The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-15 00:00:00

18612

MOM NARILBT.-(TRIS DAP.)

Two demos.
The stock ' markets to-day are very quiet,
with an unusually thin attendance. The funds
and nearly all other nessrities are quoted precisely
the same as they closed yesterday. An advance
in Greek Bonds forms almost the only variation
of importance. The general tone of the various mar-

kets is steady.
There is a good demand for money for a Saturday.
Good bills are charged 3 per cent., with exceptional
transactions at 2. In the Stock Exchange abort
loans on English Government secnritice are still

obtainable at Ig to 2 per cent.
Conaols are now quoted 90 to I for money,
and 90e, to for the Bth of August. The
official business report is as follows :—Three per
Cent. Consols, for money, 90, ; ditto, for ac-
count, 90g, ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 89}, 1;
New Three per Cents., 89}, I ; Annuities, April,
1885, ; Exchequer Bills, par ; Bank of Eng-
land Stook, 248 ; India Ave per Cent. Stock,
104, ; the Five.and-a-Half per Cent. "enlaced"
rupee paper, 110 e. _ .

In the foreign stock market the only change
worth mentioning is a rise of 1 per cent. in Greek
Bonds. Other stocks are quiet at yesterday's rates.
Some of the present quotations are subjoined
Turkish, 1858, 73 to 74 ; ditto, 1862, 72 to 73,
ez div. ; ditto ConsolidoSs, 491 to ; Mexican, 241
to 1, ex div. ; Spanish Passive, 291 to 1 ; ditto
Certificates, 141 to 1 ; Greek, 211 to ; and
Confederate, 7 to 9. Transactions are recorded
as follows :—Buenos Ayres One per Cent.
(Deferred Three per Cent.), 341 ; Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents. (Exchange 12 guil),
631, ; Egyptian Seven per Cents. 100/.
Bonds, 98; ditto 1864, 941,1; ditto 1001. Bonds, 941;
Greek Coupons, for account, 81, 3 ; Montevidean
Six per Cents., 621, ex div. ; New Grenada Deferred,
61 ; Portuguese Three per Cents., 1853, 473, ex
; Russian Five per Cents., 1862, 92, 1 ; ditto
1864, 95 ; Spanish Passive, for account, 291 ; Turk-
ish Six per Ceuta., 1858, for account, 731 ; ditto
1001. Bonds, 78 ; ditto 1862, for account, 721, 72,
ex div. ; ditto 1001. Bonds, 73, ex div. ; ditto Five
per Cents., 1865, 45, ex div. ; Venezuela Three
per Cents., for account, 161 ; ditto, Six per
Cents., 1864, 411.
International Financial shares are now quoted
le t° 1 pm., ex div.; General Credit, 11 to 1 prem. ;
London Financial, 71 to 1 prem. ; Imperial Mer-
caetile,l to prem., ex div.; Credit Foncier and
Mobilier of England, 3/ to 4 prem., ex div. ; Otto-
man Societ4 Gdn4rale, 22 to 3 prem. ; Hudson's
Bay,
.151 to ; and Egyptian Trading, 11

