The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-27 00:00:00

I

,W INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

that it was necessary she should have proper affection.
Instead of that she was put in a cold cell, sad had no atten-
tion paid her. She was in such a weak state is consequence
of their neglect, that upon her being brought to the
court he had to order her wine. The sathortiee of the
House of Detention could not plead ignorance of the
prisoner being ill, for their attention was particularly called
to it by I ospector Fyfe, of the (1 division, when he took the
prisoner there, and they were told that she ought to hate
wine.

SHARE GISTS.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'CLooz.

EQUITY COURT.
r•efore Vice-Chancellor Wood.)
. :“0 OOVERNOSS OF ST. Thomas's SWF/TM.
~r title before the court by adjournment from
in order to obtain the sanction of the court is a
contract for the purchase by the governors of
Hospital from the Metropolitan Board of
i certain lands on the river aide at Stannic.
.41 the south end of Westmhater-bridge, as • site
hospital. The present proceedings arias out of
.....s•ity of providing a new lite for St. Thomas's Hos-
: •be site of the original hospital. near Lon-
hariug been taken by the Charing-
. I:altwav at a sum Seed by arbitration at
and now invested in 317,4061. lla. 7d. Bank
rrrßy an order of this court made is May, 1862,
nora of the hospital were authorised to apply to
for an act for the purpose of enabling them to
• . the Cliaring-croes Railway Company the fee simple
...le late hospital, and to build and re-establish
h•ispital and to provide for the temporary
in the meantime for the patients thereof and
; . • ••er rirposes connected with the administration of the
7' • The draught of the bill for this act was
.• • ea by the Vice-Chancellor, and the act, the short I
„E which is "The St. Thomas's Hospital Act, 1862,"
...I the royal assent in August, 1862. This act enabled'
the governors to purchase by agreement any land
•••.,r be approved by the Court of Chancery on a
, • -.pollution at the chambers of one of the judges
• ,t c,urt, of which application the Attorney-General
cave notice, for a new site for the said hospital,
• Adiogs to be used for any of the same purposes
•,..e present hospital, or which may be convenient
• ,_Ol with any such site, not exceeding in the whole
• :••••. The governors were also authorised by the
• • provide temporary accommodation for the pause..
• •e••.pomry accommodation had, with the unction of
• ▪ been provided in the Sarrey-gardens. Various
were proposed to the governess for their new hospital
• the course of last year. The proposed sites be-
st length practically reduced by elimination
r. 1. The Stangate site, betweeu Lambeth Palace and
~:—:•,:inster-bridge, immediately fronting the river, cow.
~c; about eight and a half acres. 2. The site of Beth-
Hospital in St. George's Fields, comprising 11 acres.
rue •4nrrey.gardeus of about 144 acres. 4. A tract of
I partially built upon at the back of Newington church.
•....:1••:a'ale negotiation took place between Febroary and
. :a.t in reference to the purchase of Bethlehem Hos-
. the terms proposed by the governors of that anti.
being, that the governors of St. Thomas's Hospital
..:1 either provide a new mad-house, equal in every
▪ t to the present, or else pay them 200,000/.
the purchase of the site of the present building,
terms not being accepted the negotiation went oft.
afterwards the governors were offered the site at
by the Metropolitan Board of Works. The medi-
,!•••!..ers of the hospital reported strongly in favour of this
• : so a site for the new hospital, and on the 19th of
ii.onber. 1.63, the governors entered into a conditional
•:-.tr•ct with the Metropolitan Board of Works for the put,
aaae. .t summons was taken out in chambers for
••••• purpose of obtaining the Vice•ChaneaUor's sanction
by the act of 1862) to this cactract, and
• eiae this which now came before the court.
:re Cry of Landon intervened in the spplicatioa. claiming
er7 on rights over the property of the hospital, and
• that the Stu:gate site was an improper one, and
not to be sanctioned.

