The Express.
London, England, 1868-08-28 00:00:00

CORE BUTTER MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

(711011 01:711OPTI 001BEWONDSCT.)
Ordinary, 1205., 1175., 1118., 1075., 975., 77e.; 1,880
firkins. Mild cored, 12.5 e., 1225., 114 e. ; 90 firkins.

MINCING-LANE.—(THIS DAY.)
Svose. —There is a rather improved demand for British
West India at the recent reduction. Dominica, 30s. 6d. to
31s. 6d.; Jamaica, 30e. 6d. to 325. ; Demerara, 31s. 6d. to
33e. Bd. Refined is also in more request, ;without change
in value.

COWis.—There is a good demand for both plantation
and native Ceylon at very firm prices; other Fart India
have sold at barely previous iowi rates. Plantation Ceylon,
good and fine or • 69a. to 675. ;low middling, 675.
6d. to 745. ; good middling , Ids. to M. 6d. ; good and
fine bold, 80s. to 86e. Native Ceylon, small, 40s. 6d. to
435. ed. ; good ordinary, 46e. to 475. ; tine bold, Me. Gd.
to 635. Mocha, 88e. Othex East India, man to good
middling, el s. to 78s.
TEL.—There is a good demand for China, at some
advance on the prices paid at tho last public sale.
Baca.—l,ooo bags of Madras sold at 9s. 6d., and 100 tons
Bengal Askoolie, at 10s. lid.
THVlE—Raisins continue quiet, the first cargo of new
currants is expected shortly.
Pnamo.—Businees has been done at 2d. to 214., being
rather lower.

Rnit.—About 200 casks sold at le. 7d. for Mauritius ;
is. 71d. pale Leeward.; and 2a. lid. for Jamaica.
Comm.—Mere is still a good demand at the recent im-
provement
Juts.—No sales reported.
Herr.-1,000 bake Manilla sold at IL advance ; fair
quality 481.
fiatrrarsz.—Common quality baa been sold at 16e. 6d.
Ixanao.—There is a steady demand, chiefly for Ameri-
can, at steady prices.

TALLOW MARK:BT.—(MS DAY.)
The market is steady. Town tallow, 43.. 3d. ; Pete►s-
burg Y.C., on the swt, old, 44.. 6d. ; new, 46a.; Oc-
tober to December, 43 to 46.. 3d. ; December, 43.. 6d. ;
January, 465. 9d.

HIDE MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)
LEADENNALL.—Hides.-561be. to 641 be. aid. to 3'd.;
641 be. to 721b5., 31d. to Md. ; 721bs. to 801b4. Z. to 4d.;
801 be. to 881bs., ta. to 40. ; 88Me. to 96Me., 4 d. to 41d.
Horse hides, Ds. to 10s. 6d.; calf skins, ' t, 2s. to
4s. ; full, 7s.
1323tmoanxisr.—Sheep skins.—Lambe, 2e. 6d. to 33. M.;
shearlinp, le. 10d. to 29. 6d.

BOROUGH HOP MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)
Messrs. Pattenden and Smith report a steady demand
for coloury maniples of the new growth, the supply of
which is up to the present very limited. Yearlings are
Sim, at late rates.

COAL MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)
Walls End Helton, 19s. ; Walls End Haswell, 19s. ;
Walls End South Hatton, 18e. 9d. ; Walls End Tees,
18e. 6d.; Walls End Braddyls Hatton, 17s. 9d. ; Walls
End Atwell Hatton, 16s. 9d. ; Walls End Original Hartle-
pool, 19s. ; Walls End Kepler Grange, 16s. 9d. ; Walls
End Eden Main, 16s. 6d. ; Was End Thorpe, 164. ;
Walls End Helton Lyons, 16s. 3d. ; Holywell, Ms. 6d. ;
Wylarn, 15s. 6d.--Slips at market, 54; at sea, 40.

