The Express.
London, England, 1866-03-20 00:00:00

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The stock and share markets are generally fiat
today, owing chiefly to the prospect of a rupture
between Prussia and Austria, in connexion with
the Schleswig-Holstein question. The disclosures
at the recent meeting of the Joint Stock Dimonet
Company, with respect to the disgraceful misman-
agement of that undertaking, also tend to cause sales
of many securities. The funds exhibit a fresh fall of
4 per cent., while the reduction in foreign and Bri-
tish railway stocks amounts to /to 4. The shares
of the financial and discount companies are dull.
Those of Overend, Gurney, and Co. have needed
2s. 6d. to ss. A decline is also observable in. Can-
adian lines, but American are steady. •
The demand for money is moderate to-day, and
the supply large. Owing, however, to the approach
of the end of the quarter, the rate for the beet
paper is fully 6 per cent., the Bank minimum. Ia
the Stock Exchange short loans on English govern-
ment securities are obtainable at 54 per cent.
Consols are now quoted 864 to for money, and
87 to for the sth April
Foreign stocks are decidedly fiat, and the instal
course of prices is unfavourable. Spanish Passim
Bonds have declined 1 per cent ; the Comniittes's
Certificates, Turkish of 1862. ditto 1865, Greek,
and Brazilian Scrip, 1, and Mexican, 4. The
prices are as follows : Greek, 14/ te 1
Mexican, 224 to 1 ; Spanish Passim, 274 to 28t
ditto Certates, 164 to ; Turkish, 1862, 68 *I
; ditto, 1865, 374 to 4; Brazilian scrip, 21 to
prem. ; and Italian, 1861, 601 to 4.
America securities exhibit no variation of im-
portance. Five-twenty bonds are quoted 71 to 1,
being firm ; Erie Railway shares, 564 to 4; and
Illinois, 794 to 80.
International Financial shares are now quoted
die. par. ; General Credit, to prem. ;
London Financial, 54 to 51 die. ; Imperial Mercan-
tile, Ito I prem.; Credit Fonder and Mobilier,
3 to 1 prem.; Overend, Gurney, and Company,
2 3-16 to 5-16 prem. ; and National Discount, 74
to 8 prem.
An instalment of 10 per cent., making 45 per
cent paid, falls due on the last Brazilian loan oa
Friday next, the 23rd instant.
About 25,0001. in gold was sent into the Bank
yesterday.
The payments to India for cotton have now
dwindled to a small amount. The steamer Menials
will take to-day only about 30,0001. in specie for
India, the Straits, and China.
The Stock Exchange Committee have appointed
Friday, the 23rd inst., a special settling day in the
new shares of the National Discount Company
(Limited), which are to be officially quoted.
The London, Brighton, and South Coast Railway
traffic return shows this week an increase of 993 i,
over last year ; and the South Eastern an increase
of 6651.
Joint-Stock Discount shares, of 251. each, with
101. paid, were officially marked yesterday as having
been dealt in at 15 die. • but this seems to have
been an exceptional transaction, as most of the
dealers have closed their books, and refuse to deal
any further in the shares in the existing uncer-
tainty. Nevertheless, the statement made at the
meeting on Friday respecting the enormous amount
of liability nominally hanging over the company
does not seem to deserve the alarming interpreta-
tions which have been put upon it. Fifteen pounds
per share discount represents, on 80,000 shares, a
depreciation to the extent of no lees than
1,200,0001., and it is impossible to imagine that a
loss to anything like this extent can have occurred,
no matter how successful the management may
have been in dissipating the shareholders' mosey.
The annual meeting of the Oriental Bank Oct..
poration will be held on the 19th of April.
A meeting of the Great Luxembourg Company
~.11od fin the 00th inst. in London, preparatory
to the general meeting to be held in Brussels oa
the 6th of April. The Brussels meeting will be
made special " to deliberate and decide respecting
the financial measure to be adopted for the mem-
tion of the Bastogne branch, the partial construc-
tion of a double line of way, and the increase of
the rolling stock, and to give the board of directors
the necessary powers for these purposes."
The annual meeting of the Mwyndy Iron Ore
Company (Limited) is called for the 28th inst.
The receipts of the Great Western Railway el
Canada for the week ending the 2nd inst. were
14,3461., being 5,7921. more than in the correspond-
ing week of last year.
Vice-Chancellor Wood has appointed Mr. Henry
Croyedill official liquidator of the Dutch Tramway
Company (Limited), and creditors are required to
send the particulars of their claims to him by the
Bth April, the 18th of that month having been ap-
pointed for adjudicating upon them.
We are requested to state tL at the City Offices
Company (Limited) have removed their offices from
70, Cornhill, to their new building, St. Clement's-
house, Clement's-lane, Lombard-street.