The railway market is firm to-day, and
prices have advanced in several instances.
Metropolitan stock continues in prominent de-
mand, and has risen to 109} to 110}. Great
Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and
South Eastern have also improved 4, and London
and North Western and Midland, I. Great Eastern
has declined I. The settlement occupies chief atten-
tion. London and North Western stock is now quoted
111 to it ; Great Western, 65 to }; Midland, 130}
to 131 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 112 to ;
Caledonian, 120 to 121 ; South Eastern, 951 to ;
Great Eastern, 48f to I ; Great Northern, 129 to
130 ; London and South Western, 99} to 100} ;
and Metropolitan, 109} to 110 h.
Indian, Canadian, and foreign railway securi-
ties are steady at previous quotations.

(this is the second complaintmade against the authorities
of the house of Detention by prisoners daring the week, the
other complaint having bora made by • young woman who
charged with murdenog her ....bud. %he wee ill, but she was
also put into a cell, instead of into the infirmary.)
Mr. D'Eynooart committed the prisoner to the Central
Criminal Court for trial.

WORSHIP-STREET.
!WOLIN 1C181538.

Emma Cu 4,4 , a ootnely, dark-eyed, young person, of re-
spectable appearance, had to answer the following complaint
preferred against her by Elizabeth Farrell, fair-oompletiosied
and with soft-blue, languishing eyes.
She said—Uwe at 30, St. John's•road, Hoxtoo. On the
evening of the lith Mrs. Cook seized me by the hair, and
struck me in the eye with her fist.
Mr. Safford (clerk)—What had you done or said
to occasion such unladylike behaviour ? Does she live in
the same house

—Complaisant—Oh, yea, she lodges there. I had not does
angrh.ipltalf, mro.rd —Oh, 'you must have given some offence.
Have you a witness!
Complainant (hesitatingly)—l think Mr. Brown saw it.
Mr. Safford—Who is Mr. Brown?
Complainant—My master.
Mr. Safford—Very well. Now, Mn Cook do you wish
to ask any questions!
Defendant's pent up feelings now gave way, as in tones not
loud but deep, and with bitter irony, she asked Did you
not kiss my husband, miss ?
Complafnant—Certainly not.
Defendant—Oh, will you swear that!
Mr. Safford—She is on her oath.
Defeodant —Yes, of course, sir. (To complainant)—And
did he not kiss you!
Complainant---Certainly cot; nothing of the kind.
Defendant—Oh. What, not on the lending ?
Complainant—No.
Defendant —Why, I saw it, and hoard it returned.
(Laughter.)
Mr. Safford—Where were you?
Defendant—Sir. I was is my bedroom, the door open, and
I eoukl not be mistaken. If you doubt me call my husband ;
he will tell you that he kissed her, and she him. Pray all
him ; he is there at the back of the court.
Mr. Safford—We had better hear Mr. Brown.

Mr. Brown (examined. and appeared to enjoy the matter
amazingly )—I keep a ham and beef ahop,and the complaisant
is any format. I certainly witomeed the assault in question.
Mr. Safford—Did you previously witness the alleged as-
sault upon Mr. rook by your servant
Mr. Brown—Oh, dear, no.
Defendant (in sad accents)—Alt, you were sot there—
that'e proof.
Mr. Brown Don't cry, Mrs. Oook. (Spontaneous
laughter.)

Mr. CoOka (the maestrate)—Well, does defendant deny
the assault!
Mrs. Cook—She beat me as mach as I beat her. _ _

Mr. Cooke—l shall order Tow to pay the aosta ool►. aed
&dries that you leave the lodging; it will he better for
both parties. _ .

