The Press. — London, England, 1855-03-03 00:00:00

218 gtarlttt anb eitg kgutelligtrut. FRIDAY EVENING. Trn Stock Exchange lately has been characterised by un usual inactivity. Speculation seems quite in abeyance, and the prices marked are often little more than nominal. under such circumstances, the tone of the market has been generally flat, although the quotations have not varied beyond a very trifling tango. The daily oscillations ac- cordingly present no feature for remark. The successive rates of funds have been :—On Saturday, 91 to 1 ; Monday, 94 1 for money, and 91 1 for account ;Tuesday, 90 91; Wednesday, 91 to ; Thursday 91 for transfer, and the same for the account of the Bth inst. Tuesday's market has been firmer, and an advance of per cent. was estab lished. The quotations were :—Consols 911 for money and 911 1 for account. Reduced Three per Cents. have ad: vaned to 911, and the New Three per Cents. to 9.21. Bank Stock, 2131. India Stock, 220. India Bonds, Ils. to 14s. Exchequer Bills, Os. to Os. prem. ; do. Bonds, 991 to 991. Sunday being the 4th, mercantile bills will fall due to morrow (Saturday), and the approach of this term has caused much tightness in the Money Market. By the Kent and Marco Polo from Melbourne, and the Sabrina from Auckland, the importation of the precious metals this week has amounted to about 054,3281. SHARES. .... The settlement of Railway Shares came off on Tuesday. Prices, which were previously depressed, have since rallied to some extent, and to-day's market has been well sup- ported, at improved rates. FOREIGN. . . - _ Dealings in foreign stocks continue to be limited, but the tone of the market is better. Turkish Bonds, which were 75} early in the week, were firm this afternoon at 761. Peruvian Stock has also advanced, owing to some consider able purchases, and the investment of 30,i1001. on account of the Sinking Fund. The Four-and-a-Half per Cents. have been quoted as high as 73 ex. div., but are since gone flatter. Spanish Threes (deferred) have advanced to 18. Russian Fives are declining, and have been down as low as 96. BRITISH F 1 OFFIC rNDS.— Clos [AL QITOTAI ,Mond.Tuesd. Prices. S per Cent. Consols Ditto for Account 8 per Cents Reduced 3 per Ceuta Long Annuities Bank Stock, 7 per Cent India Stock, 101 per Cnt Exch. Bills, 21d. per diem India Bonds, (1,0000. 'ION. - - 911 1 51 91 911 91 917 9 I 91 4 746 4 5 1 -161 215 215 91 - - 9 6 9 6 - 11 BANK OF ENGLAND . ♦w Account, pursuant to the Act 7th and Nth Victoria, cap. 32 for the week ending on Saturday, the 24th day of Feb., 1858. --. ___ _ _ ISSUE DIEPAitTMENT. 1 Notes issued .... 426,362,055 Government Debt 011,015,100 Other Securities .. 2,984,900 Gold Coin .t Bullion 12,362,055 Silver Bullion .... -- 026,362,055 BANKING DKPARTKZNT. Proprietore'C apital 214,553,000 Rest Public Deposits* 4,853,4491 Other Deposits 4 even Day Jr other 13111 a 91 911 1 91 91 215...34 223 6 9 Government Secu- • Including F.xch. •tional Debt, and D RA I LWATEI-• 1,728 rities (including DesclWeightAn.) Other Securities 14,522,432 Notes 7,900,183 Gold & Silver Coin 682,571 Aberdeen Birm. Wol v. k Stour Val Bristol and Exeter igs Banks. CI SBA Mond. 14204 4 9 93 5 12i 12i 3{ Caledonian Chester and Holyhead Cork and Bandon Dublin & Belfast June. East Anglian Eastern Unior.