The Express.
London, England, 1851-01-27 00:00:00

(Exp rt

LONDON, MONDAY EVENING, JANUARY 27, 1851.

BIRKENHEAD, LANCASHIRE, AND CHE-
SHIRE JUNCTION RAILWAY.

RAILWAYS.

On Saturday the twice adjourned extraordinary
general meeting of this compamy was held at the Tows hall,
in Birkenhead, for the purpose of determining on the sub.
jest of station aceossonodstion at Blanchester.
JAMBS BANCROFT, Esq., presided, and said that, in
socordance with the resolution passed at the meeting is
December, the directors had put tnenseelvee in communica-
tion with the London and North-Western Company, whose
expression of feelings of goodwill was very ratisiactory to
the board. T►e board had to rent that it bad been Sound
impossible to conclude the arrangements; but, looking at

THIS DAT.

Two o'Cioca.
There war some degree of flatness observable in the
share market at the oommencement of business to-
day, and prices were generally quoted at a fractional
decline, bet since then a shade more firmness hes
manifested itself, and most descriptions are held
rather more steadily. It will be seen, however, that
the rates realised are below the range of Saturday'.
market. Great Westerns were last dealt in at 82; ;
North Western stock, at 1241; Brightens, at 95.1 ;
Eistem Counties, at 61. Business is moderately
active.

what had already been done respeining the apilicatioi to
parliament to purchase the Bondieg Warehouse Company's
property, to make a aidiog from it to the London
and North Western line, and so connect it with that line
immediately, and ultimate) with this, it was agreed to bit
the bill proceed, with the distinct understanding that the
directors should conclude an agreement with the London
and North Western Company, if they could, and thereby
render a great make of money unnecessary.
Mr. C. HOLLAND thought tt 'delimits that the pro-
prietors should be again convened, than that they, sea board,
should take authority te conclude those negotiations whisk
woul.l be a heavy responsibility, and one winch they might
regret having incurred hereafter.
Mr. KNOB, the repreentative of the Shrewsbury sad
Birmingham Railway Company, said he thought it only
due to the proprietors that the particulars of that agree-
ment should be stated, that they should see whether
the company really was in a position to take traffic from
Chester to Manchester, without the control of the London
and North Western Company. ("Hear," and applause.)"
The company which he represented had commenced
to work upon the contract which they had made with that
compaoy for the conveyance of iron, a traffic which would
be of considerable extent, amounting to some hundred tons a
week; bat when the first quantity was sent, it was put into
• siding by the North Western Company, at Warrington ;
and an intimation was (Oren that their (the Shrewsbury and
Birmingham Company's) waggons would not be allowed to
run on the London and North Western line. (Hear, hear.)
He regretted that it was not in the power of the Birkenhead
Company to maintain its independence, and state that It
would conduct its own traffic, to such waggons as they chose
between Chester and Manchester. Even the traffic which:
did not compete with the London and North Western Com-
pany was treated in the same way. It was only the other
day, some iron sent by the Chester and Ethrewsbuty line wail
obliged to be discharged at Cheater into the waggons of the
London and North Western Company. (Hear, hear.) Now,
he said, that was • total obstruction of the traffic which
they were prepared to send upon the new line between
Custer and Manchester. There was only one way to
in. et the obetnicuon, and that was for this company to
supply them (the Strewsbury and Birmingham Company)
with waggons • out they were like all small lines short
of waggon stock, and could not, without great outlay,
supply the waggons which would he required. Even if ihe
Chester and Birkenhead Company had the requisite
number of waggons, it sass obvious that the restric-
tion attempted would amount to an almost eotire
prohibition to the traffic, when it was recollected that those
wsfigons would have to travel seventy miles empty in going
for the iron. (Hear, hear.)
Mr. RUMMENS thought that they should keep them-
selves in • position to accommodate the Sorewsniry
companies, the Great Western Company, the Shrewsbury
and Hereford, the Chaster and Holyhead, or way other line
which might dunk proper to run over theirs ; and so protect
their own interests, being armed at all points to act on the
defensive it neeemary.
The CHAIRMAN replied that it was not true that the
eompany had made arrangements with the through traffic cots-
mitts. of the other companies to conduct the iron on to Man-
chester. The goods' managers had met, and agreed upon the
rates, so soon as they were in • position to take the iron and
convey it to its dest.nation • but the company had not made
arrangements with the Laid= and North Western Company
for goods accommodation at all; and, without waiting for
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thos; Amor meat, the through traffic commit:ee pesseZt the
iron in question along as fuse the London and North Wes-
tern line ; and the officers of that company, without inane-
ti9l2l, took the steps referred to, namely obstructing it.
Besides, it wu lent in the rolling stock of the Shrewsbury
Compaq, which had no right to go over the North Western
line at all. The boud would not, for the sake el
getting the Shrewsbury traffic, deprive themselves et
other traffic. That they must have nemasarily, ►nd every'
possible facility should be given to the Shrewsbury com-
panies, so soon ae they should desire to be on amicable terms.
(Applause.) That company would never be tied up to say
party, unless they were psi pared to buy it.
A.ter some observations from Mr. Knox,
The CHAIRMAN said the board had arranged before-
hand, that if there was any dif . ulty with the question, the
meeting should be sdjourned till the last day of February,
when the boll yearly meeting would be held, which could be
made special for the purpose.
S 1 proprietors sup d their satiafactioa at the
chairman's etatement, and the meeting wec then adjoursed.

