The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-31 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET,-(TIIIS DAY.)

Two o'Cua.

The stock markets experienced a renewed im-
provement this morning, and, though the best
prices have not been maintained to the present
hour, the general tendency is still favourable. The
funds have risen i per cent., and a sensible advance
is observable in the stocks of some of the chief home
railways. Foreign bonds are firm, and financial
shares in some cases rather better.

The discount market is extremely quiet to-day,
and exceptional transactions are reported in choice
three months' bills at per cent., being 4 below
the Bank minimum. The rate for short loans in the
Stock Exchange is 6to 7 per cent. _ _

The usual telegrams from the Paris Bourse have
not yet arrived.

Consols are now quoted 891 to 4 for money, and
894 to 1 for the account (Nov. 10). The official
business report is as follows :—Three per Cent.
Consols, for money, 894, ; ditto, for account,
891 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 874, 4 ; New
Three per Cents., 874, i ; Bank Stock, 237 ;
India Five per Cent. Stock, 1054, 1 ; ditto Four
per Cent. Debentures, 974 ; ditto Bonds, Bs., 56.,
die.; and Exchequer Bills, March, 45., 35., die.
There is not much change in foreign stocks,
except a fall in Venezuela Bonds, owing to the
news given below. Two or three of the other specu-
lative stocks are 1 tot percent. better. Confederate
Bonds, however, have declined 1 per cent. Some
of the present quotations are annexed, viz. reek,
22 to 224 ; Mexican, 261 to 27/ ; Confederate, 59
to 61; Spanish Passive, 314 to 4; the Certificates,
14 to 4; Turkish Bonds of 1858, 69 to ;
ditto 1862, 714 to 4 ; and the Consolid4s, 501 to 1.
Transactions are recorded as follows :—Belgian
Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 99 ; Brazilian, 1863,
821; Egyptian, 954, 96 ; Italian (Mareminana Rail-
way), 701; Mexican, 261; ditto for account, 271, 27 ;
ditto, 1864, 25 ; Peruvian, 1862, 81 ; Portuguese,
1856, dc., 464 ; ditto for account, 461 ; Russian,
1859, 54 ; ditto, 1862, 871, 88 ; Spanish, for account,
471 ; ditto Passive, for account, 314, 4, 4 ; Turkish,
1854, 89 ; ditto 1858, for account, 691 ; ditto 1802,
72, 714 ; ditto, for account, 711, 1 ; ditto 1001.
Bonds, 72, 1 ; Venezuela, for account, 55, 53.
International Financial shares are now quoted
1 5-16 to 7.16 prem. ; London Financial, 61 to 71
prem. ; General Credit, 21 to I prem. ;
Imperial and Mercantile Credit, 14 to 1 prem. ;
Hudson's Bay, 151 to 161 ; Ottoman Societ4 06124-
rale, 14 to 4 prem. ; and Anglo-Egyptian Bank,
1 to 04 dis.
As was anticipated, the committee have decided
that the Stock Exchange shall be closed to-morrow,
the Ist of November. The transfer offices at the
Bath of England will likewise be shut.

Font o'CLoce.

Consols ate still quoted 89g to i for money,
and 84 to f for the amount. 27,0001. iu gold
has beet sent into the Bank, and 20,0)01. with-
drawn.

Subjoined is a statement (from Mr. Slaughter's
weekly list) of the railway calls falling due in the
month of November. The amount is beluw the
average : . .

Amount per Share.

Dui Already -s
Number
Due In Nor., 1864. Date. Paul. Call of MIMI*. Amount.
Grand Trunk of Canada

Equip. Mort. roods 3O .. 60 par ct. 23 per M. not known
Manuneramith 4 My 6
percent. Preference 11 4 20 0 6,000 12.000
South Enetern 3 per cent
Pref. Chating cress) 5 6 110 0 70,003 176,000
South Eastern 6 percent
Pref., August, 1664 16 1 30 0 67,602 167,748
Tula and nevem 1 10 0 0 40A° 10.000

Total to November

Amount called In II months of 13e& . L 12.577.414

The half/early meeting of the Truet and Agency
Company vi Aastardwria (Limited) is convened for
the 14th November, " when the directors will
recommend the declaration of an ad .racri,n divi-
dend on the 25,000 shares of the Lt awl 2nd
issues."

