The Express.
London, England, 1859-10-04 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL CORN MAEJLET .—(THIS DAY.)
CST BRUME AND HUSH lIAONITIC TZLZOILAPIC.)
(TROY Otri OWN CONINSPONDINT.)
Orrin market dull and attendance smell. Holders of wheat
sok higher prime, which chicks business. Fine French
dour firm ; lower sorts neglected. Indian corn and Egyptian
beans rather cheaper, and in limited demand. Other articles
without change.

MINCING-LANB.—(THIS DAY.)
arGAe..—Tbe mute hes opened without spirit, and the
public isles are peogreriag heavily. Refined dull; lump,
. . . .

Curren.—The public sales are ping off without showing
any material alteration in prices.
TEA.—This market remains stagnant, but we etnnot
alter quotations.
RICE has a steady appearance.
Rt N—The demand continues limited.
SALTPETRE remains quiet.
Corrox.-300 bales burst, sold Std. to 6f 1. per lb.
la other articles no materiel alteration.

TALLOW PdAktAtri.—(THlS DAT.)
The market ie steady. at the following priers —Petersburg
T.C. ea the spot, 575. 9d. to Ws.; October to December,
675. ; ditto, mporetely, 68e.
SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
Messrs. Davies sad Co. report:—Prime meadow bay,
80e. to 70e.; superior ditto, 72e. to 80s. ; inferior ditto,
46e. to 65e.; lowa, 40e. to 605.; °lover old, We. to
100'.; ditto, mooed cut, 60s. to 90s. ; straw. 26e. to 30e.

THE DISCOVEST OP COAL IN accord-
' once with the arrangement made at the last meeting of the
Hat Kent Natural History Society, the Rev. B. S.
Malden sod Mr. A. B. Andrews visited Lydden yesterday
for the pure ee of aseertahting the facts with reference to
the alleged disoontry deal. It appears that the substratoe
found Is In reality coal, though its occurrence in the position
in which it lay is difficult to explain. The workmen
engaged in executing Lydden tunnel found embedded in the
chalk, at e t>retb tA 180 feet, • mar of coal weighing
about 4 cwt. With the exception of this lump no other
coal has been seen. In their walk through the tunnel the
visitors saw moat numbers of flints in the chalk, and also
veins of day and apparent faults in the formation, but
where the coal was found there wee nothing of the kind.
The chalk here was solid, without fault or Snare. The
coal is bituminous, *something veins of ferruginous clay.
Mr. Malden having applied a ICA it took fire in a short
time. The visitors brought away a specimen, weighing
about alba, +bleb Mr. Walker, the eub-cootractor, muse.
oval, caused to be morn off, and which the East Kent Natural
History• &clot), will :present to the Canterbury Museum.
The discovery dead under the eireumetautee 'described is,
we behave, extremely u►aal.--lentiah Gaut ie.
DitnYnnap..—TM. direase:haa appeared in Can-
terbary in a viralent farm. A [easily of children have thee
swept away within the last few days, one child dying on
Friday, sae an ilitarday, sad tb third on Sunday morning.

Plifil.-111 LS lid I.

Two o'CLooz.

The funds to-day are rather firmer, and the
trifling decline which took place yesterday has bees
recovered. There is no revival of business what
ever. The government broker has made his usual
purchase of 6,0001. Consols. In the share-
markets inactivity continues to prevail, but prices
are very firm. Several of the principal Bratsk
railway stocks have advanced.
The Three per Cent. Renton have improved per
cent. at Paris this morning, the quotation being
according to Mr. Renter's telegram, 69fr. 6.5 c. far
the account.

The scrip of the New Indian Loan is rather better
at 101 to f. That of the Russian Loan remains
quoted to i dis.

Consols are officially marked 95} to for money,
and 951 for the account. The present quotation is
951 to 1, both for money and the 11th Oct.
The New' Indian Loan (stock) has been dealt is
at 101; ditto scrip at 101 ; India Bonds, at 6s. dia. to
par ; and Exeneqner Bills, at 26e. prem.
The foreign stock market is quiet, and prices are
steady. Peruvian Dollar Bond. are in demand, and
are marked 82. Mexican Bonds are quoted 231 to
; the Old Turkish Six per Cents., 841 to 1; and
the New, 691 to 701. Sales are recorded as
follows:—Brazilian Old Five per Cents., 102; Ditto
Four-and-a-Half per Cents. 1868, 941; Chili=
Three per Cents., 78; Mexican Three per Cents. for
account, 231, 231; Peruvian Uribarren Four-and-a-
Half per Cents., 831; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cent.
Dollar Bonds, 82 (exchange 45.); Russian Five per
Cents., 110 ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 991;
Sardinian Five per Cents., 87 ; Spanish New Da
ferred Three per Cents., for account, 34} ; Turkish
Six per Cents., 83k, 841; ditto Guaranteed Four per
Cents., 102}; Venezuela One per Cents., 141.
There wu a fair demand for money yesterday,
partly in preparation for the bills maturing to-day
(the 4th), but neither at the Bank nor at other esta-
blishment* does the amount of business appear to
have been more than moderate. Few transactions
take place below the Bank minimum.
At Amsterdam and Vienna on SaturdaT there was
an improvement of about per cent. to Austrian
securities.