Mr. Q.C., Mr. Gifford, Q.C., and Mr. E. M'Naghten
error on behalf of the governors of St. Thomas's Hospital ;
sir High Cairns, Q.C., the Common Berjeoat, Mr. T. D.
Ar aihald (common law bar), and Mr. A. E. Miller appear
for the City ; and Mr. Wickens for the Crown.
Vice-Chancellor gave judgment, and stated—He was
of • ....lion that no case had been made out to warrant him
it ••:erfering with the selection of a site. The discretion of
ro..ar.: a selection was clearly given to the hospital
a..,...orities. sod the court could not control that discretion
s.: •og as it was duly exercised. If the hospital site
were selected from motives of fraud, em for instance
for the sake of benefitting either the parties making the
ti.in or persons in collusion with them, then this court
w 21 know well how to interfere, and would do so with
e!!rt. so, if an extravagantly expensive sit* wen selected.
{:t extranguoce, though free from fraud morally, might
ie w.thin the scope of that which this wart
o.:(dered fraudulent, and, if so, the court would
..o.lyalitedly interfere. Again, if a site maul-
fes,..y improper—so improper that it was clear that an hos-
there erected would be of no use—were selected, the
y.rt would hold that the discretion had been so wrongly or
7...,Like01y exercised that it would find means to give
s!ef. Some attempts had been made to bring this case
satin the scope of such power of the court, but
lid not appear to his honour that this attempt had
!."ruled. True it was that the site was proposed to be
•te.l by the river site, and it was alleged that such a
• 41ti011 was unwholesome. Bat the evidence did not con-
race him that such was the fact. One great
t ep.tal of Europe, the Hotel Dieu, was 00 the books
a river, and that was confessedly healthier
:van many which•leemed to have greater advantages.
:tido regard to the case set op by the City, that his honour
:misidered was disposed of by act of parliament. The
rite stood by and allowed that act to peas, and that being
• trey could not now set up a claim inconsistent with it.
Me result of the whole would be that the choice of nit*
rsady made would be affirmed—and the contract con-
•nsed.

ttr: Brown—Exactly. I have given them notice.
Mn. Cook—Oh no. we gave you notice. (To the
eerv►ot)—Oh, you hussy.

WANDSWORTH.
PORTLICE TILLING.-a SZNBIIII2 0111.

Mary North, who carried a child in the peculiar gipey
way, and who on entering the dock gave the usual "bob."
which was intended for a curtsey. was charged with fortune
telling.
Sarah Weston, a good-natured looking young woman,
said she was in service at No. 2, Middlesex-terrace, South
Fields. On the previous afternoon the prisoner came to the
house and asked her to buy some clothes pegs, and sitar-
wards a stay lace. She told her she did not want any. The
prisoner then asked her to give her some Mead, and leiteess
said she was not allowed to give anything. She next wasted
to tell her fortnae. Witness slid, "No ; I know my for-
tune too well already." (A laugh.)
Mr. Daymao— What did she nay to that
Witness (laughing)—She said I should have no leak
unless I had my fortune told. I told her else would not
get me any luck. (Laughter.) She remained quite a
quarter of an hour. I sat at the window laughing at her.
The prisoner addressed the witness as dear, and said she
knew that she wanted only to sell her clothes pegs.
Police-constable Quartermain said be was on duty in the
Merton-mad in plain clothes, when be saw the prisoner
going from house to house. She asked the servant at
No. 3 to have her fortune told, but she declined. She
went down the area of No. 2 and he heard the
prisoner auk the servant to have her fortune told. She
told the witous that she was a very fortunate
girl and would have plenty of money. (Laughter. ) The
Firl repeatedly told her to go away. The prisoner said that
rf she had no money, she would tell her fortune for clothes,
or for anything else. At lut the primmer saw him, when
she turned round and came up the steps.
Mr. "hymen said it was very fortunate on this occasion
that the prisoner had met with such a sensible girl. The
prisoner's clue very often entrapped girls by telling them
some lice tale. She had very clearly brought herself
within the law, and he committed her to prison for 14 days'
hard labour.
The prisoner was removed crying.

