The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-16 00:00:00

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The annual meeting of the Tonrnay to Jorbfae
and Leaden to Smash Railway Company is ogled

for the Tith in t. at Brweels. -
The annual meethsg of the Diwyndy Iron Ore
Company (Limited) is called foe the 29th inst.
The share certificates of the Trinidad Petroleum
Company (Limited) are to be ready for delivery, in
exchange for the bankers' receipts, on the 20th

inat. -
At the annual meeting of the Standard Life
Assurance Company on Tuesday, at Edinburgh, the
report stated the number of pohaas for the year to
have been 1,428, for a total of 806,9801., yielding
in new premiums 26,8961., and thatthesecumulated
fund is 2, 620,71/21., and the annual revenue 487,3801.
The following aborts the receipts of the Mel-
bourne and Robson's Bay Railway for the four
weeks ending the 19th Jan. :—For the week ending
29th Dec., 1861, 1,6911.; corresponding week, 1863,
1,6951. ; for week ending 6th Jae., 1866, 2,2431. •
corresponding week 1864,2,0761. ; for week ending
n., 1866, 1,6941.; corresponding week 1864,
1,306/. ; for week ending 19th Jan., 1866, 1,621/.;
corresponding week 1884,1,6841.
We are requested to state that the list of appli-
cations for the preference shares of the Wallachtan
Petroleum Company (Limited) will be closed on
Wednesday, the 2 met, for London, and on
Thursday, the 23rd, for the country.
With reference to the market for AlDatiollll se-
curities, Mr. K F. Satterthwaite reports as f ol-

lows :
At the latter end of last week there was a good market
in London for American securities at full rates, some large
lines of United States 5.20 Bonds being takes at speculative
Ibooollllt ;on the arrival of the Euro however, with infer-
rarities that the Secretary of the was seeking
authority to contract a further loan of 600 • of dol-
lars, the price gave vvsy from 55 to 521. and the cc
Dental mutat appesmag WIG NIT saPplied, mat shit:"
meals of beada have noz found ready buyers, eveu at the
reduced quotations. Illinois and Erie ahem Tare also de-
clined 1 dollar from the highest point touched, the fOrtnef
closing 531 to 51, the latter to ; Atlantic' and Great
Western Debenture scrip elegem 61 to 7i premium, for pre.
mut settlement.
Coupons of the English series (K) of the Five
per Cent. Debentures of the Dutch Mortgage Bank
falling due on let April, will be paid at the rate
of 1/. ss. each on that date by Mesas. G. and A.
Worms.
Messrs. Rothschild and Sons have announced
the dividends due at the end of the month •on
Brazilian Bonds and Danish Three per Cents. of
1825.
The subjoined on the bullion market, is from
the circular of Messrs. Sharps and Wilkins :
Brines continues exceedingly limited in the market for
bar silver, and, judging from the last Indian salvia's, but
little improvement can be saticipated for gorse time to
come. The slight demand for mecca of remittance to the
Feet appears to be amply supplied by the mutant melee
of Indian government bills. At the provost price of
Is. Id. per oz. standard shipments to the continent are not
practicable. Mexican dollars remain without change at
ss. per oz. The letters from China to.dsy report no in-
crease in the inquiry for these coins, and were sales to be
preened, we fear some reductios in price would take .
The stock in hand is however by no means large, and plater
the most part in the hands of firm holders- The varchasee
of gold for France and Belgium have for the present
and all arrivals are likely to be taken to the Bank of
England.

