The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-15 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'CLooz.

The funds are again firmer to-day, and a further
improvement of i per cent. has taken place. There
is also au advance in several of the principal
English railways, while foreign stocks are extraordi-
narily buoyant, and the prices of nearly all the
more speculative descriptions have risen materially.
The settlement in shares and foreign stocks occu-
pies much attention, and will be completed to-
morrow.

At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Renter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Renter opened at
691 r. 70c., being i per cent. better than on Satur-
day. _ .

A rumour is, current that Vicksburg has been
relieved by the Confederate fortes, and until this
statement be confirmed or otherwise, the dealers in
the Stock Exchange refuse to transact business in
the scrip of the Confederate Loan. The nominal
quotation is 3to 1 discount. Italian scrip is rather
firmer, at 2i to 311 prem.

Consols are quoted 92 to 1, ex div., for money,
and 924 to 1, ex div., for the account (July 9).
The official business report is as follows :-Three
per Cent. Consols, for money, 921, 92, ; ditto for
account, 921, 3 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 911, ;
New Three per Cents., 911, 1 ; Red Sea Tele-
graph, 211 ; India Five per Cent. Stock, 108, 1071,
1081 ;ditto Four per Cent. Debentures, 100 ; Bank
Stock, 2341 ; Exchequer Bills, March, par ; ditto
June, 2s. prem.
Great buoyancy prevails in the foreign stock
market. Greek and Mexican Bonds are in extra-
ordinary favour. The former have been dealt in as
high as 401, and are now quoted 391 to 1, being
about 1 per cent. higher than Saturday afternoon,
while the latter, after beiug purchased as
high as 39, are last marked 38. Spanish Passive
Bonds have also risen considerably, and the up-
ward movement extends to New Granadian Two
per Cents., Peruvian Bonds of 1862, and Spanish
Certificates. Russian Bonds of 1862 are
likewise inquired for. Turkish Bonds of
1854 are firm, at 92 to 93 ; those of 1868 at 701
to 4, and those of 1862 at 711 to 72, showing, in
the two latter instances, a rise of 3 per
cent. Venezuela Six per Cents. have improved
1 per cent., being now quoted 591 to 601.
Transactions are recorded as follows :-Brazilian,
1852, 1858, 1860, 911, 901, ex div. ; Chilisn Four.
and-a-Half per Cents., 851, 4, ex div. ; Egyptian,
1001, 100 ; ditto, second issue, 1004, 994 ;
Greek, 391, 40 ; ditto, for account, 391, 401,
391, 401, 394 ; ditto Coupons. 19, 20 ; Italian,
724 ; ditto, for account, 73 ; ditto Maremmana
Railway, 81, 801 ; Mexican, 381, 371,
381, 38 ; ditto, for account, 38, 39,
384, 4, 38 ; New Granada, 16 ; ditto
Two per Cents., 334, 3 ; Peruvian, 1862, for
account, 911 ; ditto 1856, 1857, 1859, 1860,
and 1862, 494 ; Russian, 1859, 581 ; ditto, 1862,
921, 3 ; Spanish 541, 1; ditto Passive, 35, 341,
36 ; ditto, for account, 351, 341, 351 ; ditto
Certificates, for account, 121 ; Turkish,
1854, 924 ; ditto, 1858, 701, 3 ; ditto for account,
701 ; ditto, 1862, 71/, 1 ; ditto for account,
72 ; ditto Guaranteed, 1024 ; Venezuela, 261 ; ditto
for account, 261; ditto, 1862, 591, 59, 1 ; ditto for
account, 591, 604, 594.

Internati(Mal Financial shares are rather higher,
at bi to 61 prem. General Credit and names
are steady, at 21 to 2i prem.

FOUR O'CLOCK.
COLIBOIB are quoted 92i, ex div., for money, and
92} to g, ex div., for the account, being firm.
•

The mail from Guayaquil has brought a remit-
tance of 1,4511. 9s. 7d. eu account of the dividends
on the debt of Ecuador.
The advisee from Venezuela announce that
58,290 dols. 27c. had been paid into the bands of the
agents of Messrs. Barings since the previous mail,
making, with the amounts previously announced,
a tot& of 308,233 deb. 80c. towards the payment of
the Venezuelan dividends. This is considered
satisfactory.

