The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-26 00:00:00

10 to 73
17 to 70

ORDINARY MARRS AND stems.

sylvania Section) lanle been bought up to 81, by partim
wishing to secur, the coupon due Ist April, sad hoods of Ur
Oblo section continue to be takes in exchange for New Ye&
Coated Bonds, due Ist June, 1864, holders preferring this
to being paid off in curvercy.
The mails from Calcutta and China will be die.
tributed to-night or to-morrow morning.
Subjoined is Messrs. Culverwell, Brooks, and
Co.'s report of yesterday's hide sales :
At the fourth scrim( bide sales forthe year& good demand
was experienced, and fall prior were realised. East mho.
—Ox and cow.—Calcutta were in good request. nearly the
whole of the quantity offered being sold at full prior. The
exporters were the principal buyers. There were no Madras
or Pondicherry Sc., offered. The analysis of the sales is
99,481 Calcutta sew parade, sod 5.176 brought forward
from former isles, in all 104,657 hides, of which 103.748
were sold. East India.—Buffalo brought previous rates.
Leather.—Australiau sold well. Salted bider.— Australiaa
were in good request at full prices. Cape brought late rates.
Horse hides.—Dry brought fair prices. Salted realised full
rates. Dry bides.—South American were only part sold.
With reference to the silk sales the following is
from the circular of Messrs. Durant and Co., dated
yesterday :
The periodical public sales commenced Lesterdeb and
are concluded. rho quantal, offend we. 2,64" bales us=
silk. 5,000 bales Chia., 1,500 bales Japan, and 600
Canton silk. The whole was allowed to par without bid-
ding., except some few damaged bales, and about 260 halm
printed " to be sold without reserve r these were generally
in small breaks and of common quality, and were sold at
apparently low prices. The general market has been very
quiet for the last fortaight, with continually heavy priers,
the repeated accounts of short settlements and shorter ship-
ments from China and Japan having failed to roue. &item-
tion. The continental markets seem to have been equally
dull and depressed. It remains to be seen if the reductioa
in the Beak rate of discount producer any beneficial effect.
The case of John Sewell, iron merchant, of
Nicholas-lane, who failed some months moo, with
unsecured debts of 31,0001., came before the Court
of Bankruptcy yesterday, and was very fully dis-
cussed ; but Mr. Commissioner Pane reserved his
judgment.
The return of the Bank of England for the week
ending Wednesday, Feb. 24, compared with that for
the previous week, shows the following changes :
Circulation issue
Circulation active 19,674,915 Decrease 473,066
Public deposits 8,153,601 lacrosse 1,073,812
Other deposits
Government securities in

banking departmwr.. 11,174,584 Inman* 50,000
Othersecuritiee in bankMi
department
Coin and bullion in both
- - - - -

departments
Seven da• and other bills

ii,;ke,'

13,819,412 Jacrease 213,717
332,956 Decrease 15,234
3,536,094 Decrease 43,752
8,028,165 iIICIOIIO 143,030

Notes in reserve

Total re.eree (notes k coin

iubankingdepartiueut) . 8,i94,497 Increase
_708,812

The changes shown in this return, including an
increase of 235,777'. in the coin and bullion, and
of 708,842'. in the reg,rve in the banking depart-
ment—are highly fAvourable, and fully explain
the reduction made this day in the Bank ra...0 of
discount. The increase in the government deposits
has been very large, and though this has been in a
great measure neutra:ised by the heavy withdrawals
of private deposit., t'.4e Bank's resources have been
largely added to by the running-off of " other secu-
rities.'

JUNK 07 ENGLAND.—A■ Ac
sod Mk Vic.. C. d 2. to the week
1114.

mount puma% to the Act 7tl
ending on Wedneada). Feb.:

IN/171 1,11
Noise lamed ra.UrJ,O,34

-Cideseuilient debt.. 411,0141 N
Other securities... .a... 31.910
Gold coin and bul-
lion
Slicer bullion

cc:. s.oao

L.:,703,0*

1t31134 DI
Proprietors' appal £14..i3,000
Iteet
Public Deposits (in-
cluding
Nov. banks, Com-
mie. of Neeonal
Debt. and Div.

Werlll3rn.
Government emu-
Titles (lachatum
Bead Weight An-
muty)
Other Securities
Notes %Midi
Geld and Mime
OMB 1,4332

Acetil
Mbar Deposits 11,08473
Ra►en day audothar
Balls

Feb. 5. 1861 M. MARSHALL. Cbkt Cashier.

