The Express.
London, England, 1855-02-06 00:00:00

MINCING-LANE.-THIS DAY.

Broast.72ll4pnblios7dTnar• going oit itiadily at the
full prices of last week ; relined steady, brown humps,
424. 61. ; grocery, 43e. to 48s. 6d.
Coma.—The public sales an progressing without any
alteration in prices.
Tna.—The market continues Arm.
B.avrnirris.-1,600 bags were offered In public sale, and
sold at about 6d. decline ; refraction 281. • ref. 4f to 6,
275. 6d. ; ref. 6i, 265. ; rat. Bf, 235.; ref. 7, 250. to 26e. 6d.
Bar.—The market is dull and infixed to Pa. 9d. to la.,

COT sales of importune
RIOL—The market eontiaass veryTa"
la odor artistes no man trial situation.

TALLOW

•THIS DAY.

Th. t;liow market is steady, with a fair demand for con-
sumption. Petanburg Y. C., on the spot is quotations. 9d.7;
Feb. to North, 664. Od.; North aad April, ; Aril aad
Nay, 57.. 64.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—THIS DAY.
Mr. E. J. Davis reports the supply larger. Trade with-
out &Reredos. Prime me►dow bay, 70a. to 80a. ; nips-
Mot, he. to 9& ; Inferior, 60s. to 80e. ; Bowes, KM to 765.;
stover. 90e. to Ilh.; mooed eat, 80e. to lON. ; straw, th.
to Me.

THE RAILWAYS os YHE WOHLD.-1L number of
WIN of railway now is °math= is tho world an 40,344;1
of which 21,628 nailei an in the Baited Beata'; 7,744 in
Great Britain; 6,340 in Germany ,• 2,4181 la Imam ; 632 In
sea; 421 Inaenirti79 ia ;76 in ;42
la SO ; II ss• 100 la Lai.;
1.3171 a II Amoeba ;NO is Cabs; 10 is Pr
aim) sal le la loath Muds&

MONEY MARKET.
NIONDAY VIIIIIIII.
The English stook market opened this morning at
a alight adrenal, on the anaounoement that Lord
Palmerston has been entrusted by her Majesty with
the task of forming a new administration. After
rising 1 per oent., however, some flatness super-
vened, which was subsequently confirmed by intelli-
genoe of a fall at Pans to-day. Prices closed / per
cent. lower than on Saturday. There appears,
however, to be no immediate supply of stock of
importance, and the amount afloat in the market has
been further reduced by recent large purchases on
account of the Patriotic Fund—it is said to the
amount of three or four hundred thousand pounds.
Business is very inactive, but in character the market
seems steady.
There was today an active demand for money in
the discount market. The bills falling due on the
4th have been remarkably well met.
The Three per Cent. Renter were reported by
telegraph to-day from Paris as opening at 68.10, but
had declined at half-past one o'clock to 67.90, being
a fall of fully 1 per cent. since Saturday afternoon.
The other continental stock markets remain quiet.
Consols opened at 911 to I,and closed at 911 to 1
for money and the Bth February. The "oontango"
for the March account remains light at 1 to 3-16
per cent. The official business report is as follows :
—Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 911,41,Jai
ditto, fee aooonnt, Bth Feb., 911, 1, a,
per Cent. Reduced, 911, 1, 1. New Three per
Cents., 921, 1, 92, 921, 921. Long Annuities, ex-
piring in 1860, 4 346. India Stock, 222. Exchequer
Bonds, falling payable in 1839, 991, 1. Bank Stock,
211, 2121.

