The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-21 00:00:00

MINEB.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'Oroon.
The mining market is rather quiet to-day, with
less business. East Caradon shares are quoted
34 to 34 ; Marke Valley, 10 to f ; East Oarn
Brea, 13 to *, being better ; South Caradon, 320 to
326 ; Tineroft, 105 to 11; and When' Beton, 127
to 129.

St. John del Rey Mining shares remain flat, and
are marked 60. There are again inquiries for
Scottish Australian Mining, which have been dealt
in at 2k to f.
The directors of the Labuan Coal Companya,
(Limited) have made a call of 21. per abate,
payable, it. by the 10th April, and 11. by the
10th May.

SALE or HORRIN IN FRANCE.—The sale of
the horses coming from the imperial breeding establishment
of Versailles having lately attracted • oonsiderabk number
of amateurs to the Preach Tattersall's, where Cartinirn.
hones brought from B,ooofr. to 9,03 Er. the pair, the Park
adduces the circumstance se s strong proof that France ems
Baffles of herself for the neermary supply of riding and car-
riage-hone., which are sew brought from England at a
great met It rummest's& that two fairs for the sale of
superior hones be established each year in Paris, spring and
autumn, and that the plans @sleeted for holding them be
either the Champs ds Yon or the Palais de l'indushie.
Lastly, it suggesta that if other salsa be decided on at Tat-
twaall's similar to that which lately took place, emits shall
be arranged in amphitheatre for spectators, and the same
paid for entrance be gives to the poor.
An accident of rather singular character took
place on Wedneedaymandig toadown opal train au the System
sad Peterborough lieu It appears that as axle of one of
the Eastern Counties oral waggons broke and let off •
wheel at the Oakbans led of the Kaaba tunnel, and not
until the train had arrived at the Nantes statics did the
truck get at the relic, after running mare than • quarter
of • mile, and doing very slight damage to the lisle.
The ancient register book belonging to the corpo-
ration of Lynn, known sa the "Red Book," from the
original binding having been of that colour, has lately been
rebound. This is thought to be the oldest English paper
book is existence, and the leaves had, from age, become
reduced to • loose cottony substance, which threatened to
fall in pieces when handled. Each leaf has been carefully
raised, and the book will now last for many years to come.
It numbers one hundred and fifty leaves. The fist entry
is a transcript of the will of Peter de Thomism banger of
Lynn, dated_ ,1300 • the latest is on page 100, with the
date of 10 Richard IL Illemery.
MN LONDON MAXIM ARDENKR.—The growth
of Loodoe has pushed this markettardener vernally into
be country ; and now, 'untied of sending up his produce
his own waggons, he knit@ it to the railway, and is often
thrown into • market fever by • late delivery. To com-
pensate him, however, for the altered state of the times, he
often sells his crops like a merchant upon 'Change, without
the trouble of bringing more than • few hand-eacuplas la his
pockets. He te nearly seventy years of age, but looks
Namely thy, and can remember the time whoa there were
ten thousand acres of ground within four miles of Charing-
cross under cultivation for vegetables, besides about three
thousand acres planted with fruit to supply the Loudon
consumption. He has lived to me the Deptford and Be,.
mondeey pads= curtailed ; the flotsam and Hackney
gardens covered with Imams; ths Essex plantations pushed
farther off ; and the and Kensington nurseries—
the home of vegetables centuries—dug up and min
with International Exhibition temples, and Italian Choices
that will never grow • pea Sr said a single cauliflower to
market. He has lived to ere Omirseey and Jersey,r Cora-
wall, the billy bleeds, /Wandp.lea /Belgium, and Po
with =ay other s
afe
ablaut s, otiapotiag wilig
t
remote outakirte ofe Lambe bricks and so/Ur ; sad has
be sisserodi seeing tie arrks4 replied with &Mae
early peas from such as us= (inter al Pm&
Adgeda.—ConatiLllegasiee

19, 1992.

NONNI' MARKET.-(THIS DAL)

Two o'CLoac.

The funds remain firm. Consols are quoted
quite as good as yesterday afternoon. In English
railways the only movement of importance is a
fresh rise in Caledonian. Turkish Bonds are in
better demand to-day. The inquiry for Indian
and Brazilian securities continues.

