The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-10 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKET&

LieIiPOOL,JI3I.V 9.-6abis to-Bay: Great Eastern, 161—Great
Western, 444 4 31—laneashire and Yorkshire, 1281—London,
Brighton, and South Coast, 631—London and North Western,
1131 1113 c 13—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 461 51
Midland, 1141 14—North British, 301-9outh &stern,
Erie, real 431—Grwt Luxembourg shares, 1016.16—Bank of Liver-
pool. 261—Eastern Exchange Bank (Limited), 11 d.--Queen In-
surance, 8-16 41—Atlantic Telegraph 8 per cent, 4 7-16—Liver-
pool Exchange, 2.s—Liverpool United Gas, 306—National Steam
Limited:, 17 d. —Runcorn Soap and Alkali (Limited.. 1 d.—West
India and Pacific Steam, 91 d—Don Pedro Not. del Bey, 31 p.
MA.scitarisa, Jute ft —The market was very quiet and a
shade lower. Credit Fonder of England (Limited), 61 d.—Lries,63l
—Great Eastern, 244 4 1 4—Great Luxemburg, 111-16—Great
Northern A, 1131—Grand Trunk of (.nada, 171—Great Western,
431—Illinois, Tot—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1141—London and
Cal. Marine insurance (Limited), 41 d.—Manchester, Shef-
field. and Lincolnshire, 669 6—Metropolitan, 1249 - Midland,
1141 1 1 14—North British, 304-B(mth Eastern. 6616 41 /
United States 5-20 Years' Bonds, 7:'—Landon and Brighton,
Alf 1.
WILNI/1011111, JULY 9.—The transactions to-day were In
South Staffordshire Railway stock, at 83 ; Birmingham Banking
Company shares, at 1 16-14 and El Ids. 6d. pm.; Lloyd's Bank
sham. at 8 pni. ; Birmingham Wagon shares, second Issue, at
7-16 pm.. “Ilsueester Wagon shares, at 121 ; and British and
Foreign Railway Plant shares, at 10 dia. Closing prices :—North
Staffordshire Railway &area, sellers, at 68 : Severn Valley Rail-
war, buyers, at ISI and Midland Financial shares (Li-
mited., at 1 9-16 to 11 dia.

His Royal Highness the Prince of Wales having
through General Sir W. Knollys, R.C.8., expressed a wish
that he and the Princess of Wales might inspect the grand
prize of honour awarded by the International Jury of the
Paris Exhibition to the National Lifeboat Institution,
Mr. Lewis, the secretary of the Lifeboat Society, who
had received it at the hands of the Emperor
of the French, had yesterday the honour of an audience
of the Prince, and of submitting to him the medal.
The Prince expressed his satisfaction with it and
at ones showed the medal to the Princess of Wales
who WAS also much gratified with it. Only three of these
grand prizes have been awarded to English exhibitors.
The medal weighs about 12 ounces, and is a very fine spe-
cimen indeed of the numismatic art. The medal has been
presented to the National Lifeboat Institution in acknow-
ledgment of the perfection to which it has brought it. self-
righting lifeboats and equipment, and of the great services
the society has rendered t, shipwrecked sailors of all na-
tions, of whom it has contributed to the rescue of 17,000.
An extensive strike is going on amongst the col-
liers of the Oldham district. Out of 22 pits only six are
working, and about 900 men, besides a large number of
lads, are now idle, protesting against a reduction of two.
pence per ton in their wages, at the same time offering to
accept one penny. At three pits the reduction has been
accepted: the remaining three are working on the old
scale. The demand for coal in the district is being sup-
plied from the Yorkshire coal-fields.
Among the passengers for Lisbon who left
Southampton in the Brazil mail packet Shannon yester-
day were the Duke and Duchess of Palmella.
CANINE ATTACHMENT. —A horse belonging to
T. N. Dwyer, a Worth-street tradesman, got its leg broken
on Saturday, and the owner was compelled to have the
animal shot. When a person attempted to remove the
animal, a dog, which had slept in the stable with the horse
three years, refused to be separated from the carcass but
clung to the mare with its teeth, and mounted the vehicle
when it moved off and sat beside the dead horse, acting as
chief and only mourner. After a lapse of three hours the
dog returned to the stables, seeming quite lonely in the
&beano, of Asian cospoisice.— Area Tort Tribune, June 24.

HONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

Ora o'Osooz.

There is only a very moderate demand to-day
for public securities, and prices generally are un-
changed. The public show little or no disposition
to purchase, notwithstanding the fine weather, the
superabundance of money, and the prospect of
an immediate reduction in the Bank rate of
discount to 2 per cent. Consols, in which the
monthly settlement is now in course of completion,
are without variation for money, but have improved
1-16 per cent. for the account. Most of the British
railway stocks and foreign bonds, as well as bank-
ing and financial shares, are quoted the same as
yesterday.

The demand for money is very moderate, and
the best paper it freely taken at 1 per cent. below
the Bank minimum. The charge for short loans
in the Stock Exchange is 11 to 2 per cent.
Consols are now quoted so to div.,
for money, and so to 95, ex div., for the ac-
count (August 8) ; and the Three per Cents. Re-
duced and New Three per Cents., 931 to 941.
The railway market is quiet, with few transac-
tions. The principal stocks are unaltered, with
the exception of a rise of 1 per cent. in Lancashire
and Yorkshire, and a reduction of 1 to 1 in South
Eastern : and in London, Chatham, and Dover, 1.
The present prices are as follows :—Me-
tropolitan Stock, 1241 to 1 ; Great Western,
431 to 1 ; London and North Western, 113
tot ; Midland, 1131 to 1141 ; Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 1281 to 1 ; South Eastern, 64 to 1 ;
Great Eastern, 261 tog ; Great Northern, 113 k to
1141 ; ditto A, 1121 to 1131 ; London, Chatham,
and Dover, 17 to ; North British, 30 to 31 ;
and London, Brighton, and South Coast, 521
to 531.
The foreign stock market is inactive, and the
only changes in the speculative descriptions are a
rise of 1 per cent. in Spanish Certificates, and
a decline to the same extent in Mexican. Turkish
Bonds of 1862 are quoted 56 to 57 ; ditto of 1865,
311 to ; Greek, 144 to 15 ; Spanish Passive, 221
to 1 ; ditto Certificates, 151 to 1 ; Italian, 1861,
481 to 49/ ; and Mexican, 161 to I.
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Financial shares show no variation. Inter-
national Financial are quoted 2to dia. ; London
Financial, 22 to 21 dia. ; General Credit, 2 to 11
dia. ; and Credit Foncier, 5/ to b dia.

American securities and Atlantic Cable shares
are steady, at the closing prices of yesterday. The
5-20 Bonds are quoted 73 to 1 ; Erie Railway
shares, 431 to ; Illinois Central, 791 to 80 ;
Anglo-American Telegraph, 181 to 1 ; and Atlantic
Telegraph 8 per cent. Preference, 41 to 1.
Formal notice is given that a petition for the
winding up of the Chins Steamship and L►buan
Coal Company (Limited), presented by Messrs.
Laird, the shipbuilders, of Birkenhead, is to be
heard before the Master of the Rolls on the 20th
inst.

