The Express.
London, England, 1862-08-20 00:00:00

TRAFFIC RrIIIRNS.

RAILWAY/ =es Pas- lffer• Total, Total,
WNW WWI/ chandlas 1861
Pour weeks ending July 15.0P= £ £ a
Royal Swedlah
Week ending August 15
Cork and Youghal and
Queenstown Direct
Week ending Amwd 16.
Glasgow *South Western
Cork and Rawson ....

406 187

Week ending August 17.
Great Lazeinbours
London and Blackwell 1.782
North London
Oeweetry end Newtown
& Llanidloes& Newtown 42 679

MIDLAND RAILWAY.

MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'CLoci.

Yesterday's rise in the funds is fairly sustained,
but business is inanimate, and the market has lost
its buoyancy. Several of the principal English
railway stocks have given way. The only other
feature of interest in the Stock Exchange is a
further improvement in Turkish securities.
At Paris this morning, according to Mr.
Renter's telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentee
opened at 68fr. 85c., being 4 per cent, lower than
yesterday.
Consols are officially marked 934, 4,4, and
for money, and 934 and for the account. The
present quotations are respectively 934 to
4 and 934 " buyers." The official busi-
ness report is as follows : - Bank Stock,
238 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, EN, 4 ;
New Three per Ceuta., 934, 4 ; Thirty Years An-
nuities, 1885, 154 ; India Stock, 227, 229 ; ditto
Five per Cent. Stock, 1084, 4 ; ditto Four per
Cent. Debentures, 1864, 1004 ; Four per Cent.
"aniseed" rupee paper, 94; ditto Five per Cent.,
104; Exchequer Bills, 18s., 21a. prem.
A fresh rise of 4 to 4 per oent. has taken place
in Turkish bonds : the Loan of 1854 is now quoted
854 to 864 ; that of 1858, 711 to 724 ; that
of 1862 (scrip), 1 to 04 dis. ; and the paid-up,
664 to 67. Egyptian scrip, first issue, is marked
124 to 134 prem., while the paid-up is quoted 95 to
96, and the second issue, 104 to 114 prem.
Portuguese scrip is firmer, at 2 to 24
prem. Venezuelan scrip is quiet, at 4 dis
to 4 prem., and Peruvian at 14 to 1 dis.
Mexican Bonds and Italian Five per Cents. have
slightly receded. Transactions are recorded as
follows :-Brazilian Old Five per Cents., 1024 ;
Cbilian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 844 ; Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 644 (exchange
129.) ; ditto Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 65 (ex-
change 129.) ; ditto Four per Cent. Certificates, 102 ;
Egyptian Seven per Cents., scrip, 75/. paid, 13,
124, 134 prem., ex new ; ditto paid-up scrip,
954, 964, ex new ; ditto second issue, 201. paid,
11, 104 prem. ; Italian Ave per Cents., 704,
(exchange 25fr.) ; Mexican Three per Cents., for
account, 294, 4, 29 ; Moorish Five per
Cents., 94 ; New Granada Two per Cents., 261 ;
Portuguese Three per Cents, 1853, 464 ; ditto scrip,
24, 2, 4 prem.; Russian Five per Cents., 1862, scrip,
231. 10s. paid, 4 prem.; ditto paid-up scrip, 934,
94 ; Sardinian Ave per Cents., for account,
844 ; Spanish Three per Cents., for account,
544 ; Turkish Six per Cents., 1854, for account,
87, 864 ; ditto Six per Cents., 1858, for account,
72, 714, 724 ; ditto 1001. Bonds, 74 ; ditto
Six per Cents, 1862, scrip, 1,4, 04, 1 dis.; ditto
paid-upscrip, 664, 67 ; ditto Guaranteed Four per
Cents., 1024.
In all commercial circles arrangements for the
usual autumnal holidays are becoming general, and
business in the various markets cannot fail soon to
exhibit the effects of the diminishing attendance.

