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London, England, 1860-12-24 00:00:00

KET.-(SATU.RDAY.)

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OaDI:NARX SHARES A.ND STOCKS.

Railway.

Paid,

Closing
Price.

Bneiness done

CORN EXCHANGE.

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Share! Railways. 1 Closing I Business
!Paid., Price. 1 Done. 100 Atiantic &St Lawrence -all 77 80
r Bom.,BrodaLt.Centlndi 100 95 v 6
I stk
_ t On. 5 per cent
50_ Belfast and Ballymena , all I - - 18 Do, Do. B 16 11 1
12.11 ;Bin, Wol , and Str. Val. all , 84 El 20/ Buffalo and Laic Huron" all 41 5
stock 'Birk., La., and Ch Juno. 100 181 83 201 Do. New - -.
25 'Blackburn
25 IBlyth and Tyne all 1 - - 100 i 807
10 !Bost. Sleaf. and Mid.Co all ' 61 7 6p. ct. bds. Aug. 1, 1875 -
stock Bristol and Exeter - 1, 187:- 100 67 72
stock Caledonian
10 Carmarthen &Cardig,an all - - 5 Clcutta. ALS.Eastn. (Lim 3 4d pr
50 Cork and Bandon all - - 20 Cape,Eastn.Prov. (Lim.' 2s. - -
20 Cork, Blrocic., (-Passage all --- 20 Cape Town & Dock Scrip 5 11 14 I
20 Cornwall
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10 Do A 1(A gets no div. I
°al! I - - 174 Demerara all - -
until 6pc peran.
10 Do B 20 Eastn. Bengal gu. 5 c 10 14 1/ c
, hasbeen, d. toll 1 - p.
stock East Indian, gu. sp. c. 100 100/ 101
50 Dublin & Belfast Juno. all - - 20 Do. F Shares Ext.._ all d pr
25 Dun., Perth, &Ab..lunc. all 8 84 20 Do. Jubbulpore all d pr
stock East Anglian lOO 161 171 100 Do. 41 pc. Debentrs. all 984 99
stock Eastern Counties lOO 531 541 100 Do. sp. c. Deb., 1864.. all 1001 101!
stock Eastern Union, A stock 100 37 39 20 Geelong & Melbourne.. all - -
stc,:x Do do Bdo 100 26 28 stock Geelong Corporation C
25 Do Nw A, late EU3ds. 131 - - per cent. Bonds ...... 100 - -
stock East Suffolk - - stock Grand Trunk of Caned. 100 23 24
stock Edinburgh & Glasgow 100 188 90 100 1 Do. 5 per cent. Pref.. all 78 80
stock Edin. Perth, & Dundee 100 1 294 291 100 Do. 6 per ct. Debentr. all 48 52
10 Forth & Clyde Junction all - 100 Do. 7 per cent. 1862 .. all 57 AO
stock Furness - - 100 Do. do. 1867 _ all 60 54
stock Glasg. and S. Western 100 , 116 118 100 Do. do. 1872 .. all 48 52
10 Great Ntlan. of Scotland all 1 - - stock Gt.lndiaPenin.gua.sp.c. 100 971 981
stock Great North ern lOO 1110 111 110 20 Do. New gua. sp. c... 8 1d 1 a
stock 7'o do A stock
stock Do do Bdo
stock Gt. S. kW. of Ireland 100 1111 113 1114 201 Gt. W. of Canada Shares all 11 114
stock Great Western ....
stock Do Str Val sus. stock 100 61 64 100 Do. Bonds pay. '76, with
12 Irish South-eastern .. all - - opt, till '6O .... ...... all 95 100
stock Lancashire & Yorkshir, 100 1204 1201 1204 4 4 100 Do. do. '73 till '60...... all 95 100
stock London and Blackwall 100 62 64 100 Do. do. '73 without opt. all ,43 96
stock Lon., Bright.. &S Coast 100 117 110 100 Do. 51 p. c. do. '77 d 0... all 90 03
stock Lond., Chat., and Dover 100 51 53 stock Madras, guar., 41 p. c... 100 85 87
Westernstock Do. do. 5 per cent..... 100 951 965
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stock Do. 41 p. c. Extension 100 884 891
25 L'derry & Coleraine .. all - - 20 Do. Fourth d 0........ 15 11 14 d,
25 L'derry & Enniskillen all 810 20 Do. d 0..... - .... all - -
stock Man. Shef. & Lincoln., 100 55 56 55 stock Melb.Corp. 6p. 0. Buds. 100 - -
50 Maryport and Carlisle.. all - - 20 Newßrunswick & Canda
