The Express.
London, England, 1865-06-21 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JUNE 21, 1865.

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

DIY =scram TILIGRAPE.)
HAMPTON MEETING.—(THIS DAY.)

WEST NOULSEY PLATE. Mile sod s half.
Moose, Hopper. Cobweb, Attaehi, Lady Rolle, Asiaiiloll,
sad Columbia are hem

CLASEUONT STAKES. T.Y.C.

Puebla cooly OGG bars •$ prone.

STAND PLATE. Three quarters of a rail.
PahaWhoa, Leorille, Charity, Frogotorw, Rosins. As-
tolsette, Queen Bee, Essex, end Belmoutine ere here.
SURREY AND MIDDLESEX STAKES. Two wallet.
Duokeld, Moose, Hopper. Berobettore, Auditor, Cobweb,
Lady Valeattoe, Autioeu, Queen Bee, and Ludy Rollo are
here.

Amerign.—Haskolos Maid, Comps, Duchess St.
Alban's, Vexations, Scylla, Arabia, Skirmish, Cansonette,
sad Z,.s.

NEWTON MEETING.-(THIS DAY.)

TRIAL HANDICAP. One
Wynnstay, Quite at Trumps (ii yrs), Nell Dishy,
Nothing More, and Wild Poppy an hers.
GOLBU RN PARK STAKES. Hall a man.
Belmont, Mrs. Wallett, Xi, Happy Medium, Ns"or,
Balsam, and Amidst are hem
GREAT NEWTON CUP. (Oees mend.)
Moulsey, Buff, Nothing Slue, Sprite, Dubiety, Inheritor,
and Moor Game are here.

MAKEKFIELD HANDICAP. Half a mile.
Cranbury, Lady Abbess, Biondella, Worthier, Garotter,
Jig, Wild Puppy, Venice, Jupiter, Duly in the Morning,
and Malvern are here.

