The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-22 00:00:00

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... . Do do. 1 100 107 109 ; -
Do. do 1801 100 107 109 ' 1071
160,000 . New Ileueiw.llor. Bp. ct. 100 106 108 ; -
.... .N. S. Wale.li r.sp. c. 1 100 08 IN ; -
.... .. Do. 3p. e.. 1371 to 110 100 98 00 ' -
. .. Do. 11 p. c., 1333 .. -
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1876 lOO 1044 106; ; -
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*ON I 96 Bank al Turkey 3 1 Of Ala
10,000! 60 .llritlek N. America ..- 414 62 66 -
KM, 10 i(lbart. Bank of Indla,
1 . duatralla. and China . all 2) 904 114
M,194 , 15 iChrteL dem of India,
Lou., and China all 32 In -
18091 110 (31, -
10,000 100 Colonial -
40,000110.11.0 ma. of Canada ad -.- -
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63,000 5) ~(1. -Sank of
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60.000 100 'Loa. sad WeeLminMer llO 66 07 • -
10,000; 100 'Nan Pro.. ot digland 4l - -
96.000 11/ ' Do. New ll •- - -
10,000 60 ,Natlooal Bank
14000, 10 New South Wake ad 34 36 -
61,400 23 Uneutal Bull imeporu ail 60 01 501
31,000 10 ,Ottoman bank 118
10,000 100 i Provincial el Ireland l6 - - -
10.000 26 ;South Amtralla all -
40,000 25 thdou et Australis - , -
65.000 60 ;Union dLoudon
11.010 HO Malty Inutosl IS I -
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No. 16h. I 00101.111119. I Pit lOL prloss. l bale.
10,000 19 lAnglo-Y Innl_..l an) 131 141 -
60,000 10 'Atlantic RI. Mail 81.(L)1 an 14 11 -
360 1000Atisutle Isla 1115.'.... all - - -
10,000 36 Australian Attrfood..... 19 18 53 -
47.00 10 !Berko Waterworks.... an 41 41 -
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81 107 El -
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101,9631 IL Proterenee -
160,000. M. Do. 6p. et. Perp. Den WO 1011 103 -
10,0001 10 LludbutLon.Shippogli Si 1 04 dls -
60.000: 10 nwalndlalrni.& usual 1 par Ipm 11 1
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70,000' I Pkg. and Amt. Cop. -
10,0001 15 .then. Steam Naviollin 14 -.--
139,000 1 great Ship (LIEMWd) _ ill 1 1 -
100,0964 1 Do. 171 per rent. Put. all 1 -
1(000. 6 Lou. Dietzlet TeL (11.) 4l - - Ala -
100,0001 6 Lon. Gen. Omnibus On on 111 -
60,000 10 1 Iladrae IMF). & Our! 1 11 11 pm 2* 3
10,000, 10 MedltorraneanftionTeL all - - -
1(000) 10 )(odder. U. MI. (11m.) all 3 4 -
N.OOO MI National Dleoomt Co $ 3* 11 dis -
(000 10 Nerbuddaooanklres(l) 5 1 01 dl. -
11,110 10 Netherlands Land * - -.
80,000 6 Do. Bp. 0., In a3l die all i 1 -
1.7.14 1110 N. Bran..! N. Boot. Ld Bl A 10 -
MAN IN. BM. Attelndulen all i 34 -
60,000 1 Orleedal Goa -
woo 1 Do. "New Sksree' -
40,000 10 Orlon. In. Rm. (Lha..) all - - die -
1100,05) St Peel lilme 'And& Ida lOO 47 60 -
10,000 60 Paola and Otion.llleank ad ea 71 -
10,000 10 Do. Now BO 10 11 pm -
60,000 20 Lees
ne& tad. Sal. 13.14 all
1174 18, -
10,400 60 Ilmeny Ime ad 7 18 -
1;000 16 Do. N•w oll 6 6 411 1
16,000 100 dotal Mall 61eam_ -la 49 61 -
26,000 di. Beoetlab Art Moeda IN 113 123 -
1•,f00 36 Australian Lod an II 34 -
711,030 1 Ilaboartme Tel kelp all 1 I -
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1264.0 10 Thal& Ag.of Amlralla
60. )o'. 13 Train&lai..tf.Oanala 6 - - -
60,000 6 Un. Fluidom TM. 04 . 1 4 1
10.000 100 Vas OkeneWa Land ll4 11 fli -

