feet, and a superficial quay space of over
240,000 for the stowage of goods. It is of irregular
shape and about 1,300 feet in greatest length,
and 1;30 feet in greatest breadth. The lock, or
half-tide basin is 3'2.3 feet in length, and 68 feet
in breadth, with a depth over the cill of the gates
of 29 feet at high-water spring tides, and 23 feet at high-
water neap tides. But the facility of entering it is mea-
sured, not by its own depth, but by that of the channel
leading to it over the bar of Boulogne harbour. This is
stated by the moat recent measurements to be about 241 feet
at high-water spring tides, and 19 feet at high-water neap
tides. From these figures about 3 feet must be deducted
for the fall of the waves, the allowance to be made for
not following the exact channel, and other causes, and,
filially, the maritime authorities of Boulogne declare the
harbour to be easily accessible under all circumstances to
vessels drawing 211 feet water at high-water erring tides,
and 16 feet at high-water neap tides.
A SPEECH BY GENERAL GRANT. At Galena
the other day, in reply to an address of welcome, General
Giant spoke as follows:—" Gentlemen and fellow-citizens
of Galena,—After an absence of three years from your
midst, it affords me great pleasure to return here again to
PIN! 3ou all, and, as I hope, spend an agreeable and quiet
fortnight with you. During that time I will be happy
to sec you at your homes and at mine whenever you can
make it convenient to call. I shall not on this occasion
nor upon any other make you a speech, which I suppose
you are well aware of. I am very glad to see you.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SUROEONS.—At the last
meeting of the council of this institution, Mr. J. F. South,
consulting surgeon to St. Thomas's Hospital, resigned his
chair as an examiner, an appointment whsch he has held since
1819. Mr. South, who has Riled the office of president on
two occasions, will still continue to afford hie colleagues
all the benefit of his experience at the meetings of the
council, of which body he is a life member, having been
elected in 1841.

CRYSIAL PALACE.—HALF-A-CROWN DAY.
SATTTRDAY, Amuse ft—Admissions by NUM tickets,
1,971; ditto on payment, I,l9o—total visitors, 3,097.

THE EXPRESS; 119[01fDAY AUGUST.-' 24; kg6B.

"P"WEStitir Aura XTI.IDE
CANAL.
ADIOU1112111DIIKKIJNE%:-OHNI D+Y.)

~ •nu moiniag;:at 11 o'clock .Wort. darter,
4AB 'rimer tor BeetllBlßl79 znitimed. ki-ahe heard-seem
of Camberwell Workhouse, the yaijry eespdhag the
supposed robbery sad murder of hie Ilea, aged 48
Jean.
The inquiry bad been adjourned in order to give th?
pane time to discover the whemaboun of a person who
was last seen walkilg with the deceased along the banks
of the Surrey Canal dear the Old Sant-road-bridge.
Several !Mamas were examined to-day, but no evi-
denos was given to justify the inhuman that violence had
been used towards the deceased by any other person.
The Coroner said that as there bad been a elispicion
that the deceased had met his death by foul means, he
should caution the suspected party not to make any state-
Meet that might eliminate himself.

Thomas Butler was then called.
Coroner—Do you think that anything that you may aay
will tell to your disadvantage ?
Witness—No, sir; I wish to tell all. I was at a public.
house called the Alexandra, and I there met the deceased.
We had some beer, He asked me to walk home with him,
and we left the house together and prOceeded to the
William the Fourth, near the Surrey Canal. I left him
for a moment, and upon my return I found him missing.
I again went out, and I found him outside, and then
walked on ; and I waited a short time on the beaks of the
canal. lie did not come, and I went to a neighbour's
bonnet* bee my child,- and thou.! went home. I did not
know until the next morning that he wee drowned.
The jury concurred in an opinion expressed by the
Coroner, by returning a verdict of "Accidental death
through walking into the canal while under the influence
of drink." . _

liElifOUS ATTACK ON AYOUNO LADY IN A

KOMI!' MARENT.--(11FIDI DAY.)
O$R:o
There is still very Halle business in the Stook
Exchange, but most of the market, have re-
opened to-day with a- ,slightly better ten-
dency. Consols are inquired for, sad have im-
proved .it per oent., a few purchases having
been made to cover reettat sales for a fall. Railway
shares are steady at, in most cases, the closing
prices of Friday. In• the foreign stock market,
Italian bonds of 1861 are iri request, and have
risen 1. per oont., owing to a similar advance this
morning upon the Paris 13ourse. Some *of the
other foreign securities show tirmnees. Otherwise
there is no feature worthy of special notice.
No alteration is apparent in the discount
market. Loans on English government securities
are offered in the Stock Exchange at 1 to 1h per
oent.

Como la are quoted 933 for money, and 933 to
94 for the amount (September 8), and the Three
per Cent& Reduced and New Three per Ceuta.,
94 to 3.

With the exception of a rise of 1 per cent. in
Great Western, and a reduction to the same extent
in Metropolitan, railway stocks are unchanged.
Prices are quoted an follows :—Caledonian, 78 to
1; London and North Western, 1151 to ',116;
Great Western, 481 to 1; Midland, 1061 to' 1'07;
London and South Western, 88 to 90, ex div. ;
Great Eastern, 361 to ; Brighton, 521 to
1; South Eastern, 76 to 1 ; Metropolitan, 1111
to 1 ; Great Northern, 1051 to 1061 ; Ditto
A, 103 :to 1 ; London, Chatham, and Dover,
191 to 1; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1291
to 130 ; York and North Midland, 91 to
92; Berwick, 101 to 102 ; and North British, 341
to 361.
The foreign stock market is firmer. Italian
bonds of 1861 are in good demand, and have im-
proved 1 per cent., the present price being 52 to 4.
Turkish of 186.5 are 1 higher, at 384 to 39.
Brazilian of 1865, 76} to 771 ; Chili= of 1867,
931 to 941; Egyptian of 1864, 841 to 83 ; Mexi-
can, 154 to ; Peruvian of 1865, 79 to 1; Rus-
sian of 1866, 921 to 9311 Orel, 84 to ; Spanish of
1867, 34 to ; Turkish of 1858, 661 to 671; and
ditto of 1862, 644 to 651.