WZDVISDAT Emmet
Consols, which closed yesterday at 88# to for
the 6th of April, opened this morning at 88#, and
closed at 89 to k. For money the last price was
881 to k. The official business report zs as fol-
lows :—Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 88.1,
1, ft, ; ditto for account, 881, ; Three per
Cents. Reduced, 86#, 87 ; New Three per Cents..
881, #, 87, 136 k, 87 ; India Stock, 248 ; ditto Five
per Cent. Stuck, 104, k ; Five per Cent. " an-
iseed" rupee paper, 101; ditto Five-and-a-Half
per Cent, 109.
The India Five per Cent. Stock and the Five
per Cent. rupee paper met with more inquiries.
Exchequer Bills were quoted 3s. to 78. prem.
Foreign mocks shared in the improvement ob-
servable in the other markets. Greek Bonds were
in prominent demand, and rose 1 per cent., the
Coupons at the same time advancing k. Spanish
Certificates rose 1; Turkish of 1862, 1 ; ditto, of
1854 and 1858, and the Guaranteed Four per Cents.
l; Montevidean Scrip,l ; and Mexican Old Bonds,
per cent Turkish Consolides closed scarcely
igher than yesterday. Italian stock fell f, and
the scrip of the last loan 1 per oent.
Very few changes occurred in the market for
bank shares, prices generally being steady. Char-
tered Mercantile Bank of India, London and China,
and Bank of Hindustan New shares, were quoted
rather lower.
Hudson's Bay shares were last quoted to-
day 151 to I, being rather better ; Egyptian
Trading, / prem., being also firmer ;
National runt, 9k to ft prem., being 2s. 6d.
higher ; Joint Stock Discount, za to
din. ; Ottoman Sociit4 G6udrale, 2 to 21 prem. ;
and City of Milan Improvements, 41 to k prem.
Discount Corporation and Union Marine Insurance
of Liverpool were quoted rather better.
The shares of the financial companies were in
good demand, and a general advance of 2e. 6d. to
se. per share took place. London financial shares
were in especial request, and rose nearly It.
The closing quotations are annexed, viz.:—lnter-
national Financial, 11 to lf prem. ; General Credit,
21 to # prem. ; London Financial, 6 to 61
prem. ; Imperial Mercantile Credit, lk to II preen. ;
and Credit Fonder and Mobilier (old shares), 41
to 4k prom.
Tim closing (but in some cases nominal) quota-
tions for shares in new undertakings are subjoined :
—Metropolitan District Railways, 7 to 74 prem.,
showing a fresh rise ; Varna Railway, 3r to k prem. ;
Rio de Janeiro Gas, to 1 prem. ; West London
Docks, 11 to 01 din. ; South African Laud and
Finanoe, 1 to lk prem. ; and Continental Gas and
Water, to k prem.
Since the recent debate in the House of Com-
mons there have been more inquiries for Canada
Government Debentures, which have to-day reco-
vered k per cent.. Victoria Debentures were also
firmer.
United States 5.20 Bonds were steady at 521 to
531.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debenture
scrip was quoted 8 to 9 prem. for money, and 6k
to 7 prem. for the new amount

MINIIB.---( TR Itfl OA YJ

Two 0:Mom

In the mining market to-day the dealers are
almost exclusively engaged in the settlement of the
fortnightly account, and prices generally are un-
changed. Rut Lovell shares are quoted 11 to ;
Clifford Amalgamated, 294 to 30 ; East Russell, 4 to
i; Great Vor, 32} to 33t ; Great Leroy, 19 to ;
East Grenville, 4to 4 ; Great North Laxey, 3to ;
Wheal Seton, 193 to 209 ; North Bassi 10s. to
Us. 6d. ; and Great South Tolgus, 2 to .
Foreign and colonial mining shares are inactive.
A general meeting of the Don Pedro North Del
Rey Gold Mining Company (Limited) is called fur
the 23rd inst.

A Curer FRAVD.—At the Mayo seeizes Dr.
Barrett, a graduate of the Dublin University and as 11. D.,
registrar of births and deaths to the Castlebar Poo.law
U/00111, lass pleaded guilty to a charge of extraordinary
(mad- He literally drew upon big ismagiosticro for his
records, wed, in order to increase his fees, entered in
the register a number of births and deaths that had
never mires plaoe. The crown did not pros; for
pnnishment ; but allowed Dr. Barrett to go ont on
his own reoignisanes, for the followieg reasons '
It was the first offence of the kind in Ireland ; he had not
seeds a false entry el any actual birth or death, be was a
married man with several children depending on him for
support, be had loft all his sit/maws, and had been
in prism for six mouths. Judge Christian, without as-
sinning the responsibility of this lenient comma gave It his
emotion. Ho thought the crown had exercised a Mee dis-
cretioes, because the fabrication would not affect the legi-
timacy of children or the honour of families. "It rather
appeals," be said, "to be a caws in whirls, is an nafortn.
nate merueet et temptatioe, when, perhess, pressed br
want, he adopted this clumsy, trumped-up fraud, is which
I there is certainly not the name culpability as if it bad beam
a forgery of the same, of persons who had wailed. The
object in such mese es this is not so much that of ptivith•
meet as of prevention. It is an offence of as ezoepeionel
kind, not likely to mar stain."
CANADIANS Is Tux PIMPIMAL Asicr.—A Canadi&n
asses, on Information which It hits mason to believe
' . tri me% that the /somber of Canadians who have enlisted
' I I. the United States army since the hastening of the war is
• 48,000. Of this number 35,000 were French °mullein',
no ism than 14,000 of whom have died on the bettle4eld.