The China, from New York, has brought only
5,0001. in specie.
The advices from Otago, New Zealand, mention
that the Chariot of Fame would soon leave for
England with about 200,0001. in gold, and the John
Duncan with 160,000 E.
We understand that it is proposed by the directors
of the London and Provincial Marine Insurance
Company to pay interest to the shareholders
half-yearly, and that interest warrants will be
issued at the rate of six per cent. per annum
after the 30th June.

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An official circular dated the 3rd inst., furnishes
some important information bearing upon the
financial position of the London, Chatham, and
Dover Railway Company. The circular observes :
I am desired to inform you that, immediately after the
conclusion of the business of the special meeting, to be
held on the 19th inst., at the Grosvenor Hotel, an extraor-
dinary general meeting of the company will be held to
create the capital, consisting of 750,000/. stock, and
250,090/. debentures, authorised by the act of last session,
for purposes common to the general undertaking and the
Metropolitan extensions, these purposes being the erection
of a large goods station and warehouses at Blsckfriare, of
an assorting station at Camberwell, and of workshops and
machinery, and accommodation for engines, carriages, and

stone, at'itattersea.
The concluding passages are as follow :
The directors, therefore, with the sanction of the share-
holders, last year applied to and succeeded in obtaining from
parliament powers, themselves to area the several works
above specified, and to apply, io payment of the same, stock
and debentures secured upon the proceed. of • common
fund, to be formed by deductions in the nature of terminal
charges from the receipt; upon all the company's railways.
It is now proposed to these powers into effect by the
creation and issue of 75U, . Common Fund stock, and of
250,0U01. Common Fund debentures ; the stock to bear •
fixed dividend at the rata of lice per cent., which, with
the debenture interest, will be payable, in the first in-
stance, out of the receipts from other companies who
may avail themselves of the terminal accommodation thus
afforded (which the Great Northern and Metropolitan Com-
panies have already agreed to do), the balance, if any,
being borne by the general undertaking and the Idetropu-
politan extenaions in the proportion of their gross receipts
respectively. It is thought better to constitute the common
fund by • fixed deduction from the receepta rather than by •
par °outage upon them, inasmuch as the former will fall
much more lightly upon the shareholders than the latter ;
and in the course of time, as other companies are iodueed to
make nae of the terminal accoinmodatioa, the shareholders
will, in all probability, by this means eventually obtain the
use of the goods station, warehouses, fie., without any con-
tribution to the cost of their erection. It is proposed to
oder the common fund stock, in the first instance, to the
shareholders in the general undertaking and the Metropo-
litan extensions, rateably according to their respective hold-
ings. It should be stated that the workshops at Battersea
are newly finished, the land for the gooda stations at Black-
friars, and the assorting station at Camberwell, u nearly all
cleared, and the whole of the works will be completed by the
Ist of September of the present year.
A special meeting of the Van Diemen's land
Company is called for the 2nd of July, to elect a
deputy governor, and to authorise the directors to
sell a certain number of forfeited shares.
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Thu Master of the Rolls proposes on the 23rd
inst. to make a call of 101. per share on the con-
tributories of the Mitre Assurance Association.

The directors of the Clarence Hotel Company,
Dover (Limited), have fixed Friday, the 18th, as
the day for closing their application list.
We are requested to state that the share list of
the Dublin Cattle Market Company will be closed
on Tuesday, the 23rd instant. The Lublin Evening
Mail states that Mr. Richard Moon, chairman ;
Mr. Joshua P. B. Westhead, M. P., vice-chairman ;
Mr. John Bramley-Moore, M.P., director ; and
Mr. Charles Stewart, secretary of the London
and North Western Railway Company, have joined
this company.

SATUIDAT KVIIIING.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 94 to i. es
div., for the 9th of July, opened and closed
to-day at the same quotation. For money