The Express.
London, England, 1851-03-17 00:00:00

jA*TNEY MARKET.

THIS DAY.

Two o'CT.ocx.
The business in the Engiish stock market is again
lery small to-day, but the feeling is firmer, and
Consols have improved 4. The price opened as it
closed on Saturday, 961, to I for numey, and 96', to
for the account. but some purchases have since carried
the cash price to 96Z, the present rate being 961. to
1,, and more for the 10th of April. The only other
description of stock dealt in is the Annuities for 30
years, expiring in 1860, which mark 7 9-16.
Exchequer Dills, are steady, with little doing.
The larger amounts mark Os. and ii6s. prem.; India

Bonds, under 1,0001., Gls. pre Ill•
The market for foreign bonds wears a Fatisfactort-
apixarance, price* being in all eases well I:imported.
Attention is chiefly directed to Spanish bonds, the •
price of which luts risen to 201 for the active bondt;
and Buenos Ayres and Venezuela stocks have
also unproved: The business, in the aggre-
gate, is to a fair average extent, and includes
the following descriptions, viz.:—Buenos Ayres Six
per Cents., 374, 561. Chilien Six per Cents., 1051.
• I'u-0-and-a-Half per Cents. Dutch, 581; ditto Four
per Cent. Certificates, 91 Mexican Bonds, for the
28th inst., 331. Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
1849, 85; ditto, for account, 851. Portuvese Five
per Cents. Converted, 1841, 3.5 t ; ditto small, 331; d
Four per Cents., for account, 34. Russian Four-and-
&-Half Cents., 971. Spanish Active Five per
Ceiffs.;Tof account, 20f, ll„; ditto Five per Cents.,
div. from May, 1849, 16; ditto Coupons, 9! 9,1;
ditto Russian Ilonds, 51, ; ditto Three per ('cats.,
:90. Venezuela Two-and-a-Quarter per Cents.,
321, t•
The bullion market here remains steady, but that
at Paris has been affected, bar silver and gold and
sovereigns having risen, although the exchange on
Loudon has fallen, in consequence of a uumlier of
bills drawn for corn shipments.
The last prices of fine gold are : London, 3/. 17s. 9d.
per oz.; Amsterdam, 101 to 111 per cent.; Bombay,
151 rupees per tola ; Buenos Ayres, 3 per cent. prem. ;
Canton, 15 dols. per ounce ; Frankfort, 378 ti. per
mark ; Hamburg, 4251 marks per mare; Jamaica, 2
Nr cent. prem.; Lisbon, 0.4 per scut. discount ;
ew York, t per cent. prem.; Paris, .02 per cent.
discount; Rio Janeiro, 158 per cent. prem. (paper),
58 per cent. prem. (silver); Trieste, 29 per cent.
prem.; Vienna, 331 vet' cent. prem.; Shanghac,
206 dollars.
Tlui last prices of sovereigns are: Amsterdam,
11 ft. 75 to 013 ; Bombay, 10 rupees 1.16; Batavia,
13 fl. 73; Bourbon, 5 per cent. prem.; Colombo, 1 to
per cent. prem.; Calcutta, 10 rupees 4 to 5;
Frankfort, 11 ft. 51 to 52; Lisbon, 4,470 rcis ;
Madras, 10 rupees 8; New York, 4 dots. 86 ; Pat is,
25f. ; Rio Janeiro, 8 tuilreis 600; San Francisco,
4 dols. 90. •
The last price of quicksilver at Snn Francisco was
15 to 151 dolt.; Valparaiso, 120 dolt.; in London,
3s. td. The produce of California is now reported
at %WO lbs., or 1,080 quintals per annum, a quantity
insufficient materially to increase the yield of silver
or to affect the market. An arrangement is said to
have been made by the house of Messrs. Rothschild
at San Francisco, with the proprietors of New Alma-
den, in virtue of which the pnce of quicksilver will
be kept up, and the consequence is that quicksilver
has risenin Guanaguato, Peru, and Valparaiso. In the
end of the year the price fell, as it was believed Cali-
fornian quicksilver would compete with the Spanish.
The imports of bullion and specie during the week
have been 1,618,688 dollars by the Severn (521,325
dolts. gold, 1,083,510 silver, and 1,730 platina), from
Mexico and the Pacific; by the Afriea, 210,000
dolt. from New York; by the Petrel, from the Bra-
zils, 6,000/. ; by the Madrid, Peninsular and Oriental
steamer, from tlihraltar, 3,8964 and from Lisbon,
4,835/. ;by the Pottinger, Peninsular and Oriental
steamer, front Constantinople, 1,01111, and front
Gibraltar, 1301. ; by the Bosphorus, screw steamer,
some gold dust from Sierra Leone; by the Mont-
rose, Peninsular and Oriental steamer, from Gibral-
tar, 1,400 E, and from Lisbon, 12,5501; by theTeviot,
from the Brazils, 23,71;21. The total of the week is

