The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-18 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.,

Twir o'CLocir.
The funds remain very steady, at the improved
quotations lately established, though the amouut of
business offering is still very moderate. English
railway stocks remain rather heavy, and in several
instances prices have slightly receded. Foreign

securities are rising.
At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Renter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes opened at
70fr. lOc., ex div., be►ng i per cent. better than

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Consols are now quoted 924 to 1, ex div 4 for
money, and 921 to 4, ex div., for the accciunt.
The official business report is as followir -
Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 9211 1 ;
ditto for account, 921, 1 ; Three per Cents. Re-
&mood, 924, 3 ; New Three per Cents., 9210 ;
Thirty Years Annuities, 1885, 14 ; lftink
Stock, 233 ; India Five per Cent. Shock,
1071, ; ditto Four per Cent. Debentres,
1001, ; Five-and-a-Half per Cent "enissed"
rupee paper, 112 ; and Exchequer Bills, 1%. lirem.
There is a good amount of business gc4i for-
ward in the foreign stock market today,
and prices generally are firm. The Turkish Loan
of 1858 and Consolidecs have improved 4 per cent.,
being quoted respectively, 70 to 4, and 394 tof.iThe
Loan of 1854 is steady at 84 to 4, and the scrip of
1862, at 3to 3 prem. Italian and Egyptian bends,
Greek Coupons, and Spanish Certificates have
advanced. Buenos Ayres and Spanish rall•
sive are firm, and Mexican steady. The
scrip of the new loans is firm. Trans-
actions are recorded as follows :-Brazilian, 93,
ex div. ; Buenos Ayres, 98; Egyptian, 931, 93;
ditto second issue, 911 ; Greek Coupons, 64, 1;
Italian, for account, 71/, 721 ; ditto Maremmans
Railway, 74 ; Mexican, for account, 313 ;
New Grenada ex overdue Coupons and
Hectares, 124 ; Portuguese, 1862, 47/,
48, 471 ; ditto scrip, 4,3/ prem. ; Russian, 1822,
971; ditto 1862, 931, 4 ; Spanish, 561 ; ditto
Passive, 24 ; ditto Certificates, Bf, 91 ; Turkish,
1864, for account, 844, 84 ; ditto, 1868, fdr ac-
count, 704 ; ditto 1001. Bonds, 731 ; ditto 1862,
scrip, 3, 4 prem. ; ditto, paid up, 711, 4 ; Vene-
zuela, for account, 25, 241 ; ditto scrip, 2 dia.
Mesas. Baring Brothers and Co. have sent
copies of the official confirmation of the Venezuelan
Loan to the committee of the Stock Exchange.
Tax Mnfores Parr Two o'Cisps.
Consols have improved to 921 to 1, ex divg, for
money, and 924 to 4, ex div., for the account-
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Foos o'CLoCx.
Console are firm, at 92jf to }, ex div., for money,
and 92} to i, ex div., for the aceount. ,

The City of Washington has brought 52,00 p/. in
specie from New York.
The remittances of specie to the East 17 the
steamer of the 20th inst. will be principal for
China, the large amount of government billed.° be
drawn monthly on India having caused for the time
an almost entire cessation of purchases of silver for
that quarter.
The directors of the Provincial Bank of Ireland
have declared a half-yearly dividend at the rate of
4 per cent., and also an extraordinary dividend of
30s. on each 1001. @hare, and 12a on each 101.
share.
The London agents of the Illinois Central Rail-
road Company have received the following advice.
from New York :
New York, Dee. 2, 1262.
Gentlemen,—The earnings of the road far November
foot up 368,800 dole. ; lend sales, 83,000 ask ; coilettione,
63,000 dole. The gain in traffic over same mouth LA year
is very large. You will also observe as improveot is
peg no in land sales. We have foods is hand for the pay-
ment of our January «owes, and a kw surplus in. avail-
able securities towards our April coupons. Nothing further
se to • dividend, but we expect to earn cum.—Yours truly,
(Beeped) THOMAS R. WALW, Treasurer.
Yams. Robt. Benson and Co., Laudon.
At the annual general meeting yesterday Of the
Royal Exchange Assurance Corporation the ordi-
nary dividend of 4 per cent for the half-year was
declared.
The annual meeting of the Oriental Inland Steam
Company is convened for the 27th inst.
At the meeting yesterday of the African Steam-
ship Company a dividend of 7s. par share was de-
clared, as recommended in the directors' report,
which was adopted.
It is announced that the coupons of the Atlantic
and Great Western Railway (New York division),
due on the lot January, will be paid on and after
that date at the banking-houae of Hews. Hey-
wood, Kenuards, and Co., at the rate of 4s. to the
dollar.
With reference to the market for American secu-
rities, Hr. E. B. Satterthwaite reports as follows :
W. have had an inactive market In London for Asierican
securities pending the arrival of the Preeddeet's message.
Since its receipt the market has ametaml a stronger tone,
with an active enquiry for Coifed States Five per Cent.
Roods (1874), also for Brief/Nance and Preferred Shares,
sod for Mims Central Share a, Railroad Roods would
command ready sale. bet few am offering. The recent
deemed for Virgieis Six per Cent. Beads continues ; the
mine iooludes ell over-due ecoupess. Shies car Ina, the
Stock Exchange Committee have authorised the recast leans
71,ettiilyaLicissodhOozattolVieistent Fi
anted rumilladratgigen43on.dil
numerous transactions have Ml= plea from 701 to 71.
• At an influential meeting yesterday of merchants
and others engaged in the linseed trade, a resolution
r was passed appointing a committee, with a view to
• the adoption of such measures as may obviate dis-
r pates and facilitate business. The pnneipal object
is to prevent the future adulteration of linseed.

