The Express.
London, England, 1855-01-22 00:00:00

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Saturday. to.day.
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AMA 40 Australasia all 79 Si SO
40 lirit.Colitank&Loan Co. all
WOO 30 Britian North American all
eo,lxo 25 Cbarterrd Rank of Aga 0 1 04 dim 44 4
20,000 20 Mart. Bank of India,
Australia, and Mina,. 2 —— Ms
WOW 100 Coionlal
25, 109 Commercial of London 2O
15, 20 Eng.,500t.,2 AustCkart IS 3i 24 dls
32, 30 Lon.Chart.Rank 01 Auct 2O 21 114
111,E 20 Ditto New 6—— 54
10, SC London and County
OIL 60 London Pint Stock lO
50,00441"0 London and Westrniaster 20
10, 100 Nat. Pro,. of England.- 25
10,f 20 Do. New lO
99, 50 National of Ireland
111,09 20 New South Wales all 34 Si
23,117 33 Orient. Rank Corporation all 37 39
30, 100 Provincialof Ireland 25 —ll 2d
4, 10 Min. Ne.wa..0.....1.d.u....
Imp. Co.
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10,000 a Royal Australian Bank.
5, 23 South Australia 22 39 41
BS, U Union of Australia
65 7 1$
1,000 ... IDo. New 24 11 10
00,000 50 Union of London

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WIND AND WEATHER REPORT.

(PROM THE MICR OP TEE SLIM= Tiisioris
commit.)
EATRIDLT, JAN. 20.
Statical. Ceara ei Wind. Mate of Wads,.
Greenwich ....... ..... LE.
Lothbery
Rages
Brighten
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Yarmouth
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Goody.
Lieonwootott
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leamingtoa N.N.W. ... Hard hest.
nster
Nottingham
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Shrewsbury
Holyhead
Liverpool EEL Prat.
boyish LE.
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Wool
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ter
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Sardiff
Heverfordwest
Soethampton
Portsmouth
Coves N.
Winelfeld
Aberdeen
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Muth
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lisrd frost.
Coady.
Frcot.

