The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-13 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET,-(THIS DAL)

Two o'CLoci.

The stock and share markets generally are in-
active to-day, owing partly to the commencement
of the fortnightly settlement. Compared with the
last quotations of yesterday Consols ex-
hibit a decline oft per cent , and • few of
the British lines ito f. Foreign stocks, how-
ever, are rather firm, and have improved in some
instances. The rates of continuation, on the whole,
are not considered heavy, looking at the present
high value of money.

The demand for money continues moderate, and
the supply abundant. The rate for good three
months' bills is 71 to per cent. In the Stock
Exchange the rate for short loans is 4 to 5.
At Paris to-day, according to Mr. Reuter'a
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes opened at
66fr. 46c., being sc. better than yesterday.
Consols are now quoted 89 to I, for money, and
89} to g, for the account (September). The official
business report is as follows :—Three per Cent.
Consols, for money, 89k, ; ditto for account,
891 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 88f, ; New
Three per Cents., 841, ; India Five per Cent.
Stock, 1.031 ; Exchequer Bills, March, 235. die. ;
ditto June, 255. dis.

The foreign stock market is somewhat firm.
Greek Bonds are in chief request, and have risen 1
per oent. Turkish of 1862, Consolides, and Confe-
derate are also somewhat better. Some of the present
quotations are recorded as :follows :—Turkish,
1854 711 to 72 ; ditto, 1862, 691 to 70 ; Con-
solidis, 50 to ; Greek, 231 to 241 ; Spanish
Passive, 30 to ; Confederate, 75 to 76; and
Mexican, 281 to 29. Transactions are recorded
as follows : Brazilian, 1852. 1858, 1860,
851 ; Dutch Two-aod.a•Half per Cents.,
611 ; ditto Certificates, 98 ; Egyptian,
1011, I ; ditto second issue, 1011 ; Greek, for
account, 232 ; Mexican, 281 ; ditto, 1864, 261 ;
Portuguese, 1853, 47,i ; ditto 1856, &c., 47j, 48 ;
Russian, 1822, 911 ; ditto 1850, 841 ; ditto
1862, 881, 88, 1 ; ditto 1864, scrip, 4
prem. ; Sardinian, 831 ; Spanish New Deferred,
for account, 431 ; ditto Passive, 30 ; ditto Certifi-
cates, 121, 12 ; Turkish, 1862, 692, j ; ditto
Guaranteed, 99, ex div.

International Financial shares are now quoted
4} to tel prem. ; General Credit, 2j to 3 prem. ;
London Financial, 10 to prem.; Imperial Mer-
cantile, 3tl to j prem. ; Hudson'n Bay, 161 to 1 ;
and Anglo-Egyptian Bank, 21 to 3 prem.

HALF-AIST Two o'CLocw.
Consols are still quoted 89 to i for money, and
89} to f for the account.

The value of money on the Continent is still con-
siderably below that current here. At Paris and
Vienna the rate in the open market is 6 per cent. ;
Amsterdam and Berlin, 4f to 5 ; Turin, 6f ; Frank-
fort, 3} ; Brussels, of ; Hamburg, 5 ; and St. Pe-
tersburg, 6; per cent.

In the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon the
rates were about the same as last Tuesday. The
following are the quotations :

Amsterdun. 3 months, 12.2 to 4 ; ditto, 3 days,
11.19 to t ; Rotterdam, 3 maths, 12.2 to ; Ant-
werp, 3 mouths, 26.724 to 71; Hamburg, ma. booboo, 3
months, 13.101 to t ; Paris, 3 days, 25.?2t to 35 ; ditto, 3
mouth*, 26.70 to 80 • FranklortAm.the-Maine, 2 smooths.
120 f to 121 ; St. Pete burg (per rouble), 3 months, 31 to e ;
Vienna, eff. Pao., 3 months, 11.90 to 95; Triomf*, eff. do., 3
mouths, 11.90 to 95 ; Madrid, 3 months, 48 to t ; Cadiz. 3
months. 48 toe ; Leghorn, 3 months, 26.80 to 85 ;
Genoa, 3 smiths, 25.80 to 85 ; Wan, 3 mouths,
26.80 to 85 ; Naples, 3 months, 25.80 to 85 ; Palermo,
3 mouths. 26.80 to 85 ; Yeasirm, 3 menthol, 25.80 to 85 ;
Lisboa. 90 days, 511 to 52 ; Oporto, 90 days, 511 to W.

A further sum of 15,000/. in gold was bought by
the Bank yesterday.