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MINES.

( From the Daily Nrirs.)
SATCHDAT ETSSINO.

The market hu been very dull to-day, but a few
sales have been made in Trelawney, Clijab and
IVentworth, and Trefusis.

In foreigi; shares, Australian, 21, ; and United
Mexican, 5, 41, have been dealt in, but not to any
great extent.
The business of the past week has been very fluc-
tuating, and owing to the influx of sellers of small
speculative shares, prices in this description of shares
have receded. Ou the other hand, for such as Mary
Ann, Trelswney, Devon, Great Console, Treviskey,
South Bassett, Bedford United, and a few other good
dividend shares, the demand has been beyond the
supply, although several heavy transactions have
taken place. In Mary Ann upwards of 30 shares
have changed hands during the week at 631 and 601.
per share, and in Trelawney several have been sold at
5211. to 35/. per share. In Devon Great Consols a
share has been transferred at 2801., and buyers still
to be found at the price. Alfred Console, West Tol-
fps, Tiebarosh,Tiacroft, and Venton have slightly re-
ceded. For Trefusis there has been a demand at 19
201.; and for \Vest Providence, at 05/. In Clijah and
Wentworth a young mine near to Wheal Buller' and
adjoining Trefusis, several large bargains have been
done at 51. be 51. 10a. per share. West Francis have
also been in demand, and shares have advanced from
171. to 251. The situation of this mine tear to South
Bassett and South Francis renders it a great favourite.

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The following are the latest quotitionst—Alfred
Consols, 17, 16; Bedford United, 61,1; Berion Con-
sols, 5; hl Bruno, 50; Cook's Kitchen, 9; Devon
Great Consols, 280; East Gunnis Luke, ; Merllyn,
41, 5; Kirkcudbright, 41, 51; South Tagus, 165;
St. Aubyn and Grylls, 51, 51; Tregordan' 6, 7 ; Tre-
bane, 15; West Caradon, 105, 110; Trelawney, 50,
61, 521, 54, 55 ; West Providence, 63, 68 ; Welling-
ton, 15, 16; West Tolgus, 6, 61 • West Francis, 20,
26; Wheal Margaret, 160, 160; Mary Ann, 64, 65,
66 ; Treluels, 18h 191, 201; Tremsyne, 20, 21 ;
Yentas, 9, 91 ; South Bassett, 340, 350; Crane and
Noma, 26; East Rose, 550. 570; East Buller,
7, i 1; South Francis, 317 ; Grumbler, 60, 75; Con.
durrow 110,115 ; East Francis, 41; North Tolgus,
20; East 'folgus, 40; Great Allred, 3,6; West
Alfred, 12,121; Clijab and Wentworth, 5,6; Stray
Park, 201; Levant 160; East Pool, 150; West,
Dingdorg, 2; Trebaroah, 6, 51.
At the weekly sale of copper ores, held at Truro on
the 23rd instant, 2,613 tots sold for 16,5271. 1 la. 6ci.;
average standard, 951.4..; average price per ton,
81. 6..; average produce, 91.
The following amounts were realised by the diffe-
rent mines :—Devon Great COO 5015,1,612 tons, 9,548/4
West Caradon, 357 tons, 2,6601.95. 6d.; Fowey Con-
sols, 236 tons, 1,3361. 145.; Wheal Friendship, 191
tons, 1,3821. los. ; Poldice, 141 tons, 636!. ; Bedford
United, 136 tons 8331.; Wheal Maiden, 24 tons,
931. 125.; Wheal Jewel, 11 tone, 471.61.; Wheal
Mary Consols, 5 tons, 10/. Total 2,613 tons,
16,5271. 11. 6d.
The next sales will take place at Truro on the 30th
instant, consisting of 3,322 tons; and at Redruth on
the 4th February, of 4,709 tons.

