The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-19 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.-(THIS 11114

Two o'CLoci.

The funds remain as dull as for some days past.
There is no change in prices. The languor of busi-
ness may be gathered from the fact that not a
single transaction is officially recorded in Consols
for the account. English railways, after rising
steadily for some days, exhibit a reaction. Foreign
securities of nearly all kinds are well supported.
At Paris this morning, according to Mr.
Renter's telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes
opened at 70fr. 30c., showing a fresh reduction
of per cent since yesterday._

Consols are officially marked 93 and 921 for
money. The present quotation is 921 to 93
both for money and the 6th of March. The official
business report is as follows :—Bank Stock, 2411,
2421, 241 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 931, 1;
New Three per Cents., 931, ; Five per Cent.
Annuities, 109 ; India Stock, 224, 226 ; ditto
Five per Cent. Stock, 106/, 1 ; ditto for account,
1061 ; ditto Four per Cent. Debentures, 1863 or
1866, 991 ;Four per Cent. " enlaced" rupee paper,
89 ; ditto Five per Cent., 1011 ; Exchequer Bills,
March, 16e., 13s. prem. ; ditto June, 15s. prem.
There has been a fair amount of general busi-
ness in the foreign stock market. Mexican Bonds
are lower, being last marked 341. The Turkish
Loan of 1854 has fallen 1 per cent., being
quoted 84 to 1. The loan of 1858 was pu,
chased as high as 751 in the morning, but is
now weaker. Venezuela Bonds and the Spanish
Certificates continue very well supported. There
are also inquiries for Italian Five per Cents_
Sales are recorded as follows :—Brazilian Four-and -
a-Half per Cents., 1852, 911 ; Chilian Six per
Cents., 1031; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
85/ ; Equador New Consolidated, 181 ; French Four-
and-a-Ralf per Cent. Rentee, 99fr. (exchange 25fr.);
Italian Five per Cents., 681 (exchange 25fr.)
Mexican Three per Cents., for account, 35,
341 ; Portuguese Three per Cents., 1853, for
account, 471; Russian Five per Cents.,
102 ; ditto Three per Cents., 1859, 611 ;
Spanish Three per Cents., for account, 531 ; ditto
Passive, 201, 20; the Committee's Certificates,
8, ; Turkish Six per Cents., 1854, for account, 841 ;
ditto Six per Cents., 1858, for account, 76,1, 741;
ditto 100 g. Bonds, 761, ; ditto Guaranteed Four
per Cents., for account, 1021, ox div. ; Venezuela
Three per Ceuta., for accounts 26.

In connexion with the rise in Spanish Certificates
there is &rumour which may be important, if true
—that France refuses to swept from Spain pay-
ment of her debt in new Spanish Bonds, in conse-
quence of those securities being excluded from most
of the stock markets of Europe.
The amount of gold withdrawn from the Bank
I yesterday for abroad was 18,000/., making iu all
180,0001. since the last return.
The Pera will take, to-morrow, 126,3971. in
specie for the East, of which 20,2411. is gold and
the rest silver. Subjoined are the particulars :
For Alexandria, 12.030/. ; Ceylon, 2001. ; Madras,
23,2521. ; Calcutta, 51,7301. ; Penang, 5,030/. ;
Singapore, 7001. • Hong Kong, 8,670/. ; Foo-choo-
foo, 6,2751. ; and for Shsnghae, 18,5701.
The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon expe-
rienced no alteration of importance. Subjoined is
our usual list :

iniiter7lanT, 3 mouths, ILIB to j ; ditto, 3 days,
11.15 j to 101; Rottordani, 3 months, ILIB to 1 ;
Antwerp, 3 months. 25.40 to 5 ; Hamburg, ins. Dante
3 months, 13.73 to 8 ; PntA 3 days, 25.121 to 17j ; ditti
3 months, 25.40 to 5 ; Fdatt-on-the-llaine, 3 mouths,
1181 to 119 ; Petersburg (per rouble), 3 mouths, 3211 to I ;
Vienna, eff. So., 3 months, 14.10 to 15; Triode, eftSo.,
3 mend's, 14.10 to 15 ; Xadrid, 3 months, 483 to ; Cadiz,
3 months, 483 to j ; Leghorn, 3 months, 25.521 to 7j;
Genoa, 3 months, 25.50 to 5 ; ARIAN 3 mouths, 23.50
to 3 ; Naples, 3 months, 40 to j Palermo, 3 mouths,
120* to j ; Messina, 3 months, 126! to 1; Lisbon. 90 dpi,
523 to j ; Oporto. 90 days, 523 to j.

