The Express.
London, England, 1863-11-17 00:00:00

MONEY M4RKNZr(TI4IB DAY.)

Two °Two&

The funds remain steady, at yebterday's prices,
but heaviness prevails as' *tares borne railway
stooks and the speculative kinds of foreign bonds,
in which this is the fortnightly settling day. The
average reduction amounts to about }per cent., and
is attributable partly to the uncertain state of the
money market, and partly to the continued unsa-
tisfactory character of the financial advices from
Paris. _ _ _

At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Renter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Recites were quoted
67fr. 200., showing an advance of bc., compared
with the last price of yesterday.
Console are now quoted 921 to 1, cum div.; for
money, and 911 to 4, ex div., for the account
(Deo. 3). The official business report is as fol-
lows :-Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 921,
; ditto for account, 911 ; Three per
Cents. Reduced, 901, ; New Three per Cents,
901, 1 ; Bank Stock, 235, 237 ; India Five per
Cent. Stock, 1084, 4, i ; ditto Four per Cent. 1001;
ditto Four per Cent. Debentures, 1864 or 1866,
994 ; and Exchequer Bills, Bs., 3s. dig.
A decline off per cent. has taken place to-day
in Mexican, Greek, and Turkish Bonds of 1862.
Spanish Passive Bonds, on the other hand, have
risen f per cent., and the Certificates continue
in demand, though now quoted below the best point
of the morning ; the last transactions are at
131, purchases having been made at an earlier
hour as high as 131. Some of the present
quotations are annexed :-Turkish 1854 Loan,
701 to 71; ditto, 1858, 681 to 70 ; ditto, 1862,
70} to 1 ; the Consolidds, 474 to 484 ; Greek, 301 to
31 ; Mexican, 381 to ; and Spanish Passive, 341 to 1.
Transactions are recorded as follows :-Buenos
Ayres Six per Cents., 921; Egyptian, 991, 981;
Greek, for account, 31, 301 ; ditto Coupons, for
account, 141 ; Italian, for account, 71, f, 71 ;
Mexican, for account, 384, 39, 381 ; Peruvian,
1862, for account, 861; Portuguese, 1855, 49 ;
ditto, 1856, dm, 481, ; ditto, 1863, 481;
ditto, scrip, 1 prem. ; Russian, 1822, 91 ;
ditto, 1862, 87, 4, ex div. ; Spanish, for
aoooant, 344, ; ditto Certificates, for account,
131, 4, ; Turkish, 1862, 701, 1 ; ditto, for
account, 701, f ; Venezuela, for account, 231, 24.
International Financial shares are quoted 44
to 5 prem. ; General Credit, 3to prem. ;
London Financial, 71 to prem. ; Mercantile Cred it,
21 to 34 prem.; Hudson's Bay, 15 to 04 dis. ; Egyp-
tian Trading, 2/ to 4 prem. ; Discount Corporation,
74 to 84 pram. ; National Steam, 41 to 54 prem.
Merchant Banking, 41 to 54 prem. ; Australian
Land and Mortgage, to 1 prem. ; Mortgage
Bank of India, 2j to 31 prem.; English and Swedish
Bank, 31 to 44 prem. ; and Muntz's metal, Ito 1
prem.
FOUR O'CLOCK.
Consols are lower, at 924, cum div., for money,
and 911 to 4, ex div., for the account.
At 6 per cent., which is still the current rate for
the best bills, there is an ample supply of money.
Nevertheless, much caution u evinced, and in con-
sequent* of the prevailing uncertainty with regard
to the future, a good, though not heavy business
continues to be carried to the Bank of England.
There is a rumour that a new Spanish loan is
in contemplation.
In connexion with the settlement, the failure of
a member of the Stock Exchange was announced
yesterday, but it was of no importance.
No gold transactions occurred at the Bank yester-
day. There was also an absence of export in-
quiry for this metal in the market-perhaps owing
to the fact that there are no supplies in hand at
the moment. _ _

The Monarch, with 247,50 a, is the only gold
vessel known to be on the way from Melbourne to
England. 295,000/. was shipped from that port,
however, by the steamer Madras for Point de Galls.
The outgoing Went India steamer, to sail to-
day, will take 0,1401. in gold.
The Stock Exchange Committee have appointed
Thursday next a spoil" settling day in the shares
of the following companies :
_ . .

