The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-25 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 25, 1857.

saner lodged then. I was there In September. On 2Sth
September I head his nice, bat did not se• him. Nut
(Saturday) worn* he mine dews with a mall bottle. I
toned what was fait. I got much flushed and heated Is
the face. Mime was the taste dame drug.
Robert Waddell—l work for Mr. Mason. He brought em
• bottle he September, on • Monday . Be
ailed me to aka • teas of'. that chap's" whisky. tasted
Wont me-third d• glees and mellowed it. I felt • bailer
tests, end asked when he got it. He told me where. I was
dull for some time aftemerds, and felt heated at Int. I did
not get dizzy. The serration continued for an hoer ar two.
Hawn put the bottle behind some boards. I never
touched ft.
Robert M'laurin and Robert Hunter gave evidence to the
effect that they had got the pat bottle from Masco. They
had shown the phial to Mr. Hart, druggist.
Hugh Hart, druggiet—Mr. Hunter called ce we with •
. I smelt it. It Wreck me the fluid was my
y impregnated with prussic Me. The SUM was the
case with the pint bottle.
Prisoner's earrad declaration said that be had lodged on
me day with Meson, and generally denied ever giving any
prima add or whisky to Mr. or Mn. Mason.
David Stott, • Ragimham —I beard Agnes Mont-
Ul on , bee 19, about half-past fire p.m.
I = rone
to her house. Agues In:Agee:met, ow.
Her eyes awe open, dad, and . The pupils were
much Misted. There was no motion In the eyes. I did
not observe any upturning in them. She breathed slowly,
with ecossionalty deep respiration. She breathed with
tonsidarable difikulty. Her chest heaved greatly. Her
=y ews wry weak, Her skin was not par-
tnere or cold. No perspiration as far
es
I observed. In about ten minutes I hit the
skin eple, and found It Ira getting cold. The
melee continued weak. The jaws were firmly contracted.
Ths Inn eking of the jaw Is a symptom of tetanus. I did
net Mame the right hand or left foot. I saw her put to
hod. I tied up bee arms, but no vein rose. I did not in-
sert the Isacet. I mew her die. I was present at the church-
fwd on the 30th of September, when the body woe a-
liened. I could identify her. The features were very muck
farga'
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Craieexamined —ln my certificate of death I ascribed It
to apoplexy. I give It to ths registrar before the post-
mortem examinsUon.
By the Court—From the pat- nor tem I found no eggs of
sie.7;niel M'Kinlay, Taisley—l have been in make
for upwerde of thirty yaws. I have frequently ma& past-
toorian examinations; also chemical analyse.. I woe in
lan. Gilmour's ewe, end for the last tan or fifteen 'sera have
Mee engaged in almost every important poisoning ace. On
30th September, 1 was requested to examine the body of
trMontgomery. Dr. W. B. 111.Kinlay, my ace, went
... to Capkehaw. I seat for Dr. Scott. We teat all
three to the churchyard. Some relatives were there sad the
belly wee identifithi
,lifdy three el them. We exambeed the
body, end we a report by the result of the pri-
mates exam n . There wee nompoommee of death by
apoplexy; Indeed, I would my site did let die of it. so it as
CirOtwent. There wee so indientka demity.
: no evidence of Ifillika at blood an the kale.
We meowed portions of the body far ezemiestion. I made
that szenrination along with my am. This is ear obemied
report. It finds, that he Agnes litentgemmte stainach
=ioacid wee prevent. Th. liver and spleen wen also
~ bat the vault was not so same, meshed as In the
ease amts elemorh. Ime astintied I bow meet nnequircool
postal the memos of prude add in the elcatelt. I and
my me pots parte of Ma body into beaks. Smithey might
be subject sepenbleemelyeis Pram C. Christie I got a
e 1 lee analysts—Ws le ft. I itemised it and repotted
I found a hags en It with .. H. Hart,
d Mil
Gimgew prase. acid." We famed it to eoutsinitii
6v: pm rent. of anhydrous mold. I ides=
mere bottle received Ines It Hasty
it to contain good table beer, It had no
efAnm, or bydrocyank add Is latr.oleyS bottle and
clivaut
from Robert Heater on the let October. It eon-
Mined alcohol, viler, sad hy add. We tetnened
ft to him on the 17th October. I fikatity the beide
sad phial. I prepared another rayonea en linaid 6 Its
Pint black bottle on 20th November. The emd,ialmee therein
wee a clear liquid, having odour of prise& add mid Mabel.
It contented prosaic acid, 87 ; alcohol, 108,9 ; weirw, 182,23,
12 etch fluid muses The particular smell et the body was
noted by as at the time of the incetema The three et
me emelt the manual , end fien I belt Dr.
loon to the far end of the climehlieit hie" not Ind
my particular undid odr. I asked min, he emit
he thought be did fad• et MON
shwa& I thought I felt semeibleettlst very
slight. It wee mot 6e smell af di
&
smell of bitter abnonde mitt isdhol e_ti=
add, end le
a prom teksecmabZuesicZneedeedd Ishos ghee quar-
ter. of en beer to ItM, VW ore the symptoms I—ln a dsw
minutes, hiseriblhey, wont at pwar of -moths, and, it the
=7 was erect, he would down; the eyes wield 6
Nearing as enemy; very
erieveleions would moompanatir tigg'idc
-at the.
Hobe. jaw clenched. to a ameoln"a7aw, the
breathier would be lebodime, sad fullyewe }sc-
hemed hy the mmelee of the belly awn allot;
the pubs senall, week, thready. and malty at=
U the dose produced death audibility would not
Ommeinnity them would be sold, chary mid; Oho
moc3w ermid be move or lei tleteld.—lf a penes were
men quite well at is. minutes to five, and tea mineese atter
five seated In a chair, the eyes d and fined, breathing
shortly and with chfSealty, the rtgiaind clenched, sad the
loft loot rigid, and mixability did net ream before death,
what is your °peplos f—Kesplag pros* sad In view, the
purism di from Its diets. 1 memo disease to which I could
*scribe that death. I OmM not asnribe It to apoplexy ,as
that rarely protease 166 se suddenly. Rarely dose It
terminate without eressel best. sing from the seizure.
It rarely attacks memo so yaw as 27, Dilated eyes en
Inoassisliat with spot/key in lisserliert etages. TM right
hood eleneled and het rigid, onlime me in my opinion that
it meld not be epopiny. 160egoy newly. if ever, OMNI asev,
without previous- lima I sever sew any one actually die
of mastic need. Thom wee great darkness of colour In the
::gif Apse littmegamary, mpeeloDy in the fete. I re-
it se incorabgly pate far. I minceive that It might be
awned by pros* odd.

