The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-01 00:00:00

M ISCELLANIOUS.

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20,000 10 Anglo-Nlertcan Mint - all , 19 20 -
20,000 ti Australian Agricul l6 19 20'
20,000 25 5 uatraltaull.l2&ro.',l 2 par ipm -
47000 10 Itailullaterworks (L,'' all V 91 9 1 Id
20,000 6 Bombay Gas (Limited 4 par Ipm -
6,000 86 Initial Ameripm Land' 40 23 24 -
534,760 L rt. B. .61. Slag. Tel (1..) 11.41 67 62 -
12,50 u 20 Britlith Indian Tea ,Li, 6 } Ipm -
0,011 325 Canada Company ' all 76 80 -
60,.00 10 ranadiani......3luv,L) . 21 pis fpm --
25,000 20 Ceylon Company ' 7 3 spro; .-
40.000 10 COll. ofAirlanlier.,L"; 2 NU par . •-•
60,000 AO Coarnerciall'aionlrt, 6 6 41pos 9),
80,100 60 ,Cdaeulldated Dia .. ,L., 3 - -- ' -
40,410 100 .ContractC.wporation.L . 3 - - -
12009 25 'Cop. M. Rug. . Prel.7l p.c. all 22 24 -
1002925/ St, Custal Palace 'loo . 331 341 -
100,8201. St. ' 1.10. Preference lOO 112 116 -
277,0001. St. Do. 6p et Perp. Deb 1100 110 115 -
10.000 100 'DiscountCorpurrtion'L 71 3 34pm -
60.000 20
.12 India Uric & Canal I 6 . !, I, 1 666 34 1
100.000 20 EgypUenliora.& 1rd.,1. ; 1 , 21 21120141 i i
1011,97:4. St. 134.3eic Telegraph ,lOO 104 101 -
70,000 6 Eng. and Au.. Copper_ all 11 2id -
126,000 SI '0 cliNlit& Fla.°, Lon.l. 4 , 31 41pso 71 8
20,000 IS Gen. Simms Navigation 14 ' 26 23 td -
1003 PM 20 Hudson's bay all 121 191 'l9 1 181
150,000 20 Interna2 Ihnantior (L ,' 6 7} 7590 s 13 124 1
12,590 10 1nt(1../2. Mail Baam,L 7 7 761 75 5
8,190 5 Do. d 0... , all 6 -
60,000 29 Italian Lrrig. (Can. Car '' 8 6 3 Ifs -
10000001 100 Do. 4p.e. B Is. r Is7o 01 81 V
40,000 25 JointittockLascoinstlL` 6 1! 11 pm I'l
20.000 25 Loisd.andCaledoo.l4.,L, 3' jpos 31
123301 6 Loud. District Tales., 2. , all 1 2 -
20.000 60 Lona. 1.111111. Aro. ,L. ,15 ll llpia 262
175,000 4 Load. 0. Omnibus C. 11. ; , all ,21 25 -
60,0e0 90 Lon& Provlnciallla, Me; 2 , 1 Ipm 31 4
60,000 90 Madras Irrtga. .2 Canal' 1 ' 1 opm -
18,606 IN Ilauntius land,&e..2 `' 0 ' 1 Ipr -
12.0.•0 10 Medi.. Erten. TeL (), all 1 0} 41 -
20.000 60 rtercan.CrnillAsoo.(L 5 I 8 10 pm 141
29,509 10 Natal Laud &Col C. 113: 6 1 IPm -
80,000 M National Ms. Com. (L.„ 6 61 71991 -
20,000100 National Steam Nay.(l.• 6 par ipm -
6,000 90 Nerbu'ldaCoal & L (L.', ' 5 limo -
<l,OOO 20 ' Do. New ''
' 1 11pas -
156679 1 N. Itrltish Amanda. (I , I 1 5 -
66000 2N. kr.t.a llercan. bs.'l4; 20 21 -40,000 26 ;Ocean Marl.. lasers )6 , 131 141pni 181
10,000 20 Orlentalcuustnerzial. L, 7 2 6 Pol, -.
100 090 1 Oriental Gas (Lisairtal„ all 1 14 -
60,000 1 Do. New
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40,000 10 Orient. Inland SteanCLP all ; 0 04 21 4
10,000 6 Otioaran Gaa 'Limited I 3 5 22•: -
600,000 i St. Sealtiv.Land&Mla(L) 100 as 47 1 -
20,000 20 Peninsular &O. Steam' all . 77 70 73
20,000 50 Do. New llO 17 19pos 631
10.000 50 Rhymney Iron
10,000 15 Do. New ' all 71 61 ad -
4.250 26 2103. City Dopror. (L ! all' 202 Vi -
29,750 25 • Ditto 45th. -
30,070 20 .40e.Pluati.(l'Egyptv.1 „ 6 1} 0141111 -
10,000 80 E African M. & In. ,I '. 6 1 11 pm 51
14,930 05 South Australian Land' all . 31 53 -
110,0001 St. Submarine Telegraph 1100 146 66 -
-.. 1 Do. Perla all ' 1 1 '
103.000 20 ,Thamesalleneyln.,Lll, 2 1 41 61 9m -
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14500 10 Trust.tAgencyolAnalsl 1 , } pm' -
60,000 10 T. AL. Cu. of U. Canada' 6 , / PM. -
il 30,000 5 UultedTeierg Co.(L) 2 a par
60,000 26 'Cob \ Slarinelna 'I ), IS ' au' ^-
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PREFERENCE SHARES.
Midland Consolidated, Bristol NA Birmiogbam, 6 per
amt., 1:134 to 61.
North gaiter's, York. H. and B. Funk., 10i.
North Staffordshire. 22k.
South Devoe Annuities, 10s., 34 ex div.