(B) East Lancashire Eastern Counties Great Northern Gt. Sth. and Wit of Ire. Great Western Lancashire& Yorkshire Lon., Tilbury, &Sthentl Lon., Brighton, tee London and Blackwell London and Nrth-West. Midland Newmarket Newry and Enniskillen Norfolk 16 9 It RES. 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French 3 Mond., Oli 66144 c 95::0c 227 a Wed. 611 66f 20C 93f 61C 2970 r. Thurs.' Do. 4} 66:40c 96:30c 99701. 201 Do. Bank Stook exican Peruvian 44 Portuguese 4 Russian 6 Spanish 3 Turkish Serip(Acc )6 66( 2 - 04 951" 301 29%! 20i , i Antw. & Rttrdm. Belgian East. J. Dutch Rhenish East Indian Gt. Indian Pen G. W. of Can.,Sh Lyons & Geneva Madras Na. h Lge.(w. in) N rthrn.of !ernes. Norw. Truk. Prf. Paris & Lyons Paris & Orleans Paris & Rouen 36 1 Hi 76 (i - iO - 1 30 101 61101 ji ii la de 7 33 4 i de 9i 201 1p 45 7 39 41 _ 701 i Peel River Land d M Scottish Auet. Invi South Australian In Vim Diemen's Land Wed. i Thurs. i Friday 91} 9 9 1 11 1 121 2 IGN RAILWAYS. FORE: Mond. I d IP Tuesday. 61 I t i d P 2 7'4 i 2 P 1 Old 6i 7 81 9 20 1 iP 46 30 41 Wedues. Thurs. 6 1 1 8 1 I 1 /f d 2f gd 1 1 1 1. par 1p I 0i 7 16 71 li 2p 11 2p I id 1 id 61 7 01 7 33i i 33i 201 8 9g p 20 z4l 1 1 91 4 46 7 45 7 89 41 3/ 41 Friday t in 1 1 $p ?„r 1 ip 64 7 331 R 94 20f 1p 45 7 39 41 nittroplitan Parkas. (Reported seclutively for "Tan Pa=ss.") CORN-EXCHANGE—A vory limited supply of English wheat has been received up to our market this week, coastwise and by land carriage. Although the show of samples bas been trifling, the demand for all kinds has ruled heavy, anp, in some instances, Kentish qualities have sold at a reduction iu price of from is to 2s per quarter. Scarcely any fresh foreign wheat has been brought forward, yet the inquiry for that grain has con tinued very inactive, and the quotations have been almost nominal. In floating cargoes very little has been doing. Barley —the supply of which has not increased—has moved off heavily, and the quotations have had a downward tendency. Malt has been a mere drug. We have had very little inquiry for oats, on former terms ; whilst both beans and peas—so hew transactions have taken place in them—have ruled nominal. The top price of town•made flour is now 70s per 2bdlbs. ENousu—Wheat. Essex and Kent white, C7s to 82s; redo Cis to 725; Norfolk and Lincoln red, 64s to 78s. Malting barley, 33s to 30s ; grinding ditto, 29e to 311; distilling, 29a to 31s. Malt, GE3s to 725. Feed oats, 20e to 27s ; potato, 28s to 30s. Rye, 428 to 445. Tick beaus, 40s to 42s ; pigeon, 434 to 40s. Grey peas, 33■ to 37s ; maple, 40s to 42s ; white boilers, 42. to 44. per quarter. Town-made dour,B6s to 70e; country marks, Ws to Ws per 2801bs. ARRIVALS THIS WEEK. Wheat. Barley. Malt. Oats. Flour. English BOO .. 860 SUO 2260 .. 100 Irish Foreign.. 1740 3580 sks 6260 bls LONDON AVERAGES DECLARED ON FRIDAY—Wheat, 1,441 quarters, 73. 3d ; barley, 1304 quarters, 32s 3Z ; oath, 2,304 quarters, 26s 74 ; beaus, 610 quarters, 41s 3d; peas, 924 quarters, 39. 9d. IMPERIAL WEEKLY AVERAGES—Wheat, Os 1d; ley, 31* sd; oats, 25. ed ; rye, 41s ld ; beans, 41s 3d; peas, Ns Bd. --- --- THE SIX WEEKS' AVERAGES—Wheat, 70. 