The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 24, Mt

THE POLICE COURTS.
mils DAY.)

CLERKEN WELL
•7TIOITTERO TO YOWLS • WIFE.
George /Rower, a retired butcher. reeding at 135. Peeling-
ton-street, lalington, was charged before Mr. Barker, under
the following distressing circunistanses :
Mr. Beard, of 13asinghallatreet, attended for the pro-
secution.

It appeared from the evidence of Mrs. Flower, who
seemed very ill, and who bad been several times threatened
by the defendant while she was sitting in court, that some
time siuoe some money war left her, and since then the de-
fendant has eoutinudly ill used her. The defendant has
repeatedly smutted and threatened her. and on the 6th
inst. he took up • carving knife in the presence of the
servant and threatened to stab the complainant, and said
he would never rest until he had taken her life. He also
said he would shoot her, and made use of very obscene
language. He also kicked and puked her about, and told
her to leave the house. as he had a fresh mistress whom he
would bring in, and who would be a credit to it. The de-
fendant hu so often threatened his wife, and he has of
late become so violent that she wait really afraid that be
would carry his threats into execution.
Mr. Beard said it was not the wish of the complainant
that her husband should be sent to prison. All that she
required was that he should find responsible sureties to
keep the pesos.
The defendant made a long rambling statement denying
the charge.
Mr. Barker said it was clear that the defendant was •
violent man, and ordered him to fled a =rev in the sum of
10/. to keep the peace towards his wife and her Majesty's
subjects for the apace of three calendar months.
The defendant was locked up in default.

SHARE 1418211.-(THIS DAY.)

Two oVzoot.

The railway market is firm to-day, sod prices
generally exhibit a favourable tendency. Metropo-
litan stock continues in demand, and has further
improved 1 per oent. Great Western and South
Eastern have also advanced ; and Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, and Great Eastern,
; London and North Weetern stock is now
quoted 110 to 1 ; Great Western, 65 tol ; Midland,
1301 to 1 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 112 to ;
Caledonian, 120 to 121; South Eastern, 951 to ;
Great Eastern, 49 to ; Great Northern, 129 to
130 ; London and South Western, 99f to 1001 ;
and Metropolitan, 109 to 110.
Namur and Liege shares a'e firmer, and San
Paulo and Lombardo-Veuetian in request. Great
Indian Peninsula stock has advanced. Canadian
hues are dull.

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MONEY MARKET.-(TELS DAY.)

Two o'CLocs.

The dock markets to-day are very buoyant,
in consequence of the announcement that
Austria, and Prussia have agreed to the proposal
of England for a conference on the Danish
question. The funds have risen i per cent, and
most of the principal home railway stocks i to i,
while foreign stocks exhibit a still greater improve-
ment. The rise has been well maintained up to
the present hour.
At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Renter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Routes were quoted
661 r. 70c., being sc. better than yesterday. The
Bourse is described as " firm, in consequence of
the rise in London."

Consols are now quoted 914 to 4 for money, and
914 to 1 for the account (March 8). The official I
business report is as follows :-Three per Cent.
Consols, for money, 914, 4, 4 ; ditto, for account,
914, 1,4, 4; Three per Cents. Reduced, 914,
4, 4 ; New Three per Cents., 911, 4 ; Bank
Stock, 2381, 239, 2374; India Stock, 218; ditto
Five per Gent. Stock, 104 i, 3, 4 ; ditto Bonds, 6s.
par, 2s. die. ; and Exchequer Bills, par, ss. dia.
Foreign stocks are decidedly higher. The prin-
cipal demand has been for Mexican Bonds, which,
though now quoted below the beat point
of the morning, are still 11 per cent.
higher than yesterday afternoon. Spanish
Paasive Bonds have risen 1 per oent., Turkish Con-
solid& I, Anglo-Turkish Bonds 4, and Greek 1 to 4.
Some of the present quotations are annexed. Turkish
Bonds of 1858, 71 to 72 ; ditto, 1862, 694 to 1 ; the
Conselid4s, 604 to ; Greek, 221 to 231 ;
Mexican, 441 to ; and Passive, 344 to 35.
Transactions are recorded as follows :-Dutch
Certificates, 101 A ; Egyptian, 1034 ; Greek, for
account, 234, 224; Italian, for account, 67, 1 ;
Mexican, for account, 461, 444, 4, 44, 4,
44 ; New Granada, 141 ; Portuguese, 1856,
&c., for account, 471, f, 48 ; Russian, 1822, 93 ;
ditto 1862, 884, 89 ; Spanish Passive, for ac-
count, 344, 4,3, 3 ; ditto Certificates, for so.
count, 14 ; Turkish, 1854, for account, 914 ;
ditto, 1858, for account, 714, ; ditto 1862, for
account, 691, 1 ; Venezuela, for account, 26, 241 ;
ditto, 1862, for account, 59.
International Financial shares are now quoted 74
to prem. ; General Credit, 34 tot prem.
London Financial, 11 to 4, ex div. and ex new ;
Mercantile Credit, 61 to 71 prem. ; Hudson's Bay,
lei to 3 ; Egyptian Trading, 21 to / prem. ; Land
Securities, 13 to 11 prem. ; Credit Fonder of Mau-
ritius, par to f prem. ; Credit Fonder of Great
Britain and Ireland, 1 to 14 prem. ; Austra-
lian and Eastern Steam, 71 to 81 prem. ;
Ottoman Financial, i to 1 prem. ; Mexi-
can Bank, 1 to >2 prem. ; Buenos Ayres
Bonded Wharf, 1 to It prem. ; South Eastern Bank,
4to 1 prem. ; and London Gas Meter, to 14
prem.

