The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-07 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SNARE JURISTS.

LivearooL, Nov. 6.-Saks: Caledonian, 881 8 1 8 711}-
Great Eastern, 321 f 4-Great Western, 411 1-Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 1251 6 51-London, Brighton, and South Coast, 6
Loudon and 'North Western, 114 1 14 134 14 111 1c 1 11-1
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 481 I-Metropolitan
1/11-Midland, 118 171 / j 18 i f 18-North ffingern, Berwick
capital stock, 1011-Bouth lxm'n, 671 61 -Erie}1 1 -Lancanter
and Carlisle, 207-Great Western of Canada, 17-, 47-United
States 5.20 Bonds (1862., 1 May, 1 Nov.. 7-Great Luxembourg
shares, 8) 0-16-North Western Bank :Liniltall, 3 ft-Lancashire
Insurance, f p-Liverpool and London and Globe Fire and Ufa
Insurance, 5 7-18 y -Queen Insurance, 1 4.-Union Marine In-
surance. 31 p.-lintish and Irish Magnetic Telegniub Almada-
UOO, WI-National strain Ship Company :Limited", S per cent.
min. pref., 610 p.
ILAWC=92IO4 Nov. 6,-Market very dna, with a fair amount
of business doing. Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co. „Limited), j p.-
C. Caminell and C 0../ Limited 3/1 4_ -Kries, 40 -Great Eastern,
3211 1 1.-OreatLuxedlloonrg, is; 11-16-Great Northern A,Anri
1 13 11311 ; 13-Great Western of Canada, 17-tireat West-
ern, 461 - Illinois, tin-Lancashire and Yorkshire, 12516-
London, Brighton, and Mouth Comm, 531-London and North
Western, 114 1 1 1-Manchester, Sheffield, and Linoolnahlre,
481 1 -Metropolitan, 1211 1p 1 1-Midland, 118 171 18 1 Id-
South Eastern, 67 61-United States 5-22 Years' Bonds, 701 1 14
-Ditto (1835). 001-Caledonian, 871 1 1 1 1 1 8 71 1 1 1 If-Union
Bank, 21 p.
Btaglitffilain, NOV. 6.-Badness done:-Birmlngbam BanUng
Company's shares 'Limited', at 11 mem. Birmingham Joint
Stock Bank ,Limited), at 331; Birmingham Town and District
Ranks at 11 : Birmingham Financial shares ;Limited, at 1i dia.:
and Gloucester Wagon Limited', at 18 per share. Closing prices
Routh Staffordshire Railway shares, buyers at 831 ; Birmingham
Canal, buyers at 87; Midland Financial /Limited 1 11-16 to
14 dis. • and Genets! Steam Navigation shares, buyers at 26
per afire.
Doindit, Nor. 5.-Three per Cent. Consols, 031-New Three
pee Cent. Stock, 921 4-Ditto, for account. Nov. 7, 521-Ditto,
for account, Dec. 5, 921 4-Munster Bank Limited; (C3l
paid). 41-National Bank (A3O paid", 601 .-National of Liver-
pool Limited', .gll5 paid', 114-Royal Hsi** .210 paid". 32)-
1 Great Southern and Western '2500 paid, 061 :-Midland Great
Western .ClOO 57-Cork an Bandon :t4 per cent. per-
petual (all paid), 6-Dulffin and Kingstown.loo.

The Oswego Times states that during 36 hours 76
vessels arrived at that port, which brought 2,094,677 feet
of lumber and 400,000 bushels of grain.
Royal. GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. —At the evening
meeting on Monday next the following papers will be
read : —l. The President's Opening Remarks : 2 Porte
geese Expeditions to Abyssinia, by Mr. C. R. Markham.

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SOUTHALL CATTLE MARKET, Nov. 6.—The trade
was somewhat slow, nevertheless nearly all the stock found
buyers. Beef made from 3s. 4d. to sa. ; mutton, 4s. to
ss. 44 ; seal, 4s. Bd. to bs. 20. ; pork, 3s. 4d. to 4s. lid. per
stone of bibs., stoking the offal.

