The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-27 00:00:00

IVERN:

day morning, when he heard cries of " Police "
proceed from Bing-street. He accordingly went there, and
a little way up saw the prosecutor and
hold
straggling
on the ground. The prosecutor had hold of the latter and
gave him into his custody for assaulting him with intent
to rob. The prisoner denied the charge.
Mr. Woolrych asked if he knew anything about him.
Witness replied in the negative. He told him he lived
in Bermondsey, but did not say what part.
The prisoner said he never had any intention to rob the
prosecutor. It was merely a joke.
Mr. Woolrych told him it would be a serious joke for
him, and in order to give the police time to make further
inquiries about him he should remand him.

SHARE LISTS.-(THIS DAY.)

No. I droo.e.
660,0001 ISrttlshOolm.flp.ct..ls72l
-19,000 Do. 1895
... Can. Gov.B p. e.,1877.81
~.. Do. 6perct,Feb.B..tug. I
Do. 6 perct.Mar.d.lei
14,808 Do. 5 percLJ an.&l
15,808 Do. 5 per ct. Ins. Stoc
10,000 Capeolli llopcs per. 1872
.... Do. do.lBl/0-1900
Do. do. Icso-90
.... Do. do. 1 itio-01
84,000 Do.sp.c.Ap.&Oct link
.00,000 Ceylon, Yoh. lad 8, Bp. ct
000,000 u Do. 1675. do..
.660,000 Do.. _
_1472 do...

Offs o'CLooi. is
There is little demand to-day for British railway
stocks, and prices generally exhibit a drooping ten- 2.1 i,
dency. North British is heavy, and has declined as
A per cent. Metropolitan, London and North
Western, Midland, and South Eastern have also
receded 1 to 1.
Metropolitan stock is now quoted 1241 to 4 ;
Great Western, 53 to 1 ; London and North
Western, 1171 to • Midland, 1231 to g ;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 123 to 124 ; Caledonian,
121 to 122 ; South Eastern, 631 to A ; Great Eastern,
25g to ; Great Northern, 115 to 116 • ditto
A, 124 i to 125/ ; London, Chatham, and 'Dover,
17/ to 1 ; and North British, 351 to 361.
Foreign railway shares are dull ; Lombardo-Ve- 3,1
netian have declined 2s. 6d., viz., to 154 to 161. I
Grand Trunk of Canada are quoted 191 to 1,
being flat.

IN 94
90 92
90 92
77 78
76 77
104 106
103 105
102 104
104 106
ES 90
102 104
104 1001
106 107
104 106
106 107
108 10614
106 107
98 100
41 96

THADIES.
STREET EIENDICANCT.—THE THREE CRIPPLF.H.
John Sparks, Dacid Coker, and James Nathan, were
brought before Mr. Paget, charged with mendicancy
in • public street in Rateliff. Nathan has lost a
leg, and as he was stepping into the dock he
stumbled and fell. He was raised by the officers
and neither his real leg nor his wooden ono was injured.
Sparks has lost a leg and an arm, and Coker sa arm only.
This group have barn very successful in their begging ex-
ploits at the east-end of the metropolis for some time past.
Sparks and Coker are both young men, very tall, and
wear white jackets. Nathan is an older man, of more
sombre hue, and wears a dark brown coat.
A police-constable said the prisoners were singing a
dismal song in a street, and put out tbeir bands as people
were passing them, and occasionally raised their hands to
their leads. The prisoners did not actually ass for any- ;
thing, but their design evidently was to collect alms, and 6
he saw money given to them. They did not follow auy I
one, nor were they guilty of any insolence.
Mr. Paget lectured the prisoners, and said they had no S
right to trade on their misfortunes or to beg in the streets. 11!,
He hoped he should not see them again. He discharged 51.
them. 9s.
St-

,Oki Mauritius 6 per ct.,1573
,0001 Do. 1578
1100,000] Do. 1882 ,
300,000; Do. 15861
165,600 i Natal. Gov. 6 per cent.. I
168,000 New BranaGov.6perct.
,135,800 New South Wales Gov..
6 p. cent.,lB7l to 1876
,671.800 Do. sp. c.lBBB to 1693
550,0001 D0.5p.c.r,1567 to 1575
Do. do. Scrip
180,000 New Zealand Oper cent,
1,000,C001 Do. 6 per cent.
250,000, Do. 6 per cent. IS9I
600,000' Nova Scotia 6p. c.,1875
1,850,200, Queetudand Gov. 6 p. ct.
.... . IS.Aust.Gov. 6 p c.,67-77
.

