The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-31 00:00:00

MONEY MARZEZ-(THIS DAL)

Two °Two'.

The funds remain without variation from the
closing quotations of yesterday, with the exception
of a decline off per cent., which was quoted at one
period of the morning, but which has since been
recovered. The tone continues flat. English rail-
way stocks, in which this is settling day, remain
very dull, while foreign stocks are in brisk demand.
The usual telegrams from the Paris Bourse have
not yet arrived.
The scrip of the Moorish loan is firmer, at 51
to 1 prem.
Consols are officially marked 921 and f both for
money and the account. The present quotations
are 921 to 4 for money,and 921 to 1 for the 6th Feb.
The official business report is as follows :—Three
per Cents. Reduced, 924, 4, 4 ; New Three per
Cents., 923, 4, 4 ; New Two-and-a Half petiCents.
761; Thirty Years Annuities, 1885, lb 9-16 ; India
Stock, 2254 ; ditto Five per Cent. Stock, 1064,
1051 ; ditto Four per Cent. Debentures, 1864, 991;
ditto, 1864 or 1866, 991 ; ditto Bonds, 275., 245.,
prem. ; Five per Cent. " enlaced" rupee paper,
101,1; ditto Five-and-a-Half per Cent., 107, 1064 ;
Exchequer Bills, March, 175., prem. ; ditto .June,
195., prem.
There is a fresh rise of nearly 1 per cent. in
Venezuela Bonds, which are last marked
251. Mexican and Spanish Bonds and the Italian
Loan continue in demand, with an upward
tendency. Turkish Bonds have risen about
Half per Cent., the loan of 1864 being now quoted
84to 4, and that of 1858, 744 to 1. Sales are re-
oorded as follows :—Greek, 71, 8 ; Italian Five per
Cents., 654, 4 (exchange, 25fr.) ; Mexican Three per
Cents , 33, 4 ; ditto for account, 331,
4, 4 ; Granada ex over-due Coupons and
Hectares, 101 ; ditto Deferred, 61 ; Pe-
ruvian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., for account,
984 ; Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
1860, 921 ; Sardinian Five per Conic, 784 ;
Spanish Three per Cents., for account, 634 ;
ditto New Deferred Three per Cents., 42/,
431; ditto Passive, 18, 174; the Committee's Cer-
tificatee,7l, 4,4, 4; Turkish Six per Ceuta., 1854, for
account, St ; ditto Six per Cents., 1858, 75,
744 ; ditto for account, 741, 4,4; Venezuela Three
per Ceuta., for account, 25, 4,4, 4.
The scrip of the Moorish Loan will be ready for
delivery to-morrow. The closing quotation yester-
day was 51 to 54 prem.
Gold to the large amount of 130,0001., chiefly
bar, was taken from the Bank yesterday for the
Continent. _ _

The amount of Australian gold known to be
now at sea is 407,0001. The Indemnity with
50,0001., and the Monarch, with 170,0001., have
each been out 77 days ; and the Clutha, with
91,0001., and the Lightning, with 96,0001., 72 and
68 days respe.ctively.
At Paris the rate of discount in the open market
is now 4 per cent. (the Bank rate being 40 ; at
Vienna, 5 ; at Berlin, 34 ; at Amsterdam, 3i ; at
Frankfort, 24 ;at Turin, 511 ;at Hamburg, ; and
at Brussels, 4 per cent.
The Liverpool cotton market yesterday was firm,
with sales to sales to the extent of 10,000 bales.
The Grasmere arrived off Penzance on Wednesday,
from Calcutta, after a long passage, having sailed
on theist of August. The rate of insurance at
Lloyd's had advanced to 30 guineas per cent.

