The Express.
London, England, 1863-02-19 00:00:00

MINES.-(THIS DAY.)

Two &Qom.

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The mining market is moderately active to-day,
but prices generally have experienced little varia-
tion. North Roskear, Illogan, and Wheal Lud-
cott shares are in demand, and have improved.
Great South Tolgua are also rather firmer. The
telegrams from North Roekear report an improve-
ment in the mine. Suboined are some of the present
quotations, viz. ;—Cook's Kitchen, 31 to 32 ; Drake-
walls, 2} to t, ; East Caradon, 46 to 47 ; East
Roeewarne, 8 to; ; East Russell, to t ; Great
South Tolgns, 13/1 to f ; Gnat Fortune, 34 to 35 ;
Marke Valley, lit tot ; North Roekear, 47 to 48 ;
North Crofty, 41 to 5 ; South Crotty, 27 to 29 ;
South Tolgus, 62} to 65 ; Stray Park, 39 to
40 ; Tiucroft, 161 to 17 ; Mogan, 11. to I ' • Wheal
Harriett, 31 to 4 ; Wheal Ludcott, 51 to 6 ; and
Wheal Beton, 240 to 245.
St. John del Rey and United Mexican shares
are firm ; Fudanamutana dull, and Dun Mountain
steady.

At tits Wed Camden Mae seeeting, yesterday, the ea
counts showed meets over liabilities of 4,0861.
At the Lenet Minimal Company's meeting yoiteritay, the
proposal submitted by the directors for the aide of the re-
maiming stork of emery on held was approved of. IA is
=ml eventually to wind up the allure of this under•

The singular spectacle has been frequently wit-
nessed of LW of Use export of cotton from Liverpool to New
York. Betorel cerise' hare been sent within the het few
days.

he; 11,0001.' in gold was taken to the Bank
yesterday, making a total of 231,0001. since the
last return.
The biddings for 40,00,000 rupees in bills on
India took place yesterday at the Bank of England.
The proportions allotted were :—To Calcutta,
23,68,000 ra. • to Bombay, 16,00,000 rs. ; and to
Madras, 32,000 ra. The declared minimum price
was as befoie,viz., Is. UP. per rupee on Calcutta,
and 2s. on Bombay and Madras. The applications
within the limits were for about 107 lacs. Tenders
on Calcutta, at ls.• llad., will receive about 53 per
cent. ;on Bombay, at 25., about 19 per cent., and
all above these prams in full ; on Madras, at 26.,
will receive in full.

Tuesday, the 10th of March, the day appointed
for the marriage of the Prince of Wales, will be
observed as a general holiday, notwithstanding the
careless remarks made last night by Lord Palmer-
ston, which have excited great disiatitfaction in
the City. When asked as to whether it was the
intention of government to bring in a bill to le-
galise the observance of the day as a holiday—in
which case alone can the holidaybe universal—Lord
Palmerston replied, jauntily enough, that there
was no precedent for their taking any such action ;
and that they did not intend to do so. If his lord-
ship means that there is no precedent applicable to
the precise cue now presented—namely, the mar-
riage of a Prince of Wales—he is probably correct
in his assertion, only two such marriages having
taken place during the long period of sixty-eight
years ; but, in a general sense, there is a precedent
to be cited, the national commemoration of the
funeral of the late Duke of Wellington having
been preceded by the passage through both houses
of parliament of a short bill legalising the day as
a general holiday. Future arrangements would be
greatly simplified if government would take the
trouble to pass a general bill applicable to all occa-
sions of the sort, and leaving the designation of
holidays to the mere issue of an order in council.
The Committee of Lloyd's have already deter-
mined to close that establishment on the 10th of
March, and it is fully anticipated that the Stock
Exchange, the Baltic, and Jerusalem Coffee
Houses, and other places of commercial resort, will
follow the same course.

It is stated that at the approaching annual meet-
ing of the shareholders in the Ottoman Bank the
directors will recommend that out of the profits,
tbc., for the sir months ending the 31st December,
1862, a sum of 10,0001. be added to the reserve
fund, raising it to 103,0001. ; that a dividend be
declared at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum on
the old and new shares, and a bonus of if. per share
on the old and 2s. per share on the new shares.
The proposed dividend on Glasgow and South
Western Railway stock is at the rate of 6 per cent.
per annum, against 5 for the corresponding period
of 1861.

The Lord Mayor, M.P., has to-day been elected
a director and deputy-chairman of the English and
Irish Bank (Limited).
The tenth annual report of the East Indian Iron
Company was presented to the shareholders at the
meeting yesterday, when it appeared that Mr.
Maylor's proceedings at Beypore, in the manufacture
of steel by the Bessemer process, had been so far
satisfactory as to give sanguine hopes of ultimate
success, if carried out to a sufficient extent. The
directors, bz, their chairman, Mr. R. W. Crawford,
suggested toe advisability of issuing the shares at
their disposal, about 3,000, at a moderate figure,
to provide the capital requisite for continuing the
operations in progress, which seemed to meet the
approval of the proprietors present.
Subjoined are the quotations of insurance, gas,
dock, and other shares, as given in the Stock Ex-
change list of last evening :

