The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-24 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.—(TIIIB DAY.) Ibtesdily to progress, both at Stockholm sal
Gothenburg.
A general meeting of the Merchant Bank.n
Company of London will be held on the 14th
September.

Two o'OLooz.

The improvement in the weather, combined with
the influx of gold to the Bank, and a pur-
chase by the government broker of 40,0001.
New Throe per Cents., has had a favourable
effect upon the stock markets. The English funds
have risen t per cent., and several of the principal
railways to 4. A slight advance is also observable
in some of the foreign securities.
There are few applications for discount to-day,
while the supply of money seeking employment is
large. The general rate for choice bills is nto
4 per cent., but exceptional transactions have taken
place at 31. The charge in the Stock Exchange, for
loans from day to day on English Government se-
curities, is 2 per cent.
At Paris to-day, according to Mr. Renter's tele-
gram, the Three per Cent. Routes opened at
68fr. 20c., being Sc. better than yesterday.
Console are now quoted 891 to 1 for money, and
894 to for the account (September 7).
The official business report is as follows :
Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 893,
4, 3 ; ditto, for account, 891, 4 ; Three
per Cents. Redueed, 891, 1 ; New Three per
Cents., 894, 4, ; India Five per Cent. Stock,
105, 4 ; Five per Cent, "echoed" rupee paper,
1001 ; and Exchequer Bills, Si. dis., par.
Foreign stocks are rather firmer, although there
is litle business. Turkish Cor.eolidifis, Mexican,
and Spanish Certificates have risen per cent.
Some of the present quotations are subjoined,
viz.:—Greek, 201 to 1 ; Turkish Consolid6s, 481 to
49 ; Spanish Passive, 291 to 3 ; ditto Certificates,
141 to 1 ; Confederate, 6 to 8 ; and Mexican,
234 to 4.
Transactions are recorded as follows :—Danubian
Principalities, 801, ; Dutch Two-and-a-Ralf
per Cents., 614 ; Egyptian, 1864, 954, 1 ;
ditto 1001. Bonds, 951 ; French Rentes, 67fr. 50c.;
Mexican, for account, 234, 1; ditto 1864, 224 ;
Russian, 1859, 574 ; ditto, 1862, 921, 3 ; Spanish,
for account, 474 ; ditto New Deferred, for account,
39 ; Turkish, 1858, for account, 74, 3 ; ditto 1001.
Bonds, 79 ; ditto 1862, 731, 24 ; ditto 1001. Bonds,
734, 4, 41; ditto 1864, 411.
American securities exhibit no alteration. 5-20
Ronde are quoted 681 to 694 ; Erie Railway shares,
534 to 1 ; Illinois, 78 to 1 ; and Atlantic Railway
debentures, 851 to 861.
International Financial shares are now quoted
_ _ _

/ to 11 prem. ; General Credit, 1 7-16 to 9-16
pram., ex dir. ; London Financial, 61 to 71
prem., ezdiv.; Imperial Mercantile, 11 to 1 prem.;
Credit Fourier and Mobilier of England, n to 31
prem.; Ottoman Socidtd Gindrale, 21 to 1 prem.;
Hudson's Bay, 151 to 1 ; and Overend, Gurney,
and Co., 4 to 1 pram.

