The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-31 00:00:00

Two o'CLocic.

In the English stock market to-day- there is less
than the usual business, and the transactions altoge-
ther are not of a class to call for extended notice.
Prices were at one time equal to the top range of
yesterday's market, but are now rather flatter, with
money sales offering, and present quotations show a
decline of per cent.
There is nothing of moment in the accounts from
Paris by this morning's mail, but the" bourse" was a
i shade firmer. By telegraph we are advised in the
third edition of the Daily News of the arrival off
Cowes of the Humboldt, from New York, which
vessel brings over specie to the amount of 273,000
dols., but these supplies are probably for Havre.
Consols have vaned between yesterday's range; of
97 to 1, and 971 to ;, the latter reduced price being
the ruling quotation at this moment, both for money
and the 12th of November. The other stocks
have been little dealt in, but India Stock has met
with a few purchases. The prices of the day's bar-
gains are thus officially stated, vii.:—Three per
Cent. Consols, 97.4,1 1; ditto for account, 97; ;
Three per Cent. Reduced, 97, 961; New Three-and-n
Qaarter per Cents., 971, 96; Long Annuities, 1660,
6 13-10, 7; ditto thirty years, Ifss9, 6 11-16; ditto,
IWO, 7 3-1 d; India Stuck, 2631, 261.
Exchequer Bills still show a downward tendency •
after the late advance Bills of all classes have been
dealt in to a fair extent at 325., 555., and 335. pr m.
India Bonds, 1,000/., mark 60s. and 58s. prem.
In the foreign stock market, with the settlement
of the account, there have been some operations in
two or three stocks, but they are not upon a large
scale. Generally prices exhibit a downward
tendency, the descriptions offered this morn.
hag. including Mexican, Spanish Actives, Sar-
diainn, and Dutch, being the turn in favour
of the buyer. Mexican bonds have been sold
nt 25 for the account, and the confirmation of the
intelligenco of the revolutionary movement, with the
threatened advance of the insurgents on Matamoros
does not recur calculated to check the decline,
which has been very heavy within the last fort-
night. This news being only by telegraph, full
accounts are looked for with interest. The bargains
reported to-day are as follows: Belgian Four-and-
a-Halt per Cent., 91. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., 56.!, 1; ditto Four per Cent. Certificates,
801., 1, 1. Mexican Bonds, for account, Nov. 14th,
231, 1. Peruvian Deferral, 41. Portuguese Four
per Cents., 331. Itusi-ian Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
1011, 102. Sardinian Five per Cent. Bonds, 814 ;
ditto Scrip, 3!, 3 dis. Spanish Active Five per Cents.
for account. 191, 201, 191.
Our readers must not forget that to-morrow (the
Ist of Nov.) will be observed as a holiday at the
Stock Exchango, the transfer office of the Bank
being closed on that day for the purpose of striking
the half-yearly balance.
The subjoined table shows the extreme prices at
which business has been done in railway shares
during the account now closing :
id U. Alahef. Loweo.
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'io—Abrrtlevis Si
50 Oik dontan... lf.

50 Cil,t«t a:al It .:a4
20 Ea"'Alm 0amtap,.......
25 Y. 2.5 1.-Anca• hire
Si EdOm Glappw
25 Ur^.:t :•,51tern
lieu (jr.( 4cl
lon Lantaxltire and Vorkaltire
- •