90 $2
66 67
09 95
_4
..5 ym

ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCILA

KLILWAYS I Closing prices
) esterday.

Salm to-day
to 1 p.m.

715.1.,600! —7
it 76
333,000 5;
c. Jan. July
7,000.0001 Do. 6p. cc. April &Oc

100 Bristol and Ifteter
1100 Caledonian i 1
100 Cambrian
all Cork and Bandon I
all Cornwall
100 Dublin and BellaatJunc,
100 Dundee, Perth, &Abd in;
all East London Scrip Cert.!
10 . Do
100 Glasgow and & Western:
100 Great Eastern Ord. St.'
100 ; Do. B. Ang. Stk., N 0.2.
100 Great North of Scotlandi
100 Great Northern
100 Do.A A rec. no &Iv. un-I
100 D 0.1.1.1 tU6 p. c. tspaldß,
100 Da New Ls. at 25 pm.l
100 Do. Ord. Del. Div. Stock,
100 GL South & West. (Ire ))
100 Great Western
100 Do.StourVal.GuaStk'
100 Do. South Wales .1
100 Do. W. Mid.-01.IOrd!
1 100 Do. Do. Newport)
100 Lancashire & Yorkshire,
100 Lou. ,Brightn, &O.
100 London,Chatham,&Dovl
100 1 Do. slet. Krten.A6p.c.l
100 !London & North Weetn.
100 ILoacton&liouthWestern
100 1511an_ &Lincolnshl

86 88
111 122
40 46
1$ 16
4 0
66 66
70 71

JPOREIGN

117 119
25 313
6 6

Alamillos Limited) ,
Australlim
_ _

lo 2
a 1
II 20
ni 6
11 16
2
ni 6
1., 60
20
II
3
2
1,1 2
111 20

WANDSWORTH.
SINGULAR CHARGE AGAINST A SERVANT.
A well-dressed young woman, named Emily Button, was
placed in the dock on a charge of stealing a cash-box,
containing one 101. Bank of Ragland noto, 5/. in gold, about
11. in silver, and several articles, the property of her mis-
tress, Mrs. Charlotte Mary Corbould, a lady residing at
No. 18, North-road, Clapham-park.
The proseculi ix stated that on Friday the prisoner, 5L
who washer only servant, came up to her while she was at It.
breakfast and asked if she had been downstairs after the st
plate had been locked up on the preceding night. Witness st,
said she had not. The prisoner then said that when she at.
went down stairs she found the kitchen door open, also M.
the coalcellar and flap. Witness missed the cash- St.
box from a chest of drawers in her bedroom. There was a t.
valuable inkstand in the drawer behind the cash-box, but 6,
that still remained. The witness further explained that se,
she slept in the bedroom on the Thursday night with the 10
door locked. The cellar-flap was kept bolted in the inside. 10
She last saw the cash-box safe on the Wednesday before. 100
The prisoner had her holiday on Thursday, and she went 1:
to several shops. 99.
Police-constable Kempson, 279 W, said he was sent to 9
the house on Friday. He examined the premises, inclu Jun St.
the oellar-flap, and he could not discover that any person 96
had gone in or out. He told the lady that the robbery .Bt.
must have been committed by some one in the house.
Last night he again went to the house and made 9,
a very searching inspection of the premises. In lit.
the dust-bin in the yard he found the cash-box broken St.
open, and all the articles in it safe, with the exception of St.
the bank note and money. He inquired whether there
were any tools in the house, and on a chisel being produced
yR
he found that it exactly corresponded with the marks on Le
the cash-box. On taking the prisoner into custody, she to
denied all knowledge of the cash-box.
Mr. Ingham remanded the prisoner, who made no de- R.
fence, and told the constable to attend to what the lady a„,t•
had stated with reference to her servant going to various
Bt
shops on the day she had her holiday.
en

BrasilLh (Lm.ll
,Cape Copper (Limitedl
Caput Silver k Limited)
ChuntalesGAS.liin.,L
Cobre Copper
Coplap° (Limited)
!Don Pedro, N. Del key
Fast Del Rey Limited)

