The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-16 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS

MINCING-LANE.—THIS DAY.
Stroan.—The public sale of 500 casks Porto Rico went
off stesaily at full prices, 35,. 6d. to 41e. The refiiied market
steady, brown lumps, 475. to 47a. 61. ; grocery, 48s. to 625.
CO7PlB.—This article has sold heavily la the public sale
of 3.50 casks plantation, and the finer sorts sold at a sheds
decline.
Tna.—The market is steady, but not active.
SALT 22222 .—Ther• is an improved demand, and the
article has an upward tendency. It is reported that 381. Bd.
has been paid for refraction 2 to 4.
Rica is in limited demand.
Rl:N.—Good Da has sold at 2e. 85.
Corrore.—h very large demand sprung up late yesterday,
and 3,000 bales sold at id. to Id. advance on last week'
prices.
In other articles no material alteration.

TALLOW MARKET.-THIS DAY.
The market is quiet, with little bwdoese doing. Town
Tallow is quoted 64i. nett cub ; Petersburg Y.C. on the
spot, 65a. 6d. ; October to December, 66i., tellers.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.-THIS DAY.
Mr. E. J. Davis reports the supply larger, trade without
alteration. Prise meadow hay. 106.. to 112 a. 6d. ; sups.
riot, 117 s. 6d. to 1261. ; inferior, 751. to 85a.; new, HOG. to
1205.; rouse. 755. 955. clover, old, 1004. to 1350.;
second cut, 951. ,to to
1265. ;; new, 105 s. to 1265. ; straw,
25r. to 28a.

A quantity of splendid fruit has been despatched
to the imperial palaces in Paris and its vicinity from South-
aniptoe, cue Havre, for the use of the Emperor of France's
illustrious visitors, the Queen of England, the Prince Con-
sort, sod snits.
ACTS Or PARLIAMENT PASSED IN THE LATE
Seniors —The number of public acts passed in the late
session was 134, and of locals set 198
THE LIQUOR LAW IN CONNECTICUT.—The 'New
Haven Palladium, of July 27, says:—" Probably there is
more intoziestiog liquor retailed in Hartford st this time
t'an ever before, and evidently there is more drunkenness
A stringent law will not make men moral or temperate. The
liquor generally used at this time is said to be a very deli
terioas ankle, and is doing mach balm. A labourer re-
'narked the present week to one of our merchants %bat he
knew of twenty-three ;Pees in one short street were liquors
were sold. The town rum agency is also in full blast, deal-
ing out large quantities. Club-rooms have multiplied to a
fearful extent, and hundreds of families in which If qsor was
unknown before hermit last now keep a variety, end ask
their friends to drink. This one feature alone is claim
inadonlable mischief. The fast ias of keeping liquor, upon
the family sideboard is fast naming into use, and its evils are
as great as these of the rem shop. The liquor law is the
meat of that evil."

MONEY MARKET-THIS .DAY.

Two o'CLoog.

Two notices have been sawed in the Stock Ea-
change to-day intimating the intention of Minim .N.
M. Rothschild and Sons, and of Messrs. Palmer,

Mackillop, Dent, and Co., severally to receive appli-
cations from the public for the New Turkish Loan.
Messrs. Palmer and Cu. will keep their list open
1 till 12 o'clock on Saturday next, but we believe

Messrs. Rothschild.' list will be closed at 3 p.m. on

Friday (tc-morrow). The applications are already
very numerous, and the Scrip is steady at 3 to 31

prem.
The English funds have been firm to-day, at the
closing range of yesterday. Consols are quoted 91
to for money, and 911 to 1 for the 6th Sept. The
Three per Cents. Reduced have been dealt in at 91i
to i; the New Three per Cents. at 921 to 1; Ifs-
chequer Bonds, 18.59, at 1001 to 1 ; India Bonds at
265. prem.; Exchequer Bills, March, at 14e. prop. ;
ditto Jane, at 14s. to 181. prem.

The existing Turkish stock is in increased demand,
and has risen to 931 to 94. Mexican i 3 quoted 211
to j, and Russian Five per Cents., 100 to 102. Dutch
Four per Cent. Certificates have been dealt in at
981 to 1; Spanish Old Three per Cents. at 37 ;
Ctti-
lian Six per Cents., at 10;./; and Brazilian Old Five
per Cents. at 1021.
At the meeting of capitalists which took place yes-
terday morning at ten o'clock at the Turkish Embassy,
pursuant to the isvitatioa of M. Maseru, the par-
ticulars of the proposed new Turkish Loan of
5,000,000/., guaranteed by Great Britain and
France, were duly made known. A full report of the
proceedings was given in yesterday's Express. The
tenders for this four per cent. loan are to be made iu
one sum at the Bank of England at eleven o'clock on
Monday next, and the deposit of 10 per cent. is to be
paid by the following Wednesday (the 22nd instant).
The two next payments are to be of 20 per ant.
each, and the whole loan is to be paid up by Jan. 25,
but no discount is to bo allowed for any
payment in anticipation. The sinking fund of One
per Cent. is not to commence until August, 1859, and
the Turkish government is to have the option of either
purchasing the bonds in the open market or of draw-
ing them by lot for redemption. The government
also reserves to itself the right of paying off at par
the amount remaining unredeemed at the expiration
of twenty years from the Ist August, 1859. Apart
from the Anglo-French guarantee, there are assigned
u security for this loan the whole revenues of the
Ottoman empire, but specially the customs of Smyrna
and Syria and the annual amount of the tribute of
Egypt, which remains unappropriated after meetiug
the charge of the exiting loan of 3,000,0001.
So great is the favour with which this
proposed new stock is regarded, that the price of it
rose yesterday to a premium of 3 to 31 per cent..
In the Stock Exchange, although the figure at which
it is to be issued remains to be determined by the
bidding. on Monday next. There is a prospect 01
some competition on the part of intending con-
tractors, a loan of five millions not being so large in
amount as to compel capitalists to coalesce in their
tenders. In the event of two or three rival tenders
being sent in, the public will be somewhat puzzled
as to the best course to be pursued in applying for
the loan, the more especially if each firm proposing
to contract should require a deposit of 10 per cent. on
application. Still, as the result of the adjudication
of the loan will be known on Monday morning, the
loss in the shape of interest on the deposits will be •
comparatively trifling, and thus many parties will be '
disposed, if allowed, to send in applications through
more than one firm. It is evident, however, that the •,
uncertainty engendered by this state of things will
tend to limit the subscriptions from the general

