The Express.
London, England, 1868-09-15 00:00:00

THE STOCK EXCHANGE AND ITS
VISITORS.

Trte Committee of the Stock Exchange is to be
congratulated upon the letter which appears in
this morning's Times. The day is past for the par-
ticular form of jocularity which was at one time
associated with the gambols of " bulls " and
" heart." That the Stock Exchange must be kept
private is an obvious necessity ; but that the gen-
tlemen engaged on it there should pounce upon
any stranger trespassing, and eject him con-
tumeliously and with their own hands is in-
tolerable. It is clear that the young foreigner
whose sufferings have been recently described
had no business where he was found, and
that if 'Change were thrown open to every
idle sight-seer the nuisance would be serious.
But a proper system of police, or even of
gate-keeping, ought to be sufficient to protect the
members from intrusion ; and we trust that it will
be in this direction the committee will inaugurate
reforms. There are many institutions in London
besides the Stock Exchange in which the presence
of strangers is not permitted ; but there is, so
far as we know, none in which exceptional
violence is thought necessary to exclude them.
It has been held part of the unwritten law
of stockbroking that an outsider caught pry-
ing into the theatre of its mysteries should be
danced round, yelled at, " bonnetted," punched,
nudged, and generally exposed to the treatment
inflicted upon pantaloon at Christmas time. Hun-
dreds of hapless people have experienced these
amenities and gone home wiser if not sadder
men. Let it be understood that for the
future this kind of horse-play must be discon-
tinued, and that the Stock Exchange proper must
be kept clear of visitors by other means. What
those means shall be may be safely left to the
conscript fathers regulating the sale and transfer
of shares and scrip. There can be no difficulty in
attaining an end which other institutions secure
without difficulty and without fuels.

Beaulieu Abbey House, in Hants, is now under-
going thorough renovation, previous to ite being the per-
manent residence of Lord Henry Scott, a son of the Duke
of Buocleuch. The Abbey House was originally the
abbot's residence and private chapel. Beaulieu Church
was the abbey refectory, and contains a unique stone
pulpit, from which a monk delivered religious exhortations
while his brother monks were at their meals. Instead of
ivy curious ferns grow on the church and tombstones. The
famous Margaret of Anjou's apartments in the Abbey
House, with their ancient furniture, are now dosed to the
public, and only the doorway where she made her escape
from the abbey grounds, and the spot in Beaulieu river
where she embarked after the period of her claiming
sanctuary had expired, can be visited by tourists. Beau-
ben Manor is a most extensive one. It was the only one
contiguous to the New Forest which gave its owner the
privilege of killing the forest deer that trespassed on it.
One game preserve on the manor is 800 acres in extent,
over which the Prince of Wales shot a short time mace.
Lord Henry Scott has been spoken of as a candidate for
South Hants.

About 70,000 tons of clay from the Purbeck
bills are annually exported from the port of Poole, in Dor-
setahire. This clay is adapted for the manufacture of
coarse earthenware. Some portion of the clay is shipped
to foreign port at Parkstone, near Poole. Extensive
pottery works have been established for the manufacture
of drain pipes, tiles, to. The surface clay is converted
into bricks, and machinery has been put up there
which can make 14,000 bricks daily. About 200 persona
us employed at tAs Parkstone Pottery Works.