The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-23 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 23, 1866.

SHARE LISTS.-(THIS DAY.)

On o'o7.ocaL

There is very little demand to-day for British
railway stocks, and the oenrlat movement in the
descriptionschidescriptions is a rise of per cent. in Metro-
politan. The tendency. generally is rather dull.
Metropolitan stock is now quoted 124 f to 125 ;
Great Western, 63 to } ; London and. North
Westerns 117} to 1; Midland, 1231 to ;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1231 to VA ; Caledonian,
1211 t 01221 ; South Eastern, 63 to } ; Great Eastern,
26} to 1 ; Great Northern, 115 to 116 ; ditto
A, 125} to 126 ; London, Chatham, and Dover,
17E 1 to 181 ; and North British, 37 to 4.
cast Indian Railway stock is in demand, and has
improved , per cent., viz., to 105} to I. Lombardo-
Venetian glares are quoted 16} to 4, ex div. ; and
Grand Trunk of Canada, 185 to 19, showing no
change.
ORDINARY MARIS AND DIOCie
and Pb I RAD.wAyo I ClortiXioss I "las to-ds,
) • to 1 p.m.

100 Bristol and raster
100 Caledonian
100 Cambrian —..
all Cork and Bandon
all Cornwall
. 100 Dublin and Beileatlane
a 100 ,Ditodee,Perth,dandin
00 all ;East London &zip Cat
.00 10 Do
ra. 100 Glasgow and 8. Western
Dr. 100 °real Eastern Ord. St.
Sc 100 Do. Lang. Stk. ,No .11

86 133
121 113
60 46
11 15
4 6
116 OS
70 72

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26 27
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115 117
124 MI

90 02
63 631

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82 84
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1171 1171
82 84
49 50
125
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67 89

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93 99

37 33
14 18
106 106

too on Atleatle&St. Lawrence
Sk 300 Boak Bar. &C. le. gbp.e.
20 ' 10 1 Do. Y Mares
26k all !Buffalo & Lake Huron
14 . all I Do. Preference
100 100 ,Bef..llraat,&Oodmiels
6 per cent.l272-34
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St 'IOC Cape T. & Dock 6p. c. g.
100 j all 'Demerara,7p.c.perpret.o. Si ,100 !East Bawl ga. 5 d
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100 ' all I Do. Equlp.SLß.6p.et.
100 all . Do. let pref. Bonds
NO 1 all I Do. do. deferred

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SECURITIES.

98 94
90 92
90 92
77 78
75 77
104 106
104 106
102 104
104 108
88 90
102 104
104 108:d
106 197
104 108
106 107
193 105 xd
106 107
98 100
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86 87
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MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

Ups o'Cwci.

The funds opened firmly this morning, at
an advance of * per cent., owing to the
very favourable character of the returns
of the Banks of England and France, but
have since relapsed to the last prices
of yesterday, with a preponderance of sales.
Nearly all the British railway stocks are un-
changed, while some of the foreign securities
are inquired for, especially Italian of 1861 and
Mexican. United States 5-20 Bonds have
improved. Banking and financial shares show no
variation of importance. There is less demand for
colonial government debentures, and the tendency
of prices in some cues is downwards.

The demand for money to-day is not active, but
the charge for the best paper is maintained at 31
to per cent. The remarkable improvement
in the accounts of the Bank of England has
strengthened the impression that the rate of dis-
count will shortly be reduced. The quotation for
short advances on English government securities is
3 to 24 per cent.
The scrip of the new Russian Loan was quoted
this nimaing 11 to 2 prem. Although a slight rise
has since taken place, the present price-14 to 2i
prem.—is per cent. lower than yesterday.
Consols are now quoted 894 to 90, cum div., for
money, and 884 to , ex div., for the account (Gth
December).

The transactions in foreign stocks are not nume-
ions ; but Italian of 1861 and Mexican are in
request, and have improved 1 per cent. Turkish
of 1865, however, have declined 1. Turkish Bonds
of 1862 are quoted 60 to 61; ditto, 1865, 33g to 1;
Greek, 131 to 141; Spanish Passive, 214 to 1;
ditto Certificates, 131 to ; Italian of 1861, 55;
to ; Mexican, 181 to 1.
United States 5-20 Bonds have advanced I per
cent., viz., to 701 to 1, but Erie and Illinois Cen-
tral ralway shares have declined 1 to 1, being
quoted 451 to 50 and 771 to 784 respectively.
Anglo-American Telegraph shares are called 15
to 151, being ss. better, and Atlantic Telegraph
Eight per Cent. Preference 31 to 41, showing no
change.

