The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-16 00:00:00

BANK OF 1
An Account pursuant to the Aet
week ending ou Wednesday,
ISMS DIP
Notes tamed Y 31,064,790

The transactions in public securities to-day are
upon a limited scale, but prices, on the whole, are
well maintained. Consols continue in request,
and exhibit a further advance off per cent. for
money. Some of the British railways and foreign
stocks are also inquired for. Banking and finan-
cial shares are without change of importance.
United States 5-20 bonds have improved, owing to
a decline in gold at New York.
There is very little demand for money to-day,
and the rate for choice bills is still quoted 31 per
cent. Shortloans on English government secu-
rities are obtainable in the Stock Exchange at 21
to 3 per cent.
Consols are now quoted 901 to 1, cunt div., for
money, and 881 to /, ex div., for the account (6th
December).
Amongst the foreign securities there is a demand
for Italian bonds of 1861, which have improved 1
per cent. On the other hand, Turkish of 1862 have
declined 1. Turkish of 1865, Spanish Passive, the
Committee's Certificates and Mexican are un-
changed. Turkish Bonds of 1862 are quoted
571 to 581; ditto, 1865, 321 to 1 ; Greek, 131 to
141; Spanish Passive, 211 to 1; ditto Certificates,
141 to 1; Italian of lBdl, 651 to 1; Mexican, 171
to 18.
United States 5-20 bonds are 1 per oent better,
at 70 to 1. Erie and Illinois Central railway
shares have also risen 1, viz, to 491 to 501 and 771
to 78, respectively.
Anglo-American Telegraph shares are quoted
14i to 15, showing an advance of 2s. 6d., and
Atlantic Telegraph 8 per cent. preference, 4 to 4,1,,
being unaltered.
International Financial shares are quoted 11
to II die. ; London Financial, 161, to 151 die. ;
General Credit, 2to 1/ dig. ; Credit Fonder,
41 to 4a die. ; National Discount, 91 to 10 prem. ;
and Hudson's Bay, 16i to 17i.
About 35,0001. in gold was sent into the Bank
yesterday. The demand for exportation is slight,
owing to the firmness of the Paris Exchange.
The bar silver by the West India packet has been
sold for the Continent at ss. Old. per ounce, show-
ing no change, compared with the price recently
current.
The steamer Ripon is expected at Southampton
to-morrow, with 468,4861. in gold, chiefly Aus-
tralian.
We understand that the 500,0001. of 5 per cent.
guaranteed debentures of the Bombay, Banda,
and Central India Railway Company have been all
subscribed for.
We learn upon inquiry that there is no truth in
the Stock Exchange rumour of Wednesday, that a
proposal is under the consideration of the directors
of the Alliance Bank for the reduction of the nomi-
nal amount of the shares.
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway traffic re-
turn shows this week an increase of 4,0851. over
last year ; the North Eastern, an increase of 2,273/.;
the 'Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, an
increase of 1,3371. ; the London, Chatham, and
Dover, including the Metropolitan Extension and
branches, an increase of 1,3191. ; the Metropolitan
Extension, an increase of 801. ; and the Kent
Coast, an increase of 30/.
The traffic earnings of the Great Western Rail-
way of Canada for the week ending Nov. 2 were
14,3971., showing a decrease of 2,2161., compared
with the corresponding period of 1865.
An extraordinary general meeting of the share-
(holders of the Trust and Company of Upper
' Canada is called for the 30th inst., to declare a
dividend.
An extraordinary general meeting of the share-
holders in Smith, Knight, and Co. (Limited) is
called for the 30th inst., to confirm the resolutions
passed on the 14th inst., for a voluntary wind-
DIl- e
I mg up.
Creditors of the London Armoury Company
- (Limited), which is now being voluntarily wound
• up, are required to send statements of their claims
to the liquidators by the 30th inst.
The dividends due the lit proximo are announced
on the undermentioned loans, viz. : Sardinian Five
per Cent Loan of 1851, by Messrs. C. J. Hambro
and Son • Chilian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., by
Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. ; and Brazilian
Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Loans of 1852, 1858,
and 1860, by Messrs. Rothschild.
Mr. T. A. Gibb, the head of the well-known
firm of T. A. Gibb and Co., China merchants, of
Old Broad-street, died yesterday morning, at his
residence, Lancaster-gate, at the age of 67. Mr.
Gibb, who was very wealthy, was a director of
the Panulcillo Copper Company, British Ship-
owners Company, Ocean Marine Insurance Com-
pany, and Overeud, Gurney, and Co. He
has suffered for many years from disease of the
heart, and his death is said to have been accele-
rated by anxiety caused by his connexion with
Overend, Gurney, and Co.
The death is also announced of Mr. John Gil-
christ, of the firm of Gilchrist, Watt. and Co.,
old established merchants, of Sydney' New South
