The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-03 00:00:00

MONEY MABERT.-(TEIS DAY.)

Two o'Ciota.

The weekly court at the Bank of England has
broken up without altering the rate of discount,
but this seems to have been anticipated, and the
announcement has therefore produced no effect in the
Stock Exchange. Business being very inactive, nearly
all classes of public securities are quoted the same as
yesterday afternoon. The funds exhibit not even a
fractional variation. There is a somewhat increased
demand, however, for the shares of the financial
companies, the tendency of which, as well as of
Hudson's Bay shares, is upwards.
The discount market is very quiet to-day, and
itransactions continue to be effected at 81 par cent.,
although the more general rate is 81. In the Stock
Exchange the charge for short loans is sto 6 per
cent., with a downward tendency.
At Paris to-day, according to Mr. Reuter's tele-
gram, the Three per Cent. Itentes were quoted
64fr. 85e., showing no change.
Consols are now quoted 891 to 4 for money, and
89 7-16 to 9-16 or 891, for the account (Nov. 10).
The official business report is as follows :—Three
per Cent. Consols, for money, 891, g ;
ditto, for account, 891, 1 ; Three per Cents.
Reduced, 871, ; New Three per Cents., 871,
§ ; Bank Stock, 239 ; India Five per Cent. Stock,
1051, 1 ; ditto Bonds, 3s. din.
Foreign stocks are quiet. Venezuela Bonds con-
tinue to show heaviness. Turkish Bonds of 1858
are rather better, and Mexican and Turkish Con-
solid& have improved 1 per cent., while
Spanish Passive Bonds have declined 1.
Some of the present quotations are annexed, viz. :
Greek, 221 to 1 ; Mexican, 261 to 271; Confederate,
59 to 61 ; Spanish Passive, 311 to g ; the Certificates,
131 to 141 ; Turkish Bonds of 1858, 691 to 70 ; ditto
1862, 71* to 72 ; and the Cocsolidds, 501 to 1.
Transactions are recorded as follows :—Egyptian,
951 ; Greek, for account, 221 ; Italian, for
account, 641 ; Mexican, for account, 26f,
27! ; ditto, 1864, 25;, 1 ; Portuguese, 1853,
for account, 461; ditto 1836, d c., for account,
4611 I ; Russian, 1859, 53, ex div. ; ditto,
1862, 86, ex div. ; Spanish Passive, for account,
311, ; ditto Certificates, for account, 141, 131 ;
Turkish, 1862, 721 • ditto 1001. Bonds, 721, 72, 1
Venezuela, 1862, for account, 501, 60, ex div. ;1
ditto, 1884, 39, 40.
International Financial shares are now quoted
If to 2 prem. ; London Financial, 73 to 8
prem. ; General Credit, 2i; to i prem. ;
Imperial and Mercantile Credit, 11 to f prem. ;
Hudson's Bay, 171 to 1 ; Ottoman Soci6t6 Gen -
rale, 11 to § prem. ; and Anglo-Egyptian Bank,
din. to prem.

The demand for the Turkish Loan of 1802 seem
to be chiefly caused by the approach of the period
for the drawing and dividend.

About 42,04:01. in gold was sent into the Bank
yesterday, making a total of 121,0001. for the week,
while only 20,0001. has been withdrawn for exporta-
tion.

The biddings for 30.00.000 rupees (300,0001.) in
bills on India took place yesterday at the Bank of
England. The proportions allotted were—to Cal-
cutta, 27.57.000 rupees ; to Bombay, 1.73,000
rupees ; and to Madras, 68,000 rupees. The mini-
mum price was, as before, viz., Is. 114 d. per rupee
on Calcuttaand Madras ; and Is. 111jd. on Bombay.
The applications within the limits amounted to
52 lacs (520,0001.). Tenders on Calcutta and Madras
at Is. 114 d. will receive about 31 per cent. ; on
Dombay at Is. llid. in full ; and all above these
prices in full.
The suspension is announced of Messrs. John
11.eisk and Co., merchants, of 17, Gracechurch-
street, whose drafts were returned a few days
since. The liabilities are expected to be large,
but they are not yet ascertained ; the assets
I are also presumed to be considerable. The books
have been placed in the hands of Mr. W. J. White,
the accountant.

