The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-15 00:00:00

Tc.sDAT EVSNINO.
The English funds to-day were firm, though with
a quiet business, owing to the attention of the mem-
ben of the Stock Exchange being chiefly engaged
with the share and foreign stock settling, which, as
we anticipated, has given occasiou to a considerable
demand for money in the house. Consols ruled
steady throughout the day at 1004 to 1 ex. div. for
the opening of the 18th January. The Three per
Cents. Reduced advanced to 101, owing to the
stimulus imparted by the renewal of purchases by the
government broker. The official business report
includes :—Three par Cent. Console, for account,
1004, I,ex di.. Three per Cent. Reduced, 1001, 1,
4, 101. Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 104, 31, 44.
Long Annuities, 1860, 6 7-16. Bank Stock, 2221, 2231.
A considerable business was done in Exchequer
Bills, both March and June, at 59*. to 625. prem.;
at which reduced quotation the market now wears a
steadier appearance. India Bonds were dealt in at
77a. to 755. prem.
In the foreign stock market the 'settlement of the
account was carried on quietly, and had little effect
upon prices. Portuguese and 1/latch stocks are
creeping up ; but there was a further considerable
fall in Spanish, and Turkish scrip is also rather fiat.
BuenosAyrean Bonds were better at 74 to 76, the news
by the Teviot being regarded as favourable. It is under-
stood that the committee, as usual, have no adviees
of any description, and in this circumstance the
bondholders must perceive the natural consequence
of their neglect, in entrusting the management of
their affairs in Buenos Ayres to the agent of a
mercantile firm, who of course merely looks to satsify
his principals, and is soways accountable to the
bondholders. The creditors consequently once or
twice in the course of six months or so receive a row
in qlines of news, distilled through the house
uestion, but have no independent source of
information. Their ease is in fact much the same
as that of the Mexican bondholders, whose agent is
in reality the employe of the Messrs. Baring's. For the
information of the bondholders we can mention that
the usual monthly remittance of 5,000 dots. has duly
come forward from Beene@ Ayres. Bargains are thus
marked : Austrian Old Five per Cent. Honda, 841 (ex-
change, 1011. per £).) Brazilian Old Five per Cents,
10241 dittoFour-and.a-Half perCents.,9Bl, 4. Buenos
Ayres Six per Cents., 74, 75; ditto for account, 30th
December, 76. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
671, 4,1; ditto Four per Cent. Certifs., 981, 4, 4.
Granada Deferred Bonds, 13. Mexican Three per
Cents., 241, 1. Peruvian Six per Cent., 105; ditto
Deferred Three per Cents., 651. Portuguese Con-
verted Four per Cents., for account, 30th December,
40, 3141, 401, 1. Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
1064, 105. Sardinian Five per Cents., 961, 96
ex div. Spanish Old Three per Cents., 501; 1; ditto
New Deferred Three per Cents., for account, 23,
224, 231. Swedish Loan, 11, 11 die. Turkish Six
per Cent. Loan, 11, 11, 11 prem.
Business in miscellaneous shares was not quite so
brisk, the attention of the dealers being otherwise
engaged. The last sales are as follows :—Chartered
Bank of India, Australia, and China, 31; Leaden
Chartered Bank of Australia, 51, 41; Union Bank
of Australia, 674; ditto, New (21. 10s. paid). 71 ;
Australian Agricultural, 88; Australian Royal Mail
Steam (51. paid), 51; Crystal Palace, 41; General
Screw Steam Shipping, 621 ex new ; National
Patent Steam Fnel, 11; North of Europe Steam, 24;
Royal Mail Steam, 80; Van Diemen 's Land, 9 ;
Southampton Docks, 401; shares of the Begins and
Oraimeasaii Railway closed 4 to 1 prem. $ Royal
Swedish Railway, par to 1 prem.; Central Italian,
4 to 4prem. ; Staines and Woking, /to prem.;
French South Eastern, 4to prem.; Hamilton and
Toronto, 4 di.. to 4 prem.; Danish Zealand Rail-
way, 14 to 11 prem. ; Lake Constance and
Bade, 4 di.. to 4 prem. ; Orleans and Epernay
&to ; Tynemonth Docks, par to 4 prom. ;
ty Railway Terminus, par to 1 prem.; Bank of
Asia, 1 dice. to 4 prem.; London Bank of Austra-
lia and India, par to 4 prem.; ; Magdalena Steam,
die to prem.; Lake Fuoino Drainage, 4 to 4
prem. (nominaL) It is understood that the applies-
ties of the South Eastern of France Company for a
concession is, for the present, unsuccessful.
Monday next, the 20th December, his been ap-
pointed settling day for the shares of the South
Eastern Railway of France; the Danish Zealand
Railway ; and the Extension Shares of the New-
market Railway Company. All these shares are to
be officially marked.
The Lady Flora, which sailed from Port Phillip
on the 4th August for London with 77,500 ounces of
gold, valued at 310,0001. sterling, put into Rio Ja-
neiro on the 16th October, and sailed for London on
the 28th idem. The second mate had been detected
pilfering some gold, and sent home under arrest.
The Emperor, with 8,000 ounces of gold from Syd-
ney, has put into Monte Video in a leaky state, and
this amount of the precious metal has been transferred
to her Majesty's steamer Plumper, for ootiveya:..oe to
England.
It became known to-day that the directors of the
Upper India Railway Company have determined to
call for subscriptions for three millioes of additional
capital, over and above the million already sub-
scribed. The shares will be as before, namely,
20/. each, and will consequently number 150,000.
Of this number 75,000 shares will be ap-
propriated to the: present scripholdere, being at
the rate of three new shares for every two now held;
50,000 shares will be allotted in India; and the re-
mainder, and all such as may not be taken up here,
will be distributed as the directors may think ad-
visable. The object of this step is to enable the Com-
pany to tender for the entire line from Allaleabad to
Delhi. It will be seen that the directors are deter-
mined to urge their claim for a concession by every
available means, and will make their offer in so com-
plete and favourable • manner that the India autho-
rities will positively find themselves oonstrained to
accede to it. The project is universally recognised as
one of the most important that has appeared fee
years, both in • commercial and military point of
view, and thus it is not surprising that great iutcrest
has been excited amongst the public generally,whilst
the attention of parliament has already been called to
the subject.
The directors of the Antwerp and Rotterdam Rail-
way Company have issued a circular stating that the
bill ratifying the concession of that portion of the
line which is situated in the kingdom of Belgium