115 117
124 k 125*

90 92
53 64

-may'
Fortuna (Limited) (Limited), :
Prontitio,2l3oliriaGoid
20,v0,.. -.., General
68,0001 11 Bripunda :Limited)
15, S Linares 'Limited)
10, 6 Lod tauten Limited)
103,131 1 '5l ariquita
50, 4 Panulcillo Copper (L )
10, 20 PontgibandSilverLead
100, 6 Port l'hillip
1 Santa Barb. Gold 11..,L ),
120,000 1 Scottish Austral. (I.lm )1
11,000 20 'St. John del Rey (Lim '',
43,17 C SO (United Mexican (Lim )1
30,. r 2 Val Antigoriu Gold
60,n, 1 VallanzascaGuld,llm )
10,000 10 Vancouver Coal .I.lm 1
6,000. 10 , Val Sassain 'Limitedll
20,000 6 (Washoe Gold (Limited):
90,000. 1 'Worthing (Limited)
76,00.0 1 (Yorke Pcuinsula,Liat)
46,000, a 'ancianamucana :um.)

30 35
33 35
123} 124
60 84
17 18
10 20
117 117}
82 44
40 50
1241 124}
I 2i SHE
10 102
87 60

100 riiieTroiolltin
Bi, Do. New
all Do. Extension
' all Metropolitan District
4 Do. do. du.
all Do. &St. John's-wood
100 ,Midland
7 Do. £ Shares
100 Do. Birm. & Derby
all !Hid Keut
100 North British
100 I Do. &lin ,Perth,Dund
100 N. Eastern—Berwick
104 Do. G. N. E. Pure_
100 Do. Laois
100 Do. York
100 Do. Carlisle
all Do. Stock. it:Darling.
20 Do. do., 1400431
100 (North London
0 i Do. do., 1884-5
4 I Do. do., 1806
100 North Staffordshire.
100 N. & S. Western Junc.
100 .Bcottish Central ......
100 'Shropshire Union ....
100 South Devon

1231 1231
11 2* Pra 1
02 54 I

361 37i
16 18
lot 105

DEBENTURE STOCKS.

STOCLS.

6G 87
801 100}

Ot.Estn 4 p.c. Mar.JlSep. 100
O.Nthn.4 p.c. Jan.&July 100
6. Wain.—W.
p. ct Jan. & July . 100
I I
818.000, St. .Lanc.&Ykap.c.Jan.&-ily 100
630.000. St. Len. Brifb.4p.c.Jan.&Tly 100
1026221 St. • L&N. .4p.c.lan.& July 100
311,00 I St. Do. 4p.c. Jan.& July 100
169,730 St. 11...9.5.W.4p.c. Jan.& July 100
....... I St. Micilsaid.4p.c.Jan.& July 100
St. N. British, E. P. & D. 8.,
p. ct., Felt k Aug... 100
118.431 St. I N. Eatrn.,4p.c.Jan.&July 100
.... i St. ifleot.N.R.,4p.c.Ap.lo4. 100

4.12,U!.S St.
609381 G St.
6100000, St.

Pm
34 15 I
0,2 10i
116 120
1 21002
-901
72 74
114 118
150 164

100 Youth Eastern
ell Stalnes,Woldeghaniokt
100 Taff Vale
Do. C
100 Waterford & Ktlkeenv
6 Waterloo & Whitehall

4S 45
63 114
8 9
150 153
S 4 pm

MISCELLANEOUI

00,000 10
29,009 110
L 000,00.1 St.
Edoo,ooo St.
90,000 25
40,0001 25
10,000 10
47,0001 10
13,000, 10
26,000 100

Angle-AtuerlcanTel.;l-; all
Anglo-Mexican Mint ! all
(Atlantic Teeeraph lOO
Do. 8 per cent. 'loo
'Australian Arlen) .. . !
.Australian Nt.L.0:141. (L , 5
BaugparahTea EstatesL 5
'Berlin Viaterworks (L.) all
D. New '
Bolckow Vaughan (L 177

