The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-28 00:00:00

MINCING LAINR-(THIEI DAY.)

SUGAR.—The market has been dull during the ;reek and
prices have declined Id. per owt., and at this redsotion
there is no disposition to operate freely, the sales opine.
quently have been limited. A floating cargo of Havana said
for the United Kingdom at 25e. 6d. for No. 10. Reined
has also been dull of sale, and prices have a downward
tendency.
Corm—The percale of plantation Ceylon offered by
auction have sold freely at cry firm prices. Triage, at 68a.
to 745. 6d. low to Ise middling, 82e. to 925. ; pea
Ms. to 924. A good business has been done in Rio in the
early part of the week at full prices, but towards the close
there was lees activity in the demand.
COCOA la in limited request.
MA.—The market ban been dull and inactive.

Eott eondnues doll of i;feT Afewpuncheons of pals
Lamar& sold at la. ed., and 60 puncheons of Jamaica at
2a. 10d..

Ravi Is dull sod losetive.

demand is more active, sad rather
firmer prior have bass • retraction 15k and 8 sold at
ris. 6d. ; and refraction, 6 to 6,38 s. to 38s. bd.
&tom —Pepper has sold steadily at previous prices
Peeing, Pimento Is In leis request, and has declined
Id. per lb. Other 'pima uti
Fenn% —A limited name is doing at previous prime.
OOTTON.—The market has become quiet.
HICZP.—St. Petersburg clean is still Quoted 311. 10s. to
SY., but there is not much business passing.
Jon.—At the public melee held this week there was no
disposition to purchase at the previous currency, and the
bulk was bought in, the portiou sold went at a slight
decline.

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INDIGO.—The market is dull and inactive.
00CHINEAL is io good request, at folly last week's Klass.
About 500 bags sold, Mexican silver at 2s. 7d.

TALLOW MARSZT.—(THIS DAY.)
The market ill steady. Petenburg Y. 0.. ou the spot, is
quoted 43a. 9d. ; Mara, 45.. 9d. ; April to June, the. 9d.;
July to September, 47N. October to December, 48e. to
48e. 3d.

HIDE MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

LEADexam.t..—Hillsa—Prioso jilts.. 3d.
$o Sjd. ; 641 W. to 7216 a, 31d. to
_3ed. ; to SOlbs..
9b5g.341 t*,
3114 d. to; B°l4ed.l3`; i°9lll"ba.b."to31d.
1(1.114°W,d: 408. BtothL__ 4.11
Hone hides, 9i. to 10a. 041 dint, light, 2s. Od.

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BOUlONDeti.—Shaspuki s: Polled, 10s. to 125.; kali-
brads, 6a. 6d. to 10a. 6.1.; doom. 6a. 6d. to Bs. ; shearlinp,
la. 2d.

BOROITGH HOP MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
Mews. Pattendes and Smith report the trade more active
for both English and foreign bops at as advance is price of
th. to 10. per owt.

COAL MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)
Walls Sod Ton, 17s. ; Walls End Wanton Hartlepool,
16a. 6d.; Walls Sod Martlspool, 161. W. ; Walls End South
Killen, 16a. ; Wallr and army, 16s. ; Wan* Mid
Hallos, 160. 3d. ; Walla Ed Miss Main, 15s. 3d. ;
Walls End Aeon Clow, 16s. Id. ; Walls End Hatton
Izzl4e. ; Walls End Enuntrollgato, Me. 3d. ;
Yahoo, 12s. ; Taatisid Moor Betas. 12s. ; Bakes
= Ile. 6d. ; Ski& liar May, 15s. 9d.-15 skips at

MONEY JURIDIT.-(THIE DAL)

Two o'CLocz.

The funds to-day are rather flatter. Consols
are quoted i per cent. lower than theyclosed yester-
day. Apart from the fortnightly settlement in shares
and foreign stocks, which has commenced this
morning, there is not much business. English
railways are flatter. Attention is still promi-
nently directed to the new Turkish Loan, the list
for which is now on the point of being closed. The
scrip is firm at 2} to 21 prem.
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At Paris this ilornin according to Mr. Renter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes opened at
69fr. 60c., receded to 69fr. 45c., but recovered to
69fr. 50c., being, however, k per cent. lower than
yesterday.