6d; barley, 32s 31; oats, 26a 3d; rye, 43a 31; beans, 44e ld; yea., 41a bd. - • --- --- --- ENGLISH GRAIN SOLD LAST WEEK—Wheat, 94,012; barley, 31,722; oats, 20,041; rye, 445; beans, 5,506; peas, 1,181 quarters. TEA—The amount of business doing in our market is very moderate. Prices, however, are well supported, and common sound Congou cannot be purchased under thiti per lb : Congou, 90 to 2s Gd ; Ning Yong and Oolong, is to is 94 ; Scuchong, is to 2. 8d ; Flowery Pekoe, is 4d to 3s 6d ; Caper, Is to 1s 4d; Scented Caper, is 2d to Is 6d: Orange Pekoe, is 2d to la 6d; Scented Orange Pekoe, 15 8d to 28 6d; Twankay, lid to is 44; Hyson Skin, 84 to is ; Hyson, is G d to 3s 9d; Young Hylton, 10d to 3s; Imperial, is tots 8d; Gunpowder, is to 35 Gd ; Assam, is 3d to 48 4d per lb. lip to Saturday last duty was paid on 6,995,574115, against 4,951,4591b1 in 1654. SUGAR—We have no change to notice in the value of any kind of raw sugar. The demand for all descriptions is very in active, with fair average supplies on offer. Refined goods are steady. Brown lumps, 42s 041; and low to fine grocery, 43s to 485 Gil per cwt. The total clearances to the 24th ultimo were 1,065,028 cwts, against 950,189 cwts hat year. The following are private rates :—Bengal brown, 24s 6d to 275; yellow, 28s to 31s; low to middling white, 305 to 375 6d; good to fine white, 388 to 44a; Madras brown, 25s to 27's ; yellow and white, 28a to 41s ; Mauritius brown, 248 6d to 30s; yellow, 308 64 to 33s 6d; tine, 365 to 41s 6d; Penang brown and yellow, 245 ed to 30s; grey and white, 36a 6d to 375; Siam brown and yellow, 26s 6d to 33s 6d; low to fine white, 35s 6d to 395; China brown, 26a to 29s ; yellow and white, 308 to 875; Manilla brown, 26s 6d to 27s 64; yellow, 29s Gd to 301 6d ; Java brown and yellow, 265 fttl to 30s 6d; grey and white, 33s to 39s 64; Jamaica ordinary to good brown, 285 to 30s; middling, 31s to 34s 6d; good to fine, 3Gs to 385 63 ; Barbadoes, 30s to 395; Trinidad, St. Lucia, and lierbice, ord to good brown, 38s to 305; middling, 306 6d to 33s 6d; good totine, 355 t 0382 per cwt. MOLASSES—There is only a moderate inquiry for this article, at about stationary prices. Low to tine West India, 168 6d to 178 8d; foreign, 17s to 17s 6d per cwt. COFFEE—About an average business is doing in this article, on the following terms:—Java, 43s to W 8; Sumatra, Padang, and Batavia kind, 41s to 435; Manilla, 448 to 48a; Mysore, 43s to 798 6d ; Mocha, garbled, 85s to 78s ; ungarbled, 52s to 55.; Ceylon native sorts, ordinary to good ordinary, 455 Gd to 47s 6d ; plantation kinds, good ordinary, 49s to 51s; tine to fine tine ordi nary, 51s 6d to ; middling to good middling, 57a to 80s; Jamaica, ordinary, 465 to 475; good to fine ordinary, 481 to 511; low middling to middling, Ms to 60s; good to fine middling 64s to 908 ; Costa Rica, ordinary to good ordinary, 45s to 488; fine ordinary, 50s 6d to 525; tine tine ordinary to coloury, 635 to 67s ; St. Domingo, 42s to 408; Havanah and Cuba, ordinary to good ordinary, 428 to 465; tine ordinary to middling, 478 to Ols ; Porto Rico, 468 to 525; Rio, 428 to 50s; La Guayra, good ordinary to middling coloury, 4iB to 538 per cwt. COCOA—Our market is firm, at very full prices. Trinidad, 40s to 48s, and 388 to 40. for grey. Granada is selling at 36s to 405; Guayaquil, 38a to 40s; and Bahia, 33* to 3is per owl. SATURDAY, CHICORY