WZDIfINDAY.E,IIIIIIIO.

Consols, which closed yester;i4aiiifi:lex
div. for money and 921 to for the Bth January,
opened and closed to-day at the same quotations.
The official business report is as follows :—Three
per Cent. Console, for money, 921, f, ex div. ;
ditto for account, 92j, 1, ex div. ; Three per
Cents. Reduced, 921, I • New Three per
Cents., 921, ; New Two-a'nd.a-Ralf per Cents.,
754 ; Bank Stock, 233 ; India Five per Cent.
Stock, 1074, 1 ; ditto Four per Cent. Debentures,
1001 • ditto Bonds, 275. prem. • Five per Cent.
"aniseed" '
rupee paper, 105 ; ditto Five-and-a-
Half per Cent. 112.
The India Five per Cent. Stock was steady at
1071 to 1, ex div., and Exchequer Bills at Bs. to
12.. prem. There were again some purchases of
India Bonds at 275. prem.
Foreign stocks were firm, and prices in several
instances have improved.
Ottoman Bank shares showed increased firmness
to-day, and the prioe had advanced at the close to
33 to for the old, and 51 to f premium for the
new. Agra Bank, Bank of Queensland, Laerial,
and Bank of New South Wales were • ewise
quoted better, while London and Colonial Bank
were rather flat.. In miscellaneous undertakings,
Oriental Gas and Berlin Waterworks shares were
more offered. A reduction was likewise quoted in
Copper Miners of England.
Ocean Marine shares closed to-day at 61 to if
prem. ; Thames and Mersey, 21 to 1 prem. ; Uni-
versal, 11 to 14th..• North British and Mercantile,
154 to 18 ; Commercial Union, par to prem. ; and
London and Provincial Marine, dis. to par.
The closing quotations for share. in new under-
takings were as follows :—London and Northern
• Bank, par to f pm. • English and Irish Bank, I die.
to par ; Bank of Bristle, Puniaub, and Delhi, f din.
I to I prem. • British and South Wales Zinc Smelt-
lug, to 1' prem. ; Socidt6 Financihre of Egypt,
to 3 prem. ; London, Birmingham, and South Staf-
fordshire lank, fb to 3 prem.
There were more inquiries for New Brunswick
I Government Bonds.

Wiscaranut COLLlas.—The second-mastership
of this college has become vacant by the death at the Rev.
Frederick Wickham, ILA., who was appointed is 1846.
The appointment is in the gift of the Warden and Fellows
of New College, Word.

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EQUITY COIJETS.—Dre. 17.
(Wore VierChaneelke 81, R. T. Kiodendey.)
NAM V. IA AND mans.

The bill in this can was filed to recover from the defen-
Isar a stun of 5,4001., paid by the plaintiff on account
of a pare of laird neer Paris, which the bill alleged bad been
purchased on behalf of the defendants. Is May, HIM, the
phuntiff entered into as optional cot try-t to purchase from
M. Emile De Girardin and M. A. D. D. itouvesu, a tract
d 64.47 d metres of laud in the Parc d• Priories, in the corn-
WOO of Boulogne, sear Parise for 15 francs a metre, with
a right to the plaistiff to nominate any person MI weboter
to his plow Mr. John Henry Dillon, one of the ddanta,
afterweidssaw the lead, sad agreed to parches* it, and on
lit faith of the agreement plaintiff exereisad hie option of
rarehase, and entered into an absolute contract,
awl homisated Dillon, who was entered and registered as
ea. owner, and the land became legally vested in
hf= erreariling to the law of Francs, although as
Awl hi the bill the purchase was really made by Dines on
Isibeff of himself and Bias and Cocks. another defendant,
ander an agreement between them. The purchase mossy
wee 967,170 franca, and the plaintiff paid two hatalments in
awe and August last amounting to 5.400/. The object of
Mem it was alleged, was to form a jointateek ccoapsay,
with a capital of 100,000/. in 10,000 shares of 101. each, The
sompsey ries formed under the name of The Pavia Leaded
. Association, with offices at 43, Charing-cross, London, and
SS, Boulevard do Otani:in, Paris, and a prosperem was
pa
_Midis& setting forth that the land was valuable for
buldier purocoes, or might be converted' into a public
garden. The company, however, did not succeed, the shams
were not taken, sad plaintiff, by his bill, sought to recover
the money he had advanced. When the bill was first filed it
seas demurred to, and the demurrer was submitted to. The
toll was then amended and again demomd to, and the de-
murer was allowed, with liberty to amend, and being re-
Imessided, now came on on plea and demurrer, the demurrer
being on the crowds of vagueness, and that the agreement
Net out by the plea was inconsistent with the bill,
Mr. Bally sod Mr. Swinburne appeared for the plaintiff ;
Mr. Deuisk Mr. Clio" and Mr. Dean in support of the plea
sad demurrer.
The Vice-Cbasoallor mid he considered both the plea and
demurrer had, and they most be overruled.

