The Express.
London, England, 1861-11-27 00:00:00

MARE L1528.-(THIS DAY,)

Two o'Ciosg.
The railway market opened steadily, but the
sews by the West India packet has caused a gene-
' ral decline, the present prices, however, being very
!irregular. London and North Western stock has
been quoted 93 to 94; Midland, 12Stito 1301
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 107. to ; Great
Western 701 to 71 ; Caledonian, 1 to e ;
South Eastern 75i to 76 ; Great Northern, 113
to 114 ; and Eastern Counties, 63 to 54.
Foreign and colonial descriptions are also heavy,
and almost unsaleable. Lombardo-Venetian shares
are quoted i to prem.

MONEY MARKET.-(THIS D.l Y.)

?we o'CLoca.

The stock markets were quiet in the early part
of the day, but on the report that the Southern
Confederate Commissioners had been taken by an
United States frigate from the British West India
packet while on their way to England a sudden
and severe fall took place. Consols, which have
been chiefly affected, are about j per cent. lower.
At Paris this morning, according to Mr.
Reuter's telegram, the Three per Cent. Reutes
opened at 69fr. 95c., showing a fall of rather more
than j per cent. since yesterday.
The Indian Five per Cent. Loan has fallen to
1061.

Consols are officially marked 94 and 941,
cum div., for money, and 921 and 1, ex
div., for the acoount. The present quotations
are respectively 93/ to and 911 to 1.
The official business report is as follows :
Three per Cents. Reduced, 92/, ; New
Three per Cents., 921, 1 ; India Stock, 227 ;
ditto Five per Cent. Stock, 1061, I, cum
div. ; ditto, for account, 1041, ex div. ; ditto Four
per Cent. Debentures, 1884, 99 ; ditto, 1859, 99 ;
ditto Bonds, 15e. prem. ; Exchequer Bills, 7s.
prem. ; ditto, June, 10s. prem.
The transactions in foreign stocks have been
rather limited, and the tendency this afternoon is
generally adverse. Turkish Six per Cents. have
declined to 80 to 81, the 1854 stock, and 70 to 71
for that of 1858. The following bargains were
recorded up to one o'clock, since when
the present' depression has taken place. Sales
are recorded as follows : Buenos Ayres
Deferred, 30 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Ceuta.
66, (exchange 1264 ; ditto Four per Cent. Cer-
tificates, 1001 ; Mexican Three per Cents., 281,
28 ; Peruvian Uribarren Four-and-a-Half per
Ceuta., 97 ; Portuguese Three per Ceuta., 1863, 48 ;
Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 1860, 92/ ;
ditto Three per Cents., 1869, 60 ex div. ; Spanish
Three per Cents, 62 ; ditto New Deferred Three per
Cents. ,for amount, 43 ; the Committee's Certifs. , 61;
Turkish Six per Cents., 18M, 82, 1 ; ditto Six
per Cents., 1868, 721,;, 731, 73 ; dittolool. Bonds,
751, 75 ; Venezuela Three per Cents., 231,

The msil steamer Ls Pita has arrived from the
West Indies with the large total of 460,0001. in
specie.

A meeting bas been held to-day of the creditors
of Messrs. Amott Brothers, silk mercers, of St.
Paul's-churchyard ; the liabilities reach 20,7921.,
and net assets 16,0481., showing about 15e. Scl. in
the pound.
In the discount market the supply of money has
increased, and the rate for good bills has declined
to 2} per cent. Very little business was done yes-
terday at the Bank of England.
The 277,5001, Australian by the Roxburgh
Castle and James Wilson reached London yester-
day. With the exception of a small amount which
will be sent to Spain, the whole will be taken to
the Bank, after being relined.
The silver market was flatteryesterday, the orders
for the out-going Bombay steamer having been
completed, and a belief prevailing that the next
Mexican packet will bring • Lugs amount of
specilne.
the exchanges yesterday afternoon there was
little variation from Friday's rates. The quota-
tion for bile on Hamburg was rather firmer. Sub-
joined is our usual list:

Aradorlua 3 Months. 11.194 le 11.194 ; ditto, days,
11174 to 18 ; BeVanbas. maths, 11 194 to 12.00 ;
3r3 mooths, 11534 to 74 ; Hamburg, ms. boom,
osur4 13.84 to 9 ; PIMA 3 days, 25.20 to 5 ; ditto,
3 'south', 35.524 to 74 •Fri dott.on-tbo•lfaine, 3 months,
1184 to 1184 ; Petersburg (per rouble). 3 months, 334 to I ;
TwoM, off. Smooths, 14.15 to 25; Trieste, off. do., 3
mouths, 14.15 to 25 ; IWrid, 3 months, to ; GAM, 3
0214484 to I ; Uglier", 3 mon 25.674 to 75 •
0117., 3 months, 25.674 to 75 ; months, 25.871
to 75 ; Nap!, 3 months, 394 tof ; falorono, 3 months,llB
to 119; Enema, 3 mouths, 1184 to 119; Lisbon, 90 days,
52 to 4 ; Oporto, 90 day', 524 to 4. '
The Liverpool cotton market yesterday was
Islightly firmer, but the salvo did not exceed 5,000
bales.
The Stock Exchange Committee have decided to
have a separate section in the official share lids,
with the following heading :—" Preference Shares
and Stocks, with Dividends contingent on the Pro-
fits of each separate year." This section will com-
prise the several claims of railway preference
capital raised under acts passed in 1859, 1880, and
1861, in all of which, with some trifling exeeptious,
the claim for dividends is limited to the profits of
one year. The new section is now in course of
preparation, and will be ready in a few days.
At the annual meeting of the Peninsular and
Oriental Steam Navigation Company, on the
3rd Dec., the directors will recommend a dividend
of 3} per cent for the half-year as well as a pay-
ment of 3 per cent. for the year from the proprie-
tors underwriting account.
The appointment of Mr. Harding (of the firm of
Harding, Pullein, and Co.) as official manager of
the " Dank of Deposit" having been appealed
against, was yesterday confirmed by the Master of
the Rolls. A meeting of the creditors will proba-
bly ba convened shortly.
The directors of the Venezuela Cotton Company
are circulating extracts from reports received by the
two last mails, from Mr. Minos C. Vincent, C.E.,
who has proceeded to Venezuela, instructed specially
to examine the whole of the lands proposed to be pur-
chased by the company, and to report not only as to
their capability for producing cotton, but also upon
all other sources of profit that may fairly be relied
on. Mr. Vincent is from the Southern States of North
America, where he has always been similarly occu-
pied, and is stated to be fully capable of forming a
correct and valuable opinion. The result of his ob-
servations is very satisfactory. We annex an ex-
tract front the concluding portion of his report :

I believe there is aa much land of an excellent quality
on the company's estate as they sill desire to improve. Nor
do I believe that the company, on seeing their lands, will
feel disposed to maintain thirir determination of growing
cotton only ; coffee and cocoa will most probably be grown
in conjunction with catton—at least, I am persuaded
that the abuodaut cropi of both coffee and cocoa
now maturing upon their lands would forcibly sanc-
tion such a programme. Meanwhile. I am fully con-
vinced that cotton can be grown most successfully; but it
certainly will appear injudicious to destroy those fruitful
little estates, or to allow them to remain without enlarging
them. Here in TUCACiII are a number of most In:anent
ootton.trees, fifteen feet in height. It appears odd to see
some of the branches snowy white with ripe cotton, while
others are a beautiful yellow, with tender blossoms. Every-
QM; wears a much brighter aspect since the difficulties at-
tending the revolution have culminated. When I first
visited Tuescas there were but three families residing helv—
e!! the rest had deserted their homes ; since the inauguration
of General Pain, as dictator, they have been from time to
time returning. At present there are seventeen families re.
siding here. lam told that the western portion of the
company's lands abound in heavy valuable timber. I shall
examine the extreme west of the whole estate before I write
Sn-
ubjoined are the latest quotations of insurance,
dock, and other shares, as given in the
gee,
Exchange list of last evening :
Insurance. Alliance British and Foreign, 141 to I ;
Atlas, 124 ; Eagle, 71 ; Globe, 98 ; Guardian, 49 to si ;
Imperial kin, 303 to 50 • Law Fire, 41 ; London, 44 ; Lou-
don and Proviecial Nakao, II to ; Marine, 951 ; Ocean
Marine, 101 ; Royal a:change, 300; gun Fire, 225; Thames
and Mersey Marine, 3to • Universal Marius, 31 to 3.
Gee Light and Coke.—(treat Ceotral, 111 ex all ; Im-
perial, 821 ; New ditto, 59 ; Imperial Coutiuental, 501 to
50 ; Loudon Parliamentary, 29 ; United General, 2.31 to ;
Westminster Chartered, 6'71 ; Ditto New, 291.
Ducks.—Loodon, 041 to 4 to to 31 to 41; Vactoria,ll4 to 1.
Waterwortra—Berlin, 51 to 1 - Chelsea New Guaranteed,
1862 24; Southwark and Vanxiall, 120.
We have received a oupy of a document of an
extraordinary character. It is nothing less than
the project of a loan for 20,000,000 dollars for the
benefit of the personage styled " H. R. H. the
Prince Don Juan de Bodeen." The document is
accompanied by the following note from a firm
styling themselves Bernal, U'Doherty, Newman,
and Co., of Cannon-street :