Wales. Mr. Gilchrist, who was aboutait, 66 years
of age, was a director of the Commercial Bank of
Sydney from its eat tblishment ink ndon in 1859
up to May last, when he resign owing illohealth. Be was also a director of the Union Bank
of London and the Ocean Marir.e Insurance
Company.
The last series of colonial wool sales for the cur-
rent year commenced yesterday. The entalotow
comprised 3,694 bales, viz.:—Cape, 2,857 bales
Port Phillip, 442 ; Sydney, 351 ; Tasmania, 24 ;
and Adelaide, 20. The attendance of buyers, both
home and foreign, is good, and the prices paid, is
compared with last sales, are reported by _ Messrs.
Dutton and Ferry as follows :—Cape, Oid. to Id.
, lower ; Port Phillip, no change ; and SyJney, 00.
to Id. higher. The biddings for these three were
very spirited. The quantity arrived for the pre-
sent sales up to date is as fellows :—New South
Wales and Queensland, 6,936 bales • Victoria,
4.931 ; Tasmania, 1,029 ; South Aulfzr-Lia, 2,231;
New Zealand, 3,970 ; total Australasian, 19,097 ;
Cape of Good Hope, 43,702 ; total colonial,
62,799 bales.
The subjoined report on the bullion market is
from the circular of Messrs. Sharps and Wilkins :
We regret that on this occasion again we have uo im-
provement in our markets to report, The long-expected
Indian demand for silver appears to be indefinitely post- The Ju:inia! cic Dergcrte gives au account of the
Iponed, the present ringai future prospeets of the cotton.
silver to Bombay. Mcantiine the state of the contiental the villa‘c of Idimune (Dor(hgne). While all her family
market not as yet appe to warrant the remittance of
suicide of a; young girl of sixteen, named :quite Maaisa, at
exchanges has permitted the various arrivals of silver
and were out ia work it. the fields, she tc-..k ,town her father's
i Mexican dollars to be purchased at our last quotations,
gun and blew out her brains in fro..t of the door. Her
her return found the ioar irl Widen. The
rash act is sums:wed to be the departure for
1 4s. Ind. per es. For gold there exists a slight inquiry for cause of the . .
I whichan werehanuave.cortieseem:ectuenivtelyw no
s .cloiltrds.epeirn
ov,alusuesntdoardad,viseand.
mother on i g ,
' export, but the imports are far in excess of auy probable the amy of a young sold to whom she was to be
demand. married.
The return of the Bank of England for the week
A Maiteinee Fonineers AT TUC ALTAL--On
ending Wednesday, Nov. 14, compared with that Weiaesdoy morning, as the marriage service Wks being
for the previous week, shows the following changes: performed Trinity Chureb,
nßteristcoel,
,t:ylfttne e
pertm j.
Circulation active 2-...!,27......5445 Decre"e 2214'48' I 'aurpueeuaL aro
; Circulation issue Z3.084,72.0 Increase £147,475 ,Th
\: I
persona, ."ron* vi
'teci!tvriset4oreeeinee.pediemte'it why thyeie t
tanilLesot :be joined together in holy matrimony
well-known f 1:•of
1 t ow declare it " all patties acre much surprised b;
public, deposits u,1kt,772 Increase 0
Other deposits 18,07,127 Decrease 463,064 ehim n
• Government securities in to the (AMU .I, in the raison a
1 marriage. After a conversation with the officiating clergy,
Other securities in banking
banking department 12,304,391 Increase 4,579 I brother of the would-be bride, y forbade the
informed the unhappy Teak that be
\Coin and bullion in both could not proceed with the service, andthe partiesleft th
e
Other inform . .
without a • le on theof the fair one,
Cole
uugg .
part . ,
departments
li: hbe l.fteer, he taking the place of the intends&
\The Reet
Seven day and other bills 592,139 Decrease .00,5'43 her brother dragging her by the hand to the carnage, into
Notes in reserve
; Total reserve (notes k coin) 1, maid and Lest man. The caniage then drove off in ono
' ceothc . The nature of the information eed by
in banking department... 8,867,762 Increase 537.,486 ; direction tion, whilst the disappointed bridegroom walked away
This return shows that the successive reductions
I thee brother,;r and communicated to the clergyman, is not
in the Bank's rate of discount have failed to attract 1
~..
aeown.— Manchester Ecau;n ter.
I
ibUsineaS to it, the terms in the general market; Mr. Maxey (son of Mr. Maxey, of Stamford),
I being dill lower. Owing Lathe fresh diminution in ; superintendent of the Wicker station of the Midland
the advances on private securities, combined with i Railway Sheffield, has
succeed be"
"I:
inutieed4 7 thek directox
the influx of government depositsser
, the reserve has 1 of the couipii3iluto
~kowas
secidee_n_
hilleddr,
been further strengthened to the impodant extent .
the itinivumeelincey.. Tate Midland directors, at.7deir meeting on
voted the sum of 100 guineas to the family of
oizanks37on,4B6l.th.e
iTmhepeetamenoatmetxpeofrtgtratiold fackiaineednebeyi
the
the late Mr. O. Rickman, who was for 27 yells dolma.
week was only about 57,0001., and aa the increase tauter at Derby.— Maori,.

