The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-16 00:00:00

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MONEY NABLET.-(T1118 DAY•)

ONE o'CtOcit.
The dealings in the stock markets to-day are upon
a very limited scale, and the tendency remains dull.
The English funds and most foreign securities are
unalterbd, but a fresh reduction has occurred in
some of the chief British railway stocks.
There is a fair demand for money for a Saturday,
and the rate for good bills is maintained at 6 to tif
per cent. In the Stock Exchange loans from day
to day on English government securities are obtain-
able at 5 per cent.
Consols are now quoted 87k to I, ex div.,
for money, and 87k to p, ex div., for the account
(January 9).
Greek bonds have improved / per cent., and
Turkish of 1865 and Brazilian scrip 4. Other
foreign stocks are inactive. Some of the pre-
sent quotations are subjoined, viz. :—Greek,
15k to 16 ; Turkish Five • per Cents.
- of 1865, 43/ to g ; Spanish Passive, 27/ to
4 ; ditto Certificates, 14/ to 15 ; Confederate, 74 to
8/ ; Brazilian scrip, 1/ to I prem. ; and Mexican,
24, to /.
United States 5-20 Bonds continue in demand,
and have experienced a fresh rise of g per cent.,
the present quotation being 64,1 to 65. Erie
Railway shares are steady, at 54 to / ; and
Illinois at 81/ to 82. Atlantic and Great W
quoted
estern
Railway Consolidated Mortgage Bs are
1 to / prem.
International Financial shares are now quoted I
/ to 1/ prem. ; General Credit, 2 to 4
prem. ; London Financial, 5i to / prem. ; Impe-
rial Mercantile, 2/ to I prem. ; Credit Foncier
and Mobilier of England, 3/ to / prem.,
ex all; Overenl, Gurney, and Company, 5/ to 6

