The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-15 00:00:00

MONEY M41311117-THIS DAY.

Two cr'CLooi.

The fund* to-day are firm, at the late 'drones,
with only a limited amount of business.
In the other departments of the Stock Exchange
a tendency to buoyancy is still observable.
Many classes of foreign railway shares are rising.
Console are quiet at 971 to % for money, and 971
to # for Oct. 12. The New Three per Cents. (shut)
have been dealt in at 971; India Stook at 2171;
Indian Four per Cent. Debentures, at 981 to 981;
the scrip of the second loan, 981; India Bonds at
lls. to 15*. prem.; Exchequer Bills, March, at 335.
to 365. prem.; ditto, June, at 245. to 275. prem.;
and Exchequer Bonds, 1859, at 1001.
Foreign stocks remain strong. The scrip of the
new Turkish loan is quiet, at 1 to prem.
The Six per Cents. of 1854 are firm,
at 961 to 971. Pernambuco Three per
Cents. are in request, with an upward tendency
Sales are recorded as follows :—Brazilian Four-
and-a-Half per Cents., 1868,961, 961; Buenos Ayres
Six per Cents., 78 ; Dutch Two-and- Half per Cents.,
68/ (exchange 12 8.); Granada Deferred Bonds,
51. Mexican Bonds, for account, 21!, 211; Anglo-
Peravian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., for Ac-
count, 92 ex div.; ditto, Three per Cents.,
for account, 71, 711 ; ditto Fonr-and-a-

Half per Cent. Dollar Bonds, 77 (exoh.
45.) ; Russian Five per Cents., 1101 ex div.; Sardi-
nian Five per Cents., 921, 921; Spanish Three
per Cents. for account, 461; the Committee's
Certificates, 61, ej ; Turkish Six per Cents., 981;
ditto, for account, 971, 97; ditto Guaranteed Four
per Cents. 1041.
At a meeting to-day of the creditors of Messrs. A.
Montgomery and Co., Australian merchants, the
balance-sheet stated the liabilities at 81,0001., and
the assets at 40,3721., showing about 10e. in the
pound.
The agreement just entered into between the re-
presentatives of the Lombardo-Venetian Railway
Company and the Austrian government is regarded
with considerable interest, not the less eo because
the large funds which will be thus poured into the
Austrian exchequer are to be applied to the laudable
object of restoring the currency of that empire.
The full details of the agreement are not
yet before us, but it is understood that
the capital required for the completion of
all the lines embraced in it will be something
like eleven millions sterling, spread, it is said, over
ten years. For the Vienna-Trieste Railway and the
state lines from Verona to Botzen and from Inn.-
pruck to Kufstein, it is stated that the Lombardo-
Venetian Company will pay to the Austrian govern-
ment at millions sterling—a sum vastly below their
cost. The advantages to the company are regarded
as most important, especially as the Austrian govern-
ment guarantees a minimum dividend of 5 1-sth per
cent. on the entire capital embraced both in the new
and old Lombardo-Venetian concessions. The gas,
rantee, moreover, will apply separately to each of the
new lines, so that the profits of the trunk lines cannot
be diluted by the extension of the enterprise. The
improvement in Austrian credit is another most
important consideration in estimating the value
of the eonceeiion and guarantee. It is presumed
that a meeting of the Lombardo-Venetian share-
holders will soon be convened, for the pur-
pose of formally ratifying the new contracts,
and that a creation of fresh capital will then
take place. According to one statement, there is a
probability of three shares in the extended company
being