The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-08 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'Cipci.

The funds to-day are steady at 814urdsyisiuo-
tations. Home railway stocks are dull, except
metropolitan, which has advanced. Some of the
speculative foreign bonds, however, have shown
more animation, and have risen. Not much effect
poems to have been produced on the markets by the
news from Sleswig.
Consols are now quoted 904 to 4 for money, and
901 to 91 for the account (March 8). The official
business report is as follows : Three per
Cent. Consols, for money, 904, 4 ; ditto for
account, 914, 904 ; Three per Cent. Reduced
904, 3 ; New Three per Cents., 904, 4 ; Bank Stock,
2364 ; India Stock, 218 ; Ditto Five per Cent. Stock,
1034, 104 ; ditto Four per Cent., 1044 ; and Exche-
quer Bills, 4e. di a.

The foreign stock market is better. There is a
rise of 1 per cent. in Mexican, and 1 in Turkish
Consolichis and Greek. Some of the present quota-
tions are annexed :—Turkish 1858 Loan, 691
to 70 ; ditto, 1862, 67 to 1 ; the Con-
, solidife, 471 to ; Greek, 211 to 1; Mexi-
can, 361 to 37 ; and Spanish Passive, 321 to 1.
TrEmotions are recorded as follows :—Bnenos
Ayres Deferred, 35 ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., 64, 1 ; Greek, for account, 211, 1 ;
Italian, for account, 661 ; ditto Maremmana
Railway, 731, 74 ; Mexican, for account, 361,
1, ; New Granada Two per Cents., 28 ; Peru-
vian, 1862, for account, 841, 1 ; Portuguese, 1856
&c., for account, 471, # ; Russian, 1822,
91 ; ditto, 1862, 881, f ; Spanish, New
Deferred for account, 45 ; ditto Passive, for
account, 32j, ; ditto Certificates, 131 ;
Turkish, 1858, for account, 691 ditto, 1862, for
account, 67, 1; ditto 1001. Bonds, 671 ; Venezuela,
for account, 231 ; ditto, 1862, for account, 55, f.
International Financial shares are now quoted 61
to 7 prem.; General Credit, 21 to 1 prem.; London
Financial, to 111 prem. ; Hudson's Bay,
161 to 174 ; Egyptian Trading, 21 to 1
prem.; Mercantile Credit, 4} to 5 prem. ;
Land Securities, 1 to 11 prem. ; Anglo-Italian
Bank, 1 to 1 prem. ; Consolidated Disoouct, 2 to 1
din. ; Australian and Eastern Steam, 5 to 5I prem. ;
Credit Foncier, 11 to 21 prem. ; Mauritius Land
Credit, Ito prem. ; and Contract Corporation,
21 to 1 prem.

The shares of the new Mexican Bank opened this
morning at 2 to 3 prem., and are now quoted 41
to 5 prem.

At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Renter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes opened at
6&r. bic., being rather more than A per cent. better
than on Saturday.

About 48,0001. in gold was bought by the Bank
on Saturday. Withdrawals for Brazil are expected.
The Scotia, from New York, has brought
109,0001. in specie.
The prospectus of the Mexican Bank (Limited)
has been issued. The capital of this under-
taking is two millions, in 20,000 shares of
100& each, but the first issue is to be limited to
5,000 shares. The board is composed as follows,
:—Mr. Frederick Harrison, director of the
London and County Bank •, Mr. James L. Hart,
lconsul for Mexico ; Mr. Abel Heywood, ex-mayor
lof Manchester, and director of the Alliance Bank ;
Mr. Lewis Laugworth of Manchester ; Mr.
William J. Marshall, of Wilson, Bowles, and Co. ;
Mr. John Paterson, chairman of the Standard
Bank of British South Africa ; Mr. Robert Rum-
ney, director of the Alliance Bank, of Manchester ;
and Mr. Charles Thurburu, late of Joyce, Thur.
I burn, and Co., of Alexandria. The bankers are
the Alliance Bank ' • the brokers, Messrs. J. and J.
Whitehead ; and the London solititors, Messrs.
Flux and Argies. Besides carrying on operations
in Mexico, and between Mexico and Great Britain,
it is intended to establish • branch in Valparaiso.
It is mentioned that " arrangements are in con-
templation for the inoorporation of an existing
successful banking institution with the Mexican
Bank," and that the company has already secured
the ' promise of the support of influential Mexican
and South American houses." There is to be no
promotion money, the preliminary expenses are to
be confined to necessary disbursements, and the
remuneration of the directors is to be left to the
shareholders.

