The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-06 00:00:00

vuunru 1121131JN0 FIVE PEE CENT. BONDS,

A remittance has this day been received for the dividend
due en the above bonds on the Ist Met., and the coupes'
will be received for4reavenent without my delay.
(8i ) BARING &ovum
8, Bithopipte Joe. 4, 1862. sad
The tendency of prices in the Liverpool cotton
market is still upwards, the speculators being re-
lieved from the apprehension that the Southern
blockade will be broken. The sales on Saturday
amounted to 15,000 bales, and would have been
larger but for the scanty supply offering.
Mr. Alfred Fitch (trading as Fitch and Co.),
provision merchaut, of Rood-lane, has stopped
payment, with liabilities to the amount of about
98,000 i. The liquidation is expected to be favour-
able. The books are in the hands of Messrs Honey,
Humphreys, and Honey, accountants.
The bills of a small Louse in the Spanish trade
have been returned, owing, it is stated, to a dispute
connected with the absence of BOUM expected re-
mittances from Spain.
The following is an extract of a trustworthy letter
received by the present mail from Buenos Ayres :
As yea see, the coarse of GIVIIMUI 610110 i be more favour-
able ler Bassos Ayres, and we may now 000tidently look to
• speedy terminate* of the war and • proper re-organise.
Mee a the national government, or at ell events a good
adseasedtmg with the provisoes.
At an extraordinary general meeting of the share-
holders of the Agra and United Service Bank
(Limited) held on Saturday, it was announced by
the Board of Directors that Major-General James
Ramsay had been elected a director in the room of
Colonel H. B. Henderson, resigned.
A general meeting of the National Discount
Company (Limited) is called for the 22nd Jan.
The receipts of the Grand Trunk Railway of
Canada, for the week ending the 14th Dec., were
17,591/. sterling ; being 3,8901. more than in the
corresponding week of last year.
The half-yearly meeting of the Brighton Rail-
way Company is called for the 30th inst.
The Sharpshooter has arrived from China with
511,7001ba of tea, and 291 bales of silk.
According to a telegram received from Cadiz, the
export of sherry wine for the year 1861 shows a
total of 49,946 butts, against 51,869 in 1860, and
45,918 in 1859. The two largest exporters were
Gonzales Dubose and Co., 4,670 butts, and F. W.
Comma, 4,283.
A notification is issued by Mr. Edward Thornton,
the British Plenipotentiary at Parana, to the effect
that "all British claimants against the Argentine
government, on account of the nomadmittance of
gngliebi vessels at the port of Buenos Ayres in the
year 1845, are requested immediately to forward a
statement of their claims to the undersigned, it
having been determined that unless they shall be
received by him before the 31st of May next, the
claimants will forfeit any right they may have to
compensation."
Means. Pixley, Abell, and 'employ's statement
of the imports and exports of bullion from Loudon
during the six months ending the 31st ult. has
been netted, from which it appeals, that while the
total imports of the precious metals in all 1981 have
been only 19,148,2611. against 22,942,3411. in 1860,
the decrease in the exports has been relatively
larger, the total being only 20,183,7281. in 1861
*genet 20,009,1601. in 1860. The belanoe in our
favour has arisen chiefly during the last six months,
and has caused the value of money to fall to its
present low point.

SATURDAY EVINDIG.
Consols, whioli were quoted at four o'clock yes-
terday it! ex &' v. both for money and next
Thureda settlement, touched this morning 92/
to }, an closed at 92/ to I. The official business
report is as follows :—Three per Cent. Consols, for
money, 92}, t, iltadex div. ; ditto, for account
92} (Jan. 9), , ex div. ; Bank Stock, 237 ;
Three per Cents. wed, 921; New Three per
Omuta, 921, 92, 91i ; India Five par Cent. Stock,
106, 105 f, 1061, ex div. ; ditto for account, 106,
106 f, ex div. ; ditto, Four per Cent. Debentures,
1864,
.991 ; ditto Bonds, 17.. prem. ; Five per
Cent. "enlaced" rupee paper, 99 ; ditto Five-and-
a-Half per Cents., 106, /AI.
COAL MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
The India Five per Cent. stock was rather more I Wins ma Emig, 18a , Wails Sod Haswell, ;
offered, and left off / per Gent. lower than
day, at 1061 to 108 ex div. Yeiter" Walk Bed South Benoit, ; Walls led Tees, 171. 83.;
I Wall Bid Brady!' Ream, 17s. ; Wine nod wharn.
The March Fachequer Bills were steady, at 141 s. Wells Bed Better_ (Image, 17s. ; Was
to prem., and the June at 12s. to 15.. prem. I Bed Liam. lis 3d.; iftsftstb. 16,- 6a. ; WIN
Foteign stooks were firm, and the tendency con- ; llartnai thed.6.d.; ;Tinsoadv7"•T'ank.okApiN isss;fi W°l3s.l: 1a5:43%!
tinnes avowable. Was Hartley, Ifs. ed. ; Baia Elartlery;les. 311. ;
There was a remarkable rise to-day in the shares! vitisoa's = 18s. ; Hanle& Hartley, 16a—
of the Bank of London, which, being well held, " Unship@ at

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
Yam. Patleaden sad Stealth report s steady drustod
for ocarospdo• for all good bops, both old and aim at
Ira tacos.