The amount of gold sent into the Bank yesterday
was 130,0001. Australian, ex the Marco Polo, making
• total of 317,0001. since the date of the last return.
The Minister of Finance presented to the Dutch
Chambers the budget for 1860 on the 26th Sep-
tember. Amongst other important items is the pro-
vision for a subsidy of 28,520,000 florins, or
2,376,0001. sterling, to be paid in instalments during
six years, in promoting the system of railways in
Holland, involving at the same time a guarantee of
interest, on which the government expect to lose
daring that period 6,277,0 florins, or 440,0001.
The Brighton Railway traffic return shows this
week • decrease of 1101.

The srealytraflio return of the Great Western
Railway of Canada, received yesterday, shows a de-
crease of 3661.

The receipts of the Illinois Central Railway Com-
pany for the first half of September exhibit a de-
cided improvement, the traffic amounting to 125,000
dollars and the receipts from the land department to
32,000 dole.
_

The fourth ordinary general meeting of the Bahia
and San Francisco Railway Company is called for
the 31st inst. The half-yearly guaranteed interest
will be payable on the 14th inst.
A general meeting of the Royal Mail Steam
Packet Company is called for the 26th October.
A telegram received at Lloyd's from Lisbon, and
purporting to give news from Pernambuco to the
13th September, is to the following effect:—" Boat
with specie to Tyne sunk last evening; about
160,0001. lost." It is obvious that the amount is
greatly overstated.
The telegraph being now open as far es Malta,
the Red Sea and India Telegraph Company have
issued a revised moth

The Committee of Lloyd's have received a commu-
nication, dated August 31, from their agent at
Guayaquil to the following effect:
__ . .

Under data of the 17th lust I received an intimation from
the governor of this province to the effect that, owing to the
lengthened blockade of the &amorists porta by the Peruviaa
naval forces, this government was compelled to dimontines
the light on the island of Banta Clara, but that he would take
the earliest opportunity of informing me of its existanse.
so soon as the cause which produced its removal bad dia.
appeared. . .

The statistics of the sugar trade are thus noticed
in the monthly circular of Messrs. Trueman and
Rouse, issued yesterday :

The imports during the past month have again boos wiry
heavy, amounting to 55,000 tons, and the nook has inceund
by 21,300 toes, it now amounting to 131,700 against 113,300
at the same period last year. The deliveries for home con-
sumption from the four principal pert, have amounted for the
nine months to 295,200 tons, against 306,400 in 1848, being •
similar deficiency to that which wu exhibited on the Ist of
August. The Board of Trade tables state the quantity of raw
sugar duty-paid In this United Kingdom In the eight months
ending 31st August to ha', bean 315,745 taw, against 301,574
in the same period of 1858, showing an sum of same 14,000
tons; In the saws months ending 31st July the excess was
33,000 tons, ow that 19,000 tons of the anger on which duty
waa paid in Jona and July in anticipation of an advent*
was worked off in August, end at this rate in another month
these official tables will spin be of nes as • criterion of the
actual consumption of sugar in the country. As regards the
future supply than cattennes to be may prospect of &ban-
dana.

MONDAY EVINING.

Consols, which closed on Saturday at 8511 to t for
the 11th Oct., opened this morning at the same quo-
tation, advanced to 95; buyeee,,, fell to 951
"sellers," and closed at 96 9-16 to 11-16, or 96}
" rather sellers." For money the last price wu 951
to 1. The government broker bought 5,0001. Con-
sole. The otficial business report is as follows
Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 951, ; ditto
for account (11th Oct.), 951, 1, • 30 Year. An-
nuities, expiring in January, 1880, 14 ; the New
Indian Five per Cent. Loan (stock), 101 ; ditto
scrip, 101, 101}; the Indian Four per Cent.
Debentures, 1888, 95}; ditto, 1859, 951 ; India
Bonds, par.
The scrip of the New Indian Loan advanced is
the morning to 101 to 1, and closed at 101, or 4 prem.
The Indian Four per Cent. Debentures of 1858
were quoted 951 to ; those of 1859, 931 to 1 ; Judie
Bonds, St. die. to par ; and Exchequer Bills, 235. to
265. prem.
A moderate amount of business was done in the
foreign stock market. Mexican Bond•, after being
marked 231, closed at 23 to 1. Peruvian Three per
Cents. were flat, owing to the completion of the
half-year's purchases for account of the sinking fond.
Buenos Ayres Bonds were more inquired for.
Russian Scrip was marked 1 dis., and Peruvian
Dollar Bonds, 80. The Old Turkish Six per Cents.
were quoted 84 to 86; and the New, 691 to 70.
Bank Shares to-day were steady, but very quiet.
Union Bank of Australia were quoted slightly lower.
Van Diemen'.. Land shares present a fresh advanos
of 11. Royal Mail Steam shares were weaker,
being marked 52. Red Sea Telegraph were dull, at
to 1 prem. Commercial Dock stock was dealt in
at 101, and London Dock at 671 and 661.
The last issue of Victoria Government Bonds were
firmer today, at 1081 to t, ex div.

MINES-7HIB DAY:

Two O'CLOCK.

The mining market to-day is steady, There has
been a fair amount of business in shares in East
Wheal Russell, Great South Tolgus, Pendeen Con-
sole, East Basset, Hingston Downs, and North
Robert.
St. John del Rey Mining shares are inquired for,
and are marked 11. Mariquita have been dealt is
at 155., and English and Australian Copper at
13 and 11.
An extraordinary vacating of shareholders in the Bad
Konitaberg Native Silver Mining Company of Norway is
called for the 10th jest.. to increase the capital from 60,0004
to 160,0001., and to tontine a contract for the purchase of the
Anna Sophia Mining Dutrict of Norway.
Tha Vale otTowy Mine sold Tooorday 61 tons of lead ors
which realised an aggregate of 1113 i. 5..