M. do Persigny, who wee expected to make a
speech on the occasion of the distribution of prime, on
Sunday next, to the successful competitors at the Indus-
trial and Agricultural Exh►bition of St. Etienne, will not
even be present. He will leave St. Etienne on Saturday.
What state interest, asks the &kis, compels him to
iileace

MONEY MARKET.)-THIS DAY.)

ONE 0. CLOOK.

The stock markets continue in a moat inani-
mate condition, and in the absence of all buainess
except that connected with the final adjustment
of the account, the tendency of prices is slightly
downwards. In some cases, however, especially
in Metropolitan Railway stook, the dispo-
sition is more marked, and prices are
flat; while in some others an improvement eetab-
lished yesterday has been partially lost. Foreign
stocks are dull in nominal quotation, and without
any pressure of sales a decline has taken place.
The funds are about the same as yesterday, rather
weak than otherwise.

There is a good demand for money, and rates
are firm. The quotation is maintained at If to II
per cent., but lees business is done at the minimum,
while transactions have taken place at 2 per oent.
The bank, however, has not experienced, at pre-
sent, any particular accession of business.

Consols are dull at 931 to 94 for money and
94 to 1 for account. New and Reduced Three per
Cents., 941 to 1; Exchequer Bills, 16s. to 20s.
prem. ; Bank Stock, 244 to 246 ; Indian Govern-
ment Securities are steady ; the Five per Cents are
quoted at 1141 to 115; and ditto Bonds,lo4l to 2.
English railway shares are rather flat, and busi-
ness is extremely quiet. Great Northern (A) is 1
per cent. lower, and the ordinary stock 1.
London and South Western is flat at 88
to 90. London and Yorkshire steady at 1261
to 127, ex div. ; Midland, 105 to 1, ex div.; South
Eastern, 74 to 1, ex div. ; Great Western, 481 to
491 ; London, Brighton, and South Coast, 51 to 1;
Metropolitan, 1081 to 1094, ex div. ; and London,
Chatham, and Dover, 181 to 4.
In the foreign stock market Peruvian bonds of
1865 are 1 per cent. lower, at 781 to 79. Turkish
of 1862 have also receded!, the present price being
65 to 66. Brazilian of 1865, 761 to 771; Chilian
of 1867, 931 to 941; Egyptian of 1861, 851 to 861;
Italian of 1861, 511 to a ; Mexican, 144 to 151;
Russian of 1866, 93 to 94 ; Spanish of 1867, 341 to
1; Turkish of 1858, 67 to 68 ; ditto of 1865, 381
to 391.
The only change in bank shares is a rise of ss.
in Anglo-Austrian, viz., to 61 to 7 prem. Imperial
Ottoman are quoted 1 to 1 prem., and Consolidated
I to J Prom.
Miscellaneous shares have been dealt in to a
moderate extent, at yesterday's prices. National
Discount are at 11: to 1 ; General Credit, 21 to
2 dis. ; Credit Fancier, 24 to 3 per share ;
International Financial, to 1 die. ; London,
24 to 22 dis. ; Hudson's Bay, 15 to 1 ; Telegraph
Construction, 161 to 1 ; Atlantic Telegraph
Eight per Cent. Preference, 34 to 4 ; and Anglo-
American, 211 to 1.
American securities are not in much request.
United States 5-20 Bonds are rather dull at 711 to
1 ; Erie shares are 1 higher, at 32 to 33 ; while
Illinois are 1 lower, at 91 to 1.

FOUR O'CLOCK. • I
Console are steady, at 931 to 94 for money, and
94} for the account.

About 37,000/. in bar gold has been sent into
the Bank to-day.
There being no export demand for gold, the
large amount of 145,000/. in bars, part of that
brought from Melbourne by the Essex, has been
sent into the Bank.

