The Express.
London, England, 1866-04-10 00:00:00

I MO.Y.6Y MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

ONZ O'CLOCK.

The stock markets opened with a dull appearance
this morning, but the general tendency of prices is
now firmer, owing to some considerable repurchases
by speculators for the fall. Consols are in good
demand, and have recovered yesterday's fall of
I per cent. British railway-a, foreign stocks, aid
financial and discount shares have also improvedin
several instances, as well as United States 543
bonds.
The supply of money in the discount market
to-day is very large, owing to the payment of the
dividends, but the charge for choice bills is still
5 7-8 to 6 per cent. The rate in the Stook Ex-
change for short loans on English Oovernmeht
securities is 44 to 5 per cent.
Consols are now quoted 863 to a for money,
and 86i to 7-8 for the account (May 9).
Foreign stocks are firmer, and a rally,
ranging from I to 3-8 per cent., has occurred
in Spanish Passive, the Committee's Certificates,
, Italian of 1861, and Mexican. The Pacha
of
Egypt's Loan is steady at to It prehi.
The prices are as follows :—Greek, 131 to ;
Mexican, 20 to I ; Spanish Passive, 2i; 5-8 to
7-8 ; ditto Certificates, 151 to 16 ; Turkish, 18d2,
66 to 67 ; ditto, 1865, 35 3-8 to 5-8 ; Brazilian
scrip, 3 to 23 die., ex div. ; and Italian, 1861, 56.1
to 4. _ . '

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United States 5-20 Bonds have improved Oer
cent., viz., to 721 to Erie Railway shares etre
steady, at i 3 to 55, and Illinois Central at 8114
to 81.
International Financial shares are now quoted

3-8 to dis. ; General Credit, Ito 3-8 prern: ;
sa London Financial, 3 7-8 to 3i dis. ; Imperial 3lercsn-
tile, 2A to 2 dis. ; Credit Foncier and 3lobilier,
2} to 3-8 prem. ; Overend, Gurney, and Company,
to 3-8 prem. ; and National Discount, 8 to
Prem.

HALF-PAST TM= o'CLocK.
Consols are fractionally lower, at 86 3-8 to for
money, and 86 5-8 to for the account.
No bullion operations have occurred at the Batik.
At Paris this morning the Three per Cent.
Rentes opened at 69.50, showing a decline of 2
per cent.
The half-monthly settlement in shares awl
foreign stocks will begin to-morrow ("continuation
day ' ) and end on Friday.
The advices from Melbourne mention that the
shipments of gold to England during a period of
one month, had reached 280,0001., while those to
India had amounted to 304,0001.
Bar silver continues in demand for transmission
to Calcutta and Bombay, chiefly the former, and
the quotation has risen to ss. 1 3-Bd. to ssld.
per ounce, being id. higher than on Saturday.
There is also a strong inquiry for sfr. i.e.ces, for
the same quarter. Mexican dollars are wanted for
China, but at the moment the market here is bare
of them.
A meeting of the creditors of Mr. James Freeling
Wilkinson, the late managing director of the Joint-
Stock Diae.ount Company, was held this afternoon,
at the London Tavern, but reporters for the press
were refused admission.
Messrs. Pinto, Perez, Ashley, and Co., Spanish
merchants, whose failure was announced ou Satur-
day, have placed their books in the hands of
Messrs. Harding, Pullen', and Co., requesting
them to call a meeting of their creditors on the
earliest possible day.
The railway traffic returns published this week
will show a large comparative increase, as they
include the receipts of Easter week, which last year
fell a fortnight later. The South Eastern return
shows an increase of 2,8331. over last year, and the
London, Brighton, and South Coast an increase of
8,3251., owing to the Brighton Review.
The Alliance Bank (Limiteil)are inviting tenders,
receivable until 1 o'clock on the 20th inst., for
63,9001. of 6 per cent. debentures of the Melbourne
and Hobson's Bay United Railway Company. In-
cluding this sum, the total amount borrowed on
debenture bonds will be 385,0001., and the com-
pany have power to issue a further sum of 80,3001.
The paid up shame capital of the united vonisinies
is 534,7001., on which a dividend at the rate of 10
per cent. per sunwu has been declared as tile result
of the first half-year's operations since the amal-
gamation. Thu bonds ate repayable on the Gth
July, 1880.
A general meeting of the Lisbon Oil Mills Com-
pany (Limited) is called for the 2:lrd instant, and
will be made special, to consider the propriety of a
voluntary winding-up.
A general meeting of the Cape of Good Hope
Telegraph Company (Limited) is convened for the
25th instant.

