The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-25 00:00:00

MINCING-LANE.-(THIS DAY.)

SrcArc.—The market is very quiet, at last week's cur-
rency for both raw and refined.
COFFEE.—A limited business is doing in colonial descrip-
tions at firm prices.
TEA. —There is no improvement to notice in the demand
for this article.

Rict.—There are buyers at fully Friday's prices, but
few sellers. _

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Comm is in rather more request. but the sales reported
are still limited.
In other articles no alteration.

TALLOW MARIEBT.-(THIS DAY.)

The market is steady. Town tallow is quoted 425. Gd. ;
Petersburg Y.C. on the spot 435. 6d. • March, 435. Gd. ;
April toJune, 43.. 6d. ; October to DeCember, 445.
PARTICULARS OP TALLOW.

1860.

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MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.

0111 OVIAME.

In the Stock Exchange to-day attention is
directed to the election of the committee of that
establishment to act for the next twelvemonth,
and little other business is going forward. The
funds arc unchanged. Most of the English rail-
way stocks have improved, but the advance
has been principally caused by purchases to
cover previous speculative sales, the weak
financial position of two or three companies,
and perhaps the absence, in the case of the Brighton,
of any definitive arrangement with the engine.
drivers, preventing any investments of importance
on account of the public. Italian bonds are in-
quired for, upon the satisfactory tenor of the
political news from Italy, but other foreign securi-
ties show dulness.

As usual at this period of tho quarter, there is a
good demand for money, and the supply his con-
siderably diminished. The best bills, however,
are still taken at per cent. below the Bank
minismoa, and in exceptional cases, at I. The rate
for short loans in the Stock Exchange is higher, at
3 per cent.

Consols are now quoted 91 to for money,
and 914 tot for the 10th of April, and the Three
Per cents. ltedimed and New Three per Cents.,
tin to 1,, ex div.

Foreign stocks are inactive, and the speculative
descriptions exhibit no change, with the exception
of a rise of 1 per cent. in Mexican. Italian Bonds,
however, show firmness. Turkish of 1865 are
quoted 30 tot ; Greek, 15i to „ ; Spanish Pas-
sive, 211 to ilk ; ditto Certificates, 144 to ;
Italian of 1861, 531 to I ; Mexican, 176 to if ;
Russian Scrip, 2i to I, prem.; Chili= Scrip, 11
to 1„ dis.; and Danubian Scrip, to I die.

American Securities and Atlantic Cable shares
are steady, at the closing prices of Saturday. The
5-20 Bonds are quoted 741 to ; Erie Railway
shares, 381 to 39 ; Illinois Central, 781 to 1 ;
Anglo-American Telegraph, 151 to 16A ; and At-
lantic Telegraph Eight per Cont. Prefeference,
to 1.
International Financial shares are quoted
2,1 to g die. ; London Financial, 181 to 171
dia. ; General Credit, 3 to 21 dia.; Credit Fon-
der, 6,1„ to l die. ; National Discount, 71 to 8
prem. ; and Hudson's Bay, 157, to h6,',.
The directors of the United Discount Corpo-
ration have made a call of H. per share, payable
on the 15th of April.

HALF-PAST THREE o'Clocii.
Console are steady, at 91 to / for money, and
911 to for the account.
About 4,0001. in gold has been taken to the
Bank.

At Paris this morning the Three per Cent. Rentes
opened at 69fr. 02c., showing no change.
The accounts from Glasgow announce the failure
of Messrs. Weir Brothers and Co., an old and
respectable firm in the wine and spirit trade, with
liabilities amounting to 100,000/.

The Colonial Bank of Australasia invite tenders,
receivable till 1 o'clock on the 2nd of April, for
50,000/. of U kper cent. debentures of the Melbourne,
and Hobson s Bay United Railway Company,
redeemable in 1881. The debentures are in sums
of 1001. each, and carry interest from the Ist inst.
This undertaking is paying good dividends, after
meeting the interest on its debentures.
Subjoined is a statement (from Mr. Slaughter's
Weekly List) of the calls falling due on railways
and miscellaneous undertakings during April, so
far as they have yet been advertised. The
total appears to be considerably below the average :
Amount per Shire.

