The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-06 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 6, 1860.

SHARE LIS2S.-(THIS DAY.)

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yesterday s closing quotations. London and
North Western stock is quoted 1001 to 3 ; Great Wes-
tern, 731 to 1 ; Midland, 1351 to 1 ; Caledonian,
944 ; South Eastern, 841 to 851 ; Eastern
Counties, 52 to 1 ; and Great Northern, 109 to
111.

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to die. The Indian and Canadian lines are
very inactive. Pernambuco Railway shares exhibit
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MONEY MA ET.-{THIS DAY.)

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The funds to-day are steady at the closing quo-
tations of yesterday. This is " settling-day "in
this department. In the share markets the only
feature of interest is a fresh advance in Midland
Railway stock and an improvement in Pernambuco
Railway shares. The renewed dulness of the
Paris Bourse has contributed to check the ten-
dency to improvement this morning.
At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Reuter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Ream were
quoted 70fr. 42/Ic., being nearly per cent. lower
than they closed yesterday.

Consols are officially marked 931 and 94 for
money, and 941 for the 10th Jan. The present
quotations are 931 to 94 for cash, and 94/ to 1,
(or equal to 921 to 1 ex div.) for the new account.
The official business report is as follows :—Bank
Stock, 231, 232 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 92/, ;
New Three per Cents., 921, 1 ; India Five per Cent.
stock, 1869, 1031, ; ditto Four per Cent. Deben-
tures, 1868, 961; ditto, 1869, 961 ; ditto Bonds,
9s. dis. ; Exchequer Bills, 2s. die.
The transactions in the foreign stock market
have been upon a very moderate scale. The excep-
tion is in Turkish Bonds, which are in better
demand. The Loan of 1854 has risen per
cent., and that of 1868,1; the present quotations are,
respectively, 721 to 73, and 58 tol. Sales are recorded
as follows:—Austrian Five per Cents., 74 ; Brazilian
Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 1862, 871, ex
div. ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
1860, 861, ex die. ; Buenos Ayres Deferred,
30 ; Chilian Six per Cents., 1021 ; ditto
Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 82, ex div. ;
Portuguese Three per Cents., 1863, 47 ; ditto
Three per Cents., 1859, 621 ; Sardinian Five
per Cents, for account, 84, ex div. ; the Spanish
Committee's Certificates, 6,1; Turkish Six per
Cents., 1868, for amount, 581, 68, ; ditto Gua-
ranteed Four per Cents., 1011.
The total shipments of gold for New York by
the steamer Atlantic, which left Southampton yes-
terday, were 149,4601. ; and by the Etna, which
left Liverpool yesterday for the same destination,
70,0001., making a total of 219,4601. In addition,
the Borussia took 3,5001. in specie on Tuesday from
Southampton for New York.
Private telegrams, giving New York news of
the 22nd ult., describe the " panic" as " over,"
and report that " the banks are supplying
all wants ; " but it would appear that,
although the relaxation made by those estab-
lishments has had a favourable effect upon the
New York stock market, the exchange on England
has experienced little or no improvement. It
is therefore probable that some further considerable
parcels of gold will be sent from this side by the
steamer Persia on Saturday. It must not be over-
looked that we have yet to learn the effect pro-
duced in America by the news of the rise in the
Bank of England rate of discount to 6 per oent.
That movement may induce a fear at New York
that we shall not be able to spare much gold for
their relief.

The discount market was moderately active yes-
terday, but the supply was adequate to the demand,
and the beat bills were taken at 41 per cent. For
.six
months paper the rate was scarcely below 4.
A moderate amount of business :was done at the
Bank.

The Suffolk has arrived off Plymouth, from Mel-
bourne, with 73,382 ounces of gold, worth 293,5001.
This vessel made the passage out to Port Phillip
Heads in 70 days, and has arrived home in 58
days. Some uncertainty prevails as to whether
the whole of this supply will be sent away.
The only gold ship known to be still at sea is the
Anglesey, which has been out 83 days from Mel-
bourne, with 230,0001.
Messrs. Thomas Piper and Son, builders, of
Biehopegate-street Without, a well-known firm, have
stopped payment. As their transactions have
been upon an extensive male it is apprehended
that their liabilities will exceed 100,0001., but
with regard to this point, as well as to the prospects
of the liquidation, nothing definite has transpired.
Is some quarters a dividend of upwards of 10s. in
the pound appears to be looked for. It would seem
that the engagements of the firm have outrun their
means. Their difficulties will probably embarrass
at least one other house in the same trade. A
meeting of the creditors of Messrs. Piper will be
held in a few days.
Messrs. Pattison and Miles, wholesale stationers,
of Laurence Pountney-hill, have also stopped pay-
ment. It is understood that their liabilities aro
limited, and that the liquidation will be unfavour-
able.

