The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-23 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.-(THIS D&l4

Two °Twit.
The funds opened with firmness, at an isuposs-
went of I per cent., but have since become radar
flatter. Consols are now quoted the same ass*
the close yesterday. English railway stooks aim
heavy, but the fall is chiefly confined to Omit
Western, Midland, and Lancashire and Yesh-

shire.
At Paris this morning, according to Mr. R
Ws telegram, the Three per Cent. Routes vim
quoted 70fr. 06c., being I per cent. better thrua
yesterday. The Bourse, however, is described as
" unsettled."
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Consols are officially marked 921, 93, and 921 ler
money, and 93 and 92/ for the account. The prang
quotation is 921 "sellers," both for of
and the sith Feb. The official business repot
is as follows :-Bank Stock, 242 e, 243 ; Three par
Cents. Reduced, 92f, 1; New Three per Clods.,
92f, f ; New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1118;
Lydia Five per Cent. Stook, 106, 106} ; ditto
Pour per Cent. Debentures, 1863, 99k, IMI;
ditto Bonds, 25e. prem. ; Five per Cent. "an-
faced" rupee paper, 100 f, 1 ; ditto Pim-
and-a-Half per Cent., 106, 1; Exchequer Bilk,
March, 17s. prem.; ditto, June, 205., 235. prem.
Transactions to a fair extent have taken place ia
foreign stocks. Prices are generally steady.
Venezuela bonds, however, are flatter. The
Turkish Loan of 1854 is quoted 831 Us.
4, and that of 1858, 731 to 74. Sales are as-
corded as follows :-Brazilian Four-and-a-Half pee
Own, 1860, 911; Italian Five per Cents, MI,
div. (exchange 25k.) ; Mexican Three per Cents.,
for account, 291, 1 ; New Granada ex over due
Coupons and Hectares, 10 ; Portuguese Three per
Cents., 1853, 461, ex div. ; ditto for account, 461,
ex div. ; ditto Three per Cents., 1868,
1867, 1859, and 1860, for account, 46, or
div. ; Russian Three per Cents., 1859, Mt,
691; Sardinian Five per Conte., for account, 77};
Spanish Three per Conte., for account, 631, 501,
ex div. ; ditto, New Deferred Three per Cents,
421, ex div.; ditto Passive, 171 ; Turkish Six per
Cents., 1854, for account, ; ditto Six per Cents.,
1868, for account, 731, 74, 731; ditto 1004 Bonds,
76 ; ditto Guaranteed Four per Cents., 104 f ;Vene-
zuela Three per Cents., for account, 23f ; dine
One-and-a-Half per Cents., 12.
The bar silver by the last West India packet wan
sold yesterday for Bombay at U. lfd. per one%
being fd. above the price obtained for the peering
supply, but id. below that recently current.
It may be useful to mention that, ea we wader-
stand, the extent to which the government et has
have requested the India Council here to draw wpm
than is about 880,0001. This, with the 110,0101.
recently remitted to this country through the
medium of bills on London purchased by the Wiese
government from the local bank% will ane-
cdote the return of the 1,000,0001. in mbar,
which, after being purchased from the Bank of
England, was some time back advanced by the
India Council to the government of India by 'was
of loan. It is understood that for the preemies
arrangements are limited to this. • tranmetiso
They will be spread over a of three monk.
It is satisfactory to find that the Indian goverment
are in a position to discharge this obligation efdh
punctuality.
Telegrams from New York report a reaction
per cent in the exchange, and a rise of 1i to 2 per
cent. in public securities.
At Liverpool yesterday the sales of cotton nee
limited to 5,000 bales, the market remaining wry
dull.
We learn that the traffic on the Malta and
Alexandria Telegraph is largely increasing. The
messages over this distance of 1,400 mike neater
now between 600 and 700 a week. The telegrams
are being forwarded over the Italian lines with
greater despatch, the average time taken dazing
the last two or three days having been about twelve
hours. It is a remarkable fact that yesterday
