The Express.
London, England, 1868-06-11 00:00:00

CRICKET.-ITHIB DAT.)

LORD'S GROUND.
Y.C.C. AND GROUND V. CIVIL 8:1111VICII CUM
This match commenced at 12 o'clock. When
our despatch left the soon wee as follows :
Y.C.C.—Flat Innings.
J. Ontniknwl b Ltrkpottriek
W. F. b Kirkgstriok
E. O. not out
Forrancin, b
W. J. Mena& sot oat
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COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

COTFON MARKET.
(THIS DAY.) •

(rztox oaamir
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The market quiet. &lee about 4,COTor

TALLOW MARKET.--(THIS DAY.)
The market is quiet. Town tallow, 41e. 3d. ; Peters-
burgY.C., on the spot, 43e. M. ; June. 43e. 6d. ; October
taDeoember, 43e. 6d. ; December, 435. Pd.

METROPOLITAN CATTLE MARKET.
(THIS DAT.)
The number of beasts is considerably larger, and trade
dull, consequently prices are lower, and several lota re-
main unsold. This is the largest Thursday market of
sheep that has been known for a very long period. The
&vend is very small ; a great many remain unsold. The
email amount of business transacted is at lower rates.
Lambs and calves are also lower, being in abundant
supply. Of foreign there are 201 beasts, 2,470 sheep, 328
calves, and 25 pigs.
Per Aimee of Baba. s. d. a. a. Per atone of Ma a. 8. a. a.
Best Beata. Hamada 4 6 5 0 Bait Des kHf-ketik 4 6 4 8
Beat Skeet-home 4 6 4 8 Beat Law-wools 0 0 0 0
feeeomi vial. Besets t 8 3 4 Da. des Shwa 4 6 4 4
Cates
Piers 3O 4 4 Do. do. 81torn O5 8
Beet Mot Mf-bnele 0 0 0 0 Lanka 6 8 6 8
Seaga at market, 970; sheep and limbo, 18,630; calm, 608;
AR 60.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.--(THIR DAY.)
Mr. Charles James Easton reports trade at last day's
prices. Prime meadow hay, 80s. to 84s. ; inferior ditto,
66e. to 76e.; clover, old, 904. to 1065.; second cut, 70$. to
90s. ; strew, Ms. to 38s.

PRICES OF BUTTER AT CORE MARKET.--(THIS
DAY.)—(By TiuxionAmt.)—Onlivary, 2,200 firkins in mar-
ket ;no change in prioes. Mild cured, 170 firkins ; no
change.
A meeting of the Royal Commission on Water
Supply was held at the House of Lords yesterday.
Present: The Duke of Richmond, 8.G., in the chair; Sir
John Thwaites, Sir Benjamin Phillips, Mr. Thomas E.
Harrison, D.E., Mr. Joseph Prestwich, F.H.8., and the
secretary, Mr. W. Polo, P.B.S.

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OFFICIAL LIQUIDATORS.—At the .Rolls °lum-
bers the 11th July has beau appointed foe the official
liquidaton to make their daima under the new scale of
remuneration. The liquidators use entitled to be paid
from U. to 12/. • day of eight hours according to the
curets, and their clerks from Is. to Bs. 6d. per hour.
Mocitwo Brno.—There are two specimen of
Ibis remarkable bird now in England. y are to be
teen in the aviary at the Crystal Palace, rear the crytiM
fountain. are bs full song, and warble the notes of
the thrush, Dlac nightingale, &c., mock the railway
whistle, the sawing of wood, &c., and whistle some
English songs.
EXTRAORDINARY SHOAL OF PORPOIBIB. —On
Tuesday afternoon last, as the Prince Portland steamer
was crossing over to Weymouth, the pameagers were
highly amused by noticing upwards of porpouce, which
entered the roadstead through the break in the Break-
water. A large porpoise followed the Prince for upwards
cf 100 yards, neartyJuieping up to the bows of the stammer.
The porpoise* are a great enemy to the machete!, there-
fore we y anticipate that mackaral will be scam until ,1
thedspartu aof the nig sh. —llAorderm listraat--

110: MY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.,'

ONE O'CLOCK.

