The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-29 00:00:00

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MONEY MARBET.-(THIS DAY.)

thus oNhoos.
The stock markets are dull to-day, owing partly
to the adverse movement announced at the end of
lest week in the Eletern exchanges. The intro-
duction of a resolution in the American Senate,

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10 Cape Copper (Limited,
2 Capnballver (Limited.
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40 Cobre Copper
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I Del Ray (Limited;
1 Fortuna (Limited)._
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2 M.Aureoe Bra&G.11.11,
4 Panniclllo Copper (L.
10 Pontebaud Silt erlaad
I Port Phillip
1 Santa Ilarb.Gold 51.(L )
1 theotelebkimiral.(l4m.
10 kit John del Roy (Lim.)
SO United lierican (Lint,
2 iN al antigoria Gold
1 ' VallanzascaG JI.I f,Lim
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Great Weeternoririnal irredeemabl

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cant., 107.
,le, 4 per cent., 81.

"requesting President Johnson to withdraw the
American minister from London, and declare non-
utercourse with England" has excited little
attention, because it had been " tabled "
i.c., withdrawn. Attention is directed to the
fortnightly settlement in shares and foreign
stocks, which Lab just commenced. Consols have
declined per cent., and some of the foreign secu-
rities to I. British railways are rather arm, and
American have ri: eu upon the *dykes from New
York.

There is a fair demand for money to-day, and
the rate for choice bills is firm, at to 71 per
cent.

Con Pols are quoted 861 to for money, and 861
to 87 for the account (February 8).

The foreign stuck market is dull, and the
amount of business limited. Italian Bonds have
declined per cent., and Mexican, Spanish Passive,
and Certificates, The quotations are as follows :
—Greek, 134 to 14 ; Italian, 614 to 62 ; Mexican,
20i to ; Bpanisli Passive, 35i to 4 ; ditto Certifi-
cates, 134 to ; Turkish, 1886, 39 to ; Brazilian
scrip, to prem. ; Egyptian scrip, t toll prem.
United States 5-20 Bonds have improved per

cent., and Erie and Illinois Central Railway shares,
2. The present quotations are as follows :-5-20
Bonds, 662 to 2 ; Erie Railway shares, 552 to 56;
and Illinois Central, 742 to 75.
International Financial shares are now quoted
is to prem. being firmer ; General Credit, ll to
1 prem. ; London Financial, 12 to; prem. ; Imperial
Mercantile, 12 to 2 prem. ; Credit Fonder and Mo-
biller, 3:g to # prem. ; and Overend, Gurney, and
ICompany, 41 to ;.-) prem.
London Steam Towing shares are now quoted 12
to 2 prem.; Charles Laffitte and Co., 24 to f prem.;
and Galatz Candle, to 4 prem.
It appears that, while the allotment to the or-
dinary class of applicants for the scrip of the new
Egyptian Government Railway Loan has been
subjected to a certain reduction, the subscribers for
small amounts, who are unusuaally numerous,
and who doubtless, as a rule, want the stock
for investment, have mostly received in
full. This is iu accordance with the practice
generally adopted amongst French capitalists and
others conversant with the best modes of carrying
out an affair of this nature. The balance of 10 per
cent. due on account of the first instalment, and
making 15 per cent. paid, is to be paid by Thurs-
day next, the Ist February, and as many sub-
scribers will doubtless be induced by the offer of
8 per cent. discount to pay up in full, it is possible
that some temporary effect may be produced upon
the money market.
The half-monthly settlement in shares and foreign
stocks begin to-day (" continuation day"), and end
on Wednesday.
There was an incressed demand on Saturday for
silver for the East, and the price for bars was firm
at ss. 11d. per ounce. In addition to the advance
in the exchange at Bombay, telegrams from Calcutta
quote the rate there at 2s. 2d., or fici. above the
quotation last received. The remittances of silver
to Calcutta will therefore probably increase some-
what, and those to Bombay by the next packets are
expected to be heavy, a large amount having
already been purchased.
The Bank of Bombay, at its last half-yearly
meeting, declared a dividend at the rate of 8 per
cent. per annum, or 40 rupees per share.
It is notified that the transfer books of the Uni-
versal Marine Insurance Company (Limited) will
be closed from the 29th inst. till the 9th Feb.
The receipts of the Grand Trunk Railway of
Canada for the week ending the 6th inst. were
20,5661. sterling, being 1,8611. less than in the cor-
responding week of last year.
Vice-Chancellor Kindersley has just appointed
Mr. W. J. IVhite, public accountant, official liqui-
dator of the Steam Biscuit and Flour Company
(Limited). Messrs. Sole, Turner, and Turner are
the solicitors.
The dividend due the let February on Guate-
mala Consolidated Bonds, is announced for pay-
ment by Messrs. Isaac and Samuel.
Travers' circular gives the following comparison
of the present position of the Bank of England and,
the price of Consols with the same date of last
year :

