The Express.
London, England, 1865-05-20 00:00:00

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The English funds are dull to-day, and Console
exhibits reduction of per cent., compared with
the last quotations of yesterday. On the other
heal, foreign stocks and English lines are slightly
better in a few instances. The amount of business
generally is limited.
The discount market is quiet to-day, but no
transactions are reported in the best paper below
4} per cent. In the Stock Exchange the supply of
money is very large, and the rate for loans from
day to day, on English government securities, has
declined to 2 to 2} per cent.
At Paris to-day, according to Mr. Reuter's
telegrams, the Three par Cent. Routes opened at
67fr. 30c., being about per cent lower than yes-
terday.
Consols are now quoted 904 to 4, with div., for
money, and 881 to 89, ex div., for the account
(June 8). The official business report is as
follows:—Three per Cent. Consols, for money,
90}, ; ditto, for account, 89, } ; Three per
Cents. Reduced, 884, 4, ; New Three per
Cents., 884, 4, ; India Five per Cent. Stock,
1064 ; Five per Cent. " maimed " rupee paper,
101 ; and Exchequer Bills, 6e., ss. prem.
The foreign stock market is rather firm. Greek
Bonds and Spanish Certificates have improved 4 per
cent., and Consolidifs and Spanish Passive, }.
Some of the present quotations are annexed,
viz.:--Greek Bonds, 191 to 20} ; Mexican, 244
to 1 ; Confederate, 8 to .10 ; Spanish Pas-
sive, 294 to } ; the Certificates, 151# to
; Turkish Bonds of 1868, 70 to 71 ; ditto, 1862,
72 to 73 ; ditto, Coesolidifs, 474 to #, ex div.
Transactions are recorded se follows ;--Egyptian,
1864, 924, 92 ; ditto 1001. Bonds, 924 ; Greek, for
account, 191 ; Mexican, for account, 24, 4, 4 ;
ditto 1864, 251, 1, 24; Monte Vldean, 63 ; Peruvian
scrip, },l prem. ; Portugneee, 1856, /to., for acoonut,
48} ; Russian, 1862, 904, 90, ex div. ; Spanish
Passive, foe amount, 294 ; ditto, Certificates, for
acoonnt,lsl, } ; Tnrkisb,lBs4, 904, ; ditto, 1858,
1001. Bond; 76 ; ditto, 1861, 724 ; ditto, 1001.
Bonds, 724.
The steamer Great Britain has arrived at Liver-
pool from Melbourne, in 64 days, with 189,0001.
in gold.
The scrip of the new Ottoman Loan is without
change, at 11 to 1} dia.
The A stock of the Metropolitan Extension Rail-
ways of the London, Chatham, and Dover Railway,
the issue of which was announced this morning, is
quoted 31 to 4 prem.
International Financial shares are now quoted
13-16 to 15-16 prem. ; General Credit, 1# to} prem.;
London Financial, 6} to 7 prem. ; Imperial
Mercantile,l3-16 to 15-16 prem.; Credit Foncier and
Mobilier of England, S to 4 preen., ex div. ;
and Egyptian Trading, 14 to 14 din.
The quotations for the shares of some of the new
companies are subjoined :—Metropolitan District
Railways, 9to 10 prem. ; Moscow Gas, } die to
par; Russian Iron Works, 9 to 10 prem.; Anglo-
Egyptian Navigation, 31 to 4 prem. ; Varna
Railway, 9 to 10 prem. ; Plymouth Shipbuilding,
2to } prom, ; Ottoman Company, 1 to 4 prem. ;
Lion Brewery, 21 to 8 prem. ; and Peruvian
Railways, 1 to } prem.
HALF-PAST Two o'Ctocx.
Consols are } per tient. better, at 904 to 4,
with div., for money, and 89 to 4, ex div., for
the account.
According to one report circulated yesterday, Senor
Romero, Juarez' minister at Washington, has
made arrangements with contractors in New York
and California for a loan of 25,000,000 doles, but
the statement seems to be almost beyond belief.
The scrip of the Imperial Ottoman Five per Cent.
Loan of 1865 will be reedy for delivery at the
office' of the General Credit Company in exchange
for the deposit and allotmtnt receipts on Tuesday
next.
About 25,0001. in bar gold was bought by the
Bank yesterday.
The steamer Syria will take to-day only
17,1151. in specie for the East, of wbich 15, 0001.
is gold for the Mauritius.
