The Express.
London, England, 1858-11-18 00:00:00

An ev-aordinsty general meeting of proprietors
of the Bank of Australenia is called for the 13th
Dec. It is proposed to authorise the directors to
hold the annual meetings in the month of March, in-
stead of June.

The half•yearly meeting of the African Steam
Ship Company is called for the Ist December,
and will be made special, "to consider the corre-
spondence with the Board of Trade, on an applica-
tion of the b3ard of directors for a supplemental
charter, and to adopt such measures thereon u may
be deemed advisable."

The annexed communioation is from the Inter-
colonial Royal Mail Steam-packet Company :
The directors of this employ have received by the late
mall most mtiefactory advice. from their colonitl manage:
(Sir. Edward Coleman), informing them of his arrival is
Sydney, end subsequent departure for New Zerland, after
having completed amalgamate very advantsgeotte to the
comproy for dock accommodation, warehouse room, to. Ths
aserelvats and CMS -nil gave him a good remptima, and all ea-
pressed sit opinion that the enterprise must 3:eld a very
handsome return. He also sr ttes that • local company
offered to urderrvie ties same service that this company has
to perform to 20 pert eat. less than the present subsidy.
The p. ce of co l% tv be delivered at the company's landing
plqcs ht Sydney is may 23a. re km, hutted of 45. as cal-
=dated in the prospec.ds; and the trrec in goods and pas-
sengers is fast increasing.

The official manager of the Electric Telegraph
Company of Ireland invites tenders for the purchase
of the company's line, plant, and materials.

W IDIfieDAT IiVINIXO.

The funds to-lay were sensibly firmer, owing
chiefly to the less unfavourable features now presented
by the bullion movement, and more especially to
the partial check which has been given to the efflux
of silver to the Eget. The continued rise on the
Paris Bourse, where the Three per Cent. Routes
have now reached 76, likewise operates as • stimulus
to confidence. Consols closed this afternoon with
firmness, at an advance of 3-18 per cent.
In the other departments of the Stock Exchange
the tendency was likewise favourable. French rail-
way shares have advanced, in answer to the buoy-
ancy of the Paris Bourse; Indian (chiefly the East
Indian Railway Company', stock), owing to invest-
ments ; and English railway securities, because there
is no important amount of stock pressing upon the
market, whilst the traffic exhibits a general recovery.
Console, which closed yesterday at 98 1-18 to k
fee the 7th December, opened this morning at
981, and gradually advanced, closing at 981 to 6-18.
Fee money the last pries was 98} to 1. The official
business report is as follows :—Three per Cent.
Console, for money, 98, 971, 981, 98, 98} ; ditto,
for account (7th December), 98} ; Three per Cents.
Reduced, 981, /, 1; New Three per Cents., 99,
/, 1, ; Thirty Years Annuities, expiring in
Jan., 1880, 11 • ditto, Thirty Years, April, 1886,
18/ ; Bank Stock, 226, 226; India Stock, 2271;
Indian Four per Cent. Debentures of the fleet
issue, 991; Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Exchequer
Bonds, falling payable in May, 1869, 1001.

The New TwO-and-a.liali per Cents. were also
officially marked 821.

The debentures of the first Indian Loux were
quoted this afternoon 99j to t, and those of the
second issue 991 to f.

The March ischequer Bills remain quoted 33e.
to 38s. prem., and the June 28.5. to 31s. prem. India
Bonds were dealt in at 10s. to 14e. prem.

In the Foreign stock market business was
moderate, but the tendency of prices was get tinily
upwards. Turkish Securities were better, the scrip
of the first series of the new loan leading off at par
to / prem. ; that of the second series at /to 1/
prem. and the Six par Cent,. of 1854 at 921 to t.
The Peruvian Uribarren Bonds were again in pre-
minent demand, and have ri-en to 87f to 881. Th.
Dollar Bonds were likewise inquired for. The Anglo
Peruvian Four-antba-Half per Cents. were last
quoted 91 to 92 ; the Three per Cents., 731 to 744,
being likewise in demand ; and Mexican Bonds, 201 to
/. Sardinian, Spanish,andPortuguese Bonds were all
firm.
In the market for Bank shares to-day, the principal
feature was an increased demand for those of the
Bank of Egypt, which have risen to 251 to 281;
Commercial Bank of London were officially marked
191, and Commercial Bank of Canada, 22. The
shares of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia,
and China were more offered. As regards the
market for miscellaneous shame, little alteration
was presented. East and West India Dock stock was
officially marked 128 ; St. Katharine Dock, 93; and
the shares of the Trust and Loan Company of
Upper Canada, 1 and 1 prem. The shares of the
Indian and Australian Iclegraph Company were
quoted 1-18 to / prem.
Transactions took place to-day in Pennsylvania
Five per Cent. State Stock at 821 (exchangc,4B.6d.).
The Great Luxembourg Company's New Five per
Cent. Bonds continue in demand, and have advanced.
to 18 to}.

MINES.-THIS DAY.

Two o'CLocn.
In the mining market to-day, business hes been
less active. We hear of transactions at the follow..
ing prices :—Alfred Councils 7 to 7} ; Lady Bertha„
275. 6d. to 30s ; and Providence Mines, at 61. Other
descriptions quiet
Foreign and colonial mining shares are nomi-
nally quoted u before, with few transactions.
At the Buller sad BertYa Mine reestisp, held yesterday, the
resolutles passed at the spacial meeting held on the Bth Inst.,
firths sale se the Was and materials by public sale, was
sualessi.

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WEDNERDAT EVENING.

The mining market to-day was firm, with a consi-
derable amount of bumble*. A telegram announcing
the lode to have been cut in Kelly Bray Mine, cau
an active demand for the shares, at advanced prices.
West Comdata, Bryntail, East Wheal Russell, North
Downs, Lady Bertha, and Dale Mining shares, were
all inquired for. Transactions are repotted to are
' between the following prices :—West Otradon, 116
to 120; Kelly Bray, 375. 6d. to 425. Od.; Wheal
Adam, 225. to 245. ; Wheal Margaret, 62 to 64;
Wheal Mary Ann, 451 to 4e} ; Catherine and Imes
Ccessole, se. to 6s. ; Alfred Consols, 71 to 71; Wheal
Trelawny, 251 to 261; Bryntail, 61 to 71; Care
Brea, 62 to 64 ; East Russell, 71 to 71 ; Lady Bertha,
265. 6d. to 265. ed.; North Downs, 21 to 2t; Dale
Mine, 9s. to lls ; Wheal Edward, 21 to 3; East
Bassett, 95 to 100 ; Vale of Tow y, 13e. to 14s.
Foreign and colonial mining shares met with little
attention. Those of the Worthing Mining Company
were dealt in at as,