Two GAMES AioNcE.—You may discourse for $
whole evening, and impress no single person with any
opinion of your powers ; but if you can listen judiciously,
and with a proper emphasis in your silence, to one or two
of the talkers present, you may safely reckon on their
testimony in your favour as an intelligent and agreeable
man. Of course, the perfect listener should possess largely
the power of abstraction. He should be able to devote his
visible attention to the veriest proper to whom he may be
allotted as a captive for the time, while he is gathering in
the pleasanter sounds which reach his ear from more dis-
tant quarters. There is some danger in this to the inex-
perienced. It incurs the risk of a sad misplacing of the
needful interjections. Besides, most people listen with
their 57es as well as with their ears. If, while trying to
maintain a dialowie with an uninteresting neighbour. they
want to catch what is being said on the opposite side of
the table, they allow their glances to wander unmistakeably
to the point of attraction, or try to look out of the corners
of them, an a magpie does, in a fashion which neither
improves their own personal appearance nor gratifies the
party to whom they affect to give their undivided attention.
The cleverest compliment in words will fail to propitiate
the lady who site next you if she discovers that all the time
your eyes are, like the fool's, in the ends of the earth. So
long as these do their duty, she may construe silence into
admiration, and excuse your stupidity to herself on the
ground that the charms of her person and conversation
may be rather overwhelming to a modest man : but there
can be no misinterpreting the fatal evidence of the wan-
dering glances. It is only the really accomplished listener
who can devote his eyes and all his visible allegiance to
where they are legally due, Mid yet keep his ears open to
what he really wants to hear.—Black:roods Megatirse for
November.

MOYEY KARKRT.-(THIS DAY.)

o'Cioou.
Although the advice' to-day from the Continent
are, on the whole, satisfactory, the stock markets
are slightly flatter in tone. The amount of busi-
ness is rather limited, attention being partly
directed to the fortnightly settlement in the
English funds, which will be completed
this afternoon. As was expected, the ar-
rangement of the account shows a small
supply of stock, and a preponderance of
speculative sales for a fall. Cm's°ls and foreign
bonds are unchanged, but English railway
stocks have declined, the most important
' movement being in Lancashire and York-
shire and Caledonian. Royal Mail Steam
shares are extremely heavy, and have fallen
Of., upon the anouncement of the wreck of two of
their steamers at St. Thomas, and serious disasters
to several others, is referred to in another column.
The loss will fall upon the company, as they insure
their own vessels.

1 There is no new feature in the discount market,
the supply of money being good, and the rate for
the best bills without change, at 14 per cent.
Consols are quoted 941 to 4 for money, and
192 15-16 to 931-16, ex div., for the new account
(December 5). The Three per Cents. Reduced and
New Three per Cents. are at 924 to 93.
Home railway stocks are offered, and have
given way. Lancashire and Yorkshire and
Caledonian have declined about 1 per cer.t.,
the present price being 1244 to /, and 86 to 4,
respectively. The reductiqn in most of the otikr
lines amounts tot to 4. The quotations are as
follows :—Metropolitan, 1204 to 1214 ; Great
Western, 46 to 4 ; London and North Western,
114 to 1 ; Midland, 1174 to 1 ; South Eastern,
664 to ; Great Eastern, 32 to 1 ; Great
Northern, 1074 to 1084 ; ditto A, 1121 to 3 ;
London, Chatham, and Dover, 174 to 4 ; North
British, 321 to 334 ; and Brighton, 524 to 1.
Foreign stocks have been little dealt in, and the
speculative descriptions are unaltered. Turkish
of 1862 are at 62 to 63 ; ditto of 1865, 314 to 324 ;
Greek, 124 "to 1 ; Spanish Passive, 184 to 194 ;
ditto Certificates, 164 to 4 ; Italian of 1861, 454
to 1 ; Chilian scrip, 4 dis. to par ; Egyptian, 1864,
84 to 85; and Mexican, 144 to 154.
United States 5-20 Bonds have experienced a
fresh rise of 4 per cent., viz., to 701 to 71, owing
to a decline in the premium on gold at New York.
Erie Railway shares are quoted 464 to 47, showing
no change ; and Illinois Central, 811 to 821, being
1 better.

Atlantic Cable shares are steady. Anglo-Ameri-
can are at 17# to 1, and Atlantic Telegraph Eight
per Cent. Preference at 31 to a.
Bank shares exhibit no variation of importance,
the dealings being upon a limited scale. Imperial
Ottoman, however, are firm, at to 1 dis.
The only change in Financial shares is a decline
of 2s. Gd. in Credit Fonder, viz., to 61 to ek dia.
International Financial are called 2'i to 21 dis. ;
London, 24 to 23 dis. ; and General Credit, 21, to
2 dis.

An extraordinary meeting of the Wallachian
Petroleum Company (Limited) will be held on the
19th inst., when it will be proposed that the under-
taking shall be wound up voluntarily.
A general meeting of the South of England
Waggon Company (Limited) is called for the 19th
inst.