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FORGED NOTES.—We wen lately shown a Sk
note purporting to be issued by the Nottingham and Not-
tinghamshire Banking Company, which aas the other day
paid to a gentleman in Leeds, end which has sines been di►
twined to be a forgery. We also understand that utter
forgeries on the same banking company have been recently
detected, and it is therefore desirable that parties to whom
such notes may in future be offered should take OHMS to
satisfy themselves that they are genuine.—Leeds Mercury.

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STOOL. EXONANOTI.—Prioes are still steadily rising—
fihkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire (221. share.), 64 d.—
Euttern Counties, e 4 3.l6—Bait Lancuhire 124—Lanca-
moire and Yorkshire, 674 4—Ditto (filth shires), 74 d.—
Lancaster and Carlisle (third shares), 64 p.—Leads and
Think, 131 14—London and North Western, 1254 6—Ditto
(dew shares), 4 p.—London and South %Morn, 84—
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 254 4—Midland, 50)1
4—Ditto (4 shares), 194 3,46 4 4 3.16 4 19 184 1516 19 d.
South Bestir= and Dover, 231 4 4—York, Newcastle, and
Berwick, 194—York and North Midland, 234 4.

MONEY MARKET.

THIS DAY.

Two o'CLocw.

Tt e market for the home funds is extremely quiet
to-day. The business transacted is unimportant, but
It has included a few operations in Consols and Re-
duced by the broker who usually acts for the govern-
ment, and though these purchases have not been
effected in the usual public manner, it is understood
they are upon public account, and they have con-
tributed to act as a prop to the market in the
absence of other business.
Consols were nominally quoted at the opening of
the market as they left off on Saturday, 961 to for
money, and 961 to for the account, but prices are now
a shade weaker, with the quotations standing at 961 to
1 both for cash and the 12th February. The official
report of business is : Three per Cent. Consols, 961, 4;
ditto for account, 961. Three per Cent. R-duced,
97Z, 1. New Three-and-a-Quarter per Cents., 99, 98Z.
Long Annuities, 1860, n, 13-16. South Sea Old
Annuities, 964.
. . . _

The unfunded securities are quiet. Exchequer
Bills, 1,0001, mark 60s. prem.; ditto small, 60s. and
575. India Bonds, I,OOOL, 68s. press.
The market for the foreign securities is quiet, with
quotations ruling at Saturday's range, but in several
instances prices are adhered to rather more firstly.
Spanish Actives mark IN,. The business reported
up to the present time is small, being limited to:
Brazilian Old Five per Cents., 891. Chilian Six
per Cents., 1031. Four per Cent. Dutch Cer-
tificates, 91. Mexican Bonds for the account,
331 ex dir. Russian Five Cents., 1131 ; ditto Four-
and-a-Half per Cents., 96Z, 97, 961. Spanish Active
Five per Cents., fur account, 18, 1; ditto Coupons, B¢,
; ditto Three per Cents., for account, 381. Venezuela
beferr.d Bonds, 11,
. . _ .

The imports of gold and silver bullion and coin in
the last week have been by the Ripon, from India,
4,0001. ; by the Trent, 819,843 dollars, or 163,650/.
Total imports, 168,0001.
The amount of the precious metals exported from
the port of London during the week ending Thursday
last, we learn from official sources, was 10,000/. and
8,755 ounces of gold, and 101,500 ounces of silver,
shipped as follows : Gold coin : to Belgium, 8,510
ounces ; to Dunkirk, 10,0001.; Gold bars: to Dun-
kirk, 245 ounce*. Silver coin : to Corfu, 22,000
ounces. Silver bars: to Hamburg, 25,000 ounces;
to Dunkirk, 18,700 ounces; to Shanghae, 38,800
ounces. The total value of these exports is about
70,0001.