The English stock market today was spin flat
and inanimate. The heavy falling off in the bank
bullion—although the exceptional nature of the
drain is recognised--and the prolonged absence of
any decided newi from the Crimea, combined to
check the disposition to buy. The extreme depres-
sion of the day, however, at no time exceeded 3 per
Bent., and the closing range was only 1 per cent.
below that of yesterday. A large purchase was
effected towards the close, but failed to produce any
rally. The immediate operations are chiefly specu-
lative, but still the transactions on the part
of the public are, on balance, on the side
of investments, the supply of stock, as we
mentioned yesterday, being covertly drawn
from government sources. The objections urged
against the Chancellor of the Exchequer's secret
dealings with ,the Savings Batik and other stocks
must certainly be regarded as reasonable, as it is diffi-
cult to feel confidence in financial operations conducted
with so leach seeesey. -may be laid down 'u a
safe general principle that the operations of the state
in money matters ought to be divested of even the
slightest vestige of market measures, and car-
ried on in the most open manner. Yet this deside-
ratum is certainly not attained if the Chancellor, in-
stead of frankly stating the extent and object of his
dealings, mystifies the Stock Exchange, monied men,
and the investing public by effecting secret sales of
stock hitherto held by institutions under the control
of the executive. The petty immediate advantage
that may perhaps be derived from such a course of
proceeding is a poor equivalent for the loss of that
confidence which it ought always to be the desire of
a finance minister to establish in the minds of the
moneyed public.
At Paris to-day the Three per Cent. Rentes ex-
perienced a slight rally from yesterday's decline,
but in the Four-and-a-Half per Cents. the rise was
Ito 3 per cent. The Vienna market is reported as
rather better, with the exchange on London ruling
at 12.14. At Amsterdam the bourse continues
remarkably firm, but at Frankfort Austrian stock
has again given way.
Consols for the Bth February ranged between
913 and 911, and clostd at 911 to 1. For money
the closing quotation was 913 to 1. The official
business report is as follows:—Three 'per Cent.
Consols, for money, 911 1, a,l;ditto, for account,
Bth Feb., 911, I, 3. Three per Cent. Reduced, 911,
1. New Three per Cents., 921, 92. Three-and-a-
Half per Cent. Exchequer Bonds falling payable in
1858, 991 ; ditto 1859, 991. Bank Stock, 2111.
The extreme variation in Consols this week has
been exactly 1 per cent, the highest price touched
having been (for account) 923, and the lowest 911.
The market closed to-day 3 per cent. lower than last
Saturday.
Exchequer Bills remain quoted 4s. to 7s. prem.;
and India Bonds, Ile. to 14.. prem.
Foreign stocks met with scarcely any business, I
and quotations were nominally unaltered. The
operations mainly centered in Turkish, which
olosed the same as yesterday, at 76i to
At 3 o'clock Russian Five per Cents. were quoted 100
to 102 ; ditto Four-and a-Half per Cents., 90 to 91.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 61 to 62 ; ditto
Four per Cent. Certificates, 92 to 94. Sardinian, 84
to 86. Peruvian Four-and-a-Halt per Cents., 70
to 72. Mexican, 21 to 3. Spanish Deferred Three
per Cents., 183 to 3. Sales are recorded as follows :
Brazilian Old Five per Cents., 100. Dutch Four
per Cent. Certificates, 93, 933. Equador Bonds, 4.
Turkish Six per Cent. Bonds, for account, 31st
January, 761, 1, 3.
By telegraph from Paris information was received
to-day that the interest upon French Treasury Bonds
is fixed es follows :-3 per cent. on bonds from three
to six months; 33 per cent. on those from six to nine
months; and 4 per cent. on those for a year. This
is a reduction of 3 per cent. from the rates previously
current.
The imports of the precious metals this week have
been very trifling, amounting to only about 28,0001.,
viz, 7,7401. in gold by the Severn, trom the Brazils;
and 20,3211., chiefly from Lisbon, by the Madrid.
The Custom-house statement of the exports of the
precious metals direct from London during the week
includes 84,600 ounces of silver, and NO ounces and
1001. in gold, representing an aggregate value of
about 23,0001. The silver was despatched almost
entirely to Hamburg. The particulars are annexed,
viz. :—Gold coin : to Belgium, 500 oz. ; to Algoa
Bay, 1001. Gold bare :to Boulogne, 60 oz. Silver
coin : to Hamburg, 25,000 oz. Silver bars: to
Hamburg, 59,000 oz. ; to Boulogne, 600 oz. The other
exports reported to us comprise 6,8461. by the Atrato,
for the West Indies, &c. ; 70,8661. by the Madrid, for
the Peninsula; and 51,5001. (of which all but 7001.
was gold) by the Euxine, for Malta, Alexandria, and
Aden.
The total ascertained shipments of the week are
thus raised to about 152,0001. Some further, though
comparatively limited amounts of gold were also
withdrawn from the Bank in the earlier part of the
week, and dispatched to the continent in private
hands.
Land shares to-day experienced no change of me-
moment. In Bank shares the only feature was a
decline of 11. in the stock of the Union Bank of
Australia. Crystal Palace shares closed rather
flatter, at 21 to 21. East and West India Dock
stock has been dealt in at 1181 to 119 ex div., Berlin
Waterworks at 21 (51. 10e. paid), and Peninsular
and Oriental at 54 to 55.
The following half-yearly meetings are announced
—viz., of the Itatcliff Gas Company, for the 31st
inst., at which a dividend will be declared; of the
London Necropolis and National Mausoleum Com-
pany (annual), for the 13th Feb.; of the Norfolk
Estuary Company, for the 14th Feb.; of the Oxford,
Worcester, and Wolverhampton Railway Company,
for the 21st Feb.; and of the European Gas Company,
for the Bth Feb. A dividend of 10s. on the old shares,
and the interest on the new shares, of this last-named
company are to be payable on the Ist Feb.

THIS DAY—Two ott.cat.
The English funds showed flatness this morning,
sales preponderating, but buyers have since come
forward, and prices are now quoted the same as they
closed on Saturday. Consols for account, after being
sold u low u 911, are now quoted 91: to For
money, transactions are recorded at 911 to 91t,
and the present quotation is 911 to k. The
Three per Cents. Reduced have been dealt in
at 91i to 92; the New Three per Cents. at 91i
to 92} ; India Stock at 223; Bank Stock at 2111;
and Exchequer Bills at 4e. to 78. prem.
Foreign stocks remain very quiet, with the princi-
pal transactions in Turkish, which is rather flatter,
at 761 to t. Russian Five per Cents. are quoted
100 to 102 ; Spanish Deferred Three per Cents., 181
to 4; and Mexican, 21 to 1. Danish Three per
Cents. have been dealt in at 811 ; Austrian Old Fire
per Cents. at 70 (each 10fl.); Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents. at 62 to 1; do. Four per Cent. Cer-
tifs„ at 93.

