The Express.
London, England, 1853-05-24 00:00:00

BANE OP ENGLAND.

Amounts of New Stocks Total amount
accepted this day. accepted.
£3 10s. per Cents.., £7,920 6 0 £128,007 13 6
£2 10s. per Cents... 15,699 12 10 1,360,179 310
Exchequer Bonds .. Nil. 4,200 0 0

Total £1,432,388 17 4

SOUTH 81SA HOUSE.
Amount of Annuities Total amount
commuted this day. commuted.
For £3 10s. per cent
Annuities
For £2 10s. ditto £19,813 14 2 110,296 13 2
Exchequer Bonds . , Nil. 2,635 0 0
Total
As considerable misapprehension prevails relative
to the provisions of the government Conversion Act
now in force, reference may be usefully made to
another column, where will be found the heads of the
various clauses. Holders of the South Sea stocks
have until the 3rd June to signify their assent to
accept the new stocks; the South Sea Company (as
regards their corporate stock) are allowed until the
Ist July; whilst holders of Consols and Reduced
Threes may apply at any period up to the 10th Oct.
With holders of South Sea stocks, it may be repeated,
the conversion is compulsory (with the option of
being paid off), but in the case of holders of Consuls
and Reduced it is perfectly optional.
The directors of the Oraissessac and Beziers Rail-
way Company have made a further call of 41. per
share, making 81. paid, payable by the 13th June.
The amount of bills drawn by the East India Com-
pany on their respective presidencies from the Bth to
the 23rd inst. is as follows :

Rate of Exchange.
Bengal £69,581 17 5 1 2s. OW. per Co.'s
Madre
Bombay 7OO 0 0 28.1 d. per ditto.

Total £76,616 4 10
Notice has been issued to the shareholders of the
City Railway Terminus Company that, the Court of
Common Council having referred it to a committee to
report how and when the sum of 396,0001. may be
raised and paid for the required improvements in
connexion with this company's railway, a general
meeting of the shareholders will be held on the 30th
inst., to receive a report from the directors, and to
authorise such further proceedings as may be no-
cessary.
Land shares were quiet to-day. British American
closed 73 to 75, and Van Dieman's Land 191 to 201.
Australian Bank shares were devoid of movement,
but Oriental Bank gave way 10s. Crystal Palace
shares were rather better at 31 to 31 prem. The
shares of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Com-
pany were very weak this afternoon, on some influen-1
tial selling; the price closed 79 to 81 only. Royal
Mail Steam left off 77 to 79, and Australian Royal
Mail Steam (with 61. paid), 31 to 21 die. Shares of
the Commercial Bank of London were done at 311
ex new; London and Westminster Bank, 35;
Victoria Docks (41. pd.), 71; do. New (21. pd.), 5;
General Steam Navigation, 311; Peninsular and
Oriental Steam (251. pd.), 391. Grand Trunk Rail-
way of Canada shares were firm at Ito prem. ;
Grand Central of France closed 2 to 21 prem.;
Berlin Waterworks, 1 to 1 prem.; and Melbourne
Dock and Railway, kto prem.
The subjoined calculations show the rate per cent.
per annum yielded by our government stocks at
present prices. To render the results strictly accu-
rate, the proportion of interest which may have ac-
crued since last dividend period should in each case
be taken into account
Int. per cent.
Price. per annum.
Three per Cent. Console 100 f £2 19 6
Three per Cent. Reduced .. 100 3 0 0
Bank Stock (div. at the rate
of 71 per cent per annum) 229 3 5 6
India Stock 260 4 0 91
Exchequer Bills (interest
ld. per cent. per day) par. 1 10 6
Annexed is a statement (extracted from the Lirer-
pool Weekly Share List) showing the rates yielded
by ordinary railway stocks at present prices.

