The Express.
London, England, 1856-05-17 00:00:00

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4334 11.35
5.791 /I

A MIMITICIINT DONATION.—The London Anne
ranee Gnomonic& have liberally given a seeoad dosed= cf
100 soma, to the Royal Neil's.) Life Boat Institution,
The *misty has aim Nesived from the Ooldeasit.w* Com-
pany an additiosel dandies of 601 ; from the Royal Mail
Steam Packet Company, is addition to several headsome
previous contribution., an annual subearlettou of 101.; from
tN Royal Yoettt Squadros 61 anandly ,• sad from the
Shlpwrockild Fislermea mid Mariners' Society, a third
damn's of 100 k. Keay prints individuals hews also re-1
mently subscribed liberally Is mid of the funds of this noble
iastitatim. The mese of pidpwrookod pumas from
drowsimg is a work of mercy and kumenty, sad manifestly
claim. the sympathy of all classes of per ens in this man-
tis. and commercial country, on the shores of whisk about
700 persons perish annaslly from shipwreck.. The society
Is now inakieg great exertions to inns.. this numbs mad
saint" of It. life bo.t establishments on the coast, to
lemma this frightful Ina, of life It has already augmented
four-fold its life beats diaries the last four pan, bat its
liabilities for life boats sad their appurtenant...are sowings
of 2,0001.

NTANP DUTY ON FIRS INSURANCL—YINtarday a
return wu Weed, oa the sonlos of Colasol Pena, of all
maw pad tab the Stamp• caws of Seglead, Soothed, Gad
Ircleam rempratirelp, for duty of Maumee' frog Sr., sad of
the amount cf ethwalee made to each office for 001100
the lama for the year 1856, distiegoistrieg the riosrgre ca
leg severally lick Meng, 26th Jane, Ma September, marl
26th of Deawshom The gum limeades is seerget M the
ram Were/ toy oak Ile ogles to Ilamlsmd tad Isolead oa
APadaN week exempt toem duty, ad of tba grass saint
ten lararaaoo for the pegs 1850 N. The groom
teeeirs ht 1136 were 1,341,2420 120. 9d., sad the lamorosose
se fend., smock exempt from duty moulted. la laglaad,
to 4286,9761.

MONEY JUREBT,-THIS DAY.

Two o'CLooz.

The funds have receded per cent., the features
presented in the Bank return not being considered
altogether satisfactory, but the market still exhibit'
considerable stesdineas. Consols are quoted 931 to I
for money, and 931 to 94 for the 4th of June. with •
very limited business. The Three per Cents. Re-
duced have been dealt in at 92: tot ; the New Three
per Cents. at 92j to 93 ; Exchequer Bills, March, at
8.. to 2s. die.; ditto, June, at 10e. to 4s. dia.; and
Exchequer Bonds, 1859, at 981.

Foreign stooks are generally quiet, bat steady.
Turkish Six per Cents. have advanced, being marked
981 to 99 for the 30th inst. The absorbing feature in
this market, however, is an extraordinary rise in
Buenos Ayrean Bonds, which were yesterday dealt
in at 61 and 62, and are to-day marked 76, 78, and
73, owing to the receipt of favourable adviose per
the packet which has just arrived. The other sales
include Mexican Bonds at 231 to for the 30th inst.;
Portuguese Four per Cents., 60k ; Russian Four and-
a-Half per Cents., 951 ; Sardinian, 931; Spanish Old
Three per Cents., 451, 45 ; ditto, Deferred, for 30th
inst., 26; Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 96
(exch. 2111 r.) ; and Dutch Four per Cant. Certificates,
941.

It is an important tact that the whole of the
337,0001. in gold ex the Ocean Chief, Statesman and
hu been
.purchased by the Bank.:
The Aden hu arrived in the Downs from Mel-
bourne, but is not known to have any gold on
freight.
Specie continual to flow freely from the United
States to Europe. The amount brought by the
Arago is u much as 160,000 L, of which 40,0001.
is stated to be on English, and the remainder on
Continental account.

The corn market yesterday was fiat. Had Wee been
I pressed. lower prices would have been established. In
Bootleg cargoes very little business has been done,
but the position of holders is strengthened by the ad-
vices brim French markets.
The directors of the Royal Swedish Railway Com-
pany have just transmitted to Sweden the funds
necessary to meet the pressing liabilities of the com-
pany and to keep the works in fall activity, the ob-,
legit being to oomplete the 46 miles of railway to
Orebro as soon as possible.
The oertillostes of the new issue of shares in the
Great Western Railway of Canada are now ready for
delivery in exchange for the banker's receipt.
With reference to the sale, fixed to take place at
Madrid on the Slit inst., of about 2,000,0001. stee-
ling of New Three per Cent. Consolidated Bonds,
with a view to the redemption of a corresponding
amount of the floating debt, the Spanish financial
agent in London announoes that he is authorised to
receive tenders until the 25th inst. Of course the
new bonds about to be issued will be those of the
internal or domestic debt.