Fous o'Cwcx.
Consols are steady, at 89: to j for money, and
89 11-16 to 13-16, or 89j, for the account. A
further sum of 52,0001. in gold has been taken to
the Bank.
The demand for the Continent having diminished,
about 44,0001. in gold was sent into the Bank
yesterday. This formed a part of the 153,694/.
received from Australia, rid Egypt, by the steamer
Ripon. The arrival was announced yesterday af-
ternoon of the Swiftsure, from Melbourne, with
286,000/., a portion of which, it is thought, will
also remain here. This amount, however, will not
reach London for several days.
The gold operations at the Bank during the week
comprise the influx of 44,0001. (the above-mentioned
sum), and the withdrawal of 8,000/.
The amount of Australian gold known to be still
at sea is 229,0001. The Transatlantic, with 127,0001.,
has been out 76 days, and the Sussex, with
102.0001., 72 days. These vessels are not quite due.
The recent decisions of the Committee of the
Stock Exchange in refusing settling days to some
new companies continue to excite much attention.
It is universally agreed that the present practice
cannot prevail much longar, for the simple reason
that it either goes too far or not tar enough. A cor-
respondent points out in the following letter the
precise limits to which the Committee of the Stock
Exchange should confine themselves, since the
moment they go beyond them they occasion much
practical harm, and little, if any, theoretical good :
Sir, —Simple measures, according to an old axiom, are
generally the best, but thaw V a degree of simplicity which
only comes from ignorance or weak credulity. In this
vexed question of whether the Committee of the Stock
Exchange is failing in its duty to the public, either from
iecepacity or from pressure of the members of its own
body, who frequently organies opposition to the quotation
of sew companies to serve their personal interests, remedies
of all kinds are suggested. Almost ell ere hastily written
end superficially based. Your ecrrespondeut "Au Old
Secretary" recommends the following :—"List the com-
mittee require the secretary of every company ts leave
with their secretary a proof prospectus, accompanied with
one of the memorandum and articles of association ; let
these be modified (if necessary) so as is enable the Stock
Exchange Committee to certify that both the documents
are satisfactory."
The nostrum I venture to urge is, that the committee
should legislate strictly and faithfully upla their laws as
they exist, or ameod or add ►o them as circumstances may
require. Above all, that they should receive with greet
caution statements which are very likely to be interested if
emanating from members of their own community, sad re-
turn to their old and only Wearable practice, of compelling
their members at whatever cost to comply with their bar-
gains. Is other words, the committee, who have pro-
verbially insnffident time to fulfil their ordinary duties,
and at present certainly do not ful6l them to the eatisfac-
tion of the public, are to re-write end virtually make them-
selves responsible fur the prospectus of a new rominny.
The ides is absurd in itself, end if acted upon could only
tend to en assumption of power by a close institution,
already far too great in these days of free tirade and anti-
monopoly.—l am, kr., JUSTITIA.

WIDIRIEDAT Emma.
Consols opened this morning at 891 to t for the
account, or a fraction lower than yestmday, and
declined to 891 to 1, at which they closed with a
heavy a pLeareerance. For money the last price as
891 to I. The official business report is as
lows per Cent. Consols, for money, nYlfl,
; ditto, for account, 891 ; Three per Con
Reduced, 891, }, 1 ; New Three per CeuM.,
891, }, ; Bank Stook, 230, 2491 ; India
Stock, 218 ; ditto Five per Cent. Stock, 105,1 ;
Five per Cent. " eufaced" rupee paper, 1011.
India Five per Cents. and Exchequer Bills fe-
main without alteration at the respective prices of
105 to }, and Ss. dis. to la. prem.
Foreign Stocks have been rather dull, and a fine-
tional decline has taken place in Italian Five pee
Cents., Mexican, Spanish Passive and Certifies
and rurkish Consohd4s. The Anglo-Turkish Loans
of 1858 and 1862, on the other hand, improved.
The shares of the financial companies were quiet,
and no variation of importance took place in prises,
which were quoted as follows:—lnternational Finan-
cial, I to 11 prem.: General Credit, I 7-16 to 9-16
prem., ex thy. ; London Financial, 61 to 7 prem.;
Imperial Mercantile Credit, 1 to 1 prem. ; Credit
Fenner and Mobilier, 2/ to 31 prem.
National Discount shares were last quoted to-
day 10} to prem. ; Joint-Stock Discount,
21 to I{ die., ex div. ; Egyptian Trading,
to } d{a, being dittrley firmer ; Ottoman
Socilt4 21 to prem. ; Hudson's Bay,
15} to 1 ; and Lion wery, Ito 11 prem.
Other miscellaneous descriptions were quiet. Inter-
national Land Credit, Ocean Marine Insurance, and
Royal Mail Steam were quoted higher ; while a re-
duction occurred in City of Moscow Gaa, London
and Glasgow Engineering Company, and Ottoman
Gm After regular hours, Overeud, Gurney and
Co. shares advanced to 31 top premium. Atlantic
Telegraph Preference left off the same as yesterday,
at 2 to 22 discount.
The closing (but in many cases nominal) quota-
tions for shares in new undertakings are sub-
joined :—Metropolis Sewage, 101 to 111 prem. ;
London Bridge Land, }_dm. to par; London Jute
Works, Ito 1 prem. ; enai Park and Hotel, Ito
prem. ; Belfast and Bangor Railway and Land,
to 1 prem. •, McQueen Brothers, 1 to 2 prem. ;
Marseilles Extension Railway and Land, par to
1 prem. ; and Anglo-Greek Steam Navigation, 2,t0
S prem.
The London and North Western Railway traffic,
return shows this week an increase of 7,1741. over
last year, and the Midland as increase of 1,6601.
In colonial government debentures Canadian and
Cape of Good Hope securities were in rather better
demand.
United States Five-Twenty Bonds have relapsed
to 64 to 691. Illinois Central shares have also
fallen to 78} to while Erie were steady at 531 to
1. Atlantic and Great Western Debentures remain
at 851 to

