The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-09 00:00:00

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The Admiralty will receive tenders on the
inst, for the supply of 20,000 gallons of
500 quarters of split peas, 50 tons of tobacco,
200 tons of cocoa.

The following is from the monthly trade circular
of Mews. Culverwell, Brooks, and Co., dated yea.
terday .•
The hide market ham been fins during the pad moat
stocks generally being much reduced, which, combised with
the fall in the rate of disooset, has imparted a better tees
to the trade, and in some eases improved rates have been
realised. Hides. salted ox and cow : South Americas are ia
steady request at previous rates ; Australian have sold freely
at full prime ; and Cape hove realised previous elves.
Horse hides have sold well. lest India Ides Mee
beau in good request, chiefly for export, the
prices realmed show an advance of fully ed pet lb.
English market bides do not show any material altars/Asa •
value. The leather market has not presented any fakes
of import:mos to mhos, a steady demand having bees expe-
rienced during the past month, et previews rates. North end
South American furs and skins—The usual spring sales of
fun commenced with the import of the Hedses's Beg
Company, on the 29th ult., at which sale the dammed wee
fair on the whole ; the average rates of the various seta,
compared with those of the oorremouding sale of last year,
were higher for fisher, fox red, fine and army sorts of bear.
black, lynx, wolf, and wolveris ; but lower for otter, UK
noes, bear except as above), mink, merles, and amok.
The sales of American, Canad he., have conmasseedi
maim, good to middling qualities sold lower, but 0011111111111
sorts realised about former rates. Mosque* in large es-
ply, and prime lower in general. Opossum, ally pert mold'
priOse continue low. Skunk - tbe good *it is.fair require.
other sorts low.

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TUESDAY EVIIIIIPS.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 911 to 4 for
the new account (April 8), opened this morning at
the same quotation, and closed at 914 to g. Foe
money the last price was 91 to 1. The official
business report is as follows :—Three per Cent.
Consols, for money, 911, 91, ; ditto for account,
91i, ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 89g, 4 ; New
Three per Cents., 89), I,
_l, 4; New Two-and-e-
Half per Cents., 73; Red Sea Telegraph, 20:
Bank Stock, 2371, 239; India Stock, 217, 2194;
ditto Five per Cent. stock, 1041, ; Five per
Cent. " enfaced " rupee paper, 1041.
The India Five per Cent. Stock was quiet, and
the rupee paper dull. Exchequer Bills were
unaltered, at ss. die. to par.
In the foreign stock market there were again
heavy fluctuations in Mexican Bonds, which opened
heavily, and were sold is low as 42. Large and
influential purchases succeeding, a rapid rebound
set in, and transactions took place as high as 44 :
the closing quotation-431 to was 1 per cent.
above that of yesterday. Turkish Conaolidis
have risen) per cent, but with these exceptions,
the foreign stock market was dull in the afternoon.
Bank shares were rather dull. A reduction was
quoted in Agra, Bank of Hindustan, Metropolitaa
and Provincial, Midland, and Union Bank of
London. English and Irish Bank shares bare
slightly improved. Anglo-Mexican Mint shares
continue to rise. Australian Mortgage were also
inquired for, while Thames and Mersey Marine
were flat. Hudson's Bay were dull, at 18 to 4,
and Egyptian Trading at 21 to 21 prem.
The shares of the financial companies were dull,
and in some instances sales have predominated,
the public probably realising a portion of their
holdings in order to provide the means of paying
on the numerous new projects which are being
introduced. International Financial closed at 71
to g prem. ; General Credit, at 31 to ) prem.;
London Financial, at 91 to 101 prem. ; Mercantile
Credit at 7 to 8 prem. ; and Imperial Financial
at 34 to 4 prem.
I The closing (but, iu some cases, merely nominal)
quotations for shares in new undertakings are
subjoined, viz :—Credit Foncier of Mauritius, par
to prem. ; Land Securities, 11 to 11 prem. ;
Contract Corporation, 31 to ) prem. ; Credit
Fourier (Great Britain), 1 to 14 prem. ; Aus-
tralian and Eastern Navigation, 4) to 51 prem. ;
Ottoman Financial, dia. to par ; Consoli-
dated Discount, 1 die. to par ; Mexican Beak,
par to) prem. ; Financial Corporation, 2 to 21 prem.;
London Gas Meter, 1 to 11 prem. ; Buenos Apes
Bonded Wharf, I du. to prem. ; South Easter*
Bank,l to 1 prem.; British Colonial Steamship, to
1 prem. ; Naval and Military Bank, 11 to 2 prem. ;
English, Irish, and Foreign Rolling Stuck, 1 to
prem. ; International Agency, 21 to 311 prem. ;
Financial Discount, 2 to 3 prem. ; Credit Me-
biller, 11 to 11 prem. ; Kentish Hotel, 1 to
prem.; Queensland Sheep Investment, to
prem. ; Thames Iron Works, etc., 3to 4 prem. ;
and Albion Bank, 1 to 2 prem.
Contract Corporation shares opened at 24 to I
prem., and closed at 3) to 4.
The shares of the Australian and Eastern Navi-
gation Company have declined to 44 to 51 prem.

