The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-01 00:00:00

JOINT STOCK BANKS.

Claque Binnn, es
No. Shares! EMMA Paid prices done
yesterday. to day.
11,500 140 Australasia
40,000 23 ,'7hartd. Bank of Asia 3
20,000 20 , Chart. Bank of India,
A 4.tratta, ar.d China 2 lj 14 pm 44
35,003 20 EWA, tieottien, sad
Auptralfwn Clwtered 10 14 :I pm
:3,000 20 London Dank of Aus-
tralia and India
22,010 20 London Chartered Sank
of lla
24.0r0 23 Orientalawara Bank Corpora all 314 344 ad 588 4
30,000 Royal austral. !ranting
and Grid Import. Co. I 4 dis pat
1,9001 13 Month A w‘tralla ...... .2330 a 2 51; 1
20,000 U Union of Au.tralia
0,0001 ... I Do. New 2; 9

So. Yb.l Pdsaccu-ambcca. iPd
--
'8,840 1801 4*.tralian Agri.- SS
121.71' i N. 13nt. Aust. Laud all
1 Do. Preference... all
117,11 S 6 Pecllltv.Lnd.2:'4i: all
169,00( SeattialLtuatinTe; all
12,70( 11 8. Aaptrellao Laud IS
18,00 100 Vas Diesotal Laud 28

Ckelog
prices

03 162

-11 irrin
—pm
5_ $4
6' 7
11 244
pail

Bairintas ens*
today.

100 2

I 2 II;

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MINES.

THURSDAY EVEN:2iO.

In the market for British mining stocks little busi-
ness has been done, the demand for investment
having ceased. In some cases prices are rather
weaker. This appearance of the market confirms the
view we had previously expressed, that prices for the
time have reached their highest, and that, conse-
quently, with the natural desire of holders to realise,
the chances are in favour of lower rates for some
Little time to come, at least.
In the gold mining share market, the settling has
chiefly absorbed attention. Prices generally re-
main steady at yesterday's rates. At four o'clock
Colonial Gold were quoted 2 9-16 to 11-16 prem. ;
British Australian, 7-16 to 9-16 prem.; Nouveau
Monde. 1i to 1 premium ; and Port Phillip,
3-16 to 5-16 prem. Yuba River are better. Peel
River, however, were rather lower, closing 61 to 7
prem. Australian Cordillera shares continue to be
steadily taken up by the public, but a large supply
of these shares is reported to have latterly been
put on the market by the company, and the ad-
vance is thus checked. We have on various occasions
alluded to the turning out of reserved or other shares
by various Australian and Californian gold companies
on any premium being attained, and it would appear
that it is by this system only that the requisite
amount of capital has in many instances been
obtained.

The General Mining Company's shares are rather
more inquired for, and closed 18 to 19. Very few of
these shares are to be met with in the market at pre-
sent prices. The inquiry for the shares of the Ja-
maica Copper Mines continues, and was rather in-
creased by the observations made at the meeting of
the Metcalfe Mining Company to-day. The shares
of this mine closed 131 to 141 prem., with 1/. paid.
Liguanea shares, yesterday quoted 1 to 1 prem.,
have risen to 2 prem. There appears to be every
probability of the fulfilment of the anticipation ex-
pressed by us more than twelve months back, that
large supplies of mineral wealth will in future years'
be drawn from our long-neglected colony of Jamaica.
The non-official closing quotations are : —Aus-
tralasian Coal, to 6 prem.; New South Wales
Gold, to 1 dis. •, London and Liverpool Australian
Gold Mining and Streaming, 1-16 to 3-16 prem.;
British and Colonial Smelting and Reduction, 1 to
prem. ; Melbourne Gold,l to per share; Monarch,
dis. to par; Australian Mutual. 1 dis. to par; Aus-
tralian Consols, 1 dis. to par ; Chartered Australian
Land :and Mining, to per share; Adelaide Land
and Gold, to 1 die.; Worthing (new shares),
3-16 to 1-16 din. • Lewis Hill Range, 1 to dis. ;
New South Wales Coal, 1-16 dis. to 1-16 prem.;
lAigle d'Or, par to 1 prem.; Garnett and Mose-
ley, par to 1 prem.; Burn's Creek Gold, Ito 1 dis.;
Golden Mountain, Ito die. ;La Peruvienne, 4 dis.
to prem.; Feather River Land and Gold, par to
prem..; Mount Carbon Coal, to prem.; Lake
Superior Copper, par to 1 prem. ; Ceylon Land
and Mining, 1-16 to 3-16 prem. ; Nova Scotia Copper,
11 to Iprem. ; Brucutu Gold, par to 1 prem.;
Metcalfe Mining Company of Jamaica, 131 to 144
prem. ; Liguanea, 11 to 2 prem.; Jamaica Copper,
4 to prem.; Port Royal and St. Andrew's Cop-
per, 34 to a prem.; Gladbach Zinc, 1 to la prem. ;
Pontgiband Silver Lead, par to a prem.; Chalanche
Silver Miniati, a to 1 prem.; Cologne Mining, par
to prem.; South Devon Consols, par to prem.;
Tregurtha, 4to prem. ; Knockatrellane, dis. to
pron.; Mizen Head, par to 1 prem.; Carberry
1% est, 1 dis. to 1 prem.;; Connemara, par to
prem.; Glenaulin, par to 1 prem.; South Cork
Copper, 1 dis. to ' prem.; Kenmare, 1 to I prem.
The following dividends have been declared during
the month of March :

