The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-29 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'Cuww.

The stock markets opened firmly this morning,
but have since experienced a partial reaction, owing
chiefly to the absence of business. Consols have
declined per cent., and some foreign stocks >t to 4.
Confederate Bonds have receded 2 per cent. Most
of the principal British railway securities are
quoted the same as yesterday.
The discount market is quiet to-day, with little
business, and the rate for first-class three months'
bills is unchanged, at 81 per cent. In the Stock
Exchange the charge for loans from day to day on
English government securities is 5 to 6 per cent.
At Paris to-day, according to Mr. Reuter's tele-
gram, the Three per Cent. Routes were quoted
64fr. 52c., showing no change of importance.
Consols are now quoted 894 to for money, and
894 to I for the account (Nov. 10). The official
business report is as follows :—Three per Cent.
Consols, for money, 894, 4, ; ditto, for
account, 894, ; Three per Cents. Reduced,
871, ; New Three per Cents., 874, 4,
1, ; India Stock, 212 ; ditto Four per
Cent., 96 ; ditto Bonds, 13s. dis. ; Five
per Cent. " enfaced " rupee paper, 100 ; Ex-
chequer Bills, March, 45., 94, dia. ; ditto, June,
145., 10s., 13e. dis.

The foreign stock market is dull. The prin-
cipal feature is a fall of 2 per oent. in Confede-
rate Bonds. Greek and Mexican have also re-
ceded 1, and Consolidds and Spanish Passive, t.
The Committee's Certificates have risen 1, and
Egyptian Bonds are inquired for. Some
of the present quotations are annexed, viz.:--}reek,
211 to 221 ; Mexican, 261 to 27 ; Confederate, 61
to 63; Spanish Passive, 311 to i; the Certificates,
14 to f ; Turkish Bonds of 1858, 68i to 69;
ditto 1862, 71 to i ; and the Consolidds, 50 to 1.
Transactions are recorded as follows :—Brazi-
lian, 1863, 821 ; Egyptian, 961, 95, 96 ; ditto se-
cond issue, 96t ; Greek, for account, 92; Mexican,
for account, 27/, 26; • Peruvian, 1862, for account,
811 ; Portuguese, 1853, for account, 461 ; Russian,
1859, 53 ; ditto, 1862, 871, 88 ; ditto, 1864, 86fr
ditto scrip, le prem. ; Spanish, for account, 471, 1 ;
ditto Passive, for account, 311, 1,1, 1 ; Turkish,
1864, for account, 89; ditto 1858, for account, 69 ;
ditto 1862, 711, ; ditto for account, 72, ; ditto
100 f. Bonds, 711 ; Venezuela, 1862, for account,l
661 ; ditto 1864, 42, 411.

International Financial shares are now quoted
11 to 1 prem. ; London Financial, 61 to 7
prem. ; General Credit, 2} to prem. ;
Imperial and Mercantile Credit, If to 1 prem. ;
Hudson's Bay, 151 to 16; Ottoman Socifiti (UDE-
:ale, 1 to; prem. ; and Anglo-Egyptian Bank,
11 to 1 dia.

The Shannon, from the West Indies, has brought
406,0001. in specie, and the China, from New
York, 29,0001.

The mail from Guayaquil has brought a remit-
tance of 3961. 9s. N. on account of the dividends
on the debt of Ecuador.

HALT-PART Two o'Cumr...

Consols are quoted 84 to f for money, and
89 5-16 to 7-16, or 89f, for the account, being
slightly better in the latter instance, compared with
the quotation =tient at 2 o'clock.

There is no reason to doubt that the Stock Ex-
change will be shut on Tuesday next, the let of
November, according to custom. On that day the
transfer offices at the Bank of England will like-
wise be closed, to allow of the striking of the half-
yearly balance.
No bullion transactions of any importance oc-
curred at the Bank yesterday. The steamer Great
Britain has arrived from Melbourne with 125,0001.
in gold, and the Etna, from New York, with
23,0001., making together 151,0001., which will
doubtless be sent into the Bank.

On Change yesterday afternoon bills on the Con-
tinent were rather more inquired for, and the ten-
dency of the rates was somewhat less favourable for
this country. The list is subjoined.
Amsterdam, 3 months, 12.11 to 2 ; ditto, 3 days,
11.17 to 18 ; Rotterdam; 3 swaths, 12.11 to 2 ; Ant.
wasp, 3 months. 25.80 to 83; asanlntrg, ma. bunco, 3
months, 13.104 to t; Paris, 3 days, 25.2., to 35; ditto, 3
mouths, 25.80 to 8.) ; Frankfort-op-the-Maine, 3 months,
1214 tol ; St. Petersburg (par melba), 3 months, 281 to 29;
Vienna, eft. do.. 3 months, 12.3) to 35 ; Trieste, eft. flo.,
3 months, 12.30 to 35 ; Madrid. 3 months, 464 to 1 ;
Cadiz, 3 mouths, 47 to ; Leghorn, 3 months, 26 to 26.10;
Geom. 3 months, 26 to 26 10 ; IBMs, 3 months, 26 to 26.10 ;
Naples, 3 months, 26 to 26.10; Palermo, 3 months. 26 to
28.10 ; Mamma, 3 months, 26 to 26.10 ; Lisboa, 90 days,
611 to 1 ; Oporto, 90 days. 514 to 1.
The weekly return of the Bank of France shows
the following changes :