10 all Antwerp t Rotterdam' 01 94
20 all Behism4 Pra..1...,6.7p.e , 161 17i
5 all Belgian E June:ion I 11
20 3 B.AyresC.Southern j : -
20 ti Copenhagen ;Limited par
100 ' all Coplapo —
10 all Do Extension
100 10 DenaburghWitepaidl„
10 16 Dutch Rhenish ll 11 pm
20 all Do
10 all &Meru of Prance
20 all (id Rumuin gua. sp. c —
10 all Cre it Laren' boarg lOl 11 •
9) all Italian Junction... ' I
23 , all Sam.diLlege i By the If
90 ' all Dore'. c Prf. i Bele. goy I 10
18 ' all Northam of France..„ ~, 87 Stlf
DI .16 Do. New £lll. (ins. at 2141 d —.—
10 11l N. Rall B. A Tres g. 7p,e. , 161 104
10 24D0. do. do ' par 4pa
10 all Norwegian Trunk Pref 8 9
70 all Ottoman ,SrisyroaAidlo). 11 It
20 all Pasta Lyons.andliadit 366 871
20 all Pats and Orleans 3O 40
20 all Recife & 8 Francts.,L 17 14
10 all Royal Danish ......
20 II Royal Sardinian
5 all Royal Swedish. • 4
all D 1
o. 7 per mak 1 1:01
20 all Sambre and ileum 7l 7
10 all Do. 61 per ant Pref a ,
20 8 Sam Paulo J.. g.7per et Ltlis pm
20 all Do. do ll I
20 all &And. &Loin. Venetian 27)!
20 16 'Bontbitast. of Portugal. —es
20 all Southern of Prance 24 2/
20 8 Tuba and Savona. 6l 46 dla xn
20 all Do. do l4 18 an,
If all West Flanders ' 7.1 21 10 all Do. Si per cent Pref 1 1. .
20 . all Weil. A N.W.of Frame 20 21

1 pi.

- xix

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 27, 1884;

$.60,000 BrltlallColna6p.cf.,lB7l 100 102 106
Do. do. 1883 100
Can. Gov. 69. c., 1877.84. 100 101 103
D 0.6 per ct Ireb.dAttg. 100 100 102
D 0.6 perct. Mar.& Refi 100 102 104
2,814,909 D 0.6 per ct.Jan.din 100 80 91
686,806 .. Do. 6 per ct. Lau Sloe 100. 1111 91
200,000 .. Coped GEope6p.et.lB73 100 06 108
Do. do. 11,80-4100 08 110
Do. do. 1890-1 100 10 112
Do. do. 1801 100 08 110
100,000 .. Ceylon,Nov. 1988,6 pet 100 OS 167
160,000 .. Do. 1270. do.. 100 11 113
100,000 Ilanzittus Iper Cl.. 1873 100 06 108
200,000 .. Do. 1878 100 03 110
200,000 .. Do. 1882 100 10 112
166,600 NataL Gov. 6 per cent... 100 08 110
166,000 .. New Brant G J.. 6 p.el. 100 01 100
N.S.Wales Gv. p.c.1986 100 94 100
Do. 60. c. 1871 to 1870 100 94 100
Do. 6p. c 1888 to 1902 100 98 100
150,000 .. New Zealand 6 per cent. 100 108 110
260,000 .. Nova Scotia 6p. c.. 19,5 100 103 106
76,000 .. Queenaland Gov. 6 p. ca 100
Anat.Oovel p. e. Boo& 100 ,
Vlc-Oov.6p.c.Jan.*Jul7 100
Do. do. 6 p.c. Apriletoc. 100 110 111

109 111

N

...
1004

not 1

MONEY MARKET.-(TEIS DAY.)

Two o'Cx.ocx.

