The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-18 00:00:00

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MOM MARSRTf-(THIS DA F.)

Two o'Cunk.
The stock markets to-day are again very quiet,
and little change has taken place in prices.
The English fends are unaltered, and the
same remark will apply to foreign bonds,
except in one or two cases, in which a
little flatness is observable. Great Western Rail-

way stock has advanced, but soma of the other lines
have given way, especially Metropolitan, the fall in

which amount; to 8:8 mnoh aa 1} per cent.

There is no change in the discount market, good
bills being still taken at 21 to 3 per cent. la the
Stock Exchange the charge for short loans on
English Government Securities, is 2 to 21 per cent.
Consols are now quoted 891 to 90 for money, and
90 to 1 for the Bth of August. The official business
report is as follows:-Three per Cent. Consols,
for money, 89/, 90 ; ditto, for account, 90, 1 ;
Three per Cents. Reduced, 891, 4, 1 ; New Three
per Conte., 891, 1, 9 ; ditto Two-and-Half per
Ceuta., 721 ; Exchequer Bills, 4s. prem., par ; ditto
6001., 4s. prem., par ; Bank of England Stock,
248 ; India Five per Cent. Stock, 1041, 4.
Foreign stocks are quiet, and prices in nearly all
cases arequoted the same as yesterday. There is a
trifling reduction in Mexican and Turkish Bonds of
1862. Some of the present quotations are subjoined,
viz : - Greek, 211 to 1 ; Turkish, 1858 Bonds,
73 to 74 ; ditto 1862, 721 to f ; ditto Con-
solidi* 491 to 1 ; Spanish Passive, 291 to 1 ;
ditto Certificates, 14/ to 7 ; Confederate, 8 to 9 ;
and Mexican, 24 to 1. Transactions are recorded
as follows :-Brazilian Four-and-a-Half per Ceuta.,
1863, 807; Egyptian Seven per Cents., 98; ditto
1001. Bonds, 971 ; ditto 1864, 94, 1; Greek Five
per Ceuta., for account, 214 ; Italian Five per
Cents. (Maremmana Railway), 691, ex div. ;
Mexican Three per Cents., for account, 244, 24,
ex div. ; ditto, 1864, 231, ex div. ; Portuguese
Three per Cents., 1856, kc., for account, 471, 1 ;
Russian Five per Cents., 1862, 92, 1 ;
Spanish New Deferred, for account, 39/,
ex div. ; Turkish Six per Cents., 1854,
for account, 941 ; ditto 1858, for account,
731 ; ditto, 1862, for account, 721, 73,
721, ex div. ; ditto 1001. Bonds, 731, I, 721, ex
div. ; ditto Five per Cents., 1865, 441, ex div. ;
ditto Guaranteed Four per Cents., 1021; Vene-
zuela Six per Cents., 1864, 411.
International Financial shares are now quoted
/ to 11 pm., ex div. ; General Credit, 11 to If prem.;
London Financial, 74 to 7 prem. ; Imperial Mer•
candle, 11 to 11 prem., ex div. ; Credit Fonder and
Mobilier of England, 34 to 4 prem., ex div.; Otto_
man SocirSti; Glin6rale, 21 to 31 prem. ; Hudson's
Bay, 151 to 1 ; and Egyptian Trading, 11
to 11 din.
The nominal quotations for the shares of some
of the new companies are subjoined :-Atlantic
Telegraph preference, 7 to 1 prem. ; Glamorgan-
shire Iron, 21 to 24 prem. ; Blakely Ordnance,3l to
prem. ; Hop and Malt Exchange, 11 to 2 prem. ;
Barned's Banking, par to 1 prem. ; East London
Railway, par to prem. ; London and Mediter-
ranean Bank, 3 to 4 prem.; General Exchange
Bank, 1 to 11 prem. ; Peruvian Railways, 41 to 51
pram.