several meesages came through from Alexandrian
four hours.
The annual meeting of proprietors of the Louden
and County Bank is called for the 6th February.
A fifth distribution of 30 re. per share on omen
of the capital of the North Western Bank of India
is announced.
The half-yearly report of the directors of the
Scottish Australian Investment Company antes do
gross profit realised in the colony during the pined
now reported on at 10,9321. 16a. 6d., to which tun
be added 2,1171. 164 7d., being profit in the Ann
of premium, realised on the sale of the comments
shares in the Scottish Australian Mining Com
(Limited). With 2361. 10s. Bd., received in Lea-
den for interest, commission, transfer fees, as.,
there is an aggregate grout profit of 13,2871. 9s. it
The directors propose a dividend on the ordinary
dock at the rate of 10 per cent. per annuin, Ism
income-tax, which will require 10,0001., and Imam
at the credit of the reserved fund 9,8221. 144 21.
The new colony of Queensland has been Indy
attracting a great deal of public attention, in con-
sequence of large portions of it being well adapted
for the growth of cotton and all agricultural re-
duce, and for the prosecution of pastoral peonies
generally. It has for some time been the desire of
the manager to secure for the company a first-dam
pastoral establishment ; and the directors now es-
port that he has taken the first steps towards the
attainmbnt of this object. The manager anticipates
that the investment of a portion of the company
funds in this undertaking will be prodnctiveof loge
future profits.
With reference to an advertisement which bee
appeared relating to a petition to wind up the
Consols Insurance Association, the directors line
issued a circular entitled " Exposure of a Plot he
Ruin the Consols Insurance Association." The
allegations contained in this document are of 'a
nature to preclude our making any extracts boa
it. It will suffice to say that the directors ex-
pressly charge certain parties with a plot to destroy
the association for the sake of the legal expendi-
ture incidental to a winding up.
The half-yearly interest is advertised on Cape of
Good Hope Government Debentures.
The interest is advertised on the Bonds of the
Delaware and Raritan Canal and Camden and
Amboy Railroad and Transportation Companies.
With reference to the market for American IMF
ritiea, Mr. E. F. Satterthwaite reports as follows
The market for American mourities in London has is
list during the poet week. The fear of a great demonist
in the value of coupons has induced may holders et Mao
stocks and railroad bonds to effect sales, red qinatiess
base been forced down. This gateman), however, Urea
has bean • decided rally on receipt of telegrams feces New
yoek to the 10th, reporting a general advance of 16 M! per
cent. in stocks, and a reductioe of I per cleat. in eneinsp.
There is at present more deposition to bey railroad den.
where the rate of dividends may be increased, than beak,
where the rate of interest is Axed.
The mails from Calcutta and Chins have reached
Suez.
The steamer Bemires left Point de Galls oa the
23rd Dec. with the English mail for Australia of
November.

WZDNISDAY Evers
Consols, which closed yesterday at 921 " buyers,'
for the 6th February, opened this morning at.
9n to 93, and closed at 92,1 to , both for
money and the account. The official business
report is as follows:—Three per Cent. Connie.
for money, 921, 93, 924, 93, 921 ; ditto for atiesent
Feb. 6), 93, 924 ; Three per Nuts. Reduced, In,
, 1 ; New Three per Cents., 921, 1; Thirty Yen
nunities, 1885, 15 9-16 ; Bank Stork, 2411, 1113;
India Five Na Cent. Stock, 1061, 1, 106 ;
for moonlit, 1 ; ditto Four per Deben-
tures, 1863. 1 ; ditto, 1861, 991; ditto, DM or
1866, 100, 991 ; ditto Bonds, 23n, 268., 2Te. pima.;
Four per Cent. " °dozed" rupee paper, 861 ; ether
Five per Cent., 100/,_ 100, 4, ; ditto Fivnentle.
Half per Cent., 105 i, 106, 1.