The Express.
London, England, 1856-04-24 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARIIBTA

MINCING LANK—THIS DAT.
Boca& —The market has a bra appearance, sad the
public Wee Si. progressing middy. Refined poem taupe
621. to Or.
COME —The large public Islas are going off mitbost

?Wt.
Ilk PISMO. steady ; inlets ITO 1111111OTSd.
611LTPILT1111.—Rtfrteion 61 Kt 131 sold is public We It
5s 6d ; ?Ossetian 11, 31. 6d.
Rios.-2,000 bags of &twos will offered and bought
I at Bs.
Rum mesh' stood?.
Coo Tow.-300 bliss sold.
lactx.—Bootch pia go, tad 761. to 75.. 64.
.—Malabar sold is public skis sic to Rd.

TALLOW MARKET.-TlllB DAY.
The market realties steady, with a ftir demand for tal-
low on the spat. For forward oelivery, btudoess quiet.
Petersburg Y. C. on the spot i quoted 475. 3d ; Aprti to
May. 47,.; Kay to June, 475. ; October to December,
46.. 9d.

SMITHFIELD HAY NIARKET.—THIS DAY.
Mr. E. J. Davis reports trees without oltelattoo. Primo
tioadow hay, 95.. to 105 s. ; superior. 110 e. to 118 a.;
iilorlor. 70a. to 85e.; rooms, 70t. to 950.; clover, 100 s.
is Ups.; moat eau 100 s. Is 120..; straw, 26. to Mk

MONEY MARZET,-17113 DAY.

Two o'Cioes

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The fends are rather firmer to-day; Yesterday's
litsproventaatt off pee °sot. is well maintained. Con-
ads are quoted 93 to 1 for mossy, and 931 to }
foe the Bth of May. The Three per Cant. Reduced
have been dealt in at 911 to 92 ; the New Three per
Cents. at 921 to {4; the Five per Cent. Annuities
at 114; Exchequer Bills, March, at le. to 3s. prem.;
ditto, June, at 3e. die. to par; and Exchequer Bonds
at 98/ to 4.
The foreign stook market remains very dull. In
no
case is there any important change in price.
Turkish Six per Cents. have been dealt in at 98 to
981 ex div.; ditto, Guaranteed Four per Cents. at
1011 to i; Dutch Four per Cent. Certificates
at 94 ex div.; Brazilian Five per Cents.
(Rothschild's), at 100; Equador New Consoli-
dated Bonds at 154; Sardinian at 964; and Spanish
Old Three per Cents. at 444.
The gold ex the Blackwell may not be in hand for
several days yet, the progress of this vessel up. the
Channel being delayed by the prevailing seat wads:
The scrip for the shares in the Riga and Dunaburg
Railway is to be ready on the 30th inst.
It Risme that the General Bank of Switzerland,
which is expected to be shortly announced in this
market, proposes to have branches in London, Paris,
Lyons, and throughout Switzerland. The had
office will be at Geneva. Amongst the privileges
accorded to the institution is that of issuing bank
notes payable to bearer to any amount not exceeding
three times the amount of bullion held. The opera-
tions of this bank will probably assist the Swiss and
Italian railways now in course of eoestraction.
The members of the Great Luxembourg board
who have just been deputed to visit Paris, in answer
to the invitation of the directors of the Paris and
Strasbourg Railway, are Mr. Reid, the chairman,
and Mr. Close. The object of their visit is to corn.
plate the arrangements for the proposed lease of the
Great Luxembourg line.
Paris letters attribute the recant remarkable move-
ment in Paris and Lyons Railway 'hares to the con-
cession lately obtained by this company, and to the
treaties entered into with other railways, by which
this line becomes the direct route to Switzerland.
An extraordinary general meeting of the Victoria
(London) Dock Company is called for the Bth of
Iday, to consider some Forted modifications in the
lease of the undertaking to Masers. Peto, Betts, and
BrasseThe meeting of the British Sugar Refining Com-
pany yesterday was adjourned until the 9th of May,
in order to allow the shareholders, including those
absent, sufficient time to consider the supplementary
report. There is apparently considerable disposition
to dissent from the views of the directors.
The last call of 6s. per share is to be paid on the
new stock of the Scottish Australian Investment
Company by the 4th of August.
The Five per Cent. Debentures issued by the go-
vernment of New South Wales are now marked in
the Stock Exchange official list. Traneactions took
place in them yesterday at 97 piss. cent. Canadian Go-
vernment Debentures continue inquired for, with an
upward tendency.
The half-yearly interest is advertised on the Five
per Cent. Bonds of the Antwerp and Rotterdam
Railway.
Subjoined are the latest quotations of insurance,
canal, and other miscellaneous shares, as given in the
Stock Exchange List:
Insuranes Shares :—Albion, 881; Argue Life, 23 ; Atlas,
it; Britisb and Foreign, 171 ; ditto, Marine.
; Church of England, 31; Clerical, Medical, and General
, 21; City of London, 21 Conety, 110 ; Crews, 181;
ligaity &Law. 51 ; Reropeaa Loon; Eeslia & Scottish
Law Life, 41, i; Globe, 106, l 041,106; General, direGuar-
dist, 641; Indemnity Marine, 84; Darold , 181 ;
ditto Firs, 340 ; London, 29 ez div. ; London and Pro-
vincial Law, 3; Legal and General Life, 51; Law Life.
81 ditto ;Piro, 31: Marine, 47; Medical, Invalid, and
General Liar Minerva. Nauoesl Proviaetal Life,
11 ; ditto Fire, 14; Phanitz, 1784; Provident UP. 384;
Pilladhua Life, 31; Pelican, 461 .-Book Life, 81, ; Minted
Ilingdom,q, 6 ; Bakis, 300; Victoria Life, 61.
Canal ewes : Ashton aid Oldham, 145 ; Birmingham,
92; Derby, 84 ; Grand Junction,37l. 40 ; ditto GUST. Biz per
Cent, 111; Kennet and Avon, 61 ; Leeds and Liverpool,4BBl ; Loughborough,66o; Leicester, 491; Macclesfield, 61;
Word, 104; Stafford and Worcester, 420: Steurbridge.
290; Peak Forest, 76; Regent's, 141; Rubdale, 28;
Warwick and Birmingham, 25; Warwick and Nspton.
10; Worcester end Birmingham, 21.
Gas and Coke Companies: Brighton, 16; Great Central,
12; Imperial, 881 ez div.; ditto New, 26 ez dia. ; Leedom
Parliameutary Preferenoe, 26; Phreant, 40 ; Ratcliffe (201-
shares-161. ptid), 16; Surrey Consumers, 111; United
General, 20 ; Westminster Chartered, 561; ditto New, 111.
Waterworks Stocks : Bast London, 1091; Berlin, 7, 61 ;
Grand Junction, 721 ; Kent, 80; Bouthwa h and Vaughan,
eatrldge compiles Huagerford, 8,7: ; Vauxhall, 301;
Waterloo, New 71. Annuities, 26.
Relative to the market for American securities, Mr.
E. F. Satterthwaite reports as follows:
There has Oren a cleat market tor American mcuritite le Loudon
dation the pant wise. There bee been a fair demand for Maori
Central Free Land Bonds, at • slight advance; and we note more
Peaky Pr Pennsylvania Central Bind, New York Central and
Walesa Central at toll rate* of last week.