The amount of gold withdrawn from the Bank
yesterday for the Continent waslol,oool., making a
total of 288,0001. since the date of the last return,
while only 6,0001. has been sent in.
The City of New York, from New York, has brought
20,5001. in specie, and the City of London 1,500!.
The biddings for bills on India took place yester-
day at the Bank of England. The amounts allotted
were : To Calcutta, 8.30.000 rs. ; and to Madras,
1.70.000 rs. The minimum price was fixed, as
before, at Is. 111 d. on Calcutta and Madras.
Tenders on Calcutta and Madras at Is. lied. will
receive about 85 per cent., those above that price
will be allotted in full. No tenders on Bombay
were invited. These results show little change
compared with those on the last occasion.
A meeting was held yesterday of .he creditors of
Messrs. Vivanti, Annett, and Balfour, in the silk
trade, who stopped payment on the 26th ult. The
balance-sheet, prepared by Messrs. Honey and
Humphreys, the accountants, shows liabilities to
the amount of upwards of 400,0001., but only
30,2451. is expected to rank against the estate,
while the net assets reach 22,3621. It was resolved
to adjourn for a month, and meanwhile the affairs
of the firm are to be liquidated under supervision.
The deputation appointed at the meeting of the
Grand Trunk Railway Company of Canada, on the
31st ult., have had a conference with the directors,
the result of which is, that, as regards the bill to
be presented to the Canadian parliament, all the
clauses to which objection was taken by the meet-
ing are withdrawn. The powers of the bill are now
confined to the raising of a sum not exceeding
500,0001. in Equipment Mortgage Bonds, No. 2
(snchbondsin no wayto interfere with the priorities
and rights of the existing Equipment Bonds), and to
the enabling of variations being made in the terms
of the agreements with the Buffalo and Lake Huron ,
and Champlain Railways, with the consent '
those respective companies.
At a meeting yesterday of the shareholders of the
European Bank (Limited) the liabilities were
stated by Mr. Whinney, one of the liquidators, at
369,285/., as against 2,637,8201. in May, 1866, when
the bank stopped payment. To meet the present i
commitments, there is cash in hand amounting to
25,3441., and from the La Villette Company, the
St. Nazaire Company, and the Socik4 de Com-1
coerce the sum of 281,0001. is due, which is ex-
pected to realise eventually about 181,0001. The
liquidators settled a list of contributories, prepara-
tory to making a can of 21. 10s. per share. This
call will realise about 75,0001., and allow of the
payment of a dividend in January next.
_ .

The London and North Western Railway traffic
return shows this week an increase of 4,9931. over
last year ; the Midland, an increase of 4,1701. -
the Metropolitan, an increase of 308!. ; and the
Great Northern, an increase of 4,0761. •
A general meeting of the Copiapu Extension
Railway Company is called for the 19th inst. It
is notified that Mr. Thomas Powditch, the resident
director in Chile, will attend the meeting, to ex-
plain the present condition and the future pro-
spects of the company.
Vice-Chancellor Stuart has fixed the 16th inst.
for the appointment of an official liquidator of the
" City of London and Colonial Financial Associa-
tion (Limited)."
The subjoined report on the market for Ame-
rican securities is from Messrs. Satterthwaite
and Co. :

Americus securities in the Londoernarket have shown
some fluctuations during the past week. influenced partly
by European politics, and partly by the lower rate of col
and exchange reported by telegraph from New York. The
result of the week's oper.ttiont shows an improvement in
United States Government Bonds of nearly one per cent.,
5.20's of 1862 (Awing 70„ to A, and of the 1865 issue 691 to
Illinois and Central shares and Currency Bends, regu•
Tarly paying dividends or interest, such as Illinois Seven
per Cents., and Detroit and Milwaukee, have been la
request, as with a possible further decline in gold they
will naturally enhance in value, while such stocks as Erie
abates. which have comparatively a speculative value, will
be less affected. _ .

The following report on the leather trade is from
the circular of Mears. T. J. and T. Powell, dated
yesterday :
Throughout the month of October there has been a good
demand for almost all descriptions of leather, with pries,
as nearly as possible corresponding with those of the pre-
vious month. The transactions have been almost entirely
for the immediate requirements of bule•s, scarcely any
disposition having been shown to anticipate purchases