MONEY MARKET.-(TBIS DAY.)

Two o'Cuxx.

The stock markets to-day are fiat, an unfavour-
able construction being put upon some of the points
in the foreign intelligence. The funds have again
declined 1 per cent. Home railway securities
have not varied much, but the speculative
foreign stocks have given way, especially Mexican,
which is prejudiced by the statement in telegrams
from Paris that the arrival of the Archduke
Maximilian in that city from Brussels is postponed.
Consols are now quoted 901 to 91 for money, and
91 to 1 for the account (March 8). The official
business report is as follows :-Three per Cent.
Consols, for money, 91, 901, 911 ; ditto for
account, 911, 91 ; Three per Cents. Reduced
91, 901, 91 ; New Three per Cents. 91, 901,
91 ; Bank Stock, 237, 2381 ; India Stock, 218, 217 ;
ditto Five per Cent stock, 1041, ; Five per Cent.
" enfaced " rupee paper, 1051, 106 ; and Exchequer
Bills, sa, is., dis.
Foreign stocks are heavy. Mexican Bonds have
suffered chiefly, having been sold as low as 411 ;
the present quotation-42 to 1-is 11 below that of
yesterday. Turkish Bonds of 1858 are lower, at 68
to 1, ex div. ; those of 1862 steady at 69 to ; the
ConsolidOi a worse, at 501 to ; and Spanish
Passive steady at 351 to 1. Greek Bonds have been
marked 221, but are now rather flatter.
Transactions are recorded as follows :-Equador,
134 ; Egyptian, 99, j, ex div. ; Greek,
for account, 221 ; Italian, for account, 661,
; Mexican, for account, 421„i, 411 ;
Portuguese, 1856, dc., for account, 481, 471 ; ditto,
1863, scrip, 1 prem.; Rt 166111), 1822, 90, ex div.;
ditto, 1862, 881, 5 ; Spanish, 52) ; ditto Passive,
for account. 36, 1, 351, ; ditto Certificates, for
account, 141, 14 ; Turkish, 1854, for account,
911, 3 ; ditto, 1858, 1001. Bonds, 72, ex
div. ; ditto 1862, for account, 69, ; (HU*
1001. Bonds, 691 ; Venezuela, for account, 241 ;
ditto 1862, for account, 595.
International Financial shares are now quoted 75
to 1 prem. ; General Credit, 31 to 4 prem.
London Financial, 111 to 1, ex dm. and ex new ;
Mercantile Credit, 85 to 91 prem. ; Hudson's Bay,
18 to 5 ; Egyptian Trading, 24 to 1 prem. ; Credit
Foucier of Mauritius, par to 1 prem. ; Credit
Foucier of Great Britain and Ireland, 11 to 24
prem. ; Australian and Eastern Steam, 81 to 91
prem. ; Ottoman Financial, 1 dis. to prem. ; and
Imperial Financial, 41 to 5 prem.

FOUR O'CLOCK.

Consols are quoted 91 to t, for money, and 91}
to 1 for the account, showing a fractioual im-
provement, compared with the quotations current
at 2 o'clock. 83,00 W. in gold has been sent i"to
the Bank. The demand for money coutiuues
active.

