The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-29 00:00:00

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MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'CLoow.
The funds remain flat, stock being still supplied.
A further decline of g per oent. has taken pleas

to day. Business is limited. The Woe-
tion of the members of the Stock Ix-

change is chiefly directed to preparations for
Friday's settlement in shares and foreign
stocks. English railways in several instances have
fallen about percent. The principal feature is
the Stock Exchange, however, is the continued ex-
citement in Mexican bonds, which have experienced
a further important rise.
The scrip of the Moorish Loan is quoted

5 to 51 prem.
At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Ren-
ter's telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes opened
at 71fr. 80c., but receded to 71fr. 47c., being.
however, it to 1. per cent. better than yestrday.
Consols are officially marked 921, 1, 93, and
921 for money, and 93 and 921 for the account.
The present quotation is 921 to / both for cask
and the Bth February. The official business report
is as follows :—Bank Stock, 2401 ; Three per Cents.
Reduced, 921, 1 ; New Three per Cents., 921, 3 ;
30 Years' Annuities, 1885, 16 9-18, ; India Stock,
298, 224 ; ditto Five per Cent. stock, 1061, 106 k,
1061 ; Five per Cent. " enlaced" rupee paper, 101,
1001 ; Exchequer Bills, March, 19s. prem. ; ditto

Jane, 19s. prem.
In the foreign stock market there has been an
extraordinarily active demand for Mexican Bonds,
which have experienced a fresh rise of fully 2 per
cent. The last transactions recorded are at 334.
The Turkish(Loan of 1864 remains quoted 834 to 844,
while that of 1868 is marked 744. The Italian Loan
has improved. Buenos Ayres Bonds are firm. Sales
are recorded as follows : Brazilian Old
Five per Cents., 102, 1014 ; Buenos Ayres Six
per Cents., 914, ex div.; Chilian Four-and-a-HaN
per Ceuta. 854 ; Italian Five per Cents., 644, 4, ex
div. (exchange 25fr.); Mexican Three per Cents., 31,
I ; ditto, for account, 314, 334 ; New Granada Two
per Cents., 231; Peruvian Uribarren Fourend-
a-Half per Cents., 94, ex div. ; Russian Five per
Cents., 984 ; Spanish Three per Cents., 534 ex
div. ; ditto for account, 634, ex div. ;
ditto New Deferred Three per Cents., 424, ex div. ;
Turkish Six per Ceuta., 1854, 84 ; ditto Six per
Conte, 1868, 744 ; ditto 1001. Bonds, 78 ; ditto
Guaranteed Four per Cents., 1044.
The steamer La Plata has arrived from the West
Indies with about 180,0001. in specie.
The amount of gold withdrawn from the Bank
yesterday for exportation was 12,000 L chiefly foreign
coin. The 191,000/. Australian by the Moravian,
and 41,0001. by the Asia, reached London, and
have all been taken for the Continent.
The Paris exchange yesterday afternoon was fiat.
Bills on Austria were likewise inquired for. The
rates were as follows

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3 ths, 1118 to g ; ditto, 3 days,
1L1341L134; Romon tterdam, 3 mouths. 11.18 to ;
3 smooths, 25.37; to 4114 ; Hamburg, me banes,
tl=s, 13.7 to ; Paris, 3 days, 15.121 to 20; ditto
moulla, 25.42 g to 5; traaldeetulatha-Yams, 3 months,
118 g to j ; Pettrsburg (par nudge), 3 mouths, 32g to I ;
tio., 3 malls, 14.5 to 15; Trieste, .. Os.,
ascatbs, 14.5 to lb ; Madrid' 3 mouths, 484 to g ; OA;
3 mcaths,uhratimli I ; Lushert. 3 months, 25.574 to 112 g,•
Osseo, 3 25.57 g to 034 ; Paleths, 111,wri
se. elii; rho, soMbe, 40 to I 3
lifig to ; MIIOIIIII, 3 mouths, 119 g to g ; Lisbomtia
days, 51 to 52; Oporto. 90 dap, 52 to g.
The Sea Star has arrived from Adelaide with
dater. to the Bth Nov., being nearly a fortnight
later than those previously to hand, owing to the
non-arrival of auy mail by the last homeward
steamer. Unfortunately, however, no papers ap-
pear to have come forward by the Sea Star.
The Liverpool cotton market yesterday was firm.
The sales comprised 8,000 bales.
A circular, very influentially signed, suggests
the propriety of forming a British American Asso-
ciation, in oonnexion with which a preliminary
meeting is invited for Thursday next at the London
Tavern. Mr. R. W. Crawford, ALP., will take

