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The funds are again firmer to-day, and a fresh
improvement of 4 per cent. has taken place. The
rise on the Paris Bourse exercises a favourable
influence. In the share markets very little busi-
ness is going forward, apart from the settlement,
which has commenced this day, but prices are firm.
At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Renter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes were
quoted 69.75, showing a fresh rise of per cent.
since yesterday.
Consols are officially marked 954 and for money,
and 954 and I for the acct. The present quotations
are 954 to 1 for cash, and 951 to for the 6th of June.
The official business report is as follows :—Bank
Stock, 2284 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 934,
4; New Three per Cents., 934, i ; Thirty Years
Annuities, expiring in April, 1885, 174 ; India
Stock, 221, 222 ; Indian Five per Cent stock, 1869,
1064, 1 ; Five-and-a-Half per Cent. " enlaced"
rupee paper, 103 ; Indian Four per Cent. De-
bentures, 1859, 984, 4 ; exchequer Bills, 10e.,
75. prem.

Tile foreign stock market remains quiet, and prices
exhibit scarcely any alteration. The Turkish loan of
1854 is quoted 744 to 75, and that of 1858, 57 to 4.
Sales are recorded as follows :—Brazilian Four-and-
a-Half per Conte., 1858, 91 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half
per Ceuta , 864 (exch., 128.) ; ditto Four per Cent.
Certificates, 1014, 1001 ; Mexican Three per Cents.,
1211, ; Portuguese Three per Cents., 1853, 45,
444 ; Russian Five per Cents., 1074 ; Spanish
New Deferred Three per Cents., 374 ; Turkish Six
per Centa , 1854, 744.
The share* of the Thames and Mersey Marine
Insurance Company are quoted 14 to it prem.,
and those of the Himalaya Tea Company to

prem.
At Vienna on Saturday the Austrian funthi fell

per cent.
It is understood that the Stock Exchange Com- i]
mittee have already framed the report which gives
the result of their long and laborious inquiry
into Pullinger's transactions in that establishment.
The document will be circulated amongst the
members and the public in the course of two or
three days. The committee's investigation, though
watched with extreme interest, cannot be regarded
es by any means a complete one, for they have con-
fined themselves to the evidence bearing upon Pul-
linger's speculative ventures in the Stock Exchange,
and have even, it is said, declined to entertain, as
being beyond their province, the offers of third
parties to furnish proofs of the convict's mania for
gambling in other quarters. The Stock Exchange
committee are not a judicial tribunal, yet the
alleged incompleteness of their examination may
excite some disappointment. We believe that,
could evidence from all quarters have been received
by the committee, it would readily have proved
that Pdlinger's transactions upon the turf were
very extensive, that he possessed at various periods
several racehorses, which were entered and run in
different names, and that he was even the owner
and secret director of a betting-office. His turf
connexions area further indicated by the circum-
stance that various parcels of stock traced to have
been really possessed by him had been placed into
the name of a " book-maker" on the turf.
A disagreeable impreeaion was produced when
it transpired that a fresh inquiry of an im-
portant character, in connexion with Pullinger's
traneactions, has been entered into by the Stock
Exchange Committee. It is alleged that a firm of
high respectability in the establishment, and not
hitherto spoken of in connexion with the affair, is
found to have had some dealings with Prillinger.
The firm has accordingly been required to furnish
the committee with a statement of the transactions
referred to. It is possible that they. admit of ready
explanation, and, pending the inquiry now in pro-
gress, we abstain from further reference to the
matter.
Of the 164,500/. in gold coming from Aus-
tralia by the Omar Pasha, Southampton, and
Dream, the bulk is nearly due. The Atrato, from
the West Indies, has brought 186,0001., of which
92,0001. is silver and 94,0001. gold.
A very remarkable adaptation of a well-known
scientific principle is submitted to public attention
by the "Pneumatic Despatch Company," who
have just issued their prospectus. The pre-
paid is to establish in the metropolis lines of
" Pneumatic Tube," for the speedy circulation of
despatches and parcels. The principle has already
been practically and successfully tested by the
Electric and International Telegraph Company.,
who have for I several years past connected
in this way two of their subsidiary stations
in the City viz., those at Cornbill
and the Stock Exchange—with their central
station. This company are now, we understand,
extending the system to Mincing-lane, preparatory
to a further extension to the London-bridge Rail-
way terminus. The time occupied in each despatch
is only a few seconds. The company now pro
propoee to undertake the transmission of the
e3d
Post-office mail bags between the chief office and
the railways, and between the several district
offices, as well as the conveyance and delivery of
all kinds of parcels, despatches, newspapers, perio-
dicals, and books. The first line is to be laid from
St. Martin's-le-Grand to one of the principal dis-
trict poet-offices, and will require • capital of
only 14,0001. It is mentioned that the plans
received the special approval of the late Mr.
Robert Stephenson. The company's capital is fixed
at 250,0001., but the first issue will be limited to
25,0001. All the names attached to the under-
taking are of the highest respectability. The Mar-
quis of Chandos is chairman.