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Int. per et. per annum at
the rate of dividend paid
Pres. Pelee. RAILWAY. Last 4 year. Last year
174 Liverpool, Crab', and Southport 2 105 4 11 104
Cos London, Brighton, and South Coast
224 South Etatern
514 York and North Midland
134 Disters Counties lO 65 3 15 54
53 Midland Great Western—lreland 9 74 4 0 71
90 London and South Western 9 Ille 4 3 4
91 Great Western
75 Midland Stock 6 8 4 3 4
104 Bristol and Exeter
174 York, Newcastle, and Berwick ...„.
44 Midland, Birmingham, and Derby
94 Lancaster and Carlisle 6 05 3 17 14
118 London and North Western Stock
141 London and North Western Fifths
106 Lancaster and Preston 2 6 3 It 9
37 Edinburgh and Glasgow 1 1 4 1 1
181 bast lan: hire 1 1 3 7 61
50 Dublin and Belfast
97 Great Southern and Western—lreland IS 115 3 14 64
791 Lancashire and Yorkshire Stock
67 Glasgow and South Western l4 7 5 7 If
33 Caledonian
22 Great Northern
21 theater and Birkenhead l2 95 2 6 0
It has been thought advisable to give the rate of
interest calculated on the dividends paid last half-
year, and also on the dividend paid last year, as
the dividends for the last half-year are larger
in several lines, than those for the first half-year—
for instance in the London, Brighton, and South
Coast, the London and South Western, the South
Eastern, &c.,—while in the London and North
Western, last half-year's dividend was less than the
first half year.
Annexed are the latest reports from continental
bourses, as received by Mr. Reuter's telegraphic ex-
press :—Amsterdam, Saturday : Dutch Four per
Cents., 95,1; ditto Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 61

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.
MINCING-LANE.—THIS DAY.
STSCIAIL—The public sales are large to-day and are pre-
greasing without spirit. The refined marked steady at
last week's prices.
Correa.—The sales are going off steadily at full prices.
Cocoa.—The demand is very dull fur this article, and the
bulk of the 900 bags Trinidad was bought in.
TEA —The market is very firm, but the amount of busi-
ness done has not been large ; but all parties are anxiously
waiting for the news from China, per televaph, which may
Do expected on Thursday or Friday next.
Smarwrite.-900 bags ofrqed in public sale, and chiefly
bought in ; prices are unaltered.
PEPPEIL.-80 bags Penang sold at 31 to per lb.
Currort.-700 bales sold yesterday on 'Change.

TALLOW MARKET.—THIS DAY.
The market is firm, with but little disposition to operate.
The demand on the spot is very limited. Town Tallow is
quoted 465. 6d. actt cash ; Petersburg Y.C. or. the spot,
475. to 475. 3d.; April and May, 475. sedan ; Oct. to Dec.
(new), 475. 9d.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARBET.—THIS DAY.
Mr. E. J. Davis reports a dull trade.—Prime Meadow
Hay, 80s. to 905.; inferior, 70s. to 755. ; Rowen, 455. to
545.; Clover, 90s. to 100 s.; second cut, 70s. to 90..; Straw.
28s. to 33i.

COALS.-LONDON, MAT 23.-Ships at market, 129;
sold, 83.-Bate's West Hartley, 16,.; Chester Main,
15s. W.; Muting's Hartley, 16s. 6d. ; Holywell, 16s. 6d. ;
Howard's West Hartley Netherton, 163.6 d.; North Percy
Hartley, 161.; Smith's West Hartley, 161. 61.; TanSeld
Moor Bute', 15s. 6d. ; Townley, 14s. 9d.; Walker Prim-
rose, lis. 9d.; Walls End Acorn Close, Ms. 6d. ; Walla
End Bell and Brown, las. 3d.; Walls End Gibson, 16..3d.;
Walls End Gosiorth, 16a. 3d. ; Walls End Harton, 163. 3d.;
Walls End Medley, 163. 3d. ; Walls End Lawson, 15s, Gil. ;
Walls End Northumberland East, 15s. 9d. ; Walls End
Riddell, 16s. 3d. ; Eden Main, 17s. ; Walls End Bell,
16s. 9d.; Walls End Belmont, 16s. 9c1.; Walls End
Lambton, 17s. 6d. ; Walls End Cassop, 17a. 3d. ; Walls
End Monne, 17s. ; Walls End West Kellor, 16s. 9d.,
17a. ; Walls End Whitworth, 165. ; Walls End Clavering
Tees, 15s. 3d. ; Fothergill's Aberdare Steam, 235. 6d. ; Grey's
West Hartley, 16s. ; Llaugennech, 233. 6d.

