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Do., 1866, £lOO Bonds 9Ol I
Do. do £B4 las. do B7

Po Nicolas Railway 673
Sar Tinian 5 per Cent
Spanish 3 per Con .
Do. Acmunt
Do. 1867 ~
Do. Account
Do• New Deferred
Do. Account
Do. Passive
Do. ..k.cc mit
Do. Corn. Cert. of Cour. not funded
Do. Account
Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan
Do Government, 1864
Do do, 1868
Do do, Scrip — pm
Tur.ish 6 per Cent.
Do Account
Do 6 per Cont. 1858
Do Account
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Do £lOO Bonds
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Do 6 per Cent., 1862
Do Account
Do £lOO Bonds 7O
Do. 1863
Do 5 per Cent., 1865
DJ Account
Do 6 per Cent., 1865 644 1
Do 4 per Cent., Guaranteed
Venezuela, 3 per Cent.
Dividends on the above payable in London
Austrian o psr Cont. Ex 10 Florins
Belgian, 44 per cent., Ex. 25f.
Dutch 2} per Cent. Ex. 12 Guil„
Do Account
French Relates, 3 per Cent., Ex. 25f.
Italian 5 per Cent. 1831, Ex. 251.
Do. Account 514 2 14
CLOSING PRICES.
Consuls, Money 941
Do. Account, Nov. 5

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NAVAL AND 1111LI7'.4RY INTELLIGENCE.

A War Department order reci,ived at Chatham
notifies that on the recommendation of the Ordnance
Select Committee the 7-inch 7-ton rifled muzzle-
loading guns will in future be tapped with a hole,
similar to the friction tube pin-hole in other guns,
which will be fitted with a preserving screw, the
object being that the head of the screw may indi-
cate the position of the vent by the touch during
siege operations by night. It has also been deter-
mined that when wrought-iron, smooth-bore,
muzzle-loading 100-pounders, of GI tons, are
mounted on iron carriages they are to be fitted with
pivot pieces, &c., for elevating. A drawing to guide
this alteration has been sealed. The order also an-
nounces that a pattern wrought-iron, rifled, muzzle-
loading 7-inch 6f-ton gun, 10ft. 6in., has been
sealed as a specimen of guns of this nature and con-
struction to govern future manufacture. The weight
of the sealed pattern gun is 6 ton 7 cwt. 19 qrs.
201 b. ; preponderance, 3 cwt. 3 qrs. ; length of gun
(mounted), 12ft. Gin. ; bore, 111 in. ; rifling, 95-sin.;
calibre, 7in., with " A " tube, tough steel.
A notification has been received at Chatham gar-
rison from the Horse Guards announcing that the
following campaigns will form the subjects of exa-
mination in military history and geography at the
examination for admission to the Staff College, to
be held in July, 1869 :-1. Napoleon's campaign of
1805 in Germany, with the battle of Austerlitz in
detail. 2. Wellington's campaign of 1812 in the
Peninsula, with the battle of Salamanca in detail.
Candidates will be expected to have an accurate
knowledge of the geography of the seat of war in
both campaigns, with reference more especially to
military operations, and to make a rough sketch of
any portion of it that may be required.
The half-yearly inspection of the Ist Depot Bat-
talion, under the command of Col. J. W. Smith,
C. 8., was resumed and brought to a close yester-
day by 2.l:ljJr-Gen. F. Murray, commanding the
division at Chatham. After inspecting the various
regimental depots which comprise the battalion,
Gen. Murray visited the quarters occupied by the
married troops, the Soldiers' Institute, and the
other military establishments, and concluded by
inspecting the books, accounts, and other official
records relating to each depot and battalion. At
the termination of his official inspection General
Murray expressed himself highly satisfied with the
state of the battalion and the efficiency of the officers
and men.

Yesterday morning Col. T. L. J. Gallwey, the
newly-appointed director of the Royal Engineer
establishment, made his first official inspection of
the officers and men of the Royal Engineers, at
head-quarters, Chatham. The whole of the com-
panies, including the men of the depot companies,
were formed on the parade-ground at Brompton
Barracks at 7 a.m., in review order, under the com-
mand of Lieut.-Col. Fitzroy M. 11. Somerset, and
received Col. Gallwey, on his appearance in the
centre of the square, with a general salute. Col.
Gallwey then made an inspection of the battalion in
line, after which the officers and men marched past
in slow and quick time, and executed a few other
manceuvres, which brought the inspection to a
close.