THWISDAY.EVENI3IO.
Consols. which closed yesterday at 911' to
for the Bth March, were first marked to-day 91}
and 91e, and closed at 91g to For money the
last price was 91} to F. The official business report
is as follows :—Three per Cent. Consols, for
I money, 91i, }, 1, ii, ; ditto, for account, 91t
} • Three per C«nta. Reduced, : 'tow
Three per Cents., 91+, I. 1, t 3 ; New Five per
Cents., 106} • Red Sea Teraph, 201 ; Bank
Stock, 239 ; india Stock, 218 ; ditto Five per Cent.
Stock, 1044, }, ; ditto Four per Cent. Deben-
tures, 1868, 981 ; ditto Bonds, par., 7s. dia. ;
Four per Cent. 'enlaced " rupee paper, 944 ; ditto
Five per Cent., 104-1 ; ditto Five-and-a-Half per
Cent., 113, 114.
The India Five per Cent. Stock continues to
meet with inquiry. There is also more business in
the rupee paper. India Bonds were dealt i:1 at 7s.
dia. to par. Exchequer Bills were steady at Ss.
dia. to par.
The foreign stock market was quieter, and the
tendency of prices mat downwards, especially iu the
afternoon.
In the market for bank shares there was an im-
provement in Rink of New Zealand, Colo-
nial, Eurlish and Swedish, London and
Buenos Ayres, London and Colonial, and
Union Bauk of Linden, but a reduction in
Alliance, British and American Exchange, Imperial
Ottoman, Imperial, and Metropolitan and Provin-
cial. Commercial Union Assurance abates were
flat. Oriental Inland Steam shares and Italian
Irrigation Bonds met with inquiry. Hudson's Bay •
shares were rather lower, at 18} to g and Egyptian
Trading at 2} tog prem. East and West India
Dock Stuck was inquired for.
International Financial shares have relapsed to
71 to g prem., and Loudon Financial to 11 to }
prem., "ex aIL" General Credit were dull at
7-16 to 9-16 prem., ex div. ; and Mercantile Credit
firm at 6} to 7i prem.
_ .

The shares of the Credit Fonder of Mauritius
were last quoted } to 1 prem. ; Land Securities
Company, to 11 preui. • Anglo-Italian Bank, }to
prem. ; Mercantile Credit, 61 to 71 prem.
_.• Con-
tract Corporation, 11 to 2 prem. ; *Credit Fonder
(Great Britain), If to 2 prem., being higher ; Isms-
don Mercantile Discount, 21 to 31 prem. ; Austra-
lian and Eastern Navigation, 81 to 91 prem. ;
Ottoman Financial Association' } to f prem. ;
Consolidated Discount, 1 dis. to par • Mexican
Bank, par to , prem. ; Littlehampton Steam. 74 to
81 prem. ; Financial Corporation, 2to 21 prem. ;
Iniperia: Financial Cotapany, 2 to 21 prem. ; Gel-
Hears Company, 14 to 14 prem. ; London Gas
Meter, f to 11 prem. ; Buenos Ayres Bonded
Wharf, par to 1 prem. ; South Eastern Bank, 1 to
If prem. ; British Colonial Steamship, 1 to 14
prem. ; Naval and Military Bank, 1 to 11 prem. ;
and English, Irish, and Foreign Rolling stock, 1 to
11 prem.

• It

)FINES.-'THIS DAY.)

Two o'CLo.n.

The principal feature in the wining market to-
day is a strong demand for East Caradou shares,
which have been dealt in to a large extent. The pre-
sent .inotstion-33 toe—is 21. above that last quoted
yesterday. On the other hand, East Basset are
flatter at 02 to 64, and Chiverton at 13e to 14.
Great Fortune are quoted 14 so lb ; Great Vor,
22e to 25 ; West Chiverton, 83 to 845; and Chiver-
ton Valley, 51 to;.
Foreign and colonial mining shares are inactive,
and prices without variation. Cape Copper have
changed bands at 81, and Yuclanamutana at 21 and
2e.
At the Kelly Bray Mine meeting yesterday the
amounts showed a debit balance of 7001. A call of
4s. per share was made.
At Hiugaton Downs two-monthly general meet-
ing, held yeaterday, the accounts showed a balsam
in hand of 129/. lls. 11d., and an estimated balance
in favour of the mine, before the meeting in April
next, of 4131. Os. Bd.

PHILHARMONIC 11 Isuwarow. —Mr. George
Aliso, the popular base end musical director of tie ails-
tiiihment, took his manual benefit last eight, wbee the thin •
was crowded. A *election from Verdi'. opera, La Traversesr
was produced, the principal parts bide; reedered by X
Marie Lute, a soprano singer of prom* Mr. Vague
Williams, and Mr. Boma, who nag the music of the elder
Gement.