The Express.
London, England, 1861-01-01 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE muursra.

LrMUlloot.. DEC. 31.—Birtmehmsd, 811 8L- Caledonian sioc
971 90—Eastern Counties, 101 101—Great Northern Stock. 11
1111---Great Westerns. 74 749—Ltummbire and Yorkshire, 114
119—Londen and North Western, 101 1011—Manchester, Shef-
Geld, and Lincoln, 1151 54—Midland Stock, 12.3}134--Ditto New
shares, 2 146 v.—North British Stock, 654 06—North Stafford-
shire. 29 21 d.—North Eastern, Berwick Capital Stock. 1061 1059
--Ditto-York Capital Stock. 116 061—Ditto Leeds Stock, lib 04
—BouthEastern, 211 346 Di 5-16—West Midland, tlnlord. 49 60—
Dutch Rhenish, 16-16 ad 213.10 EL—fire:A Lusendtottrg, CI 7
Grand Trunk of Canada, 5f 61—Great Western of Canada, 11 111
—lllinois Central, 301 30 d.—litufalo and Lake Huron, 44 4 1516
—Great Ship. Lc to W. 6d.—Thames and limey Marine Com-
pany, 1 3-16 1 546 p.
MAiteltiorrit, Dix'. 3I.—A good loudness in Leeds, Sheffield'.
South Eastern, and Midland stocks. but opening prices not 0.1010
sustained, eseept for Sbetileld. Great M estern, 74—Lancandre
and Yorkshire, 119—London and North Western, 1014--Man-
chester, shefneld and Lincohushire, 664—Midland, Ml—North
Eastern, Berwick, 105—South Eastern. WA—Stockton and bar.
lington New 'l5OO , It p.-1111nois Central, 30 d.
BIANDIONAX, Dm. 31.—The advance in the rate of discount
to-day caused a decline of one-half per cent. in the price of all
the leading railway stocks. Dudley and West Bromwich Bank
shares were dealt in at 51—Gloucester Waggon Company shares
at is. 3d. prem. —Month Staffords, at 11 to 111. London and
North Westerns were last quoted at 1011—Midlands, at 135).

EXCHANGE or Booxs BT LIBRARIEB.—About
twenty years agoan old French actor, M. Alexandre Watt.-
mare. invented a very simple pLui, but one which hail pre-
viously occurred to no one ; he invited the public libraries
to give their duplicates in exchan,p fur books they did not
possess. This idea was taken up m France ; a committee of
exchange was appointed, counseling of Messrs. Ifikrinffsi, de
Loon:wider, Guessard, Littri, and other learned
polista. Upon their report, the Minister of Public Instruc-
tion has just ordered that exchanges shall take place
between the Imperial library and the bfaxarine, that of the
Arsenal. Saint Genevieve, and the Sorbonne. A cabinet of
prints will be introduced at the libraries of the Arsenal
and Saint Genevieve, and increased by the duplicates of the
Imperial library ; but the last-named will take from the
collections of its two helpmates the copies of works that it
does not posses itself.
A Sebastopol correspondent of the Lerant Herald,
writing on the 7tb, says : ' It will doubtless be interesting
to some of your readers to learn that Colonel Gowee, whose
name has so frequently and honourably been mentioned in
connexion with the British burial grotto& in the erimea,
has lately been presented with a handsome gold snuff-box,
bearing the following inscription, in acknowledgment of his
disinterested services in repairing the different cemeteries :
—' Presented by the British Government to Colonel Gwen,
in acknowledgment of his services in preserving the British
Cemeteries at Sebastopol, September, 1860.'—It is indeed
gratifying to learn that the British government has taken
this step, and when it is coneklered that Colonel Gowen has
also repaired the different cemeteries of the Preach, Sardi-
nians, and Turks, it is to he presumed that these respective
governments will not he backward in following the examples
alreadv set them. and will not fail to present some testi.
monialto the warm-hearted colonel who has protected the
graves of those gallant men who died fighting for the inde-
pendence of Torte, ."
31e-egras or PATLWTS SOUTH Kmearxrrrox
Number of visitors for the week endiu; Dee. 29, 3,9401.
Total number rime the opening of the rurnanm free daily
oho 12, lolS), 307,733.
eILYSTAL PALACE. ONE SHlLLr.ert DAT. •••
MONDAT, DEC. 31.—Admissious ou payment, 1,9:6; ditto
by swan tickets, n2.—Total visitors, 2.,723.