Lieutenant-Gen. Sir G. Buller, Lieuten
ant-Governor of Portsmouth, and commanding-in
chief the south-west military diitrict, yesterday
made his autumnal inspection, on Southsea-com•
won, of the 35th (Royal Sussex) Infantry, under
the command of Colonel John M. N. Walter, C.B.
After marching past the regiment was put through
the usual exercises by individual officers, and sub-
sequentlyperformed a series of battalion movements,
an advance in line and general salute closing the
inspection under arms. The knowledge of their
drill by officers and men appeared to be very good,
but " slow marching" in these days of advanced
military tactics is, to put it in the mildest form, an
absurdity.
At au inspection of the 6th Brigade of Royal
Artillery by Col. E. Wodehouse, C. 8., the officer
commanding the Royal Artillery stationed in the
south-west district, silver medals for long service
and good conduct were presented to Sergeant Greer
and Gunner Miller. Col. Wodehouse, in handing
the medals to the men, remarked that he always
felt a greater pleasure in having to present on
behalf of her Majesty, to men under his command
medals for long service and good conduct than even
for service in the field, for the reason that in the
one case it took a man almost a lifetime of service
to obtain such a distinction, and while he was sur-
rounded by all the temptations which beset a sol-
dier; whereas in the other instance the distinction
could be won in a few hours.
The steam store and troop-ship England, 3,307
tons, Commander W. H. Thompson, arrived at
Spithead yesterday morning from Suez, June 27 ;
Aden, July 12 ; Mauritius, Aug. 12 ; Simon's Bay,
Aug. 29 ; St. Helena, Sept. 8 ; St. Vincent, Sept.
22, with Government stores and the undermen-
tioned passengers :—From Aden, Lieutenant Snell,
Mr. M'lntyre (engineer), A. Newman, William
Death, John Williams, and J. M'Queen, from her
Majesty's ships Octavia and Star. From Mauritius
—Col. Johnston, 32d Regiment; Dr. Roberts, Royal
Artillery ; Mrs. Pike, Mrs. Brockman, child, and
two servants ; the Rev. D. Matthews and wife, and
Miss Finnis. From Simon's Bay—Mr. Stokes,
Mr. Leishing and child, and two men from her
Majesty's ship Peterel. From St. Helena—Two
men from her Majesty's ship Rattlesnake and 2 naval
invalids. Her Majesty's ships Octavia, Star, Nymph,
and Spiteful were at anchor at Aden when the
England left, with the Peterel and Seringapatam
in Simon's Bay and the Rattlesnake at St. Helena.
The following vessels were spoken by the Eng-
land on the voyage home :—September 2, British
bark Anglia, in lat. 26 14 S., long. 5 13 E.,
British bark Ocean Belle, and the British schooner
Ho Iloang, moderate S.E., trade winds prevailing;
Sept. 9, the British ship Alarm, of Belfast, in lat.
13 S., long. 7 06 West, from Penang for Queens-
town, Ireland ; Sept. 20, British Royal Mail steam-
ship Oneida, from Southampton for Pernambuco,
at St. Vincent's, and the Ethiopi in screw steamer,
from Glasgow for India ; September 27, British
ship Douglas Castle, in 1at.2919 N., long. 18 51 W.;
October 4, British ship Robinson Crusoe, in lat. 48
17 N., ling. 705 W. The England will go into
Portsmouth harbour this morning to disembark her
passengers and stores.
The further trial will be made on Friday next, at
Shoeburyness, of the Moucrieff gun-carriage, on the
protected barbette system, to ascertain its capabili-
ties of firing at moving objects.

DESTRUCTION OF A TOWN BY FIRE.—The
town of Stanislav, near Lemberg, in Galicia, has been
almost destroyed by fire. The town ball, prison, seve-
ral churches, and some hundreds of liouses have been
burnt down.