The demand is heavy, at barely stationary peoes. Foreign root, in bond, 101 to 111; English, free, 21 to 91 10e per ton. RlCE—Nearly 700 tons have changed hands this week, and, in some instances, prices have advanced 3d per cwt. SEEDS—We have an improved demand for tares, at fully last week's prices. For linseed and cakes there is only a limited inquiry, on former terms. Clover and trefoil are held rt full quotations. COTTON—About 700 bales have found buyers, at last week's quotations. EHP AND FLAX—About an average business is doing in liussiun hemp, at :71 to 491 for clean. Thu liar market is dull, but we have uu change to notice in prices. Jute and uol goods are steady. TALLOW—This article is very dull, and drooping. P. Y. C., on the spot, has sold at 34s Oil per cwt. For forward delivery very little is doing. Town tallow, 54s net cash. OlLS—There is an improved demand for linseed oil, at 86. to 36s 3d per cwt. Pale rape is dull, at 555 01; and brown, 52s to 32s &I per OWL Turpentine is held at full quotations. Hough, fis 3d to 103; English spirits, 355 Od; and American, 36s 61 per cwt. METALS—Scotch pig iron has fluctuated between 628 6d to 50s 61 per ton. Manufactured parcels are a dull inquiry. En g . lish bar, in Wales, el 10a; hoops 916 s to 10110 s; sheets, 91 105 to 11115 s. Copper is steady. In spotter very little is ioing, a. 231 158 to 241 per ton. Tin is very dull, and tin plates move off slowly. LC. coke, 265; I. C. charcoal, 31. (kl. WOOL—The public sales will be brought to a close on Battu , day. Most of the parcels offered have changed hands, yet prices show a decline of from id to Id per lb compered with the previous series. The private market is excessively heavy. ' Several parcels have arrived this week from Australia. SPIRITS—Ruin is still very dull, and prices have further given way. Proof Leeward., 2s 3d to 2s 4d; East lndia, Is 2d per gallon. The brandy market is heavy, at a further reduction of 2d per gallon. Malt-spirit, 108 44. Geneva is a slow sale. HOPS—Our market is in a very inactive state, yet we have scarcely any change to notice in prices. About 500 bales of foreign have come in, chiefly from New York. New mid and East Kent pockets, 141 lus to 211; Weald of Kents, 141 to 161; Sussex,l4l to 151; yearlings, 91 to 121; American, iu bond, 71 to 91 per cwt. POTATOES The supplies continue moderate, and the demand is far from active, at from 31 15s to 61 10. per lon. COALS—Tantield Moor, 17e 6d; Bailee% 23s 6il ; 23s 6d; Stewart's, 23s f3d; Haugh Hall, 218; South Kelloe, 21s per ton. SMITHFIELD—The demand for beasts has been steady, at an advance of 2d per nibs. Other kinds of stock have sold slowly, on former terms. Beef, from 3s 2d to 4s 10d; mutton, as 2d to Os; veal, 4s to 58 ed ; and pork, 3s 2d to 4.4dper elbs to sink the offal'. NEWOATE AND LEADENHALL The trade has been rather heavy, as follows:—Beef, from 8s to 4s 4d; mutton, 36 2d to es ed; veal, 8s 10d to 48 :Cal; pork, 3. to 48 td per albs by the carcase. BERTHS. HAMLEY—On the 23rd ult., at Exeter, the wife of Captain W. G. Hamley, Royal Engineers, of a eon. MAYCOCK—On the 22nd ult., at Clifton, the wife of Captain Joseph Haycock, of her Majesty's bard Regt., of a daughter. NARBIA.GES. BASSETT—STEWART—At St Giles's, Cambenvell, George Alfred Bassett, Esq., of Greenwich, to Elizabeth, daughter of the late Lieut.