The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-29 00:00:00

TO TEI IDITOR Or TEI EXPILIMS.

SIR,—As public notice has been given that the Spanish
government is prepared to carry out the conversion of
the Peaeive debt on the terms which were unhesitatingly
refused by the late public meeting, the committee will
feel much obliged by your permitting them to inform the
bondholders through your columns that they have (in sc.
oonlanoe with the resolution then passed) sent in to the
Stook Exchange Committee • formal application, the re-
oept of which has been duly acknowledged, to refuse •
quotation to any new Spanish stock, bonds, or securities,
nut;l • satisfactory arrangement has been come to with
the Passive bondholders.—l am, tic.
H. D. POOL!, Hon. Sec.
2, East India-avenue, Leadenhall-street,
London, August 28.

The following relates to the debt of New Granada :
Masers. Baring and Co. have this day received a remit-
tance on account of New Granada dividends of 3761. 10s.
from the Custom-house at Carthagena, and the agent
there states that the government of Colombia has ex-
preened of to her Majesty's Minister at Bogota its
extreme disapproval of the conduct of President Curses in
misappropriattag the bondholders' money. The total
amount of duties at Santa Martha belonging to the bond-
holders for the month of July was but 5,927 dole. 13c.,
owing to the great falling•off in importations, &natural con-
sequence of the revolution. The sum which the agent
received of that amount he could not remit by
this mail, as there was not a bill of exchange to
be had. A formal protest had been entered against the
withholding of the payment due to the bondholders at
Santa Martha, and the total amount unpaid there is stated
at 34,189 doh. 145Na—blade*, August 27.

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About 22,0001. in gold was sent into the Bank
yesterday, making a total of 52,0001. fur the week.
The Norfolk arrived yesterday from Port Phillip
with 219,0001. in gold.
About 250,0001. in Australian gold is known to
be still on the way to this country. The Reigate
has 07,0001.; the pavans, 86,0001.; the Dumbarton
Castle, 44,0001.; and the Suffolk, 23,0001.
The Admiraty have ordered the undermen-
tioned steamers to be surveyed, preparatory to ac-
cepting them as transports in connexion with the
proposed expedition to Abyssinia, viz. :—the
Hector, Pacific, Carolina, Lybia, Hayti, Golden
Fleece, Mauritius, Queen of the South, Peru-
vian, Kangaroo, Bosphorus, City of Manchester,
City of Dublin, England, France, and Queen.
Further tenders will be received on the 30th inst.
for steam transports of from 700 to 1,000 tons
gross measurement, to be employed in the Medi-
terranean in the conveyance of horses, mules, &c.
The London and North Western Railway traffic
return shows this week an increase of 3,555/. over
last year ; the Midland, an increase of 5,1731. •, the
Great Northern, an increase of 2,645/. ; and tl'e
Great Eastern, an increase of 2,394/.
'

At a special general meeting of the shareholders
of the Indian Branch Railway Company (Limited),
held yesterday, Mr. W. Dent in the chair, a resolu-
tion passed at the last ordinary general meeting of
the company on the 14th instant, to alter the name
of the company to the " Oude and Rohilkund
!Railway Company (Limited)," was confirmed. The
capital of this company, guaranteed at 5 per cent.
interest by the Secretary of State for India, is
4,000,000/.,
iof which the amount at present sub-
scribed for s 1,000,000/., in 100,000 shares of 101.
each, and on which 21. 10a. per share has been paid.
The shareholders, until further notice, have the
privilege of paying up their shares in full and con-
verting them into stock. The company have also
110,0001. called the Nulhatee Railway stock, which
has all been paid up.

At the meeting, yesterday, of the Dagenham
(Thames) Dock Company, the proceedings were
adjourned for three months, with a view to
enable the directors to obtain additional capital to
carry out the undertaking.
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A meeting of the London and Glasgow Engineer-
ing and Iron Shipbuilding Company (Limited) took
place yesterday. The available balance amounts
9,098!., and a dividend was declared at the rate of
41- per cent. per annum, leaving 4,541/. to be
carried forward.

