The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-30 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET,-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'CLoci.
The stock markets to-day are firm, although
business is unusually dull. Console and some of
the more speculative foreign stoclo are quoted
per cent better than yesterday afternoon. Some of
the chief home railway stocks have risen 3 per cent.
The demand for International Financial shares con-
tinues. A good effect has been produced by the
large purchase of gold made by the Bank of Eng-
land yesterday, and by news of an improvement
having occurred this morning at Paris in the French
funds.

At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Renter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes were quoted
66fr. 50c., being rather more than per cent. better
than yesterday.

Consols are now quoted 0011 to i both for money
and the account (February 4). The official business
report is as follows :—Three per Cent. Consols,
for money, 90i, f ; ditto for account, 904 ; Three
per Cents. Reduced, 90i, I ; New Three per
Cents., 90}, I ; India Five per Cent. Stock, 104,
i ; ditto for account, 1011. ; ditto Bonds, par ; and
Rishequer Bills, 45., 6s. dis.

Foreign stocks are firm, and several of the spe-
culative descriptions have risen 1 per cent., though
the transactions have been upon a very
limited scale. Some of the present quotations
are annexed : Turkish 1838 Loan, 70 to ;
ditto, 1862, 67 to 1 ; the Consolidlis, 46k to 1 ;
Greek, 211 to it ; Spanish Passive, 331
to ; and Mexican, 351 to 36k. Vene-
zuela Six per Cents. of 1862 are inquired for.
Transactions are recorded as follows :—Equador,
131 ; Egyptian, 1011, 101 ; Greek, for ac-
count, 211, ; Italian, for account, 671 ;
Mexican, for account, 361, 1, 36 ; New
Granada, 131 ; Portuguese, 1866, ttc., for account,
471, ; Damian, 1862, 871, 881; Spanish New
Deferred, for account, 451 ; ditto Certificates, for
account, 13/ ; Turkish, 1854, for account, ;
ditto, 1858, for account, 70 ; ditto, 1862, for ac-
count, 671, 87 ; Venezuela, for account, 231 ; ditto,
1862, for account, 65.

International Financial shares are quoted 7*
tot prem. ; General Credit, 2* to 1 prem.; Lon-
don Financial, to 11 prem.; Egyptian
Trading, 21 to * prem.; Consolidated Dis-
count Company, it die. to par ; Mauritius
Land Credit and Mortgage, to 1 prem. ;
Discount Corporation, n to I prem. ; Austra-
lian and Eastern Steam, 31 to 4 prem. ; Land
Securities, * to 11 prem. ; and Mercantile Credit,
to bi prem.

