The Express.
London, England, 1860-06-13 00:00:00

AfONISi MARKE7.-THIS DAY.
Two o'Cuma.
There Ma been little variation to-day in the
funds, the transactions being still limited, but the

market in rather firmer in character, and Consols ate
now quoted about 1-16 per ceut. better that at 4 o'clock
yesterday. The other markets are firm. A alight
improvement is observable in Aritith railway
stocks, in connexion with the preparations for the
fortnightly settlement. This is "making-up day"
in this department.

At Paris this morning, aooording to Mr.
Renter's telegram, the Three per Cent. Rents
opened at 68fr. 60c., being 50. better than et
the close yesterday.

Consols are officially marked 931 and 931, ez div
for July 10. The present quotation is 93 11-16 to
13-16, or 931, " sellers." The official business re-
port 18 as follows :—Three per Cents. Re-
duced, 93i, ; New Three per Cents., 931, 7 ;
Five-and-a-Half per Cent. " enlaced" rupee paper,
1021; Indian Five per Cent. Stock, 1859,foraceount,
1041, ex div. ; ditto Four per Cent. Debentures,
1868, 961 ; India Bonds, 10s. die. ; Exchequer Bilk,
75., 55., Bs., prem.
The Indian Five per Cent. Stock of 1869 has
risen to 1047 to 1 ex div. for the account.
The foreign stock market is steady, but the inqui-
ries have been principally confined to Turkish stocks.
which have risen to I per cent. ; the loan of 1864
is quoted 761 to 771, and that of 1858, 591 to 601.
Sales are recorded as follows :—Brazilian Foy
and-a-Half per Cents., 1858, 881, 7 ; ditto, Fours
and-a-Half per Cents., 1860, 871; Dutch
Four per Cent Certificates, 101 i, ; New
Granada Deferred, 47 ; Peruvian Three per
Cents., 691 ; Russian Four-and-a-Half per
Cents., 971 ; Sardinian Five per Cents., 82,
ez div. ; Spanish Three per Cents., 48 ; Turkish
Six per Cents., 1858, 59k, 1, 60.
The shares of the Thames and Mersey Marine
Insurance Company are quoted to-day, 1 3-16 to
1 5-16 prem., and Ocean Marine, xi to 11 prem.
An instalment of 8 per cent., making 60 per
cent paid, falls due on the Canada Loan of
2,800,0001. on Saturday next.
The Adriatic has arrived from New York with
253,0001. in specie, of which 90,0001. is for Eng-
land and the rest for France, and the Tagus, from.
the Peninsula, with 5,9601. Of the 127,0001. by
the Tasmanian, from the West Indies, 57,6001.
is gold and 69,5001. silver.
Advioes have been received from Melbourne of
the departure for England of the undermentioned
gold ships

Gold oo baud.

Name. Said. Days at sea. Ounces.
Marco Polo March 20 S 4 12,492
Owen Glendower „ 24 80 22,755
Venni& „ 31 73 18,033
Prince of Wake April 7 66 33,066
Ifaxl of Judah
Eagle

