The Express.
London, England, 1855-07-05 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.-THIS

Two o'Czocx.
The English stock market, after attaining a farm
thee advance of per cent., has since become flatter.
Prices are now quoted I per cent. lower than they
closed yesterday. Consols were quoted early in the
day 911 to I, and now stand at 9l j- to 1 ex div., for.
the 10th July. The Three per Cents. Reduced have
been dealt in at 92j W ; the New Three pee
Cents. at 921 to I; Bank Stock at 212 j; Long
Annuities, 1860, at 3 15.16 ; the New 30 years'
Annuities at 16 15-16; Exchequer Bills, March, at
225. to 26e. prem. ; ditto June, at 19s. to 225. prem.; •
India Bonds at 325. to 355. prem.; and Exchequer
Bomb, 1858, 1001 to 101.
In the foreign stock market the only sales re-
ported are Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. at 631
ex div. ; do. Four per Cent. Certifs. at 95; Russian
Five per Cents. at 99 to 100; do. Four-and-a-Half
per Cents. at 88; to 89j ex div. Turkish is quoted
81/ to 82.
The arrival has been announced of six vessels
from Australia, viz., the Empress and Bristow, from
Adelaide; the Stirlingshire, from Launceston; the
Devonshire, from Swan River; the Gladiator, from
Sydney; and the Windermere, from Geelong. The
Windermere has 4,500 ounces of gold on freight,
worth about 18,0001., and the Gladiator 280 ounces.
In each cue the dates have been anticipated.
The half-yearly meeting of the London and
Brighton Railway Company is called for the 26th
instant.

The prospectus is issued of the Departmental Rail-
way Company of France, with a capital of one mil-
lion sterling, :divided into shares to bearer of 41.
each, on which the deposit is to be 21. The object of
the company is to form cheap lines in connexion with
the existing net work of French railway,. The
lines are in every case to be laid down on the existing
roads, and the maximum of expense of construction
is not to exceed 1,0001. per kilometre. The first sec-
tion, from Reuil to Manly, is to be opened for traffic,
on the 10th inst., and it is mentioned that the com-
pany have obtained the concession of the line to Au-
teuil and St. Cloud, through the Champs Elyseee,
and of another, 37 miles long, from Rennes to the
sea. One half of the capital is to be raised in Eng-
land, the other half having been subscribed in France.
The directors of the Chartered Bank of India,
Australia, and China, in accordance with the an-

nouncement made at the meeting of the shareholders
on the 29th ult., invite applications for a limited
number of the reserved shares, the residue of which
are to be allotted in India. Applications will be re.
ceived until the 30th lost., and 41. per share is to be
paid on snob shares by the 31st inst., upon which
amount, as well u upon all future calls and sums
paid in anticipation of calls, interest at the rate of 4
per cent. per annum will be allowed.
Relative to the hide and leather trade, Messrs. T.
J. and T. Powell report as under :
In &big a report of the peskiest of the leather trade throughout
the sesath efarse bare to ems almost the same words es the
time or ft: sodas Iwo requirel--• full avenge mount
et bulassa Ohs adman la priors which the extraordinarily
hist of Um raw materiel wen justify. The supply of leather
bele bees gam 1 y akesident, with a few exeeptions which will be
hansflar award, aud we hare rarely bad osimion to make, in oar
ateatkir Prise Merest, fewer alt rations in pram. The demand of
Wear it army purposes continues steady.
Tbe periliea of as raw bids market hes net materially altered
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Is kaiak Ile Imparts lama tbe Nicer Plate are few, bet
War an sonelinns !Mud by en recently uteressed supplies
Ikea Omega Kew km* Wake.
likrba Wks base leis la key short 'apple during the month, and
oratbses at ear peek= quetetkaa. There is no alteration in the
value of market horsehide@ or market calf skins.