SPORTING.

TATTERSALL'S.-YESTERDAY.

West Australian, Pharos, and Orestes were the only
Derby horses backed for money : 70 to 40 and 100 to 5.5
were taken several times about the first; 9 to 1 to various
sums about the second ; 10 to Ito upwards of 2,5901., and
finally 9 to 1 to 1,0001., about Orestes. The odds quoted
against Honeywood and Sittingbourne were scarcely more
than nominal. Umbriel, too, was very quiet.
The current of opposition against Claes' was as strong as
ever-16 to 1 was again obtainable. 1,000 to 35 once, and
25 to 1 in tens and ponies, were betted against Jerry
Kent.

The Oaks betting was remarkable for the sudden fall of
Mistletoe. For some time she had figured as leading fa-
vourite ; in fact, a good deal of money had been invested at
3to 1. Yesterday, however, ominous offers of 4to 1 bad
quickly the effect of depressing her to 7to 1. Towards the
close she rallied a little, and 5 to 1 was taken, but only to a
small amount. Catherine Hayes advanced to sto 2, taken,
and 7 to 1 was taken to some money about Mentmore Lass.
Closing prices:—

DERBY.
100 to 55 apt Mr. Bowes's West Australian (t)
9to 1 Duke of Richmond's Pharos (t)
9to 1 Baron Rothschild's Orestes (t)
9to 1 Mr. Suttees nd Honeywood (t and off.)
9to 1 Duke of Bedford's Sittingbourne
12 to 1 Lord Derby's Umbriel (t and off.)
16 to 1 Mr. Powney's Ciueas (t and off.)
20 to 1 Mr. Wilkins's Peggy (t)
25 to I Mr. Rogers's Jerry Kent (t)
25 to 1 Captain Lane's Ninnyhammer (t)
40 to 1 Mr. Oliver's Ethelbert (t)
50 to 1 Mr. J. M. Stanley's Orinoco (t)
60 to 1 Lord Clifdeit's Cheddar (off)
60 to 1 Lord Glasgow's Barbatus (t)
50 to 1 Lord Eglinton's Vanderdecken (off)
1000 to 10 Mr. J. Ayliog nd Rattle (t)
100 to 50 on Pharos &got Jerry Kent, in their places.
OAKS:
•5 to 2 apt Mr. Wauchope's Catherine Hayes (t)
sto 1 Mr. S. Hawke na Mistletoe (t)
7to 1 Baron Rothschild's Mentmore Lass (t)
7to 1 Mr. Woflinden's The Queen (t)
Bto 1 Mr. Wilkins's Peggy (t, 9to 1 also
laid)
10 to 1 Baron Rothschild's Lady Louisa (t)
20 to 1 Mr. 0. Wentworth's Mabella (t )
BETTING AT THE LONDON CLUB.
. .

At twelve o'clock last night, the quotations wore as
under:

DERBY._

100 to 55 agst Mr. Bowes's iVest Australian (off)
9to 1 Mr. Surtees us. Hone wood (t)
10 to 1 Duke of Richmond's Pharos (t to 100 f.,
and aft off)
10 to 1 Duke of Bedford's Sittingbourne (t 12
toll)
14 to 1 Lord Derby's Umbriel
200 to 100 on Peggy agst Talfourd in their places (t)
OAKS.

