The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-11 00:00:00

TO TEII EDITOR OP TEI 111.11:68.

beile inforinyontli;t ;it; • weld isnaigatios
of the acewasie of this company the directors have arrived
at the tonalosioe that the defalcatioa of the late secretary
amounts to about 7,7501., and of the late inansaer an Bel-
gians to ;to this mint be addipil 11.2 shares which
ham been abstracted from those held by the company. The
books will be plead in the beads of a pericosimal amount-
ask and should any material difference from these amounts
be found, which the directors have no mope to suppose will
be the cue, it will at coos be made publio.-1 am, he ,
Osonat SaILWARD.

liastbre sad Menge Railway. 61, Moosgateretrest,
Loodoe, 10th Feb., 1864.

An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of
the London and Booth African Bank will be held
on the 10th May, to confirm the resolution recently
passed, authorising the directors to apply for •
supplemental charter.
♦ general meeting of the New Brunswick and
Nova Scotia Land Company will be held on the
10th March, when • dividend is to be declared.
At a meeting of the London and Burton Bottled
Beer Company (Limited), held yetterday, the direc-
tors' report and statement of account* were adopted,
and • dividend was declared at the rate of 10 per
cent per annum, as well as • bonus of 3s. per share,

both free of incc,toe tax, and payable on the 15th
instant.

It is announced that the applications for the
10,000 shares of the Credit Fonder (Limited)
(Great Britain and Ireland) have reached 50,000
shares. The list was closed yesterday.
We are requested to mention that the share 'aisit
of the Great Er,teru Northam Junction Railway
will be closed on Tuesday next.
With reference to the market for American seen-
:ities Mr. E F. Satterthwaite reports as follows :
Sinn our last there has been rather more activity in the
market in Loudon for American securities ; the tramactiona
have been chiefly in Illinois shares sad United States Go
vernment bonds of 1074, 1881, sad the 5.20 loan, all of
which have been rather freely taken to supply ountieental
demand. Therk hes also bees some Wintry f..r Americas
Its,lroad bonds, either famed in sterling or being equivalent
to sterling, by having interest and piiacipal payable iu Loa-
der, at fined rata per dollar, but boasts decline walnut; see
cesionsions ea present quotation.

WEDNESDAY LTINDKA
Consols, which closed yesterday at ttoi to fur the
Bth March, were first marked to-day 90i, and closed
at 01 to 1 For money the last price was 904 to I.
The official business report is as follows --Three
per Cent. Consols, for money, 94, ; ditto for
account, 90i, 91, ; Three per Cents. Iteduced,
90k, ; New Three per Cents., 90k, if, ; Bank
Stock, 237 ; India Five per Cent. Stock, 1031, 104,
103, 104; ditto Four per Cent., 100 ; Five per
Cent. " enfaced " rupee paper, 104.
The India Five per Cent. Stock was a lit:le more
inquired for. The Five per Cent. rupee paper has
improved. Exchequer Bills were quoted Is. higher,
at 9e. to 3e. din.

The foreign stock market was dull in the morn-
ing, but the speculative securities experienced a
slight improvement in the afternoon.
The amount of hills on India for which tenders
will be received at the Bank of England on the
17th inst. is rupees 30,00,000, or 300,0001.
Bank shares were generally firm, with a tendency
to improvement. Au advance has taken place in
Agra, Alliance, Bank of New Zealand, City, Euro-
pean, London and Westminster, and Metropolitan
and Provincial. Colonial Bank, Oriental Bank,
and &dude, Punjaub and Delhi Bank were quoted
rather lower. Egyptian Trading shares were
firm, at 21 to prem. ; and Hudson's Bay, at 17 to
National Discount, Discount Corporation, and
Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance sharer were
all inquired for, especially the first-named. Royal
Mail Steam rose 21. Oriental Commercial, South
African Mortgage and Investment, and Canadian
Loan and Investment shares were flatter.
International Financial shares have recovered
to 6j to 63 prem. London Financial were firm,
at 111 to 11} prem., and General Credit steady at
211-16 to 13-16 prem.
The shares of the Land Securities Company were
last quoted I to j prem. ; Mauritius Land Credit,
I to f prem. ; Credit Foncier of Mauritius, I to
1 prem. ; Anglo-Italian Bank, jto g prem. ;
tile Credit, 41 to 5 prem. ; Contract Cor-
poration, 1 to 14 prem. • Credit Foncier (Great
Britain), lj tD 2 Prem. ; London Mercantile Dis-
count, 2 to 3 prem. ; London, Italian, and
Adriatic Steam, 3 to j dia. ; West India and
Pacific Steam, to 2 prem. ; Australian
and Eastern Navigation, 53 to 61 pron. ; Mexican
Bank, 4 to 5 prem. ; Consolidated Discount, 2 to
1} dia. ; Financial Corporation, 1 to 2 prem. ; Wal-
lachian Petroleum, 1 to 1} prem. ; and Fairtairn
Engineering, 1 to lit prem.