Dr. W. B. Ilialnlay, KO et Dr. 3l'llelay, the pr eine
winos, wad—T have no doubt tanager Montgomery died
per genic aid.
Dr. D. Machina aed—l have doweled mach time to Use
study of poison. I got a tia rear coaleinieg a number af
hutting, in which wee meter ler sheseed eselyela (Dr.
Meehan read Ma regd. The hot pings& we .ekes
without ray knowledge thatthe Drs. hl'Llelay al Paisley
were eheowsgaged in a &eller investigation to kinuall. The
=reek slid in the spleen wee unequineally
In the other articles pram& arid wee ales
bead.) I think that the nmptocos enumerated in another
Met of the eget, and which went exhibited by area
bike her death, are the symptoms at p4teca- I
leg by prank add. I have en doubt of it. I have not the
Lee hesitation in saying that Agee Montgomery was
Pfd
The court broke up about ex o'clock, to m-et again ca
Thanday.

DISTXESS or DEPOSITORS IN THE WESTERN BANK
OP SCOTLAND.—We lOSIO from ller. BMWS, the chairman
of the National Security Savings Bank, that a brie number
of persons who hold deposit receipts how the savinp beak
branches of the Western Bank here been applying at that
institution fur relief under the distressing circuahess in
which they are placed. A man who hae deposits In the
Western to the amount of hundreds--still better, to the
amount of thousands—finds no ditScalty in getting Moons
upon these in any of the other banks ; bet deposit.= of the
humbler dam, whose means vary from a one-pound note ep
to perhaps 201. or 301., can find no such relief ; and yet they
need it tee times more than thus who can end succour ten
time. more easily. It is with this smell d*oeitore • matter
of esistenos They are generally donning, indtte=if
people, who have their all backed up in the Western.
of them have been several weeks out of asaploysent,
now they ate without money to procure eves the neassearise
at life ; and, moreover, worst of them am threshold with
*sputa= frees their dwellings, as talk Martinmas rate are
shll topeld.—Olorperte Hirsh!.