It appears that uo date has yet been fixed for
the commencement of the action of the 2 per cent.
annual sinking fund nominally assigned to the
Turkish Internal Stock.

About 40,000 sovereigns were withdrawn from
the Bank yesterday for transmission to Constanti-
nople, in payment for Turkish Home stock sent to
this country. Owing to the absence of any imme-
diate demand on account of the new foreign loans,
combined with the firmness of the foreign ex-
changes, the bulk, if not the whole, of the 319,0001.
Australian gold by the Lincolnshire and Orwell is
expected to be taken to the Bank during the next
few days.
The Edinburgh has arrived from New York
with 10,0001. in specie.
The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon
were
generally firm. The rates were as follows :
Amsterdam, 3 months, 11.18/ to 4 • ditto, 3 days,
1116 to 1; Rotterdam, 3 months, 11181 to 1 ; Ant-
werp, 3 months, 25.45 to 60; Hamburg, ma. bane°, three
months, 13.8 to 1 ; Paris, 3 days, 25.221 to 71 ; ditto,
3 mouths, 25.45 to 50 ; Frankfort-on-tbe-Marne, 3 months,
1191 to 1 ; Petersburg (per rouble), 3 months, 34 to 1;
Vienne, eft. So., S tuonths 13 to 13.15 ; Trieste, eft flo.,
3 months, 13 to 13.15; Madrid, 3 months, 49 to 1 ; Cadiz,
3 mouths, 49 to 1 ; Leghorn, 3 months, 25.55 to 60 ;
Genoa, 3 months, 25.55 to 60 ; Milan, 3 mouths, 25.55
to 60 ; Naples, 3 months, 301 to ; Palermo, 3 mouths,
1194 to ; Messina, 3 months, 1191 to 1 ; Lisbon, 90 days,
521 to 53 ; Oporto, 90 days, 63 to 1.
The Liverpool cotton market continues wild and
excited. The sales yesterday reached 22,000 bales,
and prices of American descriptions were quoted
fully 10. per lb. higher than on Monday.
The half-yearly report of the directors of the
Stockport, 'Miley, and Whaley-bridge Railway
Company recommends a dividend on the ordinary
capital at the rate of IL 'Ts. 6d. per oent. per
annum.
The London and South African Bank have been
appointed bankers to the Cape (Eastern Province)
Railway Company.
The first general meeting of the Great Eastern
Railway Company is called for the 9th Sept.
A special meeting of the Bahia Steam Naviga-
tion Company is called for the 23rd instant, ;o con-
firm the alterations in the articles of association
recommended by the imperial government of
Brazil. _ _

The annual meeting of shareholders in the Gene-
ral Bank of Switzerland is convened for the 4th
September, at Geneva.
A call of IL is to be paid on the shares in the
Indian Branch Railway Company by the 28th
September.
The extraordinary general meeting of the English
and Australian Copper Company is called for the
28th instant, at two o'clock, at the London Tavern.
The Muter of the Rolls has appointed official
managers of the Console Insurance Association.
Subjoined are the quotations of insurance, gas,
and canal shares, as given in the Stock Exchange
list of last evening :
losuninos.—Atlas, II to 10j ; Globe, 991 ; Guardian,
511 ; Rook Life. 81; Universal Marine, 41 to 1.
Gas Light and Doke.—lmperial. 82 ex div. ; ditto, Deben-
tures, 203 ex div. ; Imperial Continental, 521 ; London,
74 ; Pb,smx, 84.
Oaoals.—Regent's (or Loodoo), 25 to 1.

TCZBDAY EVIXIIIO.

The demand for money continues steady, both at
the Bank of England and Lombard-street, and
little business is done below 2 per cent.