Besides these amounts, the Indus, Peninsular and
Oriental steamer, took out from Southampton 297,4011.
in silver, and 20,5991. in gold, •o Ir. dia and China,
and 17,8291. in gold to Alexandria, making a total of
335,8291.
The following shows the lust quotations of exchange
at the shortest dates, from foreign places, on London,
compartd with the previous quotations :
Previous
Quotations. Last.
Antigua 4Bll
Alexandria
Amsterdam
Augsburg
Berlin 6th. 181 6th, 181
Buenos Ayres

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Bremen • 6lO 614
Charleston lO9 100
Constantinople ll2l piastres
Copenhaatia
Fre °Mort
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Genoa 26 OS 25.08
Havannals llO4 111 1194
Hamburg
Jamaica lOl 102 102
leipsie
Manilla
Madrid
Mexico
Milan
Mohtlo .. .....
N.ples 662 662
New O. leans ....
New York 110) 1104
Palermo —. 656
Pernambuco 29) 30d. 294 d.
Rigs
Komi 4BO 466
Ben Francisco
8% Petersburg

Sirs — 28 80
Trieste l2l 41 1211.36
Valparaiso
Venice 2B 82
Vienna
Z tate 5ll Scl.

Amsterdam letters of Tuesday report much steadi-
ness in the stock market. The lot prices noted are :
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 57 to 1-16 ; ditto
Four per Cent. Certificates, 877. Belgian Two-and-
a-Half per Cents. (Rothschild), 477 to 5-16. French
Three per Cents., 53 9-16. Spanish Ardoins, 5101.,
12 7-16; ditto Coupons, 8 ; the Inland Three per
Cents., 33a ; the Passive Bonds, 37 to 13-16. Por-
tuguese Five per Cents. (London), 35 1-16 ; ditto,
Four per Cents., 34 11-16. Russian Five per Ceuta.
(Hope), 1798-1816, 105}; ditto, Five per Cents.,
1828 9, 104; ditto, Five per Cent. Certifs.,..llB3l-3,
941 to ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents, 947;
ditto, Four per Cents. (Hope), 867 ; ditto Four per
Cents. (Stieglitz), 86. Austrian Five per Cent. Metal-
liques, 70; ; ditto New Five per Cents., 767 ;
ditto New Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 377 to 9-16.
Danish Five per Cents., 987. Brazilian, 1824, 1001.,
897. Mexican Bonds, 337, 7, 13-16. Greek Five
per Cents., 5 3-16.
A bill is now before the Netherlands legislature,
reducing the duties on imports of machinery and tools
into the East Indies for agriculture, manufactures,
steam navigation, and mine working, to 6 per cent.
if imported in foreign bottoms, and free if in Nether-
land bottoms.

The Rat'way Times' states that the opposition
shareholders in the Eastern Counties Railway have
decided upon presenting a memorial to the board,
calling for a modification of the Norfolk agreement,
so as to bring it within the limits of a working agree-
ment, and likewise urging a general arrangement for
working with all the lines in the east of England.
They require, further, a paid mrtuaging director. The
Eastern Counties bard, who will have hard work to
make out a good case to the proprietors, have made
an agreement, said to be for an amalgamation with
the Eutern Union, and including the prot,syes of the
board, the Norfolk and the Lowestoft.

It appears from an analysis of the railway traffic
returns for the past week (which were given
in Saturday's Express) published by Herapath's
Journal, that on 6,242 miles, 224.9151. was received,
being at the rate of 361. per mile per week. For the
corresponding period of 1850, 189,4511. was received
on 5,482 miles, or at the rate of 341. 15s. per mile per
week. There is, consequently, an increase in the
mileage of 760 miles or 14 per cent.: an increase in
the amount received of 35,4661. or 18; per cent., and
an increase of 11. 3s. in the amount received per mile
per week. The gross traffic returns ;for the three
weeks of the present year amount to 678,7851. For
the corresponding period of 1850 they were 573,0081.
ENGLISH PUNDS.—Tau Dar.
Sauk Stock. 214 15 3 par CL Goa._ 4:44. NI 1
3 pre Ct. Red. Auto., 971 f 1,34 per Cts. ori
3 pm 01.0 ca. Anna, 961 Hzeitaptor balm. 675. to 60.
:OREM. lUNDS.
par Ot. Austrian Bonds, 1 par Ct. fireman Ms. 17 18
48 par Ot. B• 4. Good.. 92 2 Grenada lishirrad WA, 3) 46
6 per Res Ms. 334
2fitorPwg.lalfraal* —llan 84.., 89 Si tor gi.Pe uriso Ada. 7
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Ipar IN. Malan lu3 6 Litt° Spanish Oda, 18 6
Liao Column. the. 3 pm Ct. SpantAl WA.*
Columbian Equator 1id5..31 f Do. Ditternd Hda,
3 per Ct. Dootsb 77 9 LIM Nobs Mi. 31
pt, (A. Dot& lids., 67A Ot CL Vatieluth IML, 20 2
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EXCHANGES AND STOCKS ABROAD.

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