The Express.
London, England, 1856-12-25 00:00:00

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MONEY MARKET.

This being Christmas-day, no banes' is going
forward in commercial circles.

WIDXIIDLY ETUINO.

The stock markets to-day showed increased
strength. Business was limited, but purchases pre-
ponderated. Both here and at Paris a hopeful feel-
ieg continues to prevail relative to the Swiss question.
The pressers for money is also regarded u merely
temporary. The funds closed firmly, at an advance
of k per cent. over the final quotations of yesterday.
The leading English railway stocks advanced 1 to :
per cent., and French shares were sensibly higher.
The demand for money was again extremely active
to-day :in all quarters, and the Bank rates were
generally fully maintained. The demand to-day was
partly on account of the engagements maturing to-
morrow (Christmas Day).
At Paris to-day the Three per Cent. Rentes closed
at 66.86 fee money, and 68.90 for the account, being
k to I per ant above the closing quotations of yes
terday. Purchases for money appear to have prepon"
dented.

Consols, which closed yesterday at 931 to ex div.
for the Bth Jan., touched this afternoon 94, and closed
at 94, " sellers." The official business report is
as follows: Three per Cent. Consols, for account,
931, 931, 931, 94 ex div.; Three per Cent. Reduced,
931, 1, 94. New Three per Cents., 931, 94. Bank
Stock, 216. Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Exchequer
Bonds, falling payable in 1868, 981 ; ditto, 1859,
981. India Bonds, 2s. prem.
Exchequer Bills have again fallen ls. to 25.,
owing to the pressure for money. The closing quota-
tion was 2.1. die. to 2s. prem.
Exchequer Bonds remain quoted 981 to 1.
Turkish Six per Cents. advanced to 951 today, and
closed at 951 to 1, being f per cent. higher than
yesterday. The Guaranteed Four per Cents. also
improved about per cent., being quoted at
4 o'clock 1021 to 103. Other foreign securities
exhibit no striking variation. At 4 o'clock
Russian Five per Cents, were quoted 106 to 8 ; ditto,
Foarand-a-Half per Cents., 96 to 97 ; Dutch Foar
per Cents., 96 to 97; ditto, Two-and-a-Half per
Vents., 84 to 66; Spanish Deferred Three per
Onto., 24 to f. Sales are recorded as follow:
Dutch Four per Cent. Certificates, 971. Granada
Twirand eQuarter per Cent. New Aotiye Bond.,
211. Peruvian Four and-a-Half per Cents., for
account, 31st Dee., 771. Portuguese Three per
Cents., 1853, 451. Sardinian Five per Cents., for
account, 31st Dec, 89. Spanish Old Three per Cents.,
421; ditto, New Deferred Three per Cents., 2414
ditto, for account, 31st Dec., 241. Turkish Six per
Cents., for account, 31st Dee., 95, 951 ; ditto, Gan.
ranteed Four per Cents., for account, 1021.
Venezuela Active Bonds are also marked, for the
the 31st inst., 361, 36, and 361.
The committee of Spanish American bondholderK
inform us that the Commissioners from Venezuela.
have this day agreed to the concession of 3 per cent.;
on the Active Bonds, in conformity with the remota.
tion passed at the general meeting on Monday last.
The run upon the Irish banks, according to ties
telegraphic despatches received today, has virtual'y
ceased. We do not best of any further remittance of
gold being made to that quarter.
At Paris yesterday (Tuesday) the exchange on
London was quoted 25.25 for short, and 24.821 to 86
for 3 mouths ; at Hamburg, 13.2 for abort, and 12.16}
for 3 months; at Amsterdam, 11.66 for short; at
Berlin, 6.171; and at Vienna, 10.19. The rates at
Berlin are rather lower, and at other places steady.
The amount of bills drawn by the East India Com.
pany on their respective presidencies, from the 10th
to the 24th inst. (this day), is as follows :
£ a. d. Bate of Rulings.
Bengal .... 340 978 0 101 2s. Od. per Co.'s rupee.
Madras.... 47,004 10 0
Bombay .. 6,688 2 6 21. Op. per ditto.