The steamer Seine has arrived from the West
Indies with 514,5001., of which 346,0081. is gold, and
169,5001. silver. The whole of the gold is expected
to be taken to the Bank, iu the absence of any de-
mand from abroad. The French mail steamer
from the West ladies, due at St. Nazaire yesterday,
will, it is anticipated, bring a further large total.
The Bombay exchange is telegraphed at 24. lid.,
showing a movement slightly adverse to this coun-
try. A further rise is shortly expected, the season
for the shipment of large quantities of cotton to
England being about to commence.
The return of the Bank of France for the week
ending Thursday shows a decrease in the coin and
bullion of 173,0001. ; in the bills dismounted and
advancer, of 628,0001. ; in the current accounts, of
360,0001. ; and in the note circulation, of 384,0001.
The Treasury balance has augmented by 80,0001.
On the whole these changes are favourable.
The weekly sales of cotton at Liverpool hare
been 35,020 bales, of which 8,830 were for export,
and 4,230 on speculation. The actual exports have
been 13,661 bales, and the imports 16,284. The
present stock is estimated at 244640 bales.
At the meeting of the Staffordshire Rolling Stock
Company, held recently, a dividend was declared at
the rate of 7i per cent. per annum, free of income
tax.

The Board of the International Bank—an estab-
lishment just formed by the junction of toe London
and Colonial Bank with the British and American
Exchange Banking Corporation—has been strength-
ened by the accession of Mr. Thurburn and Mr.
G. Eatridge, formerly of Antigua, whose experi-
ence is likely to be of considerable service to the
bank in connexion with its transactions in the
West Indies.

The quarterly meeting of the National Freehold
Land Society will be held on Friday evening, the
26th inst.

The directors of the Continental Bank Corpora-
tion have made a call of M. on the original shares,
which will make 201. per share paid up.
A meeting of the West Ham Gas Company is
called for the Slat inst., to remit° the directors'
report and declare a dividend.
The first ordinary general meeting of the Tahiti
Cotton and Coffee Plantation Company will take
place on the 22ud inst.
The list of applications for sharer in the Penin-
sular, West Indian, and Southern Bank will be
closed for London on Wednesday next, August 17,
for the country on Thursday, August 18, and for
the Continent, Monday, August 22.
The letters of allotment of the Merchant Ship-
ping Company (late Somes Brothers) were issued
yesterday afternoon.

FRIDAY EITIIDrO.

Consols were first quoted at 891) to j for the
account, and for a abort period were 89/, rather
buyers. The final prices, however, were again 891
to I for September, and 84 to for money.
The official business reFort is as follows :—Three
per Cent. Consols, for money, 89j, I, ;
ditto for account, 8911, 3, i ; Three per Cents.
Reduced, 881, ; New Three per Cents., 138 e,
I ;New Five per Cents. 1873, 104, 1051 ; Bank
Block, 244, 242} ; India Stock, 210 ; ditto Five per
Cent. Stock, 1041,10 n, 104 ; Red Sea Telegraph,
litnclia Five per Ceuta. remain at 104 to 1041.
There were no transactions in India Bonds, and
Exchequer Bills were rather dull, marking 255. and
15a. discount.

On the Block Exchange the rate for loans in the
morning was about R percent., but from the large
amount of capital offering the charge this afternoon
was nominally only 4 per cent.
The alarm of the financial companies bare not
fully maintained their previous prices. General
Credit in particular receded an eighth, to 21 to
prem. ; International Financial left off at 4* to
prom.; Imperial Mercantile Credit, at St to 8 prem. ;
and London Financial at 91 to 10 pram.
In the market for bank shares there was a rise
in Alliance, European, Hindustan, China, and
Japan (new), London and Westminster, Scinde,
and Union of Australis'. On the other hand, a
decline took place in Anglo•AustyMn Bank of
London, Bank of Queensland, Bank of Wales,

Csbbeges.p. doe, Is to Is
Yr•Dek &WM, per half-Move, to
to ea
Peas, per basket, as dal to 3e04
Potatoes, York Regents, per
too, 60s to its
„ Rocks, do_ she to Ito
Flakes tOo to 90s
Cirrols, per bunch, 64 to 94
Turnips, per knack, 94 to &I

Cucumbers, each, ed to Is
Best, per I:log..1114W as
atutliote, per lb.. ad
Osrlie, per lb., dd
Lettuces, each, Id to Id
Radice, per score, le to is
1 Borsersdlsh,p. bunch, I.od Ude
Mushroooss,p.pott., Is to Is 9.1
, Parsley, per It buaeba., as to Id
1 Herbs, per bunch. ad

