The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-23 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'CLoci.

1 The stook markets to-day are dull, the feel-
ing of uncertainty with regard to the mum
of foreign politics having been strengthened
by the debates iin parliament last night.
Prio' ea, nevertheless, are very well supported.
The funds and most of the principal home railway
stooks remain at yesterday's quotations, and the
speculative foreign securities have re-ADvered from
• decline which was observable at the commence-
ment of business.

At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Renter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes were quoted
66fr. 45c., showing no change.

CansoLi are now quoted 914 to * for money, and
914 to 4 for the account March 8). The official
business report is as follows :-Three per Cent.
Consols for money, 91, 4, 91, 4, 4 ; do. for account,
914 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 911, 91, 1 ; New
Three per Cents., 914, 91, 4 ; Bank Stock, 239 ;
India Stock, 220, 218, 220 ; ditto Five per Cent.
stock, 1044, 4, 4 ; ditto, for amount, 1044 ; Five-
and-a-Half per Cent. " enfaced " rupee paper,
114 ; and Exchequer Bills, 4a., 6s. dia., par.
Greek and Mexican Bonds opened at a fall, the
former being hut marked 211, and the latter 414,
but the present quotations-which are respectively
224 to 4 and 411 to 424-are not materially different
from the final prices of yesterday. Turkish Conso-
Rd& are steady, at 49* to 4 ; the Confederate
Loan 1 per cent. better, at 56 to 58 ; and
Spanish Passive 4 to 1 per cent. better, at 334
to 3' • but Spanish Certificates are rather fiat.
Transactions are recorded as follows ;-Brazilian,
1852, 1858, 1860, 874 ; Egyptian, 1034 ; Greek, for
account, 211, 224 ; ditto Coupons, for account, 101;
Italian, for account, 661; Mexican, for account, 414,
424, 411 ; New Granada, 144 ; ditto Deferred,
84 ; Portuguese, 1853, for account, 474 ; ditto,
1866, arc., for account, 471, 4 ; Rus-
sian, 1822, 924 ; ditto 1862, 881 ; Spanish
New Deferred, for account, 451 ; ditto Passive
for account, 334, 4 ; ditto Certificates, for ac-
count, 134, 4 ; Turkish, 1854, for account, pit ;
ditto, 1858, for account, 714 ; ditto 1862, for
account, 69, 4 ; Venezuela, for account, 25 ; ditto,
1862, for account, 584, 4, 4.

International Financial shares are now quoted 74
to 4 prem. ; General Credit, 34 to I prem. :
London Financial, 10f to 114, ex div. and ex new ;
Mercantile Credit, 84 to 7 prem. ; Hudson's Bay,
18 to 4 ; Egyptian Trading, 24 to 4 prem. ; L►nd
Securities, 1 to 14 prem. ; Credit Foncier of Mau-
ritius, 4 to I prem. ; Credit Foncier of Great
Britain and Ireland, 1 to 14 prom. ; Austra-
lian and Eastern Steam, 7 to 8 prem. ;
Ottoman Financial, 4 to 4 prem. ; Mexi-
can Bank, 1 to 14 prem. ; Buenos Ayres
Bonded Wharf, 4 to 1 prem. ; South Eastern Bank,
ito 14 prem. ; and London Gas Meter, i to 14
prem.

Telegrams received today report • panic at
Shanghae, and money not obtainable. Exchange,
6a. 10ItL, and at Hong Kong, ss. OW.
Holders of money seem to be becoming more
anxious to employ it, in anticipation of a reduction
in the Bank of England minimum at an early date.
According to some views, the rate will be lowered
to 6 per cent. on Thursday text. The supply of
money in the discount market yesterday was accord-
ingly large, and good bills were taken at 61 to 61
per cent., while at the Bank the amount of business
was very moderate. In the Stock Exchange money
was abundant, and the rate for loans on English
Government Securities from day to day was only
about 3 per cent.
A private letter from • well-placed individual at
Athens to • friend in England remarks as follows :
—" As regards the loans of 1824 and 1825, the
Greek government has them seriously under its
consideration, having a most favourable inclination
to solve the matter iu the best interests of Greece,
and in a manner that shall be to the satisfaction of
the bondholders. To this object it will give its
attention directly the lonian annexation is settled."
About 24,0001, in gold was taken to the Bank
yesterday.
The Board of Trade returns for the month and
twelve)nonthe ending the 31st Dec. possess, of course,
mach interest, as affording a view of the general
oondition of the import and export trade of the
country for the whole of the pest year, but the
value of the figures as a guide to mercantile opera-
Urine is seriously impaired by the great delay
which has occurred in their publication.
During the month of December the increase in the
export trade proceeded at even an increased ratio,
the total shipments of home produce and manufac-
tures reaching 14,354,4001., which was more by
3,547,3671, or 33 per cent., than is Dec. 1862, and
more by 4,606,5901., or 47 per cent., than in Dee.,
186 L The aggregate for the whole of 1863 was
thus raised to 146,489,768/., exceeding by
22,497,5041., or 18 per cent., the exports of
1862, and by 21,386,9541., or 17 per cent.,
those of 186 L The increase in the month's
shipments has been diffused over nearly all
the great articles, but textile manufactures
have borne off the largest share. The exports of
oaten " pass goods' for the month of December
were 4,112,5181. against 1,944,7981. in December,
1882, and 2,708,1581. in 1861, and those for the
whole of 1865 were 37,541, 4851. against 28,562,466/.
in 1862, and 38,124,685/. in 1861. Much of the
recovery observable in this department of business
is of course due to the rise in prime which has
taken place since 1861. As regards imports, the
broad feature of interest consists in the fat that
the value of the principal articles received from
abroad, which was 159,465,7631. in the first eleven
months of 1881, and 158,626,0571 in the eleven
months of 1862, rose in the same period of 1883 to
173,369,0651., a movement which doubtless goes
far to explain the rise in the value of money in the
latter half of 1863. The increased payments to the
foreigner were chiefly for cotton.
The Stock Exchange committee have appointed
Thursday next a special settling day in the shares
of the following companies, viz. :—Anglo-ItaJian
Bank (Limited), General Floating Dock Company
(Limited), and Chartered Mercantile Bank of India,
London, and China (new shares). All are to be
offlciallj marked.
We are info :mod that the directors of the Impe-
rial Bask intend to imam 8,000 new shares to the
shareholders standing on the register on the Ist
March next, at a premium of 41. per share.
The Brighton Railway traffic return shows this
week a decrease of 1431., compared with last year,
and the South Eastern a decrease of 2631.