The stock markets to-day are inactive, the prin-
cipal business consisting of preparations for Mon•
day's settlement. Ono or two of the more
speculative foreign stocks are rather flatter, but
prices generally are steady. The funds remain at
yesterday's quotations, while some of the leading
home railway stocks have improved.
At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Renter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes were quoted
66fr. 55c., showing no change.
Consols are now quoted 914 to g for money, and
911 to 4 for the account (March 8). The official
business report is as follows :—Three per Cent.
Console, for money, 914, g, 4, ; 4itto, for ac-
count, 911 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 911, ;
New Three per Cents., 911, 1, 4 ;
Az-
nuities, 1885, 14 15.16 ; Red Sea Telegraph,
)0 15-16 ; India Five per Cent. stock, 1041, ;
ditto Bonds, 4s. die. ; and Exchequer Bills, ss.
die., par.
Mexican Bands are 4 per cent. lower than yester-
day, at 431 to 4, and Greek at 224 to 1.
Turkish Consolids are dull at 50/ to 4, and
Spanish Passive firm at 351 to g. The Con-
federate Loan has improved 1 to 2 per cent.,
being now quoted 47 to 50. Other foreign
stocks are steady. Transactions are recorded as
follows :—Brazilian, 1863, 871 ; ditto scrip, 1 die ;
Colombian Scrip, 3 die. ; Dutch Two-and•a-Half
per Cents., 64 ; Egyptian, 103 ; Greek, 22g, ditto
Coupons, 101 ; Mexican, 431 ; ditto for
account, 434, I, 4,4, 44, 439; Portuguese, 1853, for
account, 48; ditto, 1856, ttc., for acct., 48 ; Russian,
1862, 89; Spanish Passive, 35/, ; ditto, for
amount, 351, 4, ; ditto Certificates, for
account, 131, 4 ; Turkish, 1854, 914 ; ditto
1858, 71, 4 ; ditto 1862, 69, 1 ; ditto for account,
69/ ; ditto lOW. Bonds, 691, 1, 4.
International Financial shares are now quoted 71
to 4 prem.; General Credit, 31 to 4 prem.
London Financial, 114 to 1, ex div. and ex new ;
Mercantile Credit, 6 to 7 prem. ; Hudson's Bay,
184 to 191 ; Egyptian Trading, 21 to 3 prem. ;Land
Securities, 11 to 11 prem. ; Credit Fonder of Mau-
ritius, 1 to 1 prem. ; Credit Fonder of Great
Britain and Ireland, 11 to 11 prem. ; Austra-
lian and Eastern Steam, 8 to 9 prem. ;
Ottoman Financial, par to 1 prem. ; South Eastern
Bank, 1 to 14 prem. ; London Gas Meter, 4 to 14
prem. ; Imperial Financial, 21 to 3 prem. ; and
General International Agency, 1 to 11 prem.

HALF-PAST Two o'CLoce.
Consols are 1 per cent, lower, at 911 to for
money, and 911 to 1 for the account.
As frequently happens when a reduction in the
Bank rate has been expected, the discount market
yesterday was active and rather tight. Good bills
were not generally taken below 6 per oent.,land there
was a decided increase of business at the Bank of
England. The quarterly advances have commenced
at that establishment, and will continue until the
payment of the April dividends. In the Stock Ex-
change there was a good demand for loans on go-
vernment securities at 5 to 6 per cent.
At Paris and Vienna the rate of discount in the
open market is now 6 per oent.; Amsterdam and
Brussels, 5 ; Hamburg and Berlin, 4 ; Turin, G 1 ;
Frankfort, 3i ; and St. Petersburg, 8 per cent.
At the settlement yesterday 10 to 15 per cent.
per annum seems to have been the average rate of
, continuation " on the speculative foreign stocks
and the financial companies' shares.
The steamer Delta will take to-day 174,348/.
in silver and 69,4601. in gold for Bombay, and
20,500/. in gold for Alexandria, making a total of
264,308/.
The demand for bills on the continent continued
yesterday afternoon' and the rates generally were
' less favourable for this country, being quoted as
follows :
' Amsterdam. 3 amailts, 1L194 to 12.04: ditto, 3 days,
11.164 to 171; Rotterdam, 3 mootha.l2 to 12.04 ; Antwerp,
Smooths. 25.65 to 70; Hamburg, ma halm, 3 months,
13.8 to 1 ; Paris, 3 days, 25.25 to 35 ; ditto. 3 mouths,
15.70 to '75 ; Frankfort-on4lorMaise, b moetbs, 1194 to
(per rouble),3 mouths, 33 to 1 ; Vienna,
eff. So., 3 swath; 12.25 to 30 ; Trieste, aff. So., 3 maths,
12.25 to 30 ; Madrid, 3 months, 48 to 4 ; Cadiz, 3 months,
474 to 48 ; Leghorn, 3 months, 25.824 to 74 ; Gesaa, 3
months, 15.821 to 71 ; Milan, 3 mouths, 25.821 to 71 ;
Nelda, 3 months, 25.821 to 71 ; Palermo, 3 months,
15.821 to 71 ; Messina, 3 maths, 25.921 to 74 ; Lisboa, 90
clays, 52 to ; Oporto, 90 days, 52 to 4.
It is stated that there will he no sitting of the
Stock Exchange Committee on Monday, that being
the "pay day' on the settlement, but that the
committee will meet on Tuesday to fix settling
days, and for the ordinary business. Thursday next
has been fixed for the investigation into the case of
the Australian and Eastern Navigation Company,
when it is expected that the committees of the
Liverpool and Manchester Stock Exchanges, by
whom the appointment of a settling day is oppos4
will attend.

