The Express.
London, England, 1863-03-10 00:00:00

MONEY NARKII7.-(THIE. DAY.)

Two o'Csocr.
To-day, being the royal wedding day, is kept as
• general holiday in the City. The Stock Zzoba•se
and other public establishments are closed, and the
attendance at the banking houses is little more than
nominal.

The demand for money yesterday was active,
and the rates for good bills were maintained at
Si to 4 per cent. At the Bank of England, how-
ever, the applications did not exceed a moderate
amount.
The Asia, from New York, has brought 119,6001.
in specie, and the Bavaria 17,0001. for England.
The William Duthie has arrived from Port

Phillip with 11,5001.
The steamer Magdalena sailed yesterday for
Brazil with a total of 131,9601., of which 124,2601.

was gold, and 7,7001.
Busyness in the foreign exchanges was trans-
acted yesterday afternoon instead of to-day. The
rates were firm. Subjoined is our usual list •
•

AmderAtm, 3 months, 11.171 to ; ditto, 3 days,
11,15 to 16 ; Rotterdam, 3 months, ILl7g to 18; Antwerp,
3 mouths, 25.421 to 7I • Hamburg, ma. team, three mouths,
13.71 to 8 ; Pare,3 'days, 25.20 to 71 ; ditto, 3 months,
28.50 to 5; Frankfort-on-tbrldaMe, 3 mouths, 119 g to
; Petersburg (per rouble), 3 months, 36 to ; Victor.
eff. So., 3 months, 11.80 to 90 ; Trieste, eft. , 3 months,
1L92 to 90 ; Madrid, 3 months, 49 to g ; Cadiz, 3 months,
481 to 49 ; Leghorn, 3 months, 25.55 to 60 ; Genoa, 3
months, 25.56 to SO ; Milan, 3 month', 25.56 to 60 ;
Naples, 3 mouths, 25.60 to 5 ; Palermo, 3 months, 25.60
to 5; Xesina, 3 months, 25.60 to 5; Lisboa, 90 days, 521
to °Poeta 50 dolt, 521 to 53.
The American advice* report a fresh rise Of 8 to
9 per cent. in the quotations for gold and exchange
at New York, the former having advanced from
64 to 72 prem., and the latter from 180 to 188.
The rise in the prices of public securities at New
York being still relatively less than this *drama a
further considerable fall took place yesterday in
most kinds of American stocks in the London market.

The monthly return of the Bank of Vienna shows
that the improvement in the position of that esta-
blishment is fully sustained, the amount of notes
in circulation being 403,473,958 fl ; and the specie
and bullion, 105,070,960 ft _

The committee of the Stock Exchange have ap-
pointed Friday next a special Nettling day in the
shares of the following companies, viz. :
Midland Bank* Compaay)
L itziked)
Tea Company (U To be merited in the official
mited) daily list.
Joint Stook Dieosunt Co= j
pany (Limited)
Para Gas Company (Li- 1. To be marked in the twice
mited) a-week list only.
West Africa Company (1.11. Not to be marked at
mited) preseet. •
Strand 11°"1 Company (la- I Not tb be marked.
mited)
A general meeting of the Atlantic Royal Mail
Steam Company is convened for the 23rd inet., but
will be held merely pro foreed, "es the details of
the contract between the company and her Ma-
jesty's government for the renewal of the postal
service are not yet completed."
The annual meeting of the Scinde Railway Com-
pany is convened for the 30th inst. , and the half -yearly
meeting of the Pernambuco Railway Company for
the 14th of ApriL
The directors of the lonian Bank have declared
a half-yearly dividend at the rate of six per cent.
per annum.
The Brighton Railway traffic return shows this
week an increase of 3,3651., and the South-Eastern
an increase of 4,043/.
The receipts of the Great Western Railway of
Canada for the week ending the 90th Feb. were
14,910& sterling, being 4,4351. more than in the
corresponding week of last year.
The annexed memorandum is from the Oil Wells
Company of Canada :
The directors of the Oil Wells Company of Maeda have
sent out by the Europa steamer, which miled from Liver-
pool on Saturday, as experienced oonissieviceier to report
en the extensive tracts of land proposed to be purchased
at the Oil Springs District, and to make all necessary ar-
rangements for the rainier and resistant convemem to this
aountey of Canadian and Peensylvanian petroleum is gam-
tities, both crude and refined, sufficient to meet the daily
tiomorzeinif6F,.;ieisst and eine
ported, htle.ntal demand. Two
.nadtte-
township of Enniskillen, where the directors intend having
the the headquarters of their Censeli= operatioes.