Due Already Nu'mber
Due in.Aprll,lll67. Data. raid. Call of shanea Amount.

RA !Lim's.
Great Eastern 6, per
cent. Pref. steal( 26 20 10 0 0 not known.
Great Western £53 6 per
cent.
Great Eastern L percent _ _ _

Debenture Stocks
Great Western 6 per
cent. Perpet. PTO. „anent dp. 5 0 0 not known.
Metropolitan District.. 15 7 S 6 0 445,61.4 136,W.4.

1 10 a) 0 0 not known.

MisCALLiNNots.
Ce7jon ,Ibultad!, A

3 0 0 12,600 37,500

&arra
Engll4B and Noottka
11ariDe Utottad 3O 8 1 0 0 1%000 10.000
Lon ItreweryOrdlnary 24 5 U U 12,0u0 60.000

Ditto Pr;lerence U 10 60 0 h:000 2.1,100
?: Mal Lubil,tkaL,'Ung4l) 15 0 10 0 V,600 11,260

Total

E1L4,745

A correspondent informs us that the bill of the
North British Railway Company, so far as con-
cerns the creation of 1,875,000!. " Pre-preference "
stock, will be opposed by the different classes of
preference-holders, on the grounds—first, that it
would be an injustice that a majority of ordinary
shareholders should thus oust the prior claims of
the preference-holders, who for the most part
would have no voice in a decision taken at a meet-
ing of the company; and secondly, that it is directly
opposed to the principles of railway legislation laid
down by Lord Redesdale.
A general meeting of shareholders of the Great
Luxembourg Company is convened fur the 3rd of
April, in London, preparatory to the meeting ad-
vertised to be held in Brussels on the 9th.

An extraordinary general meeting of the 'share-
holders of the General Exchange Bank (Limited)
is called for tho 9th April, with a view to stay the
proceedings under compulsory winding-up
lorder made by the Court of Chancery, and to
supersede them by a voluntary winding up, subject
to the supervision of the court.
Creditors of the General Estates Company
(Limited) are required to send the particulars of
their claims to Messrs. G. Fagg and A. A. James,
the liquidators, by the 27th of April, the 4th of
May having been appointed by the Master of the
Rolls for adjudicating upon them.
Creditors of the East of England Bank, who
have nut yet sent in notices of their claims to the
voluntary liquidators, are required to do so by the
Ist of May, under penalty of being excluded from
the final distribution of the assets.

SATURDAY BYINDIG.

Consols, which closed yesterday at 9f to for
money, and 911 to for the 10th of April, opened
' and closed to-day at the same quotations.
The Three per Cents. Reduced and Now Three
per Cents. were steady at 89i1 to ex div. The
official business report is as follows :—Three per
Cent. Consols, for money, 911, 1, ; ditto,
for account, 911 ; Three per Cents. Rauced,
891,1, 1, ex div. ; New Three per Cents. 89k,
ex div.; Bank Stock, shut ; India Stock, 218 ;
ditto Five per Cent., 110, 91, lOM ; ditto Four
per Cent., 94, lex div. ; ditto Five per Cent.
" enfaced" rupee paper, 103, ; ditto, Bonds,
415., 455. prem.
India Bonds, Five per Cent. rupee paper,
and Five per Cent. Stock were all in de-
mand, with an upward tendency ; the last trans-
actions reported in the latter were at 1101.
Exchequer Bills remain at 14s. to 18s. prem.
The tendency of the quotations for foreign stocks
was rather better, but the only changes were a rise
of per cent. in Mexican of 1864, 1 in Turkish of
1862, and d in Russian Scrip and Turkish of 1865,
and a reduction of 1 in Mexican.
Very few transactions were recorded in bank
shares, and the only change was a rise of ss. in
Land Mortgage of India.
Anglo-American and Atlantic Telegraph 8 per
cent. preference shares were unchanged, at 16 to 1
and 31 to I respectively, but Telegraph Construc-
tion experienced a fresh faU of 155., closing at 21
to 2 dia. _ I