Manes British and Foreign, 151 to ; ditto Mania.,
55 ; Atlas, 111 to f ; Commercial Union, 5/ ; Globs, 1131 •
Guardian, 511; Impsrial Fire, 3M ; Imperial lifeti
to 1 ; Indemnity Manor., 160; London, 45 ; London
Provincial Las, 31 to i ; Marine, 100; Minerva, 61 • North
British and Mercantile, 181 ; Ocean Marine. 121 Ito ggi
Pbmniz, 150; Royal Exchange, 295 ; Union, 260 • Thantss
and Mersey Marine, 51 ; Universal Maine, 4 to
t and Coke.--Cristal Palace District, 1 ; ditto
New, Great Ceotral, 161 ; Imparlal, 86 to 1, ex div. •,
ditto New, 701 to 1, ex dir. ; Imperial Continental, 67
to 61 to 71 ; rbrenix, 100, ex die. ; Surrey Consume i
17 United Gepsral, 28 to 1,• Westminster Charter:d,
se ex air.; ditto New, 401, ex div.; Western, 18 to 1.
—East and West India, 139 ; St. Katharine, 56.
Waterworka.—Berlin, 7to 61 ; Fast London, 126 ; Grand
hutatioa, 76.

:3;;;ii4:L.Griod Junction, 76; Regent's (or London), 24.
The letters of allotment of the Joint Stock Din-

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count Company will probably be issued on Satur-
day next, or on Mouthy at latest.
Notice is given that a petition foe the winding up
of the Anglo-Danubian Steam Navigation and Col-
liery Company (Limited) is to be heard in the
Court of Chancery on the 27th insk
The half-yearly dividend due the let inst. is ad-
vertised on Louisiana State Bonds, issued in favour
of the Citizens Bank of New Orleans.
With reference to the market for American secu-
rities, Mr. E. F. Satterthwaite reports as follows :
In the market for American securitsse in London consi-
derable transactions have occurred during the pact week,
many parties haviog appeared as buyers under the impree-
aims that,
from some cause or other, perhaps from victory,
rrfrom exhaustion, the present strife going on between
orthern and Southern States will be come to an end
an. long. Erie and Illinois suffered a relapse of 2 dole. per
share on reported importations from New York, but they
have recovered 1 doL, and close firm at 431 and 4.2?, discount

WEDNESDAY Emma.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 921 to 93 for
the sth March, declined this morning to 921 toa,
and closed at " buyers." For money the last
price was 921 to The official business report is as
follows :—Three per Cent. Consols, for money,
921, 1, ft; ditto for account, 92}; Three per
Cents. Reduced, 921, ; New Three per Cents., 921,
; New Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 751 ; India Five
per Cent. Stock, 108#,108 ; ditto Four per Cent.
Debentures, 100, 1001 ; ditto Bonds, 125., 10s. prem. ;
Five per Cent. enfaced" rupee piper, 105} ;
ditto Five-and-a-Half per Cent., 112}.
The India Five per Cent. stock was quoted 1051
to it ; India Bonds, 10s. to 13. prem. ; and Ex-
, chequer Bills, Is. dis. to 3e. prem.
In the foreign stock market the principal feature
was an active demand for New Grenadian securi-
ties, all descriptions of which have advanced,
especial buoyancy being observable after the recog-
inised hours.

There was some fluctuation to-day in South
Eastern Railway stock. The market toeing sensi-
tive at the advanced range of prime, a fall to 96}
to took place this morning, on ita being stated
thagtbe company have lost a bill which they were
pushing in parliament. It appears, however, that
the bill in question relates merely to the Folkestone
loop line, and is of little consequence. At the close
the price had recovered to 97} buyers."

Ottoman Bank shares were in renewed demand
this morning, and were dealt in as high as 43. The
closing quotation was 42} to 1, or about Be. higher
than yesterday. The new shares left off at 91 to
10} prem. The shares of the Imperial Bank of
Turkey, after touching 101 to prem., closed at 10,
"sellers," owing to some speculative sales. City
Bank, Alliance, London and County, London and
Northern, Oriental, and London and South African
Bank shares have all improved. Bank of London
are quoted slightly lower in the official list. English
and Australian Copper shares were lat. There
were inquiries for South African Irrigation.
The closing quotations for shares in new under.
takings were as follows :—British and American
Exchange Bank, 8 to 8} prem. ; British and
Foreign Marine, 21 to Fs prem.; Cannes Hotel, 1
to prem.; Anglo:Parisian Brewery, *to 1, prem. ;
Oil :Wells of Canada, 3to 3} prem. • Bank o
Wales, to } prem. ; Empire 'Marine, Ito 1
prem. ; Union Marine, 2} to 3 prem. ; City of
London Fire and Life, 3 to 4 prem. ; City Dis-
count, Ito 1 prom. ; Joint Stock Discount, }to
prem. • Anglo-Portuguese Bank, ft to prem. ;
St. James's Hotel, }to e prem. • South Ken-
sington Hotel, * to 1 prem. ; Bristol and South
Wales Zinc Smelting, * to 1+ prem. ; Natal Cot-
ton, } dia. to } prem. ; and Petroleum Trading,
to ft prem.