Metropolis Sewage shares are quoted li to 1i
prem. ; and Overend, Gurney and Co, 11 to
prem.
The fine silver by the Tasmanian, together with
several considerable parcels which have been for
some time on the market, were yesterday sold
at se. Old. per oz. standard. The price is
thus slightly firmer, though the demand is by no
means large, and any excess of supply world
probably again depress the market. The inquiry
for gold continues, and any arrivals are at once
taken for export.
The gold ships mentioned by the present ad-
vices as having sailed from Australia for England
are the following, viz :—The Suffolk, with 30,700
oz., valued at 122,800/. ; and the Swiftaure with
71,528 oz., valued at 286,1121.
The advent; from Melbourne announce the follow-
ing mercantile suspensions, viz.:—Messrs. Carter
and Watts, with liabilities estimated at 14,000/,and
contingent liabilities of 7,0001.. and assets 8,0001. •
a dividend of ss. in the pound has been declared,
with the prospect of a further dividend of 2s. 6d.
or 3e. Messrs. Samuel Thorpe and Co., liabilities
not stated. Messrs Howitz and Marks, liabilities
26,5121., and assets 29,0161.; the creditors have
decided to wind up the estate in the insolvent
court. A proposed dividend of 55. in the pound
on the estate of Messrs. Davis and Co. has been
finally received.
The Shanghae correspondent of the Shipping
Gazette writes as follows :
The news of the fantails is &Wand, and the consequent
failure, is the Southern porta, has mated the enspeansa
here of the old bane of Jarvis, Thorbare and Co., for
whom much aymrsathy is felt. Two other firms hers are
supposed to be likely to find themselves unable to continue
their tssosactions, though I believe this mail silent take
you any Dews of their suspension. as it is thought they may
tide over till letter are received confirming the intelligence
referred to.
The Union Bank of Australia invite tenders, re-
ceivable until Tuesday, the Ist of August, at 12,
o'clock, for Queensland Government Six per Cent.
Debentures for 500,0001., being the first issue under
an act authorising &total of I,ol9,oool.Theee deben-
tures will be redeemable the Ist January, 1884. Prin. I
cipal and interest are payable in London or Brie- I
bane. The payments are to be 10 per cent. at once, •
and the balance on the 12th October next. The
proceeds of the loan are to be applied chiefly to rail-
ways and immigration. The previous debt of the
colony was 831,2361.
The committee of the Stock Exchange have
appointed Thursday a special settling day in the
50,000 Preference Shares of the Atlantic Telegraph
Company, recently hunted by the Credit Fonder
and Mobilise (Limited). These shares are already
quoted in the official lists. The committee have
also allowed the shares of the Dagenham (Thames)
Dock Company (Limited) to be marked in the twine
a-week list.
The Brighton Railway traffic return shows this
week an increase of 5561. over last year, and the
South Eastern an increase of 391.
The half-yearly meeting of the Estate Company
(Limited) is convened for the Ist of August, when
an interim dividend for the last half-year is to be
declared.
The half-yearly meeting of the Scottish Austra-
lian Investment Company (Limited) is called fee
the 28th inst.
The half-yearly meeting of the Mid-Kent Rail-
way Company is convened for the 7th August.
A call of 21., making 121. Fait', is to be paid on
the shares of the East India Irrigation and Canal
Company by the 24th August.
It is notified that the coupons of the Delaware ,
and Raritan Canal and Camden and Amboy Rail-
road and Transportation Companies, due in August
next, will be paid on presentation at the Consoli-
dated Bank.
We are requested to state that Mr. W. A. Ogg,
of Mesas. Prince, Ogg, and Co., has joined the
London Board of directors of the Southern In-
surance Company (Limited), of Melbourne.
News has been received of the missing ship Peep
o' Day, outward bound to Shanghae, on which
from 60 to 80 guineas premium have been paid.
!She was spoken by the Glonoester, on the 174th
day she was out, in a disabled state, and pert of her
crew laid up with scurvy.

Consols, which closed on Satarti.;l7t94iolior
the Bth of August, opened this morning at the same
quotation, and closed at 90 to f. For money the
last price was 891 to at 90. The official business
report is as follows :—Three per Cent. Consols
for MIOOff, 90, j, 891 ; ditto, for appestat, 90*,
t9O Thew per Cents. Reduced, 89i, ; New
Three per Cents., 84, ; Exchequer Bala, Bs.