WEDNIIIDLY ETININO.

Owing to the naval review the attendance was to-
day limited in City circles, and business was dull in
nearly all branches. During the greater pert of the
day the funds remained stationary at the late redue-
tion, but at the close more firmness was observable
and the closing quotations were Iper cent. better
than those of yesterday. This slight improvement
was attributed to the publication of the text of the
Treaty of Peace. This document was given exclu-
sively in a second edition of the Daily News, and was
perused with great eagerness.
The discount market remained quiet to-day, not-
withstanding the preparations against the final in-
stalment of 1,050,0001. tailing due to morrow on the
new loan. In the Stock Exchange, however, there
was more demand for this purpose, and for short
loans on government securities 6 per cent. was
asked.
Councils were quoted all morning at 931 to for
the Bth of May, and closed at 931 to 1. For money
the last price was 93 to 1. The official business re-
port is as follows :—Tnree per Cent. Consols, for
money, 9.21, 93, 92; ; ditto, for mount, Bth May,
931, 4. Three per Cent. Reduced, 91t, 911. New
Three per Cents., 921, 4. -7.. 7,-. Long Annuities',
expiring is January, 1880, 3 3.16, 31. Thirty Years
Annuities, April, 1885 (Loan of 16,000,0001.), 171,
17. Bask Stock, 2111. Three-and-a-Half per Cam.
Exchequer Bondi, falling ;sayable in 1859, 98J.
The March Exchequer Bills were quoted par to 3s.
prem. ; and the June Bills, 3s. die. to par.
Foreign stocks were dull, but scarcely lower in
price. Turkish Six per Cents. closed at 98 to ex
div., and the Guaranteed Asir per Cents, at
1014 to 102. Spanish Deferred Three per Cents.
showed flatness.
The corn market to-day was very quiet at Mon-
day's rates. The foreign arrivals in London are very
small. Since last Friday only 9 floating cargoes have
arrived off the coast.
At Amsterdam yesterday (Tuesday) the exchange
on London wee quoted rather lower, at 11.90, for
short; at Hamburg, 13 71; at Vienna, 10.04; and at
Berlin, 6.221.
Lombardo-Venetian Railway shares were quoted
to-day 6to 61 prem.; Rigs and Dunabarg Railway,
to 1 prem.; and Carmeaux Coal Mines and Rail-
way, to prem.
Bank of Egypt shares closed to day at 11 to 1,1
prem., and Ottoman Bank at 11 to 11 prem. London
and Paris and Western Bank of London shares re-
main at 34 to 21 dls. Land stooks exhibit no change.
London Dock stock was dealt in at 991; British
Aussie= Land at 46 ; General Steam Navigation at
261; General Screw Steam at 16 ; and Royal Mail
Steam at 731 ex die. and bonus.
The proposition of the directors of the Antwerp
and Rotterdam Railway to pueblo. the Lime and
Turnhout line excites the determined opposition of a
large sailor. e the ebrebelaera According to the
statutes, the project cannot be brought forward at the
meeting which is to be held at Brussels on the ut of
May, unless one-half of the capital is represented
there. The opponents of this extension of the com-
pany's undertaking have been encouraged by the
knowledge that 36,000 out cf the total 50,000 shares
are held in this country, to draw up a protest, which
lies for signature at the office of Messrs. Hill, Few.
°en, andßill, of No. 29, Threadneedlsstreot.