The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-02 00:00:00

MONEY HARKEI -(17,16 DAY.)

Two eesocic.

The funds to-day have not varied, though Mie Paris
Bourse has risen. Consols are quoted the mate as
they closed yesterday. The other markets are quiet.
, The chief business has again been in foreign stocks,
which for the most part are well supported,
although the approach of the holidays has occa-
sioned a number of realisations of Greek Bonds.
The scrip of the Confederate) Loan continues to
decline ; the present quotation is 14 to Of
That of the Italian Loan is firm, at 14 to 14 prem.
At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Renter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Renter were quoted
69fr. 75c., being I per cent. better than yenterdny.
Consols are now quoted 924 to 4, both for
money and the Btb Met., and 924 to 4 for
the May account. The official business report
is as follows : Three per Cent. Consols,
for money, 921, 4 ; ditto for account, 924 ; Three
per Cents. Reduced, 91 ; New Three per Cents,
91, 4 ; India Stock, 230 ; ditto Five per Cent.
Stock, 1064, 4, 4 ; ditto Bonds, lea., L'is. prem. ;
Five per Cent. " enlaced " rupee paper, 1061 ;
and Exchequer Bills, be., 25., dia.
There is a reduction of I per cent. in Greek
Bonds, 4in the Turkish Loan of 18C if and
in the Peruvian Loan of 1862, but, with these
exceptions, foreign stocks are firm. Egyp-
tian Seven per Cents., Italian live per
Cents, Russian Bonds of 1862, and Spanish
Pamirs are all rather better. New Clranadian
Bonds continue to meet with inquiry. Turkish
Cousolidie hare risen 1 per cent. Some of the
present quotations are annexed. Turkish 1854 Loan,
90 to 91 ; ditto, 1858, 68/ to 1 ; ditto, 1862, 691 to
; the Conaolidis 481 to f ; Greek, 274 to 28;
Venezuelan Six per Cents., 69 to 4, being rather
flatter ; Portuguese scrip, 84 to 34 prem., being
firmer ; and the Peruvian Loan of 1862, 864 to 871.

Transactions &rerecorded as follows :—Brazilian,
1852, 1858,1860, 924 ; Danish, 1825, 844 ex div. ;
Egyptian, 97, 98; Greek, for aommt, 29,
284, 4, 274 ; ditto Coupons, 134, 13, 4, 124, 13 ;
Italian, for amount, 704, 4 ' • Moorish, 934, 3 ;
New Granada, 143, 4 ; ditto, Deferred, 74 ; Peru-
vian,lB62, for account, 874, 4,87; Portuguese, 1862,
474; Russian, 1862, 964, 96; Sardinian, 844;
ditto for account, 854 ; Spanish, for account,
284, 4, 4 ; ditto Certificates, 10 ; Turkish,
1854, for account, 904 ; ditto 1868, for account,
684, 68 ; ditto, 1862, for account, 694, 4, 70 ;
Venezuela, for account, 234 ; ditto 1862, 501, 4.

The shaves of the New Theatre Company are
quoted to-day 1 to 14 prem.
Telegrams from Constantinople report an ad-
vance in the ComoB&W toe price equivalent to 494
here.

