The Express.
London, England, 1862-08-12 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET--(THIS DAY.)

Two o'CLooK.

A rather better feeling prevails in the Stock
Exchange to-day. Consols are quoted about the
same as yesterday. Some British railway stocks
have improved, as well as two or three of the new
loans. The Spanish Certificates are not quite
so firm.

Consols are officially marked 934 and for
money, and 934 and 4 for the account. The pre-
sent quotations are 934 to 4 for cash and
934 to 4 for the 4th September. The official
business report is as follows :—Bank Stock, YU ;
Three per Cents. Reduced, 934, 4 ; New Three per
Cents., 934, ; Thirty Years Annuities, 1886,
15 7-16 ; Red Sea Telegraph, 211 ; India Stock,
228, 230 ; ditto Five per Cent. Stock, 1084, 4,
4, 4 ; ditto Four per Cent. Debentures, 1864, 101 ;
ditto Bonds, 265. prem. ; Five per Cent " enlaced"
rupee paper, 1041, 4 ; Exchequer Bills, 205., 225.,
18a, 198. prem.
The foreign stock market is steadier to-day.
The scrip of the new Venezuelan Loan has Mr
proved 4 per cent., and the Portuguese
and Turkish, 4 ; while the Peruvian has
receded 4. The scrip of the Egyptian
and Russian Loans is steady, at the quotations of
yesterday. The Venezuelan is now quoted par to
prem. ; Portuguese, 24 to prem. ; Turkish,
to prem. ; Peruvian, 14 to 1 dis. ; Egyptian,
first issue, 11 to 12 prem. ; ditto second issue,
9 to 11 prem. ; and Russian, par to prem.
The Spanish Certificates are slightly flatter.
The Italian Five per Cents. have unproved.
Transactions are recorded se follows :—Brazilian
Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 1852, 1858, 1860, 934;
Chili= Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 84 ; Dutch Two.
and.a.Half per Cents., 644 (exchange, 12fl.); Egyp-
tian Seven per Cents., paid-up scrip, 934, 924, ex new;
Italian Five per Cents.,69l, 4, 70 (exchange 25fr.) ;
Mexican Three per Cents., for account, 284, 4 ;
Peruvian Four-and-a Half per Cents. for ac-
count, 994 ; ditto Three per Cents, for amount,
874 ; Portuguese Three per Cents., 1853, for
account, 464 ; Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
904 ; ditto Fly., per Cents., 1862, scrip, 231. 10a.
paid, par ; ditto paid-up scrip, 931, 4 ; the
Spanish Committee's Certificates, 94, ; Turk-
ish Sir per Cents, 1864, for account,
851 ; ditto Six per Cents., 1858, for account,
724, 71/ ; ditto 1001. Bonds, 744 ; ditto Six per
Cents., 1862, scrip, 401. paid, 4,4, prem. ; ditto
paid-up scrip, 674, 684 ; ditto Guaranteed Four
per Cents., for account, 102 ; Venezuela Three
per Cents., for account, 254, 4.

Pots o'Crocx.
Consols are still quoted 931 to I for money, and
931 to f for the account.

The fortnightly settlement in abares and foreign
stocks will commence to-morrow and terminate on
Friday.

There were no transactions in bullion at the
Bank yesterday.
The Athenian has brought 11,200/. in specie from
Africa.

The dividend on Caledonian Railway stock was
officially announced yesterday at the rate of five per
cent. per annum, being the sane as that declared
for the corresponding period of 1861. The stock
has not been affected in price.

The subjoined circnhir was sent last evening
to the shareholders in the Bank of Queensland.
It disposes satisfactorily of certain adverse state-
ments which have received a hasty publicity.
The preliminary expenses, as we are informed, will
reach less than half the amount alluded to. The
subscription for the shares in this hank was closed
on Saturday, and amounts to considerably more
than the total capital. The allotment will be pro-
ceeded with as soon as possible :

TO THZ BOBSCRIZZES or ran 3LNE Or QUIEZNISLAND
(crierrun).
Gentlemen,—With reference to a ooneepondenoe whirls
ham appeared in the Times between Mr. Mackay and myself,
as secretary of the Bank of Queensland (limited), lam re-
quested by the board of directors to inform you that, being
to no way responsible for statements made by Mr. Foster to
Mr. Mackay previous to the formation of the board, they
declined to enter into any explanations with Mr. Mackay
beyond denying that they were cognisant of snob statements.
Since, however, Mr. Mackay has thought fit to publish the
correspondence, the directors have instructed me to state to
you very positively that no donctur of any kind has ever
been offered to them, that they have never agreed to pay
anything like 10,0001. for the preliminary expenses of the
bank, that they one and all repudiated the demand for this
amount immediately it was brought before them, and
further, that no such remuneration as 1,500/. was ever pro-
mised to, or asked by the broker. Under all the circum-
stances of the case, and with a wish for the ultimate pros-
perity of the hank, Mr. Foster has resigned his seat at the
Ward, and his resignation has been accepted. —I am, &c.,
8. LIPSCOMB BECKHAM, Secretary.