The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-25 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'CLocz.
The funds continue to be favourably affected by
the extraordinary abundance of money, particularly
in the Stock Exchange. A fresh improvement of
a per cent. has taken place to-day. Most other
kinds of public securities are firm, but, owing to
the dulness of business, little change has occurred

in prices.
At Paris this morning, according to Mr.
Reuter's telegram, the Three per Cent. Rental
opened at 70fr. 25c, being i per cent. better than
yesterday.
The scrip of the Moorish Loan is quoted 5 to 5

prem.
Consols are officially marked 934, 4, and
for money, and 934 and 4 for the ac-
count The present quotation is 934 to
4, both for money and the 6th proximo.
The official business report is as follows :—Bank
Stock, 242 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 934, ;
New Three per Cents., 933, 4, ; India Stock,
224 ; ditto Five per Cent. Stock, 1074,
1064 ; ditto Four per Cent. Debentures, 1863,
100 ; ditto 1864, 994 ; Five per Cent. " enlaced"
rupee paper, 102, 4 ; ditto Five-and-a-Half per
Cent., 1074, 108 ; Exchequer Bill, June, 225., 19s.
prem.
Foreign stocks are generally firm. Mexican
Bonds are more inquired for, and are last
marked 344. Venezuela, however, have de-
clined, and have been sold at 244.
Italian Five per Cents. are steady. The
Turkish Loan of 1864 remains quoted 844
to 85, and that of 1858, 744 to 75.
Sales are recorded as follows :—Dutoh Two-and_
a-Half per Cents., 65 (exchange, 12 fl.) ; Equador
New Consolidated, 184 ; Italian Five per Cents.,
684, 4 (exchange 25fr.) ; Mexican Three
per Cents., 344 ; ditto for account, 344,
; Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 1004 ;
Portuguese Three per Cents., 1856, 1857, 1859,
and 1860, 461 ; Russian Five per Cents.,
103 ; ditto Three per Cents., 1859, 624 ;
Sardinian Five per Cents., for account, 81, 802 ;
Spanish Three per Cents, for account, 534, 4; ditto
New Deferred Three per Cents, for account, 434 ; the
Committee's Certificates, 74, 4 ; Turkish Six per
Cents., 1858, for account, 744, 75, 744 ; ditto
1001. Bonds, 764 ; ditto Guaranteed Four per
Cents., for account, 102 ex div. ; Venezuela Three
per Cents., for account, 25, 244.
The commercial demand for money continues
only moderate, and good bills are taken at 24 per
cent.
The fortnightly settlement in Shares and Foreign
Stocks will commence to-morrow (" continuation
day") and terminate on Friday.
Gold to the amount of 30,0001. was withdrawn
from the Bank yesterday for the Continent.
The Africa, from New York, has brought the
large sum of 124,0001. in specie.
The Committee of the Stock Exchange have
appointed Monday next, the 3rd proximo, for •
special settling day in the shares of the Metropo-
litan and Provincial Bank, Limited. The shares
will be quoted in the Official List.
The South Eastern Railway traffic return shows
this week a decrease of 7271., and the Brighton an
increase of 941.
The receipts of the Grand Trunk Railway of
Canada for the week ending the let instant were
16,2461. sterling, being 6,3101. more than in the
corresponding week of last year.
The receipts of the Gress.: Western Railway of
Canada for the week ending the 7th inst. were
10,3891. sterling, being 3,3384 more than in the
corresponding week of last year.
At the thirty-sixth annual general meeting of the
Standard Life Assurance Conwiy, held at Edin-
burgh yesterday, it was stated that the new assu-
rances effected during the year 1861 exceeded half
a million sterling, making upwards of seven mil-
lions five hundred thousand pounds of new assu-
rances issued during the last fifteen years. The
annual income is 315,0001., and the accumulated
fund nearly two millions.
The had- yearly dividend, due the Ist March, is
advertised in due course on Georgia State Five per
Cant Sterling Bonds.
The first number of The Exchange, a Monthly
Review of Commerce, Manufactures, and General
Politics, is to make its appearance on the 25th
March. A number of eminent peas have been
secured as contributors.
The following are the official returns of the Irish
Banks of Issue for the four weeks ending the Bth
instant :

Name and Title as set
forth in License.

11g

The Bank of Ireland ....I
The Provincial Bank of
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Ireland
The Belisit Banking Col
TheP"Korthern Banking

Company
ite Clam Bastlaig Coan-I

Phn7
The Natbouel Beek