The Express.
London, England, 1868-03-19 00:00:00

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ONE O'CLOCH.
Public securitlee are slightly fatter to-day, upon
realimlises. The adverse changes in prices, how-
ever, are confined to a few Mocks. Commis have
clacibead 1-16 per sank, and two or three cd the
epasolative foreign bonds 1. The variations in
railway .bane an about evenly balanced. Colonial
government debentures are steady, and banking,
financial, and miscellaneous shares inactive.
Console are quoted 13 to kw money and
931 for the account (April 2), and the Three
per Cents. Reduced and New Three per Cede.,
92 to e.

There is a fair demand for money, at 11 to 2 per
oent for the best three months bills. Loans on
English government securities are offered in the
Stock Exchange at to 2 per oent.
With reaped to railway stocks, North British
has declined 3 per cent., and Lancashire
and Yorkshire }, while Great Eastern, Brigh-
ton, and South Eastern have improved
} to }. Annexed are the quotations: —Cale
donian, 82} to 1 ; London and North Western,
1141 to 1154 ; Great Western, 4% to ; Midland,
105} to 1; London and South Western, 85 to 88 ;
Great Eastern, 311 to 32 ; Brighton, 484 to 49} ;
South Eastern, 721 to 73 ; Metropolitan. 114} to } ;
Great Northern, 1041 to 105} ; ditto A, 100 to } •
London, Chatham, and Dover, 18} to 1 ; Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, 126} to 3 ; York and North
Midland, 83} to 3 ; Berwick, 100} to 101; and
North Britiab, 93 to 4.
No variation is observable in colonial railway
shares. East Indian, 109} to 110 ; Great Indian
Peninsula, 1081 to 1094 ; Grand Trunk of
Canada, 154 to 1 ; and Great Western, 181 to }.
Metropolitan District Railway Debenture 'took,
new issue, is quoted 1 to 1} prem.
With the exception of a decline of } per cent. in
Italian of 1881 and Mexican, viz., to 471 to 3 and
151 to 16, respectively, there is no change in
foreign stocks. Brazilian of 1866, 71} to
72} ; Chilian of 1867, 89 to } ; Egyptian of
1864, 87 to 88 ; the Vioeroy's Loan, 731 to 74} ;
Peruvian of 1865, 77} to 3 ; Russian of 1886, 87
to } ; ditto, Oral Vitebsk Railway Loan, 78} to
I ; Spanish New, 351 to 36 ; Turkish of 1858, 59}
to 60} ; ditto of 1862, 62} to 63} ; and ditto of
1865, 33} to 4.

The market for Indian government stocks is
quiet, with few transactions. The Five per Cents.,
114 to * ; ditto Four, 1001 to 101, ex div. ; ditto
Bonds, 30s. to 35e. prem. ; and ditto Five per
Cent. Debentures, 105 to *. Exchequer Bills are
ls. higher, at 11s. to 16s. prem. The transfer
books for Bank Stock are shut.
A few dealings have been recorded in Bank shares
at yesterday'■ quotations. London and West-
minatar, 67/ to 681 ; Union of London, 33 to 34 ;
Oriental Corporation, 42 to 43 ; Anglo-Austrian,
31 to; prem. ; London and Brazilian, 34 to 32
din ; and Imperial Ottoman, 1 die. to 1 prem.
Financial shares are unaltered. General Credit,
21 to dis. ; Credit Foncier, 7to 61 die. ; Inter-
national Financial, 1I to n din. ; and London, 26 to
24 dia.

Miscellaneous shares are steady. National Di.-
count, 5 to 61 prem. ; Hudson's Bay, 131 to 141 ;
Egyptian Trading, to j dia. ; Telegraph Con-
struction, 131 to 141 ; Atlantic Telegraph Eight
per Cent. Preference, 51 to II ; and Anglo-Ameri-
can, 22 to f.

United States 5-20 Bonds and Illinois Central
Railway shares are without variation, 72i to I and
Sot to f respectively ; but Erie have improved
per cent., viz., to 443 t to I.
The adjourned half-yearly meeting of the Great
Western Railway Company will be held on the
tad of April. A special meeting is also convened
for the same day for the purpose of considering •
proposal for an amalgamation with the Bristol and
South Wales Union Railway Company.
A public meeting of the holders of Mexican bonds
is convened for the 27th rout., "To receive the
Report of the Provisional Committee, to appoint al
Permanent Committee, and to adopt measures to
further and seams the interests of the bond-
holders."