The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-04 00:00:00

MONEY NARKET.--(THIS DAY.)

Two o'CLoci.

The stock markets are fiat to-day, the capture of
Charleston by the North having caused a vague
impression that peace may soon ooeur in America.
Consols have declined I per cent., and several of the
chief British lines about }. Confederate Bonds
have also further receded. Financial shares are
still neglected. Those of the Metropolitan District
Railways improved in the morning to 4i to 5 prem.,
through purchases to cover previous speculative
sales, but the price has since relapsed to 4 to 4}
prem.

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There is a good demand for money to-day, and
the rate for the best bills is maintained at 4 per
cent. The charge for short loans on English go-
vernment securities in the Stock Exchange is lower,
at 4 to 4 per cent.

At Paris to-day, according to Mr. Renter's tele-
gram, the Three per Cent. Ratites opened at
67fr. 85c., being sc. lower than yesterday.
Consols are now quoted 881 to 89 both for money
and the account (March 9). The official business re-
port is as follows :—Three per Cent. Con-
sols, for money, 88k, 89 ; ditto for ac-
count, 88* ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 871, ;
New Three per Cents., 87*, ; Red Sea Tele-
graph, 191; India Five per Cent. Stock, 104,
1031, 104 ; ditto Four per Cent., 97* ; and
li:chequer Bills, 7a. prem.
Confederate Bonds have experienced a fresh re-
duction of 1 per cent. Mexican have sisal de-
dined *, and Greek 1. On the other hand,
Spanish Certificates have improved 1, and
Consolidds remain firm, at the rise of yesterday.
Some of the present quotations are annexed,
viz.:---Greek Bonds, 20/ to 21* ; Mexican, 26 to
; Confederate, 42 to 44, ex div. and drawing ;
Spanish Passive, 321 to b ; the Certificates,
151 to 16 ; Turkish, of 1858, 70 to *, ex div. ; ditto
1862, 711 to 721 ; and the Consolides, 53 to 1.

Transactions are recorded as follows:—Buenos
Ayrts Six per Cents., 901 ; Egyptian Seven per
Cents., 1864, 954 ; Greek Five per Cents., for
account, 201, 21 ; ditto Coupons, for account,
84 ; Italian Five per Cents., 1861, 64 ; ditto, ac-
count, 644 ; Mexican Three per Cents., 26 ; ditto,
account, 264, f ; ditto, 1864, 254 ; Russian Five
per Cents., 1862, 89, 4 ; ditto, 1864,
914, 901 ; Spanish Passive, for account,
324 ; the Committees' Certificates, for account,
14, 1; Turkish Six per Cents., 1854, for account,
934 ; ditto, 1858, for account, 704, ex div. ; ditto
1001. Bonds, 744, ex div. ; ditto 1862, for account,
724, 72 ; ditto 1001. Bonds, 724, ; Venezuela
Six per Cents., 1862, 434 ; ditto for account, 414.
International Financial shares are now quoted
14 to 14 prem., ex div. ; General Credit,
2to prem., ex div. ; London Financial, 14 to 64
prem., exdiv.; Imperial Mercantile, 14 to 14 prem.,
ex div. ; Hudson's Bay, 154 to 154 ; Ottoman
Socilt4 Gindrale, 24 to 24 prem., ex div.
The quotations for the shares of some of
the new companies are subjoined :—City of
Milan Improvements, 4to prem. ; Metropoli-
tan District Railways, 4to prem. ; China
Steamship and Labnan Coal, 14 to 1 dia. ; Rio
Janeiro Gas, 4to prem. ; West London Docks
and Warehouses, 1 to If prem. ; and Varna Rail
way, 14 to 1 prem.