The arrival of 300,500!. in specie was announced
yesterday. The Shannon, from the West Indies,
has brought 209,0001. ; the Result, from Port
Philip, 84,5001. ; and the Arabia, from Boston,
7,0001.
Through the Mercantile Credit Association
(Limited) applications are invited for the capital
of the Queensland Sheep Investment Company
(Limited), which consists of 400,0001., in 10,000
shares of 401. each. The general object of this un-
dertaking is to promote the transfer of English
capital for investment in the colony of Queensland
and in Australia generally, special stress being
laid upon the remunerative results which have
attended sheep farming. The immediate basis of
the project consists in a provisional offer which has
been made to the directors for the purchase of the
leases of certain stations on the Darling Downs,
now in full operation, comprising an area of no less
than 1,500 square miles, with the sheep and cattle
thereon. The vendors take payment for a consi-
derable portion of the purchase in the shares of the
company. The board is highly respectable, com-
prising the following names, nearly all of which are
identified with the colonial interest, viz. :—Mr.
Percival Battiscombe, of Seven Oaks ; Mr. Charles
Falconer, Director of the London Chartered Bank
of Australia ; Mr. William Hellity, late Colonial
Secretary of Tasmania ; Mr. George G. Macpherson,
Chairman of the Agra and United Service Bauk ;
Mr. Robert Torrens, M.P. ; Mr. E. W. Wingrove,
late of Mackenzie, Lyall, and Co., of Calcutta ;
Mr. James A. Youl, of Clapham-park, and
Tasmania • and Mr. Adolphus W. Young (late
High Sheriff of New South Wales), Director of the
Scottish Australian Investment Company.
Another new undertaking is the Financial Dis-
count Company (Limited), the capital of which is
fixed at 300,0001., in 6,000 shares of 601. each.
This company proposes to purchase the business of
Messrs. Feltham and Cooper, which is more than
half a century old. The senior partner retires, but
Mr. Cooper, the active partner, comes on the board,
and subscribes, on behalf of himself and his friends,
for one fourth of the capital, the understanding
being that his remuneration is to be partly de-
pendent upon the profits of the undertsking. The
other names on the board are as follows :—Mr.
E. P. Caralambi, of Leadenhall-street ; Mr.
Robert S. Craig, of East India-avenue, Leadenhall-
street ; Mr. George Fagg, director of the London
and South Western Bank ; Mr. George P. Lasca-
ridi, of Winchester-bouse, Old Broad-street ; Mr.
E. H. Leveaux, of King's-head-yard, Southwark ;
Mr. Joseph MI/faster, director of the London and
South African Bank ; Mr. George Maitland, of
Friars street ; and Mr. Thomas Benjamin Mugge-
ridge, of Tower-hill.
The directors of the Auction Mart opened the
tenders yesterday for the purchaseof the freehold of
that building, when the highest t-ender, 115,255/.
10s. 6d. was accepted. The property has been
purchased by the Estate Company (Limited), a
private undertaking just formed, for the purpose of
acquiring improvable properties, developing their
capabilities, and either holding or re-selling them.
Amongst the directors are Messrs. Louis Huth and
J. F. Griming, of the firm 'of Frederick Huth and
Co., of Dfoorgate-street. The capital is 250,000/.
in 25,000 shares of 100/. each (the whole of which
have been subscribed privately), with power to
increase, and to issue debentures. When the new
building is completed upon the site now occupied
by the Auction Mart, the basement, ground-floor,
and first floor will be occupied by the Alliance
Bank, and the rest will be let out in offices.
The Brighton Railway traffic return shows this
week a decrease of 1,7151., compared with last year,
and the South Eastern a decrease of 1,3541.
Mr. Cornelius Walton! has joined the direction
of the Financial Corporation, and will act as ma-
naging director, and Mr. Jas. Gamble, who has
been several years in the house of Messrs. Overeud,
Gurney, and Co., has been appointed secretary and
assistant manager. The official are at 14, Lsaden-
hall-street. _ _

Mr. Frederick Meyern, upwards of eighteen years
with Messrs. Bischotfeheim and Coldachmidt, has
been appointed head of the foreign department of
the Mercantile and Exchange Bank, at Liverpool.
We have received a copy of a bill in Chancery,
which was filed on the 27th February, on behalf of
Mr. E. R. Daunt for himself and "all other re-
fused applicants for shares" in the Australian and
Eastern Navigation Company (Limited), the whole
of the directors of this company figuring as defend-
ants. The bill of complaint gives the Company's
prospectus in full, recites the special case of an
individual applicant, and urges the following
point :
The plaintiff submits that the defendaets, the director;
didomed do, as such directors, bold • fiduciary situation or
position towards all sermons paying the deposit sod properly
applying for shame in the company, sod were and Sr. in the
position of trustees, for the beaeflt of all peewee paying
such deposit, and so applying ; and °mkt, in allottieg the
■hares of the company, to ha.. fairly, impartially, and ho-
nestly acted towards oil applicants, and properly distributed
the shares amongst all nepoosible persons applying for the

Upon the plea that the allotment of the shares
has been unfair and partial, the plaintiff pray i the
court fur redress and damages.

A special meeting of proprietors of the Initials
Bank us called for the 49th March, to increase the
capital by the issue of new @hares.
The annual meeting of Price's Patent Candle
Company (Limited) is called for the Slat March.
The letters of regret and allotment in the British
and Californian Banking Company have been
issued. It is intimated that "as the applications
for shares were unusually large the directors bare
been reluctantly obliged to decline many of them,
and greatly to curtail the allotments made."

