The Express.
London, England, 1865-06-03 00:00:00

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PROVINCIAL WARR NARKIMIL

ItayMMOOI,, ruin 1-861 r today :-laneaddre and York-1
shire, 12i; London and North Western, 12er I t-llanehester,
libeMald, and Misch% 68-Metropolitan, 1401 i-Ditto It:ten-
sion shares, 111.16-North Eastern Berwick, 111}-Month
&Meru, eon i—Bufialo and lake Rums, 4 546-(treat Lutele.
bourn, 14 7.1 Erie, 601-111kutoe Bank, p.-Mereantile and
Exchann Bank, 311.16 f d.-Britleh and Foreign Ilarine, p.
Imiesahlre Insurance, I P.

MAiscurifena. Jowl —There Wee • good business, and
pricers improved. Alliance Bank (Limited), 4 p—C. Cavemen and
Co. (Limited), 41 d—Ebbw Vale Company (Limited), 1 d—Ores{
Eastern. 474 7—Great Northern A. 1481 0 84—Great Western
of Canada, 10 9-16 I—General Credit (Limited) 1j p —Moots
Central. 7414 i 6—John Brown and Co. (Limited), p —lnn-
caelthm and Yorkshire, 123 1 —London and North Western, Int
4 3l—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, fa 3 24—Mer-
cantlls Bank (Limited), 3. ti—lferelitan, 1404 1 1 I tOi
I—Lfitto New liteosion. 11 134 - New York and
krie. 601 4—North Stafford/Mr , 781-Bolith Ceram. 1—
Thames and lmmune, ( Ilmitod). 6 3.
United States 610 ears'Y Bends, 674—Esilway Steal andMier
N..vr, 11 p—Floetwoods, 43-16.
BoursiOnait Juan L —The trammotirms In this market to-day
lode led South Btaffords. at 101—Warwick and Birmingham
Canals, at 171—Birmingham Banking Company shires, at ri—
gout& Staffordshire Waterworks, at a—Wolverhampton Water-
works. new, at 1 dl..—and Mantis Met,' shares, at IL 19e. 9d.
di& There were buyers of Oxford Second Guaranteed at 118,
and sellers at 119; yellers of Lloyds' Banking Company shares.
at 111 prem. : Ogley Land shares. at par; of Birmingham Gas,
B, at 131 of Alliance Fire at 4c prem.; of Metropolitan rigors,
lat9l ; Patent Pl* st 1 dia.. Patent Nut and Bolt shares were
quoted st 11 to 11 prem.
MUM. Jen L—New Three per Cent. Stock, 881—Ditto for
account, ilth June. Sr 4—Ditto for amount, 6th July, 6131 39
India 5 per Cent. Stock (trensferrable at Bank of Ireland. lOC
Bank of Ireland (7oo& paid), Er—National Bank (301. paid% 90—
Ditto New peered at 16 prem.) (2ttpsid) 921—Ditto far account,
931 —Royal Bank (101. paid;. 601 31—Belfast and Northern Com-
panies (all paid). 01—Dublin and Belfast Junction (all paid„
31—Great Southern and Western (1001. paid), 961-111diend
Great Western, and Royal Canal, 20—Dublin and Drogheda.
per Cent redeemable ha Din, end convertible prior to that year,
of which Noe. 7,401 to 8,600 are • anroeiminl g•t.

Errscr or A BALLAD. —lt would be easy, for
lastenee, within the range of lyric narrative, to find a poem
which, reeaidered se a poem, surnames Mrs. Sewell's pope- !
lay ballad. " Mother's Last Words ;" hard to fied ate so
completely 'Armada' the olio for which it was 'reties, so
fraught with the secret of true pathos—that which Vows;
out of the very nature of the thiup it deals with, the pathos
that is entangled and involved is life, the endear of the
simile, that fames wrote w is the creaked ten''
of the balled singer, hi the bare feet of the
forsaken child. We have emu a class of adult ,
erimioals so sunk in the strange apathy habitual to
those in whom the moral male his lain even frees lawny
am an unquickeeed germ ; so stolid and indiffentat, that the
voice of isetructioe sod wombs; seemed to pea through
them to the bleak wall beyoad ; we have seem snob a elms
mud, intended, 'waned to life, to intallipmes to ate-
tine, through the mare reodiog aloud of this simple story.
We have known them fellow its oouree with ever. sites.
, Ws eyes, with barites exclamations, with sobs with deeds
d tem, ea if there lay within it some spell, with power le
rest re theto,'were ft but for a moment, to their share la all
OA is most holy sad Wader in cox exeuston imitura—
Asti aritith &via. Jane amber.

