The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-29 00:00:00

INDIAN RAILWAY DEBENTURES.

Great &Lin Peninsula, July 1, 1872. 1041.

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Dutch Rhenish. New, q.
Great Luxembourg, 121.
FOREIGN RAILWAY OBLIGATIONS.
Oral Vitebsk. guar. by Rum. govt., ii per cent., 821, 11.

COLONIAL AND FOREIGN MINES.
Don Pedro, Noith del Rey, 2 11-16, S.
ROSPA Grande, f.
St. John del Rey (Limited), 19, f
Yudaimmutana of S. Australia (Limited), 2 1-1&

JOINT BTOCIC BANKS.
Anglo-Egyptian Banking (Limited), 18.1.
Bank of New Zealand, 191, 1.
City, II f.
Imperial Ottoman, Ili, I.
London and Westminster, Scrip, issued at 101. prem.
none of which has been paid, 47,1.
Oriental Bank Corporation, 42f.
Union of Australia, 49f.

MISCELLANEOUS.
Company of African Merchants (Limited), 2i.
Credit Fonder of En land (Limited), 34.
Egyptian 9 per cent. Viceroy, gua. by Egyptian govern
ment,
London Provincial Telegraph (Limited), 21.
Peninsular and Oriental Steam, 54}.

TnE BRITISH ASSOCIATION AT NORWICII.—A.
correspondent writes that the arrangements for thi
forthcoming meeting in August of the British As.
sociation for the Advancement of Science are rapid-
ly advancing. The Drill-ball, where the opening
address and other lecture% will be delivered, is well re-
ported of as to acoustic properties, while the Old St.
Andrew's-hall will, in itself, be an attraction for the
soiree'. The reception rooms offer the unusual conve-
niences of separate rooms for business correspondence and
for ladies. To geologists the crags of Norfolk and Suffolk
promise ample scope both for work in section room and for
outdoor practice under good local guidance. Arelueologista
will find peculiar attractions, or distractions perhaps, in
the fact of the International Prehistoric Society holding
one of its meetings in this country at the same time and
place. The Economic section is to be offered papers on
the state of agriculture by Mr. C. S. Read, M.P.,
and on the condition of labourers by Mr. Corrance,
M.P., Canon Girdlestone, and others ; while the
drainage of the fens and Norfolk rivers is
to be treated of by Sir Willoughby Jones and
Mr. Harding, of Lynn. The fisheries of the coast, and
pheasant breeding or over-feeding, will stir up questions of
national importance in other directions. The number of
foreigners already promises to be unusually large—Padre
Secchi from Rome, and Baron Maedler from Dorpath will
be greeted by the English Adams, Challis, Glaisher, and
others. Physiologists will not be sorry to see their section
animated by Dr. Broca, from Paris, perhaps also by Dr.
Vogt from Geneva ; and geographers will Had old friends
in Valdemar Schmidt from Denmark, and Vambery
from Pesth. Other Swiss, Dutch, French, and German
names are being daily added to the claims
on Norwich hospitality. We are glad to hear
that, while the local committee are hoping to welcome the
Association cordially and handsomely, they are en-
deavouring to show that other towns and cities besides
the great centres of trade and wealth can entertain the
Association without being burdened by :the expensive
splendour incurred at Birmingham, Nottingham, and
Liverpool, while the hospitality put at the service, of the
committee by the Lord-Lieutsmun and certain ladies and
gentlemen in the county, and by the boroughs of Lynn and
Yarmouth, offer, should the weather be at aU propitious,
very pleasurable trips at the close of the proceedings to
Cromer, Holkham, Hunstanton, and Lynn, as well as
Yarmouth, and Thetford. From all these data we an-
ticipate well of the next great scientific congress at Nor-
wich.

BIRMINGHAM BANKING COMI'ANY.--Bummonses
have been issued to the shareholders in the late Birming-
ham Banking Company, to attend at the chambers of the
Master of the Rolls, on the Nth of July, at 1 o'olock, on
the hearing of an application on the part of the official
liquidators, that a call to the amount of 101. per share may
be made on all the contributories of the company.—Bir-
mingesas JUL
THEODORE'S FAMILY.—The doomed king had
but a short time to arrange the affairs of his family. His
domestic life had not been happy of late years, and its
course may be described in a few words. When Theo-
dore. was a young chief, with his power and influence
increasing year by year, he received the hand of the fair
Twubedje, the daughter of Has Ali. This was a mar-
riage of love, and many of the good qualities attributed
to the rising chief in Mr. Plowden'a amount—his mercy,
his abstemiousness, his chastity—were due to the influence
of his beloved wife. But they had no children, and she
died. The loos to him was irremediable. He was free to
contract a political alliance, and when he defeated Oubie,
the great chief of Tigre, he married his daughter, the
proud Toronech, by whom he had an only child named
Alumayahu, a boy now about seven years of age.
But the marriage proved moat unhappy. She
was prouder even than the fiery Theodoros, de-
spiring him as an upstart. It was impossible for two
such firebrands to live together, and for some years she
had resided apart from him, with her little boy, in the
king's house, at Magdala. Since their separation Theo-
dor°. had lived a disgracefully irregular life at Debra
Tabor; and his favourite concubine, a fat Yedju Galls
woman named Itamanyu, had been living for some time
with the queen at Magdala, and receiving almost daily
letters from her absent lord. The time thr oblivion
bad now arrived. It is certain that Theodora&
and his wife Toronech passed some time to-
gether on that fatal Saturday afternoon. It is to
be hoped that they were reconciled ; and
shall see presently, he expressed a last wish •
afterwards repeated. Theodoros had several
children, among whom was a sou named Ma
about twenty years of age, who was with him
Mer Moe for July.


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