The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-13 00:00:00

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Two o'CLocx.
Though the government broker, as usual on
Mondays, has not made any purchase for the sink-
ing fund, the funds are slightly firmer to-day. The
improvement in Consols, however, is limited to 1-16
to i per cent., and the other markets have not shared
in it. Metropolitan Railway stock has advanced,
but with this exception home railways are dull.
Foreign stocks are likewise inanimate, the amount
of business being small. Metropolitan District and

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Varna Railway shares continue to show firmness.
There is a good supply of money seeking employ-
ment in the discount market to-day, while the de-
mand is moderate. The lowest rate for bills, how"

ever, is 4; per cent. In the Stock Exchange short

loans are obtainable at 34 to 4 per cent.
At Paris to-day, according to Mr. Renter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentis opened at
67fr. 75c., being sc. better than on Saturday.
Consols are now quoted 884 to 4 for money,
and 881 for the account (April 6). The
official business report is as follows :—Three
per Cent. Coseols, for money, 884, 4, 4 ;
Three per Cents. Reduced, 861, ; New Three
per Cents., 864, 4 ; India Five per Cent. Stock,
1031 ; and Exchequer Bills, 6s. prem.
Foreign stocks are dull. Turkish Beads

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Spanish Passive are also 1 worse, but
the Certificates have improved 1 ; Confede-
rate Bonds are slightly firmer. Some of
the present quotations are annexed, viz. :
Greek Bonds, 201 to 1; Mexican, 251 to 28 ;
Confederate, 36 to 37, ex div. and drawing ;
Spanish Naive, 32/ to 33 ; the Certificates, 161
to f ; Turkish, of 1869. 691 to 70, ex div.; ditto
1862, 71/ to 721 ; and the Consolidds, 521 to 1.
Transactions are recorded as follows :—Brazilian,
1852, 1858, 1860, 81; Egyptian, 94, ex div.;
ditto second issue, 93f, 93, ex div. ;
dub, 1864, 961 ; French Four-and-a-Half per
Ceuta., 92fr. ; Italian, for account, 64 ; ditto
scrip, 21, 2}, dia. ; Mexican, for account, 26 ; New
Granada, 12 ; Portuguese, 1856, dcc., for account,
471, 1 ; Russian, 1862, 89 ; ditto, 1864, 911;
'Spanish, for account, 471 ; ditto, Passive, for
amount, 321, 331 ; ditto Certificates, for aooonnt,
161, 7 ; Turkish, 1854, for account, 931 ; ditto
1858, for account, 701, ex div. ; ditto 1862, 100/

Bonds, 72, ; Vene;nela, 1862, for account, 43.
International Financial shares are now quoted
to 1/ prem., ex div. ; General Credit,
2to k prem., ex div.; London Financial, 5 to k
prem., ex div. ; Imperial Mercantile, 1 to
prem., ex div. • Hudson's Bay, 14} to 15 ; Otto-
man Soci6t4 G6n4rale, 2to I prem.
The quotations for the shares of some of
I the new companies era subjoined ;—Oily of
Milan Improvements, 4) prem. ; Metropoli-
tan District Railways, 6 to prem. ; China
Steamship and Labium Coal, 2} to dis. ; Rio
Janeiro Goa, kto prem. ; West London Docks
and Warehouses, lk to 02 dia. ; Yarns Railway,
31 to / prem. ; South African Land and Finance,
to prem. ; Atlantic Railway Debenture snip,
6 to 7 prem.
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The fortnightly settlement in shares and foreign
stocks will begin to-morrow (" continuation day")
and end on Thursday.
The following notice, relating to the Danubian
Principalities Loan, was forwarded to the Stock
Exchange on Saturday by the Imperial Ottoman
Bank :