THE ZouszttEnt.—A return of the receipts of
the Z vllverein during the first nine months of 1854 has,
says a
letter from Frankfort, of the 14th, in the itortiner,
just bees published. The gross sum is 15,695,666 thalen
(the theist is about 31.60 c.), of which 1,757,093 are takes
by Hanover and Oldenburg. The ezpenee of administra•
tics has been 1,884,198 thalen. There oonenoteutly remain
12,254,269 thane to be divided amongst all the states of
the Zollverrio. Priori& rf cPives for her pert 7,110,968
thalin ; Sammy, 808,614; Bavaria, 1,867,268 ; Wurtesa.
burg, 705,138; Baden, 551.157; Electorate Reese, 295,846;
Grand Dual Hesse. 352.100 ; the States of Thuringia,
416,968 t Brunswick, 100,674; Nassau, 174,663; sammer,
3,usan sail °Amber& 1111,299.

The supply of beasts is very much smaller, and conse-
quently prices have advanced, but not to the extent that
was expected ; the trade generally being in a very
depressed state. The number of sheep is also coast-
derably less, but it exceeds the demand. Several ewes and.
inferior quality remain unsold. A few of the choicest de-
scriptions realise higher rates, hut on the average trade i•
no better. There being so very few calves on offer they ar•
sold d . Our foreign supply consists of 177 besets and.
320 sheep From Scotland 300 beasts; Norfolk and Suffolk,
1,800; and 300 from the Northern and the Midland
counties.
ror stops of Ina aA. s.l. Per atone of 8188. a4.a 8.
Bort &ate. Herefords.. 410 6 2 1 fast Duo. aWA AL. NI, 0 0 0 0
Bat Bbart.boroa 4 8 6 I 1 Beat Loos-wools
bond suing Berta— 38 4 4 Do. do. rtborn
Calves ........ ........ 4 4 6 0 Smog and wood (polity 3 8 4 2
Pigs .......... ........ 3 8 4 8 1 Do. Go. tqlern • 0 0•
Boot Duo. k Half-bre& 410 6 U LIMO*, .....
Desoto at market. 3,161. gawp and lambs, 9.310 ; calves. 0;
06%316.

COAL MARKET.-THIS DAY.
Eden Main, 25; Howard's West Hartley Netherton,
21s. ; W►lls End Tees, 251.-44 fresh ships at market.

