The Express.
London, England, 1858-11-24 00:00:00

Waterworks Stooks :—Chelsea, 11 ditto ltsw Guano-
lemtleerd bed* BM on 4 per Cent. Pnlbreess, 27 ; dab 6
l 28 ; Grand Inneefon, 70' ditto Now,
Sou= Vauxhall 10; West Middlesex, 1011.
anal Shares :—ltirmingltam, 943}
1; Coventry. 170 ; Grand
Junction, 63 Henna and Avon, 61, 6 ; Rochdale, 84;
Warwick and Nepton, 9; Woroester and Birmingham, 17.
Bridges :—Waterloo, Old dualities of 81., 80; ditto New
of 7L, 261.
Docks :—Bast and West India, 127 ; London, 107, 106 t ;
St. Xatbartne, 93; Victoria, 181. paid, 18j.
The half-yearly guaranteed interest upon the
shares of the Victor Emmanuel Railway Company
is advertised for payment.
By the arriial of the Calcutta and China mail at
Suez, intelligence has been received of the loss of a
large number of British ships at Swatow, owing to
a hurricane. It will be seen by the subjoined list,
which was posted at Lloyd's yesterday, that, of the
vessels lost or on shore, no lass than sixteen sailed
under the British flag, viz. :—Lost at Swatow :
British brig Anonyms ; Danish brig Aganita
Adrian; British ship Glendower; British schooner
Gaulle; British barque Hong Kong; British ship
Shapsoott (P He ; British ship Kinaldie ,
British barque Louisa Da his ; Oldenburg brig
Lena ; British barque Louisa ; British barque
Moultan ; British brig Pantaloon; Danish barque
Thusoelds. Lost on Prate Shoal: British ship
North Star, Attridge. On shore at Swatow:
British ship Alfred the Great; British barque
Beverley; British ship Dennis Hill; Sardinian brig
Giovanni; British barque Harvest Home; Bremen
barque Ohio; British barque William Frederick.
Belgian ship Constant, lost in the Pacific.
Annexed are the quotations now current in the
bullion market :—Mexican dollars, to. Did. per oz.;
Spanish Carolus dollars and Ferdinand dollars,
6s. 2id. per oz. ; bar silver, 6s. lid. per oz. stan-
dard; ditto, holding 6 grains of gold and above per
lb., Ifs. lid. per oz. standard; fine cake silver,
ss. 61d. to 6s. 6id. per oz.; bar gold, 775. 9d. per
oz. standard; ditto, holding 20 dodo. of silver and
above per lb., 784. per oz. standard; Spanish
doubloons, 765. ed. per os.; South American
doubloons, 745. per oz.; Chili= dollars, 4s. Hid.
per oz.

To&DLT ZTENINO.

The funds to-day were inanimate, but firm. At
the close of business Consols were quoted about 1.16
per cent, better than yesterday afternoon. In some
of the other departments of the Stock Exchange,
owing to the extraordinary stagnation of business, a
slight degree of flatness wu observable.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 981 tot for the
7th Dec., opened this morning at same quotation,
and experienced scarcely the slightest change
throughout the day. The prices at 4 o'clock were
981, "buyers," for money (being rather better than
yesterday), and 981, " sellers," for the account.
The official business report is as follows :—Three
per Cent. Consols, for money, 981, /, 1 ; ditto, for
account (7th December), 981,1 ; Thru per Cents.
Reduced, 961, 96i, 97 ; New Three per Cent', 861,
97,981, ; Thirty Years Annuities (expiring in April,
1886), 181, 181; India Stook, 2281, 2261, 2271;
Indian Four per Cent. Debentures, of the first issue,
991; ditto, of the second issue, 991, 991.
The debentures of the first Indian Loan wore
quoted this afternoon 991 to f, and those of the
second issue 991 to j.
Exchequer Bills were in demand to-day, and have
risen 25., the March Bills closing at 355. to 38s.
prem., and the Jane at 81s. to 345. prem.
The foreign stock market was rather quiet. The
new Turkish Loan remains steady, the scrip of the
first series closing at dis. to per, and that of the
mond series at /to 1 prem. The Six per Cents. of
1864 were rather dull, leaving off at 921 to 1..
Russian Bonds (*name in demand for investment.
Bquador New Consolidated Bonds have advanced,
being in study request. Anglo-Peruvian Three per
Cents, were likewise inquired for.

MINES.-THIS DAY.

Two o'Ctoct.
In the mining market to-day the transactions
have not been extensive, but shares in But Bas-
set, Wheal Basset, North Basset, North Frances,
Par Console, and Lady Bertha mines have been
dealt in. The bargains officially reported in the
Stock Exchange are as follows, viz.:—Par Consols.
at 116 f ex div.; Lady Berths, at and
Wheal Basset at 215. Cobre Copper Mining
shares continue to meet with inquiry, owing to the
improvement in the market for copper, and have
been dealt in at 88; to t. Other foreign descrip-
tions remain quiet.
A general meeting of the Nouveau Monds Mining Com-
pany is called for the 20th December, at Paris, " for the
purpose of taking into consideration the plummet position of
the company, and deciding on the best course to be
slepted fur future proceedingm"
The director, of the Anglo-Mexican Mint Company 'dear-
th* a dividend as payable on the 2nd December.
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