10,000 6 'Bombay OaaTLlmiiedd•
10,000 5 Do New
6,000 0 ;British Amerind
631,780 S st. 18. &1. Mag. Tel.can (La L. ) 1
50,000 20 'British .Shipowners
8,915 321 Canada Company
50,000 10 !Canadian Loan it Inv(L)'
26,000 20 'Ceylon Company
'•
12,000 201 Ditto A shares
27,000 20 ChinaSt.Ship&L.Cual L. 11
30,000 10 ,City Discount, Limited. 1
20,000 25 CityoMidonit.Pro.(l.2
15,041 ! 80 .City of Milan Impro.( S,
4,919' 30 • Do.
115,000 25 City of Moscow Gas (L)
20,000 50 City Offices (Lim.) ll
80,000 60 Colonial k Limited) • 11
60,000 50 'Commercial Cuion(ins.), I
60,000' 10 Corn. of AfriranMer.( L.)
20,000 50 Cnnsolidated Dis. .; 1!
17,590' 20 Continental lin.Gas L ),
11
10,000 100 ContractCorporatiouNi 11
122,060' 05 Cop.ll.l.ng.,Pref.7i p. c.i
100,000 10 C. Pone. of England .. J )1
10,000 ' 10 I Do.of Mauritius (L. ) ;
100"0251! St. Crystal Palace .ll
6160,820 St. ! Do. Preference
/1277,000! St. Do. 6p. et. Perp. Deb 10
7,5001 80 Darjeeling (Idmited) I L
10,000 100 DiacouutCorporatiou'L 121
18,000 i 10 :Eastern Assam Tea 1 1
20,000 GO E.ludialaud,C.& Fin,L; It
60,090 20 E. India brig. & Canal: 11
80,0001 60 Ehhw Vale
118,813 20 Egyptiancom.&Tril.(L )1
1879,976' St. Electric Telegraph . _llOl
70,0001 S EngAtAus (s,pper :Lim
20,000; 60 Keg. and Foreign Credit) 1
10,000 1W Eng.& dtiziilLtria (L 1 I
25,0001 10 FalrlistniEdginecring I
10,000. 20 Fore-st , Warehouse (L ), 1!
10,000: 60 Glellivara Limited) :I 2
150,00 20 G.Cre.lit&Fin.of Lon.,L,'
20,000; 16 Oen. Steam Navigation!
20.990' 60 Home &Colonial As., L);
I 6.010 10 lion"l:...ng & Claus Gas.

100,000, 20 HulGon'a 'nay.
20,000, 60 Number TronWorks /L. !;
80,000 20 Irn.LmulC es L o.Marselll 11
100,000 50 Imp.(2 Mcr.Cdt.Ass. (L. 1.
60,000, Y Indian Carrying( (Am.(' :
40,000 50 International Coutract .1
150,000: 20 Diteniat. Eitian.Soc.,L.;.; I
(00,000 20 Internat.Land Credit 11 `' I
30,000' 60 Italian Land I I
50,000. 20 Italian Irrnr. ;Can.Cay ) al
1,000000 100 Do. op. c lids. r. 1979. a!
20,000 50 Land Securities; Lim. ) , I
4,000 25 Lund. Africa n Tra,l ing 1 II
20.000 25 Lou. & Caledon. NI. I
60,000 10 Lon.ComityLand kg:L.
12,000. 6 Loud. bistrictTcleg., L. ,
41,900 50 1,111. Asn, '
149,525. 4 Lend. 0 Omnibus
5,000 50 Lond.erOlaeg.
10,000 60 .Lond., Italian, Su. Simi
6,000 60 Load. Mee. Discount
64,600' 20 Lund. Provincial 51arine,
60,1100; 20 Madras Irrigade.uisl
.... 20 Do.
10,000 25 Marine Investment !T '
12,500 20 Mauritius Land. &c.(
12,000 10 Iledit. Eaten. Tel. I L.l all
10,000. 60 Nterchant Shipping L l6
25,000 20 11 illwall F.IAL&Doci,L; 171
40,000 60 NI illwalllronWorks.
22,500 10 'Natal Land k Col.C. L.ll 6
120,000 25 'National Corn. I, (
40,000 25 Do.New,ias.sp.2ltobcprl
20,000 25 National l'rov.Marine
20,00) 100 •National Steam I
(LOW 20 NerbuddaCwl&lrnn,L)'
6,000 20 , Do. New
20,000 25 .N.7ealand 1, ttNI.Ag.
10,000 25 N. Zealand T.& Loan .L. )`
15,000 • 10 .Northern Assam Tea ;L)
26,000 10 , Do.
£187,176- St. N.Bria.Australasian ; L )100
40,000 50 N.RritAlf crow. 1n.:J.)1
18,000 10 Nowcong Tea I,l;.(nitedl,
40,000 25 Ocean Marine I Insitra.?
10,000 50 OrientalEinancial Lira.): II
80.000, 6 oriental (las ; Lltnited) al
110,000 6 Do. New
40,000! 10 Orient. Inland Steam( L)1 41
2.5,000. 10 Otago iitliland 11. vest.
12,500 20 OttoncanCompt.nytL
10,000 50 antomanEinnucial
10,000. 6 ottoman Limited., al
100,000' 60 Overend,thirney,Co.l.2 V
r...200l 10 Panama F. IL SteaM L al
10,214 , 6 Do. do. •al
16300,000 St. Peelltiv.Land‘t ,;101
20,000' 50 Peninsular & o.Steam 1 al
80,000 50 Do. do. New 4l
17,000 10 Quebrada L.. R., M. !L i! at
10,.*0;. 60 Rhymney Iron
10,0001 15 Do. New lal
18,"34 25 •ItloJ.Cltylmprov.(L.) 1 al
150 GO do 2l
30.,000 20 ElDo Janeeiro Gas (Llm 1 al
I
15, 100 Royal Ntall Steam
4300,000000, St. Scot. Andra. Invest. IL lO4
40,0001 60 Smithcht,&Co.o,
80,0001 20 Soc.Finan.Kni &Egypte 1L.21 '
14,0001 50 S. African M.& in.; L
200 25 SouthAustrallan Land..1
4100,000 St. Submarine Telegraph .. 11
I Do Scrip
Tel.Coastrne.,CNlaM(L)
fID i • Do. Do.
10 Tharnes,t Money In.(L)
10 Trinidad Petroleum (L)
10 TrustkAgenry of Aus.(L
110 T.d L. Co. of I.Calada
50 L'n.llarine of Liver. (L.)
5 ITnlte4 K. Teleg. Co.! L.ll
20 _Dairen. Marina ins.(l ).
, 80 Van Diemen's Land (LI,
.100 ViceroyolKgypt(Mor.',l...
! 60 (Warrant Finance (Lim.),
60 WeiandagsPacUicek