East London Bank (Limited) To be market
Dartford Creek Paper Mill Company
(Limited)
New /danifeld Copypar and Silver N°t °Art"
Mining Company (Limited)
The committee have also ordered the shares of
the London and Lancashire Fire Insurance COllll-
- to be marked in the biweekly lists. Bargains
are to be settled on the ordinary settling days.
The Loudon and County Bank have made ar-
rangements to open a branch at Limehouse.
Formal notice is given that a petition for the
winding up of the Natal Cotton Conmanv (Limited)
is to be heard before Vice-Chancellor Sir W. P.
Wood on the 21st inst.

The first OrT:livary meeting of the Inns of Court
Hotel Company (Limited) is milled for the 24th
instant. _ _ _

The first annual meeting of the General Rolling
Stook Company (Limited) is cmirened for the 24th
inst., when • dividend is to be declared, and the
purchase of the Rolling Stock Company of Ireland
(Limited) is to be proposed.
A general meeting of the Trust and Loan Com-
pany of Upper Canada is called fur the 27th inst.,
when a dividend is to be declared.
. .

In anticipation of the dividend which will be
declared in January next ou both classes of shares
in the Illinois Ceutral Railway Company, and upon
the cancelled Bouda Scrip, holders, if not already
registered in the books of the company, are re-
quested by the London agents to do so without
delay.
The prospectus of the Ilfracombe Hotel Company
(Limited) is in circulation. It is proposed to build
• commodious hotel at this fashionable, healthy,
and beautifully situated watering place. A central
site has been fixed upon. The capital proposed is
the moderate sum of 20,0001., divided into 2,000
shares of 101. each, suit of this a large portion has
already been subscribed. The railway is now
within a few miles of Ilfracombe, and the South
Western Company intend petitioning parliament in
the ensuing session for an exteußiou direct to the
town.

The arrangements are notified in connexion with
the payment of the interest on the shares of the
Buenos Ayres Great Southern Railway Company.
We are requested to state that nearly the whole
of the first issue of 5,000 shares in the Constanti-
nople and Alexandria Hotels Company (Limited)
have already been applied for, exclusive of the
applications expected from abroad.
The half-yearly dividends due the let December
on Brazilian Bonds are announced by Messrs.
Rothschild and Sons, and those on Chilima Four-
and-a-Half per Cents. by IglesmN. Baring Brothers
and Co. •

NIONDAT STUMM
Consols, which closed on Saturday at 91; ex div.
for the 3rd December, were marked to.daybetween
914 and 91/, and closed at 91f to 4. For money
the last price was 921 to I with div. The official
business report is as follows :—Three per Cent.
Consols, for money, 92/, I. ; ditto, for
isccount, 9_1},1, ; Three per Cents. Reduoed, 901,
f, f ; ew Three per Ceuta., 903, 4, ; Red
Sea Telegraph, 211-16 ; Bank Stock, 236 ; India
Five per Cent. Stock, 1.081, 1 ; ditto Four per
Cent., 1004 ; ditto Bonds, 75. prem. ; ditto Four
per Cent. Debentures, 1864, 99Y ; Five-and-a-Half
per Cent. "enfaced " rupee paper, 115.
The Indian government securities were quiet.
There were some purchases of India Bonds at 7s.
prem. Exchequer Bills were a trifle firmer at fis. to
4s. dia.
Apart from the settlement the business in the
foreign stock market was not extensive. Never-
theless an improved demand was ,m2erienced for
some securities in the afternoon.
In the market for bank eliares there was an