Per share. Amou t.
Devon Great Consols £l2 0 0 .... £12,288 0
Wheal Buller 25 0 0 .... 6,400 0
Par Consols
Linares
Alfred Consols
Corn Brea
North Basset
South Frame
North Roskear
Spearne Consols OlO 0 .... 512 0
Wheal Jane
Wheal Pruckter 0 1 0 .... 320 0
Kirkcudbrightshire

Total £38.736 10 0
At Wheal Carpenter (Owinnear) the lode has been
cut into at the 14 under the adit, and the lode pre-
sents a very promising appearance, with rich stones
of copper ore.
At West Wheal Towan, Caroline's shaft is sunk to
a proper depth for a 45 fathom level. The lode in
the 33 has improved for tin. The north part in the
25 west is looking very kindly. At the 15 east there
is a complication of lodes and branches, and Wheal
Tye main lode is supposed to be still to the south of
the level. The lode in the 15 east has formed a junc-
tion 3 fathoms above the level, and is producing good
work for tin. The 25 and 15 west of Vivian's shalt
are producing tin. Taylor's lode in the 25 west of
Kite's shaft has been disordered by a slide, but in
the present end is forming a large strong lode, with
spots of copper ore. Next week about 25 tons of
copper me and C. or 7 tons of tin will be sampled.
Next month the sampling of tin will be larger.
At Great Wheal Baddern the lode in the 20 west

At South Tamar the lode in the 136 is 3 feet wide,
worth 7 cwt. of ore per fathom, and Lipkin.; more
kindly. In the south end at the 121 the led- is 41
feet wide, and worth 14 cwt. pet fathom. At Cie 112
south the lode is , feet wide, and worth 8 cwt. per
folioni. In the south end at the 100 the lode is
much improved ; it is now 21 feet wick, eel north
10 cwt. per Whom. In the south end ut the 70 the
lode is three feet wide, composed of cap( I, ‘‘ it h about
10 cwt. of rich ore per fathom, At the GO south the
lode in the end is 41 feet wide, with 12 cwt. of ore
per fathom. In the 'topes in the back of this level the
lode is yielding fully 42 ewt. per fatir.m. The stopes
, are all fooling well, and it is expected them will be
00 tons ready to sample on the 12th April.
We are informed that the New South W,tles Coal
sad Interculonial Steam Navigation Company have
concluded the purchase of a small stemner, which
will be despatched in a few days; and are in treaty
for the purchase of two others, nearly ready, to en-
able them to commence the intereohnial [ratio.

THIS DAY.—Two ottmca.
There is no change in the gold mining share
market, except that business is quieter. Prices ro
main as before.

The
former
prem.
prem.
fairly s

Land Companies shares are also quiet, at
prices. Peel Ricers are quoted 6Z to 74-
Nova Scotia copper shares mark I to 14:-
Generally this department is inactive, but
upported.

'tuna: ShisinkaS
No. :'1 +re Mums. !Ban nrore, ' dee,.
/—.
IA 00 . 1-1— 11•!-----tal YrProTeat, rday ' t thy.
--
all 1 II ;or 21
30,000 I i Anglo Aura:l,lLn Gold ad par Ipm 1
101.1,eilv 1. , t,glo Calliornin,
10,0.10 10 r.lto,tralo,iati a 1 If
20.'0 2.1 IA hetralian 5 5 5I ~
50,710, , Anitealian Cordillera
100,000 1 Auttrakan 1 reei.old
5,40-o 1 , Aeo 51arta ...--" .
10,005
200.001.
70 1 i
Britten iron Wain, AustraltanGo:c ail A A poi 11
10,000, 30 I ' 0
.7 9 •
81..11”11.(14...v5k l5
pA 3445 4 0
1,001 -
ii3o , Da.OomitaanaCuinba al. 3 04 GI 6 I
11,11e1 2, ', Do. M. John MI Ley IS lo 31
110,004 1 !Carem's Cret
12,050 40 lOokro Oopper .
100,000 5 Colouial (415 ..........- I II SI pm
!Copiatio III 55 II
330,00: Bt. ' Clipper Mien 04 !og. at. IQ 61
6,0011 23 Do. Pref. 74 persist. all 8 6 pm,
ts,oir 8 P.l4t A .istraltsp.olvi,t, an 111 1 &AI II
100.000 2 Orest Nugget Teta
2.1,600 20 t)liseral at: I le
72060 I Orstut Duehy of Radar ail p.r Ipm
11.007 0 Omit rolgooth ......
100,00,! 1 Lain Bathurst an f dim par I
60,081 0 I [alien]
910 3 ! Llaareaall 50, fi. 7 I Loudon hesiihon. Cc% I
ltharie Cruthlogi al 4 i
100,00 n I 1 , litariquita
30,000. I!) ItaateasikBtb.itmericas 1. 4.1 SI .81
sovor l Now Granada
200,005 ! !Nouveau Nord*
1$?,00.; S i Part Pltillp I A i Ali
50,40 e 1 Qu.rto. Roca ail ' die •pm
10,00, 35 anymney Iron all IQ 15
i... .- 1 lhtto New
0,,,, 30 I dantlano de Cuba
40.00:, i ',401.M AsiAtilatiall a:: S Ipm
4.000 10 1 MCron
47,171 21.1.04 flatted Melissa
40,0e0 I Waller
100,00; 1 'West Granada
100,901 I Wear Matthews all 1 dis A pra ' I
104,004 1 'Yuba lull 11pm . 14