The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-23 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE BELGIANS AT
ANTWERP.

(ILNUTZWEI TZLIIGIAM.)

ANTWERP, JULY 28.

Her Majesty's ship Serapis has arrived here.
The Belgians were received with great enthusiasm
upon disembarking, and bouquets were presented
to Colonel Gregoire.
This evening a grand banquet will be given by
the Belgians to the commander and officers of the
Serapis.

MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

Ors o'Own.

Scarcely any feature of importance can be re-
ported of business in the Stock Exchange, unless
it be the dulness of the funds, which have receded
below the quotations of yesterday, apparently from
no other cause than an absence of business. Yes-
terday this feature was attributed in some quarters
to the weather being considered unfavourable for
the crops, and to vague rumours of increasing
armaments in France with a view to war. Neither
of these suppositions has received any continua-
tion this morning. The most competent judges assert
that the weather, though heavy local showers have
fallen, continues favourable for the growing crops
in all parts of the country, and that they are most
promising, while nothing has arrived to give coun-
tenance to any disturbing political rumours. As to
railways they are dull and rather heavy, from the
same cause that affects Consols. Foreign stocks
are on the whole a little firmer.

No change has taken place in the discount
market. There is little or no commercial demand,
though the terms for the best bills can hardly be
quoted above 1/ per cent., though it is stated that
some demand for silver has sprung up from China.
On the Stock Exchange the rates for short ad-
vances are per cent.

The French mail steamer Ville de Paris has
arrived at Brest from New York with 127,5001. in
gold.
Consols are i lower than yesterday, the present
quotation being 944 to f for money, and 941 to 4
for amount. New and Reduced Three per Cents.,
93i to I.
Indian Five per Conte. 111 to i, showing steadi-
ness.
Bank stock remains at 256 to 258.

In foreign stocks, Turkish stock of 1865 is
firmer, at 31 to 1 ; while that of 1862 remains at
57 to 58. Greek stationary, at 14 to 5. Spanish
are steady : Passives, at 211 to 224 ; and Certifi-
cates, 161 to 1 ; Italian, 1861, 49 to ; Mexican,
151 to f.
In railways, Metropolitan stock is 1 higher, at
1201 to 121. Brighton, 51 to 1. Midland dull, at
114 to 5. Caledonian are quoted at 109 to 111 ;
London and North Western, 112 to ; Lancashire
and Yorkshire, 1275 to 128 ; Great Northern, 112
to 113 ; ditto A, 111 to 112 ; Great Eastern, 27 to
; South Eastern, 64 to 1 ; Manchester and
Sheffield, 445 to 45 ; York and North Midland, 90
to 91; Berwick, 99 to 100 ; North British, 295 to
305 ; London and South Western, 75 to 77 ; Lon-
don, Chatham, and Dover, 165 to 1.
United States 5-A) Bonds are rather flatter, at
725 to 1 ; Erie Railroad, 465 to 47 ; Illinois, 761
to 1.
Anglo-American Telegraph shares are o higher,
at 171 to 18, and Atlantic Cable at 31 to 4. Hud-
son's Bay, 141 to 151.
The shares of the financial companies are dull.
London Financial, 24 to 22 dia. ; International,
21 to 2 dis. : General Credit, 24 to 2 dia. ;
Credit Foncier, 6 to 51 dis.
HALT-PART THREE o'Ctoex.
Conaols are now quoted 941 to >7 for money, and
944 to 4 for the account.
The numbers are published of bonds, amounting
to 320,800/. of the Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per
cent. Loan of 1862, and Consolidation, which were
cancelled on the 19th inst. The total amount of
the loan cancelled to this date is 2,824,250/.
To-morrow a first meeting of creditors of Messrs.
Peto, Betts, and Crampton is to take place in
the Bankruptcy Court, when trade assignees
and managers are to be appointed. It is some-
what remarkable that the commissioner before
whom the matter will come (Holroyd) is the father
of one of the late directors of the London, Chat-
ham, and Dover Company ; that the official as-
signee, Mr. Edwards, was lately a director of the
company, and that the solicitors to the bankruptcy
are the private solicitors to Sir S. M. Poto. Under
these circumstances there is a feeling that no ac-
tion as to the appointments proposed for to-mor-
row should take place without full deliberation.
In opposition to the " Railway Companies Bill,
1867,'' which provides for the compulsory sale of
railways, a general meeting of " railway directors,
shareholders, and creditors," is called for Thursday,
the 25th inst., "to consider and adopt such
measures as may save and protect the interests of
all concerned." _ •

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The great appeal cases—" Oakes r. Turquand
and another," and "Peek r. Turquand and another"
—being representative cases to decide the question
of the liability of dissentient shareholders in
0 verend , Gurney, and Co. ( Limited)—came on to -day
in the House of Lords before the Lord Chancellor,
Lord Cranworth, and Lord Colonaay. The plead-
ings are expected to extend over several days.
The South Eastern Railway Traffic return shows
this week an increase of 8641. over the correspond-
ing week of last year.
At the meeting yesterday of the London Financial
Association (Limited), on the motion for the adop-
tion of the report of the directors, an amendment
was moved and carried by a large majority to the
effect that the accounts be received and adopted
and entered on the minutes, and that a committee
of seven shareholders be appointed, with full
power to examine and report upon the present
position of the association.
A meeting of the shareholders in the Belgian
Eastern Junction Railway Company is to take
place at the London Tavern on the Bth August.
The half-yearly meeting of the General Land
Drainage and Improvement Company is convened
for the 7th August.
A deputation from the Ottoman Financial
Association (Limited), consisting of Sir John Gray,
M.P., Messrs. James Cooper (of the firm of John-
stone, Cooper, Winds, and Evans), P. H. Berndes,
James Thompson, and lambert-Smith, attended
at the Palace Hotel, Buckingham-gate, on the
20th inst.,for the purpose of presenting a memorial
to his Highness Fuad Pacha, Minister for Foreign
Affairs to the Sultan, with reference to the affairs
of the association at Constantinople.
The following were the receipts of the Mel-
bourne and Hobson's Bay United Railway Com-
pany for the five weeks ending the 23rd May :
For week ending 25th April, 1867, 2,4441. ; cor-
responding week in 1866, 1,7941. ; May 2, 3,2371.;
corresponding week in 1866, 3,6261. ; May 9,
1867, 2,058/. ; corresponding week in 1866,2,6361.;
May 16, 1867, 1,6691. ; corresponding week in
1866, 1,9971. ; May 23, 1867, 1,6901. ; corre-
sponding week in 1866, 2,037/.

MONDAY EVMING.
Consols, which closed on Friday at 34; to ;.; for
the Bth of August, opened and closed to-day at
the same quotation. For money the last price was
94# to }. The official business report is as follows :
—Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 94;, o, ;
ditto, for account, 94a, ; Three per Cents. Re-
duced, 931, ; ; New Three per Cents., 931, 3;
Annuities, 1885, 13 ; Bank Stock, 256, 8 ; India
Stock, 219, id. ; ditto Five per Cent., 11111, j ;
ditto Four per Cent. " enfaoed" rupee paper, 87 ;