Hudson's Bay shares closed at 1& to 16i •
National Discount, at 71 to 8 prem. ; and General
Ottoman, at par to 1 prem. Royal Mail Steam
shares were heavy, and fell 21. lfis. Peninsular
and Oriental Steam and China Steam and Labnan
Coal declined 10s., but other miecelbuieuus under-

takings were inteliangol. London and St. Katha-
rine Dock stock w.is I per cent. lower.

The market for American securities was quiet,
but the 5-211114,101 s met with inquiry, Mid Atlantic
and Great Western Railway Consolidated Mcrt:
gage rose} per cent. Ihi the other hand l'ennsyl:
vania Railway Secona Mortgage declined 1. Prices
closed as follows :-5-20 Bonds, 740 tot ; Eris
Railway shares, 391 to 391 • Illinois Central,
781 to 1 ex div. ; Atlantic and Great Western
Railway Debentures, 31i, to 32} ; Consolidated
Mortgage Bonds, 231, to 21.

MINE&-(THIS DAY.)

Oxs o'CLocz.

The transactions in the mining market to-day
an• v. a fair extent, and prices show tinniness.
North Crafty, West Chiverton, South Condurrow,
East Grenville, Bryn Cwiog, Great Vor. Great
North Laney, and North Chiverton shares are
in chief request. Some of the present quotations
are as follows Chiverton, 414 to 3 : North
Crofty, ;13 to 6 ; %Veit Chiverton, 60 to 62 ; East
Grenville, to 1 ; Great North Latey, 11 to
Bryn Gwiog, 16 to 16 Chiverton Moor, 7 to f ;
Frank Mills, 255. to ;Hrs. ; Caldbeck Fells, 14s. to
116 s. ; East Lovell, 1O to 1 ; Trumpet Consols, 11
to 121. ; and Prince of *ales, 2 to 3.
The directors of the Mariquita Mining Company
(Limited) have made a second call of 2s. 6d. per
share, payable by the Ist of May.

RAILWAYS-(THIS DAY.)

Om o'CLocr..

The railway nuu'ket is firmer to-day, with an in-
creased amount of business. North British stock
is in 'imminent request, and has risen per cent.
Great Western has improved ; Metropolitan,
South Eastern, and Great Northern A, f : and
London and North-Western, !.
Metropolitan stock is now quoted 120; to I •
Great Western, 39; to 40 ; London and North
Western, 115; to 117 ; Midland, 114 to ; Lan-
cashire nd Yorkshir, 1241 to 125! ; Caledonian,
110 to 111 ; South Eastern, 062 to ; Great
Eastern, 27! to '; Great Northern, 115} to I ;
ditto A, 122 toi • London, Chatham, and Dover,
16;:: ; and North British, 32} to 33k.
Foreign and colonial railway shared; are quiet.
East Indian are quoted 1072 to 1081 ' • Lombardo-
Venetian, 16g, ; and Grand Trunk of Canada,
19 to A.

[For to-day's Share List see pege 4.]

PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKETS.

