The Express.
London, England, 1868-04-09 00:00:00

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Whitbread's brewery, which was elnee to the these of the
oeoarrepoe. _ _

EC -VI

TIN jury found the prisoner Guilty, and he was m-
amboed to penal servitude for life.
The to judge expreseed his opinion that the pro-
secutors had behaved very couregeously aad p
each
ia the matter, sad be ordered that they should be
paid a reward of N.

EUROPEAN BANK.-CLIMMED.)

Vlkto INTELLIGNYCE. imorrir MARKET.—(THIS DAY.)

AT HEADQUARTERS.

ONE OVLOOL.

I Notwithstanding the payment of the dividends
and a consequent large increase in the supply of
money both in the discount market and the Stock
Exchange, the markets for public securities remain
very inactive, and quotations show few changes.
Speculators are not inclined to enter into further
dealings just on the eve of the holidays, and the
amount of bondftde business is still very small. Next
week attention will be chiefly directed to the fort-
nightly
settlement which will commence on Tuesday.
Consols, as well as nearly all the home railway
stocks, and foreign bonds, are unaltered.
The rate for the best bills is If per cent., and for
loans in the Stock Exchange 1.

1 Consols are quoted 931 to i both for money
and the account (May 5), and the Three per
Cents. Reduced and New Three per Cents., 92
to it..

There is no important movement in railway
stocks in the absence of business. London and
South Western is in request, and is per cent.
better, at 86 to 87. Caledonian and Metropolitan
have risen 1, viz., to 705 to L and 1121 to 113
respectively, but Great Western is worse, the
present price being 501 to g ; London and North
Western, 1141 to 1 ; Midland, 1051 to ; Great
IKastern, 351 to ; Brighton, 501 to 51 ; South
Eastern, 73t to ; Great Northern, 102 to 103 ;
ditto A, 971 to 1 ; London, Chatham, and Dover,
,181 to 1 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1251 to
126 ; York and North Midland, 92 to 93 ; Ber-
wick, 1001 to 101 ; and North British, 331 to 34.
The foreign stock market is inactive, and prices
generally show no variation. Italian: Bonds of
1861 have declined 1 per cent., viz., to 485 to 1.
Turkish of 1865 have improved to the same extent,
the present price being 345 to 1. Brazilian of 1865,
741 to 751 ; Chiliaa of 1867, 891 to 901; Egyp-
tian of 1804, 81 to 82 ; the Viceroy's Loan, 721 to
731 ; Mexican, I 5 to 1 ; Peruvian of 1865, 791
to 80/ ; Russian of 1866, 651 to 86 ; ditto Orel
Vitebsk Railway loan, 801 to ; Spanish of 1867,
1351 to ; Turkish of 1858, 591 to 60 ; and ditto
of 1862, 631 to 64.
Indian stocks are unaltered. The Five per Cents
are at 1131 to 1141; the Four, 1005 to 1011, ex
div. ; the Bonds, 275. to 325. prem. ; and the Five
per Cent. Debentures, 105 to 1. Bank Stock, 244
to 246 ; and Exchequer Bills, 13s. to 18s. prem.
Bank shares meet with a slight inquiry. London
and Westminster, 671 to 681 ; Australasia, 55 to
57, ex div. ; Oriental Corporation, 425 to 431 ;
Anglo-Austrian, 41 to 3 prem. ; Imperial Ottoman,
/to 1/ prem. ; London and Brazilian, 30 to 25
clis. : and Consolidated, to 1 prem.
The dealings in financial shares are upon a very
limited scale. General Credit, 21 to 1 die. ;
Credit Foncier, 71 to 7 dis. ; International, 11 to
clis. ; and London, 25 to 24 dia.
Miscellaneous shares are quiet, with few trans-
actions. National Discount, 51 to 6 prem. ; Hud-
son's Bay, 141 to I ;
Egyptian Trading, 5 to
41 clis. ; Telegraph Construction, 13 to 14 ; At-
lantic Telegraph Eight per Cent. Preference, sto
; and Anglo-American, 221 to

