Ordinary shares, 94 Overend-Gurney crash, 145 Panics, 144 Par, 115 Partnership prohibition, 33 Photographs of the interior, 8 Play in the House, 163 Population of the House, 18 Practical jokes, 163 Preference shares, 94 Preferred ordinary shares, 94-6 Premium, 115 Prices, double, 45-6 marking, 48 wide, 46-7 Price lists and records, 109-24 brokers', 120 Proprietors, the, 13 Prospectuses, 112-15 Provident Fund, 164 Public admission question, 131-2 Quotations. _See_ Prices "Railway Intelligence," 146 Railway mania, 144 Registered securities, 87 Rigging the market, 70 Royal Commission, 125-37 Royal Exchange as the Stock Exchange, 138 Rules, 27-8, 142 Scrip, 100 settlement in, 62 Secretary of the Stock Exchange, 15 Secretary to the Committee, 30 Selling out, 51-2, 61 Settlement, the, 56-64 office work of the, 159-60 special, 62, 98 Settlement department, 58-60 establishment of, 145 manager, 30 Royal Commission on, 129 Settling room, 8 clerks, 24 Share, definition of, 1-2, 84 certificate, 53-5 Share and loan department, 54 manager, 30 removal, 149 Shares of the Stock Exchange, 16 Shorter's Court, 119-20 Situation of the house, 6-7 Slump, 167 South Sea House as the Stock Exchange, 139 Speculative business restrictions, 50-51 made illegal, 140 Sport, 162 Stags, 66-7 Stamp duties, 49 Stock, definition of, 1-2, 84 certificate, 53-5 inscribed, 85-7 Strangers in the House, 8 Street markets, 119-20 battle of the, 148 Subscription for members, 21-5 authorised clerks, 23 unauthorised clerks, 24 Superintendent, general, 15 Talons, 88 Tape prices, 12, 121-2 Telephone, use of the, 154-5 Tickets, 51-2, 57-9 for inscribed stocks, 86 Ticket day, 51, 57 Transfer, 52-5 of Consols, 85-7 Transvaal War Fund, 165 Refugees' Fund, 165 Trustees and Managers, the, 14 Trustee stocks, 89 Turn, jobber's, 47 Underwriting of capital, 41-2 Vendors' shares, 98 Waiters, 12, 102 Wares of the Stock Exchange, 84-100 "Weekly Official Intelligence," 122 Wide quotations, 46-7, 118 _x d_, 115-16 Transcriber's Notes: Missing or obscured punctuation was corrected. Typographical errors were silently corrected.