FUTURZ SUPPLY OF GOLD FROM A USTIALL4.•
The prednetlat ef geld was tiseideedy increasing, in the thee
of some very unfavourable droutoneneas. ln the early part
of the nee there ins mica to believe that the total export
would be coadderably far the that of 1856. The extreme
dryness of the winter Ins very unfavourable to marry of the
gold (nide Latterly, however, the escort returns hen ben
mon fanenable. During the quarter ending September 10
the melee by escort went 632.264 ounces, egaint 683,888
ounces ba the same period of 1856, being an names of nearly
80,000 emcee • while In the Dee four weeks only, ending
October 9. tieneepts were 237,100 alma, aping 183,644
owes is tie rune four weeks of 1866—an increase of 63,436
saner, a mod eatlesotory prod that the causes of the defi-
ciency is the early part of the year were manly temporary,
and din, with a continthace of favourable weather, a largely
inaeleng yield may be looked for. A spring of unprece-
dented wed= had enixmoded to an unuenally dry winter, so
that at peanut the miners have a fair supply of water—en
ladisperable regent, for their labours. At all mew, for
nee time to mews ney look for larger return, than
—Arefrithein mid New Lennie( Gargle.

THE DANUBE NAVIGATION COXlffiliftloll. A
Berlin Weer le the Worse Orme says The Commie-
Mon of the Eta ss of the to of the Danube has
draft
the dft of its conesalleo, and Austria is ends is
obtain • ratification of It from the other states In
order that it may be presented to the Concrem of Paris as an
affair definitively settled. But the convention contains
claws too much to the advantage of the states bordering on
Ns river, and as soon OM France teemed that it was intended
le get it ratified, she raised the objection that it mull firm be
approved of by the Congress of Paris. Count Boot 'implied
by a note, dated the 7th, in which It is Mated that the Mats
were only bound to communicate the convention to the con-
but did not stand l nerd of its approbation. Franco,
however, =Wales the contrary affirmation, and has sent •
circular despatch on the .abject, drawn up with particular
care, to the French diplomatic tauagen the courts of all the
powers who signed the treaty of March 30."

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THE cArE MAIM—The Union Screw Company
hare purchased the steam-ship Atheam, al 1,000 tone sad
140-horse power, for the ooareyanoe of the best mail to the
Hof Good Hope, on the 16th proximo. BMwill be COM.
i by Capiab Cook.

DANADIPUZ 811111XECT.-110112113Ll BUMP-
INOB, AID DRAM OP TIME OF TEE CHIP.

By the arrival in the Mersey, on the 23rd, of the
barque Colima, of pad from St. John's, N. 8., Captain Rob-
blue, we have the particulars of the total toes of the Alp
%Dace, of Leith. Captain Corms', end the drsedfal =f-
leeing, of the new, who remained on the wreck during a
period of alma days, withort food or drink, ascept the body
of a dog and what water they could secure daring short in
drain.