121 Do do 4 shares.... all - - Ry.&Land(Lim.)g.6pc all 5 7
10 Metropolitan 5 34 248 Class A Capital Share
stock Midland . lOO 1354 1351 1354 4 .. Do. do. Land do
6.4.0. Do new - -2! 20 Do. do. B Capital do. .
stock Do tsirming. & Derby 100 107 109 1 7
50 Mid. Gt. W. of Ireland all - - , ! IDo. do. Land do. ........ all 5 7
20 rOude (Limited) ........ Is. - -
25 Do 4 shares r_a I --. ._ stock Scinde .......... ,7.,0 100 100 101
?5 Mid Kent. - - 20 ,Do. Punjaub .... 4 0 10 14 d 141
10 Do, Cray line - - 20 IDo. Do. .... -.. ~s ? all 1 - - d
100 Newcastle and Carlisle all - - sto3klDo. Indus. St. Flo. g,,,,, 100 191 96
10 Newry & Armagh, def 9 7 6 d 20 ,St. Andrews & Quebec A 18 1 - -
20 Newry, Warnpt. & Ros all - - 10 i Trinidad (Lim.) Scrip.. 1 1 2 1 d
stock Norfolk .... -
50 NT lin. Counties Union 34 - - d
stock North British .., 100 65 651 10 Antwerp & Rotterdam. all 51 5/
stock Nor.Dev.Rail&Dk.stock 100 - - 20 'Ardennes.... - ..... .. all - -pl
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stock D, A stk ; A rocs no d. 20 IllalL&S.Fran..Lim.7p.c. 10 11 11.,1,
until Wham beenpd.B 100 - - 5 ' Belgian East. Junction all / 1 1
stock Do B stock ..... _ . 100 - - __ 20 IBeziers to Graissessac- all - -
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100 Copiapo ........ & ...... all
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25 Dodo, G.N.E. purchase 16134 P 4P off P
Mock DO Leeds ....
stock Do York
stock North London
10 Do new. 5 - -
9.16.4 North Staffordshire„ . . 171 221 1
10 N. and S. W. Junction,. all 9 91
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12 Not. &Grantham Rail ll 8 81
10 1-ebles ...... •..-.• • • • all - -
- Portsmouth - -
10 Rhymney.....- ........ all - -
took Scottish Central
tack Scot N. E.. Aber. stock 100 34 341 20 !Lyons & Geneva .... - all - -
tock Do Scot. Mid. stock lOO 87 89
took Shropshire Union - ... .. •• - - all - -
10 Sittingbourne & Sheer. all 6 7
took South Devon
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took South Eastern
took South Wales ... ~ „ „ 100 62 64 16 Do.l New Shares .15 -
took S. York. and River Dun 100 78 80
20 Staines, Wok,. and Wok all 6 8 20 Paris,Lyons, & Mediter, all 351 361
25 Stockton at Darlington all 421 431
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took Do Prof. i'sTo 1. lOO - - - -
25 ThamesHavenDkasßail 22 - - - all
50 Ulster .-•
25 Do
110 Do .... : ............ 2 41 p 4 Do. 7 per cent. Pref.... all - -
rock Vale of Neath
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20 Sambre & Meuse ...... all 54 6
13 Victoria, Sta. and Pim all 111 11; 10 IDo. 51 per cent. Pref. .... all 84 '4l
`OCK. Waterford & Kilkenny 100 - - 20 'San Paulo, lim, g. 7p. c. 2 1 1 d
60 Waterford & Limerick all - - 20 S.Aust.&Lomb Venetin 12 1d 1d l
20 West Cornwall
84 West Flanders
all
.....1 61
20 West London.-- - - all - -
10 Do let class ........ all - - 10 iDo. 51 p. C. Preference.. all 94 91
20 Do 24 class -.. .. all - - 20 IW. & N.W. of France .. all 214 224
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lock WestHartlepool Harbr 20 !Western of Austria.... 6 - -
and Rail .l 100 - - 20 !Western of Switzerland all - -
ock West Midland-Oxford' 100 50 52 504 6 'Wiesbaden - -
,ock Do. Newport! 100 43 45 6 IDo. 8 per cent. Pref all
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TEE SlTh, LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 24, 1860.

