The Express.
London, England, 1856-08-08 00:00:00

MONBY MARKET-THIS DAY.

Two o'Cr.ocx.
The funds continua to droop. A fresh decline of
per cent. hie to-day taken place. Consols
ars now quoted 96 to I for money, and
951 to for the 10th September. The Three
per Cents. Reduced have been dealt in at 951 to
j; the New Three per Cents at 96/ to ; Bank
Stock at 217 to 218/ ; Exchequer Bills at 13s. to
17e. prem. ; Exchequer Bonds at 1001; and India
Boods at 14s. prim.
Turkish Six per Cents. are rather deli, at lon to
to j, whilst the Guaranteed Four per Cents. have
declined to 104 to lex div. Mexican Bonds are
flatter, and ere market 221 and 22!. The other sales
are limited to Dutch Four per Cents. Certificates at
971; Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., for lath
August, at 821; ditto, Four-and-a Half per Cent.
Dollar Bonds, at 601; Remise Four-ead-a-Half per
Cents., at 981; and Spanish Passive Bonds, at 6/.
Letters from Constantinople of the 28th ult. state
that 500,0001. in gold had been shipped for England
by the English man-of-war steamers.
The steamer Lebanon has brought in 30,0001. in
specie from the United States.
At the half-yearly meeting of proprietors of the Lon-
doe and County Bank yesterday a disposable balance
of 36,4001. wee shown, out of which the directors have
declared a dividend of 5 per cent. for the half-year,
leaving a balance of 10,8191. to be carried forward.
According to the general report of Mr. Coleman, the
accountant, the business of the bank is sound and
profitable, and is carried on with judgment. As re-
gards the securities held by the bank, Mr. Coleman
also reports in favourable terms. The chairman inti-
mated that at the next meeting an increase both of
the capital and of the reserved fund will probably be
d. He also mentioned that the deposits now
proposed.
:mad by 200,0001. those of any former period,
aced that the groom profits have been also in excess of
any former half-year. The report was unanimosely
adopted without any discussion.
The prospectus of the Timber-Bending Patents
Company (Limited) is Wised. The object of this
company is to purchase two patent rights of inven-
does for bending timber, which are described as in-
volring a great saving of time and money. The
owners of the patents are to receive 12,000 paid up
shares. The company's operations are to the pre-
sent to be confined to the sale of machines and to the
granting of Homes. The total capital is fixed at
100,0001, in 61. shares. Five Wiling• per share are
to be paid on application, and 16e. more on allot-
ment.
Holders of Eight per Ont. Preference scrip of the
Netherlands Land Enclosure Company are invited to
apply by the 18th inst. for the second Sens of Pre-
tenses shares. Twenty shares now held give a
right to 19 of the sew ions. The first instalmeat is
to be 11. per share.
The following meetings are newly announced,
viz. :—Epeom and Leath/ahead Railway Company
for the 26th inst.; Newport, Abnormally, and Here-
ford Railway Company for the 28th inst.; Ithymney
Railway Company for the 29th inst.; Bast Indian
Iron Company for the 20th inst. ; Berlin Waterworkd
Con any for the 18th int., when it will be pro-
to bring the undertaking under the new
Earted Liability Act; Leedom, Manchester, and
Foreign Warehouse Company to the 28th inst.,
when a dividend is to be deolared.

The East India Company will receive tendon
the 13th inst. for the 000veyance of troops and
mein boys from England to Bombay, and troops to
Madras.
The position of the market foe American wee-
elfin is thee noticed by Messrs. D. Bell, lion, and
Cat—The market foe American swirities, during
the past week, has been less native. The badness in
State stooks has been limited, and pries@ are without
alteration, whilst as regards Railroad Bonds there
has nee a general dispositloa to sell, and oar quota-
tion are decidedly lower.
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It appears from the cereal statistics of the wine
trade for the Int six tenths of 1866, that there is a
demean in the imports of all wines of 606,776 gal-
lons ce 6,660 pipes. Of this, about 3,880 pipes an,
red wines, and 1,680 pipes white. The total deli-
min exhibit an Wrens of 612,414 'altos*, or
abort 4,700 pipes, d which about 3,040 pipes are
foe Maw exemption sad 1,660 for export. la
Presets wines there is an increased import sad
lammed hams delivery, the latter being about
double the former. As regards red Portugal wises.
the importation has tapes off 3,816 pipes, whilst the
whits wises show an bosom of 40 pipes. In the
home exemption there is an increase of 786 pipes
red, and 30 pipes white. In Spanish wines the
decrease in imports is 1,326 butts-96 red and 1,230
white; and in the home delivery the increase is
1,266 butts. The rise in sherries is from 41. to 61.
since the opening of the year, the reports of the
prospects of this yeses vintage being unfavourable.
Marsala wines show a Whim off of more than half
the importations. The pries has considerably ad.
nand. TOO decrease of stocks in bond is 12,167
pipes, inciedieg all sorts of wines.

