The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-03 00:00:00

MONEY ICARIET.

WIDNISDAT EVENING.
Under the influence of the increased tightness in
the money market, the stock markets assumed an
unfavourable appearance to-day, although the decline
was not by any means considerable. The impression
that the Bank will not make advances under 3
per cent. during the approaching abutting of the
mender books, has brought a better supply of stock
is market, whilst the increased demand for accom-
modation "out of doors" continue,. It is stated
that the Bank has already refused to make advances
en Exchequer Bills under 3 per cent. The weekly
board meetings of the Bank are now looked to with
the more interest, but although cautious men of busi-
ness regard the future with some degree of distrust,
so far as regards the rates for money, there is no dis-
position to expect any change in the discount rate at
their meeting to-morrow, that being the last day
for the presentation of the March Exchequer Bills
to he paid off or renewed.
Consols ruled throughout the day at 99/ to t, both
kr mosey and the 10th inst., with a very quiet busi-
ng.. The government broker made his usual in-
vestment at 991, but it produced no effect on prices.
The eattinge to Ay#ll•*taffy 11-141te-3. Pb. ail-
eial business report includes :—Three per Cent. Con-
sols, for money, 991 / • ditto for account, 991.
Three per Cents. Reduced, wol, 1, f. Three-and-
a-Quarter per Cents.. 103 f, f, I. Long Annuities,
1860, 67„ 4; ditto, 30 years, 1859, 6 3-16. Bank
Stock, 228. India Stock, 263.
The June Exchequer Bills remain quoted 12i. to
18s. prem., but the advertised issue was fiat. The
only price marked for these bills is 7s. prem. India
Bonds were done at 40s. and 48s. prem.
, In the foreign stock market there was a decided
improvement in Spanish, consequent upon influen-
tial purchases. The Deferred Threes filially left off
241 to 1. The Committee's Certificates remain
firmly supported, at the late rise. Mexican alor.ds
were also better, leaving off 24 to 4. Turkish
Scrip reached 2 to 21 prem., and closed 14 to 2 prem.
In other stocks there was no feature, and only a quiet
business. The sales of this day are thus recorded:
Brazilian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 1852, 98, 97j.
Buenos Ayres Six per Cents, 62. Dutch Two-and-a-
Half per Cents.,66t. Granada Deferred Bonds, 111,
j. Greek Bonds, 1824 and 1825, ex overdue coupons,
64, 7. Mexican Three per Cents., 24,1, 1, 4.4. Peru-
vian Six per Cents., 1061. Portuguese Four per
Cents., 39. Sardinian Five per Cents., 95. Spanish
New Deferred Three per Cents., 24, 234 ; ditto Pas-
sive (Converted), 51; the Committee's Certificates,
7.1, 7, 1 per cent. Swedish Mortgage Loan, 11 dia.
Turkish*Six per Cent. Loan, 2, 14 prem.
The Agenoria has arrived off the coast from Syd-
ney, but she brings only 200 ounces of gold. Her
dates are to the 28th Feb. only, and consequently
vela:111e.
'lLrable sensation was created in the Stock
Exchange, and generally throughout the City, by
reports of intelligence having been received by the
Overland Mail of a falling off in the yield of gold in
Victoria. The intelligence in question comes by way
of Colombo (Ceylon), where a vessel bad arrived,
bringing dates from Port Phillip to the Gth Decem-
ber. The accounts received via the Cape, published
by us two or three days ago, and which, it will be
remembered, were very meagre, extended to the let
December; whilst the full details to hand some
weeks back by the Formosa steamer reached to the
15th November only. The Cole:nbo Monthly Exa-
miner of the 26th January, in its "General Summary'
of news for the packet, states that " the Severn,
Captain Scoweroft, and several other vessels, have
arrived from Australia, bringing news of a falling off
in the yield of the precious metals."
The statements in question may be received with
some degree of caution, but it must yet be admitted
that a Melbourne gold circular ought to be consi-
dered a reliable, because a practical authority. Pri-
vate letters, we may mention, have also been re-
ceived, which, as we understand, refer in still more
discouraging terms to the prospects of the miners,
and add, that the Governor was in a state of conside-
rable anxiety as to the consequences, in view of the
enormous influx of population bent upon a visit to the
gold fields. Under these circumstances, the arrival
of the Sydney steamer, now daily expected, will be
looked for with great anxiety, as Victoria has hitherto
been the chief gold producing colony of Austra-
lia. In arriving at a judgment as to the
importance of this intelligence, it must be borne in
mind that great difficulty must naturally be felt in
locating so vast an army as 70,000 or 80,000 diggers
in any one particular spot, and that the secession
of large numbers in search of more remunerative, be-
cause less crowded "diggings," is a perfectly natural
movement. The scattering of so large a number of
men with a view to "prospecting" must also have
the effect of greatly increasing the probability gt,
the discovery of further auriferous fields. By the
accounts received via the Cape, for instance, we learn
that the South Australian gold field was daily
tising more rich. Further, it is undeniable that
the rude process at present adopted by the dig-
gers, a large proportion of gold is allowed to escape,
and that when practical science shall have been di-
rected to the gold deposit neglected by the miners, a
large yield must be secured.
Australian Bank and Land shares were buoyant
during the morning, Union Bank of Australia, for
instance, rising to 814; but upon the reports of the
unfavourable intelligence from Australia, a reaction
set in, and prices closed at a reduction from yester-
day's rates, with the single exception of the shares of
tho South Australian Banking Company, which
maintained an advance of about 31. per share. Union
Bank of Australia finally closed 77 to 79 ; Scottish
Australian Investment, 11, to 24 prem.; Australian
Agricultural, ex Peel River, 105 to 110. There were
some large speculativesales of North British Australa-
sian Land, and the price was at one time as low as
22. prem., but it left off firmer at 21 to 21
prem. There were dealings in the shares of the
Bank of British North America, at 594 • London and
Westminster Bank, 35j, 1; Oriental Bank Corpora-
tion, 561, 57, 551; Provincial Bank of /reland,4Bt;
Victoria Docks (41. paid), 6/ : Australian Royal Mail
Steam (61. paid), 61 ex div.; British American Land
53, 51; Crystal Palace (61. paid), di, 4; Scottish
Australasian Loan and Investment, minimum 7.per
cent. preference shares, 4, 34 • Peninsular and Orien-
tal Steam (251. paid), 49. Beth= and Gr./resew
Railway shares are qooted 1 to I prem.
Complaints are made of the tardy manner in which
the business of the Australian Agricultural Company
is carried on. It is generally felt that an infusion of
new blood is required at the board, which, although
composed of men of great respectability, wants life
and members more disposed to act with the energy
which the altered state of our Australian colonies,
and of the prospects of the undertaking require. A
fresh obstacle to the long delayed settlement
in the Australian Agricultural shares has
been put forth in tho requirement of a
notice to the Court of Directors of the
Peel River Company by a proprietor on sel-
ling 'his shares. Under the title of " Rules for
transfer of shares in the Peel River Land and Mine-
ral Company," the directors require compliance with
the undermentioned regulations, viz.:

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Parties desiring to put forward a transfer will be fur-
nished with • proper form of application at the office of the
company. The party proposing to transfer must fill up the
Christian and surnames, place of abode, and profession of
tke pospowl ttellikett and transferee in full length, toge-
ther with the number or numbers of the shares proposed to
be transferred. As by the 80th clause of the company's
deed of settlement, " all proposals to admit any person or
persons to become a proprietor et proprietors of shares in
the company must be submitted to the Board of Directors,"
such proposal u above-described and properly filled up,
must be left at the office one clear day, and when approved
by the directors, the proper form of transfer will be fur-
nished to the party applying, in order that the same may
be filled up, and duly executed and registered.
As these forms have in many cases Co be sent to
distant parts of the country for signature, great
trouble and inconvenience is caused. It may be
argued that the issue of this form is in strict accord-
*co with the origival statutes of the company, but

as it must be virtually a formality, the mere ad-
herenee to an antiquated form, unless for some post.
five good, is regarded as a mere impediment to
business.

The colonial wool males, which commenced lon the
10th alt., cloud this evening. The quantity sold
I was 34,300 bales colonial; 2,500 East Indian ; 1,100
German (Hungarian) ; 690 South American ; 160
Italian; 160 scoured Odessa; 540 brookwasbed
ditto; 168 Low Russian ; 435 Egyptian ; 225
China; 450 Mediterranean Ports ; 86 Spanish and
Portuguese ; and 390 sundries. With the exception
of low Hungarian wools, prices from the commence-
ment to the termination of the sales were well sup-
ported, and averaged Id. to lid. per lb. above the
prices realised in November. It is very uncertain
whether the arrivals from our Australian colonies will
be sufficiently large to warrant any more public sales
till the latter end of May. The wool market i, in
very healthy state, and present prices are resulting
entirely from oar own demand.
Foreigners have operated with great caution, and
not to any large extent, and nothing has been
bought on speculation.
Tue quotations of stocks at Amsterdam on Tuesday
are thus reported by telegraphic express :—Dntek
Ceue-per Iffiest., 96f
i ditto Two-and.a-Half per
Cents., 65 7-16. Spansh Deferred Three per Cents.,
23i. Mexican New, 25i. Portuguese Nev.-, 381.
The Spanish Committee's Certificates, 6 13-16.
Austrian Five per Cent. Metallic., 811. Spanish Old
Three per Cents., foreign, 48. Granada Deferred
Bonds, 11 5-16.