MONEY MARICRT.-(TRIS DAYJ

Two o'Ctonre
The stock markets to-day are again very in-
active. The funds remain at yesterday's quota-
tions. As regards foreign stocks, there is no general
movement, but a relapse has taken place in
Spanish Passive and Certificates. Home railways,
in some cases, are rather weaker, the realisations
being especially observable as regards Metro-
politan.
In the discount market to-day the supply of
money Las diminished somewhat, and the rate for
choice bills is firm at 3 per cent. Short loans on
English government securities are in request in the
Stock Exchange, at 3 per cent.
Consols are now quoted 901 to 4, ex div., for
money, and 904 toil, ex div. for the account (July 6).
The official business report is as follows :—Three
per Cent. Consols, for money, 904, 1,1, 1 ;
ditto, for account, 904 ; Three per Cents.
Reduced, 894, 1, 1 ; New Three per Cents., 894,
; New Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 72 ; Bank I
Stock, 250 ; India Five per Ceut. Stock, 1044, 1 ;
and Exchequer Bills, ss. prem.
Spanish Passive Bonds and Certificates have
declined 4to 1 per cent., while Turkish Bonds of
1852 and the Cuusolidts have risen 4, and Mexican 4.
Some of the present quotations are subjoined :
Turkish, 1858, 73 to 74 ; ditto, 1862, 744 to 4 ;
ditto Consolidis, 504 to 4 ; Mexican, 254 to 26 ;
Spanish Passive, 304 to 4 ; ditto Certificates,
144 to 1 ; Greek, 214 to 4 ; and Confederate, 6 to 8.
Transactions are recorded as follows :—Dutch
Two-aud-a-Half per Cents., 54 ; Egyptian, 1864,
941, 1 ; Greek, for account, 211 ; Italian, for ac-
count, 651 ; Mexican, for account, 251 ; Portu-
guese, 1856, &c., for account, 494 ; Rue-
Bien, 1822, 911, 924 ; ditto, 1860, 894,
ex div. ; ditto 1859, 561 ; ditto 1862, 911, 3 ;
ditto 1864, 944 ; Spanish Passive, for account,
301 ; ditto Certificates, for account, 141, 3 ;
Turkish, 1854, for account, 93 ; ditto 1858,
73 ; ditto, for account, 73 ; ditto 1001. Bonds,
77 ; ditto 1852, for account, 741, 4, 75 ; ditto 1001.
Bonds, 744 ; ditto 1865, 461 ; ditto scrip, 11
die. ; ditto Guaranteed, 1024, 103, 101 ; Vene-
zuela, 1864, 414.
International Financial shares are now quoted
14 to 1 prem.; General Credit, 2 to ft prem.;
Loudon Financial, Bto prem. ; Imperial Mer-
cantile, 24 to 3 prem. ; Credit Foncier and
Mobilier of England, 4 to 4 prem., ex div.; Hud-
son's Bay, 164 to 4, being again higher ; and
Egyptian Trading, 4to dia.
The nominal quotations for the shares of some
of the new companies are subjoined :—Lion
Brewery, 14 to 24 prem. ; Metropolitan Extension
Railways A stock of the London, Chatham, and
Dover Company, 62 to 64, per 1001. stock ;
Waterloo and Whitehall Railway, 1 to 2 prem. ;
Northern Assam, 4 to 4 prem.; Downs Docks,
14 to 2 prem.; Blakely Ordnance, 21 to 31 prem.;
Atlantic Telegraph preference, 4 to 1 prem.;
Chubwa Tea, 4 to 1 prem.; London Bridge Land, 1
to 1 prem.; " Samuel Bestow and C 0.," 4 to 11
prom. ; and Phosphate of Lime, 1 to 1 prem.
At Paris to-day, according to Mr. Reuter's tele-
gram, the Three per Cent. Rentes opened at
66f r. 40c., being sc. lower than yesterday.
The London Merchants' 'Company continues
to attract great attention in commercial and
financial circles from the importance of the
principle involved in it, and from the power
and strength of the combination, which it is stated
is likely to be still further extended. The
applications are very numerous from all parts of
the country. Notwithstanding the usual sales by
habitual speculators for a fall, the price is now
quoted 3 to 34 prem.
We regret to learn of the death of Sir John
Lubbock, the well known banker.
The amount of gold sent into the Bask yester-
day was 28,0001. There were no withdrawals for
export.
The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon were
firmer. As regards bills on Paris, Hamburg,
Vienna, and some other places, the rates were
rather more favourable for this country. Sub-
joined is our usual list :
Amsterdam, 3 months, 11.191 to 12 ditto. 3 days,
11.174 to 18; Rotterdam, 3 months, 1L194 to 12; An
were' 3 months. 25.424 to 474 ; Hamburg, ens. banoo, 3
mouths, 13.9 f to 13.10 ; Perim, 3 days, 25.15 to 224 ;
ditto, 3 =oaths, 25.40 to 45; Frankfort-on-the-bfaine, 3
months, 1204 to f ; St. Petersburg (Der rouble), 3 months,
31 to 1; Vienna, .5. Ho., 3 months, 11.174 to 224; Trios*
off. Ho., 3 months, 11.17 S to 221 ; Madrid, 3 month;
471 to 8 ; Cadiz, 3 moutbs, 484 to f ; Leghorn. 3 months,
25.50 to 23.55 ; Genoa, 3 months, 23.50 to 25.55 ; Miley, 3
months, 25.50 to 25.55 ; Naples, 3 months, 23.50 to 25.55 ;
Palma*. 3 months. 25.50 to 25.55 ; Mario, 3 ZGOStriar,
25.50 to 25.55 ; Lisbon, 90 days, 514 to 4 ; Oporto, 90 data,

