The Express.
London, England, 1866-07-11 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

On o'CT.ocI.

There is little demand to-day for public securi-
ties, and prices have given way, owing to the un-
favourable tenor of the news from abroad with re-
ferees') to the proposed armistice, combined with
the large withdrawal of gold from the Bank of
England yesterday. Console and several of the
chief British railways have declined per oent.
Foreign stocks are also lower in several came, the
chief reduction being in Turkish of 1863, upon
the announcement that the attempt on the part of
the government to raise funds to meet the dividend
due on the kith inst. has failed. Financial and
banking shares are quiet, and prices generally
show no variation. United States 6-20 Bonds are
slightly better.

The demand for money to-day is moderate, and
transactions continue to be egeeted in choice bills
at Ito 1/ per cent. below the official minimum. A
large amount of Indian paper has just arrived at
maturity, bnt the requirements in connexion there-
with have been anticipated.
Console are now quoted 87} to k, ex div..
for money and 87k to for the account
(August 9).

In the foreign stock market the chief feature is a
fall of 11 per cent. in Turkish Bonds of 1866.
Spanish Passive and Certificates have also receded
1, while Turkish of 1862 have improved 1 per seat.,
and Greek 1. Turkish Bonds of 1862 are now
quoted 55 to 57, ex div. ; ditto of 1865, 26* to a 7 ;
Greek, 111 to 121 ; Spanish Passive, 19} to go ;
ditto Certificates, 15ft to * ; Italian, 1861, 53 to # ;
Brazilian scrip, 3* to 2* dis and Mexican, 154 to 1.
United States 5-20 Bonds are quoted 67* to 1,
being * per cent. better ; Erie Railway shares,
381 to 391, showing a decline of per cent. ; and
Illinois Central, 76 to f.
International Financial shares are now quoted
11 to 11 dia. ; London Financial, 114 to 10* dm. ;
General Credit, 11 to 1# dis. ; Credit Foncier,
11 to 01 dis. ; and National Discount, 81 to 1
prem.

At a meeting of some of the principal bond-
holders and shareholders of the Italian Irrigation
Canal Company (Canal Cavonr), held yesterday at
the offices of the company, it was determined
to appoint a oonimiftee to negotiate with the
Italian government with a view to obtain payment
of the guaranteed interest, due on the lit instant,
and the fulfilment of the further convention to
enable the company to complete the works.
About 203,0001 in bar gold was withdrawn from
the Bank yesterday, for transmission to Paris,
while 23,0001, consisting chiefly of sovereigns from
Smyrna and Alexandria, was sent in.
In the foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon
there was a decline in the rates for bills on Ham-
burg and Italy. Otherwise little change occurred.
The seventh half-yearly meeting of the Union
Bank of Ireland will bo held on the 26th instant.
The half-yearly report of the directors of the
Peel River Land and Mineral Company (Limited),
to be submitied at the meeting on the 20th instant,
recommends that an interim dividend be declared
of 9,0001. or 14 per cent., free of income tax, upon
the consolidate, stock of the company, payable on

the 10th Ao_.ist.
Warrants for an ad interim dividend at the rate
of 10 per cent. per annum for the half-year ended
:loth Joue, luive this day been issued to the share-
holders of the London Tavern Company (Limited).
Subjoined are the quotations of insurance, gaa,
dock, and other shares, as given in the Stock Ex-
change list of last evening :

I nsur.inee. - *.niimercial Union, GI, !; Indemnity Marine,
; Liverpool and London Fire and Life, HA ; Ocetui
Marine, 21, ex iliv.; Rock Life, 7) ; Thames and Mersey
Marine I Limited), Ri ; Union Marisa Liverpool (Limited),
1; Universal Life, 3.4, ex dlv.
Gaslight and Coke.—Europenn, New, 61 ; Great Central,
121 ; 71 s, cx thy. ilmperial Continental, 145, ex
245, sf, ex div. ; Surrey Consumers, Ult.
Waterworks. 9L f, 10; Fast London, 126:);
West Middlesex, 110 i, es (Hy.
Dock.. and West India, 131. k, 30! ; London
and St. Katherine, 70 ; Ditto Debenture Stock, HT.
The par:Mincutary retuni of the insurance duty
paid iii IS i 5 has just been published, and is the
last return which will embody the differential rates
on stock (Is. 6(1. per oent.) and on buildings and
furniture (3s. per cent.) For the purpose of com-
paring the business of each comp:my in 184;5 with
that in Iti(l4, we have made up an account for the
two years as though the duty had remained at 3s.
per cent. We thus get a measure of the progress
of each etimpany, and the result is as follows :