HALF-PAST Two O'CLOCK.
Console close at 90i for money, and 9ot to
Or the account

In the Stock Exchange yesterday, though
money was agood deal wanted, the rate on govern-
ment securities scarcely exceeded 7 per cent., but
in the afternoon much preasure arose, partly in
connexion with the completion of the settlement ;
8 per cent. was charged for loans on English
government securities, and in some instances even
9 was paid.
The high value of money still acts as a check to
the exportation of gold from England to the Con-
tinent In consequence, about 108,000/. in American
eagles, forming a portion of the 211,0001. by the
steamers City of Baltimore and New York, was
taken to the Bank yesterday.
The steamer Amato, with the mails from the
West Indies and Mexico, has brought uo less than
750,0001. in specie ; of which 395,930/. is in bar
silver and Mexican dollars, and 355,0001. in gold.
The proportion in gold is unusually large. The
Mexican dollars amount to about 70,0001. A por-
tion of the silver is not of a kind suitable for
transmission to the East.
There is a good demand for silver for transmis-
sion to Bombay, rid Marseilles. The present price
for bars is ss. 1 d. per ounce.
Owing partly perhaps to the diminished appre-
hension of war, the foreign exchanges yesterday
afternoon, notwithstanding the tightness of our
money market, were rather less favourable for this
country. The rates were as follows :
Amsterdam, 3 months, 121 to 1 : ditto, 3 dap, ILI7
to 18; Rotterdam, 3 mouths,l2l toy ; Antwerp, 3 mouths.
25.65 to 70; Hamburg, ma. bump, 3 months, 13.74 to
8 ; Peri, 3 days, 25.25 to 321; ditto. 3 maths, 23.75 to
80 ; Fnakfortem-the-Maise, 3 months, 1191 to a Sc.
Petersburg (per rouble), 3 mouths, 331 to ; Vienna, at do..
3 months, 12.50 to 55 ; Trieste, aft. do., 3 months, 12.50 to
55 ; Madrid, 3 months, 471 to 1 ; Cadiz, 3 mouths, 471 to
; Leghorn, S mouths, 25.85 to 90; Gears. 3 months.
2./85 to 99 ; 3 months, 25.85 to 90 • Naples,
3 months. 25.85 to 90 Palermo, 3 months, 25.85 to 90;
Marina. 3 =oaths, 25.85 to 90 ; Lisbon, 90 days, 521 to a ;
Oporto, 90 days. 521 to 4.
The rates of discount now current in the principal
continental cities are generally much above those
prevailing here, being as follows, viz. :—Paris, 6}
per cent ; Vienna, 6 ; Hamburg and Frankfort,
4; Turin, 7 ; Amsterdam, 5; Berlin, 4} ; Brussels,
51 : and St. Petersburg, 8 per cent.
The suspension is announced of Messrs. Orchard
and Co., of Regent-street, an old and respectable
firm of drapers. The liabilities are estimated at
50,000/. ; but the assets are understood to be con-
siderable. The books of the firm have been placed
in the hands of Mr. J. White, the accountant
Advices from Calcutta announce the failure of
Mr. H. E. Braddon, of the firm of Braddon and
Co., merchants, with liabilities to a considerable
extent, and little or nothing in the shape of assets.
The stoppage appears to have arisen chiefly from
heavy speculations in shares, which resulted un-
favourably. Mr. Braddon was recently elected
High Sheriff of Calcutta.
The dividends on North Eastern Railway stocks
were officially announced yesterday as follows :
Berwick, at the rate of Eri per cent. perlsonum,
against 5 for the corresponding period of 1862 ;
York, 5, against 4} ; Leeds, 3, against 2} ; Car-
lisle, 71., against 7 ; and Darlington, 8, against 8.
An unfounded rumour of the resignation of Mr.
J. K. C. Koch, manager of the London Financial
Association, having been circulated, causing a
fall in the shares ou Thursday afternoon, the fol-
lowing contradiction was forwarded yesterday to
the Stock Exchange :
Loodon Financial Associatioe (Limited). Temporary
offices, 1, liireadneedlsstreet, Jan. 29. Dear Sir,—A report
having been cirmilrted that I have relinquished the manage•
meet of this associatioe. I beg to my there is no (emulation
for such rumour. I still retain the managerneu., and I
adopt this course of writiog to you upon the representation
of several large shareholders. (Siped) J. E. O. Hoch.
Itihill Slaughter. . Son Railway Dtpartmeat,
soca, Exchange.
At the second half-yearly meeting of the United
Kingdom Railway Rolling Stock Company
(Limited), held yesterday, the report of the directors
and balance-sheet were received and adopted, and a
dividend was declared for the past half year at the
rate of 6 per cent per annum, free of income
tax. The amount to the credit of profit and loss
was equal to the payment of a dividend at the rate
of 8 per cent per annum, but iu the present early
stage of the company's existence it was thought
better to carry over the balance to the next half
year.
The report of the directors of the Australian
Agricultural Company, to be presented at the half-
yearly meeting on the 2nd February, recommends,
out of the balance in hand, a divi lend of 7s. 6d.
rer share, free of income tax, payable on the 16th
February.
The ship John Linn, of 1,596 tons, from Bombay
to Liverpool, has been abandoned at sea, water-
logged. In addition to a valuable cargo of East India
produce, she had 3,133 bales of cotton on board, so
that the loss is very serious.

FIUDAT EM MO.

Consols, which closed yesterday at 90a to a for
the 4th February, were fleet marked to-day 904, and
closed at 90a to a. For money the lost price was
94. The official business report is as follows : —Three
per Cent. Console, for money, 94, 4, ; ditto fee
account, 904, a ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 80a, a,