The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-18 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.

TIIIS DAY.

Two Orton:,

Business in Consols continues very restricted,
owing to attention being still concentrated upon the
" Railways" department of the "house," in which
business is still very lively, but additional dul-
ness is imparted by the gloomy state. of the
weather, which naturally limits the attendance both
of dealers and individual operators. The only trans-
action deserving of notice is the purchase of another
small parcel of Consols, on account of the National
Debt Commissioners.

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The pity of Consols has been stationary an the
morning. at 911! to j for money, and 961 to for the
aieount 4,1 the 10th of April, which quotation is just
a shade lower than yesterday. 01 the other funded
descriptions, the 30 years Annuities, expiring in 1880,
mark 7 8-16. Bunk Stock fur account has been
transacted at 213. . _

The market for the floating debt remains firm.
Exchequer Bills, 1,0001., mark ss. and As. prem.;
ditto smell, 50s. ; India Bonds, 1,0001., 605., 398., and
625. prem.
In the foreign stock market there is a great falling
off in the amount of business offering, but prices seem
steadily supported, at yesterday's range. For Buenos
• Aree-Bat& a further improvement has occurred, the
price marking 58. Spanish stocks are steady. The
official list is as follows : Buenos Ayres Six percent.,
58. Chilian Six per Cents., 100. Mexican Bonds,
for the account of the 28th March, 331, Z. Spanish
Active Five per Cents., 201; ditto for account, 201,
; the Passive Bonds, 5.

The following dividends are advertised for pay-
ment, viz., the 17th dividend on the Chilian Six per
Cent. Loan, and the Nth dividend on the Three per
Cent. Loan, both due 31st March the 4th dividend
on the New 100/. and 5001. Bonds of the Peruvian

Loan, due the Ist April; the halt-yearly dividend on
the Five per Cent. Brazilian loan of 1839 (for
312,5001. sterling), due the Ist April; the half-yearly
dividend on the Brazilian Five tier Cent. Loans of
1824 and 1829, due the Ist April; the dividend on

the Three per Cent. Danish lAian of 1825; and the
Brazilian Five per Cent. Loan of 1825 and 1829,
contracted In. Mr. N. M. Rothschild.

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We have received a copy of the petition of the
St. Katharine's Dock Compatly to the House of Com-
mons, which sets forth another striking case of griev-
ance against the ('ustoms administration.
The Russian government has favoured Greece with
ti new treaty of commerce, under which currants,
figs, wines, oil,and silk, will par lower duties.
The Lancaster and Carlisle ILitway Board recom-
mend a dividend at the rate of G per cent. per
annum.

The following are the last rates of exchange at
foreign places, on London; Amsterdam, and Frank-
fort have rallied. but Paris has declined. The rates
generally are firm.

Previous
Quotations.
Amsterdam (short) II 11.77 i
Ditto (two months) I I ti. 70
Antwerp
At.p.burg (one month) 9.50
Bahia 39d.
Berlin (three months) . 6.20 j
Bombay (six mouths)
Cadiz
Calcutta (six mouths)
Christiania (3 months) 4.60

Copenhagen (short) '„ 9.2
Ditto (three months) 8.912
Florence (three months) 291.87
Frankfurt (short) llB/
Gothenburg (90 days) 11.44 43
Hamburg (short) llm. 51
Ditto (three months) l3m. 4
Leghorn (three months) 291. 80
Leipsig (3 months) Gth. 201
Naples
Odessa (three months)
Paris (short) 25.021
Riga three-months) (
Rome 474
Salonica llB.lO 118.30
Smyrna llOl 11
Stockholm (short)
Ditto (90 days) 11.42
St. Petersburg 3714.
28.70
rriogge
Venice
Vienna
Zante 5114. 524.

Latest
Quatativas.
lift. SO
11M. 72}
24.074
WI. 48
341.
6.204 I
2s. 24,1. to 21d.
60.63/41.
2s. 2:d. to 2:d.
4.80

9.2
8.112
291.8.1
1161 119
11.45 42
13m.51
1.3 m. 4
291.85
6th. 201
661
22071 2,215
25f.
3711 d.
480
118.20
1101
11.46
11.42
37id. to 13-16
28.65
128. 41
291. 10
1211. 40
511 d.

The Journal des Chemins de Err publishes a va-
luable comparison of French railway traffic for the
month of January, 1849, 18511, and 1851. It shows
—1449, 1,211 miles, 178,640/. ; per mile, 571. 1850,
1,587 miles, 223,6711. ; per mie, 551. 1851, 1,691
miles, 261,059/. ; per mile, 601.
The subjoined calculations show the rate per cent.
per annum yielded by the various securities cited at
the average of the prices which ruled yesterday.
Where the asterisk (*) is prefixed it is to be under-
stood that the share rate of interest is less the in-
come tax. It will be seen that in every cure we take
the rate of interest lust declared as the basis of our
calculation:
Three per Cent Reduced
New ThretsaniteeQuarter per Gene
Beak Murk tam. 7 per cud. per ann )
India Stock (die, Int per net. ten )
arts. per CA•111. C. 111409. v..r.Lire pros Nit yield per cent. C 1 2 2
Exchequer hills (Int lid. per day) SG.. pen. „ 2 4 4S
Grew sreiu•en* £lOO oh. (di.. at the
rate of 4 per cent per ann.) .
ancealtire and Yorkstim FlOO
Hoick* (di.. at the rate of 2 per
cent. per anti.)
toniket and math Weider:* Stock
(die. itt the rarer 4 meet. per am.) 92
tondos and North Western* Stock (dlr.
at the rate of 5( per not, per 131
lftelland• Stock (dlr. at the rate of 24
per tent. pet am.)
South Emden. Stock fistidend 10e
per 3et. share. equal to 32.6 e. 8,4 per
cent per ann.i
The National Brazilian Association have &drives
dated Jan. 25.
The report from Cuiba states that the greatest
possible despatch is being made in sinking the winze
btameommcumtuantictahtee
sah•aitlhlowHiaditchte,nw'sesl;...votil.theTliidie lode
de: has
from
which samples were taken that proved very pro-
ductive—

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