American securities are flatter. The 5-20 Bonds
have declined per cent., viz., to 721 to 731. Brie
Railway shares are q'ioted 47k to 3, being 1 per
cent. lower; Illinois Central,o4l to showing • de-
cline of i; Atlantic and Great Western Debentures,
27} to 28i, • reduction of ; and ditto Consoli-
dated Mortgage Bonds, 34 to it.
The Spanish Colonial Eight per Cent. Loan fully
paid-up is firm, at 933 to 93i, and the scrip at
to 1 j prem.
A special meeting of the London and North
Western Railway Company will be held on the
25th inst., for the purpose of considering, and, if
thought fit, approving or otherwise, certain bills
affecting the undertaking, now pending in parlia-
ment.

An extraordinary general meeting of the Great
Eastern Railway Company is called for the 2nd of
May, for the purpose of receiving a report from
the directors, and of considering the propriety of
issuing debenture stock to an amount not exceed-
ing 3,000,000/.

The ordinary general meeting of the Smyrna
and Cassaba Railway Company (Limited) is con-
vened for the 29th inst., for the purpose of receiv-
ing the report of the directors and the balance
sheet to the 31st of December last.
HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.

Italian Bonds of 1861 are in request, and
have improved # per cent., the present price
being 491 to In the railway market
Great Eastern stock has fallen 1, viz., to us to
35. Consols are =changed.

The Manthester Cowie; announces the failure of
two manufacturing firma—vis., Messrs. Hargraves
and Simpson, of Burnley, and Mr. Reginald
Massey, of Accrington. The liabilities in each osae
, are understood not to be large.
The directors of the London and County Bank
will shortly open a branch in the premises ad-
joining the Metropolitan Railway station, Alders-
gate-street, and near to the New Smithfield Mar-
kets.
At a meeting yesterday of the creditors of the
European Bank (Limited), the following resolu-
tions proposed by the liquidators, were unani-
-1 MoUittagreed
1. a further dividend of Is. 6d. In the ppooaa be
paid ea the day el April, and that the remaininaglos.
ii!hound, with interest us the entire debt, be dis-
"rt
by three equal half-yearly instalments, the first
of being payable as the 16th October, 1868. -2.
That the uidaiws shell blue to matt of the creditors as
way require the same prcusimory notes or drafts for the
above instalmente.
A general meeting of the Antwerp and Rotter-
dam Railway Company is fixed for the 7th of May, 1
at Brineids.

An extraordinary general meeting of the Law
Revereionary Interest Society is fixed for the
2nd of May, for the purpose of passing a remoln-
tion giving to the directors the necemary powers
for declaring and paying a half-yearly or interim
dividend on the paid-up capital.
The first ordinary general meeting of the Pan-
gaea= Steam Tramroad Company (Limited) is
called for the 90th inst.

A general meeting of the Coorg Coffee Company
(Limited) is convened for the sth of May.
A general meeting of the Sties Canal Company is
axed for the 2nd of June, at Paris.
Creditors of the General Provincial Life Aaaur-
woe Company (Limited) are required to send the
particulars of their claims to Mr. Robert Mellon,
of Nottingham, the liquidator, by the 4th of May.
The shares in Reuter's Telegram Company,
hitherto quoted only in the "Course of Exchange"
twiee-a-week hat, have been placed upon the
daily Share list, by order of the Stook Exchange
1 Committee.

The letters of allotment of the Foreign and Co-
lonial Government Trust were sent out yesterday.
It was mentioned some time since that the Royal
Mail Steam Packet Company had decided to melts
an important alteration in the working of their
line between this country and the Isthmus of
Panama, by running their large steamers through
to Colon, without any transshipment in the Woe
Indies of the mails, pasemges, , for the Pacific,
and for New Zeeland and Australia. W• now lsern
that it is intended the change shall seine into
°position on the tad June next. 11 will be at-
tended with many advantages, and will, it is
considered, enable letters by this route to mach '
New Zealand in 47 or 48 days, and Amireria in
66 days. Itls desirable that this circumstance

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should not be overlooked in onisideriag—tie—pl::
posel to establish a bi-n o Leidy service sid Sues,
especially sa the postage by the Panama route in
less than yid Marseille..