Provisional shares in the Lemberg Czernowitz
Railway Company are to be ready for delivery, in
exchange for the scrip certificates, ou the stb
November.

The directors of the Estates Bank (Limited)
have given notice that they will proceed to allot
their third issue of shares to-morrow. It is also
intimated that the bank "is endeavouring to
get its proprietors to avail themselves of the advan-
tages of Lord Westbury's Act fur registering inde-
feasible titles to estates."

Formal notice is given that a petition for the
winding up of the West Central Hots. and Carriage
Repository Company (Limited) is to be heard before
the blaster of the Rolls on the sth Nov.

The numbers ire published of 569 bonds, repre-
senting 110,0001., of the Russian Four-and-a-Half
per Cent. loan of 1849, which were drawn oa the
20th inst., and are to be paid off after the let Jan.
next.

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The subjoined report on the bullion market is
from the circular of Messrs. Sharps and Wilkins :
Combined depression still charasterizes the bullion
market. The tranaactions is liar silver have he.. exceed-
ingly limited, bat few purchases having bees made, sod
those priacipally for eliminate to Holland. At present
I Mime is so apparsoce of aa immediate renewal of the Indies
danasad. lfwairen dollars tallish% with but little alteration
in pries ; buyers being noodling to operate in the present
Mate of the maw market. The current rate to-Jay is
ds. 1l d. per es. There is still an aterroce oldewaod for
cold tor export. and theists arrivals by the Great Britiuo.
um. &a., will in all probability be sold to the Bank of
England.
With reference to the position and prospects of
the money market, the circular of Messrs. Joseph
Travers and Sons has the following :
•

The expected improvement io the mousy market has this
I week been realised. The Bank retarn is mom favourable,
and is such as would apparently bare warranted a reduc-
tion of the rate of discount to O per c'nt. to have berm made
at the last court. The questiair is believed to have been
discussed, and a downward moveneet may be commenced
vest week. A great improvement beg also occurred in the
position of the Bank of France, and it is believed that if a
reduction to 8 per cent. hal been adopted co this side, the
Bank of France would on Thar...lay have lowered its tats
to 7 par cent. From the markets both of London and
Paris there has lately been • much greater clearance of
quatiosable per thee the public may hove estimated, and
the proem of contraction is daily going on, as the Dew
banks and weak finance companies God their acceptances
canuot be kept afloat except at a great seerifice. It seems
certain. moreover. that these coacerns are not likely, evert
with tie return of less Winton time', to acquire an imme-
diate reoevral of power, and under such cireamstalcce
there is room to ex that a temporary reduction to 8 per
cent. may be for on Thursday next.
. .

With regard to the moreuieut for the shorten-
ing of credits in the sugar trade, the same firm re-
mark :—" One of the largest and oldest firms
amongst our London refiners has determined upon
adopting the modern terms, selling all goods, after
the Ist November neat, for payment at one month
from purchase, and the principal London purchases
of crushed and pieces likewise continue to be made at
the short prompt of fourteen day., one month, and
for cash."

SATURDAY EYRITML

Console, which closed yesterday at 89. to g for
the 10th November, opened this morning at the
same quotetiti'm, and closed at 894 to 0.
For money the last price was 894 to 4. The ottici.d
business report is as follows :—Three per Cent.
Consols, for money, 894, 4, ; ditto, for
account, 894, 1; Three per Cents. Reduced,
874, ; Nis, Three per Cents., 874, #, #,
t ; India Stock, 212 ; ditto Four per
Cent., 96 ; ditto Bonds, 13s. die. ; Fite
per Cent. " enfaced " rupee paper, 100.
Foreign stocks in tome cases were rather flatter.
Confederate Bonds fell 3 per cent , Spanish Passive,
4, Venezuela Bonds of 1862, 4, owing to the hid
news referred to below ; Greek Conpous, 1 ; and
Mexican and Greek Bonds and Turkish Coneolidtla,
4 per cent. Brazilian Four-and-a-Ralf per Cents.
and Egyptian Bonds, ou the contrary, were firm.
There was she a demand for Anglo-Turkish Bonds,
the 1858 and 1862 rising 4 and the 1863 about
2 per cent.