International Financial shares are quoted 2
to 11 dis. ; London Financial, 16i to 15i dis. ;
General Credit, 11 to 11 dia. ; Credit Fonder,
isit to 5 dis. ; National Discount, 91 to 10 prem. ;
and Hudson's Bay, 162 to 17.
Both the Bank of England and the Bank of Franco
have issued returns of au extraordinarily favourable
character, and the "reserve" and stock of bullion
here, in particular, have now reached a point from
which, in past experience, they have rarely been
drawn down without an outburst of speculation in
some quarter ; yet, so complete and unreasoning is
the distrust of the public, that a multitude of
sound investments are left in utter neglect, though
at greatly depressed prices. It would seem that
investors, as a class, will loot move at all unless
they move in a body, and that they will prefer to
give much higher prices in the coming year, when
more general symptoms of animation maybe looked
for.

About 86,0001. in gold was sent into the Bank
yesterday.
The Mexican dollars by the French steamer have
not yet reached London, but they were sold yester-
day at 4s. per ounce, showing no change. Bar
silver is still quoted ss. o,id. The West India
steamer, which is expected at Southampton on the
27th will, it is believed, bring a total of no
less than ;300,0001., chiefly in Mexican dollars.
Mr. William Dargau, tho eminent Irish con-
tractor, has executed an assignment of his estate in
favour of his creditors. No precise information
has transpired with regard to the amount of his
liabilities, but in some quarters they are estimated
at a million sterling. The assets consist chiefly of
land and railway shares, and the liquidation, it is
thought, will prove favourable, and perhaps result
in the eventual payment to the creditors of 20s.
in the pound. Mr. Dargan has always been
much respected, but his credit for years past has
not stood high, and the rates for discount of his
bills have been very onerous. In 1845 he was com-
puted to be worth 800,0001., and ten years ago
300,0001. Mr. Dargan is chairman of the Dublin,
Wicklow, and Wexford Railway, in which he is
largely interested, and is also a director of the
Royal Marine Hotel Company of Kingstown, the
Belfast and Northern Counties Railway, the Bel-
fast and Bangor Railway and Land Company, and
the Railway Credit Company, as well as trustee
and chairman of the Wexford Harbour Embank-
ment Company.

The proceedings in Vice-Chancellor Kindersley's
court yesterday, in the matter of Overend, Gurney,
and Co. (Limited), attracted great attention. The
Attorney-General, on behalf of certain share-
holders, having alluded at great length to the
charges of fraud and misrepresentation in the
prospectus, asked that the motions might stand
over until after further evidence had been procured
through the cross-examination of the directors.
The learned counsel dwelt in strong terms upon
the deficiency of over 3,000,000/. alleged to have
existed at the time of the transfer of the business.
It further appeared from the evidence produced
that the statements made by Mr. Howell as to the
hopeless insolvency of the business at the time
of the formation of the limited company
was confirmed by Mr. John Henry Gurney, who,
however, explained that at that time they believed
that the 500,0001. to be received for the goodwill,
together with the value of the promises and the
private estates of the partners of the firm, would
be sufficient to meet the enormous deficiency ex-
iating. It was finally ruled by Vice-Chancellor
Kindersley that the motions shall stand over until
after the evidence to be taken before the special
examiner in his cross-examination of the directors
shall have been completed.
The Great Western Railway traffic return shows
this week an increase of 2,7681. over the corre-
sponding period of last year ; the Great Northern,
a decrease of 2811; the North Eastern, an
increase of 2,694/. • the Great Eastern, an in-
crease of 7051 the Lancashire and Yorkshire, an
increase of 3,4d01.; the London and South Western,
an increase of 1,4491. ; the Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnshire, an increase of 1,166/. • the
North British, an increase of 1,4681. ; the London,
Chatham, and Dover, including the Metropolitan
Extension and branches, an increase of 9071. ; the
Metropolitan Extension, an increase of 351. ; and
the Kent Coast, an increase of 1101.
The report of the directors of the Anglo-Egyptian
Bank (Limited) is to be presented at the general
meeting on the 30th inst. It is satisfactory to
tate that steps are to be taken to reduce the liability
of the shareholders. The shares are at present of
501. each, with 20/. paid, and are quoted 9 to 8 dia.
A dividend is to be payable on Anglo-Mexican
Mint shares on the 3rd of December.
Creditors of the Strand Hotel Company (Limited)
are required to send the particulars of their claims
to Mr. George Scott, the official liquidator, by the
15th of December, the 21st of December having
been appointed by the Master of the Rolls for adju-
dicating upon them.
Creditors of the Slate Mountain Company
(Limited) are required to send the particulars of
their claims to the official liquidator by the 17th
December, the 11th January, having been appointed
by the Court of Chancery for adjudicating upon
them.
Subjoined is Messrs. Culverwell, Brooks, and
Co.'s report of yesterday's hide sales :
At the twenty-second aeries of hide sales for the year a
fair demand was generally experienced, at about late
priors. East India: Ox and Cow—Calcutta were in
steady demand, a fair proportion of the quantity offered
being sold ; exporters bought more freely than for some
• time past, while the borne trade also operated to a fair
extent, and fully last sale's prices to an occasional advance

