The Express.
London, England, 1864-06-07 00:00:00

7, 1864.

MONEY lARKET.-(THIS DAL)

SI?
11,

Two o'CLocz.

Theltock markets to-day are heavy, the specu-
lators being disposed to regard the prospects of the
00onferenee as unfavourable. Prices generally
;lave shown a drooping tendency. The fends have
declined I per cent. Home railway stocks arc
liomparatively steady. The chief fall is in Spanish
I .Passive and Greek Bonds.

The discount market is quiet today, but the rate
for good bills is not below 64 per cent. The auwint
of money seeking employment is still large.
At Paris to-day, according to Mr. Reuter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Beaten opened at
66fr. 95c., being 4 per cent, lower than yesterday.
Consols are now quoted 90 to 4, ex div., both
for money and to-morrow's settlement, and
901 to 4, ex div., for the new account. The of-
ficial business report is as follows :—Three per
Cent. Consols, for money, 90, 4, 90 ; ditto, for
acootust, 90, 4 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 894,
89 ; New Three per Cents., 89, 4 ; Bank Stock, 239 ;
India Five per Cent Stock, 104, 4 ; Five per Cent.
"enfaced" rupee paper, 104, 105.
Foreign stocks are heavy. Spanish Passive
Bonds are per cent. worse, at 32 to 4,
and Greek, 4 lower, at 244 to 4.
Turkish Consoruhis are slightly flatter, at 48 to
4, and Mexican at 441 to 4. Confederate
Bonds, however, are steady, at 64 to 66.
Transactions are recorded as follows :—Chilian
Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 824, ex div. ;
Greek, for account, 244, 4; Italian, for ac-
count, 694 ; Mexican, for account, 444, r ;
Peruvian, 1862, for account, 87; Portuguese,
1856, kc., for account, 49 ; Russian, 1862, 871 ; Sar-
dinian, for account, 841, ex div. ; Spanish Passive,
for account, 324, 32 ; ditto Certificatea, for ac-
count, 94, 1 ; Turkish, 1858, for account, 691 ;
Venezuela, 1862, for account, 564.
International Financial shares are now quoted 51
to 1 prem. ; General Credit, 311 to d prem., ex the
new shares; Mercantile Credit, 84 to 1 prem. ; Lon-
don Financial, 12 to 4 prem. ; dudson's Bay, 19
to 4 ; Millwall Ironworks, 4to 1 prem. ; Imperial
Bank of China, dis. is prem. ; and Imperial
Financial, 21 to 1 prem.

Form o'CLocK.

Consols are quoted 90 to I, ex div., both for
money ..nd this account ; and 90 7-16 to 9-16, or
90,{ for the new settlement. 50,000 sovereigns have
been withdrawn from the Bank to-day for Brazil.

It is said that the Council of India have with-
drawn some amounts of money from the Stock Ex-
change, the rate offered being only 4 per cent, on
English government securities, whereas the Council
asked b.

No gold transactions took place at the Bank yes-
terday. The 10,0001. by the Hansa, from New
York, was taken for export.
The Harriett Pinckney, from. Bermuda, Las
brought 70,0001. in gold, mostly on account of the
Confederate government
There is a slightly increased demand for silver
for the East, and, the supply here being very
limited, the price is firm at ss. lid. to ss. lid. per
ounce.

The Brighton Railway traffic return shows this
week a decrease of 1471., compared with last year ;
and the South Eastern an increase of 1,3001.
We have received from Bombay a copy of a pro-
test which has been addressed to the promoters in
London of the Commercial Bank Corporation of
India and the East, an undertaking which lately
offered successfully in the London market 10,000
shares of M. each at a premium of 101. per share.
The communisation in question protests against the
assumed intention of the directors to appropriate to
themselves 400 shares of 201. each at par value, and
to allot 9,600 shares farther "at prices of their own
fixing," pointing out that the price of the shares in
the Commercial Bank at Bombay is upwards of 140
per cent. premium, with an upward tendency, and
urging that the proposed appropriation of the
shares constitutes, therefore, a very heavy loss to
the proprietary.
angers, Arbuthnot, and Co.' of
' Calcutta • and Mesas. Ewart. Lathan and Co.,
Bombay, have been appointed agents, in India •,
and Mr. J. F. Priggen, formerly in the house of
Messrs. BlythandGreene, has received the appoint-
ment as secretary to the Oriental Financial Corpo-
ration.

The prospectus of the Ramsgate Victoria Hotel
Company (Limited) is issued. This undertaking is
brought forward " under the auspices of the Kent
Coast Railway Company, and in connexion with
the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway." The
capital is 60,0001., in 3,000 shares of 201. each. It
is intended to erect a commodious hotel, "embracing
all recent continental and American improvements,
on a suitable site on the East Cliff, with an unin-
terrupted sea view. It is also intended to form a
direct communication between the railway terminus
and the hotel by means of a new approach road,
upon which shops and warehouses are to be erected
and let by the company. In addition to the present
directors, power is taken to add two directors 4f the
Kent Coast Railway Company to the board.
A meeting of proprietors of the London and
Westminster Bank is called for the 20th of July,
and a half-early meeting of the Colonial Bank for
the 6th of July.
The annual meeting of the South Australian
Banking Company will be held on the 21st inst.
A special meeting of the shareholders of the
European Bank (Limited) is to be held on the 21st
inst., to declare a dividend.
A general meeting of the Crystal Palace Com-
pany is convened for the 22nd inst.
Notice is given of the payment in due course of
the interest due the Ist July on the bonds of the
Atlantic and Great Western Railway.
The following is the return of the Imperial Otto-
man Bank, as made up to the 30th of April :

ANIMA

Capital not called up _____
0.6 i at Coastaatinople P. 148,500,000
14,678,226 27
in the branches
Bills diecorinted, and other seenritiee
Carnet and drawbar &aconite of the lm.
perial Treasury
Current and drawing aonounte— debtors
Advances oat public sectiritice and roar
cbandise
Bank premises and furniture R18,191 32
Sundries 6,562,894 13

P. 491,292,940 --

Capital
000.000
Bask Dotes I. circulation P 297,
402,400
Bills malls 55,716.524 20
Currant sod drawiss accounts of the In
pedal Treasury
Drawing sad current accounts—creditors 5195/1915 12
Deposits for fired terms
/kudzu's 27.215.256 28

P. 491,292,940
Certified u egresiag with the amanita,
MERQCIB DE Putter.
E. GILBERTSON.

MONDAY VINING.
Consols, which closed on Saturday at 901 to 1,
ex div., both for money and next Wednesdas
settlement, opened this morning at the same quo-
tation, and closed at 901 " sellers." For the
July settlement the last price was 901 to 1.
The official business report is as follows :--
Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 90}. k ; ditto
for account, 901 ;Three per Cents. Rednced,l39l,
New Three per Ceuta, 891,1; Red Sea Telegraph,;
201 • India Five per Cent, Stock, 103, 1041; Five
per bent. " wawa!" rupee paper, 104, 105.

The India Five per Cent. stock was steady.
The Five per Cent. eafaced rupee paper met with
more inquiry. The March Exchequer Bills were
unaltered, at 12e. to 7s. dis., and the June at 6s. to
Is. dia.

In the foreign stock market the variations were
not of general important's.
Hudson's Bey shares were unaltered at 19 to },
and Egyptian Trading at 3 to i prem. Berlin