MIS DAY'S AIARRETS.

Molt of the country markets held on Saturday were
scantily supplied with wheat, and all kinds were taken oft
readily, at an improvement in value of fully Is. per qr.
Fine barley and oats were firm in price, and the value of all
other articles was well supported.

Advices from America state that very little business was
doing in produce for export purposes, and that prices of
both wheat and flour were somewhat drooping. Through-
out the continent wheat has become firmer in price; but
the business doing in it for spring shipment has not in-
creased.

Up to our market last week the arrivals of English pro-
duce were very moderate. The imports from abroad were
17,029 quarters of wheat, 7,564 barley, 19,105 oats, 4,096
beans, 20 peas, 480 seeds, 685 sacks, and 9,994 barrels of
flour.

A very limited supply of English wheat was on offer in
to-day's market, coastwise and by land carriage. Although
the attendance of both town and country millers was small,
all kinds of wheat of home produce sold at an advance in
the quotations, compared with Monday last, of from is to
2s per quarter. At that amount of improvement a fair
clearance of the stands was effected. The general quality
of the samples was inferior.

We were somewhat heavily supplied with foreign wheat.
Notwithstanding that the demand was by no means active,
prices were quite ls. per quarter higher than on this day
se'nnight.
Floating cargoes of grain were in moderate request, at
very full prices.

We have to report a fair, but by no means extensive de-
mand for barley, at fully last Monday's currency.
There was a fair sale for both old and new malt, at full
quotations.

Good sound oats were in request, at very full prices.
Low and damp parcels moved off slowly, at late rates.
Beans were firm in price, but the demand for them was
far from active.
There was a steady inquiry for peas, at late rates.
All kinds of flour were quite as dear as last week.

CURRENCY PER IMPERJAL MEASVRII.
Whee,---Essex aid Kent, red, new 4Bs to Hs
Ditto, old 6ls 67.
Ditto, white, new s4s 658
Ditto, old 63s 748
Norfolk and Linenln, red, old . sss 66s
Ditto, new 46. 544
Rye—Old —s —8
New
Barley—Grinding...., 2BB 33s
Malting . 36, 46.
Malt -Suffolk and Norfolk
Brown
Kingston and Ware 528 70s
Chevalier
Oats—Yorkshire and Lincolnsh., Feeding 22. 28e
Potato 2BB 338
Youghal and Cork, black ... 22s 278
Cork, white 228 29s
Scotch, Feeding 2ss 29.
Beans—Tick
Pigeons
Peas—Grey
Maple
White 455 52s
Boilers sos 54.
Flour—Town-made
Suffolk 4os 44s
Stockton and Norfolk.

SUSPEA 570.4 V OP PAYMENTS AT TVASHING TON.

The letters on Saturday from New York mention
that the Government Treasury at Washington has
been compelled to suspend payment. "Its funds
are exhausted and Government officers and employes
are unpaid. Contractors for the mail carriage and
other purposes are included in the general bank-
ruptcy. They can get no money." A Bill for the
issue of £2,000,000 Treasury bonds was to be
brought in forthwith, and there was no doubt of
its being hurriedly passed, since in the meantime
the members of Congress would themselves have to
wait for their pay and mileage expenses.—nnes.

EXPEDITION 70 EXPLORE THE
souiecEs OF THE NILE.