MONDAY EVENTNO.
Consols, which closed on Saturday at 86/ to 7-8
for the 9th of May, opened this morning at 86„ to
f, and closed at 86i to ~!. For money the last
price was 801 to 3-8. The official business report
ill
is as follows :—Three per Cent. Consols for
money, 844, 1, 3-8 ; ditto, for account, 86/, 1,
4 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 84 3-8, 1 ; ew
Three per Cents., 844, /, 3-8 • ditto Two-an -a-
Half per Cents., 68 ; hank Stoci, 245 ; India Five
per Cent. Stock, 102,?, /, / ditto Four per Cent.
Bonds, 205., 14e. prem.
Indian overment securities were quiet. The
March Exchequer Bills remain quoted Va. to 41.
die., and the June, si. to Is. du.
oreign stocks continue to fall. Turkish were
particularly heavy, and experienced a seduction
ranging from 4 to 1/ per cent., the chief change
being in the Bonds of 1865. Brazilian Scrip also fell 1
per cent., Spanish Passive /, and the Committee's
Certificates, Creek, Brazilian of 1865, and Mexican,
Italian Bonds of 1861 were comparatively
steady, the closing price being about the same as
on Saturday. Thu Viceroy of Egypt's loan left oil
at / to 1} prem.

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL COTTON dz CORN MARKETS.

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(THIS DAY.)
(DY ILWISIC AND INTERNATIONAL TELZORAPH.)
OWN R OWN CORRDiriNDENT.)
Corros.—The market very dull, and dat. Sales about
3,000 or 4.000 bales.
CORN.—The market well attended. Wheat in rather
bettor demand, at last Friday's rates. Flour the turn in
favour of sellers. Indian oorn in good demand, at former
prises. Beans steady. Oats and oatmeal a shade firmer.

31T,./CING-LANE.—(THIS DAY.)
SMAIL —The market continues dull, with but little dis-
sition to purchase at last week's currency.
The
sprfvate
les include 1,300 bag' of Mauritius grainy at Ms. Ga. to
35a. Refined is quiet. prices unaltered.
Coertr..—Rusinete is doing at steady rates.
Coo Lt.--300 bags of Guayaquil sold at 735. for or-
dinary.
TEA. —No sales reported.
Run.--30 puncheons of Jamaica sold at the full previous
value.
SALITETits.—At a further slight decline there is more
business doing at Vs. 3d., for refraction 25 for each,
refraction 5 abort prompt, and refraction 3 full prompt,
and at 245. for arrival, venal conditions.
Rte,—Themarket continues inactive.
Canon continues dull, and prices show a further decline.

TALLOW MARICET.—(THIS DAY.)
Th• Marketissteady at the following prices. Town tallow,
465. net cash • Petersburg Y.C. on the spot, 48s. ; April to
June, 475. 9d. to 48s. ; October to December, 495. 3&

SMITHFIELD RAY MARICET.—erHis DAY.)
Mr. Charles James Easton reports trade at last elay's
Prime meadow hay, from 100 a. to 110 a.: infenor
Vro, SOL to 965. ; rowan, 60a. to 90e. ; clover, old. 120 s.
1355. ; second est, 9N. to 12a. ; straw, to 445.

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The Belgian papers announce that M. Übagha,
pregame of philosophy in the Catholic University of
Louvain, end who for twenty years has been engaged with
the Jesuits in s controversy on the subject of tradition,
has been dismissed. The Preeereeur adds that all the
works of If. Minh' have been placed in the " Index."

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