The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-19 00:00:00

MINIM-MEM DAT.)

Owl o'OLoom
In the mining market to-day West Chiverton
and Prince of Wales shares are flatter, at 65 to 67}
and 555. to 57a. 6d., respectively. darke Valley
are quoted 6/ to f ; West Caradon 10 to ;
New Lovell, 10e. to 12s. 6d. •, WestDrakewalls, 11s.
to 13a. ; Wheal Beton, 85 to 871 ; Cern Thee, 22}
to 25 ; East Caradon, 4} to 5 ; and West Frances,
30 to 35.

Foreign and colonial mining shares are flat, at
the following price. :—St. John Del Rev, 18 to 20 ;
Don Pedro, 24t0 j prem. ; Anglo-Brazilian,
par to prem. ; estarena, to * die. ;
Chontales, It to dia. ; Rosso Grande, par to
prem. ; Anglo-Italian, par to prem. ; United
Mexican, 10 to 1 ; Frontino and Bolivia, 11-16
to 13-16 ; Port Phillip, 1* to 4 ; and Central
American, * dia. to par.

DEPUTATION TO THE ADICIRALTT.--(Tins DAT.)

To-day the Lords of the Admiralty received a deput;-
tion who presented the memorial of the sommittes of the
Diana training ship. The deputation cemelated of Hr.
Hugh Taylor, of Chipoltase Castle, the chairman, and Mr.
Jame Hall, the deputy.cbairmas of the execntive men.
aides, acoompsaied by bon. members connected with the
representation of Northumberland and Durham. The
object of the memorial is to pray the Admiralty to furnish
the ship with masts and 'pars and to permit the oxen-
mates to purchase the necessary stores at a cheap rate
frem t►e government yards.

CONTOCATION.—(Tans DAY.)—This morn' the
Convocation of the Province of Canterbury reaarmblad at
Westminster, the tipper Home under the m
ddenqT of the Archbishop of Canterbury. T
lordships proceeded with a debate on the clams of the
Bishop of London's resolutions which aimed That the
limits of ritual observance should not be left to the un-
controlled discretion of individual clergymen, =d
therefore to be defined by Livid iiithonty." The Bishop
of Llandaff renewed the diammien and was followed by
other right rev. prelates.
CONFIRMATIONS IN LONDON., (THIS DAT.)—
This loaning the Bishop of London held a omfirreation
at Christ Church, Newgato-street, partly for the Rim-
iest Boys of the adjacent hospital. There VON present
the Bee. Dr. Jacob Read, master if Christ's liliedMl • the
Bev. Prebendary Gibbs, and a large maw el ceiberiky-
men. The bishop delivered an abietheige intim sesulkklei,
who wen afterwards preseated to hies eel sandfiki by ids
imposition of hands. Bishop Anders'se arrestior ant
Paul's Cathedral, who is sedeting the Rieke* allied=
in his diocesan court, comunseceid • arise of sonar
mations at the district church d St. Mark's,
Clerkenwell, in the presence of the Rev, F. M'CraillYr the
Rev. Dr. Hughes, the Rev. B. Maguire, the Bee. 1.
Herringtio. TN:Bishop of London will hold a confirma-
tion in March in the following order :—find, St. Pancras ;
kids4th, St. Marylebooe ; nth, ; 15th, Spits,-
; 18th, Hamer &heel; Zak, ColleA;
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St. Fame's, Westminster. Bishop hold •
cosirmation at Teddiegion to-merrew ; sad at St. Paul's,
Walwortk, on the MA of Much.
Tae LORD CRANCIILLOR'S Caoecu PATRONAGE.—
The Load Chancellor's vicarage et Bishop's Middlehain,
• Durham. has bosoms vacant by the death of the Bev.
IT. H. York, M.A. It is worth 3001. aim= The Yining*
of Dews,Laneashire, In the gift of Lord
has become vacant by the preferment the
Thicknome, M.A., to the rectory of Beckley, Northam:p-
-#=141% IS LP worth about 100 a year,

.Imppirliwrsx—rws DAY.
Om Moon.

