The Express.
London, England, 1853-08-09 00:00:00

LOCAL SMARR MARKETS.

DEERE: AL, Aro. B.—The market has been active and
an advance has taken place on Saturday's quotations front
Ito lj per cent. on all the leading stocks. Caledonian, 31
—Eastern Counties, 12I—East Lancashire, 181—Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 774 f 7—Loodon and North Western, 113;1
I—Ditto (j shares), I p.—Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincoln, 29—Midland, 71 North British, 8 3-16—South
Eastern and Dover, 21I—York and North Midland, 29j ).
MANCHESTER, Aro. B.—There has been greater activity
in consequence of the re-assuring advice.' from Vienna, and
prices have an upward tendency. Sheffield'', 281, j ; Mid-
lands, 711; Dovers, 211, a, ; York and North Midland,
291; Dittrict Bank, 91 p.; Leeds. 771 ; Chester and Bir-
kenhead, 22!. shares, 3j d.: East Lancashire Pref. Qrs.,
94 ; Cheshire Junction, 8 d.
LEEDS, Aro. B.—The telegraphic message received this
morning, to the effect that the Russo-Turkish question has
been Fettled, had a great influence on our market. Sellers
scarcely know what prices to ask; and as greatly advanced
rates were demanded, scarcely any business was done. Tiia
only quotation marked on the board was Little North
Westerns, at 81.
BIRMINGHAM, Ara, B.—There was rather a better feel-
ing in this market to-day, and prices were a static firmer.
Shrewsbury and Birmingham, closed at 61 2; and in local
stocks Birmingham Church of England Cemetery shares
were done at 31.

The prospect of the settlement of the Eastern
question made the market for tallow very unsettled
to-day, and prices showed a downward tendency.
Although very little business was done, the price of
Russian tallow may be quoted Is. to le. W. lower
than on Saturday. The dealers in this article arc
apparently awaiting further adviccs. Letters re-
ceived to-day from Odessa, it may be mentioned,
refer in terms of increased uneasiness to the lower.
ing aspect of the Eastern dispute.
The Portuguese financial agent has issued another
statement of the progress of the conversion up to the
2nd inst. lie states the total amount received at
3,103,801/., and the new stock issued at 3,311,6991.
The committee of the Stock Exchange have ordered
that the bonds of the Matanzas and Sabanilla Rail-
way and the shares of the Staines, Wokingham, and
Woking Junction Railway shall be officially marked.
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131,0001 The condition of the stock and money mar- been extensively circulated, may lead to more careful exa-
kets on that side is thus referred to by Messrs. Cam- mination by those who take notes of things extraordinary.
mann and Co.: I:is church of Stratford-upon-Avon was repaired about the
year IS3O, and some of the workmen having their attention
The past fortnight has been marked by no imrsortant directed to the fact that many persons who had attained to
change in the stock market. The transactions have been tb- full age of man were buried in the churchyard, and
limited. The general indisposition for active business, in- wishing. "for the honour of the place," to improve the
cident to the present season of the year, is inertaa,,l by the notebooks of visitors, set about manufacturing an extrani•
greater uncertainty of the preservation of peace in Europe. diaary instance of longevity. A gravestone was chosen in
In specula'ive stocks, the tendency is rather downward. an out-or the-way place, in which there happened to be 4
Investment securities are steady, and the amount on sale spine before the age (72). A figure 1 was cut in this space.
limited. The foreign demand is light. The prices of Erie and the age at death then stood 172. The sexton was
Railroad binds are well maintained, as the last_ quotations either deceived or assented to the deception, as the late
from London are better than were generally anticipates'. vicar, the Rev. J. Clayton, learned that it had become a
New York Central Railroad shares have declined about 2 practice with him (the sexton) to show strangers th;s
pee cent., sad those of the Michigan Central Railroad 3 gravestoa,, so falsified, as a proof of the extraordinary age
per cent. The business on both these roads is to which oerple lived in the parish. The virar had the
fully equal to the estimate. Tho Philadelphia and 'leading fraudulent figure erased at owe* and lectured the anteater
Railroad Company have declared a dividend of 3 per cent., his dishonesty.—. Totes oast Clutirier.