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London, England, 1867-08-12 00:00:00

Greek 5 por Cents., 1824-5, ex Coupons
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Do. Coupons
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It)Han 5 per Cert 1865
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Do. Maremmana Railway 491
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Do Land Warrants (Hectares)
Per tviau 5 per Cent 1865 -
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Do 41 per Cent., 1865
Do 41 per Cent. (Uribarren)
Do 41 por Cent., 1862
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Portuguese 3 per Ct., 1853, '6, '7, '9,'60,'2,'3 39H
ttussiau 5 per Cent., 1822, ..£ Si B7
Do 11 per Cent. 1850
Do 41 per Cent., 1860
Do 3 psr Cont., 1859
Do 5 pm- Cent., 1. 62
Do. Deb., 5 per Cent., Aug. 1873
Do. Bonds, 5 per Cent., £l,000
Do. under £l,000
FOREIGN FUNDS—CLOSING PRICES.
Argentine Republic, 6 per Cent —
Austrian Bonds, 5 per k.,,..t. 1859
Brazilian 5 per Cent —
Do. 41 per Cont., 1852-58-60
Do. 1863
Do. 5 por Cont., 1865 —
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Do. £lOO Bonds 7l/
Buenos Ayres 6 per Cent —
D ) 2 per Cent. (Deferred 3 por Cent.) 37
CA mbian, 6 per Cent.
rfuba, 6 per Cent.
Cailian 6 per Cent
Do. 41 per Cent —
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Do. ~ Scrip, .£5O paid l4 dis
Danish 3 ner Cent., 1825 ,
D J. Spor Cent., 1861
D inubian Principaliti is, 7 per Cent
Do., 8 per Cent., 1867, paid-up Scrip
E luador New Consolidated, 1 per Cent —
rigyptian 7 per Cent
Do. Second Issue
Do. .£lOO Bonds ...
Do. Do. 1864
Do. £lOO Bonds B5l 5
Do Government Railway Debentures B2 i 1
Do. 1861
Do. Anglo-Dutch, 1866 B5l 64 4
Do. Do. .1:80 paid
Sardinian, 5 per Cent —
Spanish 3 per Cent —
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Do Now Deforrod
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Do Com. Cert. of Cou:-,. not funded
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Turkish 6 per Cent., 1854
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Do £lOO Bonds 574 84
Do. 1863 4Bl
Do 5 per Cent., 1865
Do Acount 314 1 i- 4 4
Do 6 per Cent., 1865 —
Do 4 por Cent., Guaranteed
Venezuela, 3 per Cent. —
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Do 6 per Cent, 1862
Do 6 per Cent. 1864
Dividends on the above payable in Loudon.
Austrian 0 per Cent. Ex 10 Florins
Belgian, 41 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 24 per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil, —
Do. 4 per Cent. Certificates ..... —
French }lentos, 3 per Cont., Ex. 25f. —
Italian 3 per Cent. 1861, Ex. 25f.
Do. Account 4Bl 9 84
THREE O'CLOCK.
Consols, Money 941 4
Do. Account September 10 .. 941 4

CRYSTAL PALACE.—" The Life Raft " at the
Crystal Palace, under the management of Mr. Nimmo, the
modern Barnum, is a groat success. The interest attached
to this light and apparently fragile, though really strong
and ingenious, structure is of no ordinary description. The
value of a life-raft so simple and easily put together, and
one which has been subjected triumphantly to so severe a
test of navigation across the Atlantic from the New to
the Old World, must attract the attention and excite the
surprise especially of all who are called upon to "go down
to the sea in ships," and also of those who would reward
the ingenious and humane endeavours of those who would
add to our means of saving shipwrecked persons from
the perils of the ocean. The adventurous captain and
crew (of two men) attend the exhibition of the raft.
The persecution of the Jews in Wallachia con-
tinuos unabated, and every day brings the news of some
fresh act of violence committed by the authorities.

Ernst Schulz's " Masks and Faces," one of the
most entertaining and really talented exhibitions of the
day, is, we perceive, about to close. A look iu at the
Egyptian Hall will be found to furnish a now pleasure, and
food for amusing reflection.