Molly AL4ReritT,—(THlli DAL)

Two o'Cloos.

There is little busiume is the stock markets to-
day, and, with a preponderanee of sales, the earls-
' lions in prices are in an unfavourable direc-
tion. Ocinsols have declined per cent.
and several of the chief British lines gto a. Some
foreign securities are also lower, the most important
adverse movement being in Spanish Passive bonds.
The discount market is quiet to-day, and the
quotation for the best bills is unaltered, at 31
to per cent Short loans on English govern-
ment securities are obtainable in the Stook Ex-

change at 2} to S per cent.
The market for American securities is very Ist,
in consequence of the receipt of lower pries' from
New York, where the value of gold has si-
ps:kneed • oonsiderable rise. 5-20 Bonds are
especially heavy here, and have declined 71 per
cent., the present quotation being 651 to 66f.
Illinois Railway shares ars called 74 to I, and
Erie, 49 to I.

Consols are now quoted 89f to f, ex div., both
for money and the account (Jane 8). The official
business report is as follows :—Three per Cent.
Consols, for money, 891, f, f, f ; ditto, for ac-
count, 89f, f; Three per Cents. Reduced, 891 ;
New Three per Cents., 89f, f ; Bank Stook, 243,
241 f ; India Five per Cent. Stock, 1031, 1041;
and Exchequer Bills, 3e. prem.
In the foreign stock market, the principal
feature is a decline of per cent. in Spanish Pas-
sive Bonds. The Committee's Certificates,
Consolithis, and Mexican have also receded
1, and the Peruvian Loan of 1862 is fiat.
Some of the present quotations are annexed, viz. :
—Greek Bonds, 21 to ; Mexican, 24f
to f ; Confederate, 7 to 9 ; Spanish Pas-
sive, 30} to 31} ; the Certificates, 151 to
161 ; Turkish, 1858, 72} to 73} ; ditto, 1862,
74f to f ; ditto Oonsolidifs, 481 to t ex div.

Transactions are recorded as follows :--Brazi-
lian Old Five per Cents., 99/ ; Egyptian, 1664,
94, ; ditto 1001. Bonds, ; Datch Two-
and-a-Halt per Cents., 63 ; ditto Certificates,'
97/, 97 ; Greek, for account, 214, 21, ; Mexi-
can, for account, 241, g ; Peruvian, 1862, for
account, 791 ; Russian, 1822, 92 ; ditto,
1862, 901, 914; ditto 1864, 941 ; Sardinian,
76, ex div. ; Spanish Passive, for account,
31},1, 31; ditto Certificates, for account, 16/, 14;
Turkish, 1864, 92, ; ditto 1868, 73/ ; ditto 1862,
for account, 741, /, ; ditto 1001. bonds, 76, 1;
ditto Guaranteed, 10L

International Financial shares are now quoted
1 to f prem. ; General Credit, if to i
prem.; London Financial, 7} to 8 prem. ; Imperial
Mercantile, Sit to f prem. ; Credit Foncier and
Mobilier of England, 3} to f prem., ex div. ;
Ottoman Sociiitd Giuffra., 21 to 3 prem. ; and
Egyptian Trading, If to 1 dia.

The quotations for the shares of some of the new
companies are subjoined :—Metropolitan District
Railways, 9} to 10} piem. ; Moscow Gas, to 1
dia. ; Russian Iron Works, 7 to 9 prem. ;1
Anglo-Egyptian Navigation, 41 to f prem. ;
Yarns, Railway, 9 to 10 prem. ; Ottoman Com-
pany, 11 to 1 prem.; Lion Brewery, 21 to 3 prem. ;
Northern Assam Tea, old ►bares, par to i; prem. ;
ditto New or B, I to I prem. ; Dublin Grand Trunk
Connecting Railway, 3to prem. ; Peruvian Rail-
ways, 21; to S prom. ; and Plymouth Shipbuilding,
7 to 9 prem.

