The Express.
London, England, 1853-11-16 00:00:00

Land shares to-day were generally rather better.
Bank shares were quiet and steady. in price. Crystal
Palace shares were also steady,closing 1 1-16 to 1 3-16
prem. London Dock stock has been dealt in at 110
to 3; Southampton Dock, 351; Australian Royal
Mail Steam (81. paid), 33 to 31; General Steam
Navigation, 261; General Screw Steam Shipping
(181. paid), 13 ; and Netherlands Land (2!. paid), 21.
The present quotations of insurance shares are sub-
joined : Albion,9s; Alliance British and Foreign, 25; ;
Atlas, 20; Church of England, 33; City of London,
23; Argus Life, 23; British Commercial, 73, 73 ;
Clerical, Medical, and General, 203; County, 127,
Crown, 201 ; Eagle, 71 ex div. ; Equity ani Law Life,
63 ; English and Scotch Law Life, 41 ; Euro-
pean Life, 201 ; Family Endowment, 4 ; General,
51; Guardian, 595, 59; Globe, 142, 143) ; Imperial
Fire, 375 ; ditto Life, 20 ; Indemnity Marine, 60 ; Law
Fire, 43 ; Law Life, 66 ; London, 281 ex div.; Legal
and General Life, 61; Medical, Invalid, and General,
33; Minerva, 6; Monarch, 11; National Loan
Fund, 21; National Provincial Life, 11; ditto,
Fire, 13 ; New Equitable, 13 ex div.; Palladium
Life, 3 ex div. ; Pelican, 45 ; Phmniz, 185;
Professional Life, t ; Rock Life, 81; Royal
Exchange, 242 ; Sun Life, 65; Union, 220; United
Kingdom, 63 ez div.; Universal Life, 453; Victoria
Life, 51.
Of canal shares the latest Stock Exchange quota-
tions are subjoined :—Ashton and Oldham, 168;
Brecknock and Abergavenny, 821; Birmingham
(guaranteed 4 per cent. by the London and North
Western Railway), 973; Derby, 63; Coventry,
200 ; Grand Junction, 691; Grand Surrey, 50 ;
Grand Union' 121; Kennet and Avon, 61; Leeds and
Liverpool, 554; Leicester, 67; Leicester and North-
ampton, 441; Loughborough, 550 ; Macclesfield, 66 ;
Oxford, 1123; Peak Forest, 97; Regent's, 163;
Rochdale, 86; Stafford and Worcester, 410; Stour-
bridge, 290; Severn and Wye Canal and Railway,
24; Warwick and Birmingham, 41 ; Warwick and
Napton, 19; Worcester and Birmingham, 36; Wilts
and Berke, 7.
Prices of Oas and Coke Companies' shares range
as follow. :—British Provincial, 22; Brighton, 15 ;
City of London, 1323; Continental (Third Capital),
673; Equitable, 27 ; Great Central, 14 ; Imperial,
853; Independent, 46; London Parliamentary Pre-
ference, 25 ; Phoenix, 273, 28 ; Ratcliff, 70 ; United
General, 21 ex div.; Westminster Chartered, 383;
ditto New (101. paid), 71.
Waterworks stocks are thus marked :—Berlin, 11;
East London, 130 ; Southwark and Vauxhall, 893,1;
West Middlesex, 113.
Shares in bridge associations command the follow.
ing prices :—Hungerford,l2; Waterloo,sl; Vauxhall,
233.
Other stocks are thus quoted :—Canada Six per
Cent. Bonds, 113 to 114 ; ditto Five per Cent., 100;
Price's Patent Candle Company, 26; ditto New (201.
paid), 22 ; Equitable Reversionary, 115 ex div.
Annexed are the latest reports from continental
bourns, as received by Mr. Renter's express :
Amsterdam, Monday, closing prices:—Dutch Four
per Cents., 92 ; ditto Two-and-a-Half per Cents.,
601; Spanish Deferred Three per Cents., 211; the
Coupons, 5 5-16 ; the Old Three per Cent. Foreign,
443. Austrian Five per Cent. Metallic*, 751.
Peruvian New, 681. Portuguese New, 36 7-16.
Mexican New, 231. This bourse shows flatness.
Austrian and Peruvian have fallen. Paris, closing
teof this day, for money :—Three per Cent.
ties, 73.60; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
99.95 • Bank Shares, 2,925. Compared with the
closing rates of yesterday, these prices show only a
trifling variation. Vienna, Monday :—Austrian Five
per Cent. Metallic., 913; exchange on London,
11.19. Bank shares, 1,300. The Austrian funds
have again declined, whilst the exchange on London
continues to rise.

LONDON COURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Nov. 15.
Time. Priam es otiotiatat tills day,
Bills and IL Honey.
Amaterdain par! Short 11d. MM..— lld idaetr.
Ditto
Rotterdam
Antwerp
Bey
13rnce. Hest - -

amours and Alton ;, „ ... ... 4/4cll. 13ons. Sock
St. Petersburg per ruble, , 3 A Oen°. ... 36 pence
Paris per g Short 24fr. 93c. ... 25fr. Oa
Dips...„, ..3 alontbs2sfr. 20e. ... 25fr. 29e.
13ogos s. „ „ 25fr. 2210. 25fr. 271
Pronidbrkas-the.Mahse pee £OO , 110111. u. 7... 1111 c.
Trans (effective) pert „. 1111. 303 r.... Me. 40kr.k7
Trieste • „ „ 1111. 35tr. ... 111. 45ar
NNW per dolly " pi pesos ... 50 pomp
,s ~ 001 Ponce SO
•••. 001 Ponce
Mir " pesos .. pesos
Boresienn. „ ~ 491 penes ... 491 woe
tize µ„ „ 501peaos ... 50 posts
Gib.iar• •••••••• s " :00 penes ... 491 pram
GLeghorn. t. ,09 penoe
Leghorn
Genoa
Naples per iluost „ 424 pm* ... 421 pose
Palermo per owns " 1251 pines ... 1251 pesos
.osina
Ll.bon per mUrci 90 day, date 53 penes .. S 2 pence
Norio pence ... 530
Sow York
pass

THIS DAIL—Two o'CLocx.
The funds, after being maintained at a rise of :
per cent. during the greater part of the morning,
have fallen back to the closing range of yesterday,
on the publication of telegraphic statements reporting
the defeat of the Russians, and their retreat on
Cranstadt, in Transylvania. Consols opened 941 to
,t, for account, advanced to 941 to 93, and are
now quoted 944 toy for money and 941 to for the
6th Dec. The Three per Cents. Reduced have been
dealt in at 93: to 94 ; the Three-and-a-Quarter per
Cents., 951 to 96; India Stock, 250; Bank Stock,
218 ; and Exchequer Billy, 3s. to 6s. prem.
Foreign stocks remain very quiet. Russian is
rather flat. Mexican is quoted 251 to # ; and Spanish
Deferred, 211 to Spanish Old lhree per Cents.
have been dealt in at 45 to: ; Russian Four-and-a-
Half per Centel., 98: to ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Cents., 63; ; ditto Four per tent. Certifs., 94g.

SAVED BY lIIS SPVli9.—As a private in the lit
Dragoon Guards, in Bath, on furlough, was going up stairs,
he lost 11:s balance on the lai.diug, and being a tall man, fell
lover the banisters, and pitched on the fluor of the kitchen
passage. Fortunately, in his descent his spurs caught in
I the banisters and thus broke his fall, or the accideat might
hays been faial.—Bath Journal.