Total mom 151,355
Worth

Ihe Omar Pasha, Southampton, and Dream,
announced by the last mail, are also still at sea,
with 164,000!., and are fully due. The aggregate
on the way to this country is thus raised to
769 0001.
The accounts from Melbourne by the present
mail announce the stoppage of the following firms,
viz.: Messrs. A. King and Co., with liabilities
amounting to 24,0001. ; Messrs. Symons and Perry,
auctioneers, with a balance of assets over liabilities
of 14,0001., and who were soon afterwards paying
in full ; Mr. John Macnamara, and Messrs. V. P.
Muir and Co. At Sydney the undermentioned
firms had also suspended payment : David Jones
and Co., Thompson and Symonds, Mr. Harnett,
Mears. J. Macnamara, K M. Sayers, Fairfax and
Son, and J. N. Barnard and Co. As regards the
suspensions at the latter colony, they are stated to
be all for large amounts.
At a meeting of stock and share brokers, held at
Melbourne on the 18th April, a resolution was
favour of the formation of a Victoria*
nStockal in
Exchange, upon a principle similar to that
in London.
On 'Change yesterday there was a fair demand foe
bills on the Continent. With the exception of a
slight decline in the case of bills on Vienna, there
was scarcely any alteration in the rates, which were
quoted as follows :
Amsterdam, 3 months, 11.161 to 1 ; ditto, short, 11.14 e
to 15; Rotterdam, 3 months, 11.18 e to 17 ; Antwerp, 5
months, 25.32 to 7e ; Hamburg (me. bunco), 3 months,
13.51 to l; Park, 3 dam 25.10 to 17e ; ditto, 3 months,
25.321 to 7e; Frankfort-on•the-Maine, 3 months, 1174 W I ;
Petersburg (per resible), 3 months, 35 to 1 ; Vienna (elf.
do.), 3 months, 13.43 to 48; Trieste ditto, 3 months,
13.43 to 48 ; Madrid, 3 months, 49e to 1.• Cadiz, 3 months,
491 to 1 ; Leghorn, 3 months, 30.35 to 40; Genoa, 3
months, 25.40 to 5 ; Naples, 3 months, 39 toe ;
90 days, 521 to `• Oporto, 90 days, 524 to 53.
The annexed resolution of the committee, which
was posted in the Stock Exchange yesterday, refers
to the movement lately set on foot with a view to a
revision of stockbrokers' charges :
Resolved,—That the committee decline to make any rem-
lotion to enforce a scale of brokerage, but they will be reedy
to consider, and, if approved, t) recommend for general
adoption, a scale of brokerage that may be proposed by the
written assent, not of a committee, but of the general
body of brokers, members of the Stock Exchange.
This resolution has been received with a feeling
of disappointment in some quarters. It was taken
into consideration at a meeting of brokers yesterday,
when it was determined that the agitation should
be prooesded with.
The case of Ayres and Nellie came before Mr.
Commissioner Holroyd, at the Court of Bankruptcy,
yesterday, on the application of Ayres for his eertile
cats. Mellis has never surrendered. The bank-
ruptcy occurred two years ago. The joint liabilities
of the firm are upwards of 900,000!. ; no dividend
has yet been paid—the whole of the property
having been made over as security to Messrs.
Denniatoun and Co. The certificate (second class)
was suspended for three months, on the ground of
the bankrupt being implicated in accommodation
transactions.
The monthly return of t!re Bank of France will
' be publiahed on Friday next.
' The weekly traffic return of the Grand Trunk
Railway of Canada, just received, shows au in-
crease of 3,3221.
The annual meeting of the Accidental Death
Insurance Company is called for the 26th inst.

VISO/a Erimrso.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 93i to k
ex div. for the 10th of July, opened this morning
at 931 to and closed at 93 9-16 to 11-10, or 93i,
"ratter buyers." The official business report is
as follows :—Three per Cent. Consols, for account
(July 10), 1031, f, ex div.: Three per Cents. Re-
duced, M, ; New Three per Cents., 93,), ;
Bank Stock, '339}, 2284, 230, 229; Five per Cent.
" =faced " rapee paper, 97k, ; Indian Four per
Cent. Debentures, 1858, 961, 1.

MINES-7HIS DAY.

Two o'CLocx.

In the mining market to-day ItoiewarneUnited
shares have declined to 01 to 63. Stray
Park are steady, at 61 to 63. East Basset
are quoted 11.5 to 117}; Lady Bertha,
3 to 3 ; West Caradon, 67 to 69 ; and
Wheal Uny, 41 to I. In the Stock Exchange
Providence shares are officially marked 46 and 451,
ex div.

Foreign and colonial mining shares exhibit little
alteration. Worthing have been dealt in at 15e.
9d. ; St. John del Rey at 30 ; General ?dining,
at 23i Great Northern Copper (South Australian),
at ands dis. ; and English and Australian Copper,
at 2g an 4.
Formal notice is iaiued from the Court of
Chancery that all persons who hold any of the
40,000 paid-upsharesin the Lake Bathurst Austral-
asian Gold Mining Campany, which were delivered
in 1652 to Messrs. N. Iron and Thomas Harvey,
are required to come in and establish their claim.
The annual meeting of the Dement Mines Company
(Limited) is called for the 28th inst