The Express.
London, England, 1856-06-14 00:00:00

MONEY JUREBT.-TlllB DAY.

Two oTioci.

The funds are rather firmer to-day. Alter re-
covering per cent., prices are now quoted / per
cent, higher than at the close of yesterday. Consols
have touched 94/ to 1 ex div. for the 10th July,
and are now quoted 94 to 1. Business is quiet.
The Three per Cents. Rednoed have been dealt in at
931 to 941.; The New Three per Cents. at 94 to 1;
the scrip of the New Loan, at 21 prem.; and Ex-
chequer Bonds, 1859, at 991.
In the foreign market, attention has been entirely
confined to the settlement. The only stocks that have
met with business are : Mexican at 221 ; Turkish
Six per Cents. at 991; and the Guaranteed Four per
Cents. at 1031 and 1031. Prices in this department
are generally fairly supported.
The earn market yesterday was very firm. Monday's
advance was fully maintained, and wheat and barley
are in many cases held for higher price., this view
being based upon the assumption that the existing
stocks are unusually low. The decline in the value
of money affords increased facilities for holding corn
on speculation, and the unsettled state of our political
relations with America may perhaps, exercise some
influence. There is an increased inquiry for floating
cargoes of grain, but transactions in this department
of the market are checked by the small number of
cargoes recently arrived.
At the share eettlement yesterday the rates de-
manded for carrying over the purchases of speculative
operators to the new account of the 30th inst. were
generally rather, lighter than at t►e lest settlement,
especially as regards Great Western stock. On
French shares the rates averaged only about 6 per
cent., indicating that there is little disposition here to
speculate for a rise in these securities. In Paris the
reveres is the case. Subjoined is a statement of the
terms current at the commencement of business :

Open) n rates.
7-16 to 9.16 per cent

Imam sad Nortil

WI to 1-111 ditto.
5 Id
to 7.16 ditto.
6-16 to 7-16 ditto.
543 to per ohm
ditto.
Oriot Northam l-16 to l ditto.
Colodooloao
York sod North Midlands. l-16 to
to O. iditt
swetses
Norlbses of Frame l-16 to id oho.
Zahn of Prams
Pads mg loses
Groat Lemsloorg 6 tolo per cent. ditto.
The half-yearly meeting at the African titeam-ship
Company was held yesterday. The report showed
a profitable result se to the steam-vessels, the earnings
for the year having been 85,0001. The expenditure of
the year left a clear balance of profit of 10,0001. A
dividend at the rate of 7 per cent. per annum was
declared, and the report adopted.
The Commercial Dock Company held their half-
yearly meeting yesterday, at which a dividend at the
rate of 6 per cent. per annum was declared.
At the annual meeting of the Church of England
Assurance Company, held yesterday, a dividend at the
rate of 7i per cent. per annum was declared.
The fourth ordinary meeting of the proprietary
of the London Chartered Bank of Australia is called
for the 27th inst., when a dividend is to be declared.
We notice that a meeting of holders of share cer-
tified's in the Alliance Bank is invited for the 18th
bet, to " take into consideration the present position
et the company, and the course to be adopted."
A half-yearly dividend, at the rats of 8 per cent
per annum, and a bonus of 8 per cent., are to be pay-
able on the stock of the National Provincial Bank of
En land on the 12th July.
The Admiralty will receive tenders on the 17th
last. for the conveyance of troops and stores from
England to Calcutta, and stores to Bombay. The
Emigration Commissioners will receive tenders on
the 19th inst. for the hire of a ship to convey puma-
gers to Adelaide.
The Admiralty have accepted the under-mentioned
ships for the conveyance of stores, viz.: The Orient, for
Newfoundland; Charity, for Gibreltar, and the In-
iiseible, for Hong-Kam.
The return of the Bank of England for the week
siding Saturday, June 7, when compared with the
previous return, shows the following results:
Mentalism tone
Ofrealseisa naive 19,679,360 Increase 26,000
ffsitis dspiefts 3,297,127 Noreen 389,397
10 734 613 Decrease 10,748
atisibsecarities is
oawbedings=rtnient .. 11,682,126 Demme 929,993
in benki;ig
lispedmeat
Oda me %a non in both

