The Express.
London, England, 1862-09-11 00:00:00

MONEY MARSET.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'Cioci.

The stock markets remain extremely inactive, but
prices are firm. Consols are quoted about 1-16 per
cent. higher than they closed yesterday. All the other
markets exhibit steadiness, and scarcely any varia-
tion from yesterday's prices has occurred.
At Paris to-day, according to Mr. Reuter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes opened
at 69fr. 70c., being Sc. higher than at the cloes
yesterday. The Bourse is described as firm.
Console are !now quilted 934 to 1 for money,
and 934 to 1 for the Bth of October.'.
The official business report is as follows:—Three'
per Cent. Console, for money, 934, ; ditto, for
account (Oct 8), 931 ; Three per Cent. Reduced,
921, ; New Three per Cents., 921, 4 ; Thirty
Years' Annuities, April, 1886, 15, 141 ; ditto, Red
Sea Telegraph Annuities, August, 1908, 211; India
Stock, 232 ; the India Five per Cent. Stook,
1091, 4, 1 ; the Five per Cent. "enlaced" rupee
paper, 104, 14 ; ditto Five-and-a-Half per Cent.,
1111 ; the June Exchequer Bills, 235. prom ;
ditto March, 20s. prem.
The transactions in foreign stocks have slackened,
and little change has occurred in prices. Mexican
Bonds are less inquired for. Italian Five per Cents. are
quiet, at yesterday's recovery. There is a moderate
demand for the scrip of the last Russian Loan.
The Turkish Loan of 1864 is quoted 85 to 86 ;
that of 1868, 674 to 68 ex div. ; the New
Loan (scrip), 2 to 11 dia. ; Ithe paid-up, 66
to 4, being rather firmer ; Portuguese scrip,
21 to 21 prem. ; and Peruvian scrip,
11 to 01 die. Egyptian is unaltered. Transactions
are recorded as follows :—Egyptian Seven per
Cents., second issue, 401. paid, 64 prem., ex
div. ; Italian Five per Cents., for account (16th
Sept.), 704 ; Mexican, for account, 311 ; 'Portuguese
Three per Cents., scrip, 151. paid, 24 pram ; do. paid
up scrip, 461 ; Russian Five per Cents., 1862,
scrip, 23/. 10s. paid, 1, 01 prem. ; dittopaid up scrip,
94, 931 ; Spanish Three per Cents., 54/, 4;
ditto Deferred, 441; ditto Paesive, 191 ;
the Certificates, 91, 1; Turkish Six per
Cents., 1864, 86 ; ditto, 1868, 674, ex div. ; ditto,
1862, scrip, 501. paid, 11, If dia. ; ditto paid-up
scrip, 661, 4, 86 ; Venezuela Three per Ceuta.,
for account, 271, 4.
The steamer Delta will take on Friday (to-
morrow) 401,8701. in specie for Bombay, of which
20,0001. is gold, and the rest silver.
An instalment of 10 per cent. fell due yesterday
on the Russian Loan introduced here in April last.
We are officially informed that, in conformity to
the provisions of the Ottoman Loan of 1862, as
stated in the prospectus, the following gentlemen
have been appointed members of the commission
created in Constantinople for attending to the re-
ceipt of the hypothecated revenues and the regular
transmission to the Bank of England of the re-
quisite funds for the half-yearly interest and sink-
ing fund, via : Messrs. Edward Gilbertson, George
Guarracino, and John Stewart.
The steamer Hansa has arrived from New York
with 27,000/. in specie for England.
The Liverpool cotton market yesterday was again
irregular, and prices were quoted about 2d. per lb.
below the extreme point lately reached.
The London and North Western Railway traffic
return shows this week au increase of 7,2181., and
the Great Northern an increase of 3,6801.
The receipts of the Grand Trunk Railway of
Canada for the week ending the 23rd August were
12,3301. sterling, being 1,722/. more than for the
corresponding week of last year.
At the meeting of the Scinde Railway Company,
convened for the 25th inst., a resolution will be
submitted to convert all paid-up shares in the
Delhi Railway into stock.
A meeting of the shareholders of the Northern
Counties Bank took place on Tuesday at Man-
chester, when a proposal to amalgamate with the
Manchester and Counties Bank was unanimously
acceded to. The shareholders of the latter had
previously agreed to the tame proposition.
The following is the half-yearly report of the
directors of the Crystal Palace District Gas
Company :
The directors report the working of the com-
pany's operations during t e alf-year. The works and