The President and Committee of the Geogra-
phical Society have issued proposals for a subscrip-
tion to raise £2,000 for sending an expedition under
Mr. Petherick, her Britannic Majesty's consul at
Khartum, up the Nile to explore its sources, and to
aid that of Captain Speke, already despatched by
way of Zanzibar, for the same destination.
'This This subject has already been mooted at several
meetings of this society, and also at the Geogra-
phical Section of the British Association held last
June at Oxford; but during the past autumn so
little progress has been made in the subscription
list that the president and council are induced to
recapitulate what has already been urged, and to
lay the proposal before the fellows in the present
form, more especially as some very recent discoveries
by Signor Miani give a new interest to this effort.
Until the middle of last month the farthest point
on the banks of the Nile known to geographers was
Gondokoro. This place lies about 1,400 miles by
river above Khartum, which itself is 1,900 miles
above Alexandria. It is described as being in
N. lat. 4.30, and E. long. 31.50. Gondokoro is the
seat of an ivory mart during the months of Decem-
ber and January, when traders from Khartum visit,
and obtain their ivory in exchange for grain and
beads ; and here the late Pro Vicario Knoblecher
established a Roman Catholic mission, which was
abandoned in 1859. Immediately above Gondokoro,
a succession of rapids prevent further navigation ;
below Gondokoro the passage is perfectly open to
boats, sailing at the times when the periodical
winds are favourable. During ten months of
the year Gondokoro is deserted ; the scanty
and barbarous population of the village is dis-
persed over its barren neighbourhood, and an
expedition such as that under Captains
Speke and Grant must necessarily be—
exhausted of means of barter and wholly
ignorant of the negro languages of Northern Africa
—will be sure to tempt hostility and to incur
serious danger of absolute want of supplies. If
Captain Speke be unable to reach Gondokoro in
December or January his position will be exceed-
ingly precarious, while farther advance to the north
would be impossible. The first of Mr. Petherick's
proposed objects is to form a sufficient depot of
grain at Gondokoro, under the charge of his own
men, to ensure to Captain Speke means of sub-
sistence and security from violence whenever he
should reach that place ; the second is to explore
the district coloured orange in the accompanying
sketch map; the third is to effect a meeting with
Captain Spekc, and to assist him through the
hostile tribes between the Lake and the Nile.
Many of these negro tribes are known to Mr.
Petherick, and it is precisely in the locality where
the party under Captain Speke would be most
helpless, that that of Mr. Petherick would, com-
paratively speaking, be most at home ; and even if
the union of the two parties did not actually take
place, the aid which Mr. Petherick's presence in
the country might, with reason, be expected to
afford to Captain Speke can hardly be overrated.
The discoveries of Miani add fresh arguments in
favour of the proposed expedition. That gentle-
man left his boats at Gondokoro, and travelled
overland by the side of the Nile, in a south-east
direction, to a place called Galuffi, situated, accord-
ing to his estimate, at a direct distance of 180
geographical miles from Gondokoro, and therefore
leaving an unexplored link of only 270 geographical
miles between his position and the most northerly
point reached by Captain Speke in his late expedi-
tion from Zanzibar. Miani's information, even
allowing largely for erroneous estimate of distance,
reduces within manageable limits the country that
remains to be explored in order to discover the
sources of the Nile. It also places them eastward
of Lake Nyanza, and therefore in a locality where
Captain Speke would be less favourably
circumstanced for finding them than he had
hoped. Miani makes no mention whatever of any
large lake, such*as the Nyanza, being reported to
feed its waters, but, on the contrary, the natives
derived the source of the Nile from a town called
Patico, lying in the direction of Mount Kenia.
These circumstances being taken into account,
together with the fact of Mr. Petherick's services
being now available, who, beyond any other Eng-
lishman, is peculiarly fitted for carrying out the
expedition he proposes, the president and council
of the Royal Geological Society consider that they
would fall short of their duty if they left any le-
gitimate means unemployed for securing those
services to the advancement of geography and the
honour of this country. Her Majesty's Govern-
ment having declined to send out this additional
expedition, the president and council make their
appeal to the liberality of individual fellows of the
society and to that of the public. The sum re-
quired to be raised is £2,000. Should this be
quickly obtained, Mr. Petherick will undertake to
reach Gondokoro in November, 1861. He will
then explore until March, 1862, when the setting
in of the rainy season prevents farther movements.
Starting afresh in August, 1862, he proposes to
continue his travels till February, 1863, and after
that to return to Gondokoro, reaching his depot in
-1863, or early in 1864.
• Subscriptions are received at the Royal Geo-
graphical Society, 15, Whitehall-place ; and at
Messrs. Biddulph, Cocks, and Co.'s, ,43, Charing-
cross.