The Emigration Commimionere will receive tenders
on the 22nd inst. for the hire of a ship to convey
emigrants to Sydney.
The return of the Bank of England for the week
waft Ilatamby, May 10, when compared with the
maim !stars, shows the following reunite :

akerkisa Dose
Obeeillles waive 19,942,830 Deergese 282,736
POW depeetts 3,033,688 Degrease 838,211
011ise agatim 10,613,914 DOMINI 192,178
IllreisAmiße securities is

ban - t 12,662,652 Doman 1,092,431
ia kb4
aparinnat
Ode it bullion is both

_ _
depertmento _
9,77M82 Decrease 26,298
@even day sad ether bills 836.812 lemon 17,707
Tb Rut
News in reserve

The subjoined exhibits the extent of the week's
variations at one view :

Public depadts decrease E 838,211
Other deposits decrees, 192,176
Notes sad bills ht eireuletke :
decrease.. 265,028
Beet
On the ether aide of the account:
Gowan:eat seetuitiee decrosse..l,o92 431
Other securities
Casa sad bullka deoreese• • 28,298

Total

The item of coin and bullion shows a further small
decrease, owing to the shipmate of gold to Turkey.
The variation, however, la unimportant, and the
recent large imports of gold and extensive patchouli
made by the Bank warrant a belief that the turning
point has at length been reached. At last, also, we
witness the satisfactory feature of an ineresee,
amounting to upwards of a quarter of a million, in',
the reserve of unemployed notes. The holey
diminution in the Treasury balances seems at
first sight miatisfactory, bat a glance at
the still MOM considerable decline in the stock
of government securities held by the Bank in-
dicates that the Chancellor of the Exchequer has been
repaying to the institution the large advances made
by it a few weeks ego. The Bank's means available
for employment in commercial channels are thus,
enlarged. From the further decrease in the " other",
securities it is apparent that the mercantile demand
for money during the week was not very brisk, and
was accommodated chiefly in Lombard-street, or else-
where. Owing to the pressure which has been ex-
perienced during the week now closing, however, in
connexion with the new loan, the next balance-sheet
may
be expected to exhibit a large increase under
th.

FAIDLY iinirnto.

The funds to-day showed continued buoyancy, and
closed at a further advance of 1 per cent. This rise
was in face of a general demand for money to meet
the 10 per oent. deposit on the applications for the,
new loan, Mean,. Rothschild's list being closed to-day
at 2 o'clock. In the Stock Exchange the rate for
short loans on government securities averaged 6 to 7
per cent. In Lombard-street and elsewhere the
pressure was considerable, and this afternoon the
supply of mope; was unusually small. This,
circumstance is not sarprisiog, considering the
magnitude of the subscriptions, which are,
known to amount to many times the sum
required by government. In fact, the prospect
of a heavy subscription seems to have induced
each applicant to write for as large an amount as
possible. Thus, for instance, parties desirous of ob-
taining 10,0004 stock in the new loan apply for
60,0001. or 80,0004 or even more. All parties con-
cenied in monetary affairs will now look with impa-
tience for the release of the surplus deposits, which
will doubtless be effected as speedily as possible alter
the adjudication of the loan on Monday morning.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 931 to i for the
4th Jane, opened this morning at 93/, and were last
quoted 94 to k. For money the final price was
931 to 1. The official business report is es follows:
—Three per Cent. Camels, for money, 931, 1,1, 1, i;
ditto, for acootint, 4th June, 931, 93/, 94. Three
per Cent. Reduced, 921, 92. New Three per Cents.,
921, /, 1, I, I. Thirty Years Annuities, expiring in
April, 1885 (loan of 18,000,0001.), 17 1-18. Bank
Stook, 212, 213. Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Ex-
chequer Bonds, falling payable in 1839, 981, 1.
Exchequer Bills remain depressed. The March
issue was quoted 4s. to Is. die.; and the Jene,,Bs. to
4s. die. Exchequer Bonds continue steady, at 981
to 1.
Foreign stocks were steady, with a good amount
of business. Turkish securities were rather weaker
at one period of the day, but closed the same as
yesterday,—the Six per Cents at 981 to 1,, and
the Guaranteed Four per Cents. at 1021 to /
Amongst the stocks which met with some bus:-
nese are Mexican, Baena Ayreau and Grenadian.
In the foreign exchanges this afternoon the only
feature was a alight improvement in the rate on
Paris. In other oases steadiness prevailed. The
current quotations are subjoined :
Anuterden, 3 meethe,l2.l to ditto, than, 11.13 to
19 ; Rotterdam, 3 soatbk ; 12.11 to ; Antwerp and Bni••
soli, 3 maths, 26.621 to 671 Eisenberg, 38 mouths, 13.11
to 1; Paris, 3 swaths, 93.41 to 771; dote, shed, 26.40