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CONSECRATION OF ST. M [CRAM'S CFI I.TRell,
fluOmmirrcii.—(Tgin lity.)—This morning the Bishop'of
London consecrated the church which bee just been com-
pleted in Shoreditch, end which is dedicated to Et.
Michael and All Angels. The church of St. Michael is a
beautiful structure, very large, and In every way well
adapted to the populous district in which it is placed.
Untortneately the incumbent, the Rev. Charles Leford is
crippled in his work by want of funds. He has established
all the institutions which are necessary for such • district,
end, having hitherto had to bear meet of the expense%
self, hestands in need of liberal contsibatione from chords-

men.
THE MURDEB. OP LIEUTENANT CLUITEr.BUCE.—
Tbe Court of Criminal Appeal of Dublin has given judg-
ment in the appeal of Lawrence Kisg the younger. against
his conviction for the murder of Lieutenant Olutterbuck.
at Parsonstown, Ireland. The ground of the appeal was
a mere techeicality, the absence of an averment in the In.
dictuient that the murder was committed on a river,
the boundary between the King's County and Tipperary.
The court affirmed the oonvletioo.
SERIOUS CHARGE OF FORGIRT.—On Tuesday a
man named Aaron ?whet who is well-keels) in Sheffield.
we. apprehended by detective-oHeer Carswell on • °barge
of forgery and robbery. The capture was made in Salta.
bill, the priaoner manifesting • decided dieinelindith to
accompany the officer, and vainly endeavouring to elide
him by flight. It re said that he kr been consented as
treasurer with • London Theatre, and that the charges
upon which he is apprehended arise net of traereetione in
bills which are alleged to be forged. The amount is wider.
stood to be very serious, and the charge so preferred ty Mr.
E. T. Smith, of Ashley's Theatre, London.—Sheffeld
dependant.
THE RECUSANT QUAKER AT THE LIVERPOOL
Artarzes.—Mr. Canoe, the Quakerjurymeu, who wee tined
by Baron Bramwell at the Liverpool anises oar Monday for
refusing to take off his bat white in the jury-box, was called
tithe yeaterday, and smeared before the judge in court.
Mr. Baron Bramwell said that if Mr. Canon bad refused to
sot as a juryman, or bad behaved with disreepect be ought
to be fined. He (the learned judge), however, should remit
the fine, but that, after coosiderhig the matter, be had
mime to the conelasion that if Mr. Canon's 001111087100 told
bhp he ought sot to remove his hat, there was potting
intrinsically disrespectful in that, and that Mr. Canon
might therefore. if be chose, resume his bat.
EXTRAORDINAST CHARGE or Kmuno A WIPE.
—William Firau, • Liverpool badge-porter, was found
guilty of manslaughter yesterday. by a coroner's jury. for
causing the death of his wife by kit ocldeg her down on
Lancashire and Yorkshire compithy's line when a train at
waggons was passing. The wheel. went over b.r breast
and neck, and she was killed on the spot. Firth and his
wife lived on very unhappy terms, sad both were much ad-
dieted to drinking. On this occasion they were both fa.
tozimied.
HORRIBLE CASE 07 CHILD MURDER. —A PASO Of
child murder, committed under circumstances of meet
cold-blooded cruelty, is now under investigation before the
coronet at Daegsanon, county Tyrone. A woman left the
workhouse with an infant aged over twelve months, and
west to hire as servant In the house of • farmer. The
child continued in good health up to a certain day, when