THIS DAY.—Two o'CLocK.
The English funds remain without movement at
yesterday's rates, business being very restricted.
There is, however, no symptom of a rally. Consols
are quoted 991 to for money and the 10th, whilst
the cuntango to April is 3-16 to 1. ale, Three per
Cents. Reduced mark 1001 to ; the Three-and.
a-Quarter per Cents. 1031 to 1; Bank Stock, 228;
India Stock, 263 to 266;1; Exchequer Bills,June, 135.,
175., and 12s. pm.; do. March, 3s.pm.; India Bonds,
455. prem.
In the foreign stock market we have to notice a
further improvement in Mexican Bonds, which base
reached 25. Peruvian Bonds are also better, and
Spanish stocks continue to show an upward tendency,
Peruvian Actives mark 107 to 108; Grenada De-
ferred, 111 to ; Buenos Ayrean, 62; Greek Bonds,
7 ; Sardinian, 95 to 1; Spanish new Deferred, 24
to 4; the Committee's Certificates, 7 per cent.;
Swedsh Lou, 14 dia.

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.
MINCING-LANK-THIS DAY.
fit orat.—The market is firm ; 4,000 bap Pernambuco
sold freely in public sale at full prices, 301. to 365. 6d. ; the
refined market firm.
Corpsa.-100 casks of plantation Ceylon sold steadily in
public sale at very full prices, 675. to 67e.
Tze..—.The market is inactive.
Bst.vsirruz.--1,300 bags Madras were offered, refraction
0 to 21t, and chiefly sold, 245. Gd. to 265.
Corron.—The public sales were bought in, Madras 31 to
to 31 per lb. ; Surat, 31 to 41 per lb.
Spices remain steady.
In other articles no material alteration.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.-THIS DAY.
Mr. E. J. Davie reports no alteration in the trade. The
following are the prices:—Prime meadow Hay. 86s. to 96e. ;
interior, 755. to 80e. ; Bowen, 60s. to 60e. ; Clover, 954. to
105 e. ; *mond cat, 80s. to 90e. ; Straw, 335. to 361.

TALLOW MARKET.—THIS DAY.
The market is steady, without activity. Quotations:—
Town Tallow is quoted 435. 6d. nett cash. ; Petersburg
Y. C. on the spot, 445. 3d. to 61. • March and April, 445. is
3d. ; Oct. to December (new), 44a. 6d. sellers,