FOREIGN RAILWAYS:
Great Luxembourg, 15g.
Namur and Liege, gas. 6 per ant. pref., by the Belgian
government, 191.
Ottoman (Smyrna to Aidin), 9.
San Paulo (Lim.). gnu. 7 per met.,
South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetiao. 161.

MISCELLANEOUS SHADS&
Ceylon Company (Limited), 91.
Cay of London Real Property (Limited), 4.
City 093ces (Limited). 6.
Credit nacho. and Mobilier of England (Limited), 81.
Ditto issued at pm., of which 11. is to pay, 51.
Electric Telegraph, 1364.
Forwstreet Warehouse (Limited), 111, 1.
General Credit and Finance of London (Limited), 51.
Hudson's Bay, 14.
Imperial Mercantile Credit Association (Limited), 61, 7.
International Financial Society (Limited), 54,
Joint Stock Diacount (Limited), GA, G, 4, 6.
London Financial Asaociation (Limited), 161.
London and Provincial Marine, 24".
National Discount Compiny(Limited). 15i, 16.
°reread, Gurney, and Co. (Limited), 20a, 19A.
PROVINCIAL MARS NAILSEPIL

LIWORPooI, Jag. 27.-8•1441 kmlay :—Great Eastern. 384 I
—Great Western, 584—London and North Western. 1264'—
Metropolitan, 134 I—Midland, 1224—North Eastern, capital
Mock. lilt—North Eastern, York, 106—South Eastern, 74
Grand
Trunk of Canada, 371—United States Five Twenty Bonds,
064—Great Lusemboing shares. 15 13-10 - Mercantile and Ex-
change Bank (limited). d.—North Western Bank (L)mite.ll,
31 p.—BriUsh and Foreign Marine (Limited , 2 646 re
Marine (Limited', 1 d.—Queen Insurance, 1 p —Thames and
Mersey Marine Limited ,04 p.—Union Marius, ,Limited,, 1 7-16
p.—National Steam (Limited), 2d.
mAxcßierag. Jag. 27.—The market was quiet, and prices
lower. Consolidated Bank (Limited), 414 1.10 4 p.—Great Eastern,
38 B—Grand Trunk of Canada, 371 Ore d Western of tSsnada,
161 Great Western, 5,4 - 70—Manchester and County
Bank (Limited), 41 p —Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire,
62—District Bank, 19 p.
Biamtmdflam, JAM. 27. —Birmingham Joint Stock Bank were
sold to-day at 40 ; Lloyd's Bank at, 104 prem. ; larniinghain
Wagon at 11 ; and Steam Cooperage and Cask at 1 die. Mid-
land Railway quoted 123 to 1231 ; Birmingham klnancial, 11 to
2 prem. ; Imperial Continental Gas, OR, buyers British and
Foreign Railway Plant, I to 44 dia., and iduntes Metal, 11 to
1 db.

Diththlt. JAS. 27.—Tbree per Cent. Consols, Sel 87—New Three
per Cent. Stock, 85; 80 —lndia Five per Cent , 102f—NatIonal
of Liverpool (Limited , (101. paid), 17—Provincial Bank, new
1101. paid). SS—Royal Bank (101 paid), V I—Dublin and lielfAst
Junction (1001. 74—' Itto. for account, 741—Great Southern
and Western (1001.pahl , 94—Irish North Western 1301. paid , for
account, 3—Great Southern and Western 4 per cent perpetual
(1001.

jai. 901.

