The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-17 00:00:00

MINES-(THIS DAY)

Two &Cram
The transactions in:the mining market to-day
are upon a very limited scale. There is a de-
mand, however, for Great Vor shares, which
have risen 11., the present quotation being
29 to 30. East Lovell are also inquired for. On
the other hand East Caradon have declined to 24
to 25. East Grenville are quoted 3to and East
Russell are officially marked 41.
Foreign and colonial mining sharer are unaltered.
United Mexican are inquired for.

THE EXTRAORDINARY SUICIDE OF A GEN-
TLESIAN THROUGH FINANCIAL DIFFICUL-
TIES.

INQIIEST.—(THIS DAY.)
At noon today, Mr. W. Payne, the coroner for the
City of Loodoo, held an inquiry at St. Bartholomew's Hos-
pital, into the circumstances of the death of Mr. Charles
Vie Skeet, aged 63 years, who committed nicht', on the
premium of the West Ham Gotta Perth& Compsny, of
which be was the manager.
Mr. Walter Hancock appeared to watch the case on the
part of the company.
William Harvey, night watchman at the Gotta Percha
Works, West-street, Smithfield, said that Mr. }lidera was
the confideetial manager of the works. Witness last
saw him alive at a quarter plat 11 o'clock on Friday
night. He had newer been so late in the office
before. He asked witness to fetch half a pint of
beer, and witness went for it. The dammed had bees
writing all the evening from 6 o'clock when he had come to
the °Bice. Witness brought back the beer, bat when pees-
in' the stable doer be heard a noise apparently from a pistol
I abet, followed by a groan. Witness ran into the stable sad
saw deceased lying on the ground with blood flowing
' from his forehead. Witness thought he was in a 61, and called
for help. He tried to lift the deceased up, and asked him
what was the matter, but he could sot answer. A policeman
came, followed by a surgeon, who said that he bad been
shot. The police found a pistol in the straw. Witness
found a paper of bullets, powder, and caps, and two letters
produced. Witness noticed nothing namel about the
deceased latterly, or when he directed witness to go out for
the beer.

Mr. Edward Broughton, clerk at the Gaits Perch&
Works, said that he knew the deceased for three years. Wit-
ness never observed that the deceased's mind was disturbed
in any way. The letters produced were in deceased's baud.
writing. Witoeas knew that the deceased was involved in
pecuniary

By Mr. Hancock—The deceased was is no way wrong in
his accounts with respect to tie Outta Paola Company.
Berson. 232, City police, produced a pocket pistol, which
was found in the stable by the side of the deceased. It bad
just been discharged.
Mr. Alfred Hancock, joint manager of the works with the
deceased, said he had koowo deceased three roan end a
ball. He was latterly depressed. He was disappointed
at not getting other employment He was about to leave
the Gotta Percha Compeny's employment because he was
not required any longer. His accounts were all right. He
was married, and he had two children. His income from
the oompuiy was 21,10 f. a year, but he had other property
of his own. On the Friday afternoon witness saw him, and
be was then rather melancholy.
Mr. F. Rowbotham said that latterly the deceased was
dispirited apparently at the prospect of the lose of employ-
ment. lie was disappointed at not receiving oertain sums of
mosey on which he had calculated.
_ _ _

After further evidence a letter *written by the deceased
was read. It is addressed to the coroner and jury. After
stating his pecuniary difficulties, he writes :—•' I die be-
lieving nothing, bat hoping all things. I write all this be-
came there is always so touch said about death being •
rash act, a rushiog IMO the presence of one's Maker with-
out God's permiestoo. I feel but an instrument in God's
hand for my own just punishment. I Placed all my hap-
phew in a home to which I had oo right, for I had not the
means necessary to keep it up. That darling angel!
If I could possibly I would still struggle for her
sake. And m child's cherub free is before me, @eying,
y ' Papa, don't leave us.' What oan I do? But this is gang
back again to life. What tricks and subterfuges in order to
make this home happy ! lam ashamed to make so much
fen about dying, but the thought of them overcomes
me. My dying averts ruin from another, who, if I lived,
would be rained. Pardos me this trouble, but some of you
have children. Until the age of 60 I never was in difficulty,
I trust you will take • charitable view of all. and pardon
my occupying your time. --CRALLIa Vii RIDAI7T.—Oot. 14.
'To farm death at the mason's mouth is presence of thou-
soar* and with the Victoria Cram to encourage your spirits,
is an easy task, but the heart aisks when in the solitude of •
chamber. Shame, remorse,
despair, mock and mouth at you
from the barrel of • pistol, and a little cherub cries out to
you, ' Don't, papa ; papa, don't do it.' "
The jury returned a verdict of "Suicide, while in a state
of ;mound mind."

MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'CLoow.

1 The stook markets to-day are steady, although
business is very dull. The funds remain at Satur-
day's quotations. The securities in most demand
to-day are home railway stocks. Foreign bonds
are comparatively dull. Amongst the chief changes
in price to-day are a fall in Spanish Passive Bonds
and Certificates and London and Bra rilian Bank
shares, and a fresh rise in the Confederate Loan.
The discount market is rather quiet to-day, and
the supply of money large, but the lowest rate for
good three months' bills is 9 per cent. There is still
a large amount of money seeking employment in the
Stock Exchange, and the change fur short loans is
nominal, at 4 to 5 per cent.

At Paris to-day, according to Mr. Reuter's tele-
gram, the Three, per Cent. Rent.. opened at
65fr. 25c., being se. better than on Saturday.
Consols are uow quoted 8811 to for money, and
Bfto for the account (Nov. 10). The official
business report is as follows :—Three per Cent.
Consols, for money, 88k, k, ; ; ditto, for ac-
count, 88k, i; Three per Cents. Reduced,
86k, k, I ; New Three per Ceuta., 86i,5, k, 2 ; India
Stock, 211 ; ditto, Five per Cent. Stock, 104 k,
103 i ; Exchequer Bills, March, 65., 10s. dis. ;
ditto June, 18s. die,.

The Confederate Loan is again 2 per cent.
higher. Turkish Bonds of 1862 have improved
per cent. Spanish Passive Bouds and Cer-
tificates, on the other band, have fallen #.
Some of the present quotations are annexed, viz.
—Greek, 221 to 23 ; Mexican, 261 to # ; Confederate,
64 to 86 ; Spanish Passive, 30 to 1 ; the Certi-
ficates, 131 to ; Turkish, 1858 Bonds, 68 to ;
ditto, 1862, 691 to 70 ; and the Consolid4s, 49 to 1.
Transactions are recorded as follows :—Brazilian,
1852, 1858, 1860, 85 ; ditto, 1863, 831, /, 83, ex div.:
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 611 ; Egyptian,
961 ; ditto second issue, 951 ; Greek, for account,
221 ; Mexican, 261 ;ditto for account. 261, 1 ; ditto,
1864, 246, i ; Portuguese, 1856, tee., 461 :
ditto fur account, 461 ; Russian, 1862,
871 ; ditto 1864, 861, ex div.; Spanish,
49/ ; ditto New Deferred, for account, 411 ; ditto
Passive, for account, 30#, 30, ; ditto Certificates,
for account, 131 ; Turkish, 1854, for account.
881, ex div. ; ditto 1862, for account, 691 ; ditto
1001. Bonds, 691, 70 ; Venezuela, 1862, 541 ; ditto.
for account, 551.

International Financial shares are now quoted
1} to f prem. ; London Financial, 6to 1
prem. ; General Credit, 2h to ill prem. ;
Imperial and Mercantile Credit, 11 to I prem. ;
Hudson's Bay, 15 to 1 ; Ottoman Sociit4 thini-
rale, I to 1 prem. ; and Anglo-Egyptian Bank, 1
to Cli dis.

London and Brazilian Bank shares have been
thrown down by the announcement of mercantile
failures in Brazil, and are marked as low as 4
discount.

Foul!. o'CLoci.

