The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-07 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'CLocz.

The funds to-day are firm. The price of Consols
for the account is quoted 4 per cent. higher than
yesterday afternoon. In the share markets busi-
ness remains very quiet, but prices are steady. Eng-
lish railway stocks are neglected. In the foreign
stock market there continues to be some move-
ment. Turkish securities are fine, and a renewed
demand has arisen for Greek, while as regards
New Granadian, realisations have predominated
to-day.
At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Reuter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes opened at
711 r. 5c., being rather more than per cent. higher
than yesterday.
Consols are now quoted 931 to 4, ruin div., for
money, and 92/ to 4, ex div., for the account
(December 4). The official business report is as
follows :—Three per Cent. Consols, for money,
934, 4,4, cute div.; ditto, for account,
924, ex div. ; Three perl,Centa. Reduced, 911, tz ;
New Three per Cents., 911, ; Thirty Years An-
nuities, 1885, 151; Bank Stock, 237, 238, 236 ;
India Five per Cent. Stock, 1091,4,1, ; ditto
Four per Cent. Debentures, 1864, 1001 ; ditto
Bonds, 31a., 28s. prem. ; Five per Cent. "enlaced"
rupee paper, 105 ; Exchequer Bills, June, 18s.,
15s. prem.
Turkish stocks are rather firmer. The Loan of
1854 in quoted 83 to ; that of 1858, 69 to ; and
the scrip of 1862, to prem. The Con-
solid& remain at 371 to 4. New Granada
bonds, ex Coupons and Hectares, have sustained a
partial relapse, being last marked 12. Greek are
firmer. Spanish securities show dulness. Other
foreign stocks have not varied much. Transac-
tions are recorded as follows :—Brazilian Four-
and-a-Half per Cents., 1852, 1858, 1860,
951 ; Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
991, ex div. ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents.,
651 ; ditto Four per Cent. Certificates, 102 ;
Egyptian Seven per Cents., 891 ; Greek, 141,
; ditto Coupons, 61, ; Italian Five per
Cents., for account, 721 ; ditto Maremmana Rail-
way, 73 ; Mexican Three per Ceuta., 331,
New Granada, ex overdue Coupons and Hectares,
124, 12 ; ditto Deferred, 64, ; Peruvian scrip,
14 die. ; Portuguese Three per Cents.,
1853, for account, 471 ; ditto, 1862,
461 ; Russian Four-and-a-Half per Ceuta.,
93 ; ditto Three per Cents., 1859, 591, ex div. ;
ditto scrip, 2 prem. ; Spanish Three per Cents.,
for account,' 541, 54 ; ditto New Deferred, for
account, 461 ; ditto Passive, 221 ; ditto Cer-
tificates, 91, 4 ; Turkish Six per Cents.,
1854, for account, 831 ; ditto 1858, for account,
69; ditto scrip, 1,1, prem.; ditto paid-up, 681
1, ; Venezuela Three per Cents., for account, 28:
271, 281, ex div.; ditto scrip, 11 prem.
The shares of the English and Irish Bank are
quoted to-day 4to 1 prem.
The discount market remains quiet. Choice bills
are taken at 21 to 21 per cent., with exceptional
transactions a fraction lower. A moderate amount
of business, however, is still taken to the Bank of
England.
The denial (published in our impression of Tues-
day) of the report of an impending Turkish
2,000,0001. Loan is fully (*sfirmed by official ad-
vices from Constantinople.
The amount of specie brought from New York
by the steamer City of New York is 174,0001. The
Hansa will bring 26,0001.
Bar silver is now quoted ss. 2d. per ounce, being
id above the price recently current. The market,
however, is quieter, the supplies required for the
outgoing Bombay steamer having been mostly ob-
tained. The total by that vowel will be very large.
The sudden death is announced, under ve
melancholy circumstances, of Mr. Brodie M`Gihie
Willcox, lILP. for Southampton, and chairman of
the Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation
Company. Mr. Wilcox, who was in his 79th
year, was on Wednesday superintending the level-
ling of a tree at his seat, Roydon-lodge, near Ware,
when the trunk suddenly fell upon his head, com-
pletely fracturing it. Ile died yesterday morning
at half-past eight o'clock. The deceased was one of
the founders of the Peninsular and Oriental Steam
Company, and has been its chairman during the
last five or six years.