-Colonel Stewart. BOORD—COCKS—On the let inst., at St. Marks, Hamilton terrace, St. John's-wood, by the Rev. Frederick Swains, MA., assisted by the Rev. A. B. Haslewood, the incumbent, Joseph Boord, Esq., of Verulawhouse, St. John's-wood, to Fces Hester, eldest daughter of T. G. Cocks , Esq., of Chapel, Halsted, Essex. COWLEY—THOMSON — On the 20th ult., at Tulnuk.house, county Galway, the Rev. Wm. David Cowley, A.M., of Dublin, to Margaret Catherine, daughter of Lieut.-General Alexander Thomson, C. 8., Colonel of the 74th Highlanders. NANGLE—ANNESLEY—On the 24th instant, at St. George's Church, Walter C. Nangle, Esq., Lieut. Royal Artillery, to Mary, daughter of the late Hon. Arthur Anuoeley. DEATHS. ARCHER—On the 13th ult., at Knockbane, Lieut.-Colonel Edward Caulfield Archer, son of the lam Major-General Archer, of the Guards. BENBOW—On the 24th ult., at Hastings, John Benbow, Esq., M.P. for Dudley, aged 87. BIRCH—On the 93rd ult., at Folkestone, George Birch, Esq., of Clare-park, Hants, late Lieut-Colonel Bengal N. 1., aged 74. BROKE—On the 24th ult., at Broke-hall, Ipswich, Captain Sir Philip Broke, Bart.. R.N. aged 51. HAMILTON—Ou the 20th ' ult., at Sedgeford-ball, Lyon, Nor folk, the Hon. Mrs. Hamilton, widow of the late J. J. Haunt ton, Esq., of Ballymacall, county Meath. KENYON—On the 25th ult, at Gredington, George Lord Kenyon, aged 78. LATTER —On the 25th ult., in Oxford-terrace, General Latter, of the Hon. East India Company's Service. ROYAL OLYMPIC THEATRE. Lessee and Manager, MR. ALFRED WIGAN. On MONDAY EVENING, March 5, and during the week, will be performed TIT FOR TAT. Principal characters by Messrs. A. Wigan, Robson, Emery; Misses Maskell, Bromley, and Turner. After which the Comic Drama of A LUCKY FRIDAY, in which Mr. Wigan will appear. To eon chide with THE YELLOW AND THE KING OF THE GOLD MINES. Characters DWAßF by Mr. F. Robson, Miss Julia St. George, Miss E. Ormoude, Miss Bromley, and Mrs. Fttzallan. Doors open at Seven; Performance to commence at half past. Stalls, ss. ; Upper Box Stalls, 454 Boxes, 4e.: Pit, Ile.; Gallery, Is, SIR HENRY BISHOP.—GLEES a nd CON CERTED VOCAL MUSIC. HANOVEILSQUARE der ROOMS.—Mr. MITCHELL respectfully announces that, un the direction and personal supetinteudence of the eminent English Composer, Sir Henrry Bishop, a Short Series of FOUR AFTERNOON VOCAL CONCERTS, by men voices, of likes. Quartettes, and Concerted Music, selected entirely front Sir Henry Bis hops numerous Works, will be presented at the above Rooms on the following days :—TUESDAY NEXT, March 6; Saturday, March 10 ; Tuesday, March 13; Saturday, March 11. To begin at half-past Three o'clock and to terminate before Folllive. For the efficient execution of these well - kno wn and popular C Positions. engage pats have been made with Master Sullivan, Master Cooke, Mr. - Francis, Mr. Benson, Mr. F. Bodda, Mr. Lawler, and Mr. Land, who will assist at the Pianoforte. Prices of Admission :—Resed Numbered Stalls, be.: Unre served Seats, as and rve Books of the Words may be ob tained at Mr. Mitchell's Royal Library, 33, Old Bond-street of Messrs. Keith, Prowse, and Co., Chespaide ; and at the principal Libraries and Musiesellers. - 7= ~r 1