Mr--Edward P. W. Miles, of Messrs. Miles
Brothers and Co., of London, Bristol, and New
Zealand, and Mr. Eden Colvile, a director of the
Royal Mail Steam Packet Company, have joined
the direction of the Interoolonial Royal Mail Com-
pany. The latter company are the contractors for
the new postal service which is to be established
between Sydney, New Zealand, and Panama, in
connexion with the present line of mail steamers
between Southampton, the West Indies, and Colon.
Mr. Edward Haalewood, chairman of the com-
mittee of Greek bondholders, ban issued another of
his series of papers, the subject being " the present
state of agriculture in Greece." ' The circular can
be obtained by those interested at the Mhos of the
Greek Bondholders' Committee, in Founders-court,
Lothbury.
The first steamer of the London, Italian, and
Adriatic Steam Navigation Company, the Clotilda,
sailed on the 2nd Mat. for Italy, with a full and
complete cargo, and, owing to want of room, had to
shut out nearly 900 tons of goods.
An extraordinary meeting of the shareholders of
the Unity Joint Stock Bank is called for the 9th
inst., at the London Tavern, " for the purpose of
receiving a balanee-sheet of the debts, liabilities, and
assets of the association, and the directors' report."
A requisition bar been drawn up, having for its
object to compel the directors of the London and
Middlesex Bank to convene a meeting, according to
the articles of association. Thedocument referred
to is lying at the office of Mr. Philip Wood, 24,
Bucklerabury, for the signature of the shareholders.
The receipts of the Great Western Railway of
Canada for the week ending the 22nd of January
were 12,2861., being 8831. lees than in the corre-
sponding week of last year.
A call of 1/. is to be paid on the shares in the
Singapore Gas Company (Limited) by the 19th inst.
The half-yearly meeting of the London and
North Western Railway Company will be held on
the 19th inst.

Una])Ai ETZWIN6.

Consols, which closed yesterday at 91 to
for the Bth March, were first marked today 91,
and closed at 90} to 91. For money the last price
was 90} to 4, being the same as yesterday.
The official business report is as follows :—Three
per Cent. Consols, for money, 90i, ; ditto,
for account, 91, 904 ; Three per Cents. Bednoed,
90i, • New Three per Cents., 90i, ;
Bank 'stock, 295, • India Stock, 2154 ; ditto
Five per Cent. Stock, 104, 1034, ; ditto Four
per Cent. Debentures, 1866, 984 ; ditto Bonds, 10..
dia., par. . . .

The India Five per Cent. Stock remains Sat.'
ludia Bonds were dealt in at 10s. din. to par.
Exchequer Bills remain at 10s. to 4s. dia.
The variations in the foreign stock market were
unusually few.
In the market for Bank shares the principal
change was a rise of about 3/. in City Bank. An
Improvement also occurred in London and Bra-
' When Bank, London and Northern, London and
South American, and Metropolitan and Provincial
Bank. Bank of Hindustan, London and °panty
Bank, and London and Westminster Bank have'
receded. Joint Stock Discount, National Dis-1
count, Royal Mail Steam, and National Steam
shares were all quoted better. Oriental Inland
Steam continue to decline, and a reduction of 1 per
cent. took place in St. Katharine Dock stock.
International Financial shares were last quoted
7 3-16 to 5-16 prem., being rather dull ; General
Credit, 2 9-16 to 11-16 prem. ; and London Pinar cial,
101 to 11 prem., showing a rise of is. 6d.
The shares of the Land Securities Company were
last quoted 11 to 11 prem.; Mauritius Land Credit,

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to / prem. ; Anglo-Italian Bank, to f prem. ;
Merauitile Credit, 4i to 5 prem. ; Contract Cor-
poration, 24 to S prem. ; Credit Fonder, 2 to
24 prem. Littlehampton Steam, 5+ to 0 prem.;
London Mercantile Discount, 2 to 21 prem. ; Undo*,
Italian, and Adriatic Steam, j (I.IS to par ; and
West India and Pacific Steam, 1 to 2 prem.
It is stated that the letters allotment of the
English and Australian Navigation Company
(Limited), and also those of the Land Securities
Company (Limited), are to be issued this evening.
The shares of the former undertaking were dealt in
to-day as low as 3i prem., and closAi at 4i to 5.
Nova Scotia Government Debentures were
quoted lower.

MINES.-(THIS DAY j

Two o'Cconz.

There is little business doing in the mining
market to-day, and the tone is rather unfavour-
able. The variations in prices are chiefly
in an adverse direction. Clifford Amalizamated
shares are lower, at 34 to f ; Marke Valley at
6+ to 7, and Bait Caradon at 27+ to 28. East
Basset? on the other hand, are in demand, and
have risen to 70 to 72. Prosper United are quoted
7 to f
Monte. Aureos and Scottish Australian shares
are firm. St. John del Rey have been dealt in at
52, being steady.
The New Combmartin Silver-Lead Mining Com-
pany (Limited) is announced, with a proposed capital
of 16,0001., in 8,000 shares of 21. each. Comb-
mai an is situate in the north of Devon, in a well-
known mineral district, and the sett obtained, com-
prising the estates of West Challacombe and
Leicester, is adjacent to the old Combmartin
mines. Nine lodes are opened, and the opinion of
Mr. Evan Hopkins is cited to the effect that both
the main lodes of old Combmartin mine continue
through the sett. The present proprietors of the
property are to receive 4,0001. in paid up shares.
The pros .pectus of the Glamorgan Iron Ore Com-
Pant (Limited) is also in circulation. The capital
in this instance is 40,0001., in 8,000 shares of 51.
each. The object is to purchase the lease of and
work an estate of argillaceous iron ore situated
miles from Britton Ferry Docks, and the iron-
works of the neighbourhood. A railway skirts the
boundary of the property. The quality of the ore
is described as very good. The purchase-money
for the lease is 12,4001., which is to be partly taken
in shares

An extraordinary meeting of the Portugal Iron
and Coal Company (Limited) is called for the 16th
instant, to give the company's assent to the con-
ditions of the royal decree allowing the c•,mpany
to carry on operations in Portugal

WEATHER REPORT.-(TIUS DAY.)

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