MONDAY Emus*.
Consols, which cloned on Saturday at 91a to
for the Sth March, were marked to-day 914, and
closed at 914 to 4. For money the last price was
91 to a. The official business report Mae follows :
Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 914, 91, a, 91 ;
ditto, for account, 914 ; Three per Cents. Reduced,
94, 904, 915 ; New Three per Ceuta., 915, 4, 904,
91} ; Bank Stock, 237 ; India Five per Omit. Stock,
1044, ; Five per Cent. " entailed" rupee paper,
1064, 196 ; ditto Five-and-a-Half per Cent., 114.
The India Five per Cent. stock wee steady.
Exchequer Bills remain at se. dui. to par. The
interest on the March imam has been raised to the
same rate as that borne by the June, viz, 3 per
cent. per annum.
_ . . . . .

In the foreign stock market the principal trans-
actions were in Spanish Passive, which, after being
purchased as high as 344, closed 4 per cent. better
than on Saturday. Spanish Certificates have risen 1,
and Turkish Bonds of 1858 azd old Venezuela
Bonds 4. On the other hand there was a decline of
per cent. in Mexican, 2 per cent. in the Confede-
rate Loan, and !•, in Italian, Greek, and Turkish
Consolides.
In the market for bank shares, Ut i i ~,, Bank of
London rose 21., and au improvement al., occurred
in Metropolitan and Provincial, London and Bra-
zilian' and Alliance Bank lit W shares, while Bank
of London and London and Cuuuty Bank were
rather more offered. Imperial Ottoman Bank were
firm at 84 to 4 prem. Angl-Italian liauk Were
quoted ,j to 4 prem. Anglo-Mexican Mint shares
continue to rise. Bombay Gas were inquired for.
Commercial Union Assurance and British Indian
Tea were rather fiat. Egyptian Trading abates were
firm at 2:2 to 24 prem., and Hudson's Bay slightly
lower at 184 to 194.
International Financial shares, the supply of
which is by no means large, have risen this after-
noon to 71 to 8 'rein. The meeting to-morrow
(Tuesday) is looked forward to with much interest.
General Credit shares were again rather firmer, at
34 to 4.! prem., ex div., awl London Financial
steady at 114 to 3 prem., "ex all." A fresh rise
has taken place in Mercantile Credit, which have
closed to-day at 84 to 94 prem. Imperial Financial
shares have risen to 41 to 51 prem.
The closing (but, in sonic cases, merely nominal)
quotations for shares in new undertakings are
subjoined, viz.:—Credit Fancier of 3lsoritsus,
to prem. ; Land Securities, It to 14 prem. ;
Contract Corporation, 14 to 14 prem. ; Credit
Foncier (Great Britain), 14 to 2 prem. ; Lou-
don Mercantile Discount, 21 to 3¢ pron. ; Austra-
lian and Eastern Navigation, 81 to 94 prem. ;
Ottoman Financial, par to 4 prem. ; Consoli-
dated Discount, 1 dia. to par ; Mexican Bank,
to 1 prem. ; Littlehampton Steam, 74 to
14 prem. ; Financial Corporation, 14 to 24 prem. ;
Gellivara Company, 14 to 2 prem. ; Loudon Gas
Meter, 4 to 14 prem. ; Buenos Ayres Bonded
Wharf, 4to 14 prom. ; South Eastern Bank, to
14 prem. ; British Colonial Steamship, 4 to 14
prem. ; Naval and Military Bank, I to 14 prem. ;
Lisbon Oil Mills, 4 ,to ; English, Irish.
and Foreign Rolling Stock, 1 to 14 prem. ; and
International Agency, 2 to 3 prem.

MINES.-{THIS DAYJ

Two o'Ctola.

The mining market is firm to-day, with a good
amount of business. There is a very strong tie •
maud for Great Vor and North Shepherds shares,
at a further rise ; the former are now quoted
'34 to 35, and the latter 61 to I. On the other
hand, East Caradon have declined to 32 to 1, and
Naugiles to 33 to 34. Wheal Seton are quoted
181 to 183. West Chiverton shares are officially
marked 84i, being firm.
Cape Copper, Fortuna, and Linares slims are
inquired for, and exhibit an upward tendency.
Alamilloa, Port Phillip, St. John del Rey, and
United Mexican are steady.
Vice-Chancellor Wood proposes on the 10th of
March to make a call of is dd. per share on the
contributories of the South Lady Bertha Copper
Mining Company.
At the meeting yesterday of the East Kosig
Silver Mining Company of Norway, it was resicte2
to voluntarily liquidate the undertaking with the
object of forming a new one ; the present share-
holders to hold their pro rata interest in the latter.