The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-23 00:00:00

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THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 23, 1858.

LINES LIAIID AT ►IXEf 11111TALS.

MONEY MARKET-THIS DAY.

Two °Twos.

The funds remain very firm, though the operations
are limited. Prices are quoted I per cent. better
than they closed yesterday. Consols stand at
941 to j for money, and 941 to 1 for 4th of June,
The Scrip of the New Loom, is quoted 2
to 21 prem. The Three per Cents. Reduced have
been dealt in at 93 to 1; the New Three per Cents.
at 931 to 1; India Stock at 232 to 235 ; Endue.
quer Bonds at 98i to / ; Exchequer Bills, March,
at lc die. ; ditto, June, at 4s. to le. dia.

. . .
Foreign stocks exhibit no important variation.
The sales inolude Buenos Ayres Bonds at 77;
Danish Three per Cents., 831; Dutch Two•aud-a-
Half per Cents., 641 to 66; ditto Four per Cents.
Certificates, 95 to 961; Mexican, 23/ and 231;
Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. (small bonds) 96;
Spanish Old Three per Cents., at 461; ditto, De-
ferred, 2.51; Turkish Six per Cents, 981; ditto,
Four per Cents., 103 and 102 f.
At the anneal meeting of the Oriental Bank Cor-
poration, held yesterday, the report stated the aggro-
gateprofits of the year at 127,01 W., out of which a
dividend fer the first six months of 11. 61. per sh►re,
or at the rate of 10 per cent. pr annum, besides
income tax, was paid in December. A dividend of
the like amount for the subsequent six month was
declared yesterday, which will absorb 60,41.11., and
leave at credit of profit sod loss a balance of 8,5931.
The reserve fund stands now at 261,2651., the whole
of which is invested in government securities. After
a short discussion the report was adopted, and the
dividend at the rate of 10 per cent. per annum
agreed to.
At a meeting of the Royal Mail Steam Packet
Company held pieta day, the following gentlemen
were elected directors :—Mr. O.S. Thornton. Mr. L T.
Gimping, Mr. Rn•sell Gurney, Capt. H. B. Young,
Mr. Colville, and Captain Redman, in place of Mr.
Ellis, Captain Shepherd, Mr. T. Bering, Mr. Mester-
man, M.P., Captain Mangles, and Mr. Hibbert, who
recently resigned.
Tao directors of the Western Bank of London as-
nounee that the bank is to be opened for business on
the 16th of June.

The option given to holders of shares in the Great
Central Railway of Franoe to snbgeribe for the
66.000 shares reserved for them in the Great Spanish
Railway Company (from the Pyrenees to Madrid and
the Mediterranean) will expire on the 31st inst. The
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payment on sabicriptioa Is to be IL per shire.
The Paris rims contain the announcements con-
nected with the allotment of shares of the General
Bank of Switzerland, and with the return of the
surplus deposits. Subscribers of 36 shares and up-
wards receive only one-sixth of the number applied
for. In the case of smaller subscriptions a minimum
allotment of six shares is made. With a view to an
extension of business, the second series of the bank's
',vital is to be issued immediately at per, priority of
allotment being given to the subscribers for the first
series, who are required to nicks application in Paris
by the 6th of June at latest. Three shares of the
first series entitle the holder to two shares of the
second. The first payment to be M. per share.
The 'deices from Paris communicate some inte-
resting particulars relative to an important railway
transaction—the purchase of the lines of the Greet
Central Railway of France by the Paris and Orleans
Company. The arrangement is to be carried out
upon the principle which was 'adopted in the par-
chose of the 0 line by the Mediterranean Com-
pany. The various sections of the Great Central
Railway are to be handed over to the Orleans Com-
pany in seven portions. This amalgamation is to
take place after the second yeses working of each
section. A joint commission, appointed by the two
coompanies, is to watch over the execution of the works,
and over the general interests of the Central Company.
New shares to the number of 112,000 are to be issued at
par, in the proportion done new for two old shares
of the Great Central Company. The Orleans Com-
pany reserves to itself the right of ceding to the
other companies contiguous to the Great Central
such portions of the system as may harmonise with
their operations. The chief object sought by the
Orleans Company in this amalgamation is security
"Against competing lines. The shareholders in the
Great Central Company will have a right to the new
shares about to be issued, in addition to the privi-
leges secured to them in connexioa with the subeerip-
OM for the shares of the projected Saragossa
y" .
The shares of the Northern Railway of France and
et the Beziers and amasses's° Company continue to
be ladaanaed in price by reports relative to certain
negollatloos which are stated to be now on foot.

The subjoined is from the Danish
in London:

Ludo, May 22, 1856.

Sir,—With reference to my letter of the 6th fastest, 1
beg to inform you that lam now authorised, pro fees. to
die the consular seals or " plotabe " to ot olds intendedfor
shipment to Itemise porta is the Black Sre.—l ant, Ito.,
(Sgoed) FLITCHIR WILSON.

The Admiralty will receive tenders on the 27th
instant for the conveyance of 17 officers and 100 men
from Cork to Canada, and 14 officers and 269 men
from Cork to Halifax. The East India Company
will also receive tenders on the 27th instant for the
conveyance of troops from England to Calcutta, and
stores to Madras and Bombay.
The market for American securities is described by
Messrs. I). Bell, Son, and Co., as very quiet, with
scarcely any alteration in prime.

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menincu;iiie77:4,o79.oll 13 3

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0. CARROLL. Mamie.

THURSDAY EVENIWO.