Commis are officially marked 931, 4,1, 4,1, and
4 for money, and 934 and 4 for the account.
The present quotations are 93/ to 4 for cash,
and 931 to 4 for the 10th of April.
The official business report is as follows :—Three
per Cents. Reduced, 921, 4 ; New Three per Cents.,
921, 4 ; India Five per Cent. Stock, 1084,
1, 4 ; ditto Four per Cent. Debentures,
1864, 100, 4 ; Ave per Cent. " enfaced" rupee
paper, 1031, 103 ; Bank Stock, for account, 2354,
234 ; Exchequer Bills, 205., 17s. prem.
The old Turkish Loans are unchanged in price,
the Bonds of 1864 being quoted 84 to 4, and those
of 1858 71 to 4ex div. There is a fresh fall in
Italian Five per Cents., which are last marked al.
Moorish Scrip is firm, and Mexican Bonds dull.
saes are recorded as follows :—Brazilian Four-
and-a-Half per Cents., 1860, 921 ; Dutch Four
per Cent. Certificates, 1024 ; Equador New Conso-
lidated, 184 ; French Three per Cent. Rental, 88fr.
50c. (exchange 25fr. )1; Italian Five per Cents., 651,
(exchange 25fr.) ; Mexican Three per Cents., 344,
; Moorish Scrip, 64, 6 prem. ; New Granada
Deferred, 51 ; Peruvian Three per Cents., 85;
Portuguese Three per Cents, 1853, 451 ; Spanish
Three per Cents., 531 ; ditto New Deferred Three
per Cents., 431, 4 ; ditto Passive, 184; Turkish Six
per Ceuta., 1864, 844 ; ditto Six per Ceuta., 1868,
714, 71,'4; ditto Guaranteed Four per Cents., 1021 ;
Venezuela Three per Cents., 244.
The total applications for the New Turkish Loan
of 8,000,000/. exceeded 30,000,000/. up to last
evening. The 5 per cent. deposit on this represents
1,500,0001.
Messrs. Dent, Palmer, and Co. announce the
dividend due the 10th prox. on the Turkish Six
per Cent. Bonds of 1854.
The half-yearly interest on Canadian Consoli-
dated Five per Cent. Bonds is announced in due
course.

There were no gold operations worth mentioning
at the Bank yesterday. The 158,0001, Australian
gold by the Result will probably be taken there
after being refined.
The Liverpool cotton market yesterday was very
firm, with sales to the extent of 4,000 bales.
The American packet, telegraphed late last even-
ing, brings improved quotations for Illinois Central
and New York and Erie Railway shares. Accord-
ingly, after the recognised hours this evening, the
prices of American securities &bowed an upward
tendency.
The following is the "house list " of the gover-
nors and directors of the Bank of England for the
year ensuing, viz. :—For governor, Mr. Alfred
Latham ; for deputy-governor Mr. Kirkman D.
Hodgson ; and for directors, Messrs. Henry Hulse
Berens, Arthur Edwd. Campbell, Robt. Wigram
Crawford, William Cotton, James Pattison Currie,
Bonamy Dobree, Benjamin Buck Greene, Chas.
Pascoe Grenfell, Henry Hacks Gibbs, John Saun-
ders Gilliat, George Joachim Giischen, James
Alexander Guthrie„Thomson Hanky, John Ben-
jamin Heath, Henry Lancelot Holland, John Gel-
librand Hubbard, Thomas Newman Hunt, Charles
Frederick Huth, James Morris, Sheffield Name,
George Wards Norman, Edward Howley Palmer,
Thomas Charles Smith, and Clifford Wigram. Of
the above, Mr. John 8. Gilliat and Mr. Clifford
Wigram are new candidates. The governor and
deputy-governor will be elected on the Bth April,
and the directors on the 9th.

The Great Northern Railway traffic return shows
this week a decrease of 2,835/. ; the Great Western
a decrease of 1,92 W.; the Lancashire and York-
shire a decrease of 4.427/. ; the Eastern Counties
a decrease of 1,5821. ; the North Eastern a de-
crease of 2,8021. ; the Midland a decrease of
1,5611. ; and the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-
colnshire a decrease of 2,094/.
The directors of the London and South African
Bank have circulated the balance-sheet and profit
and loss account to the 31st December last, in anti-
cipation of the annual meeting called for the Ist of
May. The progress of this establishment fully
equals expectation. The bank has only been in
operation five months at Cape Town, and three
months at Port Elizabeth, yet the deposits amount
already to 39,9171., and the circulation to 7,2001.
The manager report& that not a single 51. note
has been sent in for payment. The gross profit to
the 31st Deo. last was 14,3831.; and, deducting
from this 3,8411. as the half-year's charges, the net
profit is 10,541/. The latter sum is to be appro-
priated as follows, viz. :
T. preliminary expenses, being one-fifth of balance of that
acoount, 1,6081. 6s. ; to traosfer for foundation of a reserve
turd, 1,0001. ; to amourt further applicable thereto r per
deed of sattlement, being profit realised on sale of forfeited
shares, M. lls. 3d. ; to proposed dividend at the rate of
2i per cent. on paid-up capital (to be /mid has of income
tax), 5,0001.; to balance earned to new account, subject to
become tax on proposed dividend, 2,8361. 17a 41—total,
10.5411. 14s. 7d.

Thisestablishment is now fairly in a dividend pay-
ing position.
An extraordinary meeting of the General Screw
Steam Shipping Company, now in liquidation, is
called for the 4th of April, to finally wind up and
settle the accounts. _ _ _

The annual meeting of the Anglo-Mexican Mint
Aasociation is called for the Bth of April.