X 7,500
100,000
7,500
0,500
10,000
100,000
90,000
60,000
10,000
1090001 .
90,000
90.000 i

THE EXPRESS, TUESDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 27, 1866.

MONEY M

CLpaioes. 1 Bates.

0; 101 xdl
110 125
21 19 4W
7 d 415
6 j 14 44.115
all 33 55
1001 l 60
160
a
all

5 1 0. par 41
2 3i 2045 51 1
g
i die
Ipm xd
6 1 Jidda
5 1 16pm
all 1
6 51 9.11151
1511 ke 21 7
all' 74 75 741
10 I V 7 asi 11
20 6 6 4Mi -

PREFERENCE SHARES.
Gt. Esatem, East. Counties Eaten., 6 per cent. prell f., 91;
Gt. Western. West blici.—Oxfd., let Qua. Stk., 5.
North British 5 per cent., No. 1, 85.

FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Antwerp and Rotterdam, 81.
Great Luxembourg, 124.
Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 34, I, 4.
South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian, 164, 16.

ARKET.-(THIS DAY.

company may at the time be selling coal of the
same quality. The chairman, Mr. Haymen, states
that the contract is most favourable for the Nee,
budda Company, as he hopes it will enable the
directors to finance the undertaking and also pay
a handsome divicknd without the necessity of a
call till the end of two years, when perhaps aa&
of H. per share Inv be necessary.
At the meeting yesterday of the China Steamship
and Labuan Coal Company (Limited) it was
solved to to reduce the nominal liability on the shares,
in accordance with f::‘, circular 'ssued to the pro-
prietors dated the 4th of Oct. last.
A meeting of the Oriental Gas Company took
place yesterday. Trie general revenue account shows
I, a balance avail:llo.e for dividend—after setting
1 aside 1,0001. towards a reserve fund—of 10,1181.,
and a dividend was declared of 5.i. per cent., free
of income taa, ninhing, with the interim payment
I of 3 per cent. in „lune last, a total distribution of
8/t per cent. for the year. The directors' report,
ay
dopted, s,taatisfac
edttlotarty tphreogrea. operations of
which
celol mwpaa alxi t tan
The London, Bri4inon, and South Coast Rail-
way traffic return sliows this week an increase of
3,621./. over last ear.
The directors of the Estates Investment Company
(Limited) intimate their intention to appeal from
the decision just given by Vice-Chancellor Wood,
against them ami in favour of the dissentient
allottees. The 3 have of riurse the advantage of using
the shareholders' own money against them. But
the directors have stopped here, for, in spite of
the judicial decisi,n, they announce that they have
"completed the rnrchase " of an estate involving
the company in an outlay or liability of nearly
100,0001.
Vice-Chancellor St.:art has appointed Mr. Price,
of the firm of Price, Holvland, and Waterhouse,
official liquidator of the National Financial Com-
pany (Limited).
A petition for the winding up of Warren's Black-
ing Company (Liinit..s.l) is to be heard before Vice-
Chancellor Kindersley on the ith December.
Messrs. C.. 1. H inihro and Son have announced
the interest due the 11th December on the Danish
Four per Cent. Stozl: of 1862.