Consols are quoted 88i to ft for money, and rlB~
to for the account, showing no change of import-
anoe compared with the prices current at 2 o'clock.
30,0001. in gold has been sent into the Bank.
The comparative ease with which the advances
lately made by the Bank of England are being
repaid to it, is a favourable feature as it indicates
that, while the Bank is being placed in a position
to pay the dividends without sustaining any further
serous draught upon its reserve, the general supply
of money in commercial channels is still equal toall
requirements. The hope is now becoming stronger
that, should no unforeseen catastrophe occur in the
mercantile world, the Bank will be able to tide over
the crisis without raising the rate of discount
beyond the present point. The steady contraction
of trade, the heavy fall in the prices of cotton and
other commodities, the favourable appearance of
the exchanges, and the influx of gold to the Bank—
entailing, as it does, the creation of a corresponding
amount of fresh currency—all tend to encourage a
belief that we shall soon emerge from our present
state of suspense and financial difficulty. The least
reassuring feature at the moment is perhaps the
quasi hoarding which is going on. This is pro-
moted by the doubt which is felt with regard to the
possible upshot of the present endeavours of the
Bank of England executive to carry out the act of
1844 stringently, and thus, as they hope, to obviate
all chance of having it suspended for the third time.
It is universally recognised that the weeding out
of really insolvent houses constitutes a positive ad-
vantage to commerce,which will hereafter pursue its
course with all the moreconfidence on account of the
purification which it is uow undergoing. But a
fear lingers among commercial men lest the vague
distrust which has become disseminated should
affect the position, not of rotten firms, but of such
as are unquestionably solvent, though they may
possibly at the moment have pushed their transac-
tions beyond the limits warranted by their imme-
diately available means. It has not escaped notice
that several of the firms which have lately stopped
payment ass, for example, Messrs. Brown, Buck-
ley, and Co., the East India brokers, whose sus-
pension was announced in our impression of Sa-
turday—are, or believe themselves to be, not
merely solvent,, but possessed of a " consi-
derable surplus ; ' and when the pressure of the
times produces such results as these, it can hardly
be wondered at if the mercantile community carry
their measures of precaution beyond what is actu-
ally necessary. It is satisfactory to believe that the
directorsof the Bank of England think that &pressure
of this sort ought to be treated with indulgence
instead of being met by the severe measures which
would be necessary if the strain came from abroad,
or in consequence of imprudent foreign commit-
ments.

As—was anticipated, about 150,0001. in gold,
' chiefly by the West India packet, was sent into the
Bank on Saturday. There were no withdrawals.
The Stock Exchangge broker named Burrows,
who disappeared on Friday night, with 10,000/.
worth of stock, for which he gave cheques that were
subsequently all dishonoured, has been captured.
He was brought up at the Guildhall police-office
and remanded. till Friday. It is understood that
the whole of the stock has been recovered. It con-
sisted chiefly of Confederate Bonds, and othersecuri-
ties susceptible of easy transfer from baud to hand.
The matter has occasioned much excitement
amongst the members, and even contributed to
check business on Saturday. It seems doubtful
if, in face of the discouragement to crime presented
by the electric telegraph, the delinquent could have
succeeded in disposing of the securities in question,
even supposing that he had got clear off with them
but he probably counted upon the somewhat ha
practice which obtains in the Stock Exchange and
other business circles of pleasing bonds "to
bearer" from hand to hand, without taking
the precaution of keeping a record of the
numbers. Assuming that similar neglect
existed in the present case, the culprit might per-
haps imagine that be would be able to dispose of the
bonds abroad, and that their identification by the
persons defrauded would be impossible. Consider-
ing the extent to which transactions in the Stock
Exchange are based solely upon an honourable
understanding amongst the members, and having
regard to the amount of trust which each member
day by day is in a manner compelled to repose in
the ethers, it is highly creditable to that establish-
ment that so few instances of individual dishonesty
occur.

An extraordinary meeting of the South Eastern
of Portugal Railway Company (Limited) is to be
held on the 23rd Nov., to confirm the resolution
passed at the meeting on the 13th inst. for altering
the articles of association.

DEATH or Carraus BECHER.—Wo have to am-
aouaes the death, on Tuesday last, of this well•knoww
sportsman, the father of steeplechase riders, aad wham
deeds is the pigskin some 311 yean back hose immortalised
him to the swats of that sport.