MINES.--(THIS DAY.)

Two o'Ciarr.

The mining market is inactive to-day, and prices
in most instances are the same as yesterday. The
principal feature is a decline of 12s. GI. in Wheal
Granville shares, which are now quoted to 4. East
Caradon are rather flatter, at 29S to 304. West
Chiverton are quoted 82 to 84 ; °rest Vor, 3211 to
33i, being steady ' • and Nangiles, 32 to 33. Drue-
walls shares are officially marked 2, and Tincroft,

2°Foreign and colonial mining shares are without
change. Yudauamutana, however, are iiquired
for.
The directors of the Cape Cornwall Mining Corn-
.liy announce the closing of the share list at
Friday the 11th inst.
The Vigra and Clogau Mining Company hare
received 200 ounces 7 dwts. and 11 gra. of gold
for the week ending the sth inst., being the pro-
duce from 10 cwt. 1 qr. and 71bs. c.f quart
The directors of the Great Limey Min ingCompany
declared yesterday a dividend of tis. per abare, ,fres
of income tar, on the 12,500 4/. paid-up shares if
this company.

HVDDliaitilliLD, MARCH B.—The atteniance of
buyers at the market today has sot been large, bat. is ad.
ditioo to country buyers, repremotatives of some London amid
Irish houses have been present, and though generally quiet-
ness is manifested, both in the cloth. and warehooese,
yet in some departments a somewhat extensive busies Wm
been done. Black doesldes„ at ham Is. 9d. to 4a. 3d., hew
been io request, and there has also been a demaml fur mix-
ture Victorian, crapes, sod hairlines. For woollen coeds
the &sod continues so brisk that some manufactories
in other branches of trade are entering into that branch. se
the present supply of thew, good■ is inadequate. The &hippies
trade is quiet se compared with its state a few weeks am
bet some Italian and other continental houses have bees
represented either directly or by local agent., and haws
heen buying low-priced stout goods. Though many of the
!sayers today have been softies up spring goods, and have
not purchased extensively, yet daring the week at some of
the warehouses orders have been freely received for both
the middle quality sod better class of spring pumice.
MYRDXIt BY • WOH•N.—At the Mayo Aseizes,
a onion, about 40 years of age. has been convicted of
murder and mot raced by Baron Hughes to be banged es
the sth of April. Her victim was a poor dressmaker,
whom she accused of setting fire to her turf. The prism.
Bridget O'Neill (who was armed with a reaping-book) met
Bridget Richards in a field, and there murdered her. Ne
one saw the fatal blow struck, but the cireonsetastid
evidence, given by It witnesses, left no doubt of her guilt.
The body of her victim (who was lame and walked with •
stick) was found on her face io •hole, the head covered with
blood, having three cuts on the forehead and • hole
behind the ear, made by a stone which was lying near the
corpse. The prisoner, who is a coarse-featured, repulsive,
ameculinolookiog woman, seemed quite ieseesible to her
sitars, and angrily rebuked her husband for taking it t
heart.
THE VALLEY oP JICHOKH APH AT. —The Mr eit
the Jews have made and the sufferings, losses, and hussidie-
tiers they have horse for the purpose of obtaining sepulture
in the Valley of Jehoehaphat, form a singular feature is
human history. No other nation Is ever thee struggled
not to live ie their own land; bet to he entered 611 ay
their dust thereto. !levy descriptions have bone made of
this marvellous place ; but I cods none of them ever
afforded me • notion of its actual appearance. Woodering
alone past the fountain of Siloam sod by the arid bed id
tads, it suddenly opened on me a perfect mountain of
graves—a hill aide paved with sepulchral Mahe. Beek
stone is small, so small as to lied to the cooclusioa that the
bodies must be bored perpendicularly. At all events,
the multitudes there interred were simultaneously to=
they would form • crowd as des and compact as it
be enormous. Sheet Hebrew ineoriptioes (some evidently
of great eget ems on all the Moss; heed them are laid
together with intervals only of a few inches, as in sew
oldest city elturehyards. The slabs are almost os the lewell
of the ground, end of sal height, so that it is literally
one large pavement of . As smiling. almost as
overwhelming night —Primes Magazine for March.
SOIIIEILIVII Tx► is oboist sad strong, 'sudsiest,
in Iffiah_sokt Irlielsoome to ass MONO advanteem Imm mewed
ter this Tee a several meters'. It Is sold in watt* by 'MO
agents,—(abwilasassSi