OYR o'CLucs,
The anticipated introduction of new foreign
loans, and a fear that the Fenian may cause
serious disturbances in Ireland shortly, tend
to prevent any general improvement in the
Stock Exchange. The amount of business
to-day is limited, and the tone of the various
markets dull. The transactions in English govern-
ment securities 'still show a preponderance of sales,
and the funds have experienced a fresh reduction
of 1-16 per cent. Some of the English railway
stocks and foreign bonds have also given way, but
the decline does not exceed to per cent.
Bantling and financial shares are flat. The
scrip of the Russian loan advanced this morning to
1i to 2 prem. upon additional purchases against
previous speculative sales. A relapse has since
taken place, yet the present price-1! to 1 prem.—
is per per cent. better than yesterday. During the
next three days the attention of the dealers will be
chiefly directed to the settlement of the fortnightly
account.

The discount market is quiet to-day, arrange-
ments having previously been made to meet the
large amount of Indian and China bills which have
just arrived at maturity. The rate is 34 to 4 per
cent., but a few exceptional transactions are re-
ported at 31. In the Stock Exchange short loans
are in demand at 34 per cent.
Consols are now quoted 891, cum div., for
money, and 835 to 1, ex div., for the account (6th
December).
Turkish Bonds of 1865 are flat, and have declined
per cent. Mexican have also receded 1, but
Spanish Passive, the Committee's Certificates, and
Italian of 1861 are steady. Turkish Bonds of 1862
are quoted 585 to 594 ; ditto 1865, 321 to 33 ;
Greek, 134 to 141 ; Spanish Passive, 201 to 4;
ditto Certificates, 131 to ; Italian of 1861, 555
to ; Mexican, 181 to A.
United States 5-20 Inds are pressed for sale,
and have receded 4 per sent, viz., to 701 to 1-
Erie Railway shares are quoted 471 to 485, being
per cent. better ; and Illinois Central, 775 to 1,
showing no change.
Anglo-American and Atlantic Telegraph shares
are quiet ; the former are called 144 to 151, and
the latter 35 to 4.
11 International Financial shares are quoted 25
Ito 2 dis. ; London Financial, 164 to 155 dis. ;
General Credit, 21 to 15 dis. ; Credit Fonder,
51 to 5 dia. ; National Discount, 95 to pram. ;
and Hudson's Bay, 161 to 4.
The half-monthly settlement in shares andforeign
stocks will begin to-morrow (" continuation day"),
and end on Friday.
About 9,0001. in gold was taken to the Bank
yesterday.
The Louisiana, from New York, has brought only
4001. in specie. The Delta, with the mail for
Bombay, will take to-day only 8251.
The spacie and bullion by the French mail
steamer Imperatrice Eugenie, about 164,0001., was
released from quarantine at St. Nazaire on Sunday
afternoon, and despatched to London. It is ex-
pected to arrive hero to-day or to-morrow.
It is believed that the Mexican packet, which is
due at Southampton in a day or two, will bring
the large sum of 800,000/., chiefly silver.
The following is a copy of a private telegram,
dated Bombay, the 13th inst. :
1 Exchange on ondon for a first-class bank bill, 6 months
sight, per rupee, illegible ; the Calcutta rate for .10., per
rupee, 2s. ; exchange on Calcutta at sight, 100. to
100 i ; Government Four per Cent. paper, 89 rs. ; do. Five
per Cent., 106 rs. ; do. Five-and-a-Half per Cent., 110 A n.;
Bank of Bombay rate of discount, 8 ; bar gold, MO touch,
168 re. per tola ; bar silver, 17 to 17 betterness, 107( re.
per NO Colas. 8,000 bales cotton sailed from Bombay
during the fortnight. A comparison of the above rates
with those current on the 27th October (the previous wail
I day) shows the following changes Bombay exchange
on Lardon, ; Calcutta do., no change ; Bombay ex-
change on Calcutta, a decline of per cent. ; do. Govern-
ment Four per Cent. paper, a decline of t per cent. ; ilo.
Five per Cent., no change ; do. Five-and-a-Half pec Cent,
a decline of per cent. • do. bank rate of discount, no
change ; do. price of bar gold, a decline of ra. per toLi