Indian Government securities are without altera-
tion. The Five per Cents. are quoted 1141 to
115; the Four, 1041 to 2 ; the Bonds, 20s. to
235. prem. ; and the Debentures, 1051 to 1.
Bank Stock is SI better, at 244 to 246. Exche-
quer Bills, 15s. to 20s. prem.
In the market for bank shares Anglo-Austrian
are 58. lower, at 61 to 7 prem. ; Imperial Otto-
man, Ito prem. ; Consolidated, Ito prem. ;
London and Westminster, 671 to ; London and
County, 301 to ; and Union of London, 351
to 1.
The only movement in miscellaneous shares is
a rise of 2s. 6d. in Hudson's Bay, viz., to 152 to
National Discount, 111 to 2; General Credit, 22
to 2 dia. ; Credit Foncier, 22 to 3 per share;
International Financial, 1f to 11 dis. ; London,
24 to 22 dis. ; Telegraph Construction, 151 to 3 ;
Atlantic Telegraph Eight per Cent. Preference,
31 to 4 ; and Anglo-American, 211 to 2.

-United States 5-20 Bonds are 1 per oent. lower,
at 71} to t ; Atlantic and ()rest Western Railway
debentures are quoted 37 to I, being 1 per cent.
worse, and the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds,
371 to t.
The report of the directors of the Submarine
Telegraph Company states that the receipts during
the half-year have been sufficient to enable the
directocs to pay off 1,0001. of the debenture debt,
to provide for the dividend on the preference
stock, amounting to 1,2251., which has become an
additional charge on the revenue, to recommend
a dividend at the rate of 5 per oent. per annum
upon the ordinary stock, and to add 2,6591., being
the usual proportion (one-tenth) of the gross re-
ceipts, to the reserve fund.

The Council of India will receive tenders on the
2nd proximo for bills on Calcutta and Madras to
the amount of 200,000/.

A special meeting of the Electric and Inter-
national Telegraph Company will be held on the
Bth of September, " for the purpose of considering,
and, if so resolved, of authorising the board to sell
and convey to her Majesty's Postmaster-General,
in his corporate capacity, and to his successors,
and to require him to purchase, the undertaking
of the company upon the terms and under the
powers and provisions contained in the Telegraph
Aot, 1868."

TWO O'OLOGgi

The English funds are steady, at the above men-
tioned rise. In the railway market Great Western
stock lain demand, and has advanoed ;percent., the
present price being 491 to 11. Great Eastern and
London, Chatham, and Dover have improved I
to 1, while Caledonian has declined I. Foreign
bonds are unchanged, apart from a decline of i
per cent. in Turkish of 1865.

FOUR O'CLOCK.
Consols are steady, at 931 for money, and 931
to 94 for the account,

AR regliiis railway stocks, South Easter:, 1/68
declined per cent., viz., to 751 to 76, while
Midland has improved 1, the present
price being 107 to 1. Metropolitan, 111 to
1; Brighton, 521 to 1; Caledonian, 751 to ;
London and North Western, 1151 to 1161; Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, 1291 to 130 ; and Cheat
Western, 491 to 1.
Foreign bonds are quoted about the same as
at 2 o'clock. Italian of 1861, 52 to 1; Orel, 84
to 1; Nicholai, 661 to ; New Spanish, 331 to
341 ; and Turkish of 1865, 381 to 1.
About 20,0001. in bar gold has been sent into
the Bank to-day.
At Paris to-day the Three per Cent. Rentes
opened at 70fr. 77c. for the account, being per
cent. better than on Saturday.

MINE&-(THIS DAL)

ONE O'CLOCK.

Home mining shares have been very little dealt
in. Annexed are some of the present prices, viz.:
—West Chiverton, 60 to 62 ; Prince of Wales, 34e.
to 36e. ; Chiverton Moor, 6} to 7 ; Marke Valley,
74 to 71; and East Caradon, 2 to 21;
West Frances, 28 to 30 ; West Drakewalls, 6s. to
Bs. ; Tincroft, 13 to 131 ; North Treskerby, 9s. to
l Is. : and Wheal Buller, 6 to 8.

Foreign and colonial mining shares are quoted
as follows :-Bt. John del Rey 19 to 20 ; Don
Pedro, 21to 1 prem. ; Anglo-Brazilian, par
to / prem.; Pestarena, / to / die.; Chou-
tales, 1/ to 2} ; Rossa Grande, to I pram. ;
Anglo-Italian, par to prem. ; United Mexican, 1/
to I ; Frontino and Bolivia, /to / ; Port Phillip,
1/ to ; Central American, I din to par ; Sao
Vicente, par to I prem. ; and Yudanamutana, 4;
to I.
The Cape Copper Mining Company have re-
ceived despatches, per Celt steamer, to 6th July,
in Namaqualand. The superintendent writes,
" You will hear with much satisfaction that we
have at length been blessed with abundant rains.
I am happy to say that carrying has begun on the
Hondeklip line, and will commence in a few
days on the Port Nolloth road." At Ookiep
Captain Williams writes, "The various operations