With reference to the new issue of capital of the
Imperial Bank (Limited), the annexed circular has
been forwarded to the shareholders:

Sir,-1 am desired to all your attention to the following
resolutions which have been passed by this board :—" Re-
solved umaimotudy—That in exercise of the authority
vested in the hoard by the 18th and 21st regulations of the
bank, and in order to increase the subscribed capital to the
sum of 2,000,000/.-8,000 shares of 10W. each, being a
further portion of the original capital, be now issued on the
following terms : 1. That such shares shall be issued at a
premium of 41. per share ; and shall be offered, in the Ent
instance, to the shareholders whose names shall Le on the
register on the 3rd of March next, is the proportion of two-
thirds of the number of shame beta by each such share-
holder resPeetieely, excluding fractional part. 2. The
premium of 4/. per share shall be paid on the acceptance of
the offer, and no such acceptance will be meted upon, unions
Dent in not later than the 9th day of March next, after
which day, the shareholders who have not replied, shall be
considered to have renounced thir right to an allotment.
3. Any shares which may remain unappropriated shall be
dealt with in the discretion of the board. 4. The nom of
201. per share having been already paid up on the existing
share-, the same amount per share shall be paid on the'
ohm.* included in the present issue by the following instal-
ments, viz. :-5/. per share on or before the 22nd March,
11464 • 3/. per share on or before the 22nd Jose, 1864 ; 51.
per share on or before the 22nd September, 1864 ; 54. per
share on or before the 220 d December, 1864. 5. ,The seve-
ral instalments above-mentioned, when duly paid, shall bear
interest at the rate of 51. per met per annum, in lien of
dividends, from the respective days of minima, until the
31st day of December next, from which period the holders
shall be entitled to participate in all future dividends part
peasrr with the other shares in the mislead capital of the
bank. 6. Interest at the r ate of U. per oent per annum
will be allowed on all instalment which may he paid in
advance, and interest at such rate, not exceeding 10/. per
cent per annum, as the board may prescribe, will be
charged oo all such instalments as shall not be duly paid at
the before meotioned dates up to the time of payment
thereof. Due notice, amompanied by the necessary deco-
mente, will be forwarded to the shareholders on or as soon
eller the 3rd of March as the mister can be wade up.—
I am, Stc., J. MANNING, See.
The letters of " regret" to unsuccessful appli-
cants for shares in the Credit Foucier Society
(Limited) were inuedryesterday.
The share list of the Maritime Insurance Com-
pany (Limited) was closed on Wednesday. The ap-
plications, so far as can be ascertained at present,
amount to 143,0.56 shares, the company's first ,
issue of capital consisting of 24000. The
.magni-
tude of the applications is the more worthy of no-
tice, because no quotation seem to have been made
for this company's shares.
The wind has been north-easterly for some days,
and this has retarded the arrival of ships from
Auatralia, China, and other Eastern ports.

Facer Ensues.

Consols, which closed yesterday at 911 to
for the Bth March, closed to-day at the same quo-
tation. For money the last price was 911 to 1.
The official business report is as follows :—Three
per Cent. Consols, for money, 911, 1; ditto, for
account, 911; Three per Cents. Reduced, 911,1,
i; New Three per Cents., 911, 1. 1. ; An-
nuities, 1885, 14 13-16 ; Bank Stock, 237 ; India
Five per Cent. Stock, 1041, ; ditto Four per
Cent., 1004 ; ditto Four per Cent. Debentures,
1866, 991 ; ditto Bonds, is., 9s. dia.

' The India Five per Ceut. Stock au nteady.
Exchequer Billa remain at fia. dia. to par.
The foreign stock market vas dull in the morn-
ing, but advanced iu the afternoon, and cloned
firmly.
. . . . . . .