The Commissioner in Bankruptcy proposes, on
the 18th inst., to make a call of U. per share on all
those contributories of the " Plumstesd, Wool-
wich, and Charlton Consumers' Pure Water Com-
pany (Limited)," who have not fully paid up their
shared. _ .

--Apetition for the winding up of the Fire Anni-
hilator Conpany ie to be heard in the Court of
Chancery on Saturday next.
The Dunmail hu arrived from China with
969,8271ba. of tea ; the Hurricane, with 742,916 lbs. ;
and the Banda, with 483,31/1 lb*.

MONDAY ZVI:PING.

Consols, which closed on Friday at WA to
for the Bth of April, opened and claed
to-day at the same quotation. For money,
the last price was 941 to There were some
purchases of India Bonds at 17s. prem.
The official business report is as follows :—Tbree
per Cent. Consols, for money, 92/, ti ;
ditto, for account, 92* ; Three per amts. Re-
duced, 91, 90/ ; New Three per Cents., 90f,
91, 90e, 91 ; Bank Stock, 238 i ; India Five per
Cent. stock, 1081, i,l • ditto Four per Cent.. De-
bentures, 1884, 100 ; 'ditto Bonda, 17s. prem. ;
Five per Cent. " enfseed" rupee paper, 106} ;
ditto Five-and-a-Half per Cent., 1121.

The India Five per Cent. stock was quoted
1081 to 11 ; and Exchequer Bills, 3a. dis. to ls.
prem.
The transactions in the foreign stock market
were not numerous. The statement that the
Porte has arranged a loan through Mesers..Oppen-
heim, to meet the dividends on the internal debt,lbas
caused a rise of per cent. in Turkish Conselides.
The certificates of shams in the Empire Marine
Insurance Company (Limited) are to be ready for
delivery on the 12th inst., in exchange for the
bankers' receipts, and upon signature of the articles
of association.

Colonial government debentures oontinue in
demand. Au advance took place to-day in those
of Queensland, South AustrAlia, and Natal.

The market for bank shares remains firm.
It is a remarkable fact that the creation,
within the last twelvemonths, of so many
new and competing banks, has been ac-
companied by a great rise in the shares of ir.ciat
of the older establishments. Even at the advanced
quotations holders seem as disinclined as ever to
part with their property. An improvement occurred
to-day in Bank of Australasia, Union Bank of
Ireland, and Chartered Bank of India, Australia,
and China. In the miscellaneous share market
there was no alteration, with the exception of a
slight improvement in Van Diemen's Land shares.
The shares of the Imperial Bank of Turkey were
last quoted 81 to 9 prem.
Ocean Marine ahares closed to-day at likatil
prem. ; Universal Marine, 11 to 14 dis. •
and Mersey, 21 to 3 prem. • North iritish and
Mercantile, 174 to 18} ; Commercial Union, 346 to
546 prem. ; Oriental and General Mariner I to If
prem. : and Loudon and Provincial Marine, par
to} prom.
The closing quotations for shares in new under-
takings were as follows British and Foreign
Marine, le to 21 prem. • ' Cannes Hotel, If to lf
prom. ; Oil Wells of Canada, 3 to 31 prem. ; Bank
of Wales, par to prom. ; City of Loudon Fire
and Life, 4 to 44 prom. ; Petroleum Trading,
to
.1 rum. ; Union Marine, 2 to 21 prem. ;
umpire Marine, to 4 prem.; Bank of Gibraltar
and Mate, 1 to 11 prem. ; Continental Bank, par ;
Intercolonial Bank of Australia and New Zealand,
to 1 prem.; National Bank of Liverpool ,441 to 44
prem., being higher ; and Mercantile and Sqehange
Bank, I to If pram.