THE PR(GE S OP KDOCATIOW. —A recent report
of the Register-General shows that 32 7pm out. of thermals
minors who married io 1841 mere obliged to sign theme/Ow
with marks. This propecties diminished year by year till
186?, when it was 23.7. The progress of education arouget
women has been still more gratifying. Ira 18111 48.8 per
cent, of minors were unable to write their names; bet in let=
there were only 28 5 per cent. in this predicament. me pro-
portion of illegitimate to the total number of births do-
om ad from 7.03 per omit. ire 1845 to 6.34 per out. in 1861
QCIVENSIJOID EitionArlow.—The shipp Fiery Sta.r,
2,300 toms bade, belongingto Mean. T. Y. Mackay and
Co.. sailed on theSth inst. from Qemiutowe for Queue-
land, Captain W. H. Yale, commode,. The rimy Mar
is the forty.fourth vowel that ham sailed on the Lend Order
System of Emigration, under the immediate direction of the
Queensland government. She contains 483 suds, divided
iota paving, masted, and free and comeisting of
166 members of families, 228 men, 91 slash females.
THE Finn CATTLE SHOW IN SH lEPLAHD. —The
first cattle shoe wider the unpins of the recast' -utak.
lithed Shetland Agnealtural Society was held at Leewiet
on Monday. and in all respects ease up to the expectation,
of the most sanguine—proving the importance and utility
of the association and its outopstitioes, and showing that,
despite many serious drawbacks. Shetland is susceptible of
great improvements in the rearing of stock. There win a
large atteadiums from the cosinlead ad islands, mid great
interest wae attached to the show. The stock were highly
creditable to the locality, many of the animals being exceed.
iagly good specimens of thriving stock. —Noracrit Zaripa.
CHASING C ROSS. —Mr. G. J. de Wilde, of
Northampton, writing to the Beerier, Mates that the pops.
lag etymology of "Charing," from Chin Reim, caw*
possibly be correct. In the narrative of the quarrel betimes
' the merchants of Loudon and Nortinuoptesi, in the Liter de
Antiquis Legibur, the following page, he says, Donors :
Quibus litteris impetration, soca . rumor.. good predied
prisons incrust &pod Cherriv4x Auto Westesowesserium,
übi Molar et &Mei Norebsoistou illos *Mumma." This
was in 1260. end Qum Eleanor (the Chin Brier in qua-
tio6) died in 1291.

I ForaPBILSONS STABBED AT Ilisnerantyng.—A,
man named US. • borsombeer. committed a eery mod end
ferocious act in the strange( Manchester yesterday. Amid
his fellow-workmen, °hatred with iritimidatiag • man whir
would sot join a strike, was being lad to the police office by
two detectives. Lee followed, and suddenly stabbed one of
the detectives la the arm, the other in the sock. Lee made
o/ immediately, penned by a sewed, two of venom he
stabbed in the arm while they were securing him. The
wounds are asid to be slight, bat diet is the Deck of the
detective officer was very nearly a most dangeroce one.
SUICIDE IN ST. JOHN'S-WOOD BUZIAL-feItOCND.
—Yesterday morning Dr. Leicester held an inquest at the
Knight of St. John Tavern Queisserrood, 134. Jobe...rood,
ou the body of James Adkins, 42 years, who was focal
banging by the ow* to the s tool-boo e attached
to St. John's-wood b •grosed. Ilkeerklemeaddiseed
showed that the deceased was • gardener is the melee of
the Messrs. Headsman, the celebrated nurserymen Red
florists, of the Wellington-reed, and that he had Wee married
13 years, but lived very unhappily with his wife owing to his
having had two childne by a woman before his marriage, and
one shwa, his wife having coot Be kid four times attempted
suicide—twice the nail to which be had suspended himself
gave way, and twice he had tried to drown himself. Ho
was • man who would take a 14143. drink, bat constantly
comp:Mead of his wife's taupe, and said he was soiserable.
Oa Wedaseday last he asked the gardener of the banal
monad to lend him his key to go into kis tool-home for
an boor or twos repose, sod did not return. About half-
past eight in the evening the gardewer, forgetting the ier•
immature of the ley, went arid found the door locked
inside. He forced it open, and discovered the deceased
banging to a beam supporting the gas pips. Hs egg ma
dews, and Mr. Feller, surgeon, was invisibly called in. loaf
life Iliad bees extinct some time. A meet "fluids
seder temporary Massity“ was Marie&
SAD B.LBULT Of • FOOLISH Bier.—The Echo
A Waite relates the fatal teessiestion of • foolish bet made
Wee days since by two using man of Arks. While se:
together, one them offsood to wegsr 10tr. that be
swallows raw fish. The bet was assepted, and the young
man then put a small gen into hie mouth. but II stunk in
has throat, Red all their efforts to outlast it peered vain. A
surgeon was snot for, but the prickles of the dermal an bed
peeetentsd so far into the lash. that he aeo idled to move
M The easerequenos was that the puked aspired after
great suffering.