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Do. 3 per Cent., —
Do. 7 per Cent., 1866
Do. 6 per cent. 1867 9B
0 lornbian, 6 per Cent.
Danish, 3 per Cent., 1825
Darvbian Principalities, 7 per Cant 9O 891

Do. Account •
Do 8 per Cent., 1867 93
Trcuador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent •
Egyptian, 7 per Cent
Second Issue
Do. £SOC Bonds
Do. 1864
Do. Account

.£5OO Bonds
De. 4100 Bonds
Do. 7 per Cent., 1868 ..• Bl} I 1
Do. £10') Bonds
Government Railway Debentures 98
reek 5 por Cent., 1824 5, ex Coups —

Do. Courc.ne
Gnatemala."s per Cent .
Honduras Gov Rail. Lea n., 10 p.,Ct., all pd

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Ita;ian 5 per Cert., 1865
Do. Account .
Do Maremmanallailway 551
A exicar. 3 per Cent
Ditto fer Account
Do. 1864
Do 6 pt.r.r Cent. Anglo-French
tiontevidoan C per Cent.
11oerhili Iruperia: 5 r. 51 Cent
Vow Granazin. lBl
Do 3 per Con
Do. Def.-w7ed
Do Laud Warrants (Rectal-4.N)
Peruvian 5 per Cent. 1865
Do Account B2ll
Do 41 per Cent. (I.ll7)arrein)
Do 41 per Cent.. •1862 .
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Do 6 per Cent.,1862 —
PortNguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, 7,'9,'60,'2,'S 33f
Do. do. 1867 —
Do. do. Scrip, £2O paid —
Russian 5 per Cent., 1822, .£ St
Do 4i per Cent 1850
Do 4} per Cent., 1860

Do 3Per Cent., 1859
Do 5 per Cent., 1862
Do 'do, Scrip
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Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1864, £lOO Bonds 9ll
Do. do. £B4 15s. do —
Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds

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Do. do
Do Nicolas Railway
Sardinian 5 per Cent
Spanish 3 per Oen .
Do. Accmint
Do. 1867
Do. Account
Do. New Deferrod
Do. Passive
Do. Corn. Cert. of Coup. not funded
Do. Account
Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan
Do Government, 1864
Do do, .1868
T nrkish 6 per Cent
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Belgian, 41. per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch i per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil„ l2
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates
French Rentes, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f.
ltsliati 5 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 25f
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CLOSING PRICES.

Jonsols, Money
Do. Account, Feb. 3

FAREWELL DINNER TO MR. CHARLES

MATHEWS.

On Monday night a farewell dinner was given to Mr.
Charles Mathews, who, as pleasantly stated by himself at
his leave-taking benefit last week, is about to go on a
" provincial tour to the Antipodes." The dinner took
place at Willis's Rooms. Over 200 gentlemen assembled
to bid Mr. Mathews a farewell. Among them were—
lord Houghton, Lord Henry Vane Tempest, General
Cavendish, General de Bathe, General Fox, Lord
Rinelagh, Sir Henry Thompson, Sir Henry Ander-
son, Sir George Army Cage, Captain Dawson,
D tmer, M.P.; F. Blilbanke, M.P.; J. Brady, M.P.; J. Clay,
M. r'.; Colonel du Plat, J. B. Buckstone, B. Webster, Ser-
jeant Ballantine, G. A. Sala, Edmund Yates, Bayle Ber-
nard, Dr. Hastings, Alfred Wigan, C. Gruneisen, Captain
W imbwell, W. Creswick, J. R. Planche, Frank
M ttthews, Vaughan Morgan, John Oxenford, E.
L. Blanchard, Rev. C. C. Clarke, Addison, J.
Anson, Jules Benedict, L. Brough, H. J. Byron, C.
Dickens, jun.; W. S. Gilbert, George Godwin, Arthur
Sullivan, Barry Sullivan, Horace Wigan, Herman Vezin,
R. H. Wyndham, C. Matthews, jun. With characteristic
humour, Mr. Matthews, the guest of the evening, con-
sented to act as chairman, and to propose his own health.
The entertainment was originated and carried out at very
short notice by Mr. Arthur Sketchley and Mr. W. It.
Sams ; Mr. J. W. Anson, Mr. C. 0. Boys, and Mr.
Gaston Murray acted as stewards. After the
usual loyal toasts, Mr. Matthews said:—" The
most important task assigned to me has now to be
fulfilled, and I rise to propose what is called the toast of
the evening with a most singular mixture of pleasure and
trepidation. I was going to say that I was placed in not
only a novel but an unprecedented position, by being
asked to occupy the chair to-day. But it is not so.
There is nothing new in saying that there is nothing
now, and I find in the Times newspaper of October
3, 1793, an advertisement of a dinner given to Mr. Fox
at the Shakspeare Tavern, Covent-garden, on the anni-
versary of his first election for Westminster—" The Hon.
Charles James Fox in the chair." Here is a great prece-
dent; and what was done in 1798 by Charles James Fox
is only imitated in 1870 by Charles James Mathews. I
venture to assert, and I think I may do so without vanity,
that a fitter man than myself to propose the health of our
guest could not be found, for I venture also emphatically
to affirm that there is no man so well acquainted with the
merits and demerits of that gifted individual as I am. I
have been on the most intimate terms with him from his
earliest youth. I have watched over and assisted his pro-
gress upwards, have shared in all his joys and griefs, and
I assert boldly, and am proud to have this opportunity of
publicly declaring, that there is not a man on earth for
whom I entertain so sincere a regard and affection.
Indeed, I don't think I go too far in stating that he has
an equal affection for me. He has come to me for advice
over and over again, under the most embarrassing
circumstances, and, what is still more remarkable,
he has always taken my advice in preference to that of
any ono else. But having got thus far, I find myself
stopped by a most formidable difficulty. After having de-
clared myself the bosom friend of our distinguished
guest, I fear that the high encomiums I feel it my duty as
well as my inclination to pile upon him wholesale
may be open to suspicion—l may be accused of partiality
—and those stupendous compliments which I consider so
strictly his due may be considered fulsome and overdone,
the foolish emanations of a too ardent admirer. No
gentlemen, in justice to my friend I must leave to others
the showering of those elaborately-constructed eulogies
which cannot fail to rain upon the head of the beloved
companion of my youth, fearing only that, as no ono
but myself knows half his amiable qualities, his
wonderful gifts, his astounding talents, and his
resplendent genius, no one will be found capable
of doing half justice to the merits of this remarkable
mln. Gentlemen, with much regret I delegate the de-
lightful privilege of my position to some one who, I hope,
will not flinch from the bestowal of any compliment that
may occur to him. Mr. George A. Sala proposed the
"Health of the Guest and the Chairman of the Evening,
which was rear :Aided to by Mr. Mathews in his own pecu-
liarly lively