THE MLNIBERE or WAR "AT EanE."—Moat
statesmen find the Home-081os or the War-office, with their
subsidiary duties in the House of Commons, enough to tax
their powers to the full, and keep literature as a consolation
for the enforced leisure of opposition. Not so Sir George
Oureswall Lewis. He has found time during the session to
write " A Historical Survey of the Astronomy of the An-
cients ;" and while others are seeking health and fresh air
as the moors, is poring over the proof-sheets of his forth-
coati's work.—Guardian.
Six W. G. ARMSTRONG AND HIS WORK MEN.
On Monday evening an interesting soirie of the workmen
employed on the Elswick ordnance and engine works at
Newcastle-on-Tyne was held in the pattern-shop on the
works. No less than 2,500 persons, consisting of the work -
men, their families, and friends sat down to tea. After
tea, in the absence of Sir W. G. Armstrong, the chair was
taken by Mr. 0. W. Randal, one of the partners in the
establishment, and speeches in furtherance of the interests
at education, as promoted by the Mechanics' Institute. in
ormaexion with the works, were delivered by Mr. S. Beau-
mont, LP., Mr. R. Lambert, and several clergymen and
other gentlemen. Prism were also distributed among
most sueosedul students in the School of Design.
are 3,000 MINI and boys employed upon the Elawick or
• and engine works, and their united wages amount to
more than 5,0001. • fortnight. The Elawick ordnance
works are being largely extended. Among the more
recent additions is an apparatus for the manufacture!,
of cannon of weight and strength hitherto unbeare
of. An immense 3CO-pounder battery gun is in the worse
of being formed by the use of the new 10-ton steam-hammer,
which can be waited up to 15 tons, and is the largest in
England, and is daily wrought at from 40 to 50 strokes a
minute. The anvil weighs 34 tons. The bore of the 300-
pounder gun will be 101 inches in diameter ; length, 14 feet ;
weight, 12 tons. It will be • muzzle loader, and the rifling
of ita bore will be on the rib pattern. It is expected to be
finished in four months. There realm in hand &WO-pounder
breach-loading gun, to be oonstrocted on the wedge principle.
Extensive foundries are being laid out upon the works, and
• test for trying the gums before they are sent up to Wool-
wich is being built on the south side of the Tyne. Among
the orders being executed in the engine department of
those works are 13 locomotives for the East Indian Railway
Company.
DEATH or PROVEMOR QUEKETT,
distinguished microscopist expired on the 20th inst. at
Pangbourne, Berkshire, to which place he had been re-
moved • few weeks since in the hope that the change ought
be productive of permasent benefit to him. On the retire.
meat of Professor Owen from the College of Surgeons, Mr.
Quekett was elected his successor, as also professor of hien-
logy, an appointment which he held at the time of his
death. Professor Quekett, who was only 40, leaves a widow
and four children to deplore the loss of an amiable hothead
and most indulgent parent.
FRAUDS ET AN ORDNANCE CLERK.—OR Tues-
day, at the head polies-office, Dublin, before Mr. Dennott
and Mr. Wyse, Hamilton Connolly, • clerk in the War De-
partment, Lower Castle-yard, and John Nl'llwaio, ordnance
contractor, Nam, county Kildare, were brought up on re-
mend, charged with extensive friends on the Ordnance
Department. The case excited the greatest ioterest,aod the
court was densely crowded. Mr. Serjeant Sullivan and Mr.
Barry,.Q.C., appeared for the crown. It appeared from
the evidence given when the prisoners were first brought
before the police magistrates, and the additional
evidence produced on Tuesday, that Hamilton Con-
nolly, who was chief clerk in the ordoence.office, was in
the habit, for a number of years, of altering the figures
in the accounts of 111PlIwain, the contractor, after they bad
been certified by Colonel Durnford, and that cheque' for
the forged sums were given on the office in Lender, which
had been regularly paid without suspicion, the adZlitioual
sums thus fraudulently obtained beiug divided between the
two prisoners. For example, a cheque was paid, containing
the sum of 5011. 6s. 9d., purporting to be the amount testi-
fied by the colonel, but he produced the duplicate, in
which the figures were 2ti.V. 9s. 3id. In one instance
the figure "1 " msconverted into " 7," and the parties
obtained 700/. instead of 1001. The prisoners, who were
advised by counsel, offered no defence, and they were
committed, "for conspiring to commit fraud, and for
committing fraud, by obtaining money under false pre-
tences." In addition, Connolly wee committed for the
crime of forgery. The prisoners lived in a style of great
respectability, nothing about their mode of living indicating
that they were likely to be guilty of such practices. It is
supposed that the government has been robbed to the
extent of 12,000/. at least.
THE CA M BRIDORSMIRE MURDER. —The remains
of the late Mrs. Harvey, who was murdered by her eldest
son Thomas, under the circumstances fully reported in our
columns • day or two since, were interred yesterday, in the
churchyard at Fen Dittos. Mrs. Witte has been in-
sensible since the occurrence, but not speechless. No exer-
tion has been spared to trace the accused, but up to lest
evening nothing bad been heard or seen of him. Tam-
day night copies of the depositions take° at the inquest
were forwarded to the Home Secretary, with &request that
• government reward should be offered, but at the date of
this communication no answer had been received.
THE PNEUMATIC DISSPATCH COM PANT. —The ex-
periments that for some time past have been carried on at
Battersea were brought to a close on Tuesday, and the ap-
paratus is about to be removed for perm Anent working and
laying down underground between the General Poet-office.
the district post-office in Bloomsbury, and London and
North Western Railway at Euston square. The experi-
ments are considered as satisfactory as they can be on a
snail scale.