In the Stock Exchange to-day there is only a
thin attendance of members, owing to the
attractions of the Ascot Raoes, and the
amount of business is consequently
Nevertheless, the tone of moat of the markets is
rather firm. The English funds are in re-
quest, at en improvement of } per cent.
Some of the railway stocks are also better,
but Great Northern A has declined. Foreign
Bonds exhibit no special change. Banking,
financial, and miscellaneous shares are, with a
few exceptions, quoted the same as yesterday.

There is no alteration in the discount market.
Loans on English Government Securities are still
offered in the Stock Exchange at 1 per cent.
Consols are quoted 95/ to 1, ex div., for money,
951 " buyers,' ex div., for the account (July
0), and the Three per Cents. Beduced and New
Three per Ceuta., 95 to 4.
In the railway market, Great Northern A stock
has declined 1 per cent., viz., to 961 to 961;
but several of the other principal lines have
risen to 4. Annexed are the quotations :
Caledonian, 744 to 75 ; London and North
Western, 116: to 1; Great Western, 531 to t ;
Midland, 106/ to 1071 ; London and South
Western. 921 to 93 ; Great Eastern, 361 to 361 ;
Brighton, 52; tot ; South Eastern, 761 to ; Metro-
politan, 110/ to 1; Great Northern, 103 to 1;
London, Chatham, and Dover, 201 to 21; Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, 1291 to 1 ; York and North
Midland, 931 to 941; Berwick, 1031 to t ; and
North British, 331 to 34.

The only change in foreign bonds is a reduction
of 1 per cent. in Italian of 1881, and Groek,
the present prices being 511 to 1 and
131 to 141, respectively. Brazilian of 1865,
761 to 771; Chilian of 1867, 951 to 96;
Egyptian of 1864, 811 to I; Mexican, 161
to 1, ; Peruvian of 1865, 871 to 881; Russian,
1866, 881 to 89 ; Orel Vitebek,79l, to 801; Spanish
of 1867, 371 to 38 ; Turkish of 1858, 621 to 631;
ditto of 1862, 64 to 65 ; and ditto of 1885, 381 to 1.

The Indian Pour per Cent. stock has risen to 1
per cent., via., to 1041 to 1051. The rive per
Cents. are at 1141 to 116; the Bonds, 301. to 351.
prem. ; and the Debentures, 105 to 1. Exchequer
Bills are ls. lower, at 14s. to 18s. prem. Bank
Stock, 247 to 249.

Apart from a rise of 2s. 6d. In Tmperialelifmnan,
viz., to 11 to 14 prem., Bank shares areunchanged.
London and Westminster, 711 to ; London and
Cotinty, 514 to 524 ; Union of London, 344 to
351 ; Anglo-Austrian, 5: to prem. ; London and
Brazilian, 30 to 23 die. ; Consolidated, # to # prem.;
and Mexican, 8 to 6 dis.
With respect to miscellaneous shares, Inter-
national Financial are 2s. Bd. better, at 14 to 14
die. ; while General Credit have receded 2s. 6d.,
viz., to 21 to 2,1 dis. ; National Discount, 64 to
prem. ; Credit Fonder, 3 1-16 to 3-16 per share;
Loadon, 21 to 19 dia. ; Hudson's Bay, 161 to 4 ;
Egyptian Trading, 5 to 41 di*. ; Telegraph Con-
struction, 141 to ; Atlantic -Telegraph Eight per
Cent. Preference, 44 to 5} ; and Anglo-American,
224 to 4. •
United States 5-20 Bonds are unchanged,
at 724 to 73 ; but the railway shares have
declined } to per oent. Illinois Central,
1004 to 1011; Erie, 454 to 461; Atlantic and
Great Western Debentures, 284 to 294 ; and the
Consolidated Mortgage Bonds, 324 to 331.
Advice', from Mauritius to May 18 state that
the fever has *gain increased.

HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.

Consols are without variation for money,
at 96} to 1, but have receded i per cent.
for the account, viz., to 96/ to }. Some
of the railway and foreign stocks have declined I
to 1, while Oreat Northern A shows a recovery
of j.
POUR O'CLOCK.

