The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-04 00:00:00

110137 NARIEBT.-MllB DAY).

Two &Moo&

There is not such business in the stork lassists
to-day, but the tendency, on the whole, is rather
better. Consols, foreign securities, and several
British lines have advanced to a moderate extent.

There is no new feature in the discount market,
which remains quiet, with a large supply of money,
and few bills offering. The rate for the best paper,
however, is 3 par cent. In the Stock Exchange
there is rather more demand for short loans on
,English government securities, at 21 per cent.
At Paris to-day, according to Mr. Renter's tele-
-Igram, the Three per Cent. Rentes opened at
671 r. 170., showing a fresh rim of 1 per cent.
Consols are now quoted 991 to 1, ex div.,
both for money and next Thursday's settle-
ment, and 901 to 4, ex for the new as-.
r
(omit (August aThe official business report
is as follows :-Three per Cast. Consols for money,
901, f ; dittolor aocount,9ol, 1 ; Three per Cents.
Reduced, 89k, 4 ; New Three per Cents., 891, 1 ;
New Twaand-a-IfeN per Cents, 711 ; Batik
Stock, 248, 250; India Stock, shut; ditto The
per Cent. Stook, 1041, ; ditto Four per Cent.,
994; and Exchequer Bills, 410 3e., ls. prem.
Foreign stocks are firmer, sad an advance, rang-
ing from 1 to 1 per cent., has taken place in Turkish
of 1862 Consolideis, Spanish Passive and Certi,
ficates, Confederate, Egyptian, and Italian. On the
other hand, Mexican Bonds have declined 4.
Some of the present quotations are sub-
joined :-Turkisb, 1868, 721 to 731; ditto,
1862, 71 to 4, ex div.; ditto Consolidtle,
494 to ; Mexican, 234 to 24, ex div.; Span-
ish Passive, 291 tG.3O/ ; ditto Certificates, 144 to
15 ; Oreet,.
s2Ol td 21 ; and Confederate, 8 to 9
are recorded as follows :-Buenos
Ayres One per Cents., 35 ; Egyptian, 97 ; ditto.
emend Mine, 97; ditto 1001. Bonds, Pa; ditto, 1864,
944; Greek, for account, 204 ; ditto Coupons, for ac-
count, ; Italian, for account, 64, ex div.; ditto
1865, 761; Mexican, for account, 24, 731, ex div. ;
Portuguese, 1853, 471, cx div.; Russian, 1850, 88,
ex div. ; ditto 1862, 911, 1; Spanish Passive,
for account, 291, 30 ; ditto, Ceracates,l
for account, 14/, 1; Turkish, 1854, for account,
941, 931 ; ditto, 1868, 731 ; ditto, 1862, for ac-
count, 714, 704, 71, ex div. ; ditto, 1001. Bonds,
714, 1, ax div. ; ditto, 1866, 461, 4, 47 ; ditto
Guaranteed, 1011, 1024.
International Financial ahares are now quoted

14 to pm.; General Credit, 14 to Prem.;
London Financial, 74 to if prem. ; Imperial Mer-
cantile, 21 to f prem. ; Credit Foncier and
Mobilier of England, 34 to 1 pram., ex div. ; Hud-
son's Bay, 164 to 3, ex div. ; and Egyptian
Trading, to dia.
The nominal quotations for the shares of some
of the new companies are subjoined :—Russian
Iron Works, Bto 10 prem. ; Downs Docks, to 1
prem. ; Atlantic Telegraph preference, to
prem. ; London Bridge Land, to e prem. ;
Peruvian Railways, 3 to 2 pm. ; Glamorganshire
1r0n,24 to prem. ; London Quays andWarebouses,
par to prem. ; Barned's Banking, 14 to prem. ;
London, Windsor, and Greenwich Hotels, 11.
to 24 prem. ; Blakely Ordnance, 31 to 4 prem. ;
East London Railway scrip, to 1 prem. ;
London and Mediterranean Bank, 3to prem. ;
Hop and Malt Exchange Warehouse, 14 to prem. ;
General Exchange Bank, to 14 prem. ; and
London Merchants, Ito die.
The particulars are published of various bonds
of both issues of the Egyptian Government Loan of
1862, which were drawn on the Ist inst., and are to
be paid off at par on the Ist September next.
The drawing of the numbers of the bonds to the
amount of 250,0001. for payment at par, of the
Consolidated Peruvian Five per Cent. Loan, took
place yesterday at the office of Mr. Lewis H. Hule-
wood, with the usual formalities. Several bond-
holders attended.

About 66,0001. in gold was sent into the Bank
yesterday.
The steamer IA Plata, from Brasil, has brought
40,4301. in specie, and the Africa, from Boston,
14,0001.
The failure is announoed of Messrs. John T.
Bell and Go., Sat India merchants, es old
and respectable firm, of London, and with es-
tablishments at Manchester and Bombay. The
liabilities reach about 380,0001., including accept-
ances against consignments, Ac., to the amount of
80,0001., which will either be taken up by the
drawees, or the proceeds of the goods will falli
cover them. A satisfactory liquidation I. expe
_ _ _

Messrs. C. J. Naamyth and Co., East India
merchants, have also stepped payment, "in conse-
guano° of losses sustained by the late depreciation
in the value of cotton, from the failures of other
parties, and the delay in receiving debts due to us
both here and at Bombay." The liabilities amount
to about 68,0001., and the prospects of the liquida-
tion are considered uncertain. The books have
been planed in the hands of Messrs. Qnilter, Ball,
and Co., the accountants.
The Brighton Railway traffic return shows this
week an increase of 1,367/. over last year ; and the
South Eastern, an increase of 1,0441.
A communication having been received from the
Italian government that a committee bas been
appointed to re-examine the claims of the Sardi-
nian bondholders of 1881, the further considera-
tion of the memorial before the committee of the
Stook Exchange, to expunge the shares of the Lom-
bardo-Venetian Railway from the official list, has
been adjourned for a month.
A cal of W. is to be paid on the extension capitol
(guaranteed 41 per cent.) of the Great Southern of
India Railway Company by the 28th inst.
The reoond ordinary general meeting of the Con-
solidated Discount Company will be held on the
19th July.