51 At a meeting yesterday of the creditors of Mr.
John Stewart, engineer and ironfounder of Black-
wall, it was decided to wont out the contracts now
in hand. The liabilities were stated at 30,8941.,
and the assets at 18,6001.
The meeting of the Borokai Tea Company took
place yesterday, when the directors' report, recon -
mending a dividend at the rate of 8 per cent. per
annum, was adopted.
The books of the City of Milan Improvements
Company (Limited) will be closed from the 7th to
the 16th July, for payment of the 7 per cent. inte-
rest which is receivable by the shareholders during
construction, iu accordance with the terms of the
prospectus.
We have received a copy of the prospectus of the
Belgrave Mansions Company (Limited). The object
is to introduce into London the system of "Hotels
Meublie" so extensively prevailing in Paris and
other Continental cities. The company proposes to
afford to temporary residents in the metropolis the
comfort and complete accommodation appertainirg
to a well-managed hotel, in combination with the
absence of noise and bustle, for the sake of which E 0
many persons now take refuge in small and ill-
furnished apartments. A portion of the ground
floor of the building to be erected is to be let as
shops and for a restaurant, and there will then re-
main about 200 rooms available as apartments.
The site selected is oompesed in the "Pimlico Im-
provements," and lies between Grosvenor-plaes
and Victoria Station, the land being leased by
Messrs. Trollops and Sons from the Marquis of
Westminster. This firm are the contractors, and have
undertaken, " for a sum not exceeding 105,0001.,
to deliver up the building furnished complete in
every respect on the 25th day of March, 1867, such'
I sum to '-,elude architect's commiesion, law ex-
penses, salaries, printing, advertising, expenses of
direction and management, and of every kind up
to the day of opening, including 61. per eent. in-
terest on all calls paid up." Messrs. Trollope and
Sons have further engaged to grant a lease of the
site and buildings to the company for their entire
term of 90 years at the rent of 1,5001. per annum,
and they " b:od themselves, if before the opening
the shareholders should in general meeting accept
the option, to take a lease of the entire building for
Ithe term of five years, and pay to the proprietors
during that period a net dividend of 81. per cent.. per
annum on the amount called up on the shares."

The half-yearly meeting of the London mill
Greenwich Railway Company is called for the 11th
of July, when a dividend on the original stock of
IL 7s. 6d. per cent., or se. 6d. per Aare (clear ri
income-tax), for the half•year eliding 30th June,
will be recommended.

The annual meeting of the Pacific Steam Navig• a-1
tion Company is called for the 12th of July at
- .

Liverpool..
The scrip certificates of the Financial Insurance
Company (Limited) are now ready for delivery, in
exchange for the bankers' receipts.
The Imperial Gas Company have notified that the
, price for their gas will be reduced from 4s. Gd. to
4s. per 1,000 cubic feet on and after the lat July.
Subjoined are the quotations of insurance, gas,
dock, and other shares, as given in the Stock
Exchange list of last evening :
Ineuranoe.—Allisoos Britiah sod Foreign, 164 to 3 ;
Commercial Colon. to ktoi ; Giuirdian. 491 to ea div.
Imperial Life, 204 ; Law Life, 86 to 7 ; Legal 1111111 Gomel
Lite, 74 ; London and Caledonian Muir. (Limited), 54
Loadoe and Provincial Law 4 ; Londou and Provincial
Miami, 3 ; North British sod kterceotile, 173 ; Omit Me-
nne, .241 to 34 ; Provident Life, 364 ; Rook LAI% 74 ;1
Thames and Mersey Marine (Limited), 74 to 1 to 1 to 1.
Gaslight and Colts.—Bombay (Limited), third wine, 14 ;
Brighton, 39 to 4; City of London, A, 304 to 1 ; Cont.
ineroisl, 43 to ; Continental Colon (Limited), 104 ; Euro-
pew 14 ; ditto, new, 7 to j ; Great Central, 164 to 17 ;
revel. 85 ; London. 80 to Jl ;Phonic, 32; Surrey Consumers,
16 ; Westminster Chartered, 791 to 3 to 1.
Dooke.—London and St. Katherine, 67.
Waterworks.—Chelsen, 274 ; But London, 1261 to 74 ;
Lambeth, 113 ; Southwick and Vauxhall, 15 ; West Mid-
dlesex 116. _ _ _ .

C. I —Good Inaction, 69.; Kennet and Avon (Gnu.

by G.W. Railway), 61 to ito fez div.

Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. have announced
the dividends due the Ist of .1 uly ou Mexican
Three per Cents.; also on Russian Four-and-a-Half
per Cents. of 1850 ; and on Canada Sterling Deben-
tures, Nova Scotia Six per Cent. Sterling Bonds,
New Brunswick Six per Cent. Sterling Bonds,
Maryland State Sterling Five per Cent. Bonds,
Boston City Sterling Four-and-a-Half per Cent.
Bouds° Eastern Railroad of Massachusetts Six per
Cent. Bonds, and South Carolina State Sterling
Five per Cent. Bonds.
Acting upon the instructions from the French
Financial Commission in Paris, Messrs. Barings
also inform the holders of Mexican Bonds who have
not yet presented the overdue noupons from Ist
Joly, 1854, to Ist July, 1863, for conversion into
New Mexican Three per Cent, Bonds, that such
coupons will be received for conversion for a further
period of one month—say until the 20th July next.
Messrs. Baring also remind holders of provisional
certificates of the Now Mexican Three per Cent.
Stock of 1864, that they should be presented with-
out further delay to be exchanged for bonds.
The missing steamer Bombay is announced to
have arrived at Mauritius on the 92nd of May with
a broken shaft, and the Australian mail brought by
her is not expected to be distributed in London
before the sth of July.
Mr. Richard Thornton, of the old-established
East India firm of Thornton and West, of Old Swan
Wharf, Upper Thames-street, died yesterday at
the advanced age of 89. He attended business
until December last, when be was taken suddenly
ill, and has sines scarcely been seen in the City.
The money accumulated by this successful merchant
is said to exceed three millions sterling, and the
bulk of it, as be was never married, will, it is pre-
sumed, fall to his nephews, three of whom are
; partners in the house. Mr. Thornton is believed to
have been one of the largest holders of Consols in
England, besides being heavily interested in foreign
securities.

We have received the first of a series of com-
mercial tables, compiled by Mr. S. Goodburn, ac-
countant, and published by Messrs. Riley and
Couchman, of Lower Thames-street. The present
tables show the price per ton and per cwt. where
the price per lb. is given, and vice verad, and also show
at a glance the number of lbs. where cwts. are given,
or vice vend. The are calculated to be of use to
cotton and spice dealers, brokers, dc.
With reference to the interesting question—Will
the low rate of discount continue?—Travers' Cir-
cular contains the following remarks :
The reduction of the prim of cotton to little more than a
third of its cost at this time last year, coupled with the
falling off in the shipments e general produce from America,
and the conesquent remittances of gold from that country,
have completely altered the opinions entertained a few
youths hack ea to the course of the discount market, and
muted the steady and moderate dialled that was then looked
for to be caned on with unexpected rapidity. This will
be highly beneficial, as its tendency is to moderate the
effect of the heavy fall in prices that has had to be
encountered during the pant nine months, while it will,
at the same time, benefit the liquidation of the estates
of the numerous firms that have already failed.
It will, of course, also increase the confidence of
manufacturers and producers throughout the kingdom, and
add to the steadiness of employment. Although the
country at Urge has unquestionably been in a prosperous
stabs, even during all the fluctuation and difficulties that
have so long beset particular blanches of mercantile and
F uncial business, • feeling of depression and distrust,
which was acting injuriously upon quotations, had become
visual, and as England at present holds' large quantities of
all kinds of produce, it is desirable that this adverse tone.
which leads to realiaations at • sacrifice, should be removed.
2 long as it continues there will be • prospect, in the &b-
-een°, of any untoward event, of the present low teems of
discount being sufficient, and so soon cc it ceases, and gives
place to • feeling of animation, • return to • rate more near
to the average—that is to say, something between Sg and 44
per cent.—will not be regarded with any conosin. In Mallen
to the immediate future, much will depend upon the
harvest, not only in the United Kingdom, bat in Frame
and Europe generally. The other symptoms for the moment
era all in favour of • full aupply of money. America must
increase her eat which in the existing state of the
European grain markets will be dab:mit—or seed us more
; and as regards the opposite hemisphere, there is as
yet no sign of any early renewal of the oustoosacisain of
our specie. It is nearly three years since the Beat hold so
Loge an amount of bullioe as at pelmet, and its rate of die-
aunt was then 2 per cent. In nays like the present, when
the nciple of limited liability has so largely developed
principle
joist enterprises, it in of course imporable to speak
with any certainty of the future of the money market, but
as yet there seems to be no probability of se early Mars
to high rates.