The stock markets are quiet, with few transac-
tions. Console are without alteration, at 951 to 1
for money, but have risen 1-18 per cent, for the
account, viz., to 95 3-16 to 5-16.
Home railway stocks aro without change of
importance. London and North Western, 1161 to
; Great Western, 531 to # ; Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 129 to ¢ ; Brighton, 531 to 1 ; South
Eastern, 761 to 1 ; Great Eastern, 351 to 36 ;
Midland, 1061 to 107 ; and Caledonian, 74/ to 75j.
The foreign stock market is steady. Italian of
1861, 51k to ; Spanish of 1867, 371 to 38;
Turkish of 1865, 381 to 1 ; Orel, 791 to 80}; and
Mexican, 161 to 1.
No bullion operations have occurred at the Bank
to-day.
At Paris to-day the Three per Cent. Rentes
opened at 70fr. 45c. for the account, being
sc. lower.

. It would be idle to disguise the fact that
the proceedings lately taken in matters of taxation
by the legislatures of Austria and Italy have
opened the eyes of English holders of foreign
stooks to a new danger to which they are exposed.
The effect will probably be to moderate the
desire for investment in this class of securities.
Meanwhile, in order to diminish the inducement
to other states to follow the example thus act by
two of the principal powers of Europe, many per-
sons consider it advisable that the committee of
the London Stock Exchange should place formally
on record some distinct declaration relative to the
matter.

It cannot be said that there is any distinct re-
vival of confidence in the prospects of the ordinary
or tmgnaranteed railway stocks, it being felt that
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there is still great need of administrative as well as
of legislative reforms. For example, directors' ex-
travagance is as yet only checked, not stopped;
there is no guarantee that the rivalries of com-
peting oompanies may not break out again in the
old mischievous way; the important questions
connected with the establishment of a better mode
of railway audit remain as yet quite unsolved;
and the system of " making things pleasant " by
the manipulation of railway accounts still flourishes
in reveral signal instances. Nevertheless it
must be recorded that the wise measures re-
cently taken by the Great Western and South
Eastern Railway Companies, in re-arranging
the conditions of their debenture debts,
have produced a much more hopeful feeling with
regard to the ultimate tendency of railway
finance.

A irivate telegram from Rio de Janeiro, without
date, states that the budget of the Minister of
Finsnos shows a deficit of " seven millions," by
which it is presumed is meant sterling. - There wee
no news from the seat of war. Rxehange on
London was quota 171 d. At Pernambuco the
rate was 16d.

The Lc r.don end North Western Railwaytraffic
return rhows this week an increase of 3,230/., emu-
arcd with the corresponding period of last year ;
the Midland, an increase of 2,715/. ; and. the
Great Northern a decrease of 3,983/.
Vic.-Clieneellor Malins has flied the 20th in-
rtant for the appointment of an official liquidator
of the Iron Ship Coating Company (Limited).
Tee tubjenied report on the market for Ame-
rican Securities is from Messrs. Satterthwaite and
Co.:•
Yea London market fer Assam essaxiiiss has ban

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1 steady during the entire week. Government boat
I been in demand, end the recent importations. chied,
the continent, have met with ready buyers ; 5-16
_s laetroted 721 to 3, and the 1886awee Ilf to I.
ass in the Five par Cent. 10-40 Bonds ts on the =row
they ish Ave off 80 to I, or per cent. higher than this
week. chief feature of the market has been she
gamed deme-nd for Illinois Central shares, at raM
spa,dim iris; the rapid advance in Now Yom,
ported by titp'Ph ; they clam firm at 101 to I„ksing
=admeat et 4 .dols.. since our lest,cmannodlit e.
~„.;eia but httle stock is offered foray
have been r— sod at 48 to show
change. Atlantic Grua Western 1
after touching 34, close same what weaker at WI
The particulars are publlished of • ou*b4
shares and bonds of the Grand Russian ail]
Company, which have been drawn, and or I
paid off at St. Petersburg—the shares on toe
of July, and the bonds on the 13th of fecto)
next.
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MINEB.-(THIS DAY., :
ONE 0'
There is no alteration in British ininini .
Prices are quoted as follows :—Wesk" 'ver-
ton 61 to 63 ; Chiverton Moor, :Id to 1;
Fast Caradon, 31 to 1; Prince of Wales. 435.;
Wheal Beton, 80 to 85 ; New Lovell, 1. . 214.;
East Lovell, 71 to 81 ; North Downs, ,f3d. to
4t.)
276.6 d. ; Great North Downs, 3/ t , q 4-'• `Wheal
Grenville, 30s. to 325. ; Great Vor, 15rt.ci .•.
Annexed are the quotations of f.‘.. (..• and
colonial mining shares : Bt. S.IC Del
Rey, 18 to 19 ; Don Pedro, 21 to
.„. .rem. :
Anglo-Braxilian, 3-16 to 5-16 prem.' Pea-
tarena, Ito 1 dis. ; Chontales, 1 to Roses
Grande, 3-16 to 5-16 ; Anglo-Italian A to
V
prem. ; United Mexican, 1 f to f ; FrOn ..2 o and
Bolivia, 1 to 1 ; and Port Pluilim946 f.. 11-16.
The Peetarena United Gold • • P. .. pany
(Limited) have received a remittance o ... ounces
of gold. Recent amalgamating operati. - have
been attended with an undue loss of . 6 ' and
consequent loss of gold. This has unfa • nrably
affected the return. But the managing . • ..tor
now telegraphs to say that he believes 50 .
.dis-
covered the cause. f