The A stook of the Metropolitan Extension Rail-
ways of the London, Chatham, and Dover Com-
pany is quoted 4to * prem. ; and the fully paid,
41 to 5} prem.
The scrip of the new Ottoman Loan is quoted 2
to 13 dis.

HALI•PAIT Two o'Cz.ocx.
Consols are still quoted 891 to f, ex div., both
for money and the account (June 8).
About 6,0001. in bar gold was sent into the Bank
yesterday, while 50,000 sovereigns were withdrawn
for Portugal.
The Etna, from New York, has brought 196,5061.
in specie, and the Erin, 57,0001.
There being no demand for India, the bar silver
by the Mexican packet was sold yesterday for Hol-
land at sa. Id. per ounce, showing no change. The
Mexican dollars have not yet been dispeael of.
Notwithstanding the fall in the value of money,
the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon ex-
perienced little change. Bills on Madrid and
Austria were inquired for. The usual list is sub-
oined.
astrisrdsia, 3 tamest, 11.19 to 4 t ditto, 3 Asp,
11.17 to 4 ; Botterdaro, 3 coot* HMO to i ; Ant-
werp. 3 mouths, 25.424 to 74 ; Ramberg. as. lasso. 3
menthe, 13.9 to : Paris. 3 days, 26.15 to 224
ditto, 3 mouths, 25.424 to 474; Fraalfort.ose-thrllairte, 3
mouths, 1204 to I ; Patentors (par roablid. itstootis,
304 to 1 ; Visas% 411. do.. 3 meths. 11.1.24 to 73; Theo*
se. 60., 3 mouths, 11124 to 174 ; Itsdrld, 'maths,
474 to 4 ; Cadiz, 3 mouths. 484 to 4 ; Luba's. 3 mouths,
25.65 so 80 ; Oases, 3 =oaths, 25.55 to 60; Milos. 3
mouths, 25.55 to 60 ; Naples. 3 watts. 25.55 to
80; Palermo. 3 months. 26.55 to 80 ; Mssenta, 3
mouths, 25.5510 60 ; Lisboo, 90 days, 514 to it ; Oporto,
90 days, 512.

' prices. The purchase money is to be 132,0001. The
works are In fall operstioa, and extensive order/
are stated to be on hand.

The fiat ordinary pneral sasetlag of the Loco-
motive Cotton Press Company will be held on
rWednesday, the 41st June ' • immediately after
Iwbieb an extraordinary general meeting will be
held.
The traffic reeeipts of the Metropolitan raiways
of the London, Chatham, and Dover Company this
week again show an inane*. of 1,0601. over the
corresponding week of last year.
The mails from India and China by the French
packets are expected to be distributed in London
about the 10th last.