MOJDAT Emma.
Consols, which closed on Saturda at 87 to 1
for the sth of April, opened this dormg at 87/
to #, and closed at 87 3-16 to 5.16, or 871. For
money the last price was 861 to 87. The official
business report is as follows :—Three per Cent.
Consols, for money, 87, 1,7, k ; ditto, for acconet,
871 k, ; Three par Cents. Reduced, 85k, 5,1;
New Three per Cents., 85, 1,5; Bank Stock,
shut ; India Stock, 2101 ; ditto, Five per Cent.,
102 k, 1; ditto Four per Cent. Debentures, 1011,
1; ditto Four per Cent. Bonds, 12s. prem.
Indian Government securities were quiet. Ex-
chequer Bills remain at sa. dis. to par.
The foreign stock market was depressed, and the
speculative descriptions underwent an almost ge-
neral fall. Greek and Italian Bonds of 1861 fell
1 per cent ; Greek Coupons, Russian of 1862,
Equador, Turkish of 1858, and Italian(Maremmena
Railway), k ; Brazilian scrip, New Grenadian, sad
Spanish Deferred, k ; and Mexican, Spanish Cer-
tificates, and Turkish of 1865, kto 1. Egyptian
Bonds were dulL Peruvian of 1862, however,
rose 1 per cent.
Cbilian Loan scrip was last quoted 21 to
prem., being rather lower.

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The mining market is steady to-dal, with a fair
amount of business. West Caradon shares are
quoted 81 to 91; Bast Caradou, 81 to 9 ; East
Lovell, 81 to ; East Cam Brea, 31 to 11;
Tin-
croft, 13 to 14 ; Great Vor, 261 to 1 ; Great Laxey,
201 to 21; Great North Laxey, 21 to 1; Wait
Chiverton, 70 to 75 ; East Russell, 21 to 3 ; tad
Chiverton, 61 to 7.
Frontino and Bolivia shares are firm, at 11 to j ;
and Chontales at 31 to 41.

ACTION Aowrnr • Comm( Brum:R.—At the
serisee in Manchester, yesterday, Kr. Justice Mellor rid •
special jury were escheat al day in try* ea settee
brought by Mesas. Walla, "Masers, "LAM Mr. r.
Proudfoot, a cotton importer. sad the managing diameter
of • limited liability cotton company, to recover da.
Doges on aremot of a transaction which the planting
elleaed had bees frsudalent oe the defoodant's pert. /Om
M. Waller bad ordered Mr. Proodfcot to bay for bees
hundred bake of Dadmelles cotton ; but the. French cor-
respondent as the Dardanelles to whom the order was tele.
graphed, could net mdastaud English, end sent the order
on to &tyros to be there ezecated. Before the vessel osa-
mining the cotton strived the market bed fallen consider-
ably ; sad it was alleged that, with a view to lesson the
lees to himself, Mr. Proedfoot bad pelmet off oe Mmes.
Waller dm teas of cotton, or me-third more them hod his.
ordered. Of the 127 toles so supplied oily 26, se it wan
alleged, were equal to restraot, the rest being selected free
the worst quality of cotton striving from the IMediterse-
ee and the whsle mind together, sad re-paeked lobes
heiedre. The marks were stated to have been ahead
40 se to mike the es-peeked else manspoied with the hills
ci hang. The Ivey returned • verdict for the placating
for MY/1., belag the differeam betwee• the acted idea et
the lotion and what Kr. Proadfoot Imbed for it.

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