Exchequer Bills have advanced to 6s. to 111. prem.,
owing to the abundance of money in the Stock
Exchange. India Bonds were quoted 12s. to 16e.
prem.
Foreign stocks are steady, but little dealt in.
Turkish closed at 761 to j. Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents. were rather better. At 4 o'clock Russian
Five per Cents. were quoted 100 to 102; ditto Four-
and-a-Half per Cents., 89 to 91. Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. 62 to 63 ; ditto Four per Cent. Cer-
tificates, 92 to 4. Sardinian, 84 to 86. Peruvian
Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 70 to 72. Mexican, 21
to j. Spanish Deferred Three per Cent.., 171 to 18.
Sales are recorded as follows : Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents., 621, 1, j. Equador Bonds, 4. Russian
Five per Cents., 102 ; ditto Four-and.s-Half per
Cent., 891. Spanish Old Three per Cents., 37, 361, f ;
ditto New Deferred Three per Cents., for account,
14th Feb., 171. Turkish Six per Cent. Bonds, 761;
ditto, for account, 14th Feb., 761.
The demand for gold for exportation has expe-
rienced a sudden revival, and bids fair to draw some
amounts from the Bank, unless arrivals of the pre-
clone metal speedily take place.
The Madrid has brought in 12,6671. in specie from
Lisbon, and the Bacchants 3,000 ounces of gold from
Africa. These two arrivals are worth about 24,0001
The corn market to-day was quiet, at last Monday's
rates for most articles. The advance established on
Friday lest is thus scarcely supported.
The Admiralty will receive tenders on the 6th inst.
for the conveyance of 263 tons of navy provisions to
Bermuda; and en the 7th for the conveyance to
Malta of 2,000 tone of navy provisions from Dept-
ford, Gosport, and Plymouth.
The Emigration Commissioners will also receive
tenders on the Bth inst. for the hire of a ship to pro-
toed to Sydney, to be ready between the 22nd and
30th of March.
Bt. Petersburg advice, of the 27th ult. quote the
exchange on London at 361.
The shares of the Great Luxembourg Company
have lately shown some tendency
.towards recovery
from their severe depression, owing to purchases
based on the confidence felt in the new management
and on the hope that the undertaking will henceforth
be vigorously carried out. It is expected that in ne.
outlaw* with the recommendation of the committee
appointed at the meeting of the 19th December the
old directors will resign at the meeting to be held on
the 16th inst., but to prevent the success of any at-
tempt to obtain their re-election and the peering of
the accounts without due examination, it is urged
that the proxies of the shareholders should be placed
in the hands of a committee which, we understand, is
in course of formation, with the view of protecting the
interests of the proprietary, and strengthening the
hands of the new section of the board.
A new French railway was to-day introduced on
the Stook Exchange, midair the title of the Ardennes
Railway, and was favourably received, the shares
being in request at 11. prem. and upwards. The
project is brought forward under the auspices of
Messrs. C. Devaux and Co., who, it will be remem-
bered, brought out in this market the Great Central
Railway of France. The concession is granted by the
French government, partly under the law of 1842,
and comprises—first, a line from Rheims, on the
Strasbourg Railway, to Mezieres and Charleville,
with a branch to Sedan I length, 66 miles. Se-
condly, an extension of this line from Char-
leville to the Belgian frontier—length, about
38 miles ; to be constructed by the State,
and banded over to the company under the law of
1842, by which the company have only to provide
rails and rolling stock, thus acquiring the line for
two-fifths of its actual cost. Thirdly, a line from
Creil, on the Northern Railway, to Beauvais—length,
22 miles; Fourthly, a preferential right of construct-
ing a line from Rheims tilioimons to Compeigne, on
the Northern Railway. Me total authorised capital
(exclusive of the prospective lines, and of the line
to be constructed by government), according to
the estimates of the government engineers, is
29,600,0001., or 1,184,0001, making the average
cost about 13,6001. per mile, for a single line,
with land and works of art for a double line.
This amount comprises interest at 4 per cent.
on the amount paid upon the shares during the
period of construction. This concession is regarded
as important. The main line from Rheims to
Meanies and the Belgian frontier, forming part
of the system of principal railways projected
by the state in 1842, establishes a new
North-Eastern trunk line intermediate between the
northern and the eastern (Strasbourg) railways. It
traverses the departments of Marne and Ardennes,
which are rich in agricultural and manufacturing
produce, and tomes through several considerable
towns, such as Rheims, Bethel, Mezieres, Sedan, and
Charleville. The extension to the Belgian frontier
is referred to in the report of the Minister of Public
Works as rendering it " a new line of independent
eanimunication between Frame and Belgium," con-
necting the French railway system with the coal and
hen district of the Meuse, and at Namur joining the
leading lines of railway to Brussels, Liege, Aix-la-
Chapelle, and Germany. The branch from Creil to
Beauvais will form the only railway in the wide
distrist between the Northern and Rouen Railways,
and admits of easy extension to Rouen, which will
make a new route from Paris to Rouen by the
Northern Railway, and, in coonexion with the lines
from Compeigne to Rheims and Rheims to Merieres,
will form a great east and west line, by
which the traffic of the north and east of Faint* and
a great part of Belgium and Northern Germany can
reach the port of Haws by a direct and unbroken
line. The shares are of 201. each, with a deposit of
41 por sham
The shares of the Western Railway of Fenno
have improved, owing to the announcement that,,in
the fusion of the Normandy lines, these shares will
be taken at the rate of 700 francs, or about 281. per
201. share, which is equal to 8 prem. The expecta-
tion that the amalgamated stock will command a
premium in the market likewise tends to support
thflrtllow market to-day ruled higher, as ha"
premien seeming to prevail amongst the speculators
that the question of the overland trade in Russian
proclaim will speedily engage the attention of the
mew Clabinet.
The B ritiah Amiekaa Laid Company's gam