TIMIDLY EVINMO.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 904, "buyers,''
ex div., for the 6th July, opened and closed
to-day at 9U4 tog. For money the last price was
904 to 4. The official business report is as follows :
—Three per Cent. Console, for money, 904, 1,4, 4 ;
ditto, for account. 904 ; Three per Cents. Reduced,
894, 4, 4 ; New Three per Centa., 84, 4, 4 ; Bank
Stock, 2464, 247 ; India Five per Cent. Stock,
10411 i•
The government broker bought to-day 15,0001.
Reduced Three per Cents. for the sinking fund.
The India Five per Cent. stock was steady.
Exchequer Bills remain quoted 2s. to ss. prem.
Foreign stocks were firm. Mexican, Turkish
Coasolides, and Spanish Passive improved 4 per
cent., and Spanish Certificates 4. Other stocks left
off about the same as yesterday.
In the market for bank shares a redaction was
quoted in Agra and Masterman's, Chartered Bank
of India, Australia, and China, English Joint
Stook, London and County, and Oriental Bank ;
bat as regards Bank of Australasia, European,
and National Bank, the tendency of prices was
upwards.
National Discount shares were last quoted to-day,
104 to 11 pram. • Joint Stock Discount, 14
to 1 ; ptial; Trading, fto 4 dia. • Otto-
man Soci6t4 minds, 3to 34 prem. ; and Milan
Improvements„ 34 to 44 prem. Hudson's Bay
shares were in active demand, and rose as much as
17s. 6d., closing at 164 to 4. African Merchants,
Land Securities, Nerbudda Coal and Iron, North
British and Mercantile Insurance, and Telegraph
Construction shares were all quoted better ; but
City Offices, Credit Fonoier of Mauritius, Quebrada
Land and Mining, Union Marine Insurance of
Liverpool, and the shares of the Ottoman Company,
have receded.

London and Mediterranean Bank, 21 to prem. ;
Blakely Ordnanes, 3 to } prem. ; Waterloo and
Whitehall Railway, le to 2* Fem.; Enamelled
Iron, to 2} prem. ; Downs Docks, Ito 2
=Grange Town Iron, 1 to 2 prem. ; Rut
Railway scrip, 21 to 3} prem. ; ditto,
paid-up, 2 to } Fem. ; London Merchants, 3* to
4 prem. ; Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent. prefe-
rence, $ to 1 prem. ; Albert College, * to 1 pram-
Breech Loading Armoury, 2 to S prem.; Evans',
1 to 2 prem.
The A stock of the Metropolitan Extension Rail-
ways of the London, Chatham, and Dover Company
was quoted 63 to 64 per 1001. stook.
United States 6.20 Bonds have again risen fully
1 per cent., closing at 72} to e.
There were inquiries for 'New Brunswick and
New South Wales government debentures.

RAILWAYS.-(THIS DAY.)
•
Two c/Otoci.
The railway market continues dull. Metropo-
litan stock is prominently heavy, and has
declined per cent. Great Northern hu
also receded * ; Great Western and Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, ; and Great Eastern I.
London and North Western stook is now quoted
125* to 124 ; Great Western, 711 to ; Midland,
1364 to I ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1214
to 122 ; Caledonian, 133* to 134* ; South Pastern,
84* to 85 ; Great Restrrn, 474 to 484 ; London
and South Western, 98 to 100 • Metropolitan,
141* to 142 ; Great Northern, 132 to 133 ; ditto
A, 147 to 148.
Lombardo-Venetian Railway shares have im-
proved, and Great Luxembourg and Dutch-Rhenish
show a favourable tendency. On the other hand,
Sambre and Meuse are dull. Indian and Canadian
Peres are quiet.
(for Share Lists, see p. C.)

MINES.-(TBIS DL YJ

Two o'CLoci.

The mining market is rather firm to-day, with
transactions to a fair extent. The shares of
most of the undermentioned mines are in good
request at the quotations given :—West Chiver-
ton, 78 to 80 ; Frank Mills, 7I to 8 ; Chiver-
ton Moor, 3; to 3 ; East Rose warne, 2j to
; Tolvadden, 375. 6d. to 425. 6d. ; Great
Busy, 31 to 1 ; South Condurrow, 31 to ; West
Caradon, 9 to 10 ; and Chiverton, 9 to I.
%shoe Gold shares have been dealt in at 8 and
74, being again lower. On the other hand, Yellen-
rases Gold and Frontino and Bolivia Gold exhibit a
favourable tendency.
At East Cern Brea meeting yesterday a dividend
of ss. per share was declared.