UT/SPOOL, MARCH M-84144 to-day: Caledonian stork, 1101
: I—Gnat Kasten. 27 11 111 I—Greet Western stuck. 40/ 1 1
:to" 40 London and North Western, 110 i—Mallehniter,
ttherll.l.l, and Lincolnshire, 474 48 1141—North
British :dot, an 13—Louth Eastern atock, 67 eo ally. —Lancaster
and Carlisle, 07—Lend Trunk. 191—Yive-TweoUeo, 741—Union
Bank of Liverpool, 23—lanctuddre Insurance, 1 p.-I.lverpool,
London, mil Globe, 44 1 P.—Mercantile Marne. 1 1346 d.
Atlantic a per cent., S 5-16—Liverpool Exchange Buildings, :Z1
ex dir. —National Steam, la 4 d. —North More Mills, 191
MANCHIMER, MARCH 21—There was very little Imineag
uttering, Ull.l prices were lOU er generally. Oreat Eastern, 27 1 4
—Orcat Northern A 1211—Urea*, Western, HI 40 Mil I—Lon-
don and North Western. 1161—Mandlester, Shenk!, end Lin-
colnshire, 47,—Ditto on per rect. Pref , ilk North British,
111 :--South lantern, u:4—Manchester (Ammonia' Build-
I intr. C P
HIRmiNOII4II, %lAECH sales to-slay were In Uinits
Monk Antrim at 7; peon..: Midland Financial, at I: ; itir-
mini:ham Wagon shares setond Issue , at I.lu Preen.: Mentes
Metal shares. at 21 dis.. and latent shalt and Atlerre new
shares. at I peens. Closing prloo :—Binninbitani. Wolverhamp-
ton and Stour Valle) shares. sellers. at 101: Eirntingtouu c:nt
meek Ranks, at SC. to :11 Itlnithahan Wager shares, at 11
to lit: Metropolitan Railway Carriage anal Wagon 'Cares
third Pone at Ito t dis.; and Patent Nat and Bolt shame, 4
ist 2 din.