ARE DRAMATIC CRITICS PLAYWRIGEITS ?—There
is a very prevalent notion, fostered by many journals
which abuse the tone and style of contemporary dramatic
criticism, that nearly all the critics on the metro
politan press are playwrights, whose want of independ-
ence is mainly due to the dealings they have with
managers. This is a mistake—and more, it is an injustice.
With two or three exceptions, our dramatic critics are
men who never write plays for the stage, or for the pigeon
holes of a manager's desk. They enter into no competition
with the authors they are called upon to criticise; and if
their judgment is biassed in any way, it is by personal
more than by pecuniary influences. Mr. Dumphy, the
dramatic critic of the !Morning Post, is not a playwright,
and Mr. Desmond Ryan, who represents the Standard and
Ilerald, and is a musical as well, as a dramatic critic, never
wrote a drama or an operetta. Mr. E. L. Blanchard, of
the Daily Telegraph, supplies pantomimes very regularly
to Drury Lano Theatre, but does no other dramatic
work. Mr. F. G. Tomlins, who represents the Morn-
ing Advertiser, wrote a tragedy called " Gracia ;
or, The Noble Error," many years ago, but has never
repeated the error ; and Mr. J. Hollingsworth, who writes
the dramatic notioes for the Daily News, is the author of
one farce produced in 1858, and has never written
another.—The Broadway.

THE INSIDE PASSENGER.—Later in the day we
wore aware that the inside passenger was singing in a
very cracked voice, and when wo halted for dinner I saw
a tall, thin, old man, with a very red face closely shaved,
balancing himself with great dignity as he got down. He
had a very fierce grey eye, rolling in a kind of watery
medium, as though it were preserved in spirits. " Why
don't you hold up your horses, sirrah ?" he burst out
angrily: "you're not fit to drive. I'm hanged if I don't
get you dishmiss, to go breaking gentlemen's necks that
way !" Mr. Tunks merely grunted ; and the colonel, eye-
ing him with much severity as ho toddled towards the
inn door, shook his fist, and, uttering again the words,
"I'll get you dishmiss, shure's my name's Finucano !"
drew himself bolt upright, and walked as if on a plank in
the same direction. " Ye'd better take no notice of him,
my boys," said the guard ; " the cross dhrop is en him.
Ocb, an' faith, it's well there's no other inside to-day, or
there 'ud be wigs on the green ! ile's shot more than ono
man—the ould scamp before the law put the fear of
God into these pistol-gintlomin. Yo'll have 20 miuits for
dinner, and make the most of your time, and take the
-value of yer money, I'd advise yo."—From the "Adven-
tures of Dr. Brady," by W. 11. Russell, in Tinsley's
Magazine.

An extraordinary scene of violence has just oc-
curred in the Court of Correctional Police at Riom
(Puy-de-Dome). A man named Clement was re-
cently condemned by the Tribunal of Gannat to a
month's imprisonment for vagabondage, against
which judgment both the accused and the public
prosecutor appealed, the latter demanding a more
severe punishment, as the man had already under-
gone several previous condemnations. The Court
of Riom now increased the sentence to four
months' imprisonment and five years' surveillance
by the police. The prisoner had no sooner heard
the decision than he stooped down, took off his
heavy wooden shoe, and hurled it with all his force
at the judge, and at the same time addressed him
in the grossest language. Fortunately the missile
passed a few inches over the President's head, but
made a deep hole in the plaster, tearing the hang-
ings with which the wall was covered. A gen-
darme and two other prisoners who were standing
by them attempted to secure the prisoner, who, be-
ing a man of herculean force, struggled for some
time, and continued uttering loud vociferations
against the judge. At length the man's hands and
feet were bound, and he having been placed before
the bar to be tried for this outrage, received an
additional sentence of five years' imprisonment;
the Court likewise ordered that he should be for-
bidden to reside in the some locality as the Presi-
dent for ten years after the expiration of his sentence.
A correspondent writes to us respecting thequota-
tion candid() lapillo (with a white pebble) made by
his Excellency M. Duruy, when proposing the
health of the Emperor at the dinner given at tho
Hotel of Public Instruction on the occasion of the
distribution of recompences to the pupils of the
various colleges of Paris. What poet, We are asked,
has used the words ? The phrase is found in
Horace, but not precisely as M. Purity quoted it,
the real words being albo IIUMMICI 1(0110,