Grist Wotan'
Ildiellsad
Lance.biro and TortAln
Doran

dapaTiarats
Berea day aad other bills 805,604 Increase 31,766
The Hest
Notes in reserve
The subjoined exhibits the extent of the week's
1 variations at one view :

_ ...
Publie deposits &creme
Other deposits domes*
Notes sad bills is eirealatica :

£389,397
10,768

I.aereW saelsp

Beat
increase ..

Oa um other ado of the seconat:

OsSeront eat ;;;;;3tise decresse.. 929,903
Other securities hareem.. 290,888
Oda sad bellies

Total
The tendency of the Bank's accounts continues
favourable. The increase in the bul.ion is upwards
of 300,000 L, and in the reesrve of notes more than •
quarter of • million. The decrease in the Treasury
deposits is explained by the decline of nearly a mil-
lion in the government securities held by the Bank,
which indicates that the Chancellor of the Exchequer
ken been employing his funds, as they flow in, in
repaying the advances previously made by the insti-
tution.

Fatty= ETZWINO.

The American difficulty is again weighing upon
the stock markets, which, but for this source of
anxiety, would probably exhibit a strong upward
tendency. Prices have experienced a reduction of
f pr cent., and closed at the wont point of the
day. Tkis decline is solely attributable to the
apprehension that Mr. Crampton's dismissal will
be followed by that of the American Minister at
this Court. Despite the lowering aspect of polities
in this quarter, however, there is still an indisposi-
tion, in the best commercial circles, to believe that
peace is really endangered by the disputes now
pending. A favourable impression was produced
by the declaration of the Park Moniteur, that the
French government has no intention of bringing
forward a loan, but this announcement failed to
counteract the general downward tendency of the
markets.

The demand for money was to-day active, both at
the Bank and out of doors. The fortnightly settle-
ment in shares and foreign stocks hes now coin-
mooed. In the Stock Exchange to-day money com-
manded 6 per cent. for loans on stock, being the same
charge as is current at the Bank.
Console, which closed yesterday at 94 6.16 to
ez div., foe the 10th July, opened this morning at
941. to 1, receded to 931, end were last quoted 931 to
94. The official basieesa report is as follows :
Three pet Cent. Canals, for account, 10th July, 941,
1, 94, 931 ex div. Three per Cent. Reduced, 941,
94, 931. New Three per Cents., 941,1, 1,1. 1. Thirty
Years Annuities, expiring in April, 1885, 17f.
Three-and a-Half per Cent. Exchequer Bonds, falling
payable in 1838, 991, 991. Coned Scrip (New Loan),
21, 21 prem. lodic Bonds, fee. prem.
The eztlp of the New Loan was last quoted 2 6.18
tot 7.16 prem.
Exchequer Bills remain steady, at 6s. to 9s. prem.
Exchequer Bonds have advanced to 991 tot.
The foreign stock market was rather dull, but the
reduction io price was confined to Spaoish. The De-
ferred Threeper Cents. declined per cent. Turkish
stocks ele wd the mune as yesterday, the Six per
Cants. at 991 to f„ sod the Four per Cents. at 1031
to 1. The " contaligo" to the new account of the
30 b June ruled at 3.16 to 6.16 per cent. on each of
these stock.. The miscellaneous transactions ex-
tended to Cuba Bonds, Peruvian Dollar Bonds, Gre-
nadian, Venezuelan, and the New Equador securities.
On 'Change to-day the transactions in foreign bills
were limited, and there was noigeneral alteration in
the rates. The quotation on Paris remains steady, at
aboat 25.70 for three months, and 26.40 for short.
'The demand for bills on Hamburg continues. The