The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-17 00:00:00

I paid), at 41. ; Royal Swediall Railw ,v 1.4. paidl, at i,e. ;
South Esateni Railway, 41 per cent. conauhdated stock
(No. 2of 1859), at 70 per oeot. ; Star and Garter Hotel
(la. paid), at V. 12a. Gd. ; Varna Railway (20f. pail), at
21. 1111 a. to N. 7e. 6d. ; Waterloo-bridge Company (1001.
paid), at 71. 16a.

TV CADA Y EVENING.

The applications at the Bank discount office to-
day were moderate. In the general market there
was a fair demand, but chiefly in connection with
the Stock Exchange settlement. The rate for good
bills remains at 21 per cent. In the Stock Ex-
change the chief demand had reference to the
share and foreign stock settlement. The rate for
short loans on English government securities was
only per cent.

Oesiols, which closed yesterday at 91 to A, both
for money and the 9th of May, touched this
morning 91A to I, and closed at 90A to A for
cash, and 904, "sellers," for the May account.
The Three per Cents. Reduced and New Three per
Cents. left off at 699 to ,";. The official business
report is as follows:—Three per Cent. Consuls,
for money, 91, f, A • ditto, for account, 914, 1, 1 ;
Three per Cents. Reduced, 894, A • New Three per
Cents. 89g, ; Bank Stock, 251, 3,1, or
div. ; India atZte.k, 217 ; ditto Five per Cent.,
1091,1, 10 ; ditto Four per Cent., 94 ; ditto Five
and-a-Ualf per Cent. " enfaced" rupee paper, 1081;
ditto Bonds, 525. prem.
The India Five per Cent. Stock was in renewed
demand, and advanced, the last transactions re-
corded being at 110.
Exchequer Bills remain at 16s. to 20s. prem.
The foreign stock market was firm during the
greater part of the day, and prices improved in
several cases, but towards the close most of the
speculative descriptions were offered, upon the
receipt of lower prices from Paris. Chilian Scrip,
Ortek, Italian of 1861, Mexican, Spanish Certi-
ficates, Russian of 1864, and Turkish of 1865 left
off Ito iper cent. worse than yesterday. Spanish
Passive Bonds were also A lower. On the other
hand, some of the Egyptian and Chilian, as well as
Italian of 1865, one 1 per cent., and Peruvian of
1866, Russian of 1862, Spanish New Deferred, and
' Turkish of 1854, 1858, and 1862,
Bank shares were not much dealt in, but the
tone of the marketwas rather firm. British North
American improved V. • City, English, Scottish,
and Australian Chartered, and Oriental, 10s. ; and
Imperial Ottoman, 5.5.
. . .

London Financial shares showed renewed heavi-
ness, and fell V. 103. owing to the announcement
of a call of 5!. Transactions were recorded at 251.
discount, with 251. paid. The other financial com-
panies were quoted about the same as yesterday,
in the absence of dealings of importance. Prices
closed as follows :—lnternational Financial, ;24
to 4 dis. ; General Credit, 31 to 24 die. •, London
Financial. 25 to 24 dia. ; and Credit Foncier of
England, 6i to 4 dia.
Anglo-American and Atlantic Telegraph Eight
per Cent. Preference shares were 2s. 61. to os.
lower, at 18 to 4 and 44 to 4 respectively, while
Telegraph Construction showed no change, at 21 to
dis.
Hudson's Bay shares were last quoted 161 to
4, and National Discount, 74 to 4 prem., showing a
rise of se. Very few dealings were reported in
miscellaneous shares, but British American Land
fell 21., North British and Mercantile Insurance,
11. and Fairbairn Engineering 10s.
Colonial government securities were inactive,
but New South Wales, 1867 to 1875, rose 4 per
cent.

In the market for American securities Virginia
Six per Cents. rase per cent., and Illinois Cen-
tral Railway shares I, but Erie declined 4.
Prices dosed as follows :-5-20 Bonds, 711 to
; Erie Railway shares, 37/2 to 38 ; Illinois
Central, 702 to 77f ; Atlantic and Great Western
Railway Debentures, 31 to 32 ; Consolidated
Mortgage Bonds, 22 to 4.
The following were de traffic returns of the
Melbourne and Hobson's Bay United Railway for
the five weeks ending the 21st Feb.:—For week
ending 24th Jan., 1867, 2,3441. ; corresponding
week in 1866, 2,196/. ; Jan. 31, 186', 2,1771. ; cnF
responding week in 1866, 2,9071. ; Feb. 7, 1867,
3,700/. ; corresponding week in 1866, 2,8061. ; Fob.
14, 1867, 2,258!. ; corresponding week in 1806.
2,240/. ; Feb. 21, 1867, 2,409/. ; corresponding
week in 1866, 2,354/.
The Colonial Company (Limited) have advertised
the half-yearly interest on Segue La Grande Rail-
way Seven per Cent. Bonds, due the Ist May. The
annual drawine of 4.8001. of this loan will take
place on the 24th inst.

M12111.9.-(171I8 DAY.)

Oxi o'CLocs.

The mining market is quiet to-day, but West
Chiverton, Prince of Wales, and Chiverton Moor
shares are inquired for. West Seton are quoted
135 to 140 ; Wheal Setae, 974 to 1024 ; Chive's
ton Moor, 5 to = ; West Chiverton 714 to 734 ;
Wheal Basset, 60 to 65 ; Prince of Wales, 51s. 6d.
to 535. 6d. ; Wheal Grenville, 20s. to 225. 6d. ;
North Crafty, 4; to I • Great Retallack, to
g ; East Russell, 2 to 31 ; Wheal Mary Ann, 13
to 14 ; Clifford, 4i to 51; Great North Downs,
31 to 4 ; and Marke Valley, 41 to 4.

The annexed memorandum relates to the Cobre
Mining Company :—"With reference to the royal
copper mines of Cobre, we learn that the latest
advice; are of a satisfactory character, the works on
the reduced scale being still carried on, and a fair
profit for February having been made, while the
produce for March was expected to be equally
favourable. The Hampshire had been despatched
with a good cargo of 746 tons on the 20th March,
and the loading of the next ship, the Gitanilla, was
being proceeded with."
An extraordinary general meeting of the Chon-
tales Gold and Silver Mining Company (Limited),
is called for the 30th inst., to receive a report from
the directors.

BUILDING, ENLARGEMENT, AN') REPAIRING or
CHI'ItCHDI ANI) CHAFELK.—The Incurponited Society far
Promoting the Enlargement, Building, and Repairing of
Churches awl Chapels, held its usual monthly meeting on
Monday, the Ifith inst., at the Society's House, No. 7.
Whitehall. S.W., the Right Rev. the Lord Lisbon. of
Lichfield iu the chair. There were :ilso present the Rey.
Canon Jennings, Rev. A. Bornulaile, Mr. John Boodle,
Mr. George Cowburn. Mr. J. F. France, Mr. E. Hussey,
Rev. George Ainslie. M.A., secretary, and the Rev. C. 1.1.
Itc id. M.A., ursistiant secretary. Grants of money were
made in aid of the following objects:—Building new
churches at Howdon•Pans, in the parish of WallsencL
Northumberland ; Killingwort.h, in the pariah of Long
Benton, near Newcastle-on-Tyne ; and Perry-street. in
the parish of Northdeet, near Gravesend ; rebuilding
the church at Wendy, near Cambridge; enlarging and
restoring the churches at Wanetead (Christ Church),
Essex. and Westhamjinett, near Chicheater marranging
the seats and restoring the churches at Bletehley, Bucks ;
Normairby. near Market Kasen, Lincoln ; Stapleton, near
Shrewsbury; and Wrexham, Denbighshire. A grant was
also made from the mission and school church fund towards
building a mission church in the new district of Dartumet,
in the parish of Lydford, Devon. The society's income to
the 3lst Match last was less by 1.501 T. Ils. 3d. than in the
previous year, though during the twelve month. just ended
it expended more in grants by 1,410'. than in the year pre-
ceding. His grace the president has appointed Friday, the
24th of May, for the annual general court,to be Leld at the
Society's House 7, Whitehall &W., at 2 p.m.
GEORGE 111.—There is no doubt that the King
hail not, as be himself quaintly regrets, " the powers of
oratory of a Demosthenes, or the pen of an Addison."
There is a striking contrast between the dulness and
narrowness, and extreme of commonpLice, in whites
be generally expresses himself respecting matters of poli-
tical interest—the " twaddle." to speak irreverently. to
which he treats Lord North—the truism., which one
would be temptel to call Joseph Surface like, were it not
for the transparent honesty of the writer, respecting
the beauties of the British constitution, and the
preference due to virtue over vice, with which he
is wont to preface the intimation of ',erne ands-
Gioia act of autocracy-end the resolute, able, -,,0p
d'e if with which he sometimes seizes a merely prac-
tical question. Obstinate he was to the extreme extent
of that quality, obstinate in adherence to what he deemed
principles, obstinate in achieving his will for minor pur-
poses ; hut between these two classes of subjects, there was
another on which his good sense overcame his obstinacy.
No one seems to have known better than he, at times,
when to change his front in face of any enemy, when to
seek to obtain by a dank movement what he had missed in
a dash. It was not without truth, in this sense, that Lord
Grenville observed in one of his private letters bra quoted
by Lord Russell) that "George the Third always knew
when he must give way.--Quarfe lk. .c, new wimber.