The London and North Western Railway traffic
return shows this week an increase of 5,0771. over
last year; the London and South Western, an
increase of 3221. ; the Great Western, an increase
of 4,4681. ; the Great Eastern, an increase of
2,3981. ; and the Great Northern, an increase of
4,7351.
A meeting of the International Bank was held yes-
terday, when a statement was made respecting the
losses which the London and Colonial Bank had
made prior to the date of its amalgamation with the
Brit;sh and American Exchange Bank (both those
undertakings being comprised in the present com-
bination), and of the extent to which those losses
are covered. The losses have all arisen upon the
amount of Messrs. John Gladstone and Co., in the
American trade, who recently failed, and one of
whose partners, Mr. Thomas H. Gladstone, was
chairman of the Loudon and Colonial Bank The
meeting, having heard explanations on the subject,
exonerated the other directors of the London and
Colonial Bank from any complicity in the origin of
the losses. It was resolved that the amalgamation
between the two banks shall proceed, on the uuder-
standing that each body of shareholders shall bear
a moiety of the loss, amovutiug to about 21. per
share. A farther entice of the proceedings at the
meeting will be found in another column.
The Western Fire Insurance Company (Limited)
has just appointed a local board iu Dublin, coolant-
ing of the Hon. J. P. Vereker, late Lord Mayer of
Dublin (chairman) ; Mr. It. G. Collis (Messrs.
31‘Birney, Collis, mid Co.) ; Mr. E. R. D. La
Toiche ; Mr. Councillor Maclean ; and Mr. Peter
Tait, inanufactstree, of Limerick. Messrs. La
Touchy and Co. are the cankers, and Mr. Thomas
Hodges is the local manager. Me branch w• 11
shortlyesumienee business.

Mr.-John Campbell, of the firm of John Campbell
and Co., of Loudon, has ,jelued the direction of the
Haul: of cueenaland.

' The numbers are published of bonds, reprement-
ing 19,&11(., of the Vesecuela Six per Cent Loan
of 1862, which have just been purchased and can-
celled by the third application of the sinking fund,
through the ageacy of Messrs. Baring Brothers and
Co. It is a somewhat singular coincidence that this
notification should appear almost simultaneously
with the receipt of news that the got-eminent of
Venezuela has laid violent hands upon the funds
pledged to the bondholders.

Melvin. Thomson, Boner, and Co. have pub-
Hailed the numbers of Peruvian Three per Cent.
Bonds, representing 76,2001., which have just been
purchased sad cancelled.
With reference to the market for American se-
curities, Mr. E. F. Satterthwaite reports as follows:
To the English market for American securities we have
had no great variation in prices during the peat week. The
present rate of etching. leaves no profit on the shipment of
securities from New York, end io the absence of further
importations, United StAtea 5..1i) Bands have advanced •
half per cent. Monis shares have been neglected until to-
day. when, on some inquiry, eoupled with the large earnings
ef the road for the month of September, an advance of
I dol. was mtahlished. Erie shares, on the other hand, have
given way • half per cent.

The French mail steamer Cimbodge arrived at
Suez ou the 30th ult.' with the mail from Hong
Kong of Sept. 27, which is expected to reach Lou-
don about the 9th inst.

7iICDNESDAY KVEIRNO.

Consols, which closed on Monday at 89} toy
for the 10th inst., opened this morning at the
same quotation, and closed at 89i or 89 7-16
to 9-16. For money the last price was 89#
to f. The official business report is as
follows :—Three per Cent. Consols, for money,
184, +, I; ditto, for account, 814, #, it;
Three per Cents. Reduced, 87k, d, ; New Three
per Cents., 87f, f, I; Bank Stock, 237 i ; India
Stock, 215 ; ditto Five per Cent. Stock, 1054, 106,
105 e ; ditto Bonds, Ws., din.; Five per Cent.
" enfaced " rupee paper, 100.
The India Five per Cent. Stock has again improved
to-day, being in demand for investment. India

Bonds were dealt in at 10.. to se. dis. The Mara
Exchequer Bills rose 25., closing at 1;4. to dis.„
while the June were firm at 14. to 10s. dia.