The tendency of the discount market yester-
day shows that the expectation of a speedy
reduction in the m;nimum of the Bank of
England has become more general. Money
was freely offered, while little demand was
experienced, and transactions accordingly occurred
in good bills at 611 to 81 per cent., being i to i
below the Bank rate. Good six months' paper could
likewise be placed at 6i. Very little business was
consequently done at the Bank discount-office. In
the Stock Exchange money was abundant in the
morning, and some considerable sums were taken
off the market at the low rates of 2i to 3 per cent.
on Government Securities, but in the afternoon a
sharp demand sprang up, and • decided change
took place, 5 per cent. being paid. The cause of this
sudden movement was a demand to pay on the
new issue of 2,000,C301. of guaranteed 6 per cent.
capital of the Great Indian Peninsular Railway
Company. The amount payable on these shares
yesterday at the London and County Bank was 21.
per share, but a considerable number of the holders
are stated to have paid in full.
The recent rapid advance in Confederate Bonds,
from 36 to 57, has created a demand for otbee low-
priced Southern stocks, and especially Virginian
Six per Cents., the depreciation in which has been
enormous. These bonds (the interest on which
was always punctually met until the outbreak of
the war) stood fora long time at 80. They are now
quoted at 35, but as this includes three years'
overdue interest, amounting to 18 per cent, the
real price is considerably less. In one point of
view this stock would seem to have • great advan-
tage over any stock issued by the Confederacy, In-
asmuch as, whatever may be the imue of the war,
Virginia and the other separate States will always
be liable for their debts ; whereas in the possible
event of the dissolution or conquest of the Con-
federacy, it would be difficult to say bow their
obligations are to be met.
About 54,000/. in gold was bought by the Bank
yesterday.
Telegrams announce a commercial panic at
Shanghae, and state that money was " not obtain.
able The exchange was quoted Ca. 100. (one de-
spatch says even 75.), being Sid., or more than 4 per
cent. higher (i. e. against England) than that last
received. At Hong Kong the rate was 6s. Oid.,
showing a rise of lid., or about 3 per cent At
Calcutta the exchange was 2a. lid., and at Bom-
bay 2a. lid. Iu the former case, a movement of
id., or 2 per cent., in favour of this country, is
shown, while in the latter there is no variation of
importance. Some telegrams, however, quote the
Bombay exchange 2s. Oid., in which case a fall of
id., or 34 per cent., in favour of England, would
be presented, but as these advises are only one day
later than those last to hand, no change, it 'a
thought, can have taken place. It is believed that
the panic at Shanghae must have been caused by
the uufavourable state of the Bombay and Calcutta
money markets, which recently excited so much at-
tention here.

The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon were
quoted in some instanoes rather less favourably for
this country, owing, no doubt, to the easier con-
dition of the London money market. The rates
were as follows : _ _ _

amMerdan, 3 mouths, 12.04 y to 1 ; ditto, 3 days, 11.17 g
to 184; Rotterdam, 3 mouths, 1.2.04 to 1; Antwerp, Smooths.
25.70 to 75; Hamburg, ma. team, 3 months, 17.8 to
g • Pariat 3 days. 25.30 to 35 ; ditto. 3 months, 25.721 to
; Traaktortrat-theMame, 3 months, 1191 to 4 ; 89.
Potanbarg (par rouble), 3 months, 33 to 4 ; Vamps, rd. 80.,
S mouths, 12.30 to 35 ; Vim* id. go., 3 maths, 12.30 to
35 ; Madrid, 3 months, 471 to g ; Cadiz, 3 moetha, 471 to
g ; Lagttorn, 3 months, 25.85 to 90; GONG, 3 meths,
25 85 to 90 ; Milao. 3 months, 25.85 to 93 ; Naples, 3
meths, 25.85 to 90 ; Palermo, 3 months, 25.86 to 90 ;
Mamma, 3 weal" 25.85 to 90 ; Lisboa, 90 dam 52 to g ;
Oporto, 90 dam. 52 to I.
The Bank of New Zealand have given notice that
they are authorised to sell privately the balance un-
allotted of the first instalment of 200,0001. of the
Otago Government Loan.
The New Zealand Banking Corporstioe com-
menced business at Dunedin, Otago, in the begin-
ning of January last, the manager, Mr. J. Reed
Mackenzie, having secured first-class premises in
that town.
- • •

The dividend on North London Railway stock is
officially annouooed at the rate of 7 per cent. per
annum, against 6 for the corresponding period of
1862 . .