1000 to 400 eget Mr. NV—a;cl;o—pe. 's Catherine Hayes (t)

Ersow.—Additional arrivals since our last publication:
Grapeshot, Honeywood, Itch, Helena, Diomedia, Hugo,
Sittlugbourne, Filbert, Pbarold, Folly of the Day, Stone
Plover, lonic, Ada, Sabra, Ninnyhammer, The Arrow
Pharos, Psaltery, William Rufus, Determination, Har-
binger, John o' Bruges, Cheddar, Mistletoe, Bracket, Cran-
bourne, filly by John o' Gaunt, Diable Boileau:, Mouser,
Narcissus, Appleton, Michaelmas Maid, Canal, Lamartine,
Ireland's Eye, and several others.

SALE or Btoon Srucg.—The undermentioned yearlings
bred by Earl Spencer, were sold yesterday at Tatters"ll's
A brown filly by Van Tromp—Annette, 21 guineas; a
chcanut filly by Cothet stone—Lady Oay Spanker, 16
guineas ; a bay filly by Cotherstone—Conscience, 61 guineas;
a bay filly by Melbourne—Treacherous, 74 guinea ; • bay
filly by Cotherstonc—Drogkeda, 19 guineu ; a bay filly by
Cotherstonc—The Wryneck, 56 guineas; a cicsnut colt by
Cotherstone—Drum Major's dam, 31 guineas; a brown colt
by Cothetstone—Polydora, 363 guineas ; a bay colt by Co!
therstone—Sequidilla, 61 guineas; a brown colt by Val
Tromp—The Duchess of Lorraine, 250 guineas.

POLITICAL REFUGEES IN ENGLAND.—The Pretde
of Vienna, of the 17th, nye—The Bridal' Ambassador at
the Court of Austria has just given the most positive and
satisfactory assurances on the question of political refugees.
In has declared that the British government will endeavour
to put a stop to their revolutionary intrigues by a rigorous
application of the laws on the subject.

IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORDS.—MONDAY, MAY 23.
TGo LOUD CUAXOILLOI took his 'tutu 5 o'clock.
MK CHANCERY FUND. _ _

Lw 1 ST. Lia7,ll:a.i'3erkederhatwas intended to be
don. by the goscrnment with reference to the consolidated
annuities b lonaina to the suitors in the Couto( Chancery ?
he Earl of ABERDEEN said taey would receive pre-
eisely the same treatment u all other holders of stock.

