The Express.
London, England, 1865-05-08 00:00:00

DU.

Arany NABILET.--(TRIS DAY.)
Two o'Otoom
The 'took markets to-day are dull sad inactive,
and in some easel a little flatness is observable.
Consols, in which preparations for tomorrow's set-
tlement are in progress, are quoted about 1-16 per
cent. lower than they closed on Saturday. House
railways and foreign stooks, in a few instances, are a

fraction cheaper.
There is a fair demand for money to-day, and no
transactions in bills are reported below per oast.
The rats in the Stock Exchange for short loans on

English government securities is 31 to 4 per cent.
At Paris to-day, according to Mr. Reuter's
telegrams, the Three per Cent. Ratites opened at
67fr. 55s being the same as on Saturday.
Consols are now quoted 901 or 90 7-16 to 9-16
both for money and to-morrow's settlement, and
901 to 1 for the new amount (June 8). The
official business report is as follows :—Three per
Cent. Consols, for money, 94, #, 1 ; ditto for
account, 901, ; Three per Cents. Reduced,
881, ; New Three per Cents., 881, 1 ; India
Five per Cent. Stook, 10612 1.
Foreign stooks are dull, with little change
in prima. Mexican and Spanish Passive
and Certificates have declined / per cent.,
while Turkish Consolideis have improved 1.
Some of the present quotations are annexed,
viz. :—Greek Bonds, 201 to 21 ; Mexican, 26 to
1; Confederate, 13 to 15 ; Spanish Pas-
sive, 291 to 301 ; the Certificates, 15/ to
161 ; Turkish, 1868, 70 to 71 ; ditto,
1862, 72 to 73 ; ditto Oonsolides, 521 to 1.
Tranautions are recorded as follows :—Dutch Cer-
tificates, 97 ; Egyptian 1001. Bonds, 96 ; ditto 1864,
931, 1 ; ditto 1001. Bonds, 931; French Three per
Cent. Rentes, 67, 6 ; Greek for amount, 20/ ; Ita-
lian 1865serip, 41, # die. ; Mexican for account, 261,
1 ; ditto 1884, 251 ; Portuguese 1856, &c., for se-
count, 481, 1 ; Russian 1862, 891, 901, ex
div. ; Spanish New Deferred, for account, 401, 1 ;
ditto Passive, for account, 301, 29/ ; ditto Cer-
tificates, for account, 161 ; Turkish 1858, for
account, 701; ditto 1862, 1001. Banda, 73, 721 ;
Venezuela, 18611, for account, 38 ; ditto 1864, 39.
_ . .

Ottoman Loan scrip is quoted li to 2 prem.
Internationsd Financial &area are now quoted

Ito vt prem. ; General Credit, 11.1 to prem.;
London Tinaneial, 61 to 7 prem. ; Imperial
Mercantile, 1 to 1/1 preen. ; Credit Foncier and
Mobilier of England, 3to prem., ex div. ;
and Hudson's By, 151 to 1.

The quotations for the shares of some of the new
companies are subjoined :—Metropolitan District
Railways, 9} to 10} prem. ; Memoir Gas, dis. to
}prem. ; Russian Iron Works, to 4 prem. ; Anglo-
Egyptian Navigation, 3} to f prem. ; Plymouth
Shipbuilding, Ito 1 prem. ; Ottoman Company, 1
to 1} prem. ; Lion Brewery, 11 to prem. ; and
latates Investment, 1} to 2 prem.
About 60,000 sovereigns, from Alexandria, re-
ceived by the Bank of Egypt, were sent into the
Bank on Saturday, making a total of 276,0001.
since the date of the last return, while no with-
drawalsfor export have been reported.
A meeting of the creditors of Messrs. James
Marshall and Sons, cotton spinners, of Stockport,
was held at Manchester on Friday, when the total
liabilities were stated at 280,00011 and the assets
at 200,0001. Au offer of a composition of 12s. 6d.
in the pound was submitted for consideration.
From the usual notice in the Stock Exchange, it
appease that the undermentioned companies are
applying to the committee to appoint special
nettling days in their shares, viz., the Val &seam
Mining Company, Metropolitan and St. John's
Wood Railway Company, Dagenham Docks Com-
pany, Nowgoug Tea Company, Chins Steam and
sa Lha Coal Company, Registered Land Com-
pany, and the Anglo-Egyptian Navigation Company.
The directors of the Royal Sardinian Railway
Company have issued their report, to be sub-
mitted to the extraordinary general meeting called
for the 15th inst. It embodies a new financial
scheme for the consideration of the shareholders,
the main features of which are, that 600,0001. be
raised by the creation of 60,000 " nominative
preference shares" of 101. each, that all exist-
ing arrears on calls be paid up, and that
a further call of 11. be made on the existing WI.
shares, so that 101. a share shall be paid upon
them. The company's net annual income is to be
appropriated as follows : Ist, to payment of the
interest on the preference shores ; 2nd, to payment
Isif a dividend not exceeding 3 pei. cent. per annum
ion the 10/. to be paid on the existing 201. shares ;
and 3rdly, to the drawing by lot of the 101. a share
paid on the 201. shares until they are wholly re-
I deemed. O: the 60,000 new preference 101. shares,
120,172 have been provisionally placed, the remain-
-1 ing 39,828 being precisely equivalent to the num-
ber of the existing 201. shares. By the arrange-
ment proposed, the holders of the latter will of
course be relieved of further liability in respect of
calls beyond the 101. per share already stated.
A further call of 21., making 141. and 41. per
share respectively called up, is to be paid upon all
the shares of the Great Indian Peninsula Railway
Company by the 30th inst.
A general meeting of the Madras Irrigation and
Canal Company is convened for the 29th inst.
The half-yearly meeting of the Imperial Conti-
nental Gas Association is to be held on the 30th
inst.
We are informed that petitions under the seal of
the corporations of Newport, Monmouth, and Car-
marthen, and from the inhabitants of Newport,
Heath, lilford Haven, and Carmarthen have been
forwarded for presentation to parliament in favour
of the South Wales and Great Western Direct Rail-
way, with a view to obtaining facilities for sending
the coal of South Wales to London.
The following statement of the stocks of produce
in the bonded warehouses is from Travers' Circular :
Subjoined is as account of the quantities of the prin-
cipal articles of imported merchandise subject to crstoms
duties remaining in the bonded warehouses of the United
Kingdom on the 31st of March, 1865. compared with
the quantities is warehouses on the 31st of March, 1863
and 1864 :
Remaining In the Customs Warebowas,
314 March,