Consols are officially marked 931, 1, and 94 for
money, and 94 for the account. The present
quotations are 931 for cash, and 94 to 94 for
the 10th of April. The official business report
is as follows :—Three per Cents. Reduced,
921, ; New Three per Ceuta., 921, 1 ;
Thirty Years' Annuities, 1885, 14 ; India Five
per Cent. Stock, losi, ; ditto, for account,
104 ; ditto Four per Cent. Debentures, 1864 or
1866, 1001 ; ditto Bonds, 28s. prem. ; Five-and-
s-Half per Cent. " enfacied " rupee paper, 108 ;
Exchequer Bills, 19a. prem.
Turkish Bonds have experienced a recovery of
to 1 per cent., the loan of 1864 being now quoted
851 to 861, and that of 1858, 711 to 72 ex div. ;
Venezuela Bonds are more offered, and are marked
'241; Mexican are rather dull, and !Spanish steady.
Other foreign stocks exhibit little change. Sales
are recorded as follows :—Brazilian Four-and-a-
Half per Cents., 1858, 931 ; Chili= Four-
and-a-Half per Cents., 871; Italian Five
per Conte., (Maremmana Railway Scrip) 11 dis. ;
Mexican Three per Cents., for account, 341, 1;
Moorish Scrip, 54 prem. ; New Granada, ex over-
due coupons and Hectares, 101; Peruvian Three per
Cade., for account, 851; Russian Five per Cents.,
for 'moonlit, 991 ex div. ; ditto Four-and-a-Half
per Cents., 91 ; ditto Six per Cents., 1859, 62 ;
Spanish Three per Cents., 54 ; the Committee's
Certificates, 7 ; Turkish Six per Cents., 1854, 851;
ditto, for account, 84 ; ditto Six per Cents.,
1858, for account, 711, I, 72, ex div. ; ditto
1001. Bonds, 731 ; Venezuela Three per Cents., for
account, 24.
At the discount office at the Bank of England
business yesterday was limited. In the general
market good bills continue to be taken at 21 per
cent., being below the Bank minimum, although
a period of the quarter has now been reached when
the market is usually tight.
A further illustration of the improvement in the
financial condition of the Indian government was af-
forded yesterday evening by the issue by the Secretary
of State for India in Council of the requisite twelve
months' notice of a reduction in the rate of interest
on India Bonds from its present point of 4 per
cent, per annum to 4 per cent. The reduced rate
will date as from the 31st of March, 1863. Holders
desirous of going on at the reduced rate are re-
quired to send in their bonds to be marked for con-
tinuation not later than the 30th of September next.
The Liverpool cotton market remains firm. The
sales yesterday were to the extent of 7,000 bales.
The bills of Mews. Yague and Co., Spanish
wine-merchants, have been returned, but the liabi-
lities are understood to be limited.

The Great Western Railway traffic return shows
this week an increase of 1,7171. • the Great
Northern a decrease of 1,3531. • the Midland a de-
crease of 1,8531. ; the Manchester Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire a decrease of 1,1711 ; the London and
South Western an increase of 2811 ; the North
Eastern a decrease of 3,5051. • and the Lancashire
and Yorkshire • decrease of 3,6611.
The receipts of the Grand Trunk Railway of
Canada for the week ending the 23rd February
were 14,3741. sterling, being 3,2151. more than in
the corresponding week of last year.
A meeting of shareholders in the Great Luxem-
bourg Company is called for the 27th instant in
London.
A call of 10s. is to be paid on the shares in the
Malta and Mediterranean Gaa Company by the 10th
of ApriL
Mr. William Bell has been appointed official
liquidator of the Professional and General Loan
and Discount Company (Limited), the creditors of
which are required to prove their claims before the
commissioner in bankruptcy on the 3rd April.
The Grand Russian Railway Company invite
tenders for 41,000 tons of coal.
The directors of Bray's Traction Engine Company
(Limited) have announced an increase in the capital
from 25,0001. to 1010001., by the issue of 16,000
shares of 51. each. They (state that the result of
several months' experience with the new engine, in
the construction of which many important improve•
manta have been introduced, is of a character to
strengthen their confidence in the remunerative
capacity of the undertaking. Two sources of income
are open to the company, one being the sale of
engines, from which a large royalty and profit are
derivable, and the other consisting in an augmenta-
tion of the rolling stock and its employment in the
various contracts opened to the company at a great
I saving as compared with the cost of horses.
Messrs. Baring Brothers announce the dividends
on New Brunswick Six per Cent. Bonds and Boston
City Sterling Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Bonds.
Mr. Frederic Allen has been appointed secretary
to the Queen Insurance Company in London.
The position of the market for American Secu-
rities is noticed as follows by Messrs. D. Bell, Son,
and Co.:—