Total.. £393,670 13 4
The amount drawn by the last mail, it will be re-
membered, was 494,2011. 0.. 2d. Cash continues to
flow freely into the company's treasury, in cones-
queues of the recent reduction of 44. per rupee in
their rate of exchange.
The half-yearly interest on the obligations of the
Great Luxembourg Company is advertised.
The half-yearly dividend on the Alabama Five per
Cent. Sterling Bonds, due with Messrs. Reid, Irving,
and Co., is to be paid by the Union Bank of London.
Ottoman Bank shares have fallen to 14 to 14 die.;
Bank of Egypt closed at # to 1 dis. ; National Dis-
count, at 16 16 to 1 1-16 prem. ; ditto, new shares,
at f to 1 prem.; London Discount, at 1.16 die. to
pas; and General Bank of Switserland, at 14 to
0/ die. The stooks of the established London banks
remain steady. London Chartered Bank of Australia
shares, however, are still offered. Electric Telegraph
stock was quoted about 21. lower; and New Bruns-
wick and Nova Scotia Land, 21. higher.
The nominal closing quotations for the newly pro.
Railway,
railways are subjoined, viz.: Eastern Bengal
Railway, tp I prem.; Ceylon Railway, Ito 1/
prem.; Calcutta and South Eastern Railway, 1-16
to 4 prem.; Rip and Dunaburg Railway, 4 to
rem.; Copiapo Railway, 1 die. to 1 prem.; Italian
Junction Railways, 2 to 14 dis.; Euphrates Valley
Railway, f to 1 prem. ; New Brunswick and Canada
Railway and Land A shares, 1 dia. to par ; ditto B
share., Ito 04 die. ; Metropolitan Railway Guinan-
teed shares, I to 1 dis.
The nominal quotations for some other new pro.
acts are as follow :—European and Indian Junction
elegraph Company, 1 to 1 prem.; West Ham Dis-
tillery Company, 1 dis. to par; Levant Mineral,
die. to par.
The shares of the Mons Collieries and North Hol-
land Railweg Companies were severally quoted 1 to
Prem.
The Admiralty have accepted the undermentioned
ships for the conveyance of stores, via.:—The Sir
F. Seymour, for Bermuda; Dorothy, for the Maori-
; Norwood, for Trincomalee; Hero, for the
'Bahaism ; Olanmire, for Barbadoes; Albemarle, for
Colombo; Foster, for Demerara; Swanley, for
Jamaica; Providential, for Malta; and the British
King, for Trinidad.

The markets for colonial produce closed today,
and will reopen on the 6th of January.
The following ammary of the produce markets a
extracted from the circular of Mears. W. J. and H:
Thompson, dated this evening:
The pablio sales of produce this week, which have not
been very eateasive have gone off without animation. For
sugar there has beat but little demand, and the small crum-
my offered has been sold at about previous rates. Coffee
bee realised fall quotations, and the market to firm; a float-
ing cargo of Rio HS beta sold for the Mediterranean. Ica
saltpetre warmly any business is reported, and quotatioss
are quite nominal. Rice cantinas steady, the chief usual-
ness being la low qualities. A slight decline has been oste-
blbked
in the value of black pepper. Is tea a very largo
business has again been done at advanced rates. Commas
congas is quoted lota. per lb.
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Anoezed are the latest reports from foreign markets
se received per the Continental telegraph :

Paris— Wednesday Wotan; pelem): Time per Cent. Raga, for
money. 66.93 is dlr.; ditto, foe aeosent, 66.90 ex dlr.; ditto. Posev
and.a.Half par Cents. for money, 91.40 ; ditto for amount, 91.90.
Bank shares, 4.076.
Vienna—Tuesday Medea pekes) t Austrian Five per Cent:
Metalline, 611 ; ditto, Fonvand.a.lialf per feint., 711. Clamps ea
London, 10.19.
AZieterdliel_ —TO.IIII Neill( pekes) : Dutalt FOOT per Cody'
IN: ditto, Tw04114111~ por Oraft., ; apanieh New Deferral
The.. per Cents. IN; Uremia, Mist the Old The.. per Coat.
Oil: Austrian Pia per Motallko, 72/ ; Fortusneee, 44 7.16;
Granada Active, ; lerelea Four.mats.ll2ll per Cents.. U.
Vesesuals Active, 1131 ; ditto, Deferred, 14; Mexican, 191 ; Granada
Deferred, 61. Dutch ideas are a Uttle latter.
Berlin—Tuesday ; Susi= Five per Coats., 1041. This bonne id
Buser.
Hamburg—Tao/day: Spanish Than pa Cent. Deterred, 114;
Russian five per Cents.. 99.
Frankfort—Tuesday: apatite% Cohered, 231; ditto Old Three pa
Canto, ,Austria rive per Qat. Notallice, 76.

CENTRAL ABM—BERLIN, DEC. 21.—Alexander
von Humboldt bes jut mislead a letter front Robert
Subligintweit, dated from Lob, in Ladak, 26th of Septem-
ber lit, announcing that he and his brother bad eseteeded
in crossiog the chain of the Kunlun mountains, and roach.
log Eitehi, the capital°, Khotan, where no European had
set his foot since the time of the Benedictine
1604. (Leh, the town from wholes the letter
situated in 34 deg. 10 min. north latitude, in I
close, to the sources of the Indus, in the angle'
gaiters spurs of the Himalaya and the F
southward of which lies Rhotan, In the
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