The Express.
London, England, 1865-11-21 00:00:00

176.4 d
1141.19.11

MONEY MARKET,-(TE18 DAY•)

Two o'CLocis.
The stock markets to-day are generally steady,
the amount of business being insufficient to influ-
ence prices to any material extent. The funds
are unaltered ; in foreign bonds the variations are,
merely fractional ; while two or three of the
leading home railways have slightly improved.
There is a partial recovery in the shares of
Overend, Gurney, and Co.
The government broker has bought to-day
20,0001. New Three per Cents. for the Sinking

Fund.
The demand for discount to-day is not large, but
there is no general disposition to take bills below 7
Ipar ant., the Bank minimum. In the Stock
Exchange, short loans on English government
securities are in somewhat increased demand, and
the charge is higher, at 5 to 6 per cent.
At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Reuter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes opened at
68f r. 55c., showing a rise of sc.
Consols are now quoted 891 to 1, with dlr.,/ for
money and 88 to 1, ex div., for the account
Dec. 7). The official business report is as follows :
—Three per Cent. Consols, for money,B9l, ; ditto
for account, 88/ ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 871
I, 1 ; New Three per Ceuta., 871, 1, 1 ;
New Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 931 ; An-
nuities, 1885, 13 11-16; Bank Stock, 248 ;
India Five per Cent. Stock, 1051 ; ditto Bonds,
135., 18a. prem. ; Exchequer Bills, March, 6e., 3s.
dis. ; ditto, June, 10a., 7s. dia.
Foreign stocks present very little variation. There
is an improvement of per cent. in Spanish Passive
and Certificate@ and Mexican, and a reduction of
like amount in Greek and Turkish Consolidds.
Some of the present quotations are subjoined,
viz. :—Greek, 17 to ; Spanish Passive, 27/ to
281 ; ditto Certificates, 131 to / ; Confederate,
8 to 9 ; Brazilian scrip, 21 to 1 prem. ; Turkish
Consolidia, 46/ to 1 ; and Mexican, 25 to 261.
Transactions are recorded as follows :—Brazilian,
1865, 751 ; ditto scrip, 21, prem. ; Colom-
bian, 801 ; Danubian, for account,
741 ; Dutch Certificates, 941 ; Egyptian'
1864, 911 ; Greek for account, 171, 17 ; Mexican,
for account, 26, 51, 6; ditto 1864, 241; New Gra-
nada, 151,15 ; Portuguese, 1856, for account, 461,
6 ; Russian, 1862, 891, 8/, ex div. ; Spanish Pas-
sive, for account, 28, 1 ; ditto Certificates, for
account, 131, ; Turkish, 1858, for account, 751';
ditto 1862, 1001. Bonds, 741,1, 5 ; ditto 1865, for
account, 421, ; ditto 1001. Bonds, 421.
Atlantic and Great Western Railway Debentures
are in demand, and have risen 1 per m, the
present price being 811 to 821, ex div. 5.20
bonds are quoted 631 to 1. showing a decline of
Erie Railway shares, 54/ to I ; and Illinois, 811

to I.
International Financial shares are now quoted to
1 prem. ; General Credit, 2 3.16 to 5-16 prem. ;
London Financial, 61 to 1 prem. ; Imperial
Mercantile, 2 9-16 to 11-16 prem. ; Credit Fonder
and Mobilier of England, 3 13.16 to 16-16 prem.,
ex all ; ditto New, 4 to 41 prem. ; General Otto-
man, 21 to 1 prem. ; Overeni, Gurney, and Com-
pany, 61 to 7 prem. ; and Hudson's Bay, 154 to 1.
The shares of the St. Saviour's Wharf Company
are quoted 11 to 2 prem. ; Bank of Turkey, If
to 11 prem. ; Frederick Symons and Co., 1 to 2
prem. ; East and West India Junction Railway, 2
to 3 prem. ; and American Oil Wells Trading, 11
to 2 prom.