prem.
The shares of the Colonial Company are quoted
Ito iii prem. ; St. Saviour's Wharf, 1 to la prem. ;
London Steam Towing, lit to 2 prem. ; Charles
Witte and Co., 2 to A prem. ; and Commercial
Company of Africa, f to lf prem.
Two o'Cootii.
Consols are unchanged, at 87a to 1, ex div., for
money, and 87i to a, ex die., for the account.
The adjourned meeting of the Venezuelan bond-
holders of 1862, for the purpose of considering the
resolutions proposed by the committee and the
propositions promised to be submitted by Senor
Guzman, will be held on the 22nd inst.
The following notice, relating to the Venezuela
loan of 1864, has been received from the General
Credit Company :
Venezuela Biz per Cent. Loan, 1864. —The General
Credit and Flosses Company of London (Limited) are in
receipt of advice from their agents, Maws. H. L. Bonito&
and Co., dated La Guaira, Nov. 25, 1865, of ditties col-
lected on account of the above loan as follows :—Per sfromtate-
ment No. 37, from Ciudad Bolivar, 585.09 ; No. 38,
ditto, 8,819.10; No. 39. from ditto, 10,01L61 ; No. 40,
from ditto, 312 ; No. 56, front La Guaira, 8,338.07
No. 66, from ?MAO Cabello, 5,253.04 No. 67, from ditto,
2,840.61; total, 36,159.52.
Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. have received a
remittance from the Custom-house of San Jo
stl de
- Cucuta of 6011. 9s. Gd., on account of the New
- Granada dividends.
The China, from Boston, has brought about
5,0001. in specie.
The steamer Great Britain, from Melbourne,
with over half a million sterling in gold, has now
been at sea fifty-two days. Her arrival may, there-
fore, be expected in about ten days, bearing in mind
the duration of her previous passages homewards.
The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon were
steady. The rates on Paris were rather firmer.
Bills on Italy were more offered. The list is sub-
joined :
Amsterdam, 3 months, 12.11 to 2 ; ditto, 3 days, ILI7I
to 181 • Rotteedam, 3 months, 12.18 to 2; Antwerp,
moths. 25.50 to 55; Hamburg, ma. heath, 3 months,
13.9* to g ; Paris. 3 days, 25.124 to 17i; ditto, 3 mouths
to
,
25.40 to 45 ; Frankfortou•the-tgaine, 3 months,
120 g
g ; Petersburg, per rouble. 3 months, 30 to g • Vienna,
off. flo., 3 mouths, 10.924 to 95 ; Trieste, ditto, 3' mouths,
10.92 g to 95 ; Madrid, 3 months, 46g g • Dais, .1
months, 47i to g ; Leghorn, 3 months, 25.60 to '63: Genoa,
3 months, nso to 65 ; Milan. 3 months, 25.60 to 65 ;
Naples, 3 months, 25.60 to 65; Palermo, 3 months,
25.60 to 65 ; Maiwina, 3 months. 25.60 to 65; Lisbon,
90 days, 511 to il ; Oporto, 90 ays, 51g to I.
at The weekly return of the Bank of France shows
the following changes:
Coin and bullion
Bills discounted
Government deposits locreass 165.000
Notes in circuletion lncrease 445,000
Private deposits
Advances Decrease 10,000
The coin and bullion in the French Bank are
again ebbing away, but the decline is of no impor-
tance, especially after the increase of 890,0001.
shown in last week's return. The discounts, which
last week declined 2,253,0001., have now recovered
480,0001., showing some revival of the demand for
money.
Subjoined is a list of the rates of discount now
17 current on the Continent. They show a generally
high value of money : At Paris, 4 per cent. ;
Vienna, 5 ; Hamburg, 6 •, Turin, 6 ; Frankfort, 5 ;
Amsterdam, 6 ; Berlin, 7 ; Brussels, 6 ; and St.
Petersburg, 6 per cent.
The Caledonian Railway traffic return shows
this week an increase of 2,2121. over last year.
The receipts of the Great Western Railway of
Canada, for the week ending the 116 inst., were
14,718/., being 2,350/. more than in the corre-
sponding week of last year.
With reference to the debentures issued by the
Ottoman Railway Company, in November, 1863, it
is notified that the first drawing for their repay-
ment will, in accordance with the terms of their
issue, take place at the company's offices on the
Ist proximo. Debenture holders are invited to be
present.
A meeting of the shareholders of the late Delhi
Bank Corporation (Limited) was held on the 20th
October last in Delhi, when the proceedings of
shareholders held in .ondon on the 9th June last
were unanimously agreed to and confirmed, viz.,
for registration of the bank as a London bank ; for
the subdivision of shares from 501. each to 261.
each ; and for the election of directors. New scrip
is accordingly ready for delivery by the Delhi and
London Bank (Limited) in lieu of that which had
been issued in India under the old designation of
the bank.
The Stock Exchange Committee have ordered
the 12,500 new shares of the Bank of British Co-
lumbia to be quoted iu the daily list.
The Central Argentine Railway Company have
made a call of 2/. per share (making 10% lbs. per
share called up), payable on or before the 15th of
January.
Notice has been given that in future the half-
yearly interest of the Metropolitan District Railway
Company will be payable on the Ist January and
Ist July in each year. On Monday, the Ist pros.,
a proportionate dividend of the interest accruing
since the 13th September will be paid.
The second half-yearly dividend of 3 per cent.
on the Monte Videan Six per Cent. European
Loan of 1864 will be paid at the London and
Westminster Bank on and after the lat proximo.
Messrs. Maul, MacGregor, and Co., the agents for
the loan, announce that they will be prepared on
the sth proximo to " purchase, on presentation at
I their counting-house, at their current market value,
bonds to the extent of 10,0001. sterling, being the
amount of the sinking fund for the year 1866 of
one per cent. per annum, decreed by the law
dated Monte Video, 14th Nov., 1863."
The dividends on the Peruvian Loans of 4} per
cent of 1862 and 5 per cent. of 1865 will be paid
by Messrs. Thomson, Bons:, and Co. on the Ist
proz. The drawing for the redemption fund of the
1865 Loan, amounting to 256,2001., payable at par,
will take place on the 2nd pro!.
It is announced that the share list of the Railway
Finance Company (Limited) will be closed on Sa-
turday next, the 23rd hurt.

TROUT Ermine•
Consols, which closed yesterday at Kg to 4,
en die., for the 9tb January, were to-day alternately