MONEY MARSEZ-(THIS DAL)

Two *Twat.

The fund+ showed increased buoyancy tide
morning, and a fresh rise of g per cent. was tem-
porarily attained. The weekly court at the Bank,
however, has since broken up without
altering the rate of discount, anti the market
is now less strong. The Paris Bourse is likewise
weaker. Nevertheless, Consols are still quoted }
per cant. higher than they closed yesterday.
Some sales have caused a relapse of } to } per
cent. in the India Lan. The stock is now quoted
102} to I, and the scrip, 102} to 1.
At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Renter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes opened at
68fr. 2k., being per cent. lower than yesterday.
Console are officially marked 914, 1, and for
money, and 91}, 4, and ;; for the account
The present quotations are 91} to 1 for money,
and 91} to 4" for the 10th September. The official
business report is as follows :—Bank Stock,
2344, 233 ; Three per Ceuta Reduced, 914, ;
New Three per Cents., 91}, tl, 1 ; Thirty
Years' Annuities, 1885, 15 11-16 ; India Stock,
2194, 220 ; ditto Five per Cent. Stock, 102 i, }
ditto for account, 1021 ; ditto Scrip, 103} ; ditto
Four per Cent. Debentures, 1863, 971, 97 ; ditto
1859, 97, ; Five per Cent. " enfaced" rupee
paper, 95, ; Exchequer Bills, March, 12s. din ;
ditto small, 12s. dig. ; ditto, June, 3s. die., par.
Turkish Bonds were steady in the morning, but
have since fallen } to I per cent. ; the Loan of.
1854 is now quoted 784 to 79, and that of 1858,
69} to }. The latter shows chief heaviness
Mexican Bonds remain very dull. Sales are re-
corded as follows :—Brazilian Old Five per Cents.,
100; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 1862, 89} ;
ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 1860, 89, 881;
Chili= Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 811; Maxima
Three per Cents., 22 ; Peruvian Four-and-a-Half
per Cents., for accmitt, 99} ; Russian Four-and-
s-Half per Cents., 90} ; ditto Three per Cents.,
1859, 61} ; Sardinian Five per Cents., 79}, 79, } •
Spanish Three per Cents., 49} ; Turkish St
per Cents., 1854, for account, 79} ; ditto, Six
per Cents., 1858, for account, 701, 70, }, 691,
; ditto 1001. Bonds, 72}, 72.

A meeting has been held this afternoon of the
creditors of Mesas. Beater, Dennant, and Russ
(James Coster, Beater, Dennant and Ruse),
warehmusemen, of Aldermanbury. The at-
tendance was very large. The liabilities
amount to 216,863!. (including 129,2661. due
to the executors of the late Mr. James
Coster), and the net assets to 168,4821.,
irrespective of 7,6001., derivable from leases held
and the private estates of the three partners. The
failure has arisen through losses on the trading,
combined with the embezzlements of the two chief
clerks. These, and the inability to meet pay-
meets due to the executors of the late Mr. J.
Coder, were the causes of the stoppage. The
estate is to be wound up under inspection,
and it is considered highly desirable that the
stock should disposed of as soon as possible.
The anticipation of the Great Exhibition of 1862
is beginning to enter into the calculations of the
holders of railway property. Directors will pro-
bably find in it a new pretext for making largo
additions to capital.
There seems to be still a great scarcity of bills
in the discount market. Transactions occur at 41,
per cent. ; and at 4} even six months paper has
been placed. At the Bank of England yesterday
business was extremely limited.
The wheat market yesterday was very dull, al-
though Monday's reduced prices were nominally sup-
ported. There was a moderate supply of home
grown wheat, almost all of the new crop. The
foreign arrivals are limited.
There was a renewal of activity in the Liverpool
cotton market yesterday. The sales reached 20,000
bales, and prices were quoted id. higher than oa
Friday.
The Bombay mail, which has reached Suez, is
expected in London about the end of the week.
The dividend on Edinburgh and Glasgow Rail-
way stock is officially announced at the rate of 41
per cent. per annum, against 4 for the corre-
sponding period of last year, with a surplus of
rather more than 15001.