423,0001. Lattt week there were no imports.
Packages of specie have gone direct from New
York to the continental markets, which will relieve
them : 12,0001. went by the Washington to Havre,
The Franklin, however, took back from Havre
40,000/. in doubloons.
The amount of the precious metals exported from
the port of London during the week ending Thurs-
day last, we learn from official sources, was 12,990
ounces of gold coin, and 13,166 ounces of silver in
bars, shipped as follows:—(fold coin: To Hamburg,
410 ounces; to the Cape of Good 1i0pe,12,300 ounces.
Silver bars : To Dunkirk, 7,649) ounces ; to Ham-
burg, 7,566 ounces. The total value of these exports
is about 34,4001.
Besides this amount the Medway took out 58,0001.
for the Brazils, and the Sir Itulx.rt Peel screw
steamer 50,0001. fur the Cape, on government and
merchants' account.
According to an analysis of the railway traffic re-
turns of the (Suited Kingdom for the last week, as
published by lierapalh's Journal, it appears that the
total receipts on 6,227 miles sere 2'210,93W., being at
the rate of 37/. per mile per week. For the come-
sixinding period of 1830, 213,7711. was received on
5,363 miles, or at the rate of 36/. 3s. im:e mile per week.
There is thus an increase iu the mileage of 643 miles,
or 11.31 percent.; an increase in the amount received
of 16,1621., or 7.30 per cent.; and OA increase of
IL ss. in the amount received per mile per week.
The Railway Times estimates the gross traffic re-
turned since the Ist of January on 6,210 miles at
2,216,8261, which is equal to 3351. Ils. 711 per
mile. The corresponding period of last year, on
3,641 miles, produced 1,973,39 W., or at the rate of
34W. 168. 7,d. per mile. The balance, therefore, con-
tinues in favour of the present year, though only to
the extent of 3/. 149.11 d. per mile.
WOLIN( IFUNDS.—Tnts DOT.
Hank Stock, *hut 3 per CLCon. Am, 961 1
3 len Ct. Red. Anne. %Ant 181 per Ct. chat
*pee Ct. Oon.Anan. 1.0 i nachequor Clith.63r. to 56,
rosucor /LIND&
Spec Ct. AUPUIIO W 111,11..... Ivor CL trrenado )91t 174 14
4 par Ct. Belg. nowt.. 51 3 Unease] no..errot Inn., 4
If toff Cent.. 6 ter Ct Inca. 511 w. 34
too Ct. Woolliest Bd.. 52 4 Penmen lid, . nt 6
Onto :Ste. 513 Vermeer. Conterted 33141
6 per ct. Horner MM.. 55 I 11 per CL Ktpo. n 1...111 ft
apes CI. !Ardor Itt. 156 1 z,r.vddt 2.kd
Coll4==in'a 5:
or *bit,— 374 aM. Trnig.":ssl...
rye Imam 11.1, 15 en Ditto Pao re /kn. 5 1
944 Ct. Dahl MI» 644 f 21 Per Ct. VOneattele. 9...31 3
4 pet et Patd4 C0rt0..914 V nontoeis Peferred non al, 13 13

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