do. silver, no change.
It is stated that a commercial treaty is in course
of negotiation between the British government and
the Viceroy of Egypt, with the view of regulating
more advantageously the exports of raw cotton
from Egypt, and the reciprocal imports of British
manufactures into that country.
It appears from the last statement published in
detail by the Ottoman government that the altera
tion made in the tobacco tax more than a year ago
has resulted in its being nearly doubled in amount,
the yield having amounted to 235.000 purses in
1865-6 as compared with 120,000 in 1864-5. This
has been owing to the substitution of a
uniform tax of twelve piastres the eke for the
various and complicatedsystem previously adopted.
At 41. 10s. per purse, this is equivalent to an in-
crease from 540,0001. to 1,057,500/. per annum.
The,tobacco tax, together with the revenues de-
rived from salt, stamps, and licences, is hypothe-
cated to the Six per Cent. Loan of 1862, and as
the sum required for the service of that loan does
not exceed 640,000). per annum, the security,
under the improved arrangements lately inaugu-
rated by the government, in conjunction with the
Imperial Ottoman Bank, ought to be ample.
The committee o: the Stock Exchange have ap-
pointed Monday, the 3rd December, a special settling
day in the Sex per Cent. Debentures (1865) of the
government of 'Victoria, which are to be marked.
The committee have also ordered the following
securities to be officially quoted :—United States
5-20 Bonds, 1864 and 1865 • Bombay, Barocla, &c.,
Railway Five per Cent. Debentures, 1871. The
committee have further ordered the shares of the
Consolidated Discount Company to be removed
from the list, substituting those of the New Con
solidated Discount Company.
The meeting of debenture holders of the Lon-
don, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company, held
yesterday, to consider the plan of reconstruction
put forward by the directors, was largely attended.
Lord Harris, the chairman of the company, pre-
sided. The feeling of the meeting from the outset
was strongly pronounced against the directors'
plan, which at last was formally and almost unani-
mously negatived. A resolution, which Lord Har-
ris, after some hesitation consented to put, was
adopted. It asked the committee of debenture-
holders to confer with the directors, with a view to
look into the accounts, and report to a future
meeting.
The directors of the London Chartered Bank of
Australia have issued a statement in anticipation
of the half-yearly meeting convened for the 7
7th
December. December. From this it appears that
balance of profit and loss in London and in the
colonies for the half-year ending 30th June last,
after deducting current expenses, income tax, and
making provision for bad and doubtful debts, is
44,685/. lls. 11d., which, with the addition of
11,5381. 7s. 10d. brought forward from the last
report, gives a total of 56,223/. This it is proposed
to apply as follows, viz. :—" To dividend proposed
to be paid, viz., 4 per cent. on paid-up capital for
half-year ending 30th June, 1866 (free of income
tax), 40,0001. To amount proposed to be carried to
the colonial building fund this half-year 3,000/. ;
balance to next half-year, 13,2231. 19s. ; total,
56,2231. 19s. 9d."
An extraordinary meeting of the Nerbudda Coal
and Iron Company (Limited) was held yesterday,
when it was resolved that the directors be em-
powered to enter into an agreement with the Great
Indian Peninsula Railway Company for a supply
of coals as follows :-300 tons per week from the
Lt of March, 1867, to the end of 1868, at 12 rupees
per ton ; 500 tons per week throughout the years
1869-70, at 10 rupees per ton ; 600 tons per week
throughout the year 1871 at 9 rupees per ton (in
the option of the railway company); and 600 tons
per week during a period of 15 years from the Ist
of January, 1872, at a reduction of 20 per cent.
upon the minimum price per ton at which the coal

MONDAY EVINING.

