The Express.
London, England, 1865-05-04 00:00:00

6711

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we ea OS *era lime 4U flueday sad the meeting celled
for Weeneley. Them was net, therstors, three dear days.
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told Kr. ffles Oat the °Menace wee fatal. There must
be Wes clear days scales on the church doors between the
Ikeda, and the day of teeming.
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bat be thought it absurd. l'he defeedaate knew that the
niestleer wee to take plan., and that the rate would be made.
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the matter was not in his jurisdisilon, Weslaco, it would
have top to the Sealeslastical Oen&
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Two o'Czoon.
The directors of the Bank of England have to-day
raised the minimum rate of discount from 4 to 4}
per cent.
This measure, having been only partly antici-
pated, has Gamed a decline in some securities in the
Stock Exchange, but not to any important extent.
Console are quoted the same as yesterday, and the
reduction ;ar a few foreign stooks and British lines
does not exceed }to } per cent. Financial shares
are still neglected.
The upward movement in the Bank rate has had
no perceptible effect at present upon the die-
count market, which is quiet, with a good
supply of money. It is thought, however, that
business will increase later in the day. The rate
for the beet paper is 4} per cent. In the Stock
Exchange short loans are obtainable at 4 per oent.
The joint stock banks have raised their terms
for money on deposit from S to 3} per cent. The
London and Westminster Bank, however, allow only
2} per cent. for sums below 5001. The discount
establishments now give 3} per oent. for money at
call, 3} at seven days' notice, and 4at fourteen
days' notice, being } per cent, higher in each case.
At Paris to-day, according to Mr. Renter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes opened at
67fr. 35c., being Sc. lower than yesterday.
Consols are sow quoted 90} to 4, both for money
and the 9th inst. The official business report is as 1
follows ;-Three per Cent. Consols, for money,
901, /), 4 ; ditto, for account, 901, 4 ; Three per I
Cents. Reduced, SS}, 4, 4 ; New Three per Cents.,
88}, 1, ; India Five per Cent. Stock, 107, 1064.
Foreign stocks are dull, and Turkish Bonds of
1862, Consolidels, Greek, and Mexican, have re-
ceded }to f per cent. The Confederate
Loan remains flat at the reduction of yesterday.
Some of the pzesent quotations are annexed,
viz. :--Greek Bonds, 20} to 1 ; Mexican, 25/
to
26} ; Confederate, 11 to 13 ; Spanish Naive,
301 to ; the Certifiestes, 161 to
; Turkish, 1858, 69} to 70} ; ditto,
1862, 71} to 72 ; ditto Consolidis, 511 to 52.
Transeetions are recorded as follows :-Danu-
bian, 821 Egyptian, second issue, 96, 964
ditto, 1864, 934, 4, 921, 93f, 93 ; Italian
(Maremmana Railway), 69 ; ditto, 1865,
721 ; Mexican, for account, 26 ; dittolB64, 251 ;
Moorish, 96} ; Portuguese, 1856, &c., for amount,
448}; Russian, 1869, 54, ex div; ditto, 1862, 904,
, 4, ex div. ; Spanish Certificates, for account, 164
Turkish, 1858, for account, 70, 694, 70} ; ditto,
1862, for sooonnt, 711 ; ditto 1001. Bonds, 72, } ;
Venezuela, 1862, for account, 394, ex div.
The scrip of the new Ottoman Loan is still quoted
I} to 2 prem.
The Mediator has arrived from Melbourne with
B,OOW. in gold.
International Financial shares are now quoted
1 to } prem. ; General Credit, 1/ to 2 prem.;
London Financial, 64 to 7} prem. ; Imperial
Mercantile, 1 to } prem.; Credit Foncier and
- Mobilier of England, 3} to 4 prem. ex div. ; Hnd-
- son's Bay, 15} to ; and Egyptian Trading, 1
to 01 dia.
The quotations for the shares of some of the new
companies are subjoined :-Metropolitan District
Railways, 9 to 10 prem. ; Varna Railway, 8 to }
prem. ; Moscow Gas, par to } prem.; Russian Iron
Works, 2 to } prem.; Anglo-Egyptian Navigation, S}
to 1 prem. ; Plymouth Shipbuilding, } to 1 prem. ;
Ottoman Company, 1 to 1} prem. ; and Lion
Brewery, 1} to 4 prem.
From a letter received by Messrs. Baring
Brothers and Co., from their agent in Mexico, xt
appears that the Emperor Maximilian had instnac-
ted the new under-secretary for finance to take
cognisanoe of the matter of the Mexican Deferred
ze Bonds and to endeavour to arrange it without any
unnecessary loss of time. The under-secretary
promised to give the subject immediate attention,
and hoped to be able to state the definitive view of
his government before the departure of the French
packet,
About 20,000 sovereigns from Portugal were sent
into the Bank yesterday. There is a strong de-
mand, however, for bullion for abroad.
The steamer Oneida, from Brazil, has brought
43,9521. in specie • and the Wave of Life, from
Melbourne, 13,000/
The steamer Nyanza, which will leave South-
ampton to-day, will not take any silver for
India, and the amount of gold for that quarter is
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only 4401. The recaittance- to Chins is 11,9431.

all silver.
There is some prospect of the remittances of gold
from Australia to India diminishing to a consider-
s,' able extent, and of those from Australia to Eng-
land increasing in a corresponding degree.
The biddings for bills on India, which were
offered to the usual extent of 300,0001, took place
yesterday at the Bank of England, but only 44,5001.
was taken, being to Calcutta 32,5001., and to
Madras 12,0001. The minimum price was, as
before—On Calcutta and Madras is 11d., and on
Bombay Is. 111 d. Tenders on Calcutta and Ma-
dras at the minimum will receive in f nll ; on
Bombay all the tenders were below the minimulii.
Advice,' from Stockport refer to the embarrass-
ments of Messrs. Marshall and Son, of that town,
spinners and shippers of manufactures. The diffi-
oultiesof this firm are understood to bavecontributed
to the stoppage of Messrs. De Mattos and Godefroi,
mentioned on Tuesday.
Tenders for the balance (127,5000 of the Queens-
land government 6 per cent. debentures lately
offered were opened yesterday at the Union Bank of
Australia, when it was announced that the whole
amount had been subecribed for at prices ranging
from 102/. lie, to 1031. Ih. per cent., or above the
official minimum.
A telegram from Vienna announces that the
meeting of the shareholders of the Anglo-Austrian
Bank, held in that city yesterday, has passed off
very favourably, and that all the proposals made by
the general council have been unanimously adopted
• It is also notified that this bank will be prepared
to pay, on and after the 9th inst., out of realised
pet profits, 6s. sd. per share, free of income tax,
making, with the 3e. 6d. per share paid in October, a
total payment for interest and dividend for the
year 1864 at the rate of n per cent on the paid-up
capital of the bank.
The London and North Western Railway traffic
return shows this week an increase of 7,7421. over
last year ; the Midland, a decrease of 8661. ; the
Great Western, an increase of 5,1031. • the Great
Eastern, an increase of 6171.; and the &eat North-
at ern, an increase of 3,9691.
24 The second call of 5/. is to be paid on the ',hares
of the Tyne Iron Ship Building Company by the

24th inst.:
8 racial meetings of the West Hartlepool Harbour
and Railway Company, and of the Cleveland Railway
Company, are convened for the 19th inst., at the
London Tavern, to approve a bill now before par-
liament for the amalgamation of these undertakings
with the North Eastern Railway.