The Liverpool cotton market yesterday was very
C.roug, with sales to the extent of 8,000 bales.
The receipts of the Great Western Railway of
Canada for the week ending the 31st Jan. were
10,6331. sterling, being 2,482/. more than in the
corresponding week of last year.
The half-yearly report of the directors of the
Salisbury and Yeovil Railway Company shows an
increase of about 15 per cent. in the traffic. After
paying all charges and 5 per cent- interest on the
preference capital, the directors propose a dividend
at the rate of 4e per cent. per annum.
The twenty-sixth annual meeting of proprietors
of the Live-pool and London Fire and Lifu Insur-
ance Company was held on the 13th instant, at
LiverpooL Although the events of the past year
have pressed with unusual severity on the resources
of fire insurance companies, the result of the year's
experience to this office is favourable, a large addi-
tion having been made to its revenue. The fire
premiums reached 360,1301., being no less than
46,4051. more than in 1860. A large amount of
life business has likewise been trausected. The
balance at the credit of this department at the close
of 1861 was 762,262/. 15s. 9d., showing an audi-
tion of 64,477/. Bs. Bd. to the life reserve us
the result of the b.usineas of the year.
The reserved surplus fund is now 216,4201. The
balance at the credit of profit and loss account is
200,49 W. 3s. 9d. and from it the directors take
the same dividend which the proprietors have re-
ceived for several years, and when that has been
paid the balauce of undivided profit will be144,218L
19s. 9d. Of the dividend now declared, crne-third
was paid in anticipation on the Ist September last,
and the remainder, for which warrants will be
issued in due time, will be payable as usual on the
Ist of March. The aggregate at the credit of the
several feuds of the company is 1,311,9061., which
is satisfactorily invested. The report concludes by
congratulating the proprietors upon the position of
the undertaking and by expressing confidence in
the future. _ _ _

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We are requested to state that the directors of
the Library Company (Limited) will close their first
list of shareholders (which carries the frre privilege
of subscription to the library) on the 3rd March.
Mr. Henry Moor, chairman of the Itreciitersauean
Extension Telegraph Company, has joined the
board.

The new Victoria Loan was in demand, and rose
per cent., clueing at lOt to f.
Subjoined are the latest quotation's of insurance,
gas, dock, and other shares, as given in the
Stock Exchange list of last evening, viz :
Insuranoe.—Alliance British and Foreign, 141 to ditto
Marine, 561; Commercial Union, 3 ; Globe, 931 ; Indemnity
Marine, 154 ; Loudon and Provincial Marine, 2 1 2; MArine,
100; Mercantile Fire' 31 ; Geese Marine, 12# 1 1;
Thames and Mersey Marine, 41 # 1 • Universal Marine, 2d.
Gas Light and Coke.i-City of LoOdon, A, 2d ex d. ; Great
Central, 121 1 ; 1m New, G3l 4 ; Imperial Conti-
nental, 491; London, 7 ; WestmiusterCharteral, New, 32.
Canals.—ltegent's(or London), 24.
aterwarks. —Lambeth, ; Southwark and Vauxhall,
113; West Middlesex, 101.
Docks.—Loudon, ; St. Katharine, 61 601 ; South-
ampton, 51 1.
In the Bankruptcy Court yesterday a warrant was
granted for the apprehension of the bankrupt T. G.
Eider, a leather merchant, and a creature of Streit-
feild and Co.'s, who failed in the crash in the
leather trade with 40,0001. of liabilities and with
scarcely ally assets.