The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-12 00:00:00

LOCAL SHARE MARKETS.

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GOLD IN CaWl22O.—A letter froth Cayenne aI the
6th alt., to:the Journal du Haws, says :—" The gold fever
pews an sa seriously; we herewith seed you hone
20,030 E worn, the predate of a math's %hoar et 36 nines
es the basks of the Avatars. at far hem the nosstela
villak be.. the name of the Empress Eassie. Gal is
lherrend every day sad la oven director, but hls the
ban of the Antenna want peones the nen billiwat
noire. Not • sisals fern's werldwas has annul be.,
sod tis rich plans are left te A. @dew, the alrewpik of
ebbe wee !previews% inseam' kr Mier p00p... TM
Oresaser left this nontier fee the Apperaseraosompooloi
by M. Farad, director of the nisriler. sal by the thief
enplawsr. He has sone to b.s. poem* Ito peland
plena. It is a !weer of 12 don Whist In bops will
SNOW W Prune the aresiesa of a real Califon% fa this
per Ceram, KO needy tried dung two eaten.."

HOMY MARKET-THIS DAY.

Two o'CLocz.

The fonds have experienced sanely the slights'
variation to-day, and are now quoted the same u
they closed yesterday. The other Stook Exchange
markets are equally quiet. The return of the Bank
of Frame is favourably viewed, bat hes produced no
effect upon pekoes.
Consols are steady, at 931 to 94 ex die. for the Bth
Jan. The Three per Cents. &dead have been dealt
in at 931 to #; the New Three per Cents. at 931 to
94; Bank Stock at 217; Exchequer Bonds at 981
to 11 Exchequer Bills at ss. to Bs. prem.; and
India Bonds at 1 dis. to 2s. prem.
Turkish Six per Cents. have mussed to 95 to 1.
The Guaranteed Four par Outs. are quiet at 1021
to 1. Danish Three per Oasts. bays been dealt in
at 84; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 651

(exch. 1224; Guatemala Ave per r Cents., at 65;
Spanish Old Three per Cents. for amount, at 421 and
42; ditto, New Deferred Three per Coats., for the
16th inst., at 24. In other stooks no business is
morded.

The fortnightly settlement in shares and foreign
steaks will be commenced to-morrow (being
" making-up day") and will be oontianed on Monday
and Teseday.
We regret tabs called upon to record another ad-
dition to the list of share fonds. Forgeries have been
discovered amain the certification scrip seat in for
registration Mothe ellen of the Oriental Gas Com-
peep Up to the peemmt time it amours that only
five wine issemeab, purporting
dtootiminernilt
fifty shares seely have been . It
is usually red, however, that parties who embark
in a career of Men of this description carry on their
nefarious pianism to no patty extent ; and the share-
holders will naturally be very anxious to learn the
further results that may attend the investigation
which is now being made. Fortunately the shares
of this company are only of IL each, fully paid up.
The interests of holders whose property is repre-
sented merely by snip are peculiarly subject to
danger from forgery. It is true that in the cue of
the Great Northern Railway Company all the safe-
guards by which inscribed stock siitedpd in have
proved utterly futile; but most persons impute this
result to the glaring inefficioney of the system
of
audit. Where we fled that even the fact
of a company hung made to pay dividends
upon a larger alma capital than has been issued,
is Mealiest to wan the vigilance of its officials,
there is indeed paned for argument against the en-
tire adding system—as worthless, and calculated
only to sessiarege a delusive feeling of confidence. It
is to be hoped thettkis important matter will be kept
is sonstsat agitation until the means of securing a
lure aware of essarity for shareholders shall have
lona attained, and that Mesh frauds will not be re-
tiered is stimulate the attention of the numerous
parties interested.
Scene din:wake has been occasioned amongst the
shareholders of the Great Northern Railway by the
meat decline is this company's receipts. During
the last three weeks the aggregate falling off has
been GAUL, compared with last year ; and thus the
itemise on the six months, over the corresponding
period of 1865, is missed to 8,87411.
Another wanks el the foreign redeemable debt of
Bpaia is to take pine at Madzid on the 31st inst., for
whi h wrens 376,000 sub have bass minted by
the g00m....r0t. Tandem ono to be received in London
until the 10th MC

Theosindttee Spanish American Bondholders
have manned a meeting of the holders of Venezaelan
Hoods for Wednesday next, the 17th kW.
The annual meeting of the London and Westmin-
ster Bank proprietary la called for the llet of Jan. ;
and the half-yearly meeting of the London Dock
Company for the lad of January.
The following extract from the Calcutta Phamix
of the 24th October may he intereadeg to the share-
holders of the Calcutta and South Restart Railway
Company. The Mullah River is ono of the proposed
termini of this railway. We also learn that the
government have placed a Boating onst3m-house in
the Matta until the building on shore is completed :
As we meatiosed two maths ago, Mr. H. Welt, of the
!Mead steam servioe, has beet selected for elearias out the
proposed new tow* is the Kodak. We Lena that sorer.-
meat has authorised ea eapeaditme of 40,000 re. and that
81 alibi of jungle to lots 60 sad 64 an to be chared. Mr.
Wells totes with him 160 maim to midst In the operatic'''.
Two large kaki are to be dug at este. After the laud Is
steered railway opeestimit, we hops, wUI onnesase. Mr.
Redly, thuiderlma Ommididemar, has materially contri-
buted la the farthezewee ef the same sow suctioned by
the authorities.

