The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-25 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.

THIS DAY.

Christmas-day being a close holiday at the Stook
Exchange, banks, public offices, nod in all the
various mtrkets, there is no business going forward
in the City.
The produce markets closed yesterday afternoon
for the holidays, re-opening on the 2nd January.

WEDNEAD %V EVENING,

City Navigation Bonds, bearing 31 per cent. in-
terest, arc again quoted lower this week at 931.
Canada Six per Cent. Bonds are worth UM.
A meeting of the Commercial Dock Company was
held to-day, for the purpose of renewing and amend-
ing the bye-laws.
We learn from the Madrid papers that Mr. Van
Vliet, representative of the Dutch bondholders, has
brought out a pamphlet in Spanish, entitled" Minis-
terial Responsibility," in which he strongly urges
the claims of the foreign creditors of Spain. This
work has created some interest there. It is much to
be wished that some one would advocate the claims
of the English creditors.
A memorial from the English creditors of Mexico
to the American congress, has been drawn up by tho
committee and left for signature at the committee
rooms. It sets out the claims of the bondholders,
the assignment of 2,600,000 dollars by the Mexican
government, and the possession of an authenticated
voucher for that stun, and prays that the American
legislature will grant such fiwilities as may allow the
bondholders to negotiate the assignmeat, instead of
being compellentil, in the terms of the
—*treaty, payment city of Mexico. The
hardship is pointed out which would be inflicted on
many poor and sailing bondholders by their being
preciudial front negotiating the assignment.. which,
with the co-operation of the Unitcd States legis-
lature, they consider they would be able to effect.
The following table extracted from the Presse will
show the fluctuations which have taken place in
French prices, and which it will be seen are very
extensive.
Description of Securities. Fleet orzcthe P.foicti; ate
Five per Cent..
Four-and-a-11AI ditto Bl
Four ditto
Three ditto 43 50 .. 66
Ban;, of Franco 2,125 2,575
Oilcan, Railway
Rouen ditto r 7 nd .. 647 50
'taste ditto 213 75 .. 237 .50
Saint Gonaitin ditto
Versailles ditto (Right)
Ditto ditto (Left)
Marseilles ditto
It de ditto
Boulogne and Amiens ditto
Northern ditto
Centre ditto
Bordeaux ditto 378 71 .. 401 25
Nantes ditto
Strasbourg ditto
Montereau ditto
Dieppe ditto
The various classes of joint-stock shares offering in
the London market remain decidedly influenced by
the easy condition of the money market. The brokers
are in receipt of a steady series of orders to purchase,
and quotations arc very firm, the difference in prices,
ve here such is perecptible, being, as for many weeks
past, in an upward sense.
Bank shares attntet a fair amount of attention, and
prices ure well supported. The sales of the week
are as follows:—Australasia (101. paid), 391, 1.
British North American 004 paid), 48 cx div.;
Colonial (23/. paid), ; London Joint Stock 101.
paid), 181; National Provincial of England (361.
paid), 40; lonian (25/. paid), '2.1; National of Ire-
land (22!. Ills. paid), 171, Union Union of Australia (231.
paid) ;$:1, ; ditto (2/. 10s. paid), 3 ; Union of
London (la paid), Li!.
fuck shares command full rate:., and London
stock has again risen I!., being now worth !121.
Commit:6l stock is quoted tis;, ; Foist and West
India, 115 • St. Katharine, $l.
Steam-boat shares show an upward tendency.
Transactions are marked is General Steam Naviga-
tion shares at 2$ and '271.; Peninsular and Oriental,
70, 75, 71, 73; ditto, New (10/. paid) Pl.!, 18, l7j ;
Royal Mail Steam, 81, 801, 1, KO,
insurance slimes are firm at last week's prices,
with the exception of Atlas shares, which are quoted
a shade lower, at 171.
Miseolluncous shares are quoted as follows in the
official list : —Assam Tea Cam puny, ; Australian
Agricultural, 13; Australian Trust, 201, ; Anglo.
Mexican 'lint, 2 1!, ; Canada Company, 49 ; Hud-
son's Bay Stuck, 200; South Australian, 231' Van
I Diemen s Laud, 1; Electric Telegraph (A) shams,
20!. paid, 20.
'rite last quotations of exchange at foreign places
on London are as follows: _ .

Piy.inus Latest
Quotations. Qnotstions.
Antwerp, short
Amsterdam, short
Ditto, 2 months
Bremen, short 621 623
Ditto, 2 months
Berlin, 3 months 0.231 6.L t;
Catania 57; 68
Charleston
Christiania, 3 mouths 4.61 66 4.64 66
Copenhagen, short
Ditto, 3 months
Frankfort, short ll9l a 1191 4
Gibraltar, 90 days
Gothenburg, 90 days 12.2 12.2
Havana llll 1111 12
Hamburg, short 13.01 13.6'
Ditto, 3 months
layihorn, 3 months
Lisbon
Milan, :1 months
Madrid 50.60 50.70
Napli s
New Orleans
New York, 60 &Lys
Palermo, 3 mouths 48.16 584
Parts, short
DWI), 3 month.
Rome
Riga, 3 months
Stockholm, short
Ditto, 90 days l2 12.4
Trieste
Venice 29.73 29.68
Vienna 12.15 12.72