The Express.
London, England, 1865-11-22 00:00:00

IfONEY MARKET.-'THIS DAL)

Two o'Czooz.
The stock markets to-day are firm, owing
chiefly to the flow of gold to the Bank, and to a
consequent more favourable reading of the prospects
of the money market ; but, in the absence of business,
the advance in prices is of little importance. The
funds are steady, at yesterday's improvement of 1
per cent. Two or three of the speculative foreign
stooks have risen 4 per cent., and some of the home
railways I to 1.
The purchase by the government broker to-day
comprises 20,000/. Three per Cents. Reduced.
The amount of business in the discount market
to-day is so limited as to lead to the impression
that some persons are keeping back their bills on
the chance of a reduction in the Bank rate. This
view, however, is far from general, and the quota-
tion in most cases is still 7 per cent., transactions
at 6/ being exceptional. The charge i other tock
Exchange for short loans on English vement
securities is 44 to 54 per cent.
At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Renter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes opened at
63f r. 62c., being 1-16 per cent. better.
Consols are now quoted 891 to 4, with div., for
money, and 881 to 1, ex div. for the ac-
count (December 7). The official business
report is as follows :—Three per Cent. Console,
for money, 891, 4 ; ditto for account, 884 ; Three
per Cents. Reduced, 871, 4,1; New Three per
Ceuta., 871, 4, 1 ; India Stock, 219 ;
ditto Five per Cent. Stock, 1051, 105 ; Five-and-a-
Half per Cent " enfaced" rupee paper, 1074 ; Ex-
chequer Bills, March, 3s. dis. ; ditto June, 6s. die.
Foreign stocks are firm, and an improvement of
4 per cent is observable in Spanish Passive
and Mexican Bonds ; also in Brazilian scrip.
Some of the present quotations are subjoioed,
viz. :—Greek, 171 to 4 ;'lSnh Passive, 28 to
4 ; ditto Certificates, 4to 1 ; Confederate,
8 to 9 ; Brazilian scrip, 24 to 1 prem. ; Turkish
Consoliclis, 47 to 4 ; and Mexican, 26 to 1. I
Transactions are recorded as follows :—Brazilian,
1852, 1858,1860, 71 ; ditto 1865, 751; ditto scrip, 24
prem. ; Danubian, for account, 75 ; Egyptian,
924 ; ditto 1864, 1001. Bonds, 914, 1;
Greek for account, 174, 17 ; Mexican, for ac-
count, 261, 6; ditto 1864, 241; Peruvian, for
_ account, 71, 4 ; Russian, 1850, 89 ; ditto 1862,
- 891, 9, ex div. ; Spanish, for account,
444 ; ditto Passive, for account, 281 ; Turkish,
1854, for Recount, 901 ; ditto 1862, for account,
744, 4 ; ditto 1001. Bonds, 741 ; ditto 1865, for ac-
count, 421, 3 ; ditto 100/. Bonds, 421, 34.
American securities have advanced. 4to 1. 540
Bonds are now quoted 634 to 4. Erie Railway
shares, 55 to 4 ; Illinois, 82 to 4 ; and Atlantic
and Great Western debentures, 814 to 824, ex div.
International Financial shares are now quoted 1 to
4 prem. ; General Credit, 2 3-16 to 5-16 prem. ;
- London Financial, 61 to 1 prem. ; Imperial
-
Mercantile, 21 to 4 prem. ; Credit Foncier
and Mobilier of England, 31 to 4 prem.,
ex all ; ditto New, 44 to 1 prem. ; General Otto-
man, 24 to 4 prem. ; Overeni, Gurney, and Com-
pany, 7to 4 prem. ; and Hudson's Bay, 154 to 4.
The shares of the St. Saviour's Wharf Company
are quoted 14 to 2 prem. ; Bank of Turkey, 14
to 11 prem. ; Frederick Symons and Co., 1 to 2
prem. ; East and West India Junction Railway, 2
to 4 prem. ; and American Oil Wells Trading, 11
to 2 prem.
Owing to the violence of the gales, many of the
telegraph wires in various parts of the country
have been blown down.
It appears that the Agra and Masterman's Bank
will receive subscriptions in London, but merely as
the banking agents, for the new Austrian loan of
90,000,000 florins effective, or upwards of 8,000,000/.
1 sterling, which has lately been arranged at Paris
through the Comptoir d'Escompte and the Austrian
Credit Foncier Sooiety, in conjunction with houses
in the various markets of Europe. The dividends
will be payable at a fixed exchange, but it would
appear that the promoters of the affair look chiefly
to the continental markets, and have little hope of
any large subscription here, or they would doubt-
less at once have thrown the loan into a sterling
form. It is understood that the prospectus will be
issued this week.
A further sum of 162,0001. in gold was sent into
the Bank yesterday, making a total of 351,0001.
since the date of the last return, while the with-
drawals' for exportation have reached only 38,000/.
The steamer City of Boston, from New York,
has brought 26,000/. in specie.
The Cornwallis, with 61,5001., is the only Aus-
tralian gold ship known to be now at sea.
The demand for the East having diminished, the
limited amount of bar silver by the Weet India
packet was sold yesterday at a fractional reduction,
viz., at ss. 14d. per ounce. The Mexican dollars
by the same vessel were also disposed of at ss. per
ounce
The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon were
generally quoted rather better for this country.
The improvement is probably due in part to the
large exports of gold from this country to the Con-
tinent; which have naturally tended to reduce the
balance previously existing against us. The usual
list is subjoined :
Amsterdam, 3 mouths, 12.11 to 21 ; ditto, 3 days. 11.18
to 4; itc,at,,,,dam, 3 months, 12.11 to 21 ; Antwerp, 3
months, 25.521 to 571'; Hamburg, ins. bunco, 3 mouths.
13.91 to 1 ; Paris, 3 days, 25.15 to 20 ; ditto, 3 mouths,
915.471 to 521; Fraultfort-ms-the-Maine, 3 mouths. 121 to
1 ; Petersburg, per rouble, 3 months, 30 to 1 ; Vienna,
ed. do., 3 months, 11.171 to 221; Trieste, ditto, 3 months,
11.171 to 221; Madrid, 3 months, 47043 i ; Cadiz, 3
months, 48 to 1 ; Leghorn. 3 months, 23.b24 to 71; Genoa,
3 months, 25.621 to 7i ; Milan, 3 mouths, 25.621 to 71 ;
Naples, 3 months, 25.621 to 71; Palermo. 3 months,
28621 to 71 ; if CeiillL 3 months, 25.621 to 74; Lisbon,
90 days, 518 to 1 Oporto, 90 deys, 511 to 1.
A meeting of the Committee of the Stock Ex-
change was held yesterday, to take into consideration
two resolutions submitted by individual members
of that body. One was in favour of the require-
ments of the committee with regard to the appuint-
ment of settling drys being made more stringent
than hitherto, while the second proposed that the
committee shall no longer take upon itself to fix
rd settling days at all, but leave the members to enter
intq contracts for a future day of their own fixing.
After some discussion neither resolution was
11 adopted, but it was decided to appoint a sub-com-
mittee of nine members of the committee to con-
sider the subject generally, and report hereafter.
The Metropolitan Railway traffic return shows
this week an increase of 404/. over the correspond-
ing week of last year.
The extraordinary meeting of the Ottoman Finan-
cial Association, convened for yesterday, was ad-
journed till the sth proximo,the negotiations for an
amalgamation not being completed. The chair-
, man, in reply to a question addressed to him by
one of the ehareholders,stated that the call which was
made for the 30th inst. would be postponed for at
least a week after the adjourned meeting.
A private meeting of shareholders in the Hud-
son's Bay Company is invited by independent
parties for Friday, the 24th inst., at 3 o'clock, at
\the London Tavern, " to consider what should be
done at the general meeting on the 28th inst."
Creditor, of the New Club Company (Limited)
are required to send the particulars of their claims
to Mr. W. Turquand, the liquidator, by the 30th