REFORM IN EGYPT.—A letter from Cairo, in the
ifoniteur, lays: "The Viceroy, whilst occupying himself
with the re-organisation of the army, pursues with perse-
verance his work of reform. Several very important reso-
lutions recently adopted by him ere a proof of this. His
Highness has forbidden the introductiun of slaves through-
out the provicces placed under his administration. The
most formal orders have already, been given on the subj set
in the pore of the Red Sea. and in all parts of the southern
frontier, by which the importation of negroes or Abyssi-
nians took place. The slaves who are at present in Egypt
will remain provisionally in tho same situation, as a change
in this respect would have too profoundly overthrown the
blussulman family arrangements • but the principle is laid
down, and slavery will at no distant day entirely disappear
from Egypt. What are called the tolls paid at Suez and
if osreir have been suppressed. This suppres.ion enures
the real and complete liberty of commerce in the lied ha,
and puts an end to a tax of which merchants and travellers
had reason to complain. Any article on which import
duties may have been already paid is net for the future to
be subjected to any other duty, whatever transformation it
may have undergone. This decision settles in the best
spirit, as regards Egypt, a question which has given rise to
great controversy."
COAL TRADE.—The importation of coals into Lon-
don last year was:—Seaborne coals, in 10,114 shiPz3
3,399,561 tons; by railways, 979,170 tons; total, 4,378,731
tans; showing an increase of upwards of 360,000 tone se
compared with 1863. The price of best coals et the Coal
Exchange was :—ln January, 1854, 425. per ton ; January,
1866, 235. 6d. to 245. per ten.
LIIOE IN LUDLOW.—On the 12th inst. aboy named
John Williams, about 13 year. of age. was charged with
robbing his father, John Williams, a resident of Ludlow, of
the sum of 61.135. 4d. The lad's excuse wa
i that hie mother
had told him to steal the money and take t to her at Kid-
derminster. The accused also stated that hie father made
him eat horseflesh, and that there was some in the hones
then. After hearing this statement the constable, awns.
panted by Superintendent Jones, searched old Williams's
dwelling, and found the two hind legs of an ass, salted, and
hung up to dry; they were smiked similar to hems of bacon.
The officers took possession of the donkey meat, conveyed it
to the gaol, and when the prisoner was asked what it was,
he replied, " It's part of our old donkey father killed and
pickled; that's what we eat; father pickled horse-tongues
in a bucket, and boils hones' liver for us." The prisoner
added, " He bought that ' hos' the shaft ron through, and
was killed on the road leading to the Sheet, about four
month ago; be pickled that, and made me eat it." There
was also found in Williams's
pig's-fl's bed•roomesh f,our
smoke-dried rides of carributon,
having the appearance o,
unfit for human food. The bread in the house was found
to consist of bean-meal and potatoes. The affair having
become known, a crowd of persons congregated round the
old man's dwelling, and, had it not been for the interfer-
ence of the police, they would soon have demolished the
premises. The prisoner was remanded till Tuesday.—
Shrewsbury Journal.
Cesuem.—Janet and Mary, from Memel, has
been abandoned at sea.Leith, Jas. 19.
The Amity left Southampton, yesterday, with huts
for the British troops in the Crimea.
ALGERIAN COTTON.—The last packet which ar-
rived in France frorc Algiers brought 60 bales of cotton of
the crop of 1854. 30 from the province of Algiers, and 30
from that of Conttantins. They were ordered by the
minister in order that they may be converted into reaasfisc-
tared articles for the Universal Exhibition. . ..
ONTARIO, SIMCOR, AND HURON RAIRAVALwa- ''' .
Traffic for the week ending Dec. 23, 1864, 691 k 4a.A1,11. ... eirr•
responding
_week, 1853, 4471. ss. lid. Increueln
.1 lifillo .
2431. 19s. 2d.
NEWPORT, ASERGAVENNT, AND HIRIPOROM3
it)rt .
way,—Traffic ricsipts for the weak ending 4t ,
6891. 10s. 3d_.!. corres.ponding week leerier, 1.
GRAND TRUNK RAILWAY OF CANADA -
for week ending _ Dee. 18, 1864. 3,3371. ,r/s:
NA 1,907/ 9s. 106. berme, 1864, 1,34014,1

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ibIICKLIAN•2I:II. Pd.
rN:
10 :=,.?
15, 10 Berlin Waterworks ,
60 British AMOrielll Land 40
50.000 5 Brit. &Col .Sen. & Red .0, 1
11,144 1 Canada. • 329 0
Bt. Do.6perot-Jamandluly 1,
Do. for Money
900,000 Crystal Palace
110,000 4 Crystal Palace arrant". 4
*OOO 2. Eastern Steam
MOM 25 Electric Telegraph
50,000 lb Getwasl Bum Nay/oam 14
20 06enerall1.15.Ship00ng Co all
6,000 20 (dab Beetroot Sugar lO
80,000 1 NediteresassnElecLTeL all
MAN I Ilesican & Fit.Anberlaut 9
60,000 1 National Patnt.titm. Fuel all
50,000 10 Netherlands Land II
76, N.S. Males Coal& Inter
Steam Nmigation Co 1
100,71. 1 North Brit. Australasian all
15,000 North of Europe Steam-If9
110, PaelllieerLandikMineral all
20, Penimular 3tOriencStra. all
50.000 Portland Iron Company 5ll
14,440 101 Royal Mail Stasis OO
160,000 1 Scottish Mute. Invests all
1911. 1 Do. New
1 South Australian Land— 254
75, 1 Submarine Taleg. Snip all
Mk I Do. Do. Reginald all
SOSO Trust&LoaoCo.otTJ9Can
10,11911 100 Van Dierosn's Land fli

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TILE NEW RETURN OF NEWSPAPER
STAMPS.

The Morn •f newspaper stamps just imbed gives
Os hiloriag melts :

Tint Quarter. isses4 Qsarter.

Daily Mews . . 319,191 348,044
K•faing Ewald . . $05,000 201010
Morning Pot . . 206,000 226,000
Morning Chroniele . . 101,600 186,000
Express . . 177,133 198,389
Globe . . . 176,000 105,011
8.. . . . 160,000 192,000
Standard . . . 103,000 104.000

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