The Express.
London, England, 1852-03-08 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.

THIS DAY.

Two o'CLocs.

The market fur the home funds opened at Satur-
day's range, but has since become flatter, at a reduc-
tion of per cent., and the feeling in the various
departments of the house is rather less favourable
in consequence. The prevailing dulness is chiefly
sacribable to the absence of active ope-
rations, but it may be noticed that the de-
parture of the French ambassador on Saturday after-
noon has been discumed, and is referred to in some
quarters as a check on the market.
Consols opened 'J:I to 3, but, on the appearance of
a few sellers, soon receded to 97; to 1 both for money
and Friday. For the new account of the 13th of
April the quotation is 971 to 2. The official business
Mist is as follows:—Three per Cent. Consols, 971, ;
ditto for account, 971, Z. Ncw Threc•aud-a-Quarter
per Cents., 991, 1. India Stock, 261, 260. South
Sea New Annuities, 961. Bank Stock, 2191.
The market for the unfunded securities presents
no feature of novelty. Exchequer Bills remain
quoted 625. to 6.55. prem., and India Bonds, 72.. to
151. prem.
There has been less business in the foreign stork
market than during the latter part of last week, but
still the transactions have been varied. Generally

the speculative stocks are rather Batter, including
Ifioador, Mexican, Venezuelan and Spanish
earatnittee's confiscated coupon-certificates. Chilian
Three per Cents., on the contrary, have been ope-
rated in at a higher figure, and Russian Four.
and-a-Half per Cents. are firm. Transactions
are recorded as follows: Buenos Ayres Six per
Cents., 59. Chilian Three per Cents., 711, 70. Danish
Three per Cents., 1825, 771; ditto Five per Cents.,
1021 cx div. Dutch Four per Cent. Certificates, 921,
/. Ecowlor Bond., 5, 4. Granada Deferred, 91,
:Mexican Three per Cents., 1816, 33; ditto,
for account, 16th March, 32Z,1. Portuguese Five
Cents. Converted, 1811, '35; ditto Four per
nts., 311. Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
103. Sardinian Five per Cents., 90, 1. Span-
ish Actives, fur account, 25; ditto, Passives,
61, 7 ; ditto Old Three per Ceuta, 42 ; ditto
New Deferred Three per Cents., 181; ditto, Spa-
nish Committee's Certifs. of Coupon not funded, 24,
2j, 21 per cent. Venezuela Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents., 421, 1, 411; ditto Deferred, 181, 1.
By the Canada, telegraphed as having just arrived
at Liverpool from New York, there is a further jet-
port of specie to the amount of 110,00 W. sterling.

SATI:IIDAT EVENING.

Next month the dividends from Reduced
Threes,the Three-and-a-Quarter per Cent. Annuities,
India Stock, Rank Stock, and other annuities will
fall due, so that the prospects of the money market
appear to be certainly in favour of a further relaxa-
tion. The annexed approximate estimate of the
amount coming forward in the shape of dividends
on the stocks and loans of the chief railway compa-
nies and their coira i ilmteries will be found nterest-
ing. The total, it will be seen, is 2,346,316/.
London and North Western £590,.516
Ore t Western 358,000
Midland 226,000
South-Eastern
London and South. Western 223,000
York, Newcastle, and Berwick 10 ion
Eastern Counties 220,0J0
Lancashire and Yorkshire 253,000
Great NJr:hern

Total £2,316,M6

-- • • -
The Book of France returns for the week ending
Thursday, the 4th of March, show the following
results (25 francs for U.):

_

£23,636.203 !nerease £226.301

Bullion on deposit .126,390 DIONIIIM 7,314
22,369,414 peewees 281,861
Public deposits
Private deposits 6,873,890 Increase 237,233
Bills discounted 4,294,9;8 Decrease 170,666
Government securities 8,701,466 Decrease 47,976
According to the last article of the treaty just
concluded between. the Dank and the French go-
vernment, this is the last weekly statement that will
be issued by the institution. Many of the points
involved in the convention appear to have been re-
ceived with satisfaction in Paris, but the suppression
of the weekly balance sheet is a step that cannot be
too earnestly condemned, as the withdrawal of the
accounts front public inspection can only be regarded
u equivalent to throwing the whole management of
the great national bank Into the hands of the go-
vernment. Under these circumstances tho present
return is invested with more than the usual interest.
The several changes observable attest the depression
in trade so loudly complained of in the correspon-
dence to hand, and it becomes evident that the mea-
sures taken by the government to stimulate commer-
cial movement were by no means unnecessary. 'lle
increase in the bullion and private deposits, and de-
crease in the discounts are all in the same sense.
Compared with the returns for the corresponding
week of last year, the results arc as follows:
Increase of bullion £2,969,423
Decrease of ditto on deposit 962
Increase of circulation
Decrease of public deposits
Increase of private ditto
Decrease of bills discounted
Increase of government securities , 1,664,776

The imports of specie and bullion this week com
prise 208,000 dollars by the Europa, from New
York ; 1,630/. by the Peninsular and Otiental steamer
Montrose (of which 1,3511. was from Lisbon, and
1101. from Opot to); and 64)0,000 dollars by the Pa-
cific from New York. These imports make up a
total of about 168,000/.. Imports of gold from seve-
ral points of the continent are also believed to be in
progress, but of these we have no return.

- The total amount of the precious metals exported
direct from London during the week ending Thurs-
day last, as shown in the Custom-house returns, was
3,550 ounces and 11,0611. in gold, and 94.000 ounces
and 6,836/. in silver, of the aggregate value of about
55,0001. The account in detail is as follows:—Gold
coin: To St. Ilelens, 2,300 oz.; to Boulogne, 1,030
oz.; to Swan River, 10,0001. Gold bars: To Dun-
kirk, 1,0611. Silver coin: To Swan River, 4,990/. ;
to Belgium, 73,000 oz. ; to Rotterdam, 3,000 oz. ; to
Dunkirk, 1201. Silver bars: To Rotterdam, 16,000
oz.; to Dunkirk, 346/. There was also au export of
copper coin to Ceylon to the amount of 1,4001.
Ile exports from the out-ports comprise only a
sum of 1,41e4/., shipped to the West Indies by the
Thames. The total exports from the kingdom are
thus only 3,400 i.

An analysis of the railway traffic returns of the
United Kingdom for the last week, published by
Herapalles Journal, shows the total receipts onti,6ool
miles to be 245,7941., or at the rate 37/. Cis. per mile
per week. The receipts for the corresponding
period of lust year were 231,383/. on 11,271 miles, or
371. per mile per week. There is thus an increase of
14,4111., or 11.22 per cent. in the aggregate amount
received ; an increase in the mileage of 329 miles, or
&O per cent.; and an increase of all. in the amount
received per mile per week.

The Raibrag Times estimates the total receipts
since the Ist Jinuary at 2,121,977/., which on 0,452
miles, gives an average of 32W. 70.431 d. per mile;
and as the amount for the corresponding period of
16.51 was 1,1192,998 f. on 6,230 miles, or 31W. 160.0:d.
per mile, the difference is shown to be in furour of
the present year to the extent of W. ss. 111 d. per
mile.

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