Consols, which cased on Saturday at 88i to 4, ex
div., for the 6th December, opened this morning
at the same quotation, and closed at 88 5-16 to
7-16, or BE9. For money the last price was 84
to 1„, with div. The official business report is in
follows :—Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 90,
891, 1, ; ditto, for account, 884, ; Three per
Cents. Reduced. 871, ; New Three
_per
Cents., 871, ; india Stock, 215 ; ditto Five
per Cent., 106, 6 ; ditto Five per Cent.
"enfaced " rupee paper, 1003 : ditto Wive-and-a-
Ralf per Cent., 1051 ; ditto Bonds, 255. prem.
Indian government securities were dull, selera
predominating.
Exchequer Bills remain at le. to se. prem.
The amount of business in foreign stocks was
extremely small, and very few variations occurred
in prices. Turkish Bonds of 1863 and 1863 (Six
per Cents.) were heavy, and fell 3 and 2 per cent.
respectively. Daraibian also declined 1 per cent. -
Turkish of 1858. 1 : and New Grenadian Deferred
and Turkish of 1i40•3 (Five per Cents.), 1. Italian.
Bonds of 1861, however, were inquired for, and
rose 1.
The scrip of the new Russian Loan was last
quoted I'&+ to 17 prem., being 1 lower than on
Saturday.
The few trangacth•ns reported in bank shares con-
sisted chiefly of sales, and a decline of los. to IL
took place in Australasia, London and Brazilian,
London Joint Stock, and Union of London. Im-
perial Ottoman als r..cekled 35., but Bank of British
Columbia improved 1..
In the market for financial shares International
Financial and General Credit declined 2s. hid., and
Credit Fonder were that. Prices closed as fol-
lows : Internati.mal Financial, 21 to 2 die. ;
General Credit, 21 to 17, dis. ; London Financial.
161 to 150: dis. ; and Credit Fancier of England,
3n. to 51 dis.
Atlant:c Cable shares were unaltered. Anglo-
American closed at 147. to 131, Atlantic Telegraph
Eight per Cent. Pre:crence at 3 to 4, and Tele-
graph Construe& ,11 at i to 1 die.

MIXES.--(THIS DAY.)

Oxa o'CLoca,

There is a itiodera,c., amount of business in the
mining iiiar:Lt to-day, and the tendency of
prices in a few ca.eA is favourable. l'rinoe of
Wales, North Crofty, Great Vor, and Chen-
tales are in chief reluest. Some of the present
prices are a; : —Prince of Wales, 245. lid.
to 255. 1•61 ; North Crofty, 2.;?, to ; Great Vor,
16'4' to 171 ; North TreAkerby, 2i to 3 ; East Provi-
dence, lire. to : We3t Chiverton, 7.71 to LR ;
IVheal Chiverton, to S; and Chontales, 21,- to 4.
The call of 7.5. per share in the Port Phillip and
Colonial Gol.le.mr,..my. announced in an evening
contemporary on sa!unlay, is erroneous. Indeed
no call can he mail,: without the assent of the pro-
prietary.

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL COTTON AND CORN MARKETS-
;THIS' DAY.)
(BY ELECTIZ:C ANT, IN TLItNATIONAL TELEGRAINI.)
F It. • o:; to.'••N COILItESPuNDENT.)
C.rroN.-- Tin' niaik•A firm. Sides probably f 4,060
COHN. —The war: ^t f..irly attended. Wheat ic mode-
rate comutuption. prices slightly eas:er. Flonr
dull ; r.l. clwapi r. Ikan., weaker. Oats au.l o Lunen] dull.
and turn lower. Iu li.L a ru moderate demand, mixed 40c.

MINCING-LANE.—(THIS DAY.)
SI'CAR.—The has opened very steadily ; the
private aides inclade .Tamaic.i at full prices, and elayed Ma-
nilla, good jat b.l. It: tined—Dried goods are in mode-
rate request, but prices continue firm ; pieces are again
rather easier.
C"FFEE.—illlSine9ll is 40i112 in colonial descriptions at
firm price.. blqi of fine East India recently bought
is
at public sale has been Fuld at 795. to Ms. ; also 200 bags
of washed Rio at 7.15.
TEA remains quiet.
RICE..--3.004 bags of. Rangoon sold at the previous price
of 12.5.
Rum .\SD P. F. - No sales reported.
On ...c.—The r:;et again become quiet, and the
business done is at prices which favour buyers.
If ENIP.—Th market is firm at 341. for clean St. Petem-
burg, and to. e Ka. for fair r .ping Manilla.

TALLOW MARKET.--(TEIIS DAY.)
The market is firm ; prices are quote 1 as follows :
Petersburg Y.C. ou the spot,3,L; Decemher, 445. 3d. ;
January to klat,l, 445. ; 31arch,

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—{THIS DAY.)
Mr. finales J.,rnc% Ei,ton reports trade slow at tbe
following prire4 :—Prime clover, from 100 s. to 115 s. ;
inferior ditto, 50s. to o:ia. ; prime second cut clover,
!sip. to 100 s. ; inferior ditto, 30s. to 70s. ; prime meadow
Lay, Ws. to Kw. ; inferior ditto, 55a. to 70s. ; straw, 365.
to 445.