TM/11MM ETSNIKO.
The food. bare again drelined j to 3 per cent.,
the completion of the monthly settlement in Consols
showing a considerable supply of stock, part of which
is of course derived from the five million loan. There
was, consequently, an increased demand for money
in the Stock Exchange, end for short loans on govern-
ment securities IS pr cent. and upwards was paid. In
Lombard•street some degree of pressure was also
observable, and 41 per moat. we. the minimum rate
for first.class paper. At the Bank of Eogland like-
wise the applications are understood to have been
considerable.

Console for money ranged between 951 and 951,
and *lased at 951 to 1. For the new account of the
10th Sept. the last price was 951, "sellers," yester-
day's final quotation having been 951 to 98. The
"continuation" has remained at about per cent. up
to the clogs of the ',Moment. The official business
report is as follows :—Three per Cent. Consols, be
mousy, 951, 1, I, 1; ditto, for amount, 10th Sept..
961, /. Three per Cent. Reduced, 961, 1. New
Three per Cents., 98/, 1. Long Annuities, expiring
in January, 1880, 3 7-18; Thirty Years Annuities,
Jan 0860, 3 348; Thirty Years Annuities, April,
1886, 18 618. Bask Stook, 218. Three-and-a4lalf
per Coat. Exchequer Bonds, falling payable in 1869,
1001. India Bonds, Ns. prem.
In coosequenos of the pressure for mosey, Exche-
quer Bills fell 21., closing at 14.. to 17s. premium.
Exchequer Beads remain quoted 100: to 1.

Foreign stocks were doll, and in some oases rather
flatter. Mexican Bonds and Turkish Six and Fur
per Cents. declined severally per cent.
Sales of Ottoman Bank shares were pressed today
ias low as 1 prem., and the closing quotation was 11
to 11 prem. These shares are prejudiced by a variety
of adverse reports which are industriously circulated.
@spookily by the Greek party,who seem very anxious
to oppose every attempt of the Ottoman government
Os kook through the monopoly hitherto maintaiaed
is Ike Constantinople money market. It will be re-
mothered that a few weeks a4o, soon after the return
of Mr. Layard from Constantinople, the shares of the
bank were raised to 41. premium and upwards, highly
favourable statements being at the same time pat
forward relative to the position and prospects of the
institution. The fluctuations in the value of the stock
have since been incessant, and have excited consider-
able remark. It is urged by shareholders that some
oeicial statement, so far as such can be given without
detriment to the undertaking, would be very accept-
able at present, u tending to place all partite upon an
equal footing as regards information.
Bank of Egypt shares were flatter, closing at 1 to 1
prem. General Bank of Switzerland were finally
quoted to f die.; National Discount,l/ to 11 prem.;
ditto new shares, 11 to 11 prem. Western Bank of
London shares have declined to 1 die. to
prem. Royal British Bank shares remain
widely quoted 36 to 40. London and
County . Bank stock wu favourably effected
by the information afforded at to-cley's meeting, and
was dealt in at 35 to 36. Laud shares were quiet.
General Screw Steam shares met with more inquiry.
St. Katharine Docks stock is officially marked 891
and 89; and General Steam Navigation, 271. Canada
Government Six per Cents. were more offered.
The closing quotations for the newly projected
railways are subjoined, viz.: Eatttern Bengal Rail-
way, 1 to 1 prem. ; Euphrates Valley Railway 6-16
Ito 7.16 prem.; Western Railway of Austria, 1/ to
21 prem.; Ceylon Railway, 11 to 11 prem.; thl-
eutta and South Eastern Railway, 3-16 to prem.;
Metropolitan Railway Guaranteed shares, 1 to jF
prem.; Sittingbourne and Sheerness Railwai,Al die.
to par; Copiapo Extension Railway, to prem.
New Brunswick and Canada Railway and Laud A
shares, to 1 prem. ; ditto, B shares, 1 die. to par.
The nominal quotations for a number of other new
projects are act follow :—European and Indian Jeer
tion Telegraph Company, tot prem. ; Ludas Die-
count Company, Ito prem.; London Cork Com-
pany, to prem.; London Boot and ShoeCompeny,
die. to 1 prem.; West Ham Distillery Company.
parto 1 prem.; Hungarian Land Company,l-16 to 3 16
rem. Thames Steam Tog Company, Hultsdorf Mille
Company, and Irish Fishing Company, all nominally
par to 1 prem.