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Ind.
Subjoined are the quotations of insurance, gas,
dock, and other shares, as given in the Stock Ex-
change list of last evening ;
inssel.o9.—British sod Foreign Marine llilloiten di ;
(Merkel. Yodical, and General Life, 261 to i • °ammonia
Union, 7i
_!* 5 ; 'Nee. 61 ; Enlists and Soi:iitapla istriro
1 goatatit to ii;:temnent,ss to 4,1. ; Imperial l
sari Mobs Ild% per 0. Lt. Loraiai'ee), 124 : Liverpool end
London Fire and We, 11l to 4 ; Loudon, 475 ; Marine, 91;

TUMMY Emma.
Consols. whiehclosed yesterday at 88 to 1, ex div.,
for the 7th Dec., opened this morning at the same
quotation, and closed at 881, " buyers." Foe
money the last price was 891 to 1 with div.
The official business report is as follows :—Three
per Cent. Consuls, for money, 891, 1, 1 ; ditto,
for account, 88, 1 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 871,
1; New Three per Cents., 871, g, An ;
ew Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 931 ; -
nuities, 18&i, 13 11-16 ; Bank Stock, 248 ;
India Five per Cent. Stock, 1051, 105 ; ditto Bonds,
13e., 18s. prem.
The government broker bought to-day 20,000 i.
' Three per Cents. Reduced for the Sinking Fund.
Indian Government securities were firm. India
Bonds were dealt in at 13s. to 18s. prem. Es-
', chequer Bills were unaltered, the March being
I quoted 6s. to 2s. dis., and the June, 10s. to ss. dis.
Greek Bonds remain fiat, at the late fall ; but,
i with this exception, the foreign stock market was
firmer. There was an advance of 1 per cent. in
Peruvian Bonds of 1865, in Turkish of 1858 and
1865, 4 in the Consolides, 1 in Turkish of 1862, and
New Granada "ex all" Bonds, and lin Brazilian
scrip, Mexican Old Bonds, Italian, and Spanish
Passive and Certificates.
The closing (but in some cases nominal) quota-
tions for shares in new undertakings are as follow:
Bank of Turkey, 11 to 1/ prem. ; Alhambra
Company, to 11 prem. ; Ismit Forest, 11 to 11 prem.;
St. Saviour'sWharf,l to 2 prem.; Tyne Engineering,
11 to 21 prem. ; Frederick Symons and Co., I to
2 prem. ; American Oil Wells, 1 to 2 prem.
and East and West Junction Railway, to 24
prem. ; and Import and Export Provision, 1 to 1
pram.