Fona o'Cuicx.
Consols are firm, at 89k, with div., for money,
and 88 to 1, ex div., for the account. About
162,0001. in gold has been sent into the Bank.
Messrs. Baring Brothers and Co. have announced
that the dividend warrant., due on the Ist of
December next, on the Two per Cent. New
Granada Bonds, and on the Old Active Bonds at
Is. 6d. per 1001., and on the Deferred Bonds at
Si. 4d. per 1001., will be payable on or after that

day.
The Stock Exchange Committee have appointed
Monday, the 27th inst., a special settling day in
the 181. inconvertible preference shares of the
Midland Railway Company, which are to be marked
in the official list.
The Brighton Railway traffic return shows this
week an increase of 3,096/. over the corresponding
week of last year ; and the South Eastern an
increase of 1,7911.
A circular just issued by the Ottoman Financial
Association (Limited) intimates that "as the nego-
tiations pending in reference to t
ot pre
"mai-
gamation of this company will not be sufficiently
matured to justify their being explained to the
meeting to be held on Tuesday next, the 21st inst.,
it is proposed that this meeting shall be held pro
found only, and for the purposes of adournment,
until Tuesday, the sth December, at 3 o clock p.m.,
at the London Tavern, Bishopsgate-street."
A call of 21. 10s. is to be paid on the shares of
the City of Moscow Gas Company (Limited) by the
12th December.
The fourth ordinary general meeting of the
Indian Tramway Company will be held on Wed-
nesday, the 29th instant.
The first general meeting of the Bangparah Tea
Company Estates of Assam (Limited) took place
yesterday at the company's offices, St. Michael'e-
hone° Cornhill, when the directors' report wits
adopt/d.
The numbers are published of various definitive
certificates of the Italian Irrigation Canal Company,
which will be sold on the sth December, unless tbe
ninth instalment, making 181. called, is paid
before that day.
We are informed that the ship Lion has arrived
at Falmouth, en route to Antwerp, with 1,100 tons
of asphalt for the Trinidad Petroleum Company I
(Limited).
It appears that an interruption has taken place in
the telegraphic communication between Bengazi and
Alexandria, but there is a prospect of the damage
being repaired in the course of the next two or three
weeks.
The annexed is from the monthly wine circular
of Mr. F. W. Coseus :
TIMM ill a steady general demand for most descriptions of
wines and spirits suitable for home consuption. In tbe
face of a favourable vintage speculators bold aloof, and
prices are regulated by legitimate transactions only. The
quantity of wane cleared for home use in the month of
October at the port of London exceeds the total cleared in
any one month sines January, 1861, when the re-
duced rate of duty first cams into operation. The price
of brandy is well maintained, and the °peeing quotation
far 1865 will probably rule 4d. to 6d. per galloa
higher than was anticipated a few weeks niece. The
i advice of the negro revolt in Jamaica has rendered
holders of rum &user es to pries, but the stock is hoed is
dim considerable, sod quotations for the moment aro without
alteration. Total of wine cleared for home consumption
sad exported :-Ist January to 30th September 1863,
9,326.775 vinous; let January to 30th Septembe;, Vidt,
10,140.029 gallons ; let Jannary to 30th September, 1965,
10,314,321 gallops Sherry—The quality of the " Moses
of the present (1865) vintage is highly spoken of, and
holders are not disposed to abate mulattoes as to price.
s' The exports from Cadiz are nearly 23,000 butte less than in
1864; the bonded stock in London is 5,741 butte less than
at this period of 1864. On the other hand the damson foe
home consumptive show the small increase of about 400
butte. There is a considerable quantify of defective wimp
still held, upon which bankers and others have made
advances ; this to some extest depreeiates the value of
1 gonad deecriptioes, bet while the legitimate demand for
oonrumption remise as considerable so great effect is pro-
lured UPO, prise-
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Ifoirsav Emma
Consols, which closed on Saturday at 871 to 88,
ex div. for the 7th December, opened this morning
at 88, and closed at 88 to 1. For money the last
One was 891 to 1 with div. The official
Cons business
report is as follows :—Three per Cent. ols,
for money, 89/, a ; ditto for savant, 88, 1 ; Three