There is only one class of persons who may not subscribe for the Stock Exchange price service of the Exchange Telegraph Company, and those are outside brokers. Until about twenty years ago a roaring business in the way of betting on the tape used to be transacted in the offices of these outside brokers. Some say they derived their title of "bucket-shops" from the fact that the tape was made to fall from the machine into a bucket for tidiness' sake, but that derivation of the opprobrious title is doubtful. Then, however, the Stock Exchange Committee put a stop to the practice by informing the Exchange Telegraph Company that it must cease to supply outside brokers with the tape, or its privilege of collecting prices in the Stock Exchange would be withdrawn. It was with some difficulty that the privilege was obtained. The company collects the prices in the markets by means of its own staff, and the prices it telegraphs are by no means official. A kind of weekly edition of the Stock Exchange Daily Official List is issued under exactly the same auspices as that list, and is called "The Stock Exchange Weekly Official Intelligence." It quotes all the same securities, repeating the salient particulars, but instead of giving the current price it shows the highest and lowest prices touched during the week which it covers and since the beginning of the year. It also gives a list of the securities which have been removed from the Daily List owing to absence of business in them, keeping on record the last price marked. It further publishes other important official information, giving notice of forthcoming settling days and buying-in days, recording the special settlements and quotations which have been applied for and have been granted; it gives notice as to when securities are to be quoted ex dividend; it announces dividends, forthcoming company meetings, and closing of transfer books; publishes important notices issued by companies, sets forth traffic returns, and imparts other information. The subscription is £2 10_s._ a year, exclusive of postage, and single copies may be obtained for 1_s._ 3_d._ each. It consists of about thirty large pages.