ThiediTerTices of the United Kiagdoia Railway
Rolling Stock Company (Limited), which was este-
blhhed early last year, and has declared at the first
and mooed half-yearly meetings dividends at the
tate of 6 per mat. per annum, are now inviting
applications for the usiamed agates.
We are rNnested to state that the Financial
Corporation limited) have taken offices at No. 14, I
Lsedenhall-street (late Bast lodic-house), and are
now trammeling business.
The share certificates of the Land Securities
Company (Limited) will be ready foe delivery on
Friday next.
The share list of the British and Californian
Banking Company (Limited) was abused on Satur-
day for
London,
and ymnerday far the country.
We are informed that the applications have been
geeatiysin 010011 P of the number to be allotted. The
ddir proceed to the allotment on Thursday.
The share list of the Ottoman Financial A 11110411•
tin wag eheed yesterday, and the directors will
meet ea Wednesday next with a vim to the im-
mediate allotment of the abates.
It ls stated that the shares applied for in the
South Eastern Basking Company; alma; mooed
the numbs to be allotted. , , ,

' The colonial wool sales are fixed to commence on
Thursday, March 3rd. The fresh importations up
to present date, since the beginning of last sales,
comprise 38,125 bales, via :—New South Wales
Queensland, 9,570 bales ; Victoria, 2,597 bales ;
Tasmania, 396 bales ; South Australia, 9,247 bales ;
New Zealand, 1,080 bales ; Cape, 15,235 bales ;
total colonial, 38,125 bales ; showing an increase
on Adelaide and Sydney, and a considerable dimi-
nution in the quantity of Port Phillip, as compand
with the March sales, 1863, in which series 49,096
bales were catalogued. So..ie further arrivals are
however (observe Mesas. R. Dutton and Son) confi-
dently expected.

MONDAY Krum.

Consols, which closed on Saturday at ON to 91
for the Bth March, were first marked to-day 911, and
closed at 911 to 11. For money the last price was
91k to 1. The official business report is as
follows:—Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 911,
1,1, 1, 1 ; ditto, for acco.mt, 911, 1,1; Three
per Cents. Reduced, 911, k, 1,• l‘ew Three
per Cents. 91/, 1, 1 ; India Five per Cent.
Stock, 1041, ft, 101, 1 ; ditto, for account, 10-11 ;
ditto Four per Cent., 1001 ; Five per Cent. " en-
laced" rupee paper, 104.
The India Five per Cent. Stock was firm, with a
fair demand. In consequence of the easy condi-
tion of the money market, Exchequer Bills were
f -m, at 6s. to 2s. die.
In the foreign stock market a fair amount of
business was done, sou prices generally improved,
but animation was mainly confined to Mexican
Bonds.
In the market for bank shares there was an im-
provement in Bank of New Zealand, English and
Irish, Bank of Hindustan, Imperial, Midland, and
Union Bank of London, but a slight reduction in
Chartered Bank of India, Australia, and China,
English, Scottish, and Australian Chartered, Lon-
don, Birmingham, and South Staffordshire, and
Metropolitan and Provincial. Egyptian Trading
shares have risen to 21 to 21 prem., and Hudson s
Bay to 181 to 1. Loudon and Provincial Marine
and Australian Mortgage and Land shares,
together with Victoria Dock stock, were in demand.
Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance shares were
rather flat.

The shares of the financial companies responded
to the general buoyancy of the Stock Exchange, and
have all advanced. International closed at 74 to g
prem., General Credit at 34 to 34 prem. ex div.,
and London at 11 to 114 prem., "ex aIL " Mer-
antile Credit were firm at 6 to 7 prem.
The shares of the Credit Fonder of Mauritius
were last quoted par to 4 prem. ; Land Securities
Company, 14 to 1/ prem. ; Anglo-Italian Bank, par to
prem.; Mercantile Credit, 6 to 7 prem.: Con-
tract Corporation, 11 to 24 prem. ; Credit Fonder
(Great Britain), 1/ to 11 prem. ; London Mercan-
tile Discount, 2 to 3 prem. ; Australian and Eastern
Navigation, 7 to 74 prem. ; Ottoman Financial
Association, to 1 prem. ; Consolidated Dis-
count, 1 dia. to par ; Mexican Bank, 14 to 2
pram. ; Littlehampton Steam, 6 to 7 prem. ;
Financial Corporation, 1 to 1* prem.; Lon-
don Gas Meter, * to 14 prem. ; Buenos Ayres
Bonded Wharf, 4 to 1 prem.; South Eastern Bali:
to 14 prem. ; British Colonial Steamship,
to 2 prem. ; and Fairbairn Engineering, 1 to 1_
prem.
Virginia Six per Cents. were quoted about 2 par
cent, higher.