The Express.
London, England, 1858-07-28 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EVENING, JULY 28, 1868.

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Mr. Clods (Is priooner)—What do you say to this!
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alma It. Imm vary sorry.
Mr. Oamb—What ars you?
Primerw—l sa a labourer, and earn 2a. Sd. a day.
Mr. Carts—This ought to be a Clitllioll to you. I shall
malts pm pay this man for saving your life.
Prisemer.-1 ham not got any mousy.
Mr. Cando—No ; 7ou ham sprat it all in drink, I suppose.
Peissmar—That's 1,, but I will pay him on Saturday.
Mr. Corrlo—Then I discharge you.

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SHARE LISTS.-21118 DAY.

Two o'CLoCtE.
Owing partly to the arrangements in connexion
with the settlement, which has commenced
this day, little business has been done
in railway stocks. Prices are generally
quoted the same as at the close of business yesterday.
Two or three of the heavier stocks present an
improvement of about / per cent., bet Caledonian
has given way a little, being last marked 781.
London and North Western stock is now quoted
911 to 1; Great Western, 49 to ; Midland, 921 to
; Lanceshire and Yorkshire, 911 to 1; London
and South Western, 941 to 1; Great Northern,
281 to 1 per share; and Eastern Counties, 131 to 1.
The Indian shares are well supported at the late
improvement, with a fair inquiry. Great Western
of Canada shares dull, and Grand Trunk of Canada
steady. Pernambuco shares are marked par and
die., and Bahia per.

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Two o'CLoci.

The funds remain very quiet, at the reduced prices
which were established yesterday afternoon. In
the other markets steadiness prevails, but business
is interfered with by the settlement in shares and
foreign stocks, which has commenced this day.
Consols are quoted 951 to 1, both for money and
the sth of August. The Three per Cents. Re-
duced have been dealt in at 96 to
961; the New Three per Cents., at 96 to 961;
the Five per Cent. Debentures, at 115; India Loan
Debentures, at 991 ; India Bonds at 18s. prem. ;
Exchequer Bills, March, at 335. to 38e. prem.,
showing a reduction of Is.; ditto, June, at 22e. to
265. prem.
In the foreign stock market a moderate amount
of business has been done, at steady prices.
Turkish Six per Cents. are quiet, at 95 to 1.
Spanish Bonds are rather more offered, whilst
Portuguese continue in demand. The scrip of the
New Brazilian Loan is well supported at / die. to
prem. Peruvian Dollar Bonds continue in request.
Sales are recorded as follows :—Brazilian Old
Five per Cents., 1031; ditto Four-and-a-Half per
Cents., 1858 (scrip), 1 die.; Equador New Conso-
lidated Bonds, 141; ditto Provisional Land
Warrants, 31 ; Mexican Three per Cents.,
191 ; New Granada Two-and-a-Quarter per
Cent. Active Bonds, 901 ; ditto Deferred, 61 ;
Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Dollar
Bonds, 761 (exchange 4e.) ; Portuguese Three
per Cents., 1853, 45j, 46; Sardinian Five per
per Cents., 901 ; Spanish New Deferred Three per
Cents., 271, 271; ditto Passive Bonds, 81, 81;
the Committee's Certificates for the Unfunded
Coupons, 5,5/ Turkish Six per Cents., 951, 951;
Venezuela Five per Cents., 391, 391 ; ditto Deferred
Two per Cents., la.
At Paris to-day (Wednesday), according to Mr.
Renter's telegram, the Three per Cent. Ratites
opened at 68fr. 15c., for the account, showing a
further reduction of Sc. compared with the price
current at the close of the Bourse yesterday.
For the present, the speculative business is brought
within narrow limits, as may be inferred from the
fact that the rate for the " put and call" of Consols
for the September account is only about 4 per cent.
The meaning of this is that for 1 per Gent. (or, pm-
sibly, a fraction over) the dealers will give a 'pecu-
lator the option of either taking or sell-
ing Console at the present market price
at any period up to the September settlement. The
moderate amount of the rate for the " put and call"
indicates the belief of the dealers that, during the
period referred to, speculation will not be active, nor
the fluctuations important.
The continued bond Ms demand for Indian gua-
ranteed railway shares forms a feature. The opinion
is entertained inmost quarters that the intrinsic
value of these securities is increased by the formal
transfer of the government of India to the
British Crown. It is also believed that in future 6
per cent. guarantees will be more sparingly granted.
These considerations exercise the more influence, be-
cause a large proportion of the newly issued shares
which have of late weighed upon the market have
been absorbed by investors.
The discount market yesterday was easy,and choice
bills were readily discounted at 21 per cent. At the
Bank there were scarcely any applications.

