The Express.
London, England, 1863-07-03 00:00:00

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Other Securities
Notes
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Cote 856,911

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MARSHALL. Chief Cashier.

THORISDAT E'MNO.

Consols,which closed yesterday at 92/ to ex div.
for next Thursday's settlement, were first marked
to-day 921, and closed at 92/ to 1. For money
the last price was 92 to *. The official business
report is as follows :—Three per Cent. Consols, for
money, 921, 92, 1 • ditto for account, 921 ; Three
per Cents. Reduced, 911,92; New Three percents.,
91/, /, 92; Bank Stock, 234, 236 ; India Five por
Cent. Stock, redeemable in 1870, 108* ; ditto
Four per Cent. Debentures, 1864 or 1866, 1001 ;
Five-and-a-Half per Cent. " enlaced " rupee paper,
1161, 1 116.
Thelndia Five per Cent, stock was quoted 108
to ex div. ; and Exchequer Bills, 4s. dia. to par.
There were some purchases of India Bonds at 16s.
prem.
The foreign stock market, upon the whole, was
dull. _ .

International Financial shares were steady at
51 to 6 prem. ; General Credit, at 14 to 11 prem. ;
and London Financial, at 11 to 2 prem. Rapti=
Trading have declined tot to 1 prem.
In the market for bank-shares there was a rise in
Agra Bank and London and South Western Bank.
Imperial Bank, Metropolitan and Provincial, and
Provincial Bank of Ireland, were also quoted
rather better, while Ottoman, London and South
American, and Union Bank of Australia were
heavy. There were inquiries for Crystal Palace
and Berlin Waterworks shares. Van Diemen's
Land continue to decline.
Ocean Marine shares ciceed to-day at 9 to 94
prem. ; Universal Marine, 1 to a dia. ; Thames
and Mersey, 2/ to 31 prem. ; Commercial Union,
1/ to 21 prem. ; North British and Mercantile In-
surance, 161 to 174 ; British and Foreign Marine,
Ito 1 prem. ; London and Provincial Marine,
dia. to prem. ; and Oriental and General Marine,
prem.
The closing quotations for shares in new
undertakings today were as follows :—Canues
Hotel, 74 to 81 prem. ; Mediterranean Hotel, to 11
prem. ; Copenhagen Railway, to 11 prem.; London
and Paris Hotel, to 1 prem. ; London and
Hamburg Bank, par to 1 prem. ; Adelaide Port
and Railway, to 1 prem.; Buenos Ayres Northern
Railway Deferred Preference shares, to 14 prem. ;
Portuguese and Brazilian Bank, 1 to 1 prem. ;
Richmond Hill Hotel, I to 4 prem. ; Torquay
Hotel, 4 to 14 prem.; aua Hercules Fire and Life,
to Fein-

The general harvest has commenced in several
parts of the department of the Dordogne.
A DINNWA Paicrieg AT BERLIN. —lt would be
as omission to tall of dinners in Berlin without mention-
ing one singular custom that prevails—a custom I have met
with in Do other part of Germany. awl which I believe to
be confined to this capital. or at least to be unknown beyond
• very limited district of Pritesift. When, the meal heing
at an end, the diners ti. 1.9 from table and pan into another
room, they turn to each other and go through a set form of
bowing and salutation. Everybody bows to everybody ; the
ladies curtsy, as Prunian ladies are apt to curtsy, with an
elaborate grace 'and formality, worthy of the days of the
minuet; I think I do not err when I say that I have seen
SCUDS men shake bands and women even kiss each other ;
bat if this took place it probable was only after some re-
markably good dinner. Occasionally you hear something
murmured by the persons lowing to you, but as to
whether there be any set feria of speech appropriated
to the ceremony, I confess my frwner*. The Intention is
doubtless a friendly one ; that. namely, of desiring to you a
goad digestioa—wbich really omm•lerion the composition of
many Berlin dinners, is no, superfluous wish. —Blockicood's
Magri:int for July.