The London and North Western Railway traffic
return shows this week a decrease of 2,0791., the
Great Northern an increase of 7541, and the Great
Western au increase of 1,0441. G
The receipts of the rand Trunk Railway of
Canada for the week ending the 3rd instant were
12,5501. sterling, being 7241. more than in the cor-
responding week of last year.
The meeting of the Southampton Dock Company
took place yesterday. A half-yearly dividend at the
rate of 3 per cent. per annum was recommended
and agreed to.
In a little pamphlet entitled "Colliery Explo-
sions, and a Means to Prevent them," (I. Plum-
mer, 21, Great Newetreet), Mr. Richard Hugh
Hughes, of Hatton-garden, describes a system of
his own. He proposes to accomplish the ventilation
of collieries by forcing fresh air to their various
parts by means of pipes under pressure. Air, he
contends, may be supplied to mines by an appa-
ratite very similar to that by which gas is furnished
to towns. The subject is one for the earnest con-
sideration of all interested in colliery property.
The waste of life under the present rude system is
certainly lamentable. In the year 1859, 905 col-
liers lost their lives in the United Kingdom, and in
1860 the number rose to 1,109. It is worthy cf
remark, too, that the deaths caused by explosions
of fire damp were four times as numerous in 1860
as in the preceding year.

WILDNZEIDAT EVINING.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 91 to / for the
10th September, opened this morning at the same
quotation, and closed at 911 to 4. For money
the last price was 91/ to 1. The official business
report is as follows ;--Three per Cent. Consols,
for money, 901, 911, 901, 91 ; ditto for account
(Sept. 10), 91/, /, ; Three per Cents. Reduced,
90/, /, 914 ; hew Three per Cent.., 901, 1, 911 -
Thirty Years Annuities, 1883, 15 11-10 ; Bsai
Stock, 233}, 233, 234 ; India Stock, 220; ditto Five
per Cent. Stock, 101/, 102/, 1 ; ditto for account,
102, 4, ; ditto Scrip, 102, f, ; ditto Four per
Cent. Debentures, April, 1864, 964 ; ditto Bonds,
3s. dis. ; Five per Cent. " °decal" rupee paper,
951; ditto Fivo-and-a-Half per Cent., 102/.
The India Five per Ceuta, have again risen to
per cent., awl closed at the highest point of the
day namely, the stock at 102/ to 1, and the ecrip at
11Y2/ to 103, or 3/ to 4 premium on the price of
issue.

The March Ex3hequer Bills were quoted L7s. to
7s. die., being slightly firmer, owing to the ease is
the money market. The June Bills remain dull at
4s. die. to par.
Turkish Bonds were firm, and closed about I par
cent. better than yesterday—the Loan of 1864 at
79 to k, and that of 1868 at 70 to 1.. Ecuador Bonds
were in demand. Mexican were dull at 22 to 4.
Steadiness prevailed in the market for Bank
shares. Those of the London Joint Stock Bank
were inquired for. London Dock Stock has im-
proved. Madras Irrigation and East India Irriga-
tion shares were in demand. Great Ship were
quoted tie. 61. to 7s.
The closing quotations for shares in new under-
takings to-day were as follows :—Ocean Marina
Insurance. 4/ to 5 prem. ; Thames and Mersey
Marine, 4 to 1 prem. ; Universal Marine Inenr-
anoe 13-16 to 11-16 dia. ; London and Provincial
Marine, g eds. to par ; Oriental and General Ma-
rine, to g prem. ; Mercantile Fire Insurance,
to g prem. ; and Commercial Union Fire, g to
prem.
Victoria Government Debentures continua it
active demand for investment, and have again rises
I a per cent.