to (4 die.
The nominal quotations for the shares of some
of the new companies are subjoined :—Russian
Iron Works, 8 to 10 prem. ; Atlantic Tele-
graph preference, to it prom. ; Glamorganabire
Iron, 2 to prem. ; Peruvian Railways,
3 to 4 prem. ; Blakely Ordnance, 31 to 1
prem. ; Hop and Malt Exchange, 11 to 11 prem. ;
Barned's Banking, to prem. ; East London
Railway, par to prem. ; Loudon and Mediter-
ranean Bank, 3 to 4 prem. ; Metropolis Sewage,
Ito prem. ; and Overend, Gurney, and Co.
(Limited), 11 to 2 pm.
HALF-PAST Two o'Czc•cr.
Console remain quite without variation at
90 to 1 for money, and 901 to for Bth of August.
As regards other securities, owing to the general
Amos of business, there has been no change
whatever this afternoon.
The following notice relating to the Venezuela
Loan of 1884 was forwarded to the Stock Exchange
yesterday by the General Credit Company :
Vinsion.• Six era CWT. Loan, 1864.—The Geer's'
Credit and Finance Company of Leedom (Limited) are in
receipt of advice from their assets, Mesas. H. L. Boohoo
and 00., dated La Guaira 24th Jane 1866, of duties col-
Wed as follows on aoooust of the above loan :—Per state-
ment No. 34, from La Guaira 24,749.80 dole. ; per state-
meet No. 35, from Ls Guaira, 11,08450 dole. ; per state-
meat No. 36, from La Quin, 2,337.10 dots. ; per state-
scent No. 46, from Puerto Cabello, 50.50 dole. ; per stele-
meet No. 47, from Puerto Cabello, 5,60L96 dole. ; total,
43,823.86 dole.
The flow of gold from the Bank continues ; the
amount taken out yesterday was 60,0001., in sove-
reigns, for Alexandria.
The steamer Tasmanian, from the West Indies,
has brought 235,0001. in specie.
The foreign exchanges presented little alteration
yesterday, but bills on Hamburg were rather more
inquired for. The usual list is subjoined :
Amsterdam, S =oaths, 11.191 to 12.01 ; ditto. 3 day.,
11.18 to 1; !Rotterdam, 3 months, 11.191 to 1101; Ant-
werp, 3 months, 25.371 to 40; Hamburg, me. basso. 3
moths, 13.91 to 10 ; Perim, 3da 25.15 to 20
ditto, S months, 25.371 to 421; ort-on-the-Haine. 3
moths, 1201 to ; Bt. Petersburg (per rouble), 3 maths,
31 to 1; Vienna, eff. 80., 3 months, 11.15 to 30; Trish,
eff. Si., S months, 11.15 to 20: Madrid, 3 month;
471 to ; Cadiz, 3 months, 481 to 1 ; Leghorn, 3 month.,
25.50 so 55 ; Genoa, 3 mouths, 35.50 to 55 ; Milan. 3
months, 15.50 to 55 ; Naples, 3 months, 25.50 to 55
Palermo, 3 months, 25.50 to 55 ; Nemo% 3 months,
25.50 to 55 ; Lisbon, 90 days, 511 to ; Oporto, 90 days,
511 to 1.
The weekly return of the Bank of Francis shows
the following changes :
Coin sad bullion
Bills disooanted
Government deposits lncrease 96,000
Notes is circulation. basses 1.010,000
Private deposits .......... Lames 1,390,003
Advance;
The principal changes are the decrease in the
bullion and increase in the notes in circulation.
At the meeting yesterday of the Socidtd Agricole
et Industrielle d'Egypte, it was announced that the
Profit during the eight months the company had
been in operation amounted to 23,5171., and that a
dividend equal to about 9 per cent. had been de-
clared, or at the rate of 13 per cent. for the year.
The directors of the New Zealand Trust and Loan
Company (Limited), intend to declare • dividend
at the rate of 10 per cent, per annum at the meet-
ing on the 20th inst.
The Caledonian Railway traffic return shows this
week an increase of 2821. over the corresponding
week of last year.
The following is the eighteenth report of the
directors of the National Discount Company (Li-
mited), to be submitted at the general meeting on
Wednesday, the 26th inst. :
The directors, in presenting the annexed statement of the
accoanta for the half-year ending 30th Jane last, feel
assured that the shareholders will participate in the plea-
sure they have in submitting each coeclusive evidence of
the steady progress of the business of the oompanv. The
gross profits for the last half-year have =ousted to
112,7451. 14e. 9d., and, after deducting the current expen-
diture, directors' and auditors' remunenition, writing off,
in their entirety, all bad and doubtful debts, and reserving,
for rebate of interest on bills not yet due, 36,5711. le. Id.,
there remains the sum of 63,3191. Or. 14. which, with the
addition of the balance brought forwent from the Slot
December last. will then &mint to 70,002/. Os. sd. These
satisfactory remits will enable the directors, after appro.
priatiog 60,0001 to the payment of a dividend at the rate of
26 per cent per sauna) free of income-tax, to carry for-
ward to the next half-year's profit and loss account the sum
of 10,092/. Os. sd. The dividend will be made on and
after the let of August.
A special general meeting of the Indian Carrying
Company will be held on Tuesday, the 25th inst.
The transfer books of the London Tavern Com-
pany will be closed from Thursday, the 20th inst.,
to Friday, the 28th, for the purpose of paying an
ad interim dividend for the six months ending 30th
ult., at the rate of 10 per omit. per annum.
The Imperial Mexican Railway Company have
notified that their line of railway has been opened
for passenger and merchandise traffic over the
whole distance from Vera Cruz to Paso del Macho,
where tie assent from the Tierra Caliente to the
healthful districts of the interior commences. The
company have arranged to despatch a special train
from Vera Cruz on the occasion of the arrival of
each Mean peaks' ben lazepa, to amble bonne