The payment of the dividends commencedwit the
Bank yesterday, and as the six millions of
money thus distributed amongst the holders of
Consols and other English government stocks
comes in addition to a large sum payable
this month as dividends on Indian and other
securities, the effect upon a market already
overloaded with idle money has been precisely what
I was expected. As the firmness of the exchanges,
and the consequent tendency to a continued accu-
mulation of gold, seem to render it certain that
the existing plethora will last for a considerable
time to come, the Bank of England directors will
probably find it necessary, in the course of the
next few days, to take into consideration the ad-
visability of reducing their rate to 2 per cent.
About 3,0001. in Russian gold coin was sent into
the Bank yesterday.
The City of Boston has arrived from New York
with 35,0001. in specie, and the Hammonia with
61,0001. ; but the latter amount is for the conti-
nent. The Pereire has also reached Brest from the
same port with 60,0001.
The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon were 1
steady. The only alteration was a movement in
the rates on St. Petersburg in favour of that place.
The list is subjoined :
Amsterdam, 3 months, 11.191 to 11.191; ditto, short,
11.18 to 11.19 ; Rotterdam, 3 months, 11.191 to ILI9I ;
Antwerp, 3 months, 25.40 to 25.45 ; Brussels, 3 months,
26.40 to 25.45 ; Hamburg and Altona, 3 months, 13.94 to
13.10 ; Berlin, Cologne, Ira, 3 months, 6.20 to 6.261;
Bs. Petersburg, 3 months, 32 to 311 ; Paris, short, 25.15
to 25.25 ; ditto, 3 months, 25.35 to 25.40 ; Marseilles,
3 months, 25.371 to 25.424 ; Frankfort-on-the-Maine,
3 months, 120 to 1201; Vienna, 3 months, 11.75 to
12.80 ; Trieste, 3 months, 12.75 to 12.80; Madrid, 3
months, 491 to 49; Santander, 3 months, 491 to 49; Cadiz,
3 months, 491 to 49 ; Seville, 3 months, 491 to 49; MaLige,
3 months, 49 to 481 ; Valencia, 3 months, 49 to 484 ; Bar.
Galena, 3 months, 491 to 491 ; Whoa, 3 months, 49 to
484 • Sermoswk, 3 months, 49 to 481 ; Leghorn, 3
months, 27.35 to 27.45; Genes, 3 months, 27.35 to
27.45; Naples, 3 months, 27.35 to 27.45 ; Palermo, 3
months, 27.35 to 77.45; Messina, 3 months, 27.35 to
27.45 ; Lisbon, 90 days' date, 521 to 52 ; Oporto, 90 days'
date, 521 to 52. _ _

Messrs. C. J. Kemp, Hugh Muir, and H.
Brockett, the liquidators of the Bank of Queens-
land (Limited), have announced that they are pre-
pared to pay all claims of the creditors in full.
Considering that the bank was only placed in
liquidation on the 23rd October last this must be
regarded as very satisfactory, and justifies the
expectation that the bank may be re-established.
A new feature of importance has transpired in
connexion with the affairs of the Bank of London,
and tends to confirm the belief which has always
been entertained that, had there been any calmness
of judgment at the time of the crisis, last year,
this bank ought not to have been reduced to the
necessity of stopping payment and destroying a fine
business. The application of the shareholders'
committee of the Bank of London to close the
official liquidation and appoint a committee of
management, consisting of Messrs. David Chad-
wick, Peter Robb, and George M.Nair, in accord-
ance with the wishes of the shareholders and the
proceedings of the public meeting recently held,
was yesterday heard before Vice Chancellor Wood.
The proposals were approved, and an order made
to carry them into effect. This decision will in
effect cancel the order recently made by the court
for an immediate call upon the shareholders.

