The Express.
London, England, 1857-09-10 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.-THIS DAY.

Two o'Cioca.
The funds remain dull at the reduction which was
established yesterday afternoon. Some sales for
money have been effected. The Bank court, as was
generally anticipated, have broken up without an-
nouncing any change in the rate of discount.
Commis are dull at 901 to for money, and 901
to 1 for the 14th October. The new Two-and-a-Half
per Cents. are marked 76; Exchequer-bills, Is. to 2s.
die., being lower; and India Bonds, 22a. die.
Turkish Six per Cents. are steady at 951 to 1.
Other foreign stocks are also fairly supported.
Sales are recorded as follows : Brazilian Old
Five per Cents., at 102 to ; Mexican
Bonds, for account (16th Sept.), at 211 to 211 ;
Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., for account,
at 79; Portuguese Three per Cents., 1853, at 451 ;
Spanish Old Three per Cents.,at 401 ; ditto, New De-
ferred Three per Cents. at 251; Turkiah Six per
Outs. at 951; ditto, for account, at 95! and 951 ;
ditto, Guaranteed Four per Cents. at 991.
The steamer Etna has arrived from Alexandria,
with the 60,9771. in Australian gold which was
conveyed to Suez by the European.
The Chilian dollars, brought by the steamer La
Plata, have been sold at 4e. 111 d. per oz.
At Paris and Hamburg the exchanges on London
remain firm ; bat at Amsterdam the quotation
is • little lower. At Paris onTuesday, the ex-
change on London was quoted 25.20 to 25 for short,
and 24.85 to 871 for 3 monthibills ; at Amsterdam,
11.76 for short ; at Hamburg, 13.41 for short, and
13.11 for 3 months; and at Berlin, 6.181.
The corn market yesterday was quiet, and the cur-
rent quotations were nominally the same as on Mon-
day. Since
arrived at pacts of call, of which 8 consist of wheat,
and 11 of maize. This branch of the market is firm.
From most of the country markets an advance of Is.
to 3s. per qr. is reported in wheat, but the French
advice§ announce a further general decline.
The Chilena has arrived from Shanghai, with
430,700 lha. of tea, and 1,018 bales of silk on freight.
A very unpleasant feeling bas been excited in
the Stock Exchange by the refusal of the directors I
of the Riga and Dunaburg Railway Company to
return the original deposit of 11. to the holden
of some of the old shares. The terms of
the advertisement put forward by the com-
pany were as follows :—" Any holder of
the original 1001. share on which the call of 41.
has not been paid may receive back the original de-
posit of 11. per there on or before the 7th day of
September next, on surrendering the said share, and
leaving it at the company's offices for two clear days
previously for the usual verification." On Monday,
the 7th, members of the Stock Exchange took to the
company's office several hundred shares, to claim the
return of 11., and were astonished at meeting an ab-
solute refusal on the part of the directors to receive
them. The ground of the refusal was, that the shares
ought to have been presented two clear days before
the 7th, exclusive of the Sunday. Considering the
length of time during which the affairs of this com-
pany have been in abeyance, and the delay of 18
months which has occurred before it could be said to
have any real status at all, the sufferers consider that
the course now adopted is the more remarkable.
Many persons have always entertained the opinion
that the directors are personally liable to return at
least the original 11. deposit, as the terms of the
original prospectus were never fulfilled. It is alleged
that the opinion of counsel is confirmatory of this
view, and that the directors were recommended to
voluntarily offer to the original holders a return of
the deposit. The board have only themselves to
blame if their present conduct induces a suspicion
that the notification above quoted was dictated
mainly by a wish to screen themselves from per-
sonal responsibility. The unpopularity of the com-
pany in the Stock Exchange is not likely
.to be
diminished by the affair, and this is a point in the
case which concerns the entire body of shareholders.
The half-yearly meeting of the Great Western
Railway Company of Canada is called for the 6th
Oct., in London.
A special general meeting
.of the Geelong and
Ballarat Railway Company is called for the 25th
hitt., to confirm the resolution for winding no the
company.
A special general meeting of the British Steam
Fisheries Company is called for the 21st inst., to take
into consideration the "report of the directors on the
working of the company's experimental ship Alba-
tross during her recent trial ;" also to consider,
" whether, under the circumstances, the objects con-
, templated at the formation of the company should be
farther prosecuted, or whether the company should
not be at once wound up."
The half-yearly meeting of the British Gas Com-
pany is called for the 30th inst., when • dividend
will be declared.
The Admiralty will receive tenders on the 15th
inst. for the conveyance of stores (pros isions, bricks,
Bm.) from the Thames to the Bahamas and Sierra
Leone. Tenders are also invited for the conveyance
of a limited quantity of stores from the Thames to
Gibraltar, Colombo, !daunting, Cape Town, St. He-
lena, Bermuda, Sydney, Adelaide, Melbourne, Auek-
land, Hobart Town, Quebec, Montreal, Jamaica, and
Bermuda. _ _

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The amount of bills drawn by the East India
Company on their respective presidencies, from the
26th ult. to the 9th inst. (yesterday), is as follows:
Rate of Exchange.
BowlCo s rupee.
Madras L 12,0,709541
127 107 )24. Id. per C
Beanbag