An instalment of 25 per cent., or about 380,0001.,
making 75 per cent. paid, is to be paid on the New
Brazilian Loan on Monday next, the Snd August
Private letters from Pans continue to remark upon
the general stagnation of business on the Bourse.
Monday was the day fixed for the payment of the
first instalment of 75f., or 3!., on the new railway
bonds just submitted to public subscription. The
sum required is upwards of 800,00 W., but tke pay-
ment seems to have been effected without difficulty.
The 303,2001. in Australian gold brought by the
Heather Bell was delivered yesterday afternoon, and
the bulk will probably be sent into the Bank to-day.
About 70,0001. was taken for the Continent
yesterday.
In the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon the
tendency was rather more favourable to this country
as regards bills on Holland, Paris, and Austria. In
all other oases great firmness prevailed, and a fair
amount of business was done. The current rates
are shown below :

Amato/sin, three months, 11.171 to 18; ditto, short,
11-15 to 1; Rotterdam, three months, 11.171 to ltt ;
Antwerp, three month*, 26.35 to 40; Hasabiag,
tenon, three mastkin 13.6 t to M ; Paris, three=ttt,
26.6 to 16; ditto, three months, 26.36 to 40;
the-Kaine, thive mauls, 1181 to 1; Pissed's'''. per
rouble, three menthe, 36 to 1; Vienna, eIL 10., three
months, 10.26 to 9 ; Triage, do., three moat* 10.27 to
30 ; Madrid, three somtha, 49 to t ; Cadiz, these mendbis,
491 to I ; Leghorn, three months, 29.70 to 6; Genoa,
three months, 26.40 to 6; Naples, three mate, 41 to
Palermo, three monthe, 1241 to 6; Maio, three
months, 124 t to 6; Lbibco, 90 day., 611 to 52; Oporto,
90 dam 621 to t.
Considerable activity prevailed yesterday in the
sugar market, and an advance of Bd., and even in
some instances le. per cwt, was paid.
A telegram from St. Petersburg, dated Saturday,
reports the tallow market quiet, at 158 to 165 ro.
The barques with the supply of new tallow were ex-
pected earlier this year, end the quantity was esti-
mated at 136,000 casks. The market for hemp was
dull. The exchange on London was quoted 361 d.
Some further moderate amounts of gold are expected
to be transmitted to this side, notwithstanding the
obstacles interposed by the government.
The Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company will despatch their steamer Ripon for
Alexandria, with passengers and specie for Bombay,
on the 10th of next month.

It is understood that the claim of 2,0001. made
against the estate of Messrs. Calvert and Co., and
which became the subject of a trader-debtor sum-
mons in the Court of Bankruptcy last week, has been
duly liquidated. Otherwise a formal act of bank-
ruptcy would have been committed by the firm. It
is of some importance to remark that, upon the ex-
piration of a few days more, the deed of arrange-
ment entered into between Messrs. Calvert and their
creditors will be binding upon the whole of them,
whether they have signed it or not. A section of
the Bankrupt Law Consolidation Act provides as
follows :

That cM such deed or mionoranduen of arrangement doff
be effectual or obligatory own any creditors who duff not
ham signed the some, ma after the expiration of three
nuathe from the thee M which snob creditor shall have had
Notice from snob nadir of hie mignation of payment, and ci
such deed or manoreadm d t.
The subscriptions to the New Zealand loan are
understood to be going on slowly.
The dividend of the Great Southern and Western
Railway Company of legend is officially annoneced
at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum, being the same
rate as that declared for the corresponding six
maths of 1867.