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The South Eastern Railway traffic return shows
this week an increase of 3,308/. over last year ;
the London, Brighton, and South Coast an increase
of 2,7711. ; the Metropolitan an increase of 508/. ;
and the Glasgow and South Western an increase of
619/.
The traffic return of the Grand Trunk Railway
of Canada for the week ending the 22nd ult.
shows a decrease of 9861., compared with the
corresponding period of 1866.
The traffic receipts of the Atlantic and Great
Western Railway for the second week in June
amounted to 102,394 dole., against 123,524 dole. in
the corresponding period of last year, showing a
decrease of 21,130 dole.
At the general meeting of the shareholders of the
City Bank, to be held on the 16th inst., the usual
dividend at the rate of 6 per cent. and a bonus at
the rate of 4 per cent., together equal to 10 per
cent. per annum, will be declared, as upon the last
occasion.
The half-yearly report of the directors of the Peel
River Land and Mineral Company (Limited), to
be presented at the general meeting on the 19th
inst., proposes a dividend of 1 per cent., payable
on the 26th. Sheep have been unsaleable, and the
fall in the wool market has so affected the com-
pany's revenue as to leave but a narrow margin of
profit after payment of the colonial expenses.
At a meeting yesterday of railway shareholders,
the following resolution was adopt& d :
That we are of opinion that a oompolaory sale of rail-
ways would be most injurious to she interest' of all

claws of shareholders and creditors, and we area it
advisable that no legislation should take place until the
government plan has been properly matured and eel.*
dered by all parties interested. That a deputation 'Lc:nes'
be appointed to wait upon government to submit our views
to them, and endeavour to obtain a postponement of the
bill.

Subjoined arc :he quotations of insurance: gas,
dock, and waterworks shares, as given in the fitock
Exchange list of last evening :
Insurance—Thamr* and Mersey Marine (Liwited)ls;, 1.
Gaslight and Coke—Bombay (Limited), 4„, 11.1(1, 1;
Cu:nwercial, ; ;mat Central, 124, 13 ;
• 3 ex div. ; Ph 'nix, new, 244, ex div. ;We tern, q
kJ.
Docks—Surrey Conmercial, 110 i, . 4
Waterworks—Berlin, 13 ; East Lon4don, 103, 5, of div. ;
ditto, new, 20j, ex div. •

At yesterday's sale at the "Open Stock Ex-
change (Limited), " the following prices - were
realised :

London, Chatham, and Doveroverdue coupons, 14. 155.,
Q. 15e. ; Oriental Inland Steam, 2s. to 2s. 3d. ; Hpecie
Buis Yining Company Bonds, 21. to 21. 2a. lid. ; Ccelon
Coffee Estates, 2s. lid. ; Imperial Land of Mareeilles
shares, be. to 5.. ditto ditto Bonds, 1870,1 W. 7s. Q.;
ditto, 1872, Si. 4. 94, to Si. 15s. ; ditto ditto, 187:i, Si.
7s. lid. ; Rain Grande Gold, 9e. 6d. to 9e. 9d. ; Confede-
rate Seven per Cents., 1,000 dole., 18111, Rs, to to. 3d. ;
Ottoman Railway, 2!. 15s. ; Imperial Ottoman 'Bank.
8/. 3s. 9d. to 1/. ss. ; Tewkesbury and Malvern Railway.
7s. lid. to ds.

TOMDAT EVIIiINO.

Consols, which closed yesterday at 94.1, "buyers,"
both for money and to-morrow's settlement, opened
this morning at the same quotation, and closed at
94 to I. For the Bth of August the last pries,
was 941. The Three per Cents. Reduced and New
Three per Cents. were quoted at 3 o'clock 931 to
94. The official business report is as follows :
Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 94.1, ts L
ex div. ; ditto, for account, 94k, e, I, arceliv.;
Three per Cents. Reduced, 93k, f , 4, 31 ; New
Three per Ceuta., 94, 31, 4, 31 ; Bank Nth*
2541 ; India Stock, 218, 16, ex div. ; ditto Five per
Cent., 1104, 2, 11 ex di,. ; ditto Five per
Cent. "edema" rupee paper, 1031, 4 ; ditto De-
bentures, 1051, 5 ; ditto Bonds, 635., prem.
The India Five per Cent. stock was again in
great demand, and was last dealt in at 111, being
1 per cent. above the last price marked yesterday.
There were also inquiries for the rupee paper.
The March Exchequer Bills were dealt is
at 275. prem., and the June at 20s. to 235. prem.