to 46; Manellles, 3 months, 26.724_ t* 274 Friskr44l-
ou.the-hleine, 3 months, 121 to ; Petersburg, 8 mos
384 to ; 'Please, 3 "maths, 10.20 to 24 ; Trieste:l
'soothe, 10.22 to 25; Naples, S m0uth5,4341.4 ; Gewes.
mouths, 25 85 to 90 ; Leghorn, 3 months, 30 06 to 104
Palermo, 3 mouths, 1301 to ; Messina. 3 months, 1304 to
50Madrid, 3 months, 494 w ; Calais, 3 Ewell., 491 to
; Oporto, 3 =oaths, 634 to ; Lisboa, 3 month., 63 to e.
Lombardo-Venetian Railway shares were quoted
this afternoon 6} to 64 prem. Large transactions
took place to-day in the bonds ef this oompaoy at
par. Riga and Danaher' Railway shares closed at
to 14 prem. Chartered Colonial Fibre at to 1
peens. Cerulean: Coal Mines and Railway at Ito
prem. ; and General Bank of Switzerland at a to
14 prem. The allotment of the shares in this lad
named undertaking is to take plaoe on Satarday
evening.
The shares of the Bank of Egypt sustained a fresh
decline to-day, and cloud at dig. to par. The heavy
call of 71. 103. per share recently announced natur-
ally occasions some premiere upon the shareholders at
a period when the general demand for money is
so active. To-morrow is the lest day on which
transfers will be recognised until the call shall hays
been paid. Ottoman Bank shares left off at Ito I
prem., and those of the National Discount Company
at #to 4 dia. Bank of Australasia stork rose 1.
Land shares were quiet. Southampton Dock shares
were dealt in at 41 ; East and West India Dock at
123; and Victoria Dock, old shares, at dig.
- -

Annexed are tho latest reports from the foreign
markets, u received by the Continental Telegraph:
Pula Friday (Closing prints) •. Three per Coat. lentos. BB
stoney, 75.25 ; ditto, for account, 175.20; ditto, Poar.and.e.Halt pit
Cane., toe money, 91.25; Beak Sharee, 4,000. The French Buds
have rides to 4 per cent.
Vienna —Thursday (Closing vetoes) : Austrian Me pie COOL
lietaliket NL ; ditto Pone.ead.nasn per COMM. 79. lashing*
on London. 10.03.
Amsterdam— Tbureday (Csoelos prier): Datil' Two.sada.l2alt
per Cent., 634 ; ditto Pour per Cents., 93 13.10 ; agenieb lee. De.
Weed Three per Own. 21 111.111 ; the Osepone, 34 ; the Old Three
per Cent. Uterine, Itezicsa, 22; dneuttes Vivo pee Gent.
Iletalitcs, 79 1.11, Porturreese, 43; Greek slue), 4 bad; Gesitada
De'erred, 7 1.14; Huainan Poor.and.a.Hall pee Cents, fie; emus
Pauly. Bonds, 74.
Berlin—Thunder: Russian Pint per Cents.. 1004; mums sa
London, 11 month% 6.22).
Preakket—Thareday Spanish Deferred, 14 15.113; ditto Old Three
pre C 0.., 40.

Hamburg Thursday : Russian Viva pm Cents.. 100 i; &MS
Your-aad-a Hal, par Ceuta, 904: lbsaidsh Throe pas Orate, Da.
tarred, 331 ; ditto, Old Mrs; per Data., 394; Wabash 134. Malan
has Mass acmadarably.

MINES.-THIS DAY.

Two O'CLOCK.
BOOIOOKI in mining stooks today is generally very
quiet. National Brazilian (Cocaem) shares have been
&tit in at 21.
In the gold mining shame, the only feature is an
inquiry for those of the New Granada Company,
which are marked Ts. 6d. to 10s.
Annexed is a list of yesterday's transactions in the
Mining Exchange and Stock Exchange :
Mining Exchsop official list :
Alfred Consols, 12, j ; Dinkel Coarols, 10e. 6r1., W.;
Ding Deng, 42, 431; Fort Bow,. 6s. 61., 6•.;
2,1; North Sweet, 37, 1; Providence Minas, 661, 67
&midge Consols, 213.18, 16 16, 1,8; Wheal Arthur, 10,
; Wheal Mary Ann, 33.
In the Stock Exchange :
Roseirerno Deiced, 80, 821, 781; Tamar Doesols, 21;
Wheal Arthur, 10; Providence, 67 ; Tiscrott, 41; Podnan-
drae, 26a, 275. 61. ; Omsk Hewes, is.; Feat Bowen,
6s. 9d.

--'l;the metal market, the price of copper has bean
firmly maintained; the manufactured article being
still in good demand, and as money becomes easier
it is expected there will be a still larger demand for
general purpceee. Manufactured iron has been in
lees demand, and the Staffordshire houses are very
anxious for orders; the Welsh makers, however, are
generally well supplied and keep their prices firm.
Scotch pig declined to 73e. 6d. per ton early in the
week, but has since again become firmer, as the col-
liers remain on strike; the demand, however, is not
so large as some weeks ago. Lead continues very
firm, and a fair business hoe been done at fair rates.
Spelter remains unaltered. The price of foreign
tin has again advanced.