Coin and bullies - lcerease £750,000
Dias discounted
Government deposits loorsase 280,066
Notes in circulation Decrease 6'90,000
Priests deposits
Advances
Nearly all these changes, including the increase in
the bullion and decrease in the disconntx and circu-
lation, are highly favourable, and they place the
Bank in a much stronger position.
The rates of discount here are still considerably
above those current on the continent. At Paris,
Amsterdam, and Berlin, the rate for good bills
is 7 per cent. ; Vienna, 6} ; Hamburg, 4 ; Turin,
8 ; Frankfort, 5 ; Brussels, o ; and St. Peters•
burg, 6 per cent.
The suspension was announced yesterday of the
respectable firm of Messrs. John C. Cole and Co.,
merchants, chiefly in the Spanish trade, in conse-
quence of the stoppage of Messrs. Hartley and Co.,
of Seville. The liabilities are computed at about
100,0001., and the liquidation is expected to be
satisfactory, there being, as stated in the circular
to the creditors, " available assets to a considerable
amount." The partners intimate that they could
not delay the present step, however painful, with-
out injury to their creditors generally. The books
have been placed iu the hands of Messrs. Cole-
man, Turquaud, Youngs, and Co., the ac-
countants.

At an adjonroed meeting of the creditors of
Messrs. Job', Fletcher and Co., in the corn trade,
held at Manchester on Thursday, it was decided to
accept a composition of 9s. 3.1. in the pound, pay-
able in three, seven, and ten months. Au atnewiel
balance-sheet, prepared by the inspecuoa, showed
liabilities to the amount of 140,68n1., and assets,
67,2701.
A call of 2/. 10a. is to be paid on the shares of
the City Offices Company (Limited) by the 24th
November.

A call of 1/. is to be paid on the shares of the
Bank of Otago (Limited) by the 22ud November.
The Caledonian Railway traffic return shows
this week an increase of 2,250/. over last y ear.

It is notified that the National Bauk will in
future be associated with the Alliance Bank. as
bankers of the Bank of Hindustan, China, and
Japan (Limited).
The share list of the Northern Assam Tea Com-
pany will be closed on Monday next, the 31st inst.

FRIDAT EVUDIG.

Consols, which closed yefiterlaiaifffiiicTilor
the 10th November, opened this morning at 89t)
to and after touching 891 to A, closed at 89i to A.
For money the last price was 89f to it. The official
business report is as follows ;—Three per Cent.
Consols, for money, 89f, ; ditto, for account,
1,
893, f, ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 874,f
New 'Three per Cents., 87f, f ; India Five per
Cent. Stock, 104, f ; ditto Bonds, Bs. din. ; Four
per Cent. "enlaced" rupoe paper, 89 ; ditto Five
per Cent., 1001 ; March Exchequer Bills were
quoted 9s. to 41. dia., and the June 16a. to 10s.
dia, showing in the latter case an improvement
of 21.

The India Five per Cent. Stock was slightly
flatter. The rupee paper remains steady. India
Bonds were marked Ss. dis. The somewhat easier
tendency of the money market is causing an in-
creased inquiry for Exchequer Bills.
Foreign stocks were in fair demand, and in some

cases prices have improved. Mexican, Venezuela
of 1862, and Turkish of 1862, rose per cent. •
Turkish of 1868, ; Greek Coupons, ; anl
Spanish Passive, 4 per cent. On the other hand,
Confederate Bonds and BMW] of 1864 declined
per cent., and Italian and Greek 4. Brazilian
Four-and-a-Half per Cents. were dull.
The demand for bank shares is apparently re-
viving. Allianee Bank, after touching 10 prem.,
closed at 84 to 9+ prem., being H. 10s. higher than
yesterday. Agra and hastermaa's Bank rose 21. to
31. ; Imperial, 2/. ; and many other banks 10s. to
1/. per share.
Hudson's Bay shares were firm, at 13i to 16,
and Egyptian Trading at to j prem. National.
Discount were again rather better, at 8 to 84 prem. ;
but Joint Stock Discount remain dull, at 24 to 2
dia. Madras Irrigation, National Financial,
National Steam, Peninsular and Oriental Steam,
Ocean Marine Insurance, and Universal Marine
Insurance shares have all improved. City Offices
and Land Securities shares were fiat.

The shares of the financial companies were again
in demand, and a rise of 2s. 6d. to fin. took place in
most cases. Credit Foncier and Mobilier shares,
however, were dull. The closing quotations are an-
nexed, viz : International, 1 to If prem. ;
General Credit, 2f to 24 prem. ; London Financial,
61 to 1 prem.; Imperial Mercantile Credit (amal-
gamated) lf to lf prem. • and Credit Fonder
and Mobilier of England (amalgamated), If to 14
prem.
Anglo-Egyptian Bank shares were quoted 1 to
04 dis., and Ottoman Socia4 G4n4ride 1 to 11
prem. showing a rise.
Canada Government Six per Cents. have risen.
United States 5.20 Bonds were quoted 404 to 414,
being dull.