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.—Deno.
fittings at Nisi Prim after Term at Guildhall.—(Before
Lord Chief Justice Cockburn and a Special Jury.)
NONIO O. NITMLIIL—LIBZL AND SLAM:4M
(Coocluded from yesterday's Express.)
The Lord Chief Justice, in summing up, said he con-
gratulated the jury on having arrived at the close of • case
which was the most wearisome he had ever known, with the
special exception of the admirable forewic argument and
disputation of Sir F. Kelly the ions day, which caused
the hours to pass quickly i of heavily. He thought it
lamentable that the time of twelve commercial men should
have been occupied four weary days with this case, and in
the mean time the arrears of the Queen's Bench stayed.
wh'lst trying over again matters finally set-
tled long ago. The questions raised upon Chia
policy were proper subjects for discussion in • court of law,
and after they had been discussed in the Court of Ex-
chequer and in Chancery, be could not help thinking that
all parties might have een very well contented. Bet it
Mr. Fowler, with the co-operation and assistance of
Teased Mr.
to go into print, and appeal to the policy.
folders. That provoked • reply from the directors, and he
meld pothelp owning that he bad not much sympathy for •
man who, having appealed to the public, on being an-
mewed, changed the tribunal he bad chosen, and
had recourse to • court of law. It woe very like
the case of one men knocking down another,
and as soon as he rose to renew the combat calling for the
police. As he had said, he had not much sympathy with a
man en combat isto • court of law ; but as the ORBS IBM
there they must deal with it as they found it. The action
resolved itself into two heads—the libel alleged to be con-
Mined in the pamphlet, and the slander spoken by Mr. 1
Ritchie. The facts with regard to the libel were not in
dispute, and it was for them to say, when they were
stripped of the highly coloured and exaggerated complexion
given to them by counsel, whether they- did or did not make
out the truth of the passages in the pamphlet complained
of. They could not but lament the eerie' of mistakes and
misunderstandings that existed, but for which the
civil rights of the parties would have been de-
termined without the imputations of suspicion sad
distrust that seemed to have presented themselves, and
were prominently put forward in the course of the proceed-
ings. It was clear the directors were not liable on the
policy, and Mr. Fowler's pamphlet made serious imputa-
tions on them, which were calculated, if unnoticed and nn-
answered, to do them great and serious injury. On the
slander there was a conflict of evidence. Without referring
to what had been said about Mr. Jones, there could be no
doubt it was owing to him, as mischief maker, they had been
engaged four mortal days in inquiring again into them squab-
bles and disputes. It was for them to say, in the face of
positive oontradiction by two respectable witnesses, if they
could put faith in the °widen,e of the mischief-maker. A
mu who puts himself forward to stir up strife between
parties might not be the moat reliable witness. His lord-
ship left it to the jury to say whether, under the circum-
stances, there was express malice on the part of the directors
in patting forth their pamphlet ; and in Mr. Ritchie. in the
statement made by bim to Mr. Jones, or whether both
were done boot tide.
Whilst the jury were out considering the question left
to them by his lordship, Mr. M. Chambers tendered a bill
of exception', and his lordship had them back and ex-
plained the excepted points.
The jury said they bad made up their minds.
Lord Chief Justice asked them if they believed Mr.
Mackie spoke the words attributed to him by Mr. Jones.
The Foreman—No, we do not.
The Lord ChielJustios—Are you of opinion that the
directors have made out • justification of the libel com-
plained of
The Foreman—Yes, we are.
The Lord Chief Justine—Then that is • verdict for the
defendant.
The Foreman said they were of opinion no imputation
rested on Mr. limn*.
Mr. G. W. Jones, 25, Berm-{rest, Temple, wishes it to
be stated that he is not the Mr. Jones who save 'video's&
is the above mule.
VOISLEI AND ANOTHIIt a. inn SIANCHEATED AND LONDON