The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-22 00:00:00

MINB&-(Tli18 DAY.)

Own o'CLOOK.
The mining market is firm to-day, with an
active demand for shares in most of the following
mines, at the prices given, viz : West Chiverten,
671 to 6SI; Prince of Wales, 21 to 31 ;
Wheal Grenville, 355. to 375. 6d.: East Lovell, 81
to 9 ; Chiverton Moor, 6 to 64 ; West Great
Work, 31 to 2 ; Great Vor, 191 to 201 ; West
Drakewalls, Be. to 10s. ; New Lovell, 9to ; and
Wheal Seton, 824 to 871.
In the market for foreign and colonial mining
shares, St. John del Bey and Chontales are in-
quired for, at 54 to 35 and 1 die. to par, respectively,
but other descriptions are rather inactive. Don
Pedro are quoted 21 to 3,1, pretn. ; Anglo-Braxi-
lion, par to A prom. ; Pestarena, dis. to par Rosen
Grande, par to 1 prem. ; Angio-Italian, par to
prem. ; United Mexican, 11 to k ; Frontino and
Bolivia, 15-16 to 1 1-16 ; Port Phillip, 1 7-10 to
9-16; Central American, 1 dia. to par ; and Anglo-
Argentine, 1 to I prem.
At the Port Fhillip and Colonial Gold Mining
Company's meeting yesterday the directors' report
was received and adopted, and a dividend of Is. 61.
per share declared, free of income tax.
At the Victoria (London) Mining Company's
meeting yesterday the report was received and
adopted. Mr. Spencer lierapath was elected a
director in the room of Mr. J. D. Fowles, deceased

dared.
The ordinary meeting of the shareholders of the
East London Bank (Limited) is called for the 30th
inst., when a dividend will be declared.
The half-yearly meeting of the Mediterranean
Extension Telegraph Company (Limited) will be
held on the 7th of Feb.
The ordinary meeting of the Eastern District
Freehold Estates Company (Limited) is convened
for the 30th inst., for the declaration of a dividend.
The Master of the Rolls has this day appointed
Mr. James Cooper, of the firm of Johnstone,
Cooper, Wintle, and Evans, official liquidator of
the London Quays and Warehouses Company
(Limited), the summons for the appointment of
the liquidator having been adjourned into court.
HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.
Consols and foreign stocks are steady. As
regards railway securities, Midland, Caledonian,
and Berwick have improved Ito 1 per cent. while
Great Western and Great Northern A have ;seeded
to about the same extent.
The demand for the scrip of the New Portuguese
Loan has latterly been stimulated by several con-
siderations, amongst which may be mentioned the
low pries at which it was issued ; the length of
time over which the instalments are spread, which
makes the scrip very light to hold ; the fact that
the first half-yearly coupon of 14 per cent. is due
on the 30th inst., in reduction Of the 5 per per cent.
instalment then payable ; the option enjoyed by
the holders of converting this loan into Portu-
guese internal stock ; and, lastly, the payment of
the dividend at a fixed exchange at Paris and
Amsterdam—a privilege which cannot fail to be
encouraging to Dutch and other continental
investors.
About 14,000 sovereigns from South America
were sent into the Bank yesterday.
Theecie. Sidon, from New York, has brought 32,0001.
No
The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon were
unaltered, with the exception of a decline in the
rates for bills on Vienna. The list is subjoined :
Amsterdam, 3 months, 12.0 to 12.01 ; ditto, short
11.18 to 1L111; Rotterdam, 3 months, 12.0 to 12.01 ;
amsmssp, s mouths. 25.321 us 25.371 ; Brunei.. 3 mouth.. A soldier named Brecker was shot on Saturday
116.321 to 25.371: Hamburg sad Aliens, 3 mouths, 11.9 to at Chartres for highway robbery and murder. The night
L 1.91 • Berl". Colowie, Ar 434253 months, 6.281 to 9.271 preceding his execution ha spent in playing dominoes with
ISt. Petersburg, 3 month', to 324 ; Peen short, 25.121 his gaoler
to 25.221; ditto, 3 mouths, .30 to =JO ; Marseilles,
•
3 months, 0.30 to 25.33 ; PrankforSon-the-Maine, FOUR OLD Lents& —David Garrick's widow stir-
s math, 123 a to 1231 ; Timm, 3 menthe, 1233 vived that eminent tregedian forty-three years, and died
12.20 ; Trieste, 3 months, 12.15 to 12.20 ; Madrid, 3 in 1822, aged ninety-nine. She bad before her marriage
months, 481 to 481 • Santander, 3 moriths, 481 to 481; Ca, been a dancer on the boards of Drury-lane, Rod was a
3 months, 481 to 4811; Seville, 3 months, 43d to 481 Malaga, native of Vienna. She died in her chair, retaining her
3 montba, 481 to 48 ,• Valencda, 3 months, 484 to 484 ; Bat. faculties 60 the loot. Bailey cites, too vaguely perhaps fee
ealone, months, 481 to ; Bilbao, 3 months, 481 to the sceptical, the Ron. Mrs. Watkins, of Glamorganshire,
434 sornetes. 3 mosibm, 481 to egi ; Loshorn, 3 who died in 1790, aged 110. The year before she died
months, 29.25 to 29.30 ; Omni, 3 months, W. 25 to she made a trip from Wales to London, to see Mrs. Sid-
-39.30 ; lupus. 3 tooatas, 2%25 to 99.30 ; Palermo, 3 dons act. Nine visits did she make to the theatre durum
mouths, 23.25 to 29.30 ;11kosina„ 3 months, 29.25 to her, stay, retiring evadingly before the after•piece ; and,
29.33; When, wigs, doge, 314 te 511 ; Oporto, go gaye besides this, she sat for her portrait, and ascended to the
date. 51i to 511. " whispering gallery" at St. Paul's. She got safe home ;
The Metropolitan Railway traffic return shows esdli".L'a did net pave c't"", as it did old Pare&
A more urefragelle ease, is that of Mn. Wit-
this week an increase of only IV. compared withNanny of moor Park. =lime-head, Dorset,
who
the corresponding period of 1557, when the ice died, aged 102, in isa—,4abot of whom her great gradee"'
accident in the Regent's-park had just occurred. avers that she was isrualed for cataract whet eighty-
The traffic return of the Great astern Railway one, and made • seas* spetandiog, to bee tenantry,
of Canada for the week ending the 17th inst. whoa they elegmddielld her on her hundredth birthday.
No attempt be b mai to invalidate this companies-
shows an increase of 1981. over last year. tics if bar deseendand. The three old ladies above meri-
no annual meeting of the Indian Carrying timed t eldest te the company into which for the
Company, convened for yesterday, was adjourned noose wo thamt„ is liking frost Mts., or, as she
till the 75th February, when, it is anticipated, the was sass elise. "lady" lamas as eccentric
Secretary will have returned from India with infor- widow, who diod in London in 1803 Ida* set 106.
ashen wi# regard to the affairs of the wider- re lie
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needonald
=that at the nierket=966l---L-.4.le..allinalin' Ors herald WINO as add men-earvant, two
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