Rame;rliikei the Manchester, Sheffield, and Lin-
colnshire Railway Company will declare no dir*nd
for the peat half-year caused a fall in the pr of
thh company's stook yesterday.
The half-yearly meeting of the Cheat Western
Railway Cosapatty will be held on the 13th August.
The half-yearly meeting of the Clore A share-
holders in the St. Andrew's and Quebec Railroad
Company is called for the Bth of August.
At a nesting of Claesson's Patent Flea essogney,
held yesterday, the immolation pored a'
meeting, sothortiteg the " VOillgtarj7 i
of the andertaklug, under the idiot Nosh
*patties Aot of 186147, was. q aaalalitaa....
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(LOW Paid).
The position of the market for America ?saver
asearlbes is thus noticed by Mr. E. F. Satterthwaitei
lines ow list we hay* had an Improving maabst kw'
kaiaks& railroad asetteitisa. Illinois CantsW Arm ad
Wbark have advaaosd Ito 2 par oath Caosibookini
an Andy. at 81i to 82. Ws nate a moaned sa-
inky kr Ids bone% 1U; there is also row

Micbigan Central'* sr mi. first mortgage bonds, 1888;
whisk, at 84, carrying the coupon due lot September, yield a
high ‘ate of interest,

TIIBISDAT ivmrrea.
The funds to-day were dull, with a drooping ten-
dency. The market closed flatly, at a reduction of
rather more than 1 per cent., compared with the
closing quotations of yesterday. The government
broker made his usual purchase, but the broker who
acts for the Court of Chancery appeared as a seller.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 951 to for
money and the sth August, opened this morning at
the same quotation, and closed at 951 to 11-18.
For the September settlement the latest quotation
was 9513.18 to 1. The official business report is as
follows :—Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 261,
951, 951; ditto, for account (6th August), 931, 961,
951 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 9131, 2131, 981 ; New
Three per Cents., 981, 1,1, 96; Long Annui-
ties, expiring in January, 1880, 1 11.18 i ThirA
Years Annuities, Jan., 1880, 11 ; ditto Ap •
1885, 18 7-16, 181; Bank Stock, 226, 227;
India Four per Cent. Debentures, 99, 991; Three-
and-a-Ealf per Cent. Exchequer Bonds, falling
I payable in May, 1859, 1001, 1001.
The March Exchequer Bills remain firm, at 36e.
to 395. prem., and the June at 23e. to Ns. prem.
In the foreign stock market the principal feature
was a considerable rise in the Peruvian Four-and-a-
Half per Cent. Uribarren Bonds and the Four-sad-
a-Half per Cent. Dollar Bonds. The other classes
of the Peruvian debt were very firm. Owing partly
to the circumstance that the Venezuelan Active
Bonds carry nearly 40 per cent. of overdue dividends,
the arrangement of which ought to be one of the
first cares of the new government of the republic,
thaw bonds continua in good demand, and were to-
day marked as high as 40. The supply of this
stock in the market is limited. The scrip of the
new Brazilian loan was firm, at 1 dia. to par.
Turkish Six per Cents. showed some flatness, and
closed at 96 to 1. The Guaranteed Four per
Cents., on the other hand, were very strong.,
owing to investments, coupled with the anti-
cipation of the deduction of the dividend.
A large amount of business was again done to-
day in bank shares, which remain generally firm,
at the late important advance. Bank of Egypt
shares show a fresh rise. Bank of British North
America were also better. The recent advance,
however, has led to some sales of London and West-
minster Bank shares, which were quoted lower. An
improvement of 10s. took place in Australian Agri-
cultural, and a decline of similar amount in Van
Diemen's Land. London General Omnibus remain
flat, and closed at 21 to 2 5.18 per 41. share.
General Steam Navigation shares were officially
marked 25.

MINES.-THIS DAY.

Two °Timm.

Quietude continues to prevail in the mining mar-
ket. The only business officially reported in the
Stock Exchange this morning is in East Basset
shares, which are marked 911. Prices exhibit little
alteration, and we have nothing to add to our report
of yesterday.
Foreign and colonial descriptions are also ex-
tremely quiet. Bon Accord Copper share, remain
well supported, and have been dealt in at 10s. Fem.
A moons of the ehareboldese la the Osseo Idated Omer Mao of
°oboe we. held yesterday, whoa a &Tidiest of 11. W dims (Wt .) MO
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TUESDAT_IYINTIIie.

The mining market remains quiet. A fall In West
Basset and Wheal Kitty (Lelant) shares formed a
feature. Wheal Basest were inquired for. We hear
of the following transactions in the Stook Exchange,
vin.:—Wheal Uny, at 7# ; Wheal Trelawney, 26 ;
Great Wheal Altred, 61 to 61; North Hamlet, 91;
Wheal Tremayne, 315.; Wheal Edward, 41 to 41;
IWheal Harriet, 296. to 315., showing an improve-
ment; West Hemet, 20; and Fowey Consols, 31.
In foreign and colonial mining shares a fair
amount of business was done, leading, however, to
little change in price. United Mexican were Bat.