About 25,0001. in gold was sent into the Bank
yesterday, making an aggregate of 540,0001. since
the last return.
The City of Baltimore, from New York, has
brought 93,0001. in specie.
The 667,0001. in silver and 147,0001. in gold by
the Tasmanian, from the West Indies, reached the
warehouses of the Bank of Eagland yesterday, for
temporary deposit.
The amount of specie engaged for transmission
to the West Indies to-day by the steamer la
Plata is 28,1801., of which 23,1801. is gold, and
5,0001. silver.
The biddings for 60,00,000 rupees in bills on.
India took place yesterday at the Bank of England.
The proportions allotted were—to Calcutta,3o,6o,ooo
rupees ; to Bombay, 24,00,000 rupees ; and to
Madras, 34,000 rupees. The declared minimum
price was as before, viz. Is. 111 d per rupee on
Calcutta, and 2s. on Bombay and Madras. The
applications within the limits were for about 110
Ism. Tenders on Calcutta at 1.. 111 d. will be
allotted in full ; on Bombay at 2s. will receive about
17 per cent., and above that price in ; on
Madras at 2s. will receive in full. All bills paid
for at the Bank before 12 o'clock to-day (Tbnrey)
may be claimed this afternoon, so as to be in time
for the mail leaving to-morrow (Good Friday).
The London sod North Western Railway traffic
return shows this week an increase of 8,3991. over
last year, and the Great Eastern an increase
of 2,420 e
The allotment of shares in the London and South
American Bank has been made, and managers for
the company are required for Lima and Valparaiso.
The directors of the English and Belgian Bank
(Limited) announce that they " are negotiating the
purchase of an important English and continental
banking business of many pars' standing, which
will give to the bank immediate and profitable re-
turns ; and that other arrangements are under con-
sideration which will greatly conduce to its inte-
rests, and that when such am oomplete, the share-
holders and public will be duly advised."
A general meeting •of the Ceylon Company
(Limited) is called for the 4th of April, and will
be made special, "for the purposes already inti-
mated to the several shareholders.'

FRIDAY.
B.W. to v. W., mode-

9AITRDAY.
W.S. W. to N.N.W.,

rate to fredl
r.s.w. to N.N.W.,

fresh. .nowery.
Wren,ly. unsettled,
aurae rain.

The first ordinary general meeting of the London
and Lancashire Fire Insurance Company is con-
vened for the Bth inst.
- - -

'modem. to lmh,

showery.
.B.E. to W.B.W. ma W.ClartltAls

S.W. to N.W., fresh.

iterate to fresh.
Varlakte, Hy*, to S.W. W.FRANCi.

S.W.B. to N.N.W.,
fresh to 'Wong.
As nxt above, 11Met-
tied.
N. to W., moderate to
strong.
filsallar to above, K. Mast S.W. to N.W., fresh.

With reference to the market for American secu-
rities, Mr. R. F. Satterthwaite reporta as follows :
There is. been a fair activity is the socket in Loudon
for Amoriess seenritise during the past week, buyers being
iodated to act moo freely trout the reittosd rake of ex-
change reported as rain at sew York. There still exist,
a chfferesce of 3to 4 per cent. between endorsed
United Slates and Virginia. and those sot sedresed ; tbis
consequent upon the daterntimation is the Dutch market
not to take endorsed bonds. Railroad bonds are quoted
rather firmer. Illinois shares have unproved 1 dol., sad
Eck shares 2 dole.