The next call of U. per share, making 161. paid, is
to be paid on the shares of the Great Luxembourg
Company by the 20th hoary.
The half-yearly guaranteed interest is advertised on
the stoel; of the London, Tilbury, and Southend Rail.
way ; also the interest on the debentures of the pro
vines of Canterbury, New Zealand.
The half-yearly interest is advertised in Paris upon
the 10 per cent. Bonds of the Galveston, Houston,
and Henderson (United States) Railroad Company.
Parties interested in American securities refer with
satisfaction to the fact that the Persia, carrying
intelligenos of the raising of the rate of discount by
the Bank of England to 7 per cent., arrived out on
the day prior to the sailing of the Europa, which has
jest arrived at Liverpool; yet the news failed to
produce any adverse impression upon the stook
markets at New York.

Itoladen to the market for American securities,
Messrs. D. Bell, Bon, and Co. report an follows :

There ►es been a good demand for American securities
generally della/ the peat week, with sore inquiry for Fall.
road bawds, particularly those of the Illinois Central Com-
pany, In which boluses has been dose al Improved prices.

The report of Mr. E. F. Satterthwaits is eubjoined :
Then has been a firm market for Amadeu mantis' in
loud= during the past week. Holders are disposed to
wait for higher prim. sad the supply of fint-oless bonds is
by so loaned large. W. quota Illinois Central and Brie
Bonds higher. Is other descriptions then is no material
sheep.
Attention ham been excited by the late important
rise in the prise of saltpetre. The market is now
quieter, but the pries steads 60 or 60 per cent. above
that current during the war, when so many rerric.
Hone were placed upon the exportation of this article.
The deliveries for the post month have far exceeded
the landless. The stock is now reduced to 2,150
toes. and the demand for the Continent continuing
unabated, with but little offering, the price has
risen nu km than 14s. during the month.
TAIIIIDAY Evaarixo.

This has been a very quiet day in the Stock Ex-
change. The weekly court at the Bank resulted in
no alteration in the rate of discount, but this had
been generally expected, and thus no disappointment
was occasioned. The funds exhibited steadiness,
Consols closing about 1.16 per cent. lower than yes-
terday. In the other departments of the house
dulness prevailed, speculative business being checked
by the approach of the fortnightly settlement. In
the market for British railway shares the principal
feature wee a farther considerable advance in Cale.
donian stock, which has risen 2i to 3 per cent. since
Teseday afternoon. French shares were somewhat
flatter this afternoon.

The discount market to day was quiet, and no
pressure whatever was observable.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 94 ex div.
for the Bth Jan., were quoted daring the greater
part of today at the same figure, improved to 91 to
1, and left off at 931 to 94. The official business
report is ea follows:—Three per Cent. Consols, for
account, Bth Jan., 93/, 94 ex div. ; Three per Cent.
Reduced, 931, ; New Three per Cents., 931, 94.
Thirty Tears Annuities, expiring in April, 1885. 18;
Bank Stock. 218 j; Three- and.*Malf per Cent.
Exchequer Bonds, falling payable in 1858, 98a.
Exchequer Bills were firm, at ss. to 9s. prem.
Exchequer Bonds remain quoted 981 to 99. India
Beads are marled par to 2s. pram.
Turkish Six per Cents. were unusually quiet, and
stewed II atoms in the afternoon. The closing quota-
ties was int to 95, being 1 per oent. below that of
yesterday. The Guaranteed Four per Cents. declined
about / per cent.. closing at 102/ to 1. Spanish
securities were dell, tad Mexican a little firmer. Other
foreign descriptions net with very little beams.

MINZA-THIS DAY.

Two o'Cwes!

The market for British mining ;tceira Timmins
steady, rttk s fair amount of business. Dividend
stooks are very firm. Bortridge Console shame,
however, may be particularined as weaker.
Coto* shares are rather more offered at the &ti-
tian, lat attained. and are marked this morn.
leg 681 and 58. United Maxi= shares have bow
dealt in at 4.

Subjoined is a list of yesterday's transsetionsin the
Mining Exchange:
Alfred Consols, 17; Bonita Well, 6t Chamblee sad Bt.
Aubyn, 100, 1021; Great Alfred, 12, '4; lady Bertha,
20e., 19a, 19e. 6d.; North Crotty, 31 ; North Frannie, hit
Provident*, 68, 69, 71; South Caddre, 16e.; Booth Tamer,
18e.; Wheal Edward, 21; Wheal Tsbidy, 21, 1; Wheel
Trelawney, 151, 4.
In the Stock Exchange:
Wheal Bunt, 286; Bortridge Consols, 2,4; Treweatha.
.as Vale di Tow', 16,. 6d., 16s. 6d. • Psi Con.el., 201,
; Great Wheel Alfred, 124, j; Wheal Edward, 21;
lady Berths, 19e., 20e.; South Coneurrow. fo.
Another extraordinary mein of the Colonial Gold
Company is called for the 23rd init., to sonars the reeolu-
don for dissolving the company.
The mistime of management of the British Australian
Gold Waist Company announce the approechlag publica-
tion of Mr. O. 11. Stspbses' report.