It appears that the Wallace was a fell-rigged ship, and
sifted from the Clyde on the 10th of Augaet, coal laden, for
having a crew of twenty-one, all told. During the
out little elm but gales of wind were experienced.
envied away her mast., and ultimately reached Quebec
tmber
On timaritqf.Nov. the Wallace sailed reeve Quebec, timber
laden, for Greenock. Shortly after putting to sea a gale of
wind can* on, and continued with little intermimion until
the 7th Mat, when the ship wee about 800 miles distant from
Cape Clear. Soon after twelve o'clock on that des , while
the heeds were at work at the pumps, a sea
struck the abip, and clanked her, the crew having to crawl
up the letelyarda to escape being drowned. great
darting, they out away the landyarda, when the main send
mime masts fell. - The ship shortly after righted, when
another sea struck the bowsprit, canted It away, and also
the formed, at the sans time sweeping the deck of all that
was left, and also within, overboard llr. Lindsey,
the chief officer, and the steward (belouging to
Davenport, but whom name the crew could not
recoiled), and they wore unfortunately drowsed.l
' The remainder of the crew held on by the wreck
d the afternoon, night, and a pert of the next '
day, when the gale abated. On the Bth they were enabled
to unman , that the hatches and deck had been forted no.
the poop cabin cleared of It. contents, and that not a mond
of provisions was to to obtained. The weather having further
moderated, the crew cut away the wreck from the ship's aids
and made further search for food. Ultimately a couple of
cans of water were discovered in the fore hold, and
half a bucket of biscuit; but on the 9th, unhappily,
• me stove the water cask and thus we lost what the men
were now craving. On the 10th ths poor fellows had become
greatly exhausted, from hunger, thirst, cold, and wet—in•
their sufferings ems be more readffiLintiegined than
imeribed. No mod bad hove in ht, and their
hunger now become of that ammeter, they could
eat anything ; " whin it was determined to kill and
divide the dog, which was done—a smell portion being
consumed by each, uncooked, for they mold obtain eo Ore.
Oa the 1 Ith and succeeding day. showers of min fall, and
the poor fellow, managed to catch a small quantity, but not
sufficient to allay their parching thirist, while small bite of
their one favourite dog were the only food they had from the
7th to the 17th December, on whkh day the joyful cry of
• sail" was given, sad ultimately the Caine, Captain
Bobbins, bore down, took the crew dthe wreck, Ind got
them on been, and behaved in the most hawses and Idea
mane to them ; but an was then In their
treatment, for although wall sighs:abound, appetites
were iummorra An apprentice, however, who wee- Wen-
eible when taken of the wroth, died soon afterwards.
The captain (Covens) sad all the crew, except the three
above named, and six now at dos Bailors' Home, remain on
board the Collin In the river, being too 111, from swollen
het, eta, to be immediately removed,

MONEY MARKET.

This being Christmas-day, no hi/lutes is going
forward.

The directors of the Bank of England
after some hesitation, have stepped out from
the shelter afforded by the Act of Indemnity.
Prior to doing so, they must, of course, have can-
celled the two millions of notes over-issued. Mone-
tary affairs consequently resume their normal septet.
It is fully beieved that. a very short period will
elapse before the Bank rate will be lowered to 7 and
4 per cent. In the open market yesterday the current
rates for good bills were from 7* down to 7 per
cent., and at the Bank itself the demand continued
only moderate. For tome time to come the rates in
the general market will probably continue below
those of the Bank.

Following the movement at the Bank, the joint-
stock banks have altered the rates allowed on de-
posits as follows, viz.: the London and Westmin-
ster, London Joint Stock, and Bank of London,
allow six per cent. on all deposits ; whilst the Lon-
don and County Bank, Commercial and Union Bank
of London, allow six per cent. for new deposits, and
seven per cent. upon existing contracts.
The rate allowed by Messrs. Overend, Carney,
and Co. is 6k per cent, for money at call, and 6; per
cent, for sums subject to notice of withdrawal.
The amount of gold purchased by the Think of
England yesterday was about 84,0001.
The steamer Alhiunbta has brought 18,0731. in
specie from the Peninsula.
The amount of specie brought by the Fulton, from
New York, is 86,4001, for England, and 24,8001. for
France.

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The amount of specie taken out by the Atlantic,
for New York, is, it appears, 7,4731.

The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon were
again dull, with a downward tendency as regards
paper on Hamburg and Paris. There is stilllge
disposition to take any but abort bills. The current
quotations are as follows :
Assatadam, three maths, 12.01 to 1 ; short,
11.15 to 17 ; Rotteulmn, threelmontba, 12.01 to 11; Ant-
werp, three months, 26.66 to 70 ; Hamburg, =AA beam,
three months, 13.8 to 9 ; Pens, three deg eiht, 26.26 to
30; ditto, three months, 26.66 to 70; Prealdmt-oe-the-
Maine, three montla,l2ol to 11; Petersburg, per rouble, three
months, 33 to f ; Vienna, of. do., three months, 10.60 to 66 ;
Treats, do. three mom to * 10.63 6B; Madrid, three menthe,
47 to 1 ; Cadiz, three mouths, 471 er ; Leghme, three
months, 30.46 to 66 ; Game, three mouths, 26.5 to 10 ;
Naples, three moths, 401 be f ; Palermo, three months,
117} to 123 ; Kertaa, three madly 1221 to 123; Lisboa,
90 days, 61 to ; Oporto, 90 days, 621 to 1.
. _

