The Express.
London, England, 1852-11-30 00:00:00

The miscellaneous share business of the day in-
cludes :—Bank of Australasia, at 714; English, &wt..
tish, and Australian Bank, 5,3, 43; London Char.
tared Bank of Australia, 43, 53, 3, # ; Provincial Bank
of Ireland, 473 ; South Austral an Banking Com-
pany, 40; Union Bank of Australia, 613, 11, 621;
Union Bank of London, 183; Australian Agricultu-
ral, 100, 93, 100, 95, 93 ; Peninsular and Oriental
Steam (201. paid), 50; Royal Mail Steam, 78, 79;
South Australian Land Company (251. paid), 40.
Shares of the Antwerp and Rotterdam Railway
closed Ito prem. ; Besiers and Oraissessac Railway,
11 to 11 prem. ; Royal Swedish Railway, Ito 1
prem. ; French South, Eastern Railway, 3 to 13
prem.; Bordeaux and Cate Railway, 6 to 51 prem.;
Western Railway of Switzerland, 3 to 13
prem. ; Ma&lena Steam 3 to I prem.; Danish
Zealand livra, 13 to 2 prem. ; Orleans
and Epernay Railway, Ito 1 prem.
We understand a project for a Sardinian railway
will shortly come upon the market.
The Nestor has arrived from Sydney with 12,295
ounces of gold, worth nearly 60,0001. Her dates
are to the 16th August. The Olenbervie has also
come in from Sydney, and the Stata from Melbourne,
with old data; but it is not yet known if these ves-
sels bring any gold.

Another large banking establishment is proposed
to be formed under the title of the Chartered Bank
of Asia (originally announced as the Bank of India).
The capital is fixed at 1,000,0001., a fifth portion of
which, with a view to enlisting colonial support, will
be raised in oar eastern possessions.
Amongst the new undertakings of the day is the
English and Irish Church and University Assurance
Society, which proposes to raise a capital of 250,0001.
A mutually advantageous connexion is stated toff
have been effected with the Friend of the Clergy
Society.
Rumours have for some days been current of a
movement on the part of some of the more influential
Peruvian bondholders, having for its object to obtain
from the government of the republic certain terms
for a new conversion of the debt. According to
report, the terms proposed are 1251., in Four-and-
a-Half per Cent. stock for every 1001. of the
present Active Bonds ; and 751. in Four-
and-a-Half per Cent. stock for every 1001.
of the present deferred debt. The sinking
fund on the new Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Stock,
which, es already shown, would include the entire'
foreign debt of the republic, is proposed to be fixed
at 10 per cent, per annum, by. which means the
whole debt would be redeemed in a few years. After
April, 1853, it will bo remembered, by the terms of
the last conversion, the sinking fund on the Active
Debt is to be only 1 per cent. per annum, and in
1856 a similar fixed sinking fund will come in force
on the deferred bonds, but at the rate of j per cent.
per annum only. For the next four years it would
thus appear the deferred debt has the advantage, as
a certain proportion of the half profits of the guano
trade must be applied to the redemption of this
portion of the debt. It is obvious, however,
that under the fixed sinking fund the extinction of
the debt will be very slowly accomplished;
and when we consider the many contingencies of