SUIEI OE or A SOLDIER.--A young man, named
George Bond, aged 19 years, whose parents reside at Ports.
wood, near Southampton. and who enlisted as a soldier in
January, left hie home last Thursday sennight, his furlough
having expired that slay, and returned, as his parents sup-
posed, to his regiment. Ou the following Wednesday morn-
ing ayoung woman living at Portswond, observed a soldier,
who subsequently proved to be Bond, walking beckwards
and forwards for some half an hour on the banks of the
Itchen, and at hat he jumped into the water. She gave
an &Low, and ran to the spot with one or two other persons,
where they found a cap on the railings, inside which was
the following paper :—" Portawood, Tuesday night, 6
o'clock, March 19.—T0 all who it may concern.—l, George
Bond, jun., is now about to take a farewell view of this
world by taking a dive from the bridge at Woodmill, so
whoever should find this slip of paper will know that I dome
it myself. The reason of my doing so is this. I enlisted
a soldger a short time ago. I have a dislike for the army.
Rather than desert or go back to Aldenhott Camp, I would
make a confusion (1, and die any death, drowning I prefer.
—I am, ec., Gunter. Ihisu, Southampton. St. Deny's.
lam at present writing this note." Nothing was men
of the body, but there was a hole in the weeds
where he had apparently jumped in, and on search being
made by some who subsequently arrived in boats, the boil
was found. At the inquest the above facts were prov
and a man named Wyatt, who lived at St. Denys, and
known the deceased from childhood, stated that lie last
saw Lint alive on the previous Friday, when he appeared
very cheerful, and in the course of conversation said he
did not like soldiering at first, but liked it better since he
had got on with his drill. Witness had never known his
mind affected, and had no reasson to suppose that he was
likely to commit suicide. No evidence could be produced
to prove insanity, and the jury having returned a verdict
of freedeor, the coroner issued his warrant for the inter-
ment of the body without Christian rites, between 9 and
12 the same night.
Klro ALFRID'S FORTS is HERTFORDSHIRE.—It
is believed that the rites of the two fortresses King Alfred
erected against the Danes in 896, on the river Lee, nese
Ware, are ascertained. At a meeting of the St. Albans
Archaeological Society held last week, Mr. Pollard, of the
Old Cross, Hertford, read a paper to the effect that the
forts were, one at Great Amwell, the ramparts and Suet
of which still remain ; the other opposite, on the north of
the valley, in a field still called Garrison Field. The en-
trenchments of this fort were levelled some years ago, but
the outworks still remain. Mr. Polked also believes he
has discovered the site of the fort the Danes threw up
near Were the preceding autumn, 895.
A communiciti. el from Bell ast announces that the
new steamer Earl of Dublin, belonging to the Dublin and
Glasgow line of steamers, had gone ashore near Ballybal-
bert, and was making water. The passengers and crew
have sucoeelid in getting safely to land.
The American philanthropist, Mr. Peabody,
has given—To his relations, 2,000.000 dels. ; to the pour
of London, 2,250,000 dols. ;to the Grinnell Arctic Expe-
dition. 19,000 dole. ; to the towns of Danvers and Salem
100.000 dole. ; to the city of Baltimore, 1,000,000 Bois, ;
to Phillips' Academy. 25,000 dole. ; to the Massachusetts'
Historical Society, 20,000 dole. ; to the Baltimore His-
torical society, 2..,000 dole. ; to Heroin' College, 150.000
dole. ; to Yale College, 150.000 dole. ; to the South,
2,000,000 dole. • to the Essex Museum, Salem, Matosichu-
setts, 150,000 'doh. ; to tbo Institute, Newbui port.
biassachneette, 15,000 dohs. ; to Bishop ticllvaine, for col-
lege in West. 2.5,000 dols. : total, 7,8212000 doh.
THE li !STORY OF A PIOT RM.—The administra-
tion of the museums has just placed another picture by
Raphael in the great gallery of the Louvre. The history
of this picture, which represents St. John the Baptist
preaching, and which was engrave.' in the 17th century as
one belonging to the royal collection, is estmmely curious.
It was in such a bad state that the appraisers of the
museum declared it to be of no value in the inventory
they drew up at that period. The Due de Maine having
asked Louis X VIII. to give him a picture for his church,
his Majesty could think of nothing better than this con-
demned Raphael. The priest, however, found it in
too bad a state to be put into the church, and re-
turned it to the duke, who had it thrown into his garret.
His grace dying under Louie Philippe the picture was
sold by auction. together with other furniture, and was
knocked down to a picture dealer for arfr. The Civil
List nevertheless claimed it as unalienable national pro-
perty. and a long law suit ensued, which ended before
the 4:siert of Caseation ; the dealer was forced to return
the picture, on reviving back his 59 francs; and out of
spite he took off all the paint he bad put on with a view
to restore it ; and this was a fresh cause of deterioration.
At length the picture was returned to the lumber
room of the museum in a pitiable state, riddled
with boles in certain parts, and yet beautifully
preserved in certain others. It was not easy to find an
artist capable of restoring it so no to render it fit to be
seen ; at length, however, M. Florent Willem, a well.
known Belgian painter, who has been known sometimes
to equal Meirsonier, bethought himself of his former occu-
pation of picture-ckaner, and consented to undertake the
work. lie has been several years engaged in the task,
end has eventually succeeded beyond expectation. The
painting is now in excellent condition ; the head of St.
John has not been touched, nor the landscape either.
There is a repetition, by Raphael himself, of this picture
at Florence, but the Perin copy is far superior. It him
been in France ever since the time of Francis 1., fur the
canvas is stamped with the name of a lady who died in
1320.—Galt/mans.
CRYSTAL PALACE. HALF-A-CROWN DAY.
SATURDAY, MARCH Zl.—Adlßillaiolls on payment, rap;
ditto by season tickets. 4,910 ; total visitors, 5.500.

GREAT NORTERRN lIoSPITAL, CALSPONIAN-ROAD,
ISLINGTON. Number of patients for the past week,
1,007, of which 271 were new CSMIL
DISPENSARY TOR SKIN DUMAS'S, 56, GREAT
MannonorGH-aracer, Reawr-writarr, W.—Twohandre.:l
and nine patient• were relieved at this &Tertiary
daring the week ending March 23.