The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-10 00:00:00

IeADAID. Das.
The Gate& publishes a oixoulas of flame
Minerals sojoiaing the gammon of the prosiness
to USe an legal mesas to outapel the people to pay
the tease clue to the state.

An announoernent appears in the Gazette oon-
Arming the intelligent* that an armistios of 48
home has been granted to the insurgent, at Cadiz.
The railway has been torn up and the telegraph
;wires cut between Urea and Puerto de Santa
Pieria by the escaped ouviets from Caliz, who,
however, have been ceptured.
The subscriptions to the new loan amount to
414 millions.

MARIIT.--(THIS DAY.

ONE O'CLOCK.

No change has been made in the Bank rate to-
day, but it is anticipated in many quarters that a
further upward movement will be reported ere
long. In the Stock Exchange dulness is apparent,
and the transactions show a preponderanoe of sales.
Prices, however, are without any special change,
the amount of business being rather moderate.
Consols exhibit no variations. The variations in
railway and foreign stocks are confined to a few
doeoriptions, and do not exceed I per oent. The
important advance which took place yesterday in
the securities of the Atlantic and Great Western
Railway is maintained. Banking and Inamdal
shares are inactive.

There is a fair demand for money, and the lowest
rate for bills is 21 per cent. The oharge for ad-
vanoes in the Stock Exchange is 1/ to 2.
The English funds are quoted 99/ to I, ex div.,
for money, and 92/ to , ex div., for th• ac-
count (Jan. 6), and the Three per Conte. Reduced
and New Three per Cent., 921 to 1.
The railway market is rather dull, but the only
change is a decline of / to per cent. in Great
Eastern and Metropolitan stocks, viz., to 401 to
411, and 1044 to 1, respectively. London and
North Western, 1121 to 1; Greet Western, 48/ to
49; Midland, 1121 to 1; London and South Wagt-
ail, 874 to 881; Brighton, 481 to 49; South
Eastern, 791 to j ; Groat Northern, 106 to 107 ;
ditto A, 107/ to 108; Caledonian, 741 to ;
and London, Chatham, and Dover, 17 to 1.
The changes in foreign bonds are about evenly
balanced. Peruvian of 1863, and Turkish of
1863, have advanced 1 to 1 per cent, while Nicolai
and Charkof-Azof have declined to the same ex-
tent. Annexed are the quotations :—Brazilian
of 1866, 774 to 781; Chili= of 1867, 961
to 1; Egyptian of 1884, 83 to 84 ; ditto
of 1868, 731 to 711 ; Italian :of 1861, 661 to
; ditto Tobacco Loan, 31 to prem. ; Mexi-
can, 131 to 1 ; Peruvian of 1886, 811 to 1;
Russian of 1866, 891 to 901 ; ditto Nicola, 631
to 1 ; ditto Orel, 791 to 801; ditto Moscow-
Jaroelaw, 781 to 79, ex div. ; ditto Charkof-
Arof, 1 to 01 die. ; ditto Charcow-Krementschug,
<Hs. to prem. ; Spanish of 1867, 324 to 4 ;
Turkish of 1868, 611 to 62 ; ditto of 1862, 63
to 1 ; and ditto of 186.5, 391 to /.
The Indian Five per Cents. remain flat, at 1111
to 112. The Four are quoted 1021 to 103 ; the
Bonds, 7e. to 12s. prem., being 2s. better ; and
the Debentures, 10.5 to 1. Exchequer Bills are
2s. lower, at 3s. to 10s. prem. Bank Stock, 241
to 244.

Bank shares present no movement. London
and Westminster, VI to 681 ; Union of London,
391 to ; London and County, 601 to 311;
London Joint Stock, 361 to 34 ; Anglo-Austrian,
71 to 8 prem. ; and Imperial Ottoman, Ito I t
pron. . .

No alteration has occurred in miscellaneous
shares. General Credit, 21 to 2; National Diaoount,
11/ to 121 die. ; International Financial, 11 to 1/
dis. ; Hudson's Bay, 14 to f ; Telegraph Construc-
tion, 153 to I ; Atlantic Telegraph Eight per
Cent. Preference, 3 11-16 to 13-16 ; and Anglo-
American, 213 to a.
With the exception of a reduction of / por cent.
in the to-20 Bonds, via., to 74 to I, American
securities are unchanged. Erie Railway shares,
262 to 27 ; Illinois Central, 96 to I ; Atlantic
and Groat Western Debentures, 391 to 401; and
the Consolidated Mortgage Bonds, 401 to 41.
The Liverpool cotton market is steady to-day,
and the sales are expected to reach 12,000 bales.
The half-yearly meeting of the Ceylon Company
(Limited) will be held on the 22nd inst., " for the
purpose of declaring an interim dividend."

The steamer Elomersetshire, for Melbourne, left
Plymouth yesterday morning, aftsr being detained
seven days at that port by strong south-westerly
gales.

TWO O'CLOCK.

The government funds are dull. Consols have
declined 1-16 per cent. for money, viz., to 92/ to
1, ex div. ; but are unaltered for the amount, at
921 to 1, ex div. The Three per Cents. Reduced
and New Three per Cents. are lower, at 92/ to
1. Midland Railway stock has declined 1 per
cent., while Great Eastern is 1 better. Spanish
bonds of 1887 have receded to 321 to 1, but
Turkish of 1866 have improved 1 to t, the present
price being 301 to 40.
FOUR O'CLOCK.