An adjourned meeting of the creditors of Messrs.
Maxwell and Co., publishers, took place yesterday,
when Messrs. Hodge, Tanner, and Edwards, the
committee of chief creditors appointed at the last
' meeting, presented their report. An examination
of the books of the firm by these gentlemen shows
that the former statement was substantially correct.
They have also had the property, consisting of a
large mass of copyrights, valued by Mr. Low, jun.,
of the firm of Sampso n Low, Son, and Co., whoee
estimate is considerably under that previously made
by Mr. Hodgson, the auctioneer. After some dis-
cussion, a deed of assignment was agreed to. The
dividend expected to be ultimately realised is about
7s. in the pound. The three gentlemen forming
the committee of investigation are to act as trus-
tees. The chief difficulty in dealing with the estate
has hitherto arisen from the circumstance of there
being a large secured creditor, by whom, however,
the general body of creditors have been met in a
liberal spirit.
The Great Western Railway traffic return shows
this week an increase over last year of 5,0221. • the
Great Northern, an increase of 4,1581. ; the kid-
land, an increase of 3751. ; the Lancashire and
Yorkshire, a decrease of 2,1262. ; the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, a decrease of 1,1411. ;
and the North Eastern, an increase of 2401.
A call of 101. is to be paid on the shares in the
Loudon and Brazilian Bank by the 3rd of De-
cember.
At a meeting of the proprietors of the Equitable
Gaslight and Coke Company, held at the office on
Tuesday, a dividend of 31. 10s. per share was de-
clared on the 501. shares, and one of 10e. on the
251. shares. This result was considered very satis-
factory. The call of 31. per share on the 251.
shares is due on the 10th, making 131. paid up.
A general meeting of the Madras Irrigation and
Canal Company is convened for the 27th inst.
The Nova Scotian of the 20th ult., received this
morning per her Majesty's ship Hero, contains
the following items of gold news :
The last monthly return of the deputy gold commis-
sioner at Sherbrooke shows that 400 tons of quartz wen
raised at that gold field during the month of September, of
which 219 tons were crushed, yielding 515 ounces. Two
hundred and sixteen men were at work during the month.
At the current price of gold this will give about 45 dole. a
month per man to every man engaged in mining. It most
be remembered, however, that of these 21e, a considerable
number are engaged in prospecting, shaft-sinking, and other
preparatory operations which have not been productive,
leaving the rate otremuneration to thaeowho have been getting
out quartz very much larger than the above average. Niue
this, 181 tons of quoits raised remain to be crushed, which
added to the large amount of " specimens" in private hands,
the gold produced from hand mortars and surface washings,
none of which is accounted for in the commissioner's re-
turn, will altogether swell the proceed of the district teethe
month to each a figure as must give a very large profit to
some of those engaged in the work.

The Acadia; Recorder of the 18th Oct., received
by the same opportunity, reports as follows :
The big nugget said to have been found at the Ovens I
diggius appears to be "a fixed fact" The piece of quarts
in which it was imbedded weighs about 150 pounds, and it
is said that a vein of gold ma be seen runniog through its
entire leegth more than half an inch in thickness. The die.
coverer values it at $l,OOO.
The following is Messrs. Culverwell, Brooks,
and Co.'s report of yesterday's hide sales :
At the twenty-fist series of bide sales for the year,
although there was a 'good attendance of burns, a mid-
dling demand was experienced. Salted maintained previous
prim, bat other kinds were rather easier.
Zest India.—Ox and Oew.—Chlcutta : The demand vies
not eo Urge as at the previous series of sales, but r holden
evinced a disposition to sell, a fair proportion of the largo
quietly brought forward was disposed of at a decline of
id. to Ad. per lb. upon middling to commie dineriOoos,
while thoeeof good quality, of which them were few in the
NUS, maintained their promos value. Madre and Poodi-