In the market for bank shares the variations
were limited to an improvement in Alliance, Austral-
asia, and Lomion and Hamburg, and a slight
reduction in Agra and London and Colonial. Hud-
son's Bay sharPi have risen to IN to 19. F4qptias
Trailing were !ir:“ at n to 21 prem. Crystal Palace,
Natal Land, arced Oriental 'lnland Steam shares,
were all firmer. Ocean Marine have slightly
receded.

The shares of the financial companies were is
demand. International closed at 74 to 1 prem.
General Credit have risen to 31 to 4 prem., ex dir.
,
and London Financial to 111 to 1 prem., "ex aIL"
Mercantile Credit were firm at 14 to 71 prem.
The shares of the Credit Foncier of Mauritius
were last quoted 4 to 1 prem. ; Land Securities
Company, 11 to 14 prem.; Anglo-Italian Bank, 4 t.
1 prem. ; Contract Corporation, 11 to If prem. ;
I Credit Fourier (Great Britain), 1 to 2 prem. ; Lon-
don Mercantile Discount, 21 to 3 prem. ; Austra-
lian and Eastern Navigation, i to 91 prem. ;
Ottoman Fiu.incial Association, to 1
_pre= 1
Consolidated Discount, 1 dia. to par ; ileßiCalk
Bank, 1 to 11 prem. ; Littlehampton Steam. 7 to
8 prem. ; Financial Corporation, 14 to 21 prem. ;
Imperia: Financial Compel, 21 to 3 prem. ; Gel-
livara Company, 14 to 1 prem. ; London Gas
' Meter, Ito 11 prem. ; uenos Ayres Bonded
Wharf, 4 to 1 prem. ; South Eastern Bank, 1 to
11 prem. ; British Colonial Steamship, 1 to 14
prem. ; Naval and Military Bank, 1 to 11 prem. ;
Lisbon Oil Mills, 4 to 1 prem. ; and General In-
ternational Aeency, 1 to 11 prem.

MINES.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'Cuw:w.

In the mining market to-day the dealer% are
almost exclusit-ei engaged in the settlement of the
fortnightly account, and pnoes generally are quoted
the same as Yesterday. North Shepherds shares,
however, continue in demand, and have risen to 4i to
st. East Caradon, on the other hand, have de-
chned is. lid., being now quoted 32} to 33. West
Chiverton al, steady at 83 to 85, and Chiverton at
13i to 14
Alamillos and United Mexican mining shares are
inquired for. Other foreign and colonial mines are
quiet.
The subjoined weekly summary of the metal
market is extracted from the circular of Messrs.
Von Dadelazen and North :
The metal market has ruled very quiet Sinai our last re-
port ; bolder,. however, are not pressing males. The con-
tinued uncertainty of foreign politics has neutralised the
effect of the reduction in the rate of discount, and metals
remain unaltered in value. Iron.—Welsh ban 1111111/11
nominally Al. Co b. io Wales, but second-hand parcels may
be bought cheaper. Staffordshire iron is difficult of sale,
and few fresh contracts are gives out. Scotch pig irons
after receding to 595. 'cash. advanced again to 60a. 3d.
cash and 625. open, and fell eons to 595. 3d. cash and
60a. 6d. open. Copper is very dell : English, 4/. to U.
under officia prices ; foreign is quite seglected.
Bat little business reported : Esiglieh is flat, and obtaia-
able under official quotations. Straits, 1171.; Banco. 1191.;
quite nominal. The Dutch market is quiet, at 706. TV
plates are in goad demand, at full prices. Lead keeps firma
at late advances. Spelter.—A very large business has besa
done at advancing prices. The following are the latest
quotation. :—Spot, 23/. 10a ; March, Zit.; Anril, 221. lbs.
to 231.; Ma). June, and July, ra. 10s. Hall speller, Z2l.

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL COTTON MARKET.
(ran DAY.)
(8T ri.renua AND nrrrawATlosAL Tuzaaire.)
(mom ocra OWN COLIZAPONDENT. )
The market dull aad lower ; wise 5,000, apecalatiow eat
sport 1,500 bales.