It will be satisfactory to tie commercial public
to hear that all the telegrams forwarded to Alex-
andria to catch the mails for India, Ch"ia, Aus-
tralia, dm., between the dates of the 18th and 25th,
arrived in time. Telegrams generally continue to
oome from Alexandria with greater regularity and

despatch.
Telegrams received from Lisbon announce that
the political news from Buenos Ayres is very
favourable. Doubloons were quoted 385, and the
exchange 68s.
The annexed memorandum is from the com-
mittee of Spanish American bondholders :
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The committee of 8 fah American bondholders have
=by.
received a letter from dated 31st ultimo, ad-
vising the first remittance, the administrator of the
customs, of 6001. to Mews. ring Brothers and Co., on
account of the dividend fund. The administrator states
that similar orders have been received by him from the
government as have been issued to the cusloms at Santa
Martha, dated rupectively Bogota, July 25 and September
13, of last year, and that the orders will be complied with.
He states, however, that the commerce of earthmen& is
quite insignificant in comparison with that of Santa Martha.
The Midland Railway traffic return shows this
week a decrease of 2,610 f. ,• the Manchester, Shef-
field, and Lincolnshire, a decrease of 1,1251. ; the
Great Northern, a decrease of 1,8241. ; the North
Eastern, a decrease of 1,964/. ; and the Great
Western, a decrease of 4321.
The half-yearly meeting of the Midland Railway
Company is convened fur the 18th February, at
Derby.
A general meeting of the San Paulo (Brazilian)
Railway Company is called for the 12th Feb.
A call of se. is to be paid on the shares in the
Rockall Fishing Company by the Ist May.
We are requested to state that the share list of
the London and South of Ireland Direct Telegraph
Company (Limited) will be closed on Monday next,
except as regards Ireland, from which applications
will be received until the 6th February.
Mr. Win. Howard, chairman of the Chartered
Mercantile Bank of India, London, and China,
died on Tuesday, from injuries received on the pre-
vious day by a fall from his horse while hunting.
The Admiralty will receive tenders on the sth
February for the supply of 50,000 gals. of ruin,
100,0001ba of tea, and 120,000 lbs. of suet.
The Charlotte Ann has arrived from China with
292,900 the, of tea, and 655 bales of silk.
The return of the Bank of England for the week
ending Jan. 29, compared with that for the pre-
vious week, shows the following changes :
Circulation issue
Circulation active
Public deposits 5,753,063 Increase 285,72 i
o.ller deposits
Government securities in
banking department 11,688,618 Decrease 700,000
Othersecuritzes in banking
department
Coin and bullion in both
departments 16,280,369 Decrease 70,570
Seven day and other bills 712,191 Decrease 34.507
The Rest
Notes in reserve
Total reserve (notes te coin)
in Deakins department 10,459,181 Increase 409,415
The decrease in the government securities means
probably the repayment by government of advances
made some weeks ago by the Bauk. The decrease
in the private deposits indicates au increased ab-
sorption of money in trading channels. The move-
ments under these two heads, it will be observed,
nearly balance each other ' • but as the government
deposits have increased and the private securiti-:,
have again declined, a rather considerable addition
:158 been made to the reserve. There is at last a
decrease in the bullion, owing to the shipments to
the Continent.

BANK or ISOL.II2FD.—An An
and Bth Via, a is, far the woe
2), 1882
TIM DEPI
Notes bawd 1.36,v84,110

%adamant to Ma Ad Ttk
o Wednesday. Jan.

Government debt.. 811.015,100
Other securities._ 8,684,900
Gold coin and bele _ _ _ _

14184,250
Mherbalin

£30.081,260
Haman al
He capital n1e6611,000
LUMP)
Milo Deposits (in-
cluding Nacheq.,
eat. Dank; Com-
mis. of National
Debt. and Div
Anna) 6.763,083
Other Deposita 14,761,480
Neves dal antlothar
BIDa 762,131

a 10.036.110

PAWNOR.
gonna'lent 80011.

Mies ((Including
Dead Weight An
Daily)
Other Secarldes
Notes 0,663,063
Oold and Sliver
Oath 806,110

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Jul. 30. INA M.

MASS".
MARSHALL, Chief Cuh

THURSDAY &WING.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 821 to I,
fur money and the 6th February, have acarcely