Tamar Evicirm.
Consols, which closed yesteeday at 84 to 90 ex
div., both for money and next Thursday's settle-
ment, opened this morning at the same quota-
tion, and closed at 82} to 1. For the July settle-
ment the last price was 90 to 1 ex die.
The official business report is as follows :
Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 84, 90,
ex div. ; Three per Cents. Reduced. 891, New
Three per Ceuta., 84, 1 ; India Five per •Cent.
Stock, 1031, 104, ex di,.
The purchase by the government broker 10-day
amounted to 15,000/. Three per Cents. Reduced.
Exchequer Bills remain dull at per to 4s. prem.
Indian government securities were steady.
In the foreign stock market the chief feature was
a fall of I per cent. in Spanish Passive Bonds'and f
in the Certificates. There was also a reducaon of
1 per oent. in Turkish Consolidds. On the other
hand, Greek Sonde improved * per mint., Portu-
guese I, and Egyptian and Rumien live per Ceuta.
of 1862 and 1864, 1.
Imperial Mercantile Credit shares were dull, but
there was a rim of sa. to 7s. 6d. per share in
London Financial and Credit Fonder and 110-
biller. The cloning quotations are annexed, viz. :
—lnternational Financial, Ito 11 pram.; General
Credit, 1.1 to prom. ; London Financial, 7} to
71 prem. ; Imperial Mercantile Credit, 21 to *
prem. ; Credit Fonder and Monilier (both old and
new shares), 4 to prom., ex div.
The closing (but in some eases nominal) quota-
tions fee shares in new undertakings are sub-
joined :—Rio de Janeiro Gm, par to prem. ;
ikaglo-Eaptian Navigation, to 1 prem. ; Lion
Brewery, 21 to al prem.; Peruvian Itailways. 21 to
21 prem.; Russian Iron Works, 7 to 8 prem. ;
Dublin Connecting Railways, 31 to 1 pieta. ;
London Steam Collier, 1 to 11 prem. ;
Plymouth Shipbuilding, 7 to 9 prem. ; Estates
Investment, 11 to1:11 dm. ; Cheshire Salt Works, *
to 11 prem. ; Northern Assam Tea, old shares, par
to* prem. ; ditto B, to 1 prem ; West London
Ground Rent, 2 to 8 prem.; London-bridge Land,
2} to 3} prem. ; and Railway Credit, 1 to 2 prem.
In the market for bank shares renewed heavi-
ness wan in some cases apparent, and prices
receded. An improvement took place, how-
ever, in Merchant Bank, London and Borth
Western, London and Buenos Ayres new, Bank of
Queensland, and British and Californian Bank
shame.

Ebbw Vale, National Financial, and Peninsular
and Oriental Steam shares were heavy. There
were inquiries for Credit Foncier of Mauritius and
Oompsny of tfrin.an Merchants.
United States 5.20 Bonds were bet quoted 67 to
4, being steady.

MINES.--(THIS DAY.)

Two &Clam,

The transactions in the mining market to-day
are to a fair extent, and the tone is steady. Bait
Lovell, Great Busy, West Chiverton, Great North
Laxey, and North Miners shares are in demand.
Some of the present quotations are as fol-
lows :—Bast Lovell, 14 to 12 ; West Chiverton,
70 to 72} ; Great North Lately, 21. to 4 ; North
Miners' 7s. 6d. to 10a. ; Great Busy, 3to • Chi-
verton Moor, 31 to ; Bast Roiewarne, ito 1 -
South Condurrow, to ; and Wheal Rose,
34 to 36.

Foreign and colonial mining shares are quiet.
Yndanamutana and Frontino and Bolivia, how-
-1 ever, meet with inquiry.
The subjoined weekly summary of the metal
market is from the circular of Messrs. von Daniels-
son and North :

Ths metal market remolds in a dspremed ociohition, vary
little business pawnor. Copper aid tin have fallen in value.
other articles malotaln their valet. The reduotion to the
rate of disoount will, so trust, ast favourably on the prices
of all metals. Iron—Welsh bars Sr. very Snm at 71. to
171. ss. at the works, sad corresponding prices hers. From
Staffordshire, amounts are favourable ; makers pretty well
employed. ficetsh pig iron ahem at Ste. I id. cash. ..lien.
Copper—The market is vary dill ; 'manufactured obtaioable
Ist 934 to 941. Raw is much &premed to oonesquince.
Best, 904 ; tough, 861. Foreign neglected ; prices seminal,
as follows ; /Impends, 931. ; Bart, 924 ; Wsilarso. 901. ;
Chill, 801. in LiverpeoL Tin—Straits kW. 1104 has
°boned hands at 911. Bases. nominally, al. Saglisk
smear. The Dutch asatirst In dall at 56f., sellers. Tin plates
Sr. in good deemed, sad prices fatly maintained. Lead
contlimes without any slips at improvement 'kosher—Not
meth huskier has base dons gess onr last ; holders ask
higher wipes, which buyers an as vet unwilling to pay.
We quote London 111. 10s. to 211. 12., ; mad speth4
brands in outports, 214 15s.
At the meeting of the Yudanamutana Copper
Mining Company of South Australia yesterday, the
resolution for increasing the number of directors
was confirmed.