THE lIALDON ELECTION.
Lord ST. LEONARD'S asked what the intention of
the government was with reference to the address of the
Mouse of Commons on the subject of the Malden election ?
The Earl of ABERDEEN was ant aware of any grounds
fur not takiug the course widen hal been pursued with re-
/entice to similar addresses from the other hawse; and ha
mould, then fare, on Thursday met, more that their lode
*hips agree to the addri is.
THE ~LATH TRADE.
Lewd BROUGHAM presented a petition from Sir Alex-
ander Stuart, of Winchester noun., Old Broad-street, on
the subject of the alteration of the sugar dune% and the
consequent depreciation of the value of his property in.
Jamaica. He (Lard Brougham) had oppcse el the measure ed
1846 which did sway with the differential duties on sugar,
not on account of t'te West India planter, but because he
saw that the thrice. eendeney cat the nietsure would be the
inevitable iserease of the Atricar. alive trade. Its eff.ct,
with reference to the petitioner, had been, that the whole of
his property was swept away. It was now too late to re-
trace the step taken in lee ; but they
.might do all they
could to accomplish the general ah admit of slavery, the
partial abolition of which formed one of the grievances of
which the Wed India proprietors coroplair.ed. He had
some time ago read amongst the ordinary articles of COW
=MIA! intelli4ence, that a noel had landed liar cargo is
Cubs, and the. six hient.red miserable slaves formed a jot
of that cargo.
The Earl of CLARENDON—EIeven hundred.
Lord BROUGHAM said that the increase in the number
of the pow creatures made the ease more appalling. They
lad rem I of a piratical expedition to Cube, which the
Unit. d States government had succeesfully put down ; but
whet piracy could be equal iv enormity to that of dragging
from their homes and native land the unhappy beings who
had to endure the horrors of a middle passage, and were
then landed as slaves spun • distant shore. More atrocious
piracy that, within their own dominion., than Cuban or
any other pint y. (Hear, bear.) Ile untied to ark his
noble friend whether Vet traffic in slaves was still going on
wenn,. in spite of tile r• retire winch hail been catered into ?
Th,. EA.' .of CLARENDON (who spoke in a conversa-
tional tone across the t Ode, and was very indistinctly heard
in the gallery) was understood to say that be wished it was
in hi. poses r r give a satisfactory answer to the question of
his noble end le irned friend ; he was sorry, however, to Bay
that, althou.th the case to which he hail alluded coos almost
alone in air,-es,y, it was by no means the only ease which
bad come to the knowledge of her Majesty.* govern.
ment. The save trade it appeared was being
carried on to a eoneiderable extent in Cuba. Our
consul-general had been most active, energetic, and
zealous in procuring information with respect to it ;
and bad made a report with reference to the particular
case brought under their !ordains' notice, from which it
appeared that such was the law with reference to slavery
in the Jolene! of Cuba, that it was Impossible to follow
newly imported negroes to the island, when mice they wen
landed. The moment the negro passed into the bands of
his new owner, the law was powerless in effecting his re-
lease. It 1,11111 almost useless, therefore, to denounce the
authorities of the country, and equally so to bring snob
cases before the courts. In the case referred to, and
other which had coma under the nodes of the British
bevernment, the most zealous efforts and reimenehmeses had
en used. The Captain Genera! of Cubs had Unattained
that the cargo of the ship to which his noble sad leaded
friend referred oriuinally consisted of 1,300 parsons, and
the sufferings which they had endured of Via peas .
might be supposed from the fief, that the ship was onlyrod
&MS tons beitelten. It appeared that an attempt AM
been made by them to rise on their oppressors
sad liberate themselves, and that during the strag-
gle upwards of two hundred were killed, which
reduced the number landed to 1,100. Upon a remon-
strance the Captain-Ge neralef Cuba appeared to have taken
on himself to act almost contrary to the law, for he had
traced and rescued three hundred of the unhappy crea-
tures. Her Majesty's government had received the most
solemn assurances from the government of Spain that
the law henceforward should be strictly observed; and he
trusted that it would be so. (Hear, hear.) The late
minister for foreign alfain had placid in the hands of Lord
Bowden, the British minister at the court of Spain, a pri-
vate letter oh:eh he had received from the present Can
fain-General of Cubs, assuring him, on his word of honour,
that he would het in such • manner as should be satisfactory
to the B h government. He could only add that no
effort on the part of her Majesty's government should be
spared to put au end to the nefarious traffic ; and he had the
satisfaction of stating that, in consequence of the cruisers
which had been placed around the coast of Cuba four slave
vessels had been seised, and within the last week he had
heard of a fifth having been captured. (Hear, hear.)
Her Majesty's government had addressed remonstrances to
the governineot of the United States of America on the
subject of the slave trade, and he felt perfectly satisfied
that that government would do its utmost to prevent its
Sag from being so degraded. (Hear, hear.)
Lord BROUGHAM said the power exercised over the
rolonial authorities in Spain was very great. Under
Reporters, who was • great enemy of slavery, but little pro-
gress was made, for he was obliged to give way before the
powerful influence exercised on the Colonial-offico in favour
of slavery.
Lord WHAIINCLIFFE said that the late Captain-Gene-
ral of Cuba, General Concha, who was • friend of Espar-
tero's, exerted himself to suppress the slave trade, and he
did it with so much success that he had sreceeded, in the
year 18.51, in reducing the number of slaves imported into
Cuba to 6,000. In the spring of last year, however, with-
out notice or apparent cause, he was suddenly removed from
his command. One of the last acts which he performed
was the removal of the second in command in that island in
consequence of his participation in acts of slavery. He was
afraid there would be a much greater number of slaves im-
ported into Cuba this year than in the year 18-51 when Oen.
Concha had the command. The lave trade was no doubt
carried on there with the connivance of the government.