of W. per lb. were realised. Bombay, 7.:anipon, sad
well. The analysis of the calm is Lhi,:z/7 Calcutta new
parcels, 27,473 brought forward from former sales, and
Bombay. &c., in all 160,036 hides, of which 129,100
were sold. Emit India : Buffalo barely realised late rates.'
Leather: East Indian sold well. Australian brought
about former prices for the small portion sold. Salted
Hides : Australian were in fair request, particularly for
light, at about late rates. Cape sold fairly. Gibraltar
only part sold. Dry and Dryualted Hides : Zanzibar
brought fair prices. Horse Hides : South American sold
at rather easier rates. Bark: Mimosa, was nearly alt
bought in.

The weekly return of the Bank of France shows
the following changes :

Coin and bullioti
Bills discounted

berms 2364,000
peareale 1,380,000
___

Government deposits lncrease 20,000
Notes in circulation
Private deposits
Advances
For some time past, while the bullion iu the Bank
of France has been declining, and the discounts in-
creasing, the expectation has been freely expressed
in this country that a rise in its rate of discount,
which is now only 3 per cent., must be decided
upon, the advocates of our Bank Act naturally
imagining that affairs must take the same
course in France as they would do here. But the
above return shows that the Council of the Bank
of France had a juster appreciation of the causes
and extent of the movement, and the increase of
564,0001. in the bullion, and decrease of 1,380,0001
in the bills discounted, are sufficient to remove
altogether the idea of a rise in the rate.
The return of the Bank of England for the week
ending Wednesday, Nov. 21, compared with that
for the previous week, shows the following changes:
Circulation issue £31,744,190 Increase 209,470
Circulation active 22,914,315 Decrease 332,530
Pulilio deposits 5,830,843 Increase 683,071
Other deposits
Government securities in

banking department 12,670,738 Increase 368,347
Other securities in banking
department 19,184,781 Increase 123,348
Coin and bullion in both

departments
Seven day and other bile

17,752,914 Increase 509,307
582,110 Decrease 10,529
.. 3,202,816 Increase 8,(6'
8,799,875 Increase 992,000

The Reel
Notes in reserve

Total reserve (notes & coin)
in banking department... 9,808,599 Increase 940,537
Although there has been some slight increase in
the demand for loans and discounts, the intlux of
deposits, both government and private, has been so
heavy that the reserve has been added to by the
important sum of 940,8371., by which the total is
now raised to close upon ten minions. As money
accumulates in the Bank, the excess of notes in
circulation is of course gradually reduced. The in-
crease in the coin and bullion is likewise important,
being 608,3071., more than 200,0001. of which is
apparently due to the reflux of coin from the pro-
vinces. The increase in the private deposits has
doubtless been promoted by payments into the
Bank by the liquidators of failed companies.

ENGLAND.
7th and eth Vle., e. St for the
, the flirt day of Nov., 19.4.
OARTIMICT.
Government debt.. C11,015,14M
Other securities.... 3,9n4,100
i2k4,1 cola and bd.
lion
Silver bullion .

BANK OF
An Account pursuant to the Act
week ending on Wednesday,
DAWN DIM
n 1,764,190

16,744,190

01.744,190

£31,741,190

IPARTIGOT.
Government gem-
' rides . hielnding
Dead Weight AA-

uuity.
Other but:Amities
Notes
Gull sod Silver
Coln

112.C7,), 73$
10.1b4,7b1
b,itr*,e73

x 41.664,116
F. MAY, D:ptity Cashier.