The Express.
London, England, 1857-03-12 00:00:00

17th March, at 411.
The Blackwell has arrived in the Downs from
Melbourne, with 80,678 oz. of gold on freight, worth
about 322,0001. Including the 217,6001. brought by
the Mermaid, as reported yesterday, the supplies
immediately available are raised to about 540,0001.
The whole of this heavy amount is expected to be
at once despatched to the Continent, with the excep-
tion of the 50.000 sovereigns ex the Mermaid, which,
being of British instead of Colonial coinage, will
probably be sent into the Bank. It is hoped that
the Continental requirements will be satisfied for the
present. So urgent, however, was the demand for
gold for immediate remittance to tha Continent in
payment for silver, that 30,0001. or upwards was
to-day taken from the Bank.
The corn market yesterday was dull. For inferior
qualities of wheat former prices were not obtainable.
The arrivals of foreign grain in London this week
are small. Since last }riday only eight grain-laden
vessels have arrived at ports of call.
The &deices from Paris communicate the leading
French names connected with the proposed Inter-
national Bank. These include M. Jayr, who was
formerly Prefect of Lyons and Minister of Public
Works, and who is now one of the managing
directors of the Eastern of France and Lyons and
Genera Railway Companies ; M. Arles Dufour,
under whose guidance the French Universal Exhi-
bition was carried on ; M. Vandal, of the depart-
ment of the Ministry of Finance, a man of great
financial capacity ; M. Montane, deputy,
and a large ship-owner ; M. Bischoffsheim,
the well known banker ; and M. Donon.
of the firm of Donon and Co. These
advises re-assert, in contradiction to interested state-
ments which have been set afloat, that speculative
business like that which has been so extensively
prosecuted by the Credit Mobilier Society is to be
particularly eschewed by the proposed 'bank. In
fact the statutes of the bank, which have already
been published, aro perfectly, explicit upon this
point, inasmuch as they authonse the institution to
embark in only legitimate banking business, and
preclude it altogether from dealing in shares upon
the system of the Credit Mobilier Society. Should
the International Bank be formally sanctioned, its'
object will be to promote the establishment in Paris
of the leading points of the English joint stock
banking system ; and for this reason the under-
taking
is viewed with interest and satisfaction by
patties in England who would deprecate in the
strongest manner any extension of merely specula-
tive facilities.
The dividend court of the Bank of England pro-
prietary is called for the 19th inst. The court for
the election of governor, deputy-governor, and direc-
tors, is to he held on the 14th and 13th April.
The half-yearly meeting of the Edinburgh, Perth,
and Dundee Railway Company is called for the 19th
inst., at Edinburgh.- It will be proposed to authorise
the conversion of debentures into stock bearing a
fixed and perpetual dividend.
The annual meeting of the Belgian Eastern Junc-
tion Railway Company is called for the 31st inst., IA
Brussels.
A special court of the Western Gas Company is
called for the 26th inst., to declare a half-yearly
dividend.
An auction of the foreign redeemable debt of Spain
is to take place at Madrid on the 31st inst. The
sum assigned is 375,000 reals. Tenders are to be
received in London until the 20th.
The advice!, from Paris mention that the shares of
the London General Omnibus Company were officially
admitted into the Bourse on Tuesday. Numerous
transactions arc reported at 113 f. 73c., 113 f., and,
last, at 112 f. 30e.
The obligations of the Beziers and Graissessae
Railway Company were also introduced into the
Paris Bourse on Tuesday.
Amongst the new projects for which subscriptions
are solicited in the Paris market is one for the " car-
bonisation of wood," and for the "extraction of
pyroligneous acids." The proposed capital is 48,0001.
The Admiralty will receive tenders on the 19th
inst. for the supply of 2,000 qrs. of wheat.
Tenders will be received by the Admiralty on the
17th instant for the conveyance of 26 officers and
406 non-commissioned officers and men from Ports-
mouth to Jamaica, and of about the same number of
troops back to Portsmouth.

NVEDWUDAT Eva:gime.

The funds showed renewed flatness this morning,
and at one period a fresh decline ofd per cent. was I
quoted. More firmness was exhibited, however,
upon the announcement of another large arrival of
gold from Australia, and the closing quotations were
fully as good as those of yesterday. English rail-
way shares declined in the morning, but became
much stronger in the afternoon, finally closing
scarcely lower than yesterday. French shares at
the termination of business showed symptoms of
renewed animation.
The demand for money to-day was good, but in

Lombard-street this afternoon the supply was more
liberal than for some days past. The withdrawal
of the funds necessary to purchase, on continental
account, the large supplies of Australian gold now
reported, tends to tighten the market for the mo-
ment. - .

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Consols opened this morning at 931 to 1 for the
Bth April, declined fur a short time to 931 to .1, and
had rallied at 4 o'clock to 03a to I, the pnce for cash
being at the same time 931 to'. After the recog-
nised hours the price was quoted rather better, viz.,
exactly 931 for April. The official business report is
as follows : —Three per Cent. Consols, for money,
931, 1,1, 1,1, 1; ditto for account, Bth April, 931,
1 ; Bank Stock, 222 ; Three-and-a-Half per Cent.
Exchequer Bonds, falling payable in 1838 and
1859, 1181, 1.
The June Exchequer Bills remain quoted par to
Is. prem.
The foreign stock market was quiet. Turkish Six
per Cents. declined to 96a to a, but closed the same
as yesterday, at 961 to 97. The Guaranteed Four
per Cents. present no variation, closing at 101 to 1,
but were also quoted 1 per cent. lower at one period
of the day. Spanish Deferred Three per Cents. were
more inquired for. Mexican Bonds were firm, at
221 to 1.
The shares of the General Bank of Switzerland'
have fallen to 21 to 11 discount, owing to the
announcement of a call of 3!. per share.
In consequence of its being understood that the
dividend to be declared at the approaching meeting
of the Ottoman Bank proprietary will be at the rate
of 10 per cent. per annum, with a considerable sur-
plus, the shares were firm to-day, and closed at Ito
11 prem. Other bank stocks were steady. London
and County Bank is still inquired for, and is marked
as high as 321. National Discount shares remain
dull, at 6-16 to 3-16 die. cx dir. Canada Land were
rather better. East and West India Dock stock is
officially markedll9; and St. Katharine's Dock, 901.
The Admiralty have accepted the iuidermen-
tinned ships for tfie conveyance of stores, riz. : The
Gauntlet, for Hong Kong; Guadaltte, for Gibraltar;
Ainyntas, for Corfu : Scotia. for Halifax; Pearl, for
; Montreal • Arthur 'White, for New Brunswick; and
the Pearl, for Quebec. The Minna has also been
' accepted to convey troops to Corfu.