17
..... ..... A
111
26
14
511 331

-sake at - ••
tli London sal Makwall
104 London and North Western ...... VS
1110 Lon i a tot south nestern
lto Manche-ter, ehediehl,alta Lincolnshire-- 21 .....
Its) Stitt fel .
23 North Itriti.h
17, North msottwatthlre
30 oatortl, Worcester, ard Wolverhampton
20 South Esters
5 Burk, Newcastle, & Berwick 1
50 Yore and North Midland
'the fluctuations presented by the above table are
by no means so extensive as usual, and indeed after
making allowances for the usual margin between the
terms for buying and selling, in several instances
scarcely any variation can be said to be shown. A
great many of the lighter descriptions of stocks, in-
cluding Scotch shares, in which a good deal of
movement was apparent a few months ago, have
scarcely been Nailed during the last fortnight.
With some half-dozen exceptions, including more
especially Lancashire and Yorkshires and Midlands,
the railway share market seems of late to have pre-
sented much less than the usual attractions to
speulatorm As regards the course of prices the ten-
dency
has, on the whole, been downwards, but the
present prices arc not the lowest of the account. As
compared with the quotations that ruled last settling
day, we have a decline of 10s. per share in Great
Westerns, Lancashire and Yorkshires, and South
Easterns, a fall of 255. in London and North
Westerns, and a very slight decline in Herwicks,
whilst Midlands exhibit a fractional improvement,
and Sou'h Westerns, and York and North Midlands
remain much the same.
The following letter, 111)&1. date 21th October, rt.-
eeived front Mr. Benjamin Oliveira, will show
the opinion of a competent observer at head-
quarters, out the desirability of keeping up agitation
on the part of the Spanish coupon holders :
By the English papers I learn that you have announced a
general meeting of hotetholtlers for the 20th inst. I await,
with much interest, the result of that 'tweeting as likely to
exercise a very important influence here. I hope the com-
mittee avid undertake the conversion, :Ind issue the certifi-
cates, as suggested. Upon the question of obtaining Mr.
Borrujo's signature Mr. Weisweiller has not renewed the
subject, and I suspect by his silence and reserve that he
may have received a hint from head quarters, that it would
sot bo permitted. I hope at the meeting a memorial will
be voted to. both chambers as soon as the y meet. In the
uncertainty which exists as to the stability of the present
ministry, I can hardly overrate the importance of keeping
our question before the country. At the opening of the
chanilwrs various interpellations are to he put to the minis-
ter by leaders of difii:rent parties, which may produce an
entire change in the government. Desiring to abstain from
taking the remotest interest in party politics, I have,
nevertheless, conversed with several of these dis-
tingu:shed men, who will, I feel assured, take up
the question of the law of the lit August,
with a view to its modification. It is to these able hands
that 1 shall emennit your memorial, who will, I am sure, do
it justice. From all this you will perceive that Ido not
,despair of achieving something, though of late there may
have been some counteracting introit nCeS at work. Igo
straight to the point, however, valuing at:their true insigni-
ficance, temporary and ill-devised impediments. Our
rights are so just and ivalienable, that, soon or late, they
must be admitted. Remain true to your cause at home, as
I will do here, and I have no fear of the result. We owe
much to the independence and dignity with which the
British press has treated the question. The Herald." and
Comer Publico, two of the best written journals here, are
with us as to the principle of justice we have on our side.
Notwithstanding the entire silence of the committee, MR-
chilly I have to acknowledge with much satisfaction the
several very encouraging letters from Mr. Tasker, which
have all come to hand, as well as those from Sir Ilenry
Baily and from Mr. Whaley, in which such kind mention
is made of my exertions. I think it better to refer to
these communications in my official i'espatehes rather than
have any private correspoinkrice upon so delicate a matter
as the settlement of the terms of foreign obligations.

At Paris a slight decline has taken place in the
exchange on London, but bullion is unaltered.
The directors of the Netherlands Trading Com-
pany havegiven notice that they will sell on the 13th
November, at Amsterdam, 16,090 boxes and bags of
Java sugar lying at Amsterdam ; 3,532 ditto, at
Rotterdam ; 1,521 ditto, at Middleburgh ; 3,568
ditto, at Schiedam.
There has been a moderate business done in Bank
shares during the week at about former rates, no
description attracting any particular movement.
London Joint Stock shares arc agiin weaker, and
London and Westminster too scarcely command so
good a figure as they did a fortnight ago, but Union
of London continue steadily moving up. The sales
reported are as follows:—Commercial of London
(201. paid), 251; London Joint Stock (10/. paid),
181„1, 18 ; London and Westminster (20!. paid), 201 ;
National of Ireland (22'. 10s. paid), 171; Oriental
Bank Corporation (23/. paid), 261 ; Provincial of
Ireland (251. paid), 41, 43); Union of London (101.
paid), 15?,Steam-o:it shares arc very quiet, and the only
change is a decline in Royal Mail Steam, which are