The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-20 00:00:00

actual
; but if the duty payments are any index of the
consumption, the trade in both wines and spirits is
very istidaotory.

The annexed is from the Produce Markets Revieeo:
The Bank returns, so far as they are indicative of the
commerce of the country, still point to a great heaviness
in trade, though some partial improvement in this respect
is deduced from the Clearing-house returns, which this
week show a slight increase. be
when
and silver coin and
bullion again show an increase, when compared with the
returns of the preceding week ; and the reserve of notes
shows a further augmentation, to be accounted for by the
increase in the public and private deposits, and the de-
crease in the pr vats swim:ties. The recent decision of the
House of Lords oonliiiiing Vice-Chancellor Moline'
judgment in the °reread and Gurney case, though
naturally unwelcome to the shareholders, will contribute
in no small degree to phew: the law of limited liability
on a better footin3. The House of Commons has already
period the bill for the amendment of the Companies
Act of 18ni, and it will shortly, it is to be hoped,
receive the sanction of the other house. The
opinion of a rumber of lending firms, who are about to lay
their views be:ore the President of the Board of Trade, is
to the effect that " the existing paralysis of commercial
enterprise is in a great degree attributable to the circum-
stance of many millions of capital invested in joint stock
securities being unnegotiabie through the absence of the
powers which the new bill would supply ;" and the
memorialists pray that the measure may be made to pass
at once through the House of Lords, and not thrown over
to the next easidon. Subjoined is a comparison of the pre-
sent position of the Bank, and the price of COOllOlll for the
week ending August 17, 1887, with the corresponding
periods of the two previous years :

1887. 1866. 1845
Bank Bullion £23.491.61.1 .. L 14,160.964 .. £14.180.441
Renew of Nona
None In aratlntlan 24,1111.270 .. 14,640.060 .. 21,1174.1111
Rate of Dinouant t par asal. .. 8 per cent. .. •
par mil
Consols for blaney Int .. .. UN

MONDAY Mvximra.

Consols, which closed on Saturday at
opened this morning at 941 to 8, and closed at 94*
to 1. For money the last price was 914 to
A. The Three per Cents. Reduced and New Three
per Cents. were quoted at 3 o'clock 941 to 1.
The official business report is as follows :—Three
pa. Cent. Consols, for money, 948, 1,4, 3 ; ditto,
for account, 941, ; Three per Ceuta. Reduced, 94
New Three per Cents., 948, 3 ; Bank Stock,
2631, 2, 31 ; India Five per Cent. Stock,ll3l,l,
ditto Five per Cent. " enfaced" rupee paper, 102;,
13, ; ditto Five-and-a-Half per Cent., 1061, 71 ;
ditto Bonds, 665., 705., 65e. prem.
The Indian Five per Cent. Stock was dealt in at
the quotations of Saturday. Exchequer Bills
showed no alteration at 245. to 28e. prem.
Foreign stocks were rather dull, and prices
gave way in severe cues. Russian of 1862, 1864,
and 1866 declined to 1 per cent. ; Turkish of
1862, 4 ; ditto of 1865, and Italian of 1861,
and Sp-nith Passive and Certificates, 1. The
Viceroy co* Egypt's loan, however, was 1 better.
Colonial government securities were firm, but
the only change was a rise of 1 to 1 per cent. in
some of the New South Wales and New Zealand
debentures.
Atlantic Cable shares showed no variation.
Anglo-American closed at 16/ to 171 ; Atlantic
Telegraph 8 per Cont. Preference, at 31 to 1 ;
and Telegraph Construction, at 21 to 2 die.

MINES.-(THIS DAY.)

ONE olthocis.

The dealings in British mining securities conti-
nue upon a limited scale, and prices exhibit no
variation of importance. Annexed are the quotations
for the shares which have been principally dealt
in, via: Wert Cb;verton, 66 to 68; North Crafty,
31 to 4 ; Northehiverton,4 to I ; Cbiverton Moor,
sto I ; Great Vor, 14 to 17 ; Primo° of Wales,
21 tol ; North Treskerli, lg to; Chiverton, 7
to it; Great Retallack, to 6 ;eal Seton, 106
to 110; West Seton I to 150 ; Tincroft, 12 to
ii ; Emit Lovell, 61 to 71 ex d iv. ; and West Kitty,
12s. to 1.4 a.
Fore;gn and colonial mm•ng shares are rather
firm. St. John Del Rey show afresh rise of if., via.
to 58 to 60. Don Pedro are quoted If to II
prem. ; Anglo-Brazilian, 1-16 to 3-16 prem. ;
Pestarena, par to prem. ; Chontales, to 1 prem.;
Roma Grande, ; Anglo-Italian, to prem.;
United Mexican, 11 to 2 ; and Port Phillip, I.
1-16 to 3-16.