RAILWAY, MINING, AND OFIIIIR
SHARES-(THIS DA r 4

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COLONIALCIXOWrIrMENT t°
I 11" a.
Canada Government, 6 per cent., Jan. and J 941, 38.
New South Wales Government, 6 per . 1888 ke
1896, January and July, 991, 100.
Do. 6 per cent., red. by ann. draws. brag 1867 to
1875, 102.
New Zealand, 5 per cent., 991.
Do., 8 per cent., 1891, June and December i2l.
Nova Government, 8 per cent. 188 K 1
queerisland,4 § per pent.l Jan. and July*, 10.
ORlAllik, HUMA rh irroak
Clreai Ratan, MI, 8, 51, 88.
Great Northeik, 106 I. •
Do. A. (A receivii kb ffrviding until 6 per bent. bas
been paid to B), 964.
Great Western, original, 631.
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1I 4, 9.
London, Brighton, and South Coast, 524. a
London, Chatham, and Dover, 204, 1.
London and North Weatern, 118 f, 4. 3.1
IlenroWitan 1104,
Do.-Extension, divs lien. to 6 per mut. till An., 18711,
0-4
IVidlan 107.
North Fasten:-Berwick, 1031. • ,„r
Do.-Leeda, 58. ad
Do.-Vork, 94.
Shropsliwe Union, 681. qua
South Eastern, 761,
PREFERENCE SHARES. hi
Gt. Western, orig. (B. and H. Ex.), 41 psi Midland, 41 per cent. redeemable, 96.
8.1.04,41
PREF'ERENCE SHARES AND .
Midland, A and B, 5 per cent., 1051.
LINES LEASED AT FIRED RENTAL&
Birkenhead, 9'24.
BRITISH POSSESSIONS. I
Bombay, Bar., and Cent. India gun. 6 par cent," 1068.
Eastern Bengal Guaranteed 6 per cent, 109
East Indian Guaranteed 6 per cent., 112.
Great Indian Peninsula Guaranteed 6 per cent:: 111, I.
Great Southern of India-guar. 6 per cent, 1061.
Cheat Western of Canada, 144.
Madras Guaranteed 5 per cent, 1061, 71. .
Scinde, guar. 5 per cent., 104.
Ditto, Delhi, gun. 6 per cent., 1041, 31, 4f.
INDIAN RAILWAY DEBEICTURE4.!
East Indian, 1094.
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
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Antwerp and Rotterdam, 10 1.
Belgian Eastern Junction, 11. (t
Dutch Rhenish New, 6 3-1.
Great Luxembourg, 12 , 3-16. •T
Lemberg-Czernowits • ), 151. • a.:
FOREIGN RAILWAY OBLIGATIONS
Orel Vitebsk, guar. by Russian govt., 6 per oem., 84
South Austa khan and Lombardo-Venetian 3 Foment, 81.
BRITISH MINES. ~r
East Lovell, 8.
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COLONIAL AND FOREIGN
Anglo-Brazilian Gold (Limited), 4.
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s) Choate' Gold and Silver Mining (Limited). 13-16.
Port Phillip, 1 11-16.
Rosa Grande, 1 pm.
St. John del Rey (Limited), 19.
DOCKS.
Fast and West India, 116.
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
trnrios4"4)ted 15. ,
Ahem• (Limited), lata4. r.cf
Angio-nimism, 64 94'
Chartered of India, Australia, and China, IWI
rats 4 • )
(Latitted)-
Englie, Soottials, and Ampa4. iian Charktie444,l6.
Imperial Ottoman, In,.
London Chartered of Delia, 241.
London and County, 521. ,
Loudon Joint Stook, 34 1. '.Mlnndon and South African, 91.
London and Westminster, 711. ot
MISCELLANEOUS.
Atlantic Telegraph, 8 per cent., 100, 991.
Berlin Water Works Mited), 14.
Bombay Gm New (Limited), 2 1-16.
Ceylon Company (Limited) 71, 4.
Colonial 121.
Crystal Palace, 281
Egyptian 9 per cent. Viceroy, guar. by Egyptiaw contra-
ment^
Electric and International Telegraph, 166.
General Credit and Discount (Limited), 51.
Hudson's Bay, 161, 4.
Italian Irrigation (Canal Cavourl,
Landon Financial Asociation (Lmited), 10.
London General Omnibus Company (Limited), 21.
Viceroy of Egypt (Mortgage) Loam. 744.

