The Express.
London, England, 1859-03-31 00:00:00

rem&in on offer.

Amongst the liabilities of the Indian government
must not be falotten those for compensation for
losses caused by the mutiny. In Calcutta a " com-
pensation committee" has been organised at •
numerous meeting of 'offerers. The committee has
already registered claims to the extent of 800,0001.,
on behalf of 200 persons, or firms, and, in apetition
which has been transmitted to this country for pre-
sentation to parliament through Lord Ellonborough
and Mr. Roebuck, expresses its belief that
1,500,0001. will cover the entire claims.
The Paris ilettiteur notifies the opening of the
public subscription for the shares of the new Ge-
eneral Society of Commercial and Industrial Credit.
By the terms of the statutes the administration will
consist of governors and directors named in the
same form as the governors and directors of the
Bank of France and of the Credit Fonder. It ap-
pears that the Council of State has imposed the con-
dition that of the 120,000 shares of 201. each,:which
form the capital of the undertaking, 80,000, repre-
senting 1,600,0001., shall be offered to public sub-
scription. In one point, viz., its being empowered
to open public subscriptions to great industrial un-
dertakings, home end foreign loans, &c.,
the operations of the new society will be
analogous to those of the Credit Mobilier, to
which it may prove a formidable rival, the more es-
pecially as its managers will have the benefit of the
warning afforded by the mistakes of that establish-
ment. It is an important feetnre,howsver, that the
power of speculating on the Bourse, enjoyed:and so
greatly abused by. the Credit Mobilier, is withheld
from the new society, the progress of which, with
sound management, may be of a much more solid
and beneficial character. We remark that in many
points the arrangements of the society, especially in
its preliminary stage, will be under the direct sum,
vision of the Minister;of Finance. Thus, pending
the formal constitution of the board of directors, and
the nomination of the governor by the Emperor, the
funds paid in by the subscribers are to be lodged in
the " Caine des Depots et Consignations,"
by direction of the minister. During the
subscription, the books are to be examined
daily by an inspector specially appointed by the
minister, to whom will also be transmitted daily as
account of the sums paid in. Finally, the allotment
is not to take place until the subscription and allot-
ment lists shall have been submitted to the Minister
of Finance. The subscription list will be closed in
Paris on the 4th of April at three o'clock, and Mr.
C. W. Price, of the London Stock Exchange, Ilea
been authorised to forward to the board at Paris
applications lodged with him up to the 3rd. It is
stated that the oneness of the subscription is assured
from private sources.
A telegram from St. Petersburg quotes the ex-
change on London at 300. showing a further
slight advance. The price Of tallow was quoted
182 to.
A general meeting of the Canada Company took
place yesterday. The report stated that the commer-
cial difficulties prevailing in Canada throughout
1868 led to a great reduction in the sales of land, in
the collections of money, and, in fact, under every
head of the company's business. Since the com-
mencement of the present year, however, there has
been a large increase in the company's money collec-
tions, owing to the more favourable position of trade.
The assets show a surplus beyond the amount of
capital of 807,2971., after providing for all liabilities.
After some discussion, the report wan adopted.
The London and North Western Railway traffic
return shows this week an increase of 3,3471. ; the
Western,
SouthGaGreat
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Western, Northern,
increasesincreasen a
decreaseof l, l 7 t ota:nl.d77th9lo;Lonehclo2r andeGreat
At the meeting of the Tourney to Inthise and
Linden to Hasselt Railway Company, held at Brus-
sels, on the 18th inst., the dividend for the last six
months of the year 1858, was fixed at 12s. 6N. per
share, payable the Ist of April.
The County and General GaVonsumers'Company
announce a half-yearly dividend at the rate of S per
cent. per annum.
The Submarine Telegraph Company announce,
dating from the let a general reduction of
charges to the Continent.
Creditors of the South Essex Gas Company are
required to prove their claims before Vice-Chancellor
Sir W. P. Wood.

The IMMesidue the let April on the Victoria
Railway Loan is advertised for payment in dee
come.

With retention to the market for American rail-
way secaritias, Mr. E. F. Satterthwaite reports ea
follows:

The market to London for American amities bee Flea
our lest been without animation. There continua, however,
to be the fame moderate investments going on In the best
Elsa of bonds wbich we haro for ooze time pan hid occasion
to notice.

Sakoined are the latest quotations of insuranoe,
canal, and other miscellaneous aharee, as given in the
last Stook Exchange List :
Insureace Shares :—Alliance, BMWs and Etinign, 181
ditto Marine, 69; Indemnity Marine, 166; Limpet sad
London Fire and Life, 101; London, Ili ex &v. end bonne;
Royal Exchange, 300.
Canals —Grand Junction, 64; ditto, Guaranteed Six per
Cents., 12 , Kennet and Avon, ; t'a, 161.
Waterworks .—East London, 123; Grand
ditto, New, 26; Southwark sad Vauxhall, 106; West Km-
107g, 106.
Goats .—East and Weal India, 125 126 ; London, 901.
The Wellington has arrived from Shanghae with
315,3001 be. of tea and 1,168 bales of silk.
The Admiralty have taken up the ships Admiral.
Royal Rose, and Sea Park for the conveyance of
stores respectively to East London, Colombo, and
Simon's Town.

WEDNESDAY Xylem.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 96/, H buyers,"
for the 7th April, opened this morning at 96! to
1, and closed at 951 to f. For money the last plias
was On, "buyers, and for the 6th of May 96f
"sellers." The dead business report is as fol-
lows:—'three per Cent. Cenral', for money, 96f,
961; ditto, for account (7th April), 961; Indian
Four per Cent. Debentures, 98}.
Exchequer Bills were quoted 325. to 355. prem.,
and the Indian Four per Cent. Debentures 98 to
I. Some sales of India Bonds were pressed at 10e.
prem.
The Turkish Six per Cents. of 1868 elosed about f
per cent. lower than yesterday—viz., at 78! to 79}
for the present settlement, and 79 to I for the new
account. The Old Six per Cents. were steady, at
921 to 93} for money, and f per cent. higher for the
16th April. Mexican Bonds remain steady. Other
foreign securities were quiet.
Tbi new Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Debentures
of the East Indian Railway Company were quoted
to-day f to I} prem.
In the market for bank shares today there was no
alteration, business bring very limited. Canada
Land shares were firmer, and Royal Mail Steam
flat. In miscellaneou shares scarcely any business
was done,