At the meeting yesterday of the Southampton
Dock Company, a dividend of n per cent. for the
half-year was declared, leaving 1,054/. to be carried
forward.
At the annual meeting of the Alhambra Company
(Limited), held yesterday, the net balance was
stated at 6,3021., and a dividend was declared at
the rate of 15 per cent., free of income tax.
An extraordinary general meeting of the East
London Railway Company is convened fur the 11th

September, to authorise the borrowing of money
under the company's act of 1865; and also " for
the purpose of considering a proposal of the dime-
tors to dispose at a discount of such shares in the
company's capital as in consequence of the for-
feiture of scrip remain to be disposed of."
The twelfth ordinary general meeting of the
Crown Preserved Coal Company was held on Tues-
day at Liverpool, when a dividend was declared at
the rate of 5 per cent. per annum.
Mr. Marcus N. Adler, M.A. has been appointed
actuary to the Alliance Life Aesurance Company.
Creditors of the Alliance Contract Company
(Limited) are required to send the particulars of
their claims to Mr. Alexander Samuelson, of Corn-
hill, the voluntary liquidator, by the 24th of Sep-
tember.
Creditors of the Peninsular, West Indian and
Southern Bank (Limited) are required to send the
particulars of their claims to Mr. Henry Chatteris,
the liquidator, by the 30th of September, imme-
dately after which date it is the intention of the
liquidator to declare a dividend.
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A petition for the winding up of the Ton Mawr
Company (Limited) is to be heard before the
Master of the Rolls on the next day of petition..
The preparations yesterday for to-morrow's set-
tlement show that the supply of stock in the railway
market is, with only two or three exceptions, less
scarce than had been anticipated, in consequence
of which further speculative sales were encouraged
yesterday afternoon. The following shows the
terms on which the carrying over has been gene-
rally conducted. The stocks most wanted for the
settlement were Great Northern " A," Brighton,
Midland, and South Eastern. As regards London
and North Western and Lancashire and Yorkshire,
the supply of stock increased during the later hours:

CONTANOOS.
tVenbat.
Great Eastern even to 1-16
Groat Waters even
Great Northern A to ibnek
London and Brighton Ito bank
London and North-Western even
London. Chat.. and Duvet 142 to 3-32
. . .

_
Luicsabire and Yorkshire to "'
Mancli,Shett.,andLinooln even to
Metropolitan

nada&
.. 1-32 to 3-31
..;toi
.. 511 to 1-16W*
.. 3-16 to 6-16
.. 1-32 to 3-1:

&la b 7-1 E
.. eves to
6-i.to 7-113

llliauld oven to i .. 3.16 to 1-10 back
Doyen
Lutexaboure
United States 5.20 Bonds 2to 4p. c. p. sae... 2 to • p. c. p. ace.
Grand Trunk of Canada
Great Western of Canada Oa 4d. to Oa 9t. .. Os. 4d. to Oa 9d.

The subjoined report on the market for Ame-
rica securities is from Mews. Satterthwaite and
Co. :

The same dulness which has characterised business on
the Stock Exchange generally since our hurt has been felt
in the market for American securities; the tendency of
5-20 Bonds (1862) has been rather downwards, while the
bonds of 1865 have been somewhat firmer. At the close
Illinois shares are more offered, at a decline of per
cent. In Atlantic and Great Western Debentures and
Consolidated Mortgage transactions have been light, but
the market for both closes slightly firmer.
The coupons of the Erie Railway Loan of 1865
for 800,0001., due the Ist of September, are adver-
tised for payment by Messrs. J. S. Morgan and Co.
The Admiralty will receive tenders on the Ist of
October for the supply of a quantity of salt pork,
Messrs. Gilka, Wilson and Co., of Bristol, wish
to state that they are in no way connected with the
firm of similar name lately declared insolvent.

WIDIIISDILY EVIICAG.

Consols, which closed yesterday at Al to a for
the 10th of September, opened this morning at the
same quotation, and closed at 943 " sellers." For
money the last price was 94J to 3, and for the
October settlement 943 to 4. The official business
report is as follows :—Three per Cent. Consols,
for money, 94.4, 3, I ; Three per Cents. Re-
duced, 941, a, A ; New Three per Cents., 943, a,
a ; Annuities, 1885, 13 1-16, I ; India Five per
Cent. Stock, 1134, 13 ; ditto Four per Cent. " en-
faced" rupee paper, 874 ; ditto Five per Cent.,
1034, ; ditto Five-and-a-Half per Cent., 1084 ;
ditto Five per Cent. Rupee Debentures, 1877, ;
ditto, 1882, 103 ; ditto Bonds, 70s. prem.
The government broker bought to-day 21,0001.
Reduced Three per Cents, for the Sinking Fund,

at Sq.
Indian government securities were steady. Ex-
chequer Bills were quoted 255. to 30.. prem.
In the foreign stock market the principal feature
was a fresh fall of per cent. in Spanish Passive
Bonds, owing to the conflicting character of the
advice. with regard to the insurrection. Italian
of 1861 and Turkish of 1866 receded I, while
Mexican impro:ed k. The amount of business
generally was very small, and all other stocks were
unchanged.