The decrease in the receipts of the London,
Chatham, and Dover Railway Company for the
week ending August 23, for passengers, parcels,
and mails, was 2,3701. 19s. 10d. On the other
hand, there was an increase of 4431. 6s. 2d. from
the goods traffic; the net decrease is, therefore,
1,925/. 13s. Bd. The Lancashire and Yorkshire
Company's receipts huve increased 2241.; and there
is a falling off in those of the North-Eastern Rail-
way of 1,9341.
By an accidental inversion yesterday the traffic
returns of the Midland Railway were made to
show a decrease equivalent to the amount of
actual increase. The increase in the week ending
August 23 was 2,6221., and on the eight weeks
,298/.

With reference to the guarantee due by the
Ottoman government to the Smyrna and Cassaba
Railway Company, the Porte has paid to that
company the stun of 9,6001.
The directors of the United Kingdom Electric
Telegraph Company (Limited) have resolved to re-
commend the declaration of the following divi-
dends for the past half year at the ensuing ordinary
general meeting, at the rate of 10 per cent. per
annum on the 10 per cent. preference, at the rate
of 6 per cent. per annum on the 6 per cent. prefe-
rence, and at the rate of 6 per ant. per annum
on the ordinary shares.
It is understood that the directors in this
country of the Atlantic and Great Western Rail-
way have now received from America the requi-
site papers and powers for the completion of the
proposed arrangement for the Consolidated Mort-
gage Bonds, and that application will at once be
made to the comtnittee of the Stock Exchange for
their quotations ex coupons.
The following is the official return of the cheques
and bills cleared in the Bankers' Clearing-house for
the week ending Wednesday, August 26 :
Thureday„ August 20 57,994,000
Friday, August 21 9,812.000
Saturday, August 22
Monday, Aust 24
Tuesday, A ugugust 26 9,920,000
Wednesday, August 28 8,682,000
5.5.6,369,000
JOHN C. Pocock, Deputy Inspector.
Bankers' Clearing-house, August 27.
This aggregate is 17,030,0001. below that of last
week ; but the reduction is explained by the fact
that no settlements occurred to create an extra-
ordinary increase. Making allowance for this
condition the return is not unsatisfactory.
The weekly return of the Bank of Prance shows
the following changes (the exchange being taken
at 25fr. to the pound)
Coin and bullion

Bills discounted Decrease 1,366,000
Notes in circulation Decrease 666,000
Private deposits
Treasury balance lncrease 600,000
Advances
The principal feature in this return is the large
falling off in the discounts. It indicates continued
inactivity in trade, while the reduction in the cir-
culation points to the same condition. No effect
of the operations connected with the new loan can
be traced in the return. By the further addition
to the coin and bullion the stock is raised to the
unprecedented amount of 52,396,0001.
The return of the Bank of England for the week
ending Wednesday, August 26, compared with
that for the previous week, shows the following
changes
Circulation issue £34,617,335 Increase 821,420
Circulation active
Public deposits 2,979,410 Increase 115376
Other deposits 19,838,880 Decrease 333,414
Government securities in

baikingdepent : 13,790,131 No change.
Other securities in bank.

Coining derartmeat
in both 16,697,078 Decrease 677,107
sad bullion

20,774,101 Increase 38.900
Seven day and other bills 602,963 Decrease 7,727
The Beet
Notes in reserve
Total mem (notes& coin)
in banking department 11,818,471 Increase 323,680
The Bank has strengthened its position with
respect to the stock of bullion and the reserve of
notes and coin, while the falling off in the circula-
tion and deposits shows a diminution of liability.
But the inaction of business is manifest from the
large reduction in the private securities, whereby
that item is now brought to the lowest point of the
year. Next to these, the most remarkable feature
Is the small amount of the public deposits. Within
five weeks of the end of the quarter they do not
reach to 3,000,000/. It is many years since such a
state of things occurred at this period of the
quarter.