neverthsless •-n hPen firni. and the stoeke sow
held are seeer.i.) '3 11,au.. At the nozasoeacement
the part mouth.. ;i e'd IseM,; the position el tie tsarist
it is not probal, r.: any important depression MU
occur during the • .1/ du'd pmiod towards the class d
the vtar, hut. t contrary, no speculative purelmme
having been mad :nor, probable that tbe recurring wants
of .nyers viii •a steady consumptive inquiry.
white the gr.. • • :••• im,reasing demand for MIAs,
•• wrought” on i • • ‘...ssrought " for expectation. whittle
shown by tLe . • f tie Board of Trade affords WM
it prospect of an ad•• •r. ! *omen I of demand. n raw veils
there has not been ;• dtMularly active demand, al=
the imports Its; - •N•ia moderate and the stocks
With so few priors bars been well mein-
tained, : a levy Australian hides, for whisk
Artich. the : suspended orders for shipping • ke-
wards the clone,! :Louth additions have been nimilate
the stocks, w... . now generally larger than at the
beginning of Oztober. At Leadeshail yesterday the sells-
plies of fresh were limited, and a good amigo
amount of bu-ii.e.; done without alteration in prim.
The articles of : English butts, Euglishbellees,,
light common Li':., shaved hides, and calf airbust
iLidcne weight; w. r :he articles most in request.

WEDNICHDAT ZIPINZIMS.

Consols, which c:osed yesterday at 941 to 1,
both for mone' an ,1 r.o-morrow's settlement, opeed
ar.l closed to-ut: ;,.•• to 1. In the interval
the price temporarily 941 to 1. For the
sth Dec. the last quotation was 941 to 1. The
official business relmrt is as follows :—Three per
Cent. Consols, for money, 041, 1,1, 1 ; ditto, fee
account, 94A, .7; : Three per Ceuta. Reduced,
1921, 3 ; Rev; Three, per Cents., 921, 31, 21, 3
Annuities, 1885. 121 ; Bank Stock, 248 ; Indin
Five per Cent. Stock, 1141, 14, ; ditto Peer
per
Cent. -I.oui • ditto Certificates, 106 ; ditto
Fire per Cell^. " enfaced" rupee paper, 1041 ;
ditto Five-iii.d-a-Half per Cent., 1091 ; ditto
Bonds, 584., 625., prem.
The India Five per Cent. stock was in renewed
demand, and impr wed, being last marked 1141.
Other Indian government securities were steady.
Exchequer Bills were tirm at 28s. to 31s. prem.
Foreign stocks were decidedly firm, with ea
increased antount of business, consisting almost
entirely of pure:asps to cover recent sales for a
fall. The changes in prices, which were more nu-
merous than for some time past, were all in ma
upward direction. Italian Bonds were in active
demand in the morning, and resell per cent ; a
reaction afterwarus took place, yet the closing qua
tation was 2 Iti;her than yesterday. Those of 1866,
as well as Peruvian of 1862 and 1865, improved 1 ;
Chiban scrip, Egyptian Railway Debentures, and
Russian of 1862., s ; Greek, SpaniiihNew Deferred,
Portuguese of &c., and Turkish of 1866
(Five per Cer.ts.). ; and Spanish New Three per
Cents., Passive, And the Committee's Certificates, 1.

MINES.-(771M DAY.)

Ors o'CLocia.

The mining market is firm to-day, with a fair
amount of bniinvis. North Treskerby shares us
quoted 355. to :.7s. 6d. ; Prince at Wales, Ws. 6d.
to 555. • Great Vor, 174 to 18 ; North Crotty, 3
to n ; East L.vell, 3to 81 ; West Chivertoa,
70 to 72 ; Wheal Seton, 1024 to 106 ; Great Re-
tallack, 3 to 34 ; Clifford, 6# to eff ; Cern Brea,
171 to 184 ; and North Chiverton, 4f to 4.
Foreign and colonial mining shares are rather
inactive. Chontales show a fresh decline of ss.
viz., to I to 02 dis., but the other companies are
unaltered. St. John del Rey are at 59 to 61 ;
Don Pedro, 24 to # prem. •, Anglo-Brazilian,
par to prem.; Yestarena, par to 4 prem. ; Roma
Grande, 9-16 to 11.16 ; Anglo-Italian, to
prem.; Unitel Mexican, If to 2; Frontino sad
Bolivia, 15s. to 16a. ; Port Phillip, 14 to 1# ;
and Central American, I dia. to par.
The directors of the kapunda Mining Company
(Limited) have declared a dividend of 10d. per
share, payable on the 23rd inst.
The animal meeting of the Pontgibaud Silver
Lead Mining and Smelting Company is called for
the 30th inst. at Paris. _ __ _ .

At the meeting yesterday of the United Mexican
Mining Company (Limited) the report of the direc-
tors was adopted, and a resolution passed authoris-
ing them to Like preliminary steps with a view to
the eltension of the operations of the undertaking.