The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-25 00:00:00

1101111 Y MARICRTe4MIIB DAY.)

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Two o'Cumu.
The stock markets to-day are steady, and the lose,
on the whole, is rather more favourable. The is-

provement is chiefly observable as regards home
railway stocks, a number of which have risen

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bonds are quoted the same as yesterday.
In the disoount market 3 per cent. is the lowest
rate to-day for choice bills. The anomalous abun-
dance of money in the Stock Exchange, however,
continues, and the rate for short loans on English
government securities is only 1 to 14 per cent.
At Paris to-day, according to Mr. Renter's tele-
gram, the Three per Cent. Renter opened at
67fr. 60c., being the same as at the close on
Saturday.
Console are now quoted 891 to 90, both for money
and the Bth of August. The official business report
is as follows :—Three per Cent. Consols, for
money, 90, 89i, 90 ; ditto, for account, 90 ;
Three per Cents. Reduced, 89j, 4, ; New
Three per Cents., 894, 4, ; Annuities,
144, ; Exchequer Bills, 4.1. prem. ; Bank of Eng-
land Stock, 248 ; India Five pee Cent. Stock, 1044,
; ditto Four per Cent., Oct., 1888, 994 ; ditto
Five-and-a-Ralf per Cent. " enfaced" rupee paper,
110.

Foreign stocks are quiet. Mexican Bonds have
declined 1 to} per cent. Otherwise there is no change
calling for notice. Sotne of the present quotations are
subjoined, viz : Greek, 21 to I ; Turkish 1868
Bonds, 73 to 74 ; ditto 1882, 73 to 1 ;
ditto Consolid4s, 49$ to I ; Spanish Passive, 281
to ; ditto Certificates, 131 to I ; Confederate,
71 to 81 ; and Mexican, 231 to I. Transactions

are recorded as follows Four per Cent.
Certificates, 891 ; Danubian Seven per Cents. for
account, 77f, 78} ; Egyptian Seven per Canto.,
98 ; ditto Second Issue 100/.. Bonds, 98} ; ditto 1864,
94i ; Greek Five per Cents., for account, 21;
Italian Five per Cents., 1861, 64i, ex div. ; Maxi-
can Three per Cents., for account, 23j, ex div. ;
Portuguese Three per Cents., 1856, &a, for
account, 471, ex div. ; Russian Five per
Cents., 1822, 94 ; ditto, 1862, 94,
ditto, 1864, 96 ; Spanish Three per Ceuta. for
account, 48, ex div. ; ditto Deferred for account,
40, ex div.; Turkish Six per Cents., 1858, for ao-
count, 74, 73k, 74 ; ditto 1001. bonds' 79 ; ditto,
1862, for account, 74 ex div. ; ditto 1001.

Bonds, 74, 731, ex div. ; ditto 1863, 70, ez div. ;
ditto Five per Ceuta., 1865, 444, j, 1, ex dlr. •
Venezuela Three per Cents., for account, 161; ditto
Six per Ceuta., 1864, 402, 411 ; ditto One-and-a-
Half per Cents., 8.
International Financial shares are now quoted

/ to I pm., ex div. ; General Credit, I} to I/ prem. ;
London Financial, 62 to 7 prem. ; Imperial Mer-
cantile, lit to ii prem., ex div.; Credit Foncier and
Mobilier of England, 31 to I prem., ex div. ; Otto-
man Bocit3t43 Gindrale, 21 to 3 prem. ; Hudson's
Bay, 151. to /.

