The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-02 00:00:00

Messrs. J. Henry Schroder and Co. have
announced the dividends due on the Bay of
Havana and Matanzas (Cuba) Railroad Seven per
Cent. Loan of 400,0001. of 1865, due on the 10th
December, and on the loan of 250,000 f. of 1861,
due on the 15th ; also on the Matanzas and Saba-
nilla Railroad Seven per Cent. Loans of 200,000!. of
1853, and 300,0001. of 1863.
We have received, with a request that we will
puV dish t, .me correspondence which has just passed
bet ween Colonel Palmer, a director of the treat
Etstern Railway. and Mr. Thomas Christy. Colonel
Palmer charges Mr. Christy with having said at the
Great Eastern Railway meeting on the 22nd No-
vember, that he (the colonel) is a director of six
other companies, whereas he is a director of none
other than the Australian Mining Company. In
answer to Colonel Palmer's demand that he shall
acknowledge the untruthfulness of this statement,
Mr. Christy simply replies that, though he read
from the Joint Stock Companies Directory the re-
corded names of directorships held by two of the
Great Eastern directors, whose eligibility or other-
wise was the question before the meeting, and
whose plurality of directorships, in his opinion,
made them ineligible, he did not even mention
Colonel Palmer's name at the meeting, or allude
to him in any way. This denial the colonel chal-
lenges outright, declaring that he heard the words
used, and referring for confirmation to a report in
the Essex Standa4.d. Colonel Palmer concludes his
letter in these words :—" If you do not reply to
this communication I shall consider you are
ashamed of having made an unprovoked attack
upon me, or, fr m the state of excitement you
were in, you really did not know what you said."
And so the matter stands. _ _ _

The Admiralty will receive tenders on the oth
Dec. for the supply of 5,000 bushels of split peas,
12,000 lbs. of pepper, 500,000 lbs. of auger, and
laa,ooo lbs. of tobacco ; and on the 11th for the
supply of 50,000 gallons of rum.
The following, in reference to firms in the India
and China trade, is from the Landon aid China
Telegraph :
No dividend has yet been declared on the estate al
Maus. Robert Smith and Co., or Finley, Campbell, an
Co., and the current opinion is that 2a. will be realised
on the former and is. 6d. on the latter. Some opposing
creditors in the latter case have accepted that see comps.
mime. In the anus of Messrs. Lindsay and Co. the final
guaranteed dividend of 2a. 6d., completing 7.. 6d.,
will be paid by the guarantors in February next. There
is no probability of the creditor' getting any far-
ther sum, and we believe the estate will leave a heavy 1w
to the guarantors. In Buchanan, Hamilton, and Co.'!,
Glasgow, and Jarvis, Therbuni, and Co.'s, Shanghai,
estates, the dividend paid has been Sa. 6d., and another
Is. is expected. In lamilton, Gray, and Co., of Sings-
pore. and Buchanan, Hamilton, and Co., the dividend will
be 12s. 81., of which 10s. Bd. is:paid. In Fletcher and
Co.'s estate there are two ohm's of creditors, who will
receive 9s. 61. and Ida. 61. on the old Arm. Creditors on
Duncan Fletcher's estate is. 6cL, and on the new firm fa.
About 25. is now ready to be distributed, pending a refer-
ence to China. In the estate of Dow and Co. 2s. 6d. has
been raid. and on Scott, Bell and Co. to. Claimants
who rank on the two estates will receive about Lie.

SATURDAY 10.
Consols, which dosed yesterday at 93?„ etz
div., for next Thursday's settlement, opened this
morning at 03/ to jl, and closed at 93/, or 933-16
to Zi-16. For money the last price was 94 with
div. The Three per Cents. Reduced and New
Three per Cents. were quoted at 1 o'clock 93 to 1.
The official business report is as follows :—Three
per Cent. Consols, for money, 941, ; ditto, for
account, 931, R, ex div. ; Three per Cents. Bo-
atload, 93, / ; New Three per Ceuta., 93, ; Bank
Stock, 244,1 3 ; India Stock, 225 ; ditto Five per
Vent., 116; ditto Four per Cent., 100*, 1; ditto
B Aids, 55e. prem.
Exchequer Bills remain at 28s. to 31s. prem.
The foreign stock market generally was steady,
and the changes in prices were evenly balanced.
New Grenadian Three per Cents., Argentine, and
Egyptian (500/.) improved 1 per cent. ; Chili= of
; and Portuguese, ; while Peruvian of
1865 declined* ; Italian of 1861, ; and Turkish
of 1865 (Five and Six per Cents.), as well as Spa-
nish Passive, A to 1.
The Honduras Government Railway Loan was
quoted 11 to prem.
More attention was paid to bank shares, and
prices generally showed a favourable tendency.
Oriental Bank were in good demand, and advanced
21. Australasia and London and County rose B.;
and Agra, London Joint Stock, London and West-
minster, and South Australian, 10s.
In the market for financial shares General
Credit rose 2s. 6d. ; but the other companies were
quoted the same as yesterday. Prices closed as fol-
lows :—lnternational Financial, 2 to 2i dis. ;
General Credit, 21 to 2 dia. ; London Financial,
24 to 23 dis. ; and Credit Foncier, 61 to 6/ dis.
A few transactions were recorded in Atlantic
Cable shares at yesterday's prices. Anglo-Ame-
rican were quoted 181 to I, ; Atlantic Telegraph
Eight per Cent. Preference, 4 to 4/ ; and Tele-
graph Construction, 141 to 151.
Hudson's Bay shares were last quoted 15}
to and National Discount 5/ to 6/ prom.
Peninsular and Oriental Steam shares were in
request, at an improvement of 11., upon the result
of the debate in the House of Commons last night
with respect to the new contract. Royal Mail
Steam and British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph
rose 11. ; Fore-street Warehouse and United King-
dom Telegraph Preference, ss. ; and Thames and
Mersey Insurance, 2s. 6d.
Colonial government debentures were quiet, but
Ceylon rose Li per cent., owing to the successful
result of the tenders to-day for the new issue.
United States 5-20 Bonds were unaltered, but
Erie and Illinois Central Railway shares rose 1 per
cent. Prices closed as follows:-0-20 Bonds, 1882,
70/ to 711 ; Erie Railway share', 47* to 48 ;
Illinois Central, 87* to 88; Atlantic and Great
Western Railway Debentures, 20* to 21}; and
Consolidated Mortgage Bonds, 19 to 20.

AtINES-(THM DAY.)

On o'OLooz.

The mining market exhibits no movement of
importance to-day, but shares in the following
mines are inquired for at the prices given, viz :
West Chiverton, 65 to 67 ; West Caradon, 9 to
10; Great Retallack, 3to ; North Crotty, nto
; Great Vor, 171 to 18 ; East Lovell, 81 to k ;
Cam Brea, 20 to 224 ; North Treskerbv, 335. to
; Chiverton Moor, tik to 6 ; and 'Prince of
Wales, 495. to 51s.
Annexed are the quotations for foreign and
colonial mining shares :-Bt. John del Hey, 60
to 62; Don Pedro, 2 to 21 prem., ex div. ;
Anglo-Brazilian, par to prem. ; Pestarena,
dis. to par ; Chontales, 14 to 1 dis. ; Roses
Grande, 7-16 to 9-16 ; Anglo-Italian, oar to k
prem.; United Mexican, lk to 1;1 ; Vrontino
and Bolivia, 4 to 1; Part Phillip, 14 to 11;
Central American, to dia. ; and Auglo-Argen-
tine, kto prem.