The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-29 00:00:00

The money market is quiet, but it is thought
that the demand will somewhat increase biter in
the day, partly in connexion with tho Stock Ex-
change settlement. The charge for 3 months' bills
is 1g to 11 per cent., and for short advances on
English government securities, 1.
Consols are quoted 941 to 95, with Idly., for
money, and 93i to 4, ex div., for the account
(December 5). The Three per Cents. Reduced and
New Three per Cents. are steady, at 934 to 4.
The railway market is buoyant, and prices have
experienced a further rise. London and North
Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, and Great
Northern A stocks have improved per cent. ;
Great Western, k ; Metropolitan, Midland, Great
Northern (original), Brighton, and Berwick, 4;
and South Eastern and Great Eastern, 1. Cale-
donian advanced per cent. at the conrn_
mencement of business, but has since re-'
lapsed to the last quotation of yesterday.
The prices are as follows :—Metropolitan, 118} to
; Great Western, 454 to 3 ; London and North
Western, 1144 to ; Midland, 113 to ; Lanca-
shire and Yorkshire, 1234 to 124 ; Caledonian, 741
to 75 ; South Eastern, 67a to ; Great Eastern,
304 to 31 ; Great Northern, 1064 to 1074 ; ditto
A, 1114 to 3 ; London, Chatham, and Dover, 19
to ; North British, 324 to ,334 ; Brighton, 62}
to 53 ; Berwick, 983 to 991 ; and York and North
Midland, 93 to 94.

Indian stocks are without alteration. The Five
per Cents. are quoted, 1161 to 116, and tho Four,
100 to 100 i.

Foreign stocks are quieter, and a relapse of a per
cent. has taken place in Turkish of 1865 and
Mexican, the present prices being 3.31 to 34 and
16} to 1, respectively. Spanish Certificates,
however, have risen k, viz., to 19k to k.
Turkish of 1862, are at 62 to 63 ; Greek, 131 to ;
Spanish Passive, 241 to 25 ; ditto New Three
per Cents., 354 to It ; Italian of 1861, 46/ to 47 ;
and Egyptian of 1864, 85 to 86.
American securities are firm, the transactions
Ishowing a preponderance of sales. The 5-20 Bonds
and Eric Railway shares have improved 1 per cent.,
viz., to 70k to 71k and 47 to 4, respectively ; but
Illinois Central are unchanged at 861 to 1.
Atlantic Cable shares are unaltered. Anglo-
American, 184 to 4, and Atlantic Telegraph Eight
per Cent. Preference, 4 to 44.

There is little demand for Bank shares, but
prices are steady. London and Westminster are
quoted 69 to 70 ; Unioi. of London, 335 to 345 ;
Alliance, 12 to 11 dis. ; Imperial Ottoman, to
dis. ; London and County, 515 to 525 ; and
Oriental Corporation, 52 to 53.
The advance which occurred yesterday in finan-
cial shares is maintained. International, 2g to n
dis. ; London, 24 to 23 dis. ; General Credit, 21
to 21 dis. ; and Credit Fonder, 6„ to dis.

HALF-PAST ONE O'CLOCK.
Several of the home railway stocks have further
improved bto 1 per cent. since one o'clock. Me-
tropolitan is at 119 to 4 ; Caledonian, 744 to 754 ;
Great Northern A, 111 to 1124 ; London, Chat-
ham, and Dover, 191 to 4 ; and Berwick, 99 to 4.
The signing of the proposed working agree-
ment between the South Eastern, Brighton, and
London, Chatham, and Dover Companies will
probably lead to a considerable saving of work-
ing expenses to all the three companies ; and
the example may be commended for imitation
to the boards of other companies hitherto actuated
by rivalry. Combined with the notices, which are
now coming thicker and faster, of the desire to
abandon or postpone extension lines, to obtain
powers for which competing companies were lately
tearing each other to pieces in parliamentary com-
mittee-rooms, we have here a fresh proof of the
amendments and reforms which are found practica-
ble under the sharp spur of necessity. To show the
effect of the agreement above referred to on the
stocks of the three lines now brought into accord,
it may be mentioned that South Eastern yesterday
rose 1; per cent., London, Chatham, and Dover,
11, and Brighton, 14.
About 41,0001. in bar gold was withdrawn from
the Bank yesterday for the Continent, while 28,000
sovereigns from South America were sent in.
The Germania, from New York, has brought
7,6811. in specie.
The London and South Western Railway traffic
return shows this week an increase of 5691. over
last year ; the London, Chatham, and Dover, in-
cluding the Metropolitan Extension and branches,
an increase of 443/. ; the Metropolitan Extension,
separately, an increase of 186/. • the Lancashire
and Yorkshire, an increase of 1,401. • the North
Eastern an increase of 3,2771. ; the Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, an increase of 3111. ;
and the North British, an increass of 2,3181.
At a special meeting of the Australian Trust
Company, held yesterday, a resolution was passed
to the effect that it is not expedient to continue the
business of the undertaking.
The half-yearly meeting of the Ceylon Company
(Limited) will be held on the 17th December for
the purpose of declaring an interim dividend.
At a meeting of the Ilfracombe Hotel Company
(Limited), held at Ilfracombe on Thursday, a divi-
dend at the rate of 5 per cent. per annum was de-
clared for the four months' trading.
The interest due the 11th December on the
Danish Four per Cent. Stock of 1862 is advertised
for payment in due course by Messrs. C. J. Hambro
and Son.

The following is from some Italian correspond-
ence in the Cologne Gazettc :
The prices at which ecclesiastical estate* have been sold
are of great interest just now, as showing the general state
of feeling. The sales from Oct. 26 to Nov. 15 amounted
to 1,577 lots, which, valued at 12,686,147 f. were sold
at 17,tt36,096f. ; consequently 5,149,931 f. gigher than
estimated.

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It has been decided by one of the Commis-
sioners in Bankruptcy that a man who has been
outlawed cannot petition and obtain adjudication
against himself, or be entitled to his release from
custody.
The following is the official return of the cheques
and bills cleared in the Bankers' Clearing-house
for the week 'ending Wednesday, Nov. 27. The
unusual smallness of the amount suggests Inds-
conrable conclusions with regard to the state of
trade :
Thursday, Nov. 21 06,483,000
Friday, Nov. 22
Saturday, Nov. 23 9,973.000
Monday, Nov. 25
Tuesday, Nov. 26
Wednesday, Nov. 27 6,735,000
048,620,000
Gsozos DIRISTIMISE, Chief Inipootor.
Bankers' Clesiing-house, Nov. 28.