The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-08 00:00:00

TUBSDAT EVI7IIIIIO.
The English stock market to-day was not so
strong, and prices closed at a slight reduction. The i
decline appears to be in some measure consequent
upon the arrangements for the settlement of the
account in Consols fixed to take place on Thursday,
the account looking" bullish." Consols ranged be-
tween 1011 and 1011, and left:off Livers° than yes-
terday at 1011 to 1 for money and this time, and
1011 to a for the opening in January. The Three
per Cent. lieduced were supported by the resump-
tion of operations by the government broker, who
invested at 1001. The business list is as follows :
Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 1014, I • ditto
for account, 1011. Three per Cent. Redueed, 1004,
1. Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 1031, 104,
1034. Long Annuities, 1860, 61, 7-16 ; ditto
30 years, 1859, 6 3-10 ; ditto, 1860, 6 11-16. South
Sea Old Annuities, 991. Bank Stock, 222.
Sellers of Exchequer Bills offered more freely, and
the price of both the March and Juno issues fell Is.,
closing 68s. to 71s. prem. Of India Bonds there
were sellers at 80s. prem.
In the foreign stock market there was a further
slight improvement in Peruvian Bonds. Turkish
scrip was also firmer, and Swedish flatter. Spanish
stocks opened heavily but rallied. The Deferred
Threes recovered from 24 to 241 to a, in consequence
of orders to purchase from Belgium and Holland, and
the price left off 244 exactly. The list of the day's
sales is as follows :—Belgian Four-and-a-Half per
Cents., 99 (exchange 25f.). Brazilian Four-and-a-
Half per Cents., 973, 98. Buenos Ayres Six per
Ceuta-, 741, 75. Danish Five per Cents., 107.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 661, 4, 67, 661;
ditto Fonr per Cent. Certificates, 981. Granada De-
ferred, 131. Mexican Three per Cents., for account,
16th Dec., 241. Peruvian Six per Cents., 1031,
106; ditto Deferred Three per Cents., 661, 66. ltus-
sian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 1041, 1. Sardinian
Five per Cents., 97, 964, 1, ex div. Spanish Old
Three per Cents., 511, 1; ditto Deferred Three per
Cents., 24, 3, 1. Swedish Mortgage Loan, 2, 11 dis.
Turkish Six per Cent. Loan, 2 prem.
The dealings in Australian Bank shares continue
active; and upon the whole the tendency of prices
is still upward. Union Bank of Australia Shares
have risen to 66 and 68, and left off 68 to 69. Bank
of Australasia were done yesterday afternoon at 82,
81, and 84, according to the official list, and to-day
at 82, 80, and 811. Sales were also marked in the
following, viz.: Eagliqh, Scottish, and Australian
Bank, 51, 4,5; London Chartered Bank of Australia,
51, 1,4, 1,4; South Australian Banking Company,
41 ; Commercial Bank of London, 30 ; London Dock
Stock, 129; Victoria Docks, 63 • Australian Agricul-
tural, 94, 92; Crystal Palace, 5; Electric Tele-
graph of Ireland, 11 ; Peninsular and Oriental
Steam,9ll; Royal Mail Steam, 79, 781. Shares of the
Beziers and Grausessac Railway closed 1 to 11 prem.;
Antwerp and Rotterdam, 1 toe prem.; Western
Railway of Switzerland, 1 to 1 prem. (both these'
lines are now officially marked); French South
Eastern (for which a settling day is expected to be
speedily appointed), Ito 1 prem.; Royal Swedish
IWway, to prem. ; Staines and Woking Railway,
to 1 prem.; Hamilton and Toronto Railway, 1 to
1 prem.; Danish Zealand Railway, 11 to 11 prem.;
Lake Constance and Basle Railway, 4 dis. to 1 prem.;
Lucca and Pistoja Railway, 1 die. to 4 prem.; Great
Western and City Junction Railway, 1 to 1 prem.;
Orleans and Epernay, 4 to 1 prem.; Tynessouth
Docks, I prem.; Bank of Asia (allotted to-day),
/ to 1 prem.; Bank of India, Australia, and China,
11 to 11 prem.; Magdalena Steam, par to 1 prem.;
Chiriqui Road, / to 4 prem.
Monday next, the 13th inst., has been appointed
settling day for the shares of the Chartered Bank
of India, Australia, and China, with sanction for the
shares to be officially marked. Friday, the 10th, is
also fixed as settling day for the Australian Auri-
ferous Ore Reduction and Mining Company, and the
Irish Submarine Telegraph Company, but the
shares of neither of these two undertakings are to be
officially marked.
The Roman Emperor has arrived from Sydney,
which port she left on the 4th of September, with
60,572 ounces of gold, valued at full 242,0001. sterl-
ing. It was this vessel that carried out the staff of
the British Australian Gold Mining Company. She
left London on her outward voyage on tke 28th of
Jaluary.
t is expected that the shipments of specie by the
Adelaide steamer, which will leave London on
Thursday for Plymouth and Australia, will amount
to about 200,0001.

Amongst the new undertakings of the day are the
Barnet and Willesden Railway, with a capital of
220,0001.; and the Portland Iron Company of Scot-
land, which proposes to raise 100,0001. A railway
from Carmarthan to Cardigan is also projected.
The chief features in the market for foreign ex-
changes to-day was a further decline in the rate for
bills on Hamburgh, which were done at the beginning
of 'Change at 13.51 to 6, and closed at 13.5 to I. This
downward tendency does not appear to be connected
with the price of silver (in which market there is at
present no movement) but is stated to be owing
to large speculative purchases of grain at Hamburg
on London account. In other exchanges there was
little alteration. For Spanish places there was a
little demand, but in bills on Paris very little was
done. The quotation on Amsterdam appears to be
at its lowest point. It is reported that, in anticipa-
tion of the projected conversion of the Dutch Four
per Cent. stock inducing a portion of the holders to
prefer reimbursement, rather than to accept a lower
rate of interest, speculative drafts on Holland have
been brought into the market, and have thus checked
the demand.

The Board of Trade returns for the month and ten
months ending the sth November were published
this morning. The total declared vales of the
exports of British and Irish produce and manufactures
during the two periods referred to was U follows :
For the month. For 10 'months.
1852 Li 863 666 £39 247 104

1851 .... 4:621:078 .... 58,126,066
1850 .... 4,751,804 .... 65,038,206

These returns are again very favourable, the =-
pats of our staples being, in the aggregate, con&
derably in excess of both the previous years. Evi-
dence is thus afforded that the general foreign and
colonial trade of the country is steadily advancing.
whilst the increased demand for shipment to Aria.
lia likewise has a very favourable effect. The Vila,
presented by these government returns, it may be
noticed, are fully confirmed by the accounts pub-
lished periodically from the great seats of industry.
In our chief item of export, however, that of cotton
manufactures, in which there was so decided an
expansion in the previous return, the tendency is
this month the other way, the total figures for the
ten months being less than last year by a million
and a halt, although still in excess of the exports for
the corresponding period of 18.10. This falling of
is almost exclusively confined to " cotton mandato-
toms entered by the yard," and is, doubtless, on .
sinned by the rise in the price of the raw sakesal
during the period embraced. The figures are an-
nexed:
For the month. For 10 months.
1852 .... 1:1,460,443 .... £18,218.132
1851 .... 1,190.12 .... 19,793,992

1850 .... 1,572,23.5 .... 17,968,718
The exports of cotton yarn have been fairly sup-