A pastoral from Dr. Cullen repudiates the sug-
gested endowment of the Roman catholic church, and cau-
tions his flock against all kinds of secret societies.
A DREADFUL CALCULATION. —ln the course of a
speech delivered at the Burns Club annual dinner at Edin-
burgh, on Thursday evening, I rofessor Masson, who pro-
posed the toast "The Poets of Scotland," said he had
made a calculation that probably in the British Islands
at the present moment there are 200,000 people writing
verses 'I stick to 200,000 exactly. I cannot give
you the dots on which I make my calculations,
but they satisfied myself at the moment when I made it.
And they are not only making verses, but I assure you
making verses which would have attained a reputation hissl
they been written in the last century. The quantity of
verses which is being produced in Engtiela and Irish
vicarages, in Scotch manses, and in all sorts of places, is
utterly enormous. I do not think it is any objection to
literature that it is becoming voluminous, and that its
practitioners are becoming numerous. Perhaps in some
future time the distinction of a man will be, and he will
be reimted out on the streets as a distinguished man, that
he has not written a book."
MR. GLADSTONE ON THE NEW REFORM BILL—
The Chancellor of the Exchequer has aekowledget the
receipt of the memorial transmceeil to him from the
working men's meeting on parliamentary reform, recently
held at Bradford. and "begs to assure the memorialists
that her Majesty's g wernment are examining the pies-
Men with a full sense of its importance, and they will
consider themselves bound to support with determination
any proposals which it may be their duty to snake in a
matter of such vital importance to the community at
EARLY AND GAY VIRITORIL—For the peat fort-
nightonr gar.lens have been gity w,th the blaze of that charm-
ing harbinger of spring. the amen.. Thousands of them
bedeck the front garden of a cottage in Betts's-road
Avenue. The sunny weather of Wednesday brought them
fully into bloom, most of them are of the kind known as
" cloth of gold." The bulbs were allowed to remain in the
ground all the year. We are inf 'rased by Mr. It. H.
Perkins that two butterflies; were seen at Hatable en
Wednesday last. A single epeeimen was on the same slay
taken at Highfield. Outdoor hysciothe are showing for a
remarkably early display ; a very few sunny days would
bring them into bloom. Tulip,. ton, have a premature
growth in the open parterres.—Rants Advertiser.
UNFORTUNATE ACCIDENT TO Two LITTLE GIRLS.
—Two fine little girls, children of parents residing in Do kin-
field, near Ashton-under-Lyne, diceppeared from their
I home about half-pet 2 o'clock nu Friday afternoon last,
and were not found until half pelt 10 o'clock -----
onshut yesterday (Sunday) morning, having all the tiros nr.
up RE CASUAL " LODGING-NOUSE" IN LAIILSTIL
On Wednesday idea last the special commissioner of •
or drink. The to an empty house without food A
two girls, neither of whom is three
of age, are named Lucy Carter, daughter of Herbert contemporary (the Da il /Nnas), Yr. J. C. Parkicama,
Carter, a strikeout hand, of King-street. Dokinficld, and the kideint-boons whtch—the abed abandoned—the. ler'
Sarah Stafford, daughter of Henry Stafford, at pre plumps of the Lambeth casuals is now relegated, and there,
investigating the details, witnessed horrors
sent in America, and are nursed whilst their reepective I there'nflhlY
mothers are working at the mill, by Alice Stafford of Leech- • which cussed in
~inLotensitysaything described by the
Leech-
stmt, Dukinfield, aunt to the child Stafford. About hart- " rtatenr °mud' Long known as aw mralet thi•hor
past two o'clock on. Friday last the children left Mrs. I and °Swung writer on philsothropis subjects. Kr. pm.
IStafford's house bard in band, Sarah saying, as lase= has for the Let two Moo devoted himself to
I they left the door, " Com., Lucy, let us co and play :Abet.. the taffy of see Pe°, law, sad to testing by
ous sod cocsaiosally hazardous ransom. al havestiratioos bow
(baby)l
house ;" and from the% time nothing wan heard of
far its piciviekne are (Tenet, out ad inw hat direction
them until yesterday morning. The parrots of the poor visit on edestesity has