public, so that the loan will probably be taken up by
the more immediate connexions of the great houses. ,
That great eagerness, nevertheless, will be shown to
obtain an allotment is proved by the high premium
to which the new loan has already attained.
The amount of specie brooght in by the La Pieta •
from the West ladies is stated at 730,000 dollars, or
about 146,0001.
The 44th auction of the foreign redeemable debt of
Spain is to take place at Madrid on the 31st inst..
for which purpose 373,000 reels have been assigned
by the government. Tenders are to be received in
London until the 21st inst.

Annexed are the latest quotations of insurance.

canal, and other miscellaneous sham, as given in
the Stock Exchange List :—lneurance shares: At-
las, 18 ex div. ; Albion, 83; Alliance, British and Fo-
reign, 181,18 ; ditto, Marine, 394; Church of Eng-
land, 31; Clerical, Medical, and General Life, 21;
City of London, 21 ; Crown, 174,1; European Life,
181; Eagle, 61 ; English and Scottish Law Was .
44, 2; General, 51; Globe, 1061, 107 ex div.; Goa. -
&an, 524, 53 ex div.; Imperial Life, 18; ex div. a. d .
bonus; Imperial Fire. 340 ex di,. and bonus; Law
Fire, 44 ; Law Life, 67; London and Provincial law. • •
24; Legal and General Life, 51; London, 2i/2;
rir.e, 40; Medical, Invalid, and General Lite, 31;
Minerva, 6 ; National Provincial Life, 11; do , Fire,
14; Phoenix, 180; New Equitable, 1, Provident Life, .
384; Professional Life, 2; Palladium Lite, 31; Rock .
Life, 81; United Kingdom, 54 ; Victoria Life, .
Canal shares: Ashton and Oldham, 139; Birming-
hsm,93; Derby, 84 ; Coventry, 209; Grand Junction
Guaranteed 6 per cent., 121; Kennett and Avon, 04
ex div. ; Leicester, 494; Leicester and Northamp-
ton, 284; Loughborough, 575; Macclesfield, 515;
Neath, 150; Oxford, 110; Stafford and Worcester, •
425; Stourbridge, 285 ; Peak Forest, t'6; RegenCY.
141, ex div.; Rochdale: 60; Severn and Wye Canal
and Railway, 28; Warrick and Birmingham, 20;
Warwick and :Upton, 11; Worcester and Birming-
ham, 20.
Gas and Coke Comranies: British Provincia,
20; Brighton, 153: Equitable, 36; Great Central,
111, 4; Imperial. 90; ditto New, 25, 245; ditto De- ••
bentures, 220; Phcenir, 303; Ratcliff, 70; Surrey
Consumers, 11; United General, 20; IVeatminater
Chartered, 48.
Waterworks stocks: Berlin,7, 61; Kent, 78; &nth- •
wark and Vauxhall, 891; West Middleeex, 91 ; ditto v

ditto (31._
la.. paid;, I prein.
Bridge Compames: Hungerford, 12; Vauxhall,
211; Waterloo, 31; ditto Old Anne. of b:., 321; ditto
new ditto of 71., 28.

WEDNESDAY EVENING.
The English funds' opened buoyantly, and st.on
rose A. to 1 per cent., on the news of the el:imagol
attack of the allied fleet upon Sweaborg. This sd-
vance, however, being met by sales, a reaction took I
place, and at the close prices were quoted scarcely
per cent. better than yesterday afternoon. The fact i
that the 5,000,0001. of the new Turkish loan is to ho
paid up by the end of January, beir g at the rate of I
about a million per month, is regarded as likely to
maintain the value of money, the more especially as t
between now and the 18th December between
7,000,0001. and 8.000,0001., completing the last •
British loan of 16,000,0001., mast be paid. A portion
of the French loan will also probably be holden this
side. . _ _

Consols were quoted early this morning 911 to r
for the Rth September, receded to 91 to 1, and closed
at 911 to 1. For money the closing quotation was
91 to tl. The official business report is as follows:
Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 91i, 911, 90Z,
91i, 91 ; ditto, for account, Gth September, 911, 1, k, i.
Three per Cent. Reduced, 92, 911. New Three per '
Cents., 921, t, I. Bank Stock, 2141. 2151.
The price of the existing Turkish stock experi-
enced a fluctuation of about # per cent, in connexion '
with the arrangements for the forthcoming loan.
The closing quotation was 924 to 934, or about the
same se that of yesterday. The t mple official recog-
oition given on all sides to the position of
the bond-holden as first mortgagees of the "
Egyptian tribute contributes materially to sup-
port the market. Other stocks were quiet and steady.

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