The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-07 00:00:00

MONEY JIARKET.-(THIE. DAY.)

Two &Mom.

The funds continue to improve, additional sup-
port being given to prioes by the satisfactory pro-
grass of the settlement, which will be completed
to-morrow. A fresh rise of 1 pee cent has taken
place to-day in Consols. Most of the principal
home railway stocks are likewise better. Foreign
securities are fin, with a sustained demand.
At Paris, to-day (according to Mr. Renter's tele-
gram), the Three per Cent. Rentes opened at
70fr. 60c., being the same as they closed yesterday.
Consols are now quoted 93 to 1, ex div.,
both for money and to-morrow's settlement. The
official business report is as follows :-Three per Cant.
Consols, for money, 921, 931, 98,1, 98, ex div. ; ditto
for account, 924, Wit ex div. ; Three per Cents.
Reduced, 93,1, 93 ; New Three per Cents., 921,
93, 1, 93 ; Five per Cent. Annuities, 1001 ;
Thirty Years Annuities, 1886, 15 1-16 ;
Bank Stock, 236 ; India Five per Cent.
Stock, 1081, 1 ; ditto Four per Cent.
Debentures, 1001 ; ditto Bonds, 28s. prem. ;
Four per Cent. " enlaced " rupee paper, 961;
ditto Five per Cent, 1051 ; and Exchequer Bills,
12a., Bs. prem.
The foreign stock market continues active.
Anglo-Turkish Bonds are steady, the Loan of
1854 being quoted 84 to 85 ; that of 1858, 71 to
1 ; and that of 1862, 671 to 681, ex div. ; while the
Ooneolides have risen *per cent., being now quoted
391 to 1. Egyptian and Spanish Passive Bonds
are better, Buenos Ayres and Moorish very firm,
Greek steady, and Mexican rather fiat. Venezuelan
acripis quoted 11 to 11 dis., being firmer ; and Peru-
vian, 891 to 90, showing a recovery of 1 per cent.
Transactions are recorded as follows :-Buenos
Ayres, for account, 981 ; Chilian, 841, 84 ; Dutch,
86, ex div. ; Egyptian, 96, 1, 951, 96 ; ditto second
issue, 96 ; Greek, 141, ; ditto, Coupons, 7 ;
for account, 704, ex div. ; Mexican, 321, 311;
Moorish, 971, f ; Peruvian, 1862, for account,
891, 1, ex div. ; Portuguese, 1862, 471, 1,
ex div. ; ditto scrip, 31 prem. ; Russian, 1880,
• 94, ex div. ; ditto, 1862, 961, 951 ; ditto scrip, 21
prem. ; Spanish, for account, 541, ex div. ; ditto
New Deferred, for account, 461, ex div. ; ditto
Passive, 241, 1, ; Turkish, 1854, 861 ; ditto,
1858, for account, 711, 1 ; ditto 1862, for account,
88, 1, 671, 681, ex div.

Foos o'CLocx.

Consols are firmer, at 93} to I, ex div., both for
money and to-morrow's settlement, and en,
"buyers," for the 6th of February. Ninety
thousand sovereigns have been taken from the
Bank for Brazil.
Money is easy in all quarters, the pressure mini,
dental to the turn of the year having passed away.
The demand extends to Indian government secu-
rities of all kinds, including railway capital, to
bank shares, notwithstanding the rapidity of the
new issues, and to nearly classes of foreign
stocks. English railways, though inactive, are like-
wise strong, while foreign railway shares meet
with a better demand than has been experienced
for some time past.
About 46,0001. in gold, including 30,000 sove-
reigns, was taken from the Bank yesterday for trans-
mission abroad.
The foreign exchanges, yesterday afternoon, were
quoted much the same as on Friday, with the ex-
ception of a slight movement in favour of this
country as regards Hamburg. The quotations were

as follows :
Amsterdam, S months, 11.164 to 17 ; ditto, S days,
1114 to 15 ; Rotterdam, 3 months, 11166 to 17 ; Ant-
werp, 3 =oaths, 25.40 to 5 ; Hamburg, ma. banoo, three
months, 13.64 to I ; Paris, 3 days, 25.126 to 226 ; ditto,
3 months, 25.40 to 5 ; Prankfort-on-theYaine, 3 mouths,
1181 to 119 ; Petersburg (per rouble), 3 months, 35 to 4 ;
Vienna, eff. do., 3 months, IL6O to 70 ; Triode, eff. do
3 months, IL6O to 70 ; Madrid, 3 mouths, 494 to 4 ; Cadiz,
3 months, 49 to 4 ; foghorn 3 months, 25.65 to 60 ;
Genoa, 3 months, 25.66 to 60; Milan, 3 months, 25.55
to 60 ; Naples, 3 months, 25.55 to 60 ; Palermo, 3 months,
25.60 to 5; Memina, 3 months, 25.60 to 5 ; Lisbon, 90 days,
Eto Oporto, 90 days, 524 to 53.
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J. P. Turner, who was in the head office of
the London and Westminster Bank for upwards of
twenty years, has been appointed the general ma-
nager of the London and Northern Bank.
A call of 51. is to be paid on the shares in the
Bank of Hindustan, China, and Japan (Limited),
by the 6th February.
A general meeting of the shareholders in the City
Bank will be held on the 20th inst.
Formal notice is given that a petition for the I
winding up of the New Brunswick and Canada
Railway and Land Company (Limited) is to be
heard before the Master of the Rolls on the 17th
January.
The settlement of the list of contributories of the
Patent Bitumenized Water, Gas, am! Drainage Pipe
Company (Limited) is to take plat* in the Bank-
ruptcy Court on the 21st inst.
We are requested to state that the share list of
the Midland Counties Banking Company will be
closed on Monday next.
Canada Five per Cents. were dull. United
States Five per Cants. have receded. Mauritius
Government Six per Ceuta. were in demand.
Notice it given of the closing of the transfer
books of the Union Bank of England and France
(Limited) from yesterday (Tuesday) to Saturday
next.
Subjoined are the present quotations of insurance,
gat, dock, and other shares, as given in the Stock
Exchange list of last evening :
I mamma—Atlas, 114 to : Medical, and 041116.
ral Life, 25; Commercial rnioe, 51 to A ; Eagle, 61 ;
Equity and law, 74 to .1 ; Globs, 1124, ex Mr. • Indemnity
Marine, 159 ; law Life, 84 ; and Omani Life. 7 ;
London and Provincial Marine, It ;Lepl North British and Mer-
cantile, 154 to ; Oesaa Marine, 114 ; Provided Life, 411;
Rock Life, 8; Themes and Mersey Marine, 44 to 4 ; tr
versal Marine, 4 to 4.
Gaslight and Coke.—Europesn, 154 ; Ditto New, 51
Great Central, 151 ; Imperial 86, ex dlr. •• New ditto, 71,
ex. div. ; Imperial Nntineetal, to 9 to 86', ex dir. ; United
General, LV • Western, New, 8 to 4.
Waterworks.-13erlin, 64 to 7.
Docks.—London, 614 to 1 • Southampton, 64.
In the Bankruptcy Co4rt yesterday a further divi-
dend of Bd. in the pound was declared on the
estate of Messrs. Sowerby and Tattoo, siik mercers,
of Regent-circus. There has been a former divi-
dend of 2s. 6d. in the pound.