6:31.094,720
'Awing Dl
Proprietors' Capital 414.663,000
Heat
. _

Public Deposita (In-
cluding krabeq.,
Bay. Banks, Com-
mis. of National
Del 4. sad Div
♦oconnta)
Other !Avoca.
Beven depend other
Bilk

Nov. 15, IM6.

6,146,772
16,687,127

14,1 16

602.719

THURSDAY EVESTWO.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 88f/ to 1 ex
div., for the 6th December, opened and el'osed
to-day at 8131 to /. For money the last price was•
90 to 4, with div. The official business report
is as follows :—Three per Cent. Consols, for mone,
i
90, 4, 89/, 90/ ; ditto, for account, asi, ;
Three per Cents. Reduced, 87i, f ; New Three per
Cents. 874, I, I 4 ; Red Sea Telegraph, 194 ;
Bank Stock, 50:49 ; India Five per Cent. Stoat,
1064, 6,4, i ; ditto Five per Cent. "aniseed"
rupee pater, 1004 ; ditto Five-and-s-lialf per
Cent., 10071, Gi ; &tto Five per Cent. Debentures,
102 i ; ditto Four per Cemt. Bonds, 204.,195. preen..
The India Five per Cent. stock was inquired for.
Exchequer Bills improved Is., being quoted,ls..
to ss. prem.
There was rather less demand for foreign stocks.
Turkish Bonds of 1863 declined 1 per cent. •
Spanish Deferred, 4 ; and Spanish Passive, the
Commtttee's Certificates, Mexican, and Turkish
of 1865, 4. On the other hand, Danubian rose 3
to 3 per cent. ; Peruvian of 1865 and Moorish, 1 ;
Italian of 1841, if. ; and Portuguese of 1853, 1.
Bank shares were dull. National of Liverpool
declined 11. ; and Alliance, Chartered of India,
Australia, and China, and Provincial Banking Cor-
poration. 108. ; while Merchant (New) and Pro-
vincial of Ireland rose 1/.
The shares of the financial companies were
pressed for sale by the speculators. Credit Fowler
of England fell ;'s. 6d. to 10s. • General Credit,
ss. to 7s. 61. ; and International' Financial, be.
Prices were last quoted as follows :—lnternational
Financial, 2 to 11 des. ' • General Credit, 1/ to lf
due. • London Financial, lq to lii. dis. ; and
Credit Foncier of England, 5 to 4/ die.
Anglo-Any:Tic/in Telegraph shares experienced a
fresh decline of .2s. 6d., closing at 14/ to /, but
Atlantic Telegraph Eight per Cent. I'relerenee
and Telegraph Construction were Unchanged at 4
to 4L and !, dis. to l prem. respectively.
lindsothi Bay shares closed at 16/ to 17/ ; Na-
tional Discount, at 9/ to 10 prem., being 2s. ad.
lower - and General Ottoman, at 4 to l prem.
Miscellaneous shares showed ilatness. Submarine
Telegraph declined Si.; English and Scottish Ma-
rine and Merchant Shippin4, I!. • Thames and
Mersey Insurance, 12a. Gd.; N:stal Land and Royal
; Mail Steam, 10s. ; and Egy;tian Trading, fis. On
the other hand, Ebbw Vale rote lf., and Commer-
cial Union Insurance, 55.
American securities were more offered, and
lower. Th.• 5.20 Bonds declined i per cent. ; Erie
Railway sllares, 11 ; Illinois, ! • and Virginia Six
per Cents., 1. Atlantic and ?treat Western Con-
solidated Mortgage Bonds were rather firmer.
Prices closed as follows :--5-20 Bonds, 69i to 4 ;
Erie Railway shares, 49!, to 50 ; Illinois Central,
771 to / ; Atlantic and Great Western Railway De-
bentures, re. to 60i, ex coupon ;ditto Consolidated.
Mortgageßoiids, 39 to ?,, ex coupon.
The variations in colonial ,z,. vernment securities
couiprised a rise of 1 per cent. in New Zealand
Five per Cents., and a reduction of 11 in Ceylon
Six per Cents.