The Confederate Loan was more offrred, and at
one period showed decided weakness, owing to the
reported defeat of General Longstreet and the cap-
ture of the steamer Florida, but the eluAiug quota-
tion was only I per cent. below that of Monday.
The fresh blow just inflicted upon the credit of
Venezuela by the act of its government continues
to weigh upon the prices of its securitie, : the
bonds of 1862 have to-day experienced a
further fall of 2 per cent., and those of
1864 a fall of 1 per cent. New Granada
Two per Cents. also declined 1 per cent. ;
Egyptian, ; and Spanish Certificates, /. Turkish
securities were inquired for, the Loan of 1854
rising ; that of 1862 1 ; and the Cousolithi,
per cent. Greek Bonds also improved f, and
Italian *.
The shares of the London and County Bank con-
tinue in demand, and have risen to-day to 74 to
75. Anglo-Austrian Bank have also advanced to
to 1 prem. Allian.fe Bank, Bank of British
Columbia, City, Bank of Hindustan, Imperial,
London Joint Stock, London and South African,
Merchant, Oriental, National Bank of Liverpool.
Scinde, Punjaub and Delhi, Union Bank of
Australia, and Union Bank of London shares
were all quoted better ; while London and Northern
Bank, Bank of London, Albion, Mercantile and
Exchange, and Brazilian and Portuguese Bank
receded.

Hudson's Bay shares were again 6s. better, at
161 to 171, and Egyptian Trading 2s. 6d. higher,
at to 1 prem. National Discount shares have
improved to si to 9 prem. ; and Joint Stock Dia-
count to 14 to 1 die. Australian Agricultural,
Fore-street Warehouse, Oriental Gas, and Wert
India and Pacific Steen' shares were all rather
better ; while Auglo-Mexican Mint, Thames and
Mersey Marine Insurance, and Universal Marine
Insurance showed flatness. The shares of the
3fillwall Iron Works Company have relapsed to 1,1
to oi div.
The shares of the International Financial Society
were in demand, with an upward teudency, but
those of some of the other financial companies,
though closing above the morning's prises, were
barely so good as on Monday. The closing quo-
tations are annexed, viz. :—lnternational, 11 to 1i
prem. ; General Credit, 2A to 3 prem. ; Loudon
Financial, i to prem. ; Imperial Mercantile
Credit (amalgamated), 14 to 1;?. prom • and Credit
Fonder and Mobilier of England (aMalgamated),
11 to 2 prem.
A further decided improvement has taken place
iu Canadian Government securities. New Bruns-
wick and Nova Scotia Government Debentures
were also better. A good effect seems to have been
produced in the minds of the holders of these se-
curities by the proposed Confederation of the Bri-
tish North American provinces.

MINES.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'CLoow.

The mining market is inactive, with little busi-
ness. East Grenville shares are quoted 7i to a ;
Great Vor, 34 to ; and East Caradon, 21 to 4.
Tincroft are officially marked 16.1.
Foreign and colonial mining shares are without
variation. Cape Copper have been dealt in at 81 ;
Cobre Copper, at 27 ; and Yudanamutana, at If
and 11.
A petition to wind up the East Botallack Consoli-
dated Mining Company (Limited) has been pre-
sented to the Court of Chancery by Mr. Pulbrook.
An extraordinary meeting of the Garnett aad
Moseley Gold Mining Company of America is
called for the 15th inst., to receive the second report
of the liquidators.
At Rosewarne Consols meeting yesterday the
accounts showed a profit on the quarter's opera-
lions of 712/. 19s. Bd.