Another halm; is announced in the wool trade, at
Bradford. The party in question is Mr. Henry
Haigh, whose liailitles are believed to be rather
considerable. _ _

A numerous meeting in the matter of Charles
Nicholson and Co., of Cannon-street, was held yester-
day, at the Guildhall Coffee-house ; Mr. C.J. Leaf in
the chair. Mr. Parrinton, the accountant for the cre-
ditors, explained the result of his investigation, and
stated that Mr. Nicholson and Mr. Stone were
partners in the Cannon-street business, and Mr.
Arnott in the St. Paul's businem ; and that the cre-
ditors, in their dealing, with the two firms, had not
kept the accounts in the regular manner th should
have adopted, and had frequently sold goode to one
firm and drawn for such on the other Grin. He
pointed out that • separation of the two estates
, would give rise to much litigation. Messrs. Nichol-
, son and Co. proposed a composition of 12a. 6d. in the
pound (amalgamating the two estates), payable as
follows :-3a. 6d. at four months, 3s. at eight months,
3s. at twelve months, and 3s. in the pound at six-
teen months ; the last instalment to be secured to
the satisfaction of the three principal trade creditors.
The chairman, Mr. Dillon, and Mr. Candy, addressed
the meeting, and a resolution to accept this offer was
carried unanimously. The balance-sheet referring
to the establishment in Cannon-street is as follows :

To creditor... per Hs
To habolle. emotoonOn* ;Alin; 147.3" "
°laird sours thi oto..
To roar.C. . bur. for 4.4.1 I I
;:ti
"0 0
U 11
To 11•001cloo oa
U

1.41.114 11 I

▪ Matitmenta• at Osawas4tratiTaat.... MT= 1.1 •
NO OM Mkt. Ihapielml. w{.......... sim U
- Lana 4 S
11 44 daft ...WEL:, • 1.1.414 19 I
bMay, • 2 kJ 1 I

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to prethat no I 0
Itiad bills to band . 963 0 3
VI Mr prorAms. N00..4
MI 10. If rids f•looff. 911,64"..1.110.61,0
Ton f
41h 1194 s at tbelliMal enjia.•
cook ebb Irkty.6 • . 1.103 9 0
WM by M. 6to
M waasna'tli
py bra. Satbr.. sad 6•0•00 at Asollotrogs,o2.4 ...... 692 0 •
ilume0•1:6010.2. ?la p 6 60.r0 1 0 0
ly 069100 sd ben 6i6 .61669 6 'a.;
od4M7t.Mfo.Os orsys . 1.9911 13 I
10.131 II 9
Lea riga, tam. ps, sed aletla ...... ...... 1.1.18 11

sia.ne 111
If *MI dm from Iforms. Citm rim Ilkhebo•
sed Co Bt. Pool ..churchmrd ....... MX? II I

The balance sheet of the firm in St. Paul's Church-
yard, shows liabilities, 11,6701., and assets, 17,8171.,
(taking the stock in trade at cost price), but 13,3871.
is apparently doe to the other firm.
The amount of bill. drawn by the East India Com-
pany on their respective presidencies, from the 10th
to the 24th inst. (yesterday), is u follows:
Rata of Exchange.
£1,682 0 0)2.
<aCo:per Co wit. • . .1 rupee.
Bombay

Total.. 11,782 0 0
At Lyons a rise of 2s. per lb. is reported to have
taken place in the pries of silk.
The steamer Abeona arrived at Malta from Ply-
mouth on the 20th inst., with troops for India, and
sailed again the same day. for Alexandria.
The Emigration Commissioners have taken up the
ships Admiral Boxer and Ascendant, for the con-
veyance of emigrants to Geelong and Moreton Bay
respectively.
The East India Company will receive tenders on
the 30th inst., for the conveyance of 360 tons of
dead weight from England to Calcutta.
The Admiralty will receive tenders on the 29th
inst. for the conveyance of stores from the Thames
to Bermuda, Falkland Islands, Honduras, Hong
Kong, Jamaica, Malta, Mauritius, and St. Helena.
The following, which is extracted from the New
York Tribune, has reference to the affairs of the
Illinois Central Railroad Company, and, we are
assured, is authentic:

The Illinois Central Railroad Company have received at
their office in New York, In cash, sines the let of January
last, 307,2118 dots. 91c. from the land department—being re-
ceipts from 'menet and interest fund lands—which have
been applied to interest upon the construction bonds; and
there are in the Chicago rfe 687,600 dole. of bonds csncelled;
128,000 dole. of thee. were cancelled last year, leaving
469,600 dole. which have been paid In or purchased this year,
which gives, with the rash mentioned above, 766,788 dole. 91e.
which the eempbny have realised from their lands thus hr
the present year. Since the assignment the shareholder
of the company have paid in to the agents in London, or
to the eaelgueea direct, about 800,000 dole., which has been
applied to the payment of the drafts drawn Gal London just
previous to the &advocaat, and to the inymest of 158,000
dole. of October coupons and other pre:ch-cd debts. The
parties who complain of the inactivity of the company in ad-
justing its affairs have probably lost sight of the feet that at
the date of the assignment the call of the 25111 September
upon the shareholders was only partially paid, and re collec-
tion, now nearly closed up. of 800,000 dor, during the rat
60 days of financial difficulties is sufficient evidence of the
ability sad confidence of the shareholder. The
payments upon the labs call exceed 1,600,000 dots. • and
shares held in this country the call has bees re6onded to
within 3,600 abates. The land Wee of November were
107,500 dots.
The colonial produce markets have closed for the
Christmas holidays, and will re-open on the sth of
January.

The subjoined weekly summary of the produce
markets is from Messrs. W. J. and H. Thompson :

The public sales of colonial produce this week have not
been large, and prices In some instances show an advance
upon those previously current. Sugar bee gone off steadily
at a ries of Is. to Is. ed. for the good sad eoe qualities;
while low to middling have also grandpas/4 in the improve.
meat. There has been more inquiry for coffee, and the good
qualities of plantation Ceylon bring full rates. For saltpetre,
in the curly pert of the week, there was s better demand and
higher prices then obtained, but the market has sines become
dull, and sales are reported at a reduction of la isla pre

wt. Some business has been dons in rice at tha previous
low quotations, at which, however, there are not many
lam. There is more disposition to maltase tea.

TUVRIIDAT EVINING.

The directors of the Bank of England to-day, after
a somewh►t protracted sitting, reduced the minimum
rate of discount from ten per cent, at which it was
faxed on Monday, the 9th of November, to eight per
cent. The announcement was received with the

most lively satisfaction ; for although the fall in the
value of money in the open market had already
given great relief, the growing feeling of confidence
required to be consolidated by an alteration at the
Bank.

The alteration at the Bank had been to so great
an extent anticipated, that the announcement did

not produce any immediate effect upon the funds. At
a later hour, however, increased confidence wan
manifested, and the market closed per cent. higher
than yesterday, and at the highest point yet reached.
AU the other departments of the Stock Exchange
were likewise firm. The demand for Indian railway
shares continues very active.
Console, which closed yesterday at 94 to I,
opened this morning at the same pries, sad, after
several trifling fluctuations, closed at 93! to jex
div. for the Bth Jan. The official business report Is
as follows :—Three per Cent. Consols, for account
(Jan. 8), 931, 3,3 ex div.; Three per Cents. Re-
duced, 94, S ; New Three per Cents., 94, 1,4;
Bank Stock, 214 ; Three.and-a.Half per Cent.
Li' tobequer Bonds, falling payable to 1869, 98, 981 ;
India Bonds, 20s. die.
Exchequer Bills advanced Is. to 2a., closing at 31.
dia. to Is. prem.
Turkish Six per Cents. were in great request this
afternoon, sad were quoted at four o'clock t to 11:
cent. higher than yesterday, viz., 94 to $.
shat hour the price advanced to 961 to t. Other
foreign stocks were quiet, but generally steady.
Bank shares to-day were firm. Ottoman Bank,
Bank of Australasia, and Bank of London, were
quoted better. In land, steam, and miscellaneous
shares there was no alteration of importance.
The shares in the Indus Steam Flotilla were
quoted f to i prem.