Total £13,137 0 5
In the produet market indigo. commands con-
siderable attention at present, owing to the appre-
hensions of a very short crop. We extract the
following from the monthly Circular of Meson.
Layton, Hntbert and Co.:
Impreesed with the Important effect which the rebellion
has exercised upon the production in the upper provinces of
Bengal, the importers have abstained from oftring their
Indigo, except in small quantities, and at en advance of 9d.
to ls. per lb. upon the currency of July. On these terms the
buyers may have taken 390 chests in the fortnight, for even
they b4n to realise the danger of their position in the event
of another short crop and there is reasonable feu that it
may prove one of the very shorted. within thirty-Ave years.
Serious as is this ,eubject to the consumers of indigo, its
gravity is deepened by the threatened scarcity of iced for the
ensuing season. At the date of our tut deices 20 ripen
per maned lied been paid for seed usually worth di. dome
important plAntera alteady contemplated a reduction of their
cultivation, doubtful whether sufficient seed can be procured
to sow mote than a moiety of their lands. The deliveries in
August, 3,973 chests of cheap purchase of July, indicate August,
a meg, active consumptka: we have yet to learn the effect
which the late the may have upon it. The October sales are
Axed for the 13th of that month; they may comprise 12,000
ehmts of all kinds.

MIDLAND RAILWAY.—Mr. Newcombe, formerly
eaperintendent of the goods trafse of the North Basica
Company, at Named* sad lately of the Great Western, but
been appointed general manager of the Midland Railway in
the room of Mr. /Open, resigned.
ELOPEMENT.—An event has just occurred, in
the pariah of Naha', which will supply food for the
vtllcge gossips for months to come. A few years ago, a
pretty widow, residing in the parish, formed an attach-
ment for one of the villagers, who had long felt that earth
held "no one like to her." They were married, and
everybody, especially his rivals, thought the lucky rustic
was blessed. Ile thought so too, poor fellow, and walked
by the ride of his pretty bride on Sundays, In his best
clothes, with a feeling of laudable pride and malefaction.
Happily and comfortably' they lived, until a very short
time since, when the unfaithful wife was charmed by the
eye of mother, with whom she wickedly had clandestine
nmsellsgs. At lad the guilty pair arranged a plot to
lave the neighbourhood together which for cochlea end
Impudence we have never heard equalled. One night last
week the husband end wife retired together, the wife, to dim. WEDNESDAY EVENING.
arm suspicion, making a chow of increased "Nation. How-
ever, in the middle of the night, she said she wee 6' and In the absence of the anxiously-expected news
get up' tetkewleg bet husband t° go to da°62°!ill• would from India, speculation in the Stock Exchange eon-
-1110 be, It again immediately. He dent, and titie he did so, ,
the wife stripped the boat of every available sends of value, uau" eery restricted. This, however, being
and clacarop with a mechanic of tbo "sixth eaaatek." "settling day," some occupation was provided for
eh; tbieehieiwnlowinntetheseNuniwreeekY hrsw„bi af:aw d"welibe best pit tileekelloo the dealers. The funds retained considerable stea-
morrty.—SAerbseer dinette until towards the close, when a drooping ten-
? Len wastroux Snor.—A charge wan pee- dency became observable. The four o'clock quota-
hued at the 'Jacek magistrates' wetting the °her all by lions were to f per cant. below the improved rates
James Wright, • farmer, residing at North Scale, neer
Lincoln, against a young man named William Holland, a which were attained at the same hour yesterday
farmer end publican, living at Kirton, in Nottinghamshire,
for felony. The charge was that the defendant had doles afternoon. Up to the completion of the settlement,
a gnannty of clover, and, after bearing the evident*, Me the rate of ° continuation" on Consols has remained
bench dieniactl the mes waning the *IBM MI MI at 7-18 per cent., indicating a large surplus of
the costs incurred. On Iktarday evening the placid
nciating stock.
and defendant in that action returned from Rework mann
together, and Wright biteg rather the onusonusSlC *cm dared In the discount market the demand for money con-
Holland to fetch any mom clover from the isms had eat of bones brisk, as usual at this period of the quarter,
which the dower was taken bears and the owasishipetwkkii
clover was disputed. The same smarm Hamad, Mangerism when so large an amount of government deposits is
ell the threat. td Wright, went to the fugal, and lbw* ww lodged in the Bank. The minimum rate of discount
Wright who shot him in the kaa Mr. Lecy,•newman. New,*
was Immediately sent for, and he found that this Wake in the open market is 6f per cent., and the applies-
he had 1"6"4 "we of as anions a chwwW, dot Re tions at the Bank are understood to be to a fair
inrita"mof c'elaerw:Tdwceml.extent. In the Stock Exchange 4to 5 per cent. is
operation. cr soon 0., Mr. Holland mad ea
Monday tat en incest was held on the body. We vs net the rate for short loans on government securities,
heard the nsult of the coroner's inquiation, but is all pre- and sto si per cent. for loans up to the October
bability, from the circurnetsnoes above narrated, a verdict ef •
Willa murder" will be returned. It Is reported tistleettlement.
Wtiger Gieweaveoa aufunforgiving and "Tengef2l I"2'l.—X"- At Hamburg the rate of discount is rather firmer,
Chester
A curious circumstance occurred a few days ago
at Havre' a hes constrictor, received from Brazil, laid an were fi
Consols, which were quoted at 4 o'clock yesterst
r-
at about 8 per cent.
fn, end almost immediately a serpent about II feet bag 91, "buyers," for the 14th October,
der y
ironed from it. No peeparations herringbone medals maim
znarkea this morning nos, rise to 91 to 1, and were
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