Consols, which closed yesterday at 93 to
for the 4th September, o•pened this morning at
931 to 1, and closed at 931 to 1. For money the
last price was 934 to 4. Tie official business re-
port is as follows : Three per Cent. Consols,
for money, 931 4, 93, ; ditto for account (Sep-
tember 4), ; Bank Stock, 240 ; Three
per Cents. 'wed, 931, 1,1., 9 ; New Three per
Cents., 931, 1, 93, ; Igew Two-and-a-Half
Cents., E
774; 30 Years Annuities, 1885, 159,
Rod Sea Telegraph, 22 ; India Five per Cent.
k, 1084, 1,9, 9, 4 ; ditto Bonds, 255. to 28e.
pram. ; Five per C..mt. "enlaced" rupee paper,
104 ; ditto Five-and-a-Half per Cent., 1111.

The Bank of England have notified that the
balances in the books of the Reduced Three per
Cents., New Three per Cents., and other govern-
ment stocks, on which the dividends fall due in
October, will be struck on the evening of the hat
September.
The India Ave per Cent. Stock rose per cent.,
closing at 10811 to India Bonds were quoted
255. to 28s. prom, and Exchequer Bills, 17s. to
20s. prem.
Turkish securities continue to meet with • great
deal of attention. All descriptions have to-day ex-
perienced a marked improvement. The loan of
1864 has risen 24 per cent., that of 1.868 11, and
that of 1882 fully Li per cent. ; while the internal
stook has advanced to 34 to }, being a movement of
13 per cent. since yesterday. There was also •
roe of I per cent. in Mexican Bonds, and 1 in Ra-
h= Five per Cent.. Portuguese scrip, on the
other hand, has fallen 1 per cent, upon the ap-

pointnient of a eettling day. Tie mip of the
other new foreign loans has scarcely varied m prim
A decline took place to-day in Great Lazne-
booti:e7 shares, owing to the annouLcennet eta pre-
p issue of 40,000 five per cent. preference
shares of 201. each, for the construction of sew
lines.

Little change occurred in the market for bank
shares. Bank of London were in demand, wise
Alliance Bank were rather more offered. Oriental
Inland Steam and English and Aunt?'lian Copper
shares were inquired for. There was also an un-
proved quotation for the shares of the Company of
Copper Miners of England. South Australian Land
shares were heavy.
Ocean Marine Insurance shares were quoted to-
day 101 to I prem.; Thames and Mersey Marine
Insurance, 2f to f prem. ; Commercial Union
Assurance, 4 to it dia. ; Universal Marine f to f
dis. ; London and Provincial Marina, dia. to
par ; and Mercantile Fire, 1 11-16 to 1 13-16 prow
The closing quotations for 'hares in new under-
takings to-day were as follows :—Bank of Madan-
tan, 1 to Of dis. ; Northern Railway of Borneo
Ayres, par to }rm. ; Buenos Ayres Southern
Railway, f to prem. ; London and Middleman
Bank, par to prem. ; London, Buenos Ayres,
and River Plate Bank, f to f prem. ; Beak el
Queensland, Ito fdu ~showing a fall, upon the
issue of the allotment letters ; General Rolling
Stock, fto prem. ; River Navigation of India
and China. 4 to 1 prem. ; and North London Bank,
it° Prem.
The demand for American railway securities
continued to-day, and prices are rising.
Canada and Victoria Government Bonds were
inquired for, with an upward tendency.

MINES.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'CLooK.

In the mining market to-day Whoa Ludoott
shares are flat, at 9 to;, while East earn Brea have
improved to 11, "buyers." Other shares are quiet
without any material alteration in prices. There
is only a limited amount of business going forward.
St. John del Rey Miniug shares are dull, and are
marked 553 and 56. Port Phillip have been dealt
in at prem.
At the Wheal Union meeting, yesterd►y. the aecoaite
showed a credit balance of 1971. A call of 4e. per ahem
was made.
At the North Hamra meeting, yesterday, a reeolatios was
passed authorisiog the directors to increase the eempaay's
capital by 2,0001.