The demand for American Securities dill costionse, sad
there ha. been an active business transacted during the
week, but with very little variation in prior.
The next mails from Calcutta and China, rid
Marseilles, are not expected to be distributed in
London until about the 31st inst., owing to the
detention of the outward mails, caused by the
mishap to the Ceylon.
The return of the Bank of England for the week
ending March 19, compared with that for the pre-
vious week, shows the following changes :
Circulation isms 230,321,385 Increase 0534,990
Circulation active
Public depot's, 8,011,694 Increase 483,783
Other deposits
Oovernment securities In

10,n6,261 Deersaus 492,980
°thane:unties in Wallin
doputmant
Coln and bullion in both - -

departments . .... 16,548,586 Imams 621,475
Seven day and other bills 613,350 Decrease 35,772
The Rest
10,45'

Noise in mane

331,485 Yocnr;• 67423

Total mom (solo kora
is banking egsellasat). 11,328,436 Increase 666,010
The mamma in the Bank's resources continues
very rapid. There is again a very important addi-
tion both to the bullion and reserve. The unusual
feature presented in a decrease in the "other"
securities at this period of the quarter shows that
the Bank is still underbid in the general market.

BANK OP INOLLND.—As
4• ilti VIA. a 4 kw the 1

reat pursuant tn the Ad 7th
sting on Vielneeday, March

rotes bawd 'S.)ZO.-3A-,58

flovornMent debt £11,015,103
Other necurities 1,014900
Gobi oath and bul-
lion

itiks2l.6Bl
Wining Dl
=etettes' Capital 11114,1161,geen,000
144
Public Deposits (in-
cluding lischen
Bay. Banks, Coes•
min of National
Debt, and Div.
Accts.)
Otter Deposits 11,810,911
linen dap &Mother
Dills

ZS ~111,686

rAtexurr.
Government Seen-
Atha (Including W
Dead eight An-
nuity)
Other Saturities 18,16,838
Notas 10,461.4116
Geld sad Silver
hots 1177,001

£40,1114,116
March 24, IVA 11

£40,1 ,52S
XARISHALL, Chief CiAlitar.

THVISDAY EV11701141.
Console, which closed yesterday at 93t, "buyer*"
for the 10th of April, opened this morning at 931 to
and closed at 931 to flt. For money the last price
was 931 to The official bagmen report is se fol-
lows :—Thres per Cent, Consols, for monecli,)o79l,
,
L 1, I; ditto, for account (April 1
j; Bank Stock, shut; Three per te.
Reduced 92f, ; New Three per Cents., 921,
I, 3,1, j; Thirty Years Annuities, 1885, IN, ;

India Stock, 223, 224} ; ditto Five per Cent. Stock,
108 f, ft, # ; ditto for account, 108#, f, $, ft ; ditto
Four per Cent. Debentures, 1863, 100 ; ditto, 1864,
100 ; ditto, 1864 or 1866, 1001 • ditto Bonds, 275.
Fem. • Four per Cent. " enlaced " rupee paper,
80 ; ditto Five per Cent., 102 f, 3 ; ditto Five-and-
a-Half per Cent., 1081, 108.
The India Five per Cent. Stock remains firm at
108# to #. The Five per Cent rupee paper was
qiioted 102 k to 103, being rather higher, and the
Five-and-aaalf, 1071 to 1081.
Exchequer Bills remain quoted 10s. to 225. prem.,
and India Bonds, 275. to 30. pram.
The foreign stock market was rather quiet.
There was a further considerable advance in Otto-
man Bank shares, which closed at 241 to 25k.
Bank of Australasia rose 2/. London and South
African Bank were slightly firmer than yesterday.
City Bank shares retain a downward tendency.
Oriental Bank were likewise a little more offered
to-day. In miscellaneous shares, General Steam
Navigation, Van Diemen's Land, and East India
Irrigation, were flat.
The closing quotations for shares in now under-
takings were as follows :—Ocean Marine, 7f to /
Fem. ; Thames and Mersey Marine, 111.16 to
1 13-16 prem. ; Universal Marine, 2# to 21 din.,
being firmer ; London and Provincial Marine, par
to prem. ; Mercantile Fire, fto # prem. • ozn-
menial Union, # to f dia. ; Alliance Bank of London
and Liverpool, 31 to 4 prem. ; Rio Improvements,l
to rem, being firmer ; ditto paid-up shares,
f to 11 prem.
The demand for Indian Railway debentures con-
tinues active, and in several instances a fresh rise
of per cent. took place to-day.
The new Victoria Loan remains steady at 104 i to
$. Canada and United States Five per Cents.
were inquired for.