The position of the market for American securi-
ties is noticed as follows by Messrs. D. Bell, Son,
and Co. :

There continues an active demand for American Securi-
ties, and during the past week the transactions have beau
large, whilst prices remain without material alteration.
At an adjourned meeting yesterday of the creditors
of Mr. J. W. Shillito, wholesale grocer, it was
decided that the estate shall be wound up in the
Court of Bankruptcy. The insolvent offered to pay
a composition of 9s. in the pound, guaranteed, but
the creditors refused to accept less than 10e. It
was considered that Mr. Shillito ought to have
stopped payment at an earlier period.
The following is Messrs. Culverwell, Brooks, and
Co.'s report of yesterday's hide sales :
At the sixth aeries of hide sales for the year there was a
middling to fair demand for both East India and salted
bidee, although of the letter only a portion was sold, and
that at a slight concession in price.
East India. —Ox and Cow.—Calcutta were in fair request
at fully last Wes' prices. The export demand wee better
than at the previous sales, which resulted in full prime
being paid for bides of heavy averaves, imitable for this
trade ; the home Imam also bought to a fair extent.
Madras, &o , were sold at fully former prioes. The analysis
of the SASS is 109,037 Calcutta, new parcels, 36,243 brought
forward from former sales, and 5,841 Madras, Pondicherry,
Le. ; in all 182,882 hide', of which 103,261 were sold.
East India.—Buffalo were in better demand, but those
sold were at rather lower prices.
Leather.—Fast Indian.—Madras was all sold. Bombay
was all bought in, being of dark and common tannage. Aus-
tralian mil/ part sold.
Salted Hiaes.—Attetralian.—The bulk of the quantity
sold (11,812) consisted of • parcel of Melbourne of cub mid-
dling quality, which realised an average decline of about Id.
per lb. The frw Elver Plate offered were all sold. Gibral-
tar were well competed for. West Indian and Brasil all
sold. Irish all bought in.
Dry and Dryellted.—Dry West Coast were all sold.
African realised fair prises for the quality. Drystlted
liwsdoregiesß.sedd.
err —Foe the portion disposed of easier prior
were accepted.
The emigration commissioners have taken up the
ships Ariadue and Accrington, for the conveyance
of passengers to Moreton Bay and Melbourne
respectively.
The return of the Bank of England for the week

ending March 26, compared with that for the pre-
vious week, shows the following changes :
Otrenlatics Wins 830,540,060 hawse 2218,415
Circulation active
Public deposit" 8,413,275 Increase 401,581
Other deposits
Government 'sensitise is
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banking deprohnent 10,895,242 Increase 178,981
Othersecnritass in lierkbg
department
Coin and bake la both
departments 16,812,798 Increase 264,212
Seven day sod other bills 617,825 Increase 4,466
The Beat
Notes in reserve
Total reserve (setae k coin
in banking department). 11,265,968 Decrease 62,468
These changes are not of much importance.
The small decrease in the reserve is chiefly due to
'the increase in the securities. The bullion cos-
tinnes to rise.
!PM OF INGLAND.7.:An Aorceit

ith Vic., C. 112, fea. the
26, 1882.

...is pursannt to the Act 7th
:ending on Wednesday, March
tAirritnirr.
Government debt ‘11,0111.3111
Other leCtlrititi SAWIa
Gold coin end bul-
lion

ISM DM
Notes Issued £30,510,080 '

£30,641,ce0 I
BANZING
= delay' Capital C 4,6614000
1,,817
Public Deposita pia. 057
chiding lacitsp
Is,. Banks. Casa-
aal.a. of National
Debt, and Div.
Acata.) ttil.in
Mar Dyadic
Isvam day aatiothaz
Hi& Oll,llll
£40,4111.115
March TT. Ifiet

/231,640,1111

1•12102111%
Government S.

dtos
Dead Weight An-
nuity) 4110,8116.1111
°tler gemn" "

Note-- • •
Gold mad Wirer
Oats.... ....... 922,711

/A 0.40111,116
MAIRBRALL, Mkt Gelder.

THOBJEDAT
Consols, which closed yesterday at 931 sellers,*
for the 10th of April, opened this morning at 93/,
and closed at 934 to 94. For money the bat price
was 931 to 4. The official business report is as
follows :—Tbree per Cent. Consols, for money,
93j, ; ditto, for account (April 10), 931 L
; Three per Cents. Reduced, 92k, ; New Titres
per Cents., 921 ft 92f, 1; New Two-and-a-Half
per Cents., 77; Thirty Years Annuities, 1885, 154 ;
Bank Stock, for account, 233 i, 235, ex div. -
India Stock, 2254, 226; ditto Five per Cent:
Stock, 108#, #, 1, # ; ditto Four per Cent. Deben-
ture*, 1863, 100,
" ; ditto Bonds, 285., 26a, prem. ;
Five per Cent. enfaced" rupee paper, 1034 ;
ditto Five-and-a-Half per Cent., net, L
The India Five per Cent. Stock has recovered
closing at 1081 to #. The rupee paper wan rather
more offered. There was a fall in India Bonds,
which were sold in the afternoon at 15s. prom.
Exchequer Bills remain dull at 16a. to 19s. prem.
A considerable amount of business was done in
the foreign stock market.
A call of ss. is to be paid on the shares in the
United Kingdom Electric Telegraph Company by
the 11th April.