INAILEABZ IN I
Royal £17,708
Alliance and lamina-
haul 18strict Azualga-
tu:tle.l
111.1.111 X . .
bun. . 4,882
Btitlnlt tuul Met-
canine
Quern . . . . .
W eaten,
Nurwlch Uinta'
Law . . „
London and Is,a4l.lre 2.575
l'utaty .
Cuutniercial Union
411411011.
and 14“utliwark 1,710
Btottlah
Nlancliemter
141rmimtham A Malec
Aliturt
and .... 1,318
Gauer.ll 1,31u
European .
West .1 Ln,tlall,l 1.244
(laardlan 1,174
Atla- l,lBBl
Law I.;niuu .
tjui:nt
i'rut iucial

ISO °welt 1'4,44.
tictittitth Provincial . COM
Caledonian
llerctilcs
Kent . ~,,, fi:to
Koval F:U111112111 473
Patriotic
Northern
Church of lingland
W 4 op Ittf
Norwich 241 i
British Nation ... 24
Nottinghamshire and
1/stripy/hire . 2ft
Vork.hirc
Prince
Emperor
Lancaobire
Midland t'ountics ll3
Ewes and Suffolk
Pity and ( 'iounty . 87
Friend in-Need
Royal Exchange.. 63
Shropshire and North
Wales
flirntlugham
Netherland.
Preserver
Stewartsim Dunlop. and
letiwark

MC!Mafia.
(Oldham . ....... aa Cnfm
Nat.i.thul of Irel.411•1 ...13 Imlkrial
V..; nino.r 11Cr..,e sad vginiavter . . •
General lOO Liverpool and Lond.4l
and Globe
tlan.l-fn.Hand

TUESDAY EVENING.

Consols, which closed yesterday at 88 to 4, ex
div.. for the 9th of August, opened this morning at
88/ to 4, toached 881 to g, and had relapsed at the
close to 871 to 88. For money the last price was
to 2. The official business report is as fol-
lows:—Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 871,
8, U, 8, ; ditto, for account, 88;)„ 1, I, 7i, 8;
Three per Cents. Reduced, 87, 64, ; New Three
per Cents., 874, 61, 7 ; Annuities, 1887), 13 3-16 ;
India Stock, 2081 ; ditto Five per Cent., 103/, ;
ditto "enlaced 4 rupee paper, 1001 ; ditto Four
per Cent. Debentures, 104 ; ditto Bonita, par,
10s. prem.
There was less demand for foreign stocks, but
prices, on the whole, were well maintained.
Danubian Bonds were in strong request, and ad-
vanced sto 6 per cent. Turkish of 1858, Italian
of 181;5, and Moorish also rose 1 per cent. ; and
Spanish Passive, 4. On the other hand, Italian of
1861 declined 1 per cent ; Turkish of 1865, ;
Mexican, ; and Greek, 1.

Among the Italians wounded at the battle of
Custom WAS George Manin, son of the illustrious Vene-
tian patriot. He had twice before been wounded, and at
the breaking out of the present war was still in such bad
health as to be exempt from service. He joined the army
however as a volunteer, sad served on the King's staff is
the late battle.
THE WEST COAST OF AFRICA. —The strew
steamer Macgregor Laird, Captain Corbett, belonging to
the African Royal Mail Steamship Company, arrived at
Liverpool yesterday afternoon, with mails from the west
coast of Africa, Teneriffe, and Madeira. Together with •
large and valuable cargo she brings 1,050 ounces of gold
dust, 3,257/. and 12,471 dollars in specie. Her dates are
Benin, May 25; Fernando Po, June 6; Cameroon, June
2 ; Old Calabar, 6 ; Brae River, 7 ; Bonny, 5 ; Laos,
10 ; Accra, 12 ; Cape Coast, 13 ; Cape Palmas, 16 ;
Sierra Leone, 21 ; Reeking, 25; Tenerife, 30, Madeira,
July 2. The news besaidit by the Macgregor WA is
without importance.