The Express.
London, England, 1849-06-12 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.

MONDET EVENING.
Though the *moult of business in the English
funds to-dey has not been great, the market has
shown a tendency to advance and everything wears
an improviug aspe't. Consuls opeucd at 91a to 2,
and wirhou. any material fluctuation during the day
gradually advanced to 911 at the close of the regular
hours of basiness. Ater the official hours they have
been quoted 91; to fur money, and for the account
of 17th July the price is 92 to
At St. Petersburg apices ad been received to the
24'h May from this country, and the dates from
thence are to the 2nd inst. Tee flax barks were be-
ginning to arrive—about 2PO tons 9 heads on the
spot, which cost lut autumn 76 bko., had been resold
at 83 bko. In hemp there was little doing, and the
barks with this article were expected in about
another month. A decline had taken place in the
price of tallow, and the termer sodden advance in
price was no longer obtsinaVe. A few hundred casks
hod exchanged hands for August delivery at 116
bko., money. In freights no rate had been fixed,
though 325. 6d. was the rate talked of for clean hemp
to Engl !rid. The exchange on London bad rLen to
351 to 36 1.16.
From Riga the letters received report that the de-
mand for MIX continued active, particularly fur the
marks sr.T.R. , P.D.C., D.C. Several pur-
chases of linseed had b cn made for Br lgian and
Dutch aec..unt, and some orders yet remained to be
exe teed for Eugli-h end German accoutre. Freights:
Flax, 375. 6d. to 45e. per tcn • linseed, 3s. 6d. to
3s. 9d. per qr. Exchange on London : 360. per
silver rouble. _ _

At Hamburg the continual ce of fine weather,
and the lull of political excitement had had a
favourable effect on the market. The cal- of coffee
amounted to 10,000 bogs against 8,000 bags imported.
The stocks of sugar were being much reduced, and
holders were- firm in askirg higher rives. Cott m the
same. The enquiry for grain tad subsided, but the
prices had not given way.
In exchange the traueactions were limited—on
London, three months date, at 13e. 91d. ; short,
13s. 10Wd. Securities and shares were higher.
Money abriedatit, and gold was in request.
In Amat rdara the cholera had shown itself, and
the magistrates had issued orders for the proper
burial of those who died of that disease. In grain
busir ese %es dull. The Twn and-a-Half per Ceuta.,
48 13.16; Four per Cents., 75 11-16. Exchange on
London, two months, at 11.95 ; sight, 12.2.
Advices just received from Antwerp are encouiag-
hog for River Plate hides, and sales is dry Buenos
Ayres to the extent' f 23,403 in number, varying in
price from 21 to 38k, had taken place since the first
of the month, and 2,628 of other quell ies. Salted
bid.is, excepting the henry descripteinr, which were
wanted, were difficult of sale. Too demand for cot-
ton was improving.
In coffee many transactions had taken place in
various descriptions, to the extent of 6,480 bags.
Brazil ard St. Domingo are qtx&d to and
Java 1 higher.
The sugar market was very firm, and stocks were
held fir better prices, in core-equence of which the
business done was only to a email extent.
Thu advice, from Havre this morning reprrt leas
animation in the cotton market, the sales fur Friday
and Saturday amounting only to 2,364 bales. The
prices, however, were very steady. In raw sugar a
small sale bad taken place at current rates. The
coffee market was very quiet.
The accoutre received from Buenos Ayres, rid Now
York and Liverpool, reach to the sth of April. Pri-
vate letters encourage the hope that the differences so
long existing between Roma lord the French and
English governments are likely soon to terminate, and
that her Majesty's steamer Alecto had left Buenos
Ayres far Rio with a proposition from Roos has*
that object in view. The doubloon was quoted at XIS
paper dollars, and the tzehatge on England
The Smyrna Journal, of the 23rd May,
the Grand Admiral, Suleiman Pasha,
energetic steps to put an end to the