Ti. Amelia funds are inquired for, and
exhibit a reoovery of I per cent Foreipa
stocks, on the whole, are steadier. Italia&
of 1861 remain firm, the advises
from Florence with mud to the poidlion of the
ministry and the state of the government fineness
being considered satisfactory. The principal feature
in the railway market at the commencement

of business was a fall of 21 per cent. in Metro-
politan stock, upon the announcement that the Lord
Chancellor has refused to interfere with the injunc-
tion recently granted by Vics-Chanosllor Wood,
restraining the directors from paying a dividend
for the half-year at the rate of 7 per oust.
per annum. A partial recovery has since
taken place, yet the present price is per cent.
lower than yesterday. Caledonian has experienced
a fresh advance of nearly 1 per cent., owing to
further purchases to cover recent sales for a fall.

The discount market is quieter, but the lowest
rate for the best bills is 1 to per cent. The
charge for loans in the Stock Exchange is still 1
per cent.

Consols are quoted 921 to ; for money and
the account (March 5), and the Three per Cents.
Reduced and New Three per Cents., 93 to 1.
In the railway market the principal feature is a fall
of 11 per oent. in Metropolitan stock, viz., to 108} to
1, with dividend. London and North-Western and
Midland have declined }, and Great Northern Al,
but Caledonian has improved 1, and London,
Chatham, and Dover, 4. Annexed are the quota-
tions :—Great Western, 4511 to 1 ; London
and North Western, 1181 to f ; Midbuxl, 1071 to 1;
ILancaahire and Yorkshire, 1271 to ; Caledonian,
110041 to 1; South Eastern, 711 to 72; Great Eastern,
29f to & ; Great Northern, 107 to 108 ; ditto, A,
1081 to 1 ; London, Chatham, and Dover, 191 to
; North British, 341 to 351 ; Brighton, 46 to ;
Berwick, 106 to ; and York and North Mid-
land, 981 to 99.
There is a slightly better tone in the market
for foreign stocks. Spanish New Three per Cents,
are in request, and have risen 1 per cent., viz., to
35; t 0361. Turkish of 1862 and Peruvian of 1865 are
to 1 lower at 601 to 611 and 74 to respec-
tively. Turkish Five per Cents. of 1865 are
at 321 to ; ditto Six per Cents., 531 to 1 ;
Chili= of 1867, 87 to 88 ; Greek, 12 to 1;
Italian of 1861, 43; to 441 ; Egyptian of 1864,
86 viceroy's loan, 73 to 1 ; Mexican, 151 to
16 : and Russian of 1864, 88 to 89.
United States 5-20 Bonds are in request, and
have risen 1 per cent., viz., to 711 to 72. Erie
Railway shares are quoted 491 to j ; and Illinois
Central, 881 to 89, being steady.
Bank shares are steady. Anglo-Austrian are at
34 to 4! prem. ; Imperial Ottoman, gto f dis. ;
and Consolidated, to prem.

Financial shares are Without s-ariation. General
Credit, 2} to } die. ; Credit Fonder, 7 to 61
dia. ; International Financial, 2 to 11 dis. ; and
London, 24 to 22 dia.

Miscellaneous shares hays been dealt in to
moderate extent. National Discount are at
Tito I prem. ; Hudson's Bay, 10 to a ; Egyp-
tian Trading, 4i to dia. ; Telegraph Con-
struction, 121 to 131 ; Atlantic Telegraph Eight
per Cent. Preference, to ; and Anglo-
American, 191 to 1.

HALF-PLR? ONE O'CLOCK.

Consols are unchanged, compared with price above
given, but several of the home railways have
improved. Caledonian is 2 per cent. better,
at 82„ to f, while Metropolitan, Great
Western, South Eastern, and Great Eastern have
advanced i to I.
In the foreign market the Viceroy of Egypt's
Loan and Peruvian of 1865 are 1 to 1 per cent.
higher.

FOCA O'CLOCK.

Owing partly to the announcement that no
bullion has been taken from the Bank for the Con-
tinent, the stock markets are generally better.
Consols have advanced 1 per cent., the present
price being 92; to 93. Some of the railway stocks
have Unproven, while others have declined. Cale-
donian is at 821 to ; Metropolitan, 1081 to
109 ; South Eastern, 71k to 72} ; Brighton, 46 to
; Midland, nog to f ; London and North
Western, 1191 to 1 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire,
1271 to 1 ; and Great Western, 483 to ;.
With respect to foreign bonds, Egyptian of 1864
have risen to 87 to 1, and the Viceroy's loan is
firm, at 74} to ; Italian of 1861, 431 to 441 ; and
Spanish New Three per Cents., 361 to 1.
At Paris this morning the Three per Cent.
Rentals opened at 68fr. Ode., being 1-16 per cent.
lower.