The report of the director* of the African Ste

Ship Company recommends, after various appro-
priations, a half-yearly dividend of 7e. per share,
being at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum.
The Brighton Railway traffic return shows this
week an increase of 8,7461, owing to the traffic of
Epsom races ; and the South Eastern an increase
of 2,1771.
At the meeting of the East India Coal Company,
bald yesterday, the directors' report and accountr,
which have already been referred to in the Expresr,
were adopted.
A correspondent interested in the tallow market
sends us the following :
The market is extremely Grin at higher prices, with
warmly any sellers. In many parts of the kingdom the
home produce has fallen off more than 25 per cent., in con-
sequence of the scarcity of fodder till • late period in the
spring having caused great losses of cattle and sheep, par.
Walley in the north and west. It will be severely felt in
the epee* season. Y.C.T. on spot, 525. 6d. ; October to
Deeembee-, 52e.
Owing to the violent gales, the telegraph poles in
various parts of the country have been blown down.
The transmission of messages was consequently in-
terfered with during the greater part of yesterday.

Mow AT Evrtnto

Consols, which cloeed on Saturday at 95 to for
the 6th of June, opened this morning at the same
quotation, and closed at 954 to 4. For money the
last price wee 95 to 4. The official business; report
is as follows :—Three pee Cent. Consols, for money,
95, ; ditto for amount (June 6), 954 ; Three per
Cents. Reduced, 934, 4, 0 ; New Three per Cents.,
94 4, ; Thirty Years Annuities, expiring in
April, 1885, 17} ; Bank Stock, 2274, 228}, 2274,
228 ; Indian Five per Cent. Stock, 1859,110}64, ;
Five per Cent. " =faced" rupee paper, 98, 974 ;
d-a ditto Five-an-Half per Cent, 103 t Indian
Four per Cent Debentures, 1869,
India
Roods, 45., sa, 4s. sibs.
The Indian rupee paper was dull. The Five per
Cent was lest quoted 974 to 98, and the Five-and-
a-Half per Cent., 1024 to 103.. The Indian Five
Cent. Stock of 1859 remains steady, at 1064 to
rExchequer Bills percent a further recovery of
, being quoted 7s. to 10a pro=
The foreign stock market was as quiet as any
other department of the Stock Exchange. The

Turkish Loan of 1858 fell 1 per cent., and that of
1864 about per seat. The closing quotations were
respectively 57 to
.1, and 74 to 75. Mexican Bonds
were rather more inquired for ; after advancing to
to 214 1, the pric: loft off at 211 to /.
Bank of Austraissia shares continue to decline.
Union Bank of London were heavy this afternoon.
City Bank have improved. Oriental Bank were
likewise inquired for. Bank of British. North
America were narked 54, and National Provincial
Bank of England 94 and 944, ex div. Madras Irri-
gation shares advanced ss.
The quotations for the 'hares in new under-
takings were SE I follow :—Ooean Marine Insurance,
2/ to 211 prem. • Thames and Mersey Marine, 11 to
ltra.Lent. ; Loudon and South African Bank, 1 to

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The wheat market to-day was steady, at last
Monday's prices.

MINES.-7HIS DAY.

Ts% o &ewes.

Stray Park shares are fairly supported to-day,
at the late rise, teing quoted 53 to 65. East Basset
are quoted 122 to 125 ; East Wheal Russell,
14 to 12 ; Rosewarne United, 40 to 42 ; Wheal
Edward, 24 to 1 ; South Caen Brea, 3i to 4 ; and
West Caraaon, 17 to 79. Tincroft shares aremarked
in the Stock Exchange, 4.
As regards foreign mining shares, the principal
transactions have been in St. John del Rey, at 294,
28i, and 28i. Boa Accord have been dealt in at
i prem.
The directors of the Royal Santiago Mining Com-
pany give notice that the company's mines and
property in Cuba have been disposed of, and the
company's affairs finally closed. A final balance
of le. per share will be payable on the 6th of June.