MALTA, FEB. 23.—Tho Ripon,"with the India mail,
arrived to-day a little after midnight, beating the French
steamer about 36 hones from Alexandria.—A Court of In-
quiry has been sitting lately on Captain Jones, of the
Sampson steam frigate, and Captain Symonds, of the Are-
these. Theta vessels put to sea for Naples on the 12th inst.,
and on the night of Saturday, the steamer leading, and the
frigate in her position, a heavy squall took them after dark,
and the steamer luifing up suddenly the Arethusa ran into
her. Luckily, she caught her sponson ; had it been other
wise, the Sampson would no longer have figured in the navy
list, in all probability. As it was, the shock was so great as
to snap the chain of the Arethusa's bower anchor, which
fell into the paddles of the steamer and was recovered, and
doing about 5,0001. damage in all. She is repairing. The
Aretbusa had but little damage, and will leave to-day for
Naples, whence she is to return on the 6th proximo. Tho
court reprimanded Captain Jones, and blamed him severely
for not showing a light.—The Modeste and Spitfire, which
had gone out to survey a newly-discovered shoal near Mee-
ting', returned last night. The shoal has been surveyed by
Captain Spratt.—The Simoom troop ship has not yet made
her appearanee.—The steamer from Corfu, expected yester-
day, and the French steamer from Constantinople, due also
yesterday, have not made their appearance. The weather
appears very unsettled, and fresh breezes have been blow-
ing.—The Sampson frigate will be five or six weeks before
she is:ready for eta.
THE SPEAKER'S FIRST LEVEE.—Yesterday the
following notice was posted in the House of Commons :
" The Speaker will hold his first Levee on Saturday next,
March 5, at 10 o'clock."
EXTRAORDINARY ELOPEMENT AND RORBERY.—IIe
city of Salisbury has been the scene of considerable excite-
ment during the last few days, in consequence of a dis-
covery that Mrs. White, wife of the landlord of the Wheat-
sheaf Commercial Inn, had suddenly decamped, taking
with her cash belonging to her husband amounting to no
less than 5001. Mr. White for some years kept the Wheat-
sheaf Inn, and having lately resolved upon gutting the
business, a Ilruchascr for the same came forward in the
person of Mr. Ferman, for 5001. On Saturday last the
money was paid over, and Mr. and Mrs. White proceeded
upstain to place it in some safe depository. She unlocked
the secret'. escritoire, into which she dropped the cash.
Mrs. White then apparently locked the bureau, and gave
her husband the keys, desiring him to go sad make
merry down stairs with some of his old customers for the
last time as landlord. He unsuspectingly complied, and
shortly afterwards the wife left the house in her walking-
dress to visit a friend or two in the city, promising to re-
turn again shortly. As evening wore on, and she did not
return, the husband's suspicions were aroused, and it was
ascertained that she had taken her departure for Loudon.
Subsequently search disclosed the fact that the bureau was
unlocked and the escritoire quite empty, the wife having
abstracted the money, beside some pounds of her own, and
some articles of wearing apparel. Some months ago a
dashing corporal in the recruiting service was quartered at
the Wheataheaf, and his extremely obliging and affable
conduct to the landlady was the subject of general remark.
lie recently purchased his discharge, and about a fortnight
ago left Salisbury for London. He was in the city that
day, whence he took the train for London.

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ANNUAL SOIREE OF THE WRITTINGTON CLUB.—
, Annually the members of the Whittington Club comme-
morate, in pleasant festivity, that event in which they con-
tinuoudy rejoice—the founding of their very useful institu-
tion; and last evening there was this usual anniversary
soirée, varied in character, and including dramatic, musical,
and dancing entertainments--Lord Dudley Stuart affably
and energetically presiding over the whole. The pro-
gramme was carried out successfully to the close, and sup-
plied much social end intellectual gratification to some five
hundred young ladies and gentlemen.
ARRIVAL OP NEARLY A MILLION AND A HALF OF
AUSTRALIAN GOLD lEf THE RIVRR.—III the course of
yesterdsy and Monday, four ships arrived in the River
Themes from Australia, with the large amount of 1,342,7121.
of gold on board, or 3.34,648 oz. This is the largest amount
of the precious metal that has arrived almost at one time.
The vessels were the Roxburgh Castle, belonging to Mr.
It. Green, of Blackwell, with 170,000 or., of the value of
604,0001.; Chousingee. 63,713 os., 235,0001.; Three Bells,
77,803 oz., 311,2121.; and Alert, 43,132 or., 172,5001. A
strong force of the police attended the removal of the pre-
cious store from the ships is the docks to the cellars of the
Bank of England. Vessels with as valuable • freight are
expected daily to be reported in the Channel.
DEPARTURE OF FEMALE EMIGRANTS FOR AUSTRA-
LlA.—Yesterday morning • very interesting scene was wit-
nessed at the London station of the Blackwell Railway, a
large number of young women having arrived there for the
purpose of proceeding to Gravesend, there to embark in a
vessel which was lying off, and waiting to convey them to
the Australian colonies, under the auspices of the Female
Emigration Society. On reaching Gravesend, they went on
, board the Madagascar, a fine vessel, belonging to Mr.
Green, and which has been fitted out in such a manner as
to conduce to their comfort during their long voyage. A
large number of visitors attended, including several ccrgy-
men and gentlemen who take an interest in promoting emi-
gration. In the afternoon the emigrants took leave of their
friends, who returned to town, and the scene was of a most
affecting character.
MARIA ANTONIA RAILWAY --Trails for week end-
ing Feb. 17, 1863, 1671.; 1862, 1521.

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT
HOUSE OF COMMONS.—WEDNISDAT, NiAltal 2.
The Sreaaaa took the chair at 12 o'clock.
Colooal ,Nlaule took the oaths and his seat oa his melte-
bon for Furls:shirt.