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The Imperial Ottoman Bank have advises from their Be-
ehareet agency, Mating that the usual monthly instalment
of the meta= &Wm as amount of the interest and oink-
ing fluid of the Danubian Principalities Loan ban been duly
received.
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The Australasian, which left on Saturday for
New York, took only 1981 in specie, so that Friday's
rumour of a large withdrawal of sovereigns from
the Liverpool branch of the Bank of England ir dis-
proved.
The steamer Lulea takes 27,870/. in silver and
5,8181. in gold for Bombay.
The Istaniboul has arrived from Melbourne, with
15,0001. in gold.
The Auglo-Italian Bank have made a call of fit.
per share,
informed that the arbitration long pend-
ing between the Humber Ironworks and Ship-
building Company and the vendors, Messrs.
Samuelson and Moss was brought to a close on
Friday last, and that Mr. Hawksaaw's award may
be looked for immediately.
The prospectus of the Wholesale and Import
Timber Company (Limited) is issued. The object
is to purchase British and foreign timber' deals,
and other woods, and to supply them to the
trade—in fact, to carry on the business of whole-
sale timber merchants. The company proposes to
act as agents for country dealers in English tim-
ber, upon whose consignments advances will be
made. Agents are to be established at the seaports
and in many towns throughout the kingdom. The
directors state that they have secured the services
of a gentleman as manager, who, from his know-
ledge of first-elan buyers and long experience, is
thoroughly conversant with the timber trade, and
who will also be assisted by a practical committee."
The capital is 250,000/. (subject to increase)
in 25,000 shares of 101. each, with a first issue of
12,500 shares, on which 10s. is to be paid on appli-
cat on and 11. 10s. on allotment.
The half-yearly meeting of shareholders of the
Great Western Railway of Canada is called for the
12th April, at the London Tavern.
An extraordinary meeting of the British and
South American Steam Navigation Company
(limited) is called for the 21st inst. "to receive a
report of the arrangements made by the directors on
behalf of the company."
The directors of the Great Indian Peninsula Rail-
way Company are inviting tenders for the construe-
tion of the works of the first section of this com-
paey's railway S.E. of Sholapore, from 6holapore
to Kulbuags, a length of 701 miles.
The Master of the Rolls has just appointed
Mr. Cbatteria, the accountant, to be official liqui-
dator of the General Rolling Stock Company
(Limited).
The Master of the Rolls has appointed Mr.
James Cooper, of the firm of Johnstone, Cooper,
Winds, and Evans, official liquidator of the West
of England Lead Smelting Company (Limited).
Petitions for the winding up of the Factage
Parisian (Limited), and the Commercial Navigation
Company of India (Limited), are to be heard before
the Master of the Rolls, on the 18th inst.
Intelligence has been received of the arrival of
the Mexicana, at Port Natal from London. This
vessel was considerably overdue, and the rate of in-
surance upon her bad risen at Lloyd's to 30 guineas
per cent. premium.
With reference to the stocks of goods in the
bonded warehouses, we take the following from the
circular of Messrs. Joseph Travers and Sons, from
which it will be seen that daring the month of
January some diminution occurred in the accumu-
lations of produce :
Bebjoiss6 Y as women of the quantities el the prin.
apel articles of imparted aterehembee subject to Gomm
duties mimalehig in the beaded WMPIIiIOIIIIIIIII of the United
Zbnyleni cm the 81i$ Jemmy, 1886, compered with
the enemeition in meereheeme en the 81st deanery, 1863
mad 1886
leareieree lo the Orions Wareham"
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ban ......pr 8.6811.668 SAW 7,108,811
Ina* gais. 8.877.888 UMW 4sisAr7
liazzillaall hoop) cam 76.1118 liken 166.868
amplasol co& ;MAI MOMS 411111,6116
Nokomis
Tor,lb. 77,707,088 91,1107.477 Wombs
Tobacco lb. 51,411.11.1 86,184,268 74.487.6511
Wino gala. 11.813,06 12,710.157 14.406,118