The amount of gold taken from the Bank yester-
day for the Continent was 69,000/., in addition to
5,000 sovereigns for Egypt. The total taken out
since the date of the last return is 573,000/.
The New York, from New York, has brought
89.5001. in specie for England.
The Mexican dollars by the West Indian packet
were sold yesterday at 4s. Ild. per ounce, showing
no
_alteration.

The tendency of the foreign exchanges yesterday
afternoon was slightly more favourable to this
country as regards bills on Holland, Hamburg, and
3 months' paper on France. The exchanges with
Austria have again moved a little in favour of that
empire.
An important action,_ in which Mr. Joseph
Crossley, of the firm of Mesas. John Crossley and
Sons, of Halifax, sued Mr. Elworthb managing
director of the London and Colonial Company
(Limited), for having made fraudulent statements
in a prospectus issued in July, 1865, for the pur-
pose of increasing the company's caiiital,was decided
yesterday at half-past 4 in the Exchequer Court,
Guildhall, before the Lord Chief Baron and a special
jury. It appears that Mr. Crossley was induced
by the alleged fraudulent prospectus to take 800
shares of 1001. each, upon which he paid 26,0001.
in cash in August, 1865. The company went into
liquidation in March, 1867, and investigations
into its position at the date when the alleged frau-
dulent prospectus was put out show that the under-
taking was then practically insolvent, and that the
12* per cent. dividends were uniformly paid not
out of profit, es represented, but out of capital.
Many disclosures of a discreditable character were
made, and the jury, after retiring for about ten
minutes, found a verdict for the plaintiff, with
35,000/. damages, being the 25,0001. paid by him
in August, 1866, and 10,0001. calla paid under the
liquidation. The investigations which led to the
present trial were made by Means. Theodore Jones
and Co., and Messrs. Cooper Brothers and Co.,
the accountants. The result of the trial is satisfy>
tory, viewed in the interest of the public,
as it will tend to make promoters and directors
more careful with regard to the statements they
put forward in prospectuses.

_
The Metropolitan Railway traffic return shows
this week an increase of 316/. over the corre-
sponding period of last year ; and the Glasgow
and South Western a decrease of 3671.

There is a rumour that the Caledonian Railway
Company propose to obtain the fonds required by
a creation of 4 per cent, preference stock, to be
offered at 80, and to carry the option of conversion
into ordinary stock at par. The amount of fresh
stock for which the company are applying to
perhoment for powers is 1,200,0001., besides
400,000/. of debentures, and there are, in addition,
dormant powers for a sum of 227,0001., in respect

1. 3

ismairkialikir ihrle abnigaidife4 ;with the Cale.
dories. The aggregate of these three sums is
1,011111., and as the belie of 2,000,0001.
per cent. preference dock at 80 would
endue a sum of only 1,800,0001. in cash,
while it would ernes • fresh charge of 80,0001.
a year to intervene before the ordinary
soon could receive any dividend, it seems very
doubtful if the holden of the latter would assent
to any such proposal, supposing it to be made.
The directors of the Arm Bank (Limited) hag
declared a dividend at the rate of 7 per cent. per
annum, free of income tax, for the year ending.
the Slat December hat, on the new capital or
A shares of the bank. That
_portion' of the bank's
oapita.l which is represented by B or " reserved*
shares will not, in accordance with the articles of
association, participate in the payment of dividend
until after the present year.
A general meeting of the Surrey Commercial
Dock Company is called for the 12th March, when,
a dividend is to be declared.
Mr. A. Cooper, the liquidator of the Oriental
Commercial Bank (Limited), announces that a first
dividend of 2s. Bd. in the pound will be payable
Ito the creditors on the 20th and 21st inst.