At the adjourned meeting yesterday of the Conti-
nental Bank Corporation the directors' report was
adopted. The chairman, Mr. Cargill, M.P., re-
marked that the profits are equivalent to 5 per
cent. for the entire year upon the paid-up capital,
and that the directors are about to open a branch
in Paris. A Gall will shortly be made of 61. per
share but it has not yet been decided whether it
stall be payable in one sum or in two of 21. 10e.
each.

The half yearly meeting of the General Steam
Navigation Company was held yesterday, when the
report and accounts were adopted. The customary
dividend of fourteen shillings per share, being at
the rate of ten per cent. per annum, and the usual
bonus of two shillings and sixpence per share were
dads:ed.

The receipts of the Atlantic and Great Western
Railway for the month of January, with 3u2
miles open, reached 205,211 dollars, being at the
rate of 170 dollars per mile per wee..
The half-yearly meeting of the Great Western
Railway Company will be held on the 18th March.
The Alliance National Land, Building, and
Investment Company (Limited) notify that they
have just purchased an estate at Oxford, which will
be immediately offered to the competition of the
shareholders.

We are requested to state that the share list of
the Buenos Ayres Bonded Wharf and River Transit
Company will be closed for London on Friday next,
&no for the country on Saturday.

Subjoined are the quotations of insurance, gas,
dock, and other shares, as given in the Stock
Exchange list of last evening :
losnrance.—Alliance British and Foreign 151 ; Atha, 131
to 13 ; Commercial. Union, 91 10} 91 10} Count!. 81
to 31 ; Eagle, 61 to Globe, 110 to 11 ; Imperial Fire,
334 to ; ; Indemnity 1421, ex die. ; London, 48 to
1 ; London and Caledonian Marine (Lirt‘ted), 31 to 1 ;
London and Provincial. Marine, 3121 3} div. ; Mario*,
96} to 6 ; North British and Mercantile (Limited). 21;
Ocean Marine, 181 1 1, ex die. ; Royal Exebankm, 205
Thames and Mersey Marine (Limited), 71 7 61 ; 1 niveral
Marine (Limited). 51 41 5.
Gaalight and Calm—Bahia (Limited). 191; ditto. 10 per
omit. preterenoe, 221 ; European, New, 5i to 1 ; Imperial,
85i to r ex April dm. ; ditto New, 73 to 1, ex April div. ;
lw genial Continental, 871; London, 861 to 1; Surrey Con-
sumers, 18 ; United General. 49 81 1 9; Westminster
Chattered, New, 48 to } ; Western, 17} to I.
Dooke—Loodoe, 731 3421 3 ; Victoria, 10L
Canals.—(hand Jarsetion,
to
Waterworka.—Berlin, 9} 1 ; Chelsea, 261; Kent, 1:>i1:>i1.

TunDAT Evux!so.

Consols, which closed yesterday at 914 to
:or the Bth March, opened and closed to-day at the
same quotation. For money the last price was
914 to 4. The official business report is as
follows :—Three per Cent. Consols for money, 91,
4, 91, 4, ; do. for account, 914 ; Three per Cents.
Reduced, 914, 91, 4 ; New Three per Cents., 914,
91, ; Annuities, 1885, 14 13-16 ; Bank Stock,
for accoant, 239 ; India Stock, 220, 218, 220 ;
ditto Five per Cent. stock, 1044, ; ditto, for
account, 1044 ; Five-and-a-Hall per Cent. •4 en-
faced " rupee paper, 114.
The India Five per Cent. Stook was firm. Ex-
chequer Bills were in increased demand, and rose
Is. to 2a., closing at ss. dis. to par.
The foreign stock market opened heavily, and a
reduction occurred in several of the speculative
descriptions, especially Greek and Mexican, the
fo-mer being first marked 211, and the latter
Greek, however, recovered in the afternoon to
yesterday's quotation of 22} to 1, while a very
active demand for Mexican carried the price up to
421 to I, being 3to higber than yesterday. This
advance is in face of some large realizationc The
market generally was stronger in the afternoon.
In consequence of the unfavourable movement in
the China exchanges the silver market was firmer
to-day, at ss. ltd. per ounce for bars, or lel. above
the quotation of yesterday. No change occurred
in the price of Mexican dollars, in the absence of
any supply of importance.
The mad/ from Calcutta and China are expected
in London about the 27th inst.