the family happened to leave the house. On their return
they found it albs, and covered with
mother would
it gradually got worth until it died. The mother would
not allow any one to touch it, but some theorise having
been excited by her °endure, an legend was held, and at •
post-mortem examinatioe it was discovered that the lumps
were occasioned by Os legs and arms having been broken re
general pieces. Its head also was shockingly bruised. It
is supposed that the nonatunl mother inflicted these ieju.
rue on the child in order that it lit die • lingering death,
and thus that she might escape ion. She b.d bees
often hated to express • wish for its death, and the boding
et her master's razor to her bed seemed to iudicate en inteo-
tion to accelerate in fate if it lingered too long.
Extr;s•Lis ram • Frr IN BATHING.—On Tuesday
afternooe, a young maze, named Pearene. of Ashtomunder.
Lyrae, whilst bathing is the sea at Southport, wee sod-
denly seised with a fit, sod before assistance could strive
he was cuff mated. The water was only 'even .r eight
inches deep where be was found. An inquest was held at
the Royal Hotel, yesterday.
end • verdict cf " Accideotal
Death" was returned.
822.1008 AOCIDENT AT ROCHDALE—A serious
accident, though fortasatekr uoattelidea by fatal room.
quinces, occurred yesterday at Rochdale. The local eget.
cultural show was being held at that town. and the stead
used by visitors to witoese the leapiog of the hunters sad
ponies suddenly gave way, when about 250 splint stole were
standing on it. About six persons were seriously hurt, and
many others were severely shaken. Like other stands need
on similar occesious, the structure was ouly temporary. and
moms to have been imperfectly put together.—Afanchater
Guardian.
Tut Yams' Itinni•ors.—The marriage rate in
Ragland in the ten yeses sadist( 1863 fluctuated hotness
0.626 per cent is the quarter ending March, 1658, arid
1014 par not. is the gustier indium December, 1854. By
an apparently filed and unchanging rule, the loweat man
riiiv rate prevails in the first quarter of a year and the
highest In the last. Thus the rates is the /rat quarter 4
each of the ten years ender revise were es follow :-1854.
0727 per coat ; 1865, 0.631 per cent. • 1856, 0'707 per
eget.; 1857, 0105 per cent ; 1858, 0191 i per cent.; 1859,
0132 per eget.; 1880,0111 per rent.; 1861, 0973 per wet.;
1862, 0680 per oast.; 1863, 0104 per that. On the other
band, the rate of the last quarters of each of the tea years
were : —1864, 1014 per cent.; 1861, 0 968 per.ceer. • 1856,
0996 per nt 0 leer eget. ; 1808, 0467 per
oint 1639,1013 per cent. ; 1860, 1906 per ; 1861,
0953 per emit.; 1862, 0•245 per cent; and 1863, 0998 per
that.
THE Barri= Amer.—lt appears that the average
ntreasth of the British army abroad in 1860 was 5,126
*Sens sod 123,20 ethemeeminioried officers and was ; I.
1861. 4.892 officers and 117,644 noo.conardealueed officers
sad men ; ia 1862, 5,196 officers and 12.1.703 non-panssuie-
sinned officers sad Been; and in 1863, 6,243 officers and
125,473 non-cortheimioned *Moen and men. Of the fore'
stationed abroad in 1863, 4,983 allows and 97.597 the.
oommiesione i officers and men belonged to Wintry enepe.
INTERESTING ARRIVALS IX AUSTRALIA.-07 the
Liaaohtehire, a number of slog* birds have arrived, con-
sisting of skylarks, thrushes, kl,ctbbds, and canaries, as
well as Docking sad Instant fowls, terse doss. severed
ferrets, and some grey panaAureralasOut (ffelboor**
Pater).