SHARE MARKETS.-(THIS DAY.)
rsa. to.day3g?.tittißm
COLONIAL GOVERN ES.
Canada Government, 8 per neut., January and July;
1877.84, 991, 9.
Ditto, 5 per cent, January and July, 654.
Caps of Hope, 6 per cent., April and October,
1890 to 1900, 1064.
Ceylon, 6 per cent., November, 1882.83, 1124.
New South Wales Government, 5 per cent, 18W.9k
January and July, 954, 4, 6.
Do., 5 per oent., red. by aim, draws. from 1867 to 1875.
100.1.
New Zealand, 5 per cent., 981.
Do., 6 per cent, 1891, June and December, 107.
Nova Scotia Government, 6 per cent. starling, 1875, WI.
=liand, 6 percent., 1291, 1034.
as, 6 par sent., 103 f
Victoria Government, 1891,January and July. 1104.
Do., 6 per cent, 1891, April and October, 112.
ORDINARY SHARES AND STOCKS.
Caledonian, 80, 21.
Great Eastern, 294.
Great Western—Original, 454,
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1271,
London, Chatham, and Dover, 194.
London and North Western, 1181, 1.
London and South Western, 86, ad.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire. 42i, 2, ad.
Drtan, 1041, 3j, 5,6 i, interim d.
oVten. (div. lint to 6 punt. till Jan., 1870), 106.
99kidland, 1074, 4.
North Eastern—Berwick, 106.
South Eastern, 72, 14, 24.
PREFERENCE SHARES.
Midland—lnitialer and Hitehin 4 per cent., 884.
BRITISH PO3IE3SIONS.
Bombay. Bar. and Gant India gua. 5 pi. a., 1035.
East Indian, guaranteed 5 per sent, 1094, 4.
Great Indian Peninsula, gun. 5 per cent., 1064, 4., Z.
Great Western of Canada, 154.
Madras guaranteed It per cent, 103),
Do. 41 per cent. 97.
Melbourne and Hoheon's Bay United, 48.
Oude and Robilmind, gna. 5 per cent., 1061.1.
Scinde—Delhi, 101.
Do. (Punjaub), 101.
FOREIGN RAILWAYS.
Bahia and Sim Frrincisoo (Lim.), gas. 7 p. et., 15 for mesh
Dutch Rhenish, New. 5.
Great Luxembourg, 94.
San Paulo (Limited) guaranteed 7 per cent,
OBLIGATIONS.
Orel Vitebsk Rail., gnu. by Russian gov., 754, 4.
COLONIAL AND FOREIGN MINES.
Chontales Gold and Silver Mining (Lim), 24, ..
Don Pedro, North del Rey, 24, 3.16 pm.
Port Phillip, 14, 4.
St. John del Rey (Limited), 191, 19, 20,171.
Yoder:unmans of B. Australia (iro.), 1 11-18.
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Agra (Limited) A. 111, 4
4,
Consolidated (Limited). O-16.
Imperial Ottoman, 9 9-18.
London and County, 52, ad.
Do. do. New, issued at 20/. pm., St. paid. 27.
London Joint Stock 344, 4.
London and Westminster, 68L
Do. do. Scrip, boded at 10(. pm., none of
which Yes been paid, 454, 61.
Oriental Bank Corporation, 42.
MISCELLANEOUS. '
Anglo-Ameriaan Telegraph (Limited), 191,4•
Atlantic Telegraph, 49.
Do. do. 8 per cent., 1064, 5.
Berlin Water Weeks (Limited), 134, xd.
City of Ilona°. Gas (Limited), 84.
Ejptian 9 per cent. Viceroy LOW 88.4, 8 94.
English and Australian Copper (Limited), 1.
English sad Foreign Credit, 24, ad.
General Credit and Discount (Lited), 5, 4 1546.
Hudson's Bay, 144.
London Financial Ameolation (Limited), 7.
London General Omnibus Company (Limited), 2.
Madras Irrigation and Canal, guaranteed 5 per cent. by
Indian government, 1021.
National Discount Company (Limited), 114, 1.
Panama, New Zealand, and Australian Royal Mall
(Limited), 44.
Peninsular and Oriental Steam, 584, 8.
Ditto, New, 1867, 14, 64.
Telegraph Construction and Maintenance (Limited). 13.
Viceroy of Egypt (Mortgage) Loan, 73, 4.