Cmw,la are without alteration, at W2k to ,ex
div., for money, and 921t0 Z, ex dir., for the ac-
count.

The railway market is quiet, and prices ice with-
out change of importance. Caledonian, 741 to 73 ;
Brighton, 481 to 49 ; Metropolitan, 104* to I ;
South Eastern, 791 to 1; Midland, 112: to I;
Great Eastern, 41 to f ; and London and North
Western, 114 to 3.
Foreignbonds are inactive. Italian, 36* to 3;
Peruvian of 1865, 813 to 1; 'Pinkish of 1883,
39: to ; Spanish of 1867, 321 to : ; Charkof-
Azof, 1 to 03 die. ; and Chareow-Hrementschug,
3 dis. to 3 prem.
About 48,0091. in bar gold has been bought by
the Bank to-day.
At Paris this morning the Three per Cent.
Buntes opened ut 71fr. 33e. for the account, being
se. bettor.

At a meeting of the• creditors of Messrs. Henry
Knowles and Bon, spinners and manufacturers, of
Burnley and Rawtenstull, held on Tuesday, the
liabilities were estimated at 34.2981., and the assets
itt 10,8,18/. A committee of investigation was
&pp Anted.
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At an extraordinary meeting yesterday of the
Loan, Trust, and Agency Company of South
Africa (Limited), the directors were authorised to
circumscribe the operations of the undertaking at
the Cape of Good Hope to existing commitments.
A cull of 8/. per share, being the whole of the
remaining uncalled capital of the Oriental Com-
mercial Bank (Limited), has been made, payable
in two instalments of 41. each, on the 7th January
and 7th April, 1861), at the offices of Messrs.
Cooper Brothers and Co.
Formal notice is given, on behalf of the Inter-
natit•nal Financial Society, (Limited and Ite-
dueed,) ti at the petition foe warming the row-

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reducing theadroll *ma 3,000,0001. to
I.soo.9otiiiii to be belepo#l6l/4,4, of,.
sir hot Nib instaak •'' ', ` • • .) (
Ile &Mese* of the Digit ritte
(Limited) hays appointed I&
easier* la 1.40n&n durbirdie i
,for two'eare of the maillitelle tin ^44: &iv
'kt an entreoel
M itaary al'alendiroida
nfrationbe obil Onsepiow. (Unated)ll7
day, thegatnial rillablilmi pained on
antliorinng As Ns' of b,OOOl.
was duly oenthneed, It wwarstatenima d dister"......
..cent Lad helm for by persona aireed7
interested in the a, ng.
With reference to the 5 per cent. A Babe;
• Stock of the (treat Eastern Railway Oompony,
holders of My paid up allotments are roquisod.
to seed them in to the secretary by the 14th MIL.'
to be exchanged for registered debenture etc* •
oertidostes, while holders of allotments 4M‘
which 90 per oont has bee, paid are to
them by the 2Vth inst., on which' day the booby
will be closed in order 1 ?ropers the dividend.:
warrants payable on the let of ,Tanury.
The subjoined report on the market forAmeritem '
securities is from the circular of Sass s. fiatter....
thwaito and Co. :
Ia the Unclog marlin for Americus securities. MIMI '
States 5-90 Bonds remain steady at the quotancrin riS eat '
last; the traasections bare befog, a comparatively India°
ataad the lactuatioas d the week mimpertiort.
honor's is recorded ia,lliiasiClonal share/449 • ,
ekes Aria at 964 to Is. Erica. aft...nudism le Web .
have of 204 to 94. That ;los bow a rim le-dny. freer t
trosturotathaszeifnodeaterjelanticues, red ;heat Weielstar4 .
to 41, and an latter 39 to 40. Central Peeillocri"vßaidi, en
increased demand, ars last quoted 794 to 711. ,
It is stated that the Atlantic and Great Western t
Railway has been leased to the Erie Railway Com-
pony for a pealed of 21 years, and that the terms . ,
agreed upon involve a carrying out of the pro- '.
posal of the Atlantic and Groat Western Beffiray
ctors, which was submitted to the shareholders
some time ago. According to one atatement, el
portion of the sums derived from recent imam of
shares by the Erie Railway Company will be ap-
plied to the carrying oat of this project.
Messrs. Thomson, Boner, and Co. have mime-
flood the dividend due the • 14th January, on the
Tamboff-Korloff Railway !lye per Cent. Loan.

NAILWAYMININO. AND OTHIR
SHABIM-(THIS DAY.)

Pain moos to £ p.a.j
COW lAL GOTRIMORIT MO

cansia, 6 pet Jan. and a;il7, 1877:84,1071.
Do., 6 per cent., Jan. and Inly, 9.71.
New South Wake, 6 per cent., Jan. and July, Mt to
1836, 100 1.
New 6 per cent, Consolidated, Jan., April.
Jufleattiand.Oct., 1.
6 per cent., Jan. and July 1882-6, 108, 11.
Victoria, 6 per cent., Jan. and July, 1801, 1121, 1.
Do., April and Oct., 1091.

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