plant are in good order and effective. The balance-sheet
for the half-year, made up to the 30th of June, and ap-
pended to this report, shows the financial position of the
company. The profit. for the half-year are 2,8341. 17s. 3d.,
which, together with 148/. 13s. 2d., the unappropriated pro-
fit of the last half-year, makes the available Weems
2,9831. 10s. sd. Out of this sum the directors recommend
the declaration of a dividend after the rate of 6 per cent.
per annum on the preference capital, and a dividend after
the rate of 8 per cent. per annum on the ordinary capital of
the company, both free of income tax ; the balance of 4671.
7s. 9d. to be carried forward to the profit of the succeeding
half-year.
Sir Robert Clifton, Bart., M.P. for Nottingham,
has become the chairman of the Strand Hotel
Company.
With reference to the market for American secu-
rities, Mr. E. F. Satterthwaite reports as follows :
The market for American secunties in London continued
firm until the arrival of the Canadian mail. Although
prices advanced in New Ynrk after the battle at Bull Run,
the effect in this market has been to check the maculation
for the rise in Erie sham, and prices generally closed lower.
Further intelligence with more defined accounts are
anxiously looked for.
The following quotations are 4e. 6d. to the dollar :
bid. Asked.
United States 6 per Cent Coupon Bonds,
Ditto 5 per Cent. Coupon Honda, 1874
P -mmylvania S per Cent. Coupon Bonds —
Ditto Five per Cent. Stock
Virginia 81x seer Cent. Bonds
Maryland 6 per cent. Sterling Beads
M.seacllueetts 6 per cent ditto
Atlantic d Great Weatern ~liew York Divides) OS} 471
Clodnnati, Hamilton, and Dayton If per seal
Ind Mortgage, 1880
Detroit and Milwaukee, 7 per cent Ist WA
me Convertible Bonds, 1875 46 46
Fr* 7 per cent., First Mortgage, 1887 .
Ditto, 7 per mu.
Second Mortgage, UM ld ze
Ditto, 7 per cent, Third Mortgage, 1883
Ditto, 7 per cent., Fourth rt go, 1880
Ditto, 7 per cent, Fifth Mortgoge, 1888
62
Ditto, 7 per cent. Preferred Stock
Ditto shares, 100 dollars, et Assessment Scrip gl it}
Mingle Central, 7 per cent., Constriction, 1876 77 78
Ditto, 6 per cent. Construction, payable in Lon-
don .t Ss. 2d. per dollar
Ditto, 100 dollar shares, 110 doDars paid
Ditto, ditto, paid up f o full 4B 48
Ditto, Cancelled Bond scrip 6 dollars n
Joliet and Northern Indiana 8 per cent., Ist
Mortgage, 1874, guaranteed by Michigan Cen-
tral and Illinois Central, Jointly
Michigan Central, 8 per cent., convertible, 1887 82 84 x 0
Ditto, sinking fund, 1882
Ditto shares, 100 dollars
Ditto Southern and Northern Indiana, 7 per
cent. Sinking Fund, 1886
111 w York Central, 7 per cent., Bonds, 1864 BO 82
Ditto, 6 per cent., Sinking Food, 1883 Bl 88
Ditto, 7 per cent, Sinking Fend, 1876 B3 85
Ditto shares, 100 dollars
Panama Ist Mortgage, 18116 lOl 106
Ditto god Mortgage, 1571 lOOl 101}
Pennsylvania, 6 per cent,, Ist Meet, 1880 Bl 83
Ditto, 2nd Mortgage, Stering, convertible, 1875 814 84}
The Gabalva has arrived from China with
414,2001b5. of tea and 572 bales of silk.

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WEDNESDAY Emma.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 93} to 1 for
the Bth October, opened this morning at 93} to 0,
and closed at 93 11-16 to 13-18, or 93g. For money
the last price was 93} to 1. The official business
report is as follows:—Three per Cent. Consols, for
money, 934, f, i ; ditto, for account (Oct. 8), 934,
1 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 924 ; New
Three per Cents., 92}, 92; India Stock, 231, 230,1
232; ditto Five per Cent. Stock, 109}, ;Z
ditto j
Four per Cent. Debentures, 1883, 1.01,,,ei;
dittoßonds, 30a. prem. ; Five per Cent. "
rupee paper, NM.
The India Five per Cent. Stock remains steady,
at 109} tot ; India Bonds, at 275. to 30s. prem. ;
the June xchequer Bills, at 90a. to 235, prem. ;
and the March, at 17s. to MX Prem.
In the foreign stook market the transactions were
to a fair extent. Italian Five per Omits. were very
heavy in the morniug, and were sold as low as 691.
A recovery, however, took place in the afternoon,
upon the receipt of better prices from Paris : the
closing quotation wu } per cent above that of
yesterday. Turkish stocks were likewise heavy in