The steamer Poonah, from Alexandria, with the
heavy portion of the mails from Calcutta, China,
aid Australia, has brought 22,8761. in specie.
The Africa, from Boston, with advises to the
10th instant, will probably reach Liverpool to-
morrow.
The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon showed
undiminished firmness, and, as regards a few of the
continental places, the rates were slightly better
for this country. The list is subjoined
Amemeisei„ h months. 11.191 to 121 ditto. 3 days,
U. 171 to 18; Rotterdam, S mamas, 11191 to 121; Am-
Isom 3 months, 25.474 to 521; liambarg, ms. imam. 3
swathe, 13.91 to 10 ; Part' 3 days, 25.174 to M ;
ditto, 3 soothe. 25.424 to 474; Prouthfort-owtherMamee, 3
mouths, 1201 to 1; Bt. Petersburg (yew rouble), 3 mouths,
301 t 4; VIOOO6. d 80.. 3 atenthre 11224 to 274 ; Tried;
set. to., 3 s
un=oath, 1L221 so 271 ; Madrid, 3 months,
47 to ; Gediz, 3 ouths, 481 to ; Leghorn. 3 months,
25.571 to 621 ; Genoa. 3 wicieths, 15.574 to 62(; Milan, 3
months, 25.571 to 62i ; Naples, 3 months, 25.57 i to
624 ; Palermo, 3 months, 15.571 to 621 ; Meswea, 3
swaths, 25.571 to 621 ; Lisboa, 90 days, 511; Oporto,
90 day; 511 to 1.
At Paris the rate of discount in the open market
is 3} per cent ; Amsterdam, Berlin, and Brussels,
3} ; Vienna, 5 ; hamburg, 3 ; Teri°, 44 ; Frank-
fort, 24 ; and St. Petersburg, 6 per cent. Oar
charges are still decidedly above the average on the
Continent
The Stook Exchange Committee have appointed
Wednesday, the 24th May, a special settling day in
the shares of the Metropolitan and St. John's
Wood Railway Company, and Nowgoog Tea Com-
pany of Assam (Limited), both of which are to be
officially marked.
The Credit Foncier and Mobilier of England
(Limited) have notified that they are pre-
pared to receive subscriptions for 1,212,0001. A
stock of the Metropolitan Extension Railways of
the Lonion, Chatham, and Dover Railway Com-
pany, in 30,300 provisional scrip certificates to
bearer of 401. each. This affair present' some re-
markable features, both as regards present and
future arrangement; The price of issue is only
211. for each certificate, or equal toper
100 L stock. Interest is guaranteed by Sir B.
Peto, Bart., Setts, and Crampton, at 6 per cent.
per annum on the price of issue, payable on the
amount paid up, as from the Ist January
last, and payment of thisinterent will be continued
to the Ist July, 1867, by half-yearly payments.
The bearing of these arrangements is so ably
summarised in an official circular issued last evening
to the shareholders in the Credit Foncier and
Mobilier, that we cannot do better than reproduce
the following passages
The great semen of lists poweising a metropsliten trail
is seek that, practically, 00 limit ma be plated to the pee.
table %mean of their receipts. The line to which the pro-
mpt ism belong powwows more elemeate of meow thee
arrbafon say_ ether metropolitan lima, coosegurat eyes
the admirable masses in which it has been designed.
sad to which reference is made in the prospects; It
will be sees that it coo:sects the mesa most imereisat
!elms is limplamL via. :—The Metropolitan (Limier-
the Great Northers. the Midland, the Great
!lirestin,' !he West Ledges Extessioa, the South Weaken,
sad the North Wooers, which mast give it ~MOM ad-1
wastages, besides these derivable from its owe log re
esarem It is calsokilsol that it will reqiire a peeled al two
years to flty4Z:ethe tea& floss Wes warless
souses ; have therefor, hem rode with the
entineet fins Oks Melte' Pete, Bart, _ Betts, bad
tea, to pay Merest up Ms the let lea, at the r=
yes watt par amnia as the amnia paid up ; this will plan
the heater la the position al yeeeiving a geed retina while
swanks the time la the mime et tie siseh,whish mast as-
d•Y take *se se the lasseased inns is made bases
by thepshltsdtes at the weekly WM retatee, sad this
imateme of vales es the tesMo iecteme. boss Irma shwa by
experiseas ie the Great Northers Ned Metropolitan (Under-
Fogad) Railways, itched In the petepostem I would aloe