A vast deal of interest appears to have been
excited in scandal-loving Paris by the evidenoe
lately given of the want of harmony in high finan-
cial circles. By putting forward a notice that they
have not sufficient funds in band to meet the
caupon due the let inst. on the Roman
Loan, Messrs. Rothschild Brothers, of that
city, have wounded the susceptibilities of
M. Mires, who accordingly has made some
publio reflections upon Messrs. Rothschilds'
notification, and desires all the world to mark that
the Roman Railway Company,
e with which he is
identified, has not stop payment. The effect of
dissensions of this kind is frequently traceable on
the Paris Bourse, where none win but those who
are leagued with the pullers of the strings. For-
tunately for the English public they hold neither
the Roman Loan nor the Roman railway shares.
Enterprises of this character, resulting in loss or
depreciation of capital to the subscribers and in
a permanent drain upon the money market, may
be left more advantageously to the genius of
those modern French financiers, whose rapid rise
into wealth and notoriety is one of the
most remarkable features of the day. It is
of course assumed that the Roman Loan will be
ultimately provided for by Sardinia, to whom the
Pope's chief re Jenue-producing provinces have
already been annexed • but the refusal of the Pope
to recognise the present condition of affairs may in-
definitely retard the settlement of the claims of the
Roman bondholders.

There is a rumour that an agent of the French
government, now in this country, has been deputed
to make an offer for the purchase of the Great
Eastern.

The London and North Western Railway traffic
return shows this weak an increase of 1,5141. ; the
London and South Western, an increase of 1,7521. ;
the Great Western, an increase of 441. ; and the
Great Northern, a decrease of 2,3784.
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The position of the market for American securi-
ties is noticed as follows by Mr. E. F. Satter-
thwaite :
We have bad during thipsst week an active market in Lon-
don for American semaritiss. The quotations for States Stocks
are somewhat lower. The effect of lower quotations for rail-
road bonds from New York is quite counterbalanotlimt_hie
fall to exchange to par, so that prices am fully s
the tendency being towards improvement. In Dlinoh
Erie shares a very large and daily increasing business has
been done at steadily advancing rates, fur above New York
quotations Illinois having touched 27 discount, and Erie
361 per share ;at the close, however, the market for both
Is one par cent. lower.
With reference to the market for hides and
leather, the monthly circular of Messrs. T. J. and
T. Powell has the following :

The leather market has not presented any marked fea-
ture during the past month. The transactions have been
oonsiderable, and former prices, excepting for light and
common medium weight butts, have generally been main.
tamped. The sales of bankrupts' stocks have been in pro.
pent during the month, both privately and publicly. It
la however, satisfactory to know that nearly all these
stocks in London have now been sold, and although the
whole may not yet have gone into oonsumption, they have
passed into bands where they will not materially interfere
with the sale of the jaoluction of manufacturers in the
usual channels Its nut often that the pre,eut mouth is

one of active btu:loess, but the supplies of fresh leather at
this seam ore also frequently mall, and, as wit bdieve
there is a considerable dimiuution in the quantity of leather
in proems of tanning, we do not anticipate an accumulation
of stock adequate to produce any influence on pricee. La
raw goods an overage amount of business has been done,
generally at a little decline in prior. The import has been
moderate, with the exception of Australian hides and horse
hides, so that stocks on the whole have not in,reased.
London market hides have declined nonsidombly during the
month, so as to afford a still stronger reason why tanners
should abstain (ruin buying South American hides at el-
l/Sag rates.

WEDNIADAT EVIII/lIIIa.

Consols, which closed yesterday at 93k, "buyers,"
for money and to-morrow's settlement, opened this
morning at 934 to 94, touched 94*, buyers,"
and closed at 94, "sellers." For the 10th January
the last price was 944 to 4. The " continua-
tion" was exactly per cent., which is equal
to little more than 2 per cent. per annum,
after allowing for the income tax. The
official business report is as follows :—Three
per Cent. Consols, for money, 94 931, 941,
94; ditto for account (Dec. 6), 9311, 94* 94 ;
Three per Cents. Reduced, 92, 1, 1 ; New 'Three
per ; Cents., 924, 4, Thirty Years Annuities, ex-
piring in April, 1885, 164 ; Bank Stock, 231 ; India
Stock, 234, 225 ; ditto Five per Cent. Stock, 1859,
103*, ; ditto Four per Cent Debentures, 1858,
964 ; ditto Bonds, tos., 108. die. ; Five per Cent.
"enlaced" rupee paper, 964, 96; ditto Ili, e-and-a-
Half per Cent., 1014, 102.
Indian Government securities were steady.
India Bonds were dealt in at 10e. to ss. die., and
Exchequer Bills at ss. to 2s. die.
The foreign stock market remains very inactive,
and scarcely any alteration has mewled in prices.
The Turkish Loan of 1864 was quoted 724 to j, and
that of 1858, 574 to 4.
Oriental Batik shares to-day rose It. Bank of
Turkey continue heavy. A further reduction of
U. to 21. took place in Peninsular and Oriental
Steam. Anglo-Mexican Mint shares were like-
wise flat Great Ship shares have risen tons. 6d.
to 65., and the inquiries extended to this company's
174 per cent. preference shares.
Colonial government securities continue in de-
mand, with an upward tendency. Victoria rose
to-day per cent., and Canada Five per Cents., and
Cape of Good Hope Bonds per cent
The shares of the Brighton Hotel Company were
quoted to prem.
The closing quotations for shares in new under-
takings were IA follow :—Ocean Marine Insur-
ance, 21 to 21 prem. (after touching 3 prem.,
" buyers "), showing a decided ripe; Thames and
Mersey Marine, 13-16 to 15-16 prem. ; Universal
Marine Insurance, 11-16 to 13-18 prem. ; London
and Provincial Marine, to die.; East India Irri-
gation, 3-16 to 1-16 die. ; and Great Kanawha,
to * prem.