The nominal quotations for the shares of some
of the new companies are subjoined :—Atlantic
Telegraph preference, i dia. to i prem. ; Barned's
Banking, die. to prem. ; Peruvian Rail-
ways, sto prem. ; Hop and Malt Exchange,
2to 3 prem. ; Hodges' Distillery, 21 to prem. ;
Anglo-Greek Steam, 1} to 2} prem. ; and General
Exchange Bank, I; to 2 prem.
Metropolis Sewage shares are quoted 6i to 7
prem. ; and Overend, Gurney, and Co., 2/1 to

prem.
The withdrawals of gold from the Bank continue.
40,000 sovereigns were taken out yesterday for
Alexandria.
The fortnightly settlement in shares and foreign
stocks will begin to-morrow (" continuation day")
and end on Friday.
The application for the appointment of a settling
day in the shares of the London and South African
Land and Finance Company (Limited) came yester-
day before the Committee of the Stook Exchange,
who, subject to the usual formal confirmation of
Monday's resolution, have decided that a settle-
ment shall be refused, upon the ground that dis-
crepancies exist between the prospectus and the
articles of association. It is expected, therefore,
that the deposits will be returned at once to the
subscribers. An application for a settlement on
behalf of the Russian Ironworks Company (Limited)
also came before the committee yesterday after-
noon, and was adjourned for a fortnight.
The Brighton Railway traffic return shows this
week an increase of 1,5641. over the corresponding
week of last year, and the South Eastern an in-
crease of 4861.
The Imperial Bank (Limited) notify that they
are authorised to receive subscriptions f.ir the
sharer of the Marseilles Extension Railway and
Land Company. The primary object of this com-
pany is to construct a railway, about nine miles in
length, from the old port in Marseilles to Podestat.
The prospectus states that—
The proposed railway, after leaving the port and town of
300,000 inhabitant", will pus through the southern suburb,
which cootains a population of 50,000, and follow the
valley to the sea, at the Mantua de Yontrodoe, from
therms it will be continued for them miles along the coast
to Pa:leant, affording sites for the erection of factories,
with scum to the see, and direct railway communication
with the town and port, sad with the Paris, Lyon., and
Nediterresean lines, by a junction with the proposed new
branch of the latter to the Place Conchal*.
The contract price for the railway works is
185,0001. The company has also contracted for the
purchase of about 300 acres of land on both sides of
the proposed railway, and nearly half of this land
it is proposed to sell for the erection of residences.
The capital is 400,0001., in 20,000 shares of 201.
each, 7,000 of which, according to the prospectus,
"have already been subscribed for in England and
France," and 3,000 are to be reserved for issue as
paid up shares. Interest at the rate of 6 per cent.
per annum is to be paid by the contractors on the
capital called up during the construction of the
works.
The half-yearly meeting of the Danube and Black
Sea Railway and Kustendjee Harbour Company
(Limited) is called for the Bth of August.
The London and Southwark Insurance Company
has declared a dividend at the rate of 5 per cent.
The annexed memorandum is from the Scinde
Railway Company :
The direoton of this company are about to make an ad-
dition of three steamers sedan barges to their Beet on the
Woe, having limited from each of the well-Imeg ship-
builders, Maur". Lsird Brothers, of Birkealuad ; Neon
Nspier and Sous, of the Clyde ; and Ileum demo& Bro.
there, of Poplar, a tender for the coaetruction of one
steamer and two barges epecially adapted to the navigation
of the Indus, and that Captain Wood, the agent and gaper-
I intendeat of the flotilla, who has some from India for the
pupae, is sow engaged in 'creating with the builders the
neosneary designs. Captain Wood's great a:pintoes on
the Lidos and the high standing of the three anus selected
afford the but guarantee that the vessels tins obtained
shall be of a tboroughly efficisot description, sad bv the
coarse now coetomolated the directors will bin as *PM-
trinity of practically testing the relative merit' of three
steamers, each desired and eonatisoted by ate of the mad
eminent shipbuilders in this country, and will than be is
position to make the further additioss to their flan 'ion
the increasing traffic must reader mcseeary with the greatest
possible certainty of smote.
Messrs. Cavan, Lubbock, and Co. have announced
the half-yearly interest due the Ist of August
on Havana and Narisaso Railway Seven per Cent.
Bonds.
• The Master of the Rolls has appointed Mr.
H. Threlkeld Edwards, of the firm of Cash and
Edwards, official liquidator of the East Cambrian
Gold Mining Company (Limited).