The above Arras show that, emerared with the are-
=date el last year. the resin eight eat el dr
altar sanasentled are is raw of these Ikea
Ma- Tho /Wit artier re—ark which shove as r-
arer* el per Gar ; ppm 10 per MIL ; body, Psr
met. ; mined sager, 75 per ear ; arthar7 ,144111 38wa
rat. ; tas., 7 per rot. ; =booms, 18 per rat.
13 par or. The harm= el Imam re—collie, rit
rat ; aware, 16 pose rat. ; Warr 90 per art. ; r+.
16=sandt. ; sad arum. 20 per ea.t
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=daring Jae lashed is • sitiebietery anise-
. 1114 bury aecumULtiwa that have so loam weighed
era the machete. The pea at whisk the Meeks were
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rooleseer, tar, tobecoo, sad woo, while the eddy lieees el
is lames me inmate sad pepper.
The Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada
have notified that holders of the Atlantic and Bt.
Lawrence sterling shares, as well as of the Certifi-
cates of the deferred interest capital, may receive,
on the 15th inst., warrants for the inkeest due
thereon to the 31st December last, on pressatittios
of the certificates and of the coupons dated 16th
March.

Beroanr itraings.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 84 to Per the
Mal April, opened and aloud to-day at SR to 4.
For money the last price was 884 to 1. The
official business report is as follows :—Thres per
Cent. Consols, for money, 854, 4, ; ditto for ac-
count, 84 ; Three per Cents Redwood, 354, 4 ;
New Three par Cents. 891, ; India Stock,
918 ; ditto Five per OastSte* 1031, 1.
The India Five per Cent stook was quiet. Ex-
chequer Bills remain at 3s. to 7s. prem.
Foreign stocks shared in the heaviness of other
seourities. Confederate Bonds have again fallen
about 2 per cent. Italian scrip and Turkish Cos-
soy ids receded 1 • realisations of the latter stock
continue to be made for account of speculators, who
are becoming impatient of the delays which have
attended the negotiations at Constantinople. There
was also a decline of 1 per cent. in Greek and
Mexican Bonds and Egyptian scrip. Spanish Pas-
sire Bonds were inquired for, mid experienced a
fresh improvement of 4, but • decline of like
amount took place in the Certificates.
Bank shares showed again a drooping tendency
to-day, and were apparently prejudiced by the
stoppage of Messrs. Attwoods, Spooner, and Co., of
Birmingham, although this event, while operating
as a blow to the private banking interest, is calcu-
lated to increase the coefidenoe of the public in the
joint-stook system of banking. Aliases Bank
shares closed at 71 to si prem., being 10s. lower
than yesterday. City Bank declined 31., and a
reduction, though to • minor extent, was quoted in
Brazilian and Portuguese Bank, Chartered Mercan-
tile Bank of India, London sad China, European,
Bank of Hindustan, London, Birmingham and
South Staffordshire, London and County, Metro-
politan and Provincial, and Standard Bank of
Africa.
Hudson's Bay snares were last quoted to-day
141 to 15 ; Egyptian Trading, to pram. ; Ra-
tional Discount, 91 to prem. ; Joint Stook
Diacctant, 14 to 11 d,s ; Ottoman Socidtd
Ginifrale, 2 to 2/ cpriLL and City of Milan
Improvements, 44 to Contract Oirrpora-
don and Australian Mortgage and Land shares
were flat Millwall Ironworks have improved to
to Q prem., upon the publication of the directors'
report. Late in the afternoon there was • demand
for Financial Discount shares, which were quoted
better.
The shares of the financial companies were de-
pressed. London Financial at one period were
offered at 5 prem. ; Imperial Mercantile Credit and
International Financial at 1 prem. ; and General
Credit at 2 prem.; and the latest prices showed only
• fractional rally. The closing quotations are
annexed, viz. :—lnternatienal Financial, 1 to 11
prem. ; General Credit, 1/ to 21 prem. • Lon-
don Financial, 41 to 54 prem. ; Mercantile
Credit, 1 to 14 prem. ; and Credit Bossier and
Mobilier (old shares), ai to 41 prem.
The closing (but in some eases nominal) quota-
tions for shares in new undertakings are subjoined :
—Metropolitan District Railways, 51 to 61 prem. ;
Varna Railway, 34 to 34 prem. ; Genera InUatiost
of France, die. to par ; Rio de Janeiro
to prem._ ; Chins Steam and Labuan Coal, 21 to
. 11 dm. ; South African Land and Finance, Ito
11 prem. • Sea and River Marine, to 4 prem. ;
sad Continental Gas and Water, 1 to 11 prem.