the chair.
The Westminster Brewery Company (Limited)
is announced. It is formed to purchase and work
the brewery business now carried on by Mr. James
Thorne, in Earl-street, Westminster, and elsewhere.
Independent valuations made, respectively, at the
instance of Mr. Thorne and of the company, have
placed the value of the buildings, steam-engines,
and machinery at 100,0001. A further sum of
85,0001, is to be paid for the fixed and movable
plant and the trade and goodwill. A large pep-
portion of the purchase-money will be taken in
shares, and Mr. Thorne will act as managing
director, leaving his remuneration partly condo
gent upon the company's profits. It is pointed out
that the company will enter at once upon
a large existing business, that the brewery
enjoys a high reputation, and that the
management will be careful and economical.
The capital is 280,0001., in 14,000 shares of 201.
each, of which a large proportion is already appro-
priated. It is intimated that the directors reserve
power not to issue more than 10,000 shares.
The Commercial Bank of India, on the god Dec.,
opened a branch at Foo-Chow, in China, being the
first bank established at that rising port of the tea
districts.

The annual meeting of the North British An-
straLsaian Company took place yesterday, when a
dividend of 7} per cent., free of income tax, vas
declared, as recommended in the directors' report.
At the meeting yesterday of the Australian Agri-
cultural Company the directors' report was adopted.
No dividend was declared on this occasion.
The ninth call of V. 10a. is to be paid on the
shares in the Bahia Railway Company by the oth
of March.
The intense, at the rate of 6 per cent. per an-
num, is announced ou the shares of the Algerian
Railways Company.
Subjoined are the latest quotations of insurance,
gas, dock, and other shares, as given in the
stock Exchange list of last evening :
Iminnwww—Allianco Marine, 564, ex div. ; Commercial
Ueioe, 2; Eagle. 74 ; General, 41, ex diy.; Globe, 98 7 4,
ex div. • Guardian, 494 9 ; Imperial Fire, 352, ex div. ;
Indemnity Marine, 152 ; Law Fire. 44 ; London, 431;
London sad Provincial Marine. 2 ; Marine, 100; MercaolE•
Firs, 3 I; Owen Marine, 104 114 ; Pelican, 53 ; PM/wiz,
145 I ; Roar Life, 8 74; Union, 2644, ex ; Sun Fire,
220;; Tnuessand Kersey Marine, 31 ; Universal Barbie,
21}
use Lied and Coke.--Oonimercial, 36 4 ; Equitable, 81 ,•
Great Central, 114 ; Imperial, 81 806, ex ; Imperial
Contisental, 484 Surrey Consumers, 146 ; Westminster
Chartered, 66, ex div. ,• ditto New, 29, ex div.
Canale.—Coyentry, 218 ; Grand Junction, 59'; 60, ex
div.
Viaterweeka—Bsrlin. 54 I) Chelsea, 24, ox div. •
Grand Junction, 72, ex ; Southwark and Vauxhall:
122 121.
Docks.—Fist and West India, 1234 4, ex div. ; Victoria.
994, el div.
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TUESDAY EVITTIIO.

Consols, which closed yesterday st 93 to k, botk
for money and the 6th February, opened this
morning at the same quotation, and cloeed at 924
to 93. The official humus report is as follows :
Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 93, ; ditto,
for account (Feb. 6), 934, 93 ; Three per Cents.
Reduoed, 921, 93 ; New Three per Cents., 921, 93,
924 ; Bank Stock, 242, 4, 241; India Stock, 224,
225 ; ditto Five per Cent. Stock, 1061, 106 •, ditto,
for account, 1064 ; ditto Four per Cent. Deben-
tures, 1863, 991; ditto, 1864 or 1866, 99/ ; ditto
Bonds, 23e. prem. ; Five per Cent. " enfaced "
rupee paper, 1004, 101 ; ditto Five-and-a-Halt
per Cent., 1061, 107, 1061.
The IndiasFive per Cent. stock was firm at 1
06
to 1064 ; the Five per Cent. rupee paper at 1
to 101; and the Five-and-a-Ralf per Cent. at 1
to 107.
The March Exchequer Bills were quoted 164. to
19s. prem. and the June 19s. to 22e. prem.
Bank shares remain firm. There were more ins
quirks to-day for Chartered Bank of India, Ana-
trails, and China. In miscellaneous shares there
was no alteration.