The Express.
London, England, 1866-06-09 00:00:00

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don, Brighton and South Coast Railway Company,
and for defining and regulating their capital and
mortgage debt, and their powees of raising morays,
and for authorising Wm to mike sad 'maintain
new lines of railway, and for other purposes."
A special general meeting of the South Iciaseers
Railway Company is called for the 90th MAL, tO :
consider four pa
bills now pending in parliament'
The half-yearly meeting of the shareholders of •
the London Joint Stock Bank will be held on ths
19th July.
A general meeting of the India Freehold Land,
Colonisation, Trust, and Agency Association
(Limited) is cotiveticd for the 15th mat. to reoeive
the rerirt of the liquidators.
A call of 1!. is to be paid on the new shares of
the Berlin Waterworks Company (Limited) by the
30th inst.
An extraordinary general meeting of the Queens-
land Sheep Investment Company (Limited) is
called for the IGth inst.
The Caledonian Railway traffic return shows this -
week an increase of 1,8371., compared wows
t
corresponding period of 1865.
The East India Land Credit Company hays
transferred their account to the London and West-
minster Bank, who will pay the interest coupons
on their debenture issue.
It is statei that the various fire offices, at a
meeting held yesterday, have unanimously agreed e
to rescind the resolutions which they adopted in
March, 1862, with reference to the settlement of
claims for loss under mercantile policies at the oms-i
tract price, and to revert to the old practice of
adjusting such claims at the market price immedi- .
ately bAure the tire.

FRIDAY EVIIIIIIIII.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 864 to 4, '•
ex div., for the 10th of July, opened this morning ,
at 864 to am.): closed at 861_ to 4. For money
the last price was 861 to 4. The official busineas
report is as follows : —Three per Cent. Como*
for money, 86, 1,6, ; ditto, for account, 864, 4,
; Three per Cents. Reduced, 854, 4, ; New
Three per Cents., 854, 4,4, 4, ; Bank Stock, •
247 ; India Five per Cent. Stock, 1034 ; ditto
Four per Cent., 924 ; ditto Five per Cent. " en--
faced " rupee paper, 100, 4 ; ditto Four per Cent.
Bonds, ss. prem.
The India Five per Cent. Stock was steady.
The March Exchequer Bills were quoted 12s. to be.
dia., and the June, ss. dis. to se. prem.
In the f ireign stock market the dealings con-
sisted chiefly of sales, and the general tendency of •
prices was unfavourable. Peruvian Bonds of 1863
declined 2} per cent. ; Danubian and Italian of
1862, 2 ; Egyptian and Turkish of 1858, 1862, and
1863, 1 ; lto. ito of 1861, g ; Greek, 4 ; Turkish of
186, 1 ; and Spanish Passive, 4. '
Bank shares were rather firmer, and a recovery
took place in sane vases. Bank of Egypt share,.
rose 3/. ; London Joint Stock, 21. 10s. ; Oriental
Corporation and Union of London, 21. ; and Agra
and Masterinaten, Chartered of India, Australia,
and China, Consolidated, and London and West-
minster, 11. On the other hand, Australasia and
London and Comity declined 11. 10s. • Angle-
Egyptian, English, Scottish, and Australian Char-
tered, Merchant. and Midland, 11. ; and London
and Brur;dian (new), London and River Plate'
(new), and London Chartered of Australia, 10a.
Alliance chisel at 9 to 7 dis.; Anglo-Austrian, at.
2to 11 dis. ; and Imperial Ottoman, at 14 to 11
' dia.
The dealings in financial shares were moderate,
and the only changes were a rise of se. in General
Credit, and a je,:liue to the like extent in Credit
Fancier aml Mobilier. Prices were last quoted at.
follows : International Financial, 21 to 14 dia. ;
General Credit, 24 to dia. ; London Financial,
17 to 15 dis. ; Imperial Mercantile Credit, 54,0
iq die. ; Credit Foncier and Mobilier, 3i to 4 dia.