The French Minister of State, in a flattering
letter which he has just addressed to 11. Victor Masse, the
musical composer, tells him that, in order to enable him to
devote himself entirely to his art, he grants him a pension
of 2,400 fr. a year.
SODOM/ DEATH OT • LOCAL PREACHER IN •
CHAPIL.—An inquest wu held on the body of Mr. James
Harris, of Stintley, near Cawley, for many years a local
preacher amongst the Wesleyan Methodists, who died tinder
the followitig singular circumstances : He had attended morn.
lug service in his usual health on Sunday. He took part in
the service, till the congregation were singing the hymn
before the sermon, when, on coming to the lines in the third
verse "Entered the grave in mortal flesh, and dwelt amongst
the dead," Mr. Harris fell forward on the front of him pew
a corpse. A verdict in accordance with the fact. was re.
turned.—Birssinpaatia Post.
Tag Itmcmairga Moanra.—Yesterday morning
an inquest was bold in Kirkdale Gaol by Mr. Drieleld, one
of the county coroners, on the body of Daniel Carr, one of Two O'CIA3CC.
the men oommitted to take his trial for the murder of blni. In the mining market to-day, speculative at-
Waloa at Ribchester, and for which crime two of his ac- teution is again chiefly confined to Ram Caradon
complies* have been coodemned to death. Carr was ad.
shares, which have declined, the present quotation
mitted into Kirkdale Gaol on the 10th of December,
he was frequently attended and prescribed for by the doctor 1 being 41 to f. North Roamer are also
for asthma and indigestion. He was an iron moulder by I lower at 38 to 39 ; Wheal Edward, at
trade, but he had been frequently in prison and ones 11 to 21 ; and Cook's Kitchen, at 274 to 28 ;
Roskearnoweth continue in demand, and have
sported. On the morning of Monday last, when he muLt...o
hawellealbsel onigiribt..dlibb:ZyPeiredafter bethilnegrasbhlayvedve,liha, vhainvgingmose7e; '
_214. Est Car sito@Brea
area' likewise better, rimat
or more previously, he died in the chair. The de-in to
ceased, after his admission into the gaol, always expressed 'to 252 ; Tincroft, 22 to 4 ; Caradon Vale, 41
great terror of being hang, saying he did not cure what else to 6 ; Great Fortune, 37 to 38 ; East Bassett,
beFee"d to him. Be std, wile reference to the murder' 78 to 80 ; Wheal Harriett, 3to
34 Wheel Ludoott,
of Mrs. Wolin, that he struck her some twelve times, but
vg to Whoa, orylia, 314 to . Wheal
Mae-
that she really died from the effects of suffocation. The
jury returned • verdict to the effect "That the deceased garet, 36 to 38 ; Calvadnack, 9} to '10; and South
died front natural mums, produced by disease of the Caradon, 390 to 400, ex div.
heart." Don Pedro and Port Phillip shares are firm, and
Yudanamutana rather dull. Other foreign and
CONVICTION or AN Decoct/rt. MAN.—Another
ease of an innocent person having been convicted of bumf- colonial mines are quiet, at previous prices.
cid* has been discovered in France. A person named 1.
Filippi was killed by • pietol-shot during a not in Corsica, we are informed that very satisfactory accounts
and a man named Resod was convicted of the homicide OR were received, by the last mail from two Caps of
the 10th of November, 1861, and senteoced to bard labour Good Hope, from the mines of the Cape Copper
for 20 cetera On the 25th of November following • man ' Cowy,
named Itimoni was convicted of the same homicide, and am which •
sentenced by the judge who tried Bawd to bard labour Me I the company is interested are on
and that 1,300 tons of copper ore in
per
4"mbeiybeingerld'int"AscenC°6ittradw:tisoifprfre.distiittl:t.leacgmhedtb:eothwtireer,tbuwomitcF:nist the AbGwthrea:VnNele., 4004°f°rt°tOsania:: ;Pirerir-Ciroy'GraaPedronSetA,neeLoo7WPerna—t°net°4lllo;
two convicts for trial before the Court of Amine of the 4300 tom.
Card. At the latter trial both the ocaniets stoutly pr.
tested that they were innocent. A letter, however, havingina Black Leadmine Company (limited) is to be settled
25 in • Ealing
The list of coutributories of the Cumberland
him radio evideoce from Simoni's mother which
to effect the convict extremely, the judge took advantage in the Bankruptcy Court on the ISt t.
of his emotion aid raid to him, "It was you, Simoni, who Creditors of the Llanbarry Hematite Iron Ore
fired the shot." " Yes," replied Simovi, it was I," at • Company (Limited) are required to forward their
the same time shedding Wan. This admission made the claims to sir. RP. Hauling, the official
matter Iraq for the jury. Romani was acquitted and dim- „tor, by the 28th ;mt., the 29th of May having
Owned ; &amid was found only, and sentenced to hard
labour for seven yaws t been appointed for adjudicating upon them.

WIDNZSDAY IiVEIIIIO.

The closing quotations for shams m new under-
takings were as follows :—British and Foreign
Marine, Ito If prem. ; Petroleum Trading, to
prem. ; Union Marine, If to 2 pram. ; Empire
Marine, f to# prem. ; National Bank of Liverpool,
4 to 44 prem.; Panonis Leather Cloth, # to #
prem. ; Mercantile and Exchange Bank, Idic to
par ; and Westminster and Southwark BanL, f to
Pram.

MINES.--(THIS DAY.)