children suffered the greatest anxiety, and not lees were the I they appear n.lwiecinn e• .1°
sufferings of the nurse. The bellman was pent round and the • had as immediate and gratifying result, as the Poor-
river. law Betted have withd•aws their oertifisate err to the
of the arrangements made at the lambed'
and the canal were dragged, whilst the mysterous
disappearaece of the children was the general theme of • clficleoo:f
, Workhouse for the accommodetios of the casual
petit-ices, beyond the number that will fill the cannel ward in
conversation. In Dukinfield, near Mre. Stafford's house.
there are several cottage houses which have been unin-the oeitificate is withheld the
habited shoo the "cotton famine," and about half-past the house itself. While
10 o'clock yesterday morning a lad, named William Priestly, ^ Lambeth guardians osenot draw from the general faud the
lon peering ooe of these houses, had his attention attracted expenses they are put to, and the whole expellee will fall
by hearing a slight kopek at one of the froth win. on the ratepayers.—Star.
dows. Os listening, he heard children crying. He gave A Nish CLUB,—A club is being started to be
an alarm immediately, whew the afflicted suns quickly celled " The Young &shod Club," whisk will be eon-
entered the house, sal on going into the front room • ducted on a system of reenageweeet se liberal that it is
upstairs she found the little things 13-ieg on the sever to be alma at all. The peewees% of the club ori-
oold, hard, dirty boards ; but though in a very ex- ginally brocaded to designate it "The Dos o'Closk Alb,"
boasted state they were able feebly to utter the is °lndiums, to the wishes of isegtmmeber of gestiorsen
worth, " let me drink." As soon as possible who complete of the " irksoismoess of the law whir* era-
they were attended to by Mr. Schofield, surgeon, and joins the closing of all taverns and refrain's's,* elebee
en
with judichus cars and proper remedies they hour after midnight. The meowed inteetioa is tea
were rumbled to shad and talk in a few hours. The girl members at all hours of the day eight. with wlestestr
Stafford, in her artless way, thus fully described bow she they may desire, of ths best quality, at proms within the
sad her goropuotoo became shut up in the room—" We herb of twos of moderate hoarse. combhad with all the
shut the door aid we could not OM, it, but Lucy luxuries sad semforts of tho ant elates, sad with increseeg
broke a window." This, however, had attracted (within for the introduction et draggers. Arrangements
atthe lad Priestlybabesbed
mart have in the saigirbsurliood of Pall-mail , sod the terms here been
I pscbbsg. wbss rescued they wore is • most filthy state, fixed at sushi a rate that the great dillieelty et paying the
severed with dM and seek and it is believed that they large matrons to. which is demossisd at esteblislied eishe
had eves licked the Dose in ore/RA° allay the cravings of will be ellerfaied i Seer ene i
eol ellthoththote together with •
hanger. The nurse had searched the hoses in which they Vie admiesion charge, beim'. e the pre met iodates', less
I wore found, but sot thoroughly. as, es seeing the room than the subscription itself at many of the existieg ladle
abut, she conoluded that they had act got into it, tattoos.—Post.

At primmest. game time laat year.
Batik coin and button . a:13.070,78, .. Lit:iron
Bank merve of notes 5,9303S .. 8,073,300
Rate of discount
Price of Cuciaole BOl

SATURDAY EVADING.

Consols, which closed yesterday at 87 to 6 for
the Bth February, opened and closed to-day at
the same quotation. Fur money the last price war
13611 to 87. The official business report is as fol-
lows:—Three per Cent. Consols, for money, PAL
7, 61; ; ditto, for account, 8711/ ; New Three per
Cents., 864, 7, ci• India Stock, 208, 10i ; ditto
Five per Cent. "enlaced" rupee paper, 100}.
Indian Government securities were very quiet.
Exchequer Bills remain at 6s. to 2s. die.
Foreign stocks were quiet, with little business.
The variations comprised a rise of per cent. in
Russian of 1862, and i in Spanish Certificates;
and a decline of I to} iu Turkish of 1862 and 1865,
and Brazilian scrip.