HALF-PAST Two o'Ctoca.
Consols are still quoted 88; to 89 both for money
and the present account (March 9).
A telegram received yesterday afternoon by Mr.
Reuter, and dated Constantinople, February 25,
states as follows : " Mr. Laing's project for the
conversion of the floating debt has been accepted
by the Porte in principle, and the negotiations con-
cerning. the details are progressing satisfactorily.
The prices of the local securities have greatly risen
in consequence."
No gold was withdrawn from the Bank yesterday.
There is some probability of shipments of gold
being made to New York ere long, owing to the flat-
ness of the exchange. Were these to commence
they would probably mark a turning point in the
money market.
The Australasian, from New York, has brought
23,000 dollars in specie.
The amount of specie engaged by the steamer
Ellora, which will leave Southampton to-day
with the heavy portion of the mails for Calcnttaand
China, is 139,5621., the whole of which is silver
except 8661. The corresponding packet on the
20th nit, took only 17,7501., so that a somewhat
important increase in these remittances is now
shown.
The bar silver suitable for India by the Mexican
packet was sold yesterday at ss. lad. per ounce,
showing no change, and the refinable portion at
ss. lid. Mexican dollars are quoted ss. to se. odd.
per ounce.
Except in one or two cases, the foreign exchanges
were not lower yesterday afternoon, notwithstand-
ing the recent reduction in the Bank of England
rate of discount. The usual list is subjoined :
Amsterdam, 3 months, 11.181 to 3 ; MU*, 3 days,
11.16 to 17 ; Rotterdam, 3 swaths, 11.184 to 3 ; hat-
weep, 3 mouths, 25.424 to 474; Hamburg, ink basso. 3
menthe, 13.74 to 8 ; Pang, 3 days, 25.10 to 15 ;
ditto, 3 months, 26.40 to 45; Fraakfort-oa-thellairie, 3
magma, 1204 to ; St. Petersbarg (per rouble), 3 months,
304 to 4 ; Vienna, eff. So.. 3 months, 11.55 to 60 ; Trieste,
eff. do., 3 months, 11.55 to 60: Madrid, 3 months,
474 to 4 ; Adis, 3 months, 474 to 4 : Leghorn, 3 months,
95.55 to 60; Genoa, 3 months, 25.55 to 60 ; Mika, 3
mesils, 15.55 to 60 • Naples, 3 ths, elan, 3
10 ; Palmas, 3 months, 25.55 to 60; Maselas, 3
mialks, 25.56 to 60 ; Lisbon. 80 clam 514 to 3 ; Oporto,
rt) days, 514 to 4.
The value of money on the continent is still
below that current here. At Paris, Frankfort,
Hamburg, and Brussels, the rate in the open mar-
ket is 34 per cent.; Amsterdam and Berlin, 4 ; and
Vienna and St. Petersburg, 51 per cent.
The Committee of the Stock Exchange have
appointed the following special settling days
Tmeday, 7th inst., in the Mares of the Gas Products Uti-
lising Oompaey (Limited), for Maneactiorie entered into es
sad after 12th August, 1864--No quotation asked for.
Friday, lOtk inst., in the shares of the Metropolitan Die-
trio% Railways Company, for usassettees entered into ea
sad after 21st February, 1865.—T0 be marked si. paid sad
fully paid up.
The Committee have further ordered the various stocks
of the honey Commermal Dock Company to be officially
quoted.
The Caledonian Railway traffic return shows
this week an increase of 1,1191. over last year.
It is announced that the scrip certificates of the
Metropolitan District Railways Company will be
delivered in exchange for the bankers' receipts on
Wednesday next.
The letters of allotment of the London Cotton
Manufacturing Company (Limited) were issued on
Thursday evening.
Major Ellis J. Charter has joined the board of
the Regent's-park Estate Company (Limited).
• special meeting of the committee of the Stock
Exchange ' Decayed Fund "—which was originally
formed with a view to provide for the wants of
decayed members of the establishment—will be
held on the Bth inst., for the purpose of considering
the advisability of selling stock in the New Three
per Cents. and Three per Cents. Reduced, now
held, and investing the proceeds in securities yield-
ing a higher rate of interest.