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MINCING-LANE.-(113118 DAlti,
Sven .-Tee rimiest continues 1n the same dalhatate as
previously reported. Prices are now 2s. per owl. below the
recent highest prices of the market. Jamaica sold-rbrown,
at 305. ed. to 335. 6d; Antigua, low to good, 31Aro 34a. ;
Grenadaineditirozeto middling, 315. to 6 3214Arrara,
32it01riezz.....-torices are again easier for all as.
a MOTS SIAM] 0 INA.
decline. Plantation Ceylos, ordinary to fininzicinary
grey, 625. Bd. to 820. ; low nu to bold,
645. Bd. to 695. ; low mitlillum to mid ' °arum, Oa. to
775. 6d. ; good and fine mi tUing, 805. to 83.4 native
Ceylon, mall, 40a. to 44a. ; ordinary to good ordinary,
465. to 495. ; Sae ordinary, 495. 6d. ..4
TAL-The Indian sales are progressing withorgt spirit,
and at irregular prices.
Rnat.-150 puns. of Jamaica sold at steady-4a
30 puns. of Demerara at Is. 10d.
?Incr.-The market is dull, and prices of tacit articles
rale in buy' favour.
Ilics.-1,000 bags of Hallam sold at Bs. btasB6l.:
2,000 bags Dacca, at 105. 3d. ; and 600 tons
afloat, at 10e. ex ship.
Paco.-ICO boxes of medium pear sold at 19(
Prnais.-3,000 begs of black pepper sold 02 further
plight decline ; Singapore, 3fd. to 31d. ; ' toad.'
300 bogs Singapore white, at eteady prime. _
fair, 6d. toe is Is bags pimento, at 203.4! cams
?rusts cloves, good middling, Std. ; 3 cues at to.
to 25. led.: 23 cases noise" man. Is. A 13.
middrng, Is. a. to Is. at ; Sae bold, hi. Bd.: barrels
of Jamaica. ginger, seed at fall prior, low dark good,
tore
37r. to Ste, ; 13 tame eoehin Unwed, 375. ; or
African, at 275. ea.; 150balesCeylon cinnamon, sort, at
2r. Id. to 25. 4d.: second. to.; third, Is. 80. 100
begs of chips, at W. to 9}<l. . ,
la
&UM ax.-220 bags sold„ _part fine quality, ales. Dd.
Calton.-TeeMk% We 11121 00ilibled to small at
priors in buyers' favour. ' us
JCIA.-6.000 bales have been sold at iireviotis
Frio's. common, 161. 10s. to 171. fa.; mid4Wg 71. 105.
to 1411. 6e. • One, IW. les. to W. 6s. rd
CocsansUr..-600 hags sold-Honduras rivet at 2d, per
lb. desks; other kiwis at about previous Hon-
duras milver low to good, to. Q. to 35. 7d.; MA*
3e. led. ; Tenerife giver, 3s. 3d to gel.: 4d. to
as. 7d. •
to idWreaks& sever, 3s. ldi to 3a. 2d.; 3s. a2d,ft. . .

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