BANK OP
Az Amman 111.milat to We
for the week what as We

Sian earl

Note' toned tai.iii,i3i

£.34,617,3116
BANKING DI
=etas' Oppital 114,669.000
3,1131,487
Publie Da=es;
dialing
Sayings Dank,.
Commiadasera of
National Debt, and
DividaalAccosata ) %MAIO
Other Deposits . 1.9,838,8110
Sawa Day sad Maw
Billa

C 41,906,890

Mad the 27th day of Minsk

fulTaii,i-Out victoria, eat. st.
MIN f. Augnert 1968.

agent Debt t11,015,106
Other Securities
Odd'Daimler! 8u1it0u.111,111T446
Either Bullion

PaRTNifT.

.GO:yernaxen. t Soouri-

1:34.61T,816

tl3,Tektil
Other Securities 16,607,0F1S
Notes IO,SIMOS
Sold sad Silver OGia 1, Wei

1 Z 41.1136,080
(). Foams, Chief Codger.
18(19.

MINE&-(THIB DAY.)

ONE O'CLOCK.

This being settling day. there is little business
in the mining market. Prices are quoted as
follows :—Prank Mills, 20s. to 255. ; West Chiver-
ton, 61 to 62, cum div. • Prince og Wales.
355. to 378., ea div. ; Great Retallack, 3/ to
3i ; Great Laxey, 17/ to 3• ; Wheal Beton, 50
to 52 ; South Caradon, 340 to 360; New Lovell,
17e. 6d. to 20e. ; Marke Valley, 7,1 to I; and
Great Wheal Vor, 12 to 13.

Foreign ai;cl colonial mining shares are quoted
as follows :—Eit. John del Rey, 19} to 20}; Dow
Pedro, 2„ to prem. ; Anglo -Brazilian, 1-16 to
3-16 prem. ; Pestarena, to dia. ; Chontalea.
1I to 2} ; Rosso Grande,
_I to I; prem. ; Anglo-
Italian, par to I prem. ; United Mexican, 1 i to
; Frontuto and Bolivia, Ito ; Port Phillip.
4. ; Central American, f dis. to par ; Bao
Vicente, par to prem.

RAILWAY, MINING, AND OTHER
SHARES.-(THIS DAY.)

[Closing pnoes to I p.m. j
COLONIAL GOVERNMENT SEC

Canada, 6 per cent., Jan. and July, 1877 to 1884, 104 f .
Do., 6 per cont., Jan. and July, 91f, 901.
Mauntius, 6 per cent., Jan. and July, 1873, 1031.
New South Wales, 5 per cent., Jan. and July, 1888 te
1896, 9%, 100.
New Zealand, 5 per cent., Jan., April, July, and Oct.,
98tiora Scotia, 6 per cent., Jan. and July, 1876, 101}
Queensland, 6 per cent., Jan. and July, 1882-85, 106.
Do., 1891, 1681. i•
Victoria, 6 per cent., Apnl and Oct., 1141, 13!.
ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS.
- - - -

Caledonian, 76.
Great Eastern, 361.
Great Northern A (A receives no dividend until 6 per
cent. has been paid to B), 100, k, ad.
Great Western, original, 49, k.
London, Brighton, and South Cuslab, 51k,
London, Chatham, and Dover, 18),
London and North Western, 113), 13, I, ad.
Metropolitan, 108) 91, 4, f .
Do. Extension (div. lim. to G per cent. till Jan., 1870),
107, 6/.
Midland, 105, k, ad.
South Eastern, 741, ad.

PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS.
London and North Western, 6 per cent., 107, ad.
BRITISH POSSESSIONS.
East Indian, gua. 5 per cent., 1071.
Grand Trunk of Canada, 151.
Do., Ist preference bonds, 47k.
Great Indian Peninsula, guar. o per cent., 108, 1.
Great Western of Canada, 131, 1.
Madras, gua. 41 per cent., 101.
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.

Bahia and San krancitTic guar. 7 per met.
Itunaburg
and Witepsk (Lim.) guar. 6 per cent., 63f.
Great Luxembourg, 12t.
South Austrian and Lombardo-Venetian, 16f.