The Express.
London, England, 1863-12-04 00:00:00

PANISCER.
Goverment

Fa 7
bead Weight As-
mtne.sse
otisnewisk
Notes
Gold sad Bihar
Cala 614.044

1.118.610.120
MARSHALL, Chief caul.

THURSDAY Esumo.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 91 to i ex
div., for the 7th Jan., were first marked to-day 901;
ancl9ol, and closed at 902 to I. For money the
last price was 90} to 11, ex div. The " continua-
tion," up to the close of the settlement, has been
per cent. The official business report is as
follows :—Three per Cent. Consols, for money, ,
1,090, 4,4, ex div. ; ditto for account, 190 L 90i
1,
,ex dtv. ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 00, 892,
; New Three per Cents., 90, 891 ; Thirty
Years Annuities, 1885, lig • Bank Stock, 235 ;
India Five per Cent. Stock, Id6i, 3 ; ditto Four
per Cent., 100} ; ditto Four per Cent. Debentures,
1864 or 1866, 99 ; ditto Bonds, ss. prem.' 4s. die. ;
Five per Cent. " enfaced " rupee paper, 103, 104.
After the close of the Stock Exchange, Consols
were rather firmer, at 94 to 91, ex thy., for the
7th January.
The India Five per Cent. stock was slightly
flatter. Exchequer Bills were unaltered at 10s. to
se. dia.
Great excitement has again prevailed in the
foreign stock market. Much depression was ob-
servable at the commencement of business. The
advance in the Bank rate to 8 per cent. seemed for
the moment to arrest the fall in prices, but sellers
subsequently came forward, and a further general
decline took place. The speculative stocks were
chiefly affected, and Greek continues to suffer most
of all.

Colonial Government securities were very steady,
especially considering the state of the money market.
American securities were generally heavy. United
States Five per Ceuta. fell 1 per cent., and the Six
per Cents. 3 per cent.
Anglo-Austrian Bank shares, after declining to 1
to 1 prem., closed at to 1 prem., being 24. Gd.
lower than yesterday.
The shares of the financial companies were de-
pressed in the morning, but afterwards recovered.
International fell to 31 to 1 prem.; and General
Credit to 2to 24 prem., but the final quotations
were respectively 31 to 4 prem., and 211 to 4 prem.
London Financial left off 3a. lower than yesterday,
at 81 to ag prem., while Mercantile Credit have
risen to 31 to * prem., in anticipation of the settle-
ment on Monday. Hudson's Bay shares were
severely depressed at one period, being dealt in as
low as 34 die., the closing quotation-4 to 21 die.
—was is. 6d. below that of yesterday. Egyptian
Trading shares were 2s. Gd. worse, at 1i to 11 prem.
Ocean Marine shares were last quoted to-day
121 to 13-1 prem. ; Thames and Mersey Marine,
44 to 4 prem. ; Universal Marine, to
prem. ; Commercial Union Assuran, 3 to
prem. ; London and Provincial Marine, 1 dia. to
ce
pm. ; and Oriental and General Marine, 11 to 2 pm.
English and Swedish Bank shares were last quoted
21 to 3 prem. ; Land Mortgage Bank of India,
21 to 1 prem. ; Muntz's Metal Company,
1 to # die. ; Gloucestershire Smelting, 1 to 2
prem. ; Constantinople aml Alexandria Hotels,
2to 21 prem. ; National Steam, 31 to 4 prem. ;
Merchant Bank, 41 to ! prem. ; Discount Corpora-
tion, 4to 41 prem. ; Littlehampton Steam, 24
prem.; Bedford (Brighton) Hotel, 1 to 1 prem.;
Loudon and Caledonian Marine, par to ; prem. ;
West India and Pacific {Steam, 1 to 11 prem. ; and
Australian Land and Mortgage, 1 to 1 prem.
Creditors of the Haytor Granite Company ars
required to send the particulars of their cl.dini to
the official liquidator by the Bth inst.

MINES.-(THIS DA YJ

Two o'Cuxm.

The mining market is quiet to-day, in the absence
of transactions of importance. East Cerwlon and
Clifford Amalgamated shares have receded, the
former being now quoted 2:112 to 26, and
the latter, 33} to 34. On the other Land,
East Russell are rather better, at 4) to 1. New
Martha are quoted, 2k to k ; Wheal Crofty, 2) to
3 ; and North Troikerby, 21 to 3. No transactions
are recorded in the Stook Exchange official list.
Foreign and colonial mining shares are steady,
at previous quotations. Yudanamutana are dull.
At a special meeting of the Neath and Pelenna
Colliery Company, yesterday, a resolution was
passed authorising the directors to grant a lease
of the ironstone under the company a estate, fur
which favourable terms have been offered.
At West Chiverton there is a further improve-
ment iu the western levels. At Chiverton good
progress is being made with the works.

MR. ALDERMAN SA LOMONS, M. P.—Last night Mr.
Alderman Sislemons, M.P., addressed a large meeting of kW
constituents et the Town.balt, Woolwich. The chair was
occupied by Mr. Bassett. At the conclusion of the hon.
number's address a resolution expressive of continued con-
frdeiwe W him as a representative of the borough of Green-
wich wu unanimously adopted.

ENTERYAINNEYri AT COUNTRY Horn'`.—!Co
home where entertai..ment in the order of the autumn sod
winter months can be kept going with a leer income than
10,0001. a year. The different degrees to which thap are
well or ill done depends chiefly upon whether the font or
hates (whichever happens to reign) is " understanding"
and melons. or the reverse. The scale aimed at eerie.' but
little anywhere. Smaller fortunes of, say 4,0001. or :i.001.1‘.
a year, simply entertain fewer people, and less often ; but
everybody gives the same Dumber of dishes for &men sod
ehampazne each day; everywhere there are carriages
to drive people oat, keepers in readies... Sc.,
&a. There are, it is true, anceptional mow, but
they are rare. At W—, a bachelor, on going to dress
for dinner, beholds himself reflected on every *Am is
vest sheets of lookisg.glau, by the light of no fewer than
eighteen wat.candles, sad at K-- each married couple
has a private sitting-rams, which is brilliantly illuminated
both at the fall of day, sad again when the party breaks up
at night; editions of the principal newspapers are provided
for their special use, and even postage envelopes are On;
forgotten ; bat whale's astonish at a place where thirteen
days' first-rate cover-shooting can be had without going
neer an inch of ground twice !—Coraliell May.,:iise fur
Deoetr.ber.