The Express.
London, England, 1861-06-25 00:00:00

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MONS? MARKET.--(THIS DAL)

Two o'CLooa.

The funds continue to exhibit great depression.
A fresh fall of I per cent. has taken place. The
anticipation of sales of stock by the fire insurance
offices seems to have more effect to-day. In the
other departments of the Stock Exchange prioes
are not much affected, business being almost at a
standstill

At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Reuter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Renter opened at
67fr. 60c!, ex div., being fic. lower than yesterday.
The telegram states that the Bourse is "fiat, on
account of the decline in the English funds."
The India Five per Cent. stock is fiat, at 981
Consols are offici.dly marked 89/, 1, and A, el
div., for money, and 894, 1,1, and ex div., for
the account. The present quotations are 894
to 1 for money, and 891 to i for the 10th July,
The official business report is as follows :—Three
per Cents. Reduced, 881, 1 ; New Three peF
Cents., 884, 1, 1 ; India Five per Cent. Stock,
981, ex div. ; ditto, Bonds, 20s. 12s. du. ; Five-
and-a-Half per Cent. " °aimed " rupee paper,
1004 ; Exchequer Bills, March, 9s. dis. ; ditto
June, 3s. dis. par.

It will be eeeu that Exchequer Bills have fallen.

No business of the slightest importance has taken
place in foreign stocks. Buyers are few. The
Turkiah loan of 1854 is quoted 711 to I, and
that of 1858, 54 to f. —Sales are recorded as
follows :—Brazilian Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
1860, 86i, cx div. ; Russian Five per Cents., 1021 ;
Turkish Six per Cents., 1858, for account,
1; ditto Guaranteed Four per Cents., loot, 1.
The great fire forms the principal topic Of
conversation in all circles. The wildest state-
ments are circulated with regard to the amount
of property destroyed. On a moderate computa-
tion, it is thought to reach • million and a
half sterling. The offices which are said to have
suffered chiefly are the Sun, Globe, Imperial, Atlas,
Royal, Royal Exchange, Phi:anis, and Liverpool
and London, but all estimates on this point must
be received with caution, as at present merely con-
jectural.

Little effect seems to have been produced by this
calamity on the prices of the shares in the fire insu-
rance companies. The shares of the Liverpool and
London Insurance Company, however, were more
offered yesterday, and fell 21. to 31. The present
quotation, with 21. paid, is about 41. to 51. prem.
In the tallow market advaoced prices were asked
yesterday morning, owing to the announcement that,
from the present stock--65,288 casks—must be
deducted 8,800 casks destroyed by the great fire at
Cotton's-wharf. Assuming the quantity lost to re-
present 3,600 tons, the value might be about
183,0CX. It is stated, however, that the tallow
destroyed consisted for the most part of the least
valuable port'ou of the stooks of Y.C. held by the
party of Russian speculators here. At the close of
business the alteration was merely that there were
buyers at the peces at which there were sellers on
Saturday. The present stock is large, the total at
the same period of last year having been only
24,968 casks, and in 1859, 12,365 casks.
In the discount market there was a good demand,
the best bills being taken at 5i to 6 per cent. At
the Bank of England the applications were to a fair
extent, but below the average usual at this season.
In the Stock Exchange money continues to com-
mand 5 to 6 per cent. on government securities.
The India Five per Cent. Stock was again pressed
for sale yesterday, owing to the expectation that
the rapid passage of the bill through parliament
will be followed speedily by its intruluction into
the market. The price fell about If per cent.,
closing at 93i to g.
The fortnightly settlement in shares and foreign
stocks will commence to-morrow (" continuation
day") and terminate on Friday.
About 20,0001. in gold was taken to the Bank
yesterday. 40,0001. arrived from the Levant.
The Edinburgh, for New York to-morrow, will
take, besides other gold, a considerable quantity of
foreign coin.
The Liveool cotton market yesterday was
firm. The sales comprised 10,000 bales.
. .

It is stated that Aeon. John Duncan and Co.,
merchants and nitundacturers, of Dundee, u:e ex-
pected to pay in lull, with a oouaiderablu surplus.
The " stoppage of the American trade" is assigned
as the principal cause of the failure.
The Brighton Railway treble return shows this
woek au increitsi of 2,0641., and the South Eastern
an increase of WI.

The traffic receipts of the Grand Trunk Railway
Company of Canada for the week ending June 1
were 13,5391. sterling, being 53G1. more than in the
corresponding week of last year.
The 11th ordinary general meeting of share-
holders in the Bank of London is called for the
17th of July, to declare a dividend.
A special meeting of the East India Steam Navi-
gation Company is called fur the lat of July, to
confirm the resolutions palmed on the 30th of 3/ay.
A call of 51. i 4 to be paid on the preference shares
in the City of London Brewery Company by the
19th of July.
The annual meeting of the shareholders in the
Atlantic and St. Lawrence Railroad Company is
called for the Gth of August, at Portland, Maine.
The Orilsa has arrived from China with 501800
lbs. of tea.

MO3DAT Eirtzu.G.

Consols, which closed on Saturday at 90, ex div.,
for the 10th of July, opened this morning at 80/
to 90, and gradually fell, closing at 894 to /. For
money the last price was 891 to J. The official
busiums report ni as follows:—Throe per Cent.
Consols, for money, 891, 1,1, ex div. ; ditto for
account (July 10), 90, 891 1 ex div. ; Three per
Cents. Reduced, 89, 88k, 891, sal ; New Threeper
Cents., 89, 1, 881, 89 ; India Five per Cent. Stock,
981, 1,1, 1, ex div. ; ditto for account, 981, t, ex
div. ; ditto Four per Cent. Debentures, 1869, 96,
• ditto Bonds, 20e. dls. ; Five per Cent. " en-
lin;ed " rupee paper, 941, 94 ; ditto Five-and-A-
Half per Cent., 1001.
The Old ludis Bonds were quoted 20a. to 10s. die.
A further decline of Is. took place iu Exchequer
Bills, the March issue being quoted Ss. to 4s. din.,
and the Jure Is. die. to 2e. premium.
The foreign stock market was likewise inanimate.

There was no alteration to-day in the market for
bank shares. In the miscellaneous shate market
the only movement o importance was a rise of 1
or 2 per cent. iu London Dock
The closing quotations fur shares in new under-
takings to-day wore as follows :—Ovean Marine
Insurance, to j prem. ; Thames and Money
Marine, i top prem. ; Universal Marine insurance,
5-10 to 3-10 dis. ; London and Provincial Marine,
dis. to par ; Natal Laud, 1, to j prom. ; China
anti Japan Steam, par ; and Seend Iron, I; to it
prem.
The shares of the Commercial Copper Smelting
Company. iu its iemodelled folio, were quoted in
the Stock Exchange this afternoon ito preni.•
A fall of 11 to 1 per cent. took place to-day in
Canada Gov..rument Bonds. Cape of Good Hope
Bonds were inquired for.
United States Five per Ceuta. were dealt in to-
day at ;ill.
The delmitares of the Grand Trunk Railway of
Canada wer.! lwavy, and a fall of 1 to 2 per cent.
took place in several classes.

LONDO!C ANU NoSTM-WierrEnat R tILWAY.—Mr.
Moon tits hew appointed eimirman .1 ti .is compst;.. 'cos.
....meat %Ism the death of Admiral )loorem, and Mr.
Westhead, takes the pomtam of deputy chairman.
Mr. Mona hint (or a onesiderable rcri.st twee the deputy
chairman. and one of the moat h.,td-workiug menhosa of
the board of thereon. He is intimately acquainted with
the intormin of the company. Mr. Westlicad has had ems
experience in railway management, and ha. always enjayed
the withdraw.. of the raway morrictors with whom he has
bees connects-4.

4
IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

HOUSE OF LORD&—M.,spAv, Just 24.

JAW Kinkstiacr. licputy :speaker, took the chair at
Leklock. There was a fuller attealanee than usual of
paws, probably is consequence of the matt sadden death
at Loa t'amphelL

THE DEATH OF THE LORDCHANCELLOR.

Sad 1:11.AN 'ILLS—Hy lords, I hope it will not
be deemed prisoluiptuous in me if, after the event by which
tinier Provideucc ha. taken almost from the midst of us
the noble soil learned lord who up to the
say List ni.client preeided over our aglitter+,
Woe, I venture to ink your lordahips to agree
to the adjourunieut of the house and the future considets-
boo of the Inhumes marked upon the pipet. (Hear, hear.)
I du tliii alert from any political feeling, as • mark of re-
arm ti tlic pdsonal qualities of the noble and learned lonl,
vied a. .a mark of respect to the position which, t. speaker of
this house, he Lehi .ihear, head—tool I will add, as a mark
of our subiuiriou to the chastening hand of God. The data
ef the noble lord has been singular sudden. Many of
your lordship, mw him taking a part in the proceeding. of
your loodihopri house up to a comparatively late period
en Friday evening. OD Saturday I hal the honour
ef neoning Lim in the cabinet, and of seeing
him take his usual part in the deliberation. of
that holy. In the evening I met him in his own house in
sand intercourse, showing that kinsUy nod frieudly ;teeing
and that affectionate demeanour towards his family for
which he was particularly remarkable. I was struck with
the lively *more with which he received from • noble
lord. present, the announcement of the birth of a
grandchild—wore thaw four score year. younger than him.
Ralf. The polite art harped lord boa lived long before the
;abbe. His life has been one eminently known to all. It
r nut for run to attempt to pronounce anything like n eulo-
pant upon tL. sold, Anil horsed lord; but thia I will my,
that tle• distinction. and honours to which he attained will
ever be •u encouragemeot and an maniple to all in this
armory, a. showing how a man by indefatigable imltuitry,
sad lo the exercise of those personal qualities which ale
Orr to hit', by thel, is able to achieve the higher 'brim-
bees awl homers in the state. (Hear, hear.) He died full
si yeAra and bouurs, apparently in full posaeoiou of
vigour both of mind and body. I believe there can be to
doubt that a mind like his was as fully prepared for a sodden
as well as for a herein death ; and indeed I happen to
know that on satunlay afternoon be stated to • values'
Mud of his in oumverestion, alluding to the keg ill•
men of • commie' freed, that there was a prayer
m oir Liturgy against sadden death, but which
be thought lie a prayer against pr longed illness. I
mature to ask your lonlahips to give an unanimom consent
this motion, and unless I felt eraiviaced that that turn'.
mite would be displayed I amid have refrained front
asking your loalships to agree to a motion for winch there
is no preraideot. became the mai itaeU has no precedent
that I am award of it ago tangs of your lordahips' house.
I beg to move that this bow do sow adjourn.
Lord BROUGHAN—I mita* agree with my cabs
Mimi is every word he ham mid epee this melancholy mes-
as. I can bear my prefemional teetirnomy, which my
whim Maul mess est de, I. the pest and high profeedesal
medft of the snide sad leareed kit Seery ewe who vise
empeisted with his peat pelesnicesl career, hie loss at
prienee, his pest isessitey, sad his power of work, was
snare from the moment of kis elevation to the tinsel he
mead illatiegaish himself, mid accordingly he has tallied
*me pineal expectstiose. Ile had all the qualities that
&linger\ • peat judge : he had indefatigable industry,
pest prelersional experience, keg practice in the court. in
verities brawl's!, of the prolamine ; and all these qualities
he Mesabi le the beach with him. I will sot add strict
letsprity, beams to ems ira the beech makes an inception
to the role that distisgsishes all the judges, of perfect
kapartiality between party sad party, and between lam
mews sad the subject. It is not so in all countries. It le
orm 'Uvulas. to poems that inestimable blessing. I can
ass neer for my noble sad learned friend having been in the
Meat posmasion of has great judicial abilities up to
the very last period of his life. We sat together on Friday
morning from L:twecu ten and eleven to the rising of the
hems as a court of jusuoe, my noble friend presiding with
his usual anatomies and has usual determined attention to
every branehof the cause before him. I may add that this
hese, is ia a peculiar mummer qualified to judge of thane
peat judicial Wear possimed by my noble and learned
fread, for I believe there is no instance whatever of so
mesh despatch of liminess se that which he exhibited—not
QM despatch which Lord Bacon calk affected despatch, but
veal, sehatantiel,and use( uldespatich. There mese wean* little
sneer it the mums before your lordships. I ought to
sputniks to your lonieldps— (hear, hear)—for doing any
se eupertluoul u secoadieg the medics of my table
freed oppoute, but I thought it we due to the memory of
him whom wr have lost by • sadden dispenestios of Provi-
dence that I should speak fur the profession to which he
belonged, sad of which he was as oniament.
Lied St. LKONARIH (who appeared deeply affected)
said—l entirely armor in the motion of the noble lord op-
poiite. I think we owe it to ourselves, and to the noble
lord whose loss we deplore, that we should show every
passible mark of reaped to his memory. The great
eminence of my wide and learned (trod as a common-law
lawyer is sdnii.ted by all the country. He fee a beg time
mended over the Court of quers's Berseh,with a knowisdge
of the law which probably ham never bees excelled, with •
patience aid an industry which were always ad,
mired ; and he stood ma Chief Juries of Eng-
land in as proud • position as • man could
denim. When he became Lord Chancellor I con-
fess I thought that at his late period of life, with • new
branch of law to administer, he had milertaken a task no
man could perform. But a jest Miura on his own power
induced him to accept the perilous office which was offered
Also. Your lordships must always have admired the manner
in which he conducted the burner of that groat office, and
it is Do small merit of his that we me able to my of him
that in his ethos of Lord Chancellor he maintained the
greet repotatiou which he had justly acquired a. • comnion•
law judge. (Hear, hear.) The noble lord endeavoured to
proceed, but he was evidently overcome by his feelings, and
Rat down.

The motion was then put and unanimously passed, and
lie hones adjourned accordingly.

HOUSE OF COMMONS.—MONDAY, J CNZ 24.
ihs APIACLI took the chair at four o'clock.
PRIVATE BUBINEBB.
The Lords' asseadmeute to the followier Ella were read
wad agre.d to :—The noliop's Outle Railway, the Clifton
linweeeice Cridie, tbe Ituwepatrick and Newry Holloway,
and the Loudon and North Western Railway (Cheshire

TA. following hilla were reed a thin] time amt pawed :
The Bishop rltorttual. Duasoow, mid Braintree Railway.
the Eas•ere Curative Railway, the Legli District Use, mad
the Partaast.aa

The following bills were ennahkevl, and oniervil to be
reed a third time --The Alva Railway, the Crocco and
Merthyr Tydfil Juectio• Railw.ty (new hoes. Ile.) the
briatot Channel Pilotage. the Claud and Taimyr. Railway,
the Dublin Iterketa, the Greed Junctiou Wet. r. the law
gosh Di Age, the Llauelly Railway and Dock (new lines,
ere.), the Londoe, Chetheni, and Dover Railway (derietiores,
as.). the North British awl Peebles Railway Cuewaalcv,
taeSwsnseaTalelwilway, the Wariest,. Valley Rellway,
gal West Hartlepool Iletbour sad Railway ke.),
and the Wiventwe so.l Bs t‘htlin.rota Iwila y,
The Enders Centaur. and Sefton W.ltlen Railway DM
was nude second tint..
THE GALWAY coNTILACT.
Camel FRENCH ghee nonce that to the event of the
anerwithre not being nominated this erelong he ahead
st the early sitting to.nwerttw (Teasley. wore that it con.
die of the folloinag gentlemen : Mr. Gregory. Mr. Peel.
Mr. Cobden. :kr J. Trollops. lb. B. Weighs...l, Lord
Mothers, sad Sir M. Peto.
/LOUT!! KENSINGTON NIIRETIM.
Lord W. GRAHAM .eked the Vice.Preehlent of the
thwatittee of Cussed on Elticaties, whether tho leniblinge
fee elands sad madman at South Kensington MUM 4211113,
tar whiebeveto of 13.0011. was I in the elucation es.
gates, were to he erected after IM plan designed by Cap-
lan' FOIPILIN which plan includes the commit...ern...et of an
ereemental architectural eleratioa, tberchv declaim( the
style .4 architecture to be adopted fur the whole of the
Mr. LOWE observed that the beet &sewer he could give
would ne to nest as extract front the report of the com-
mittee of 1.4 )c..r, of which the noble Joni wm himerlf •
amber. The committee maid they bad felt it their duty
antiglri thenetelyea that sue building to he erected
amid be capable of being worked into a plan slisek would
raver the whole ground. nod also would be so..tel tilde of •
.stela degree of ornenvestatios. They oniiitlemil that the
deigns elf Captain Fowke satriled all the requirements of
the ems, wed that, without 'outwitting the authorities to
gar gestisalar style, It would provide an elegant sad roe-
asmairal MOiiag
COUNTS OF JUSTICE BUILDING ACT (MONET)

BILL

Lied J. MANNERS aeir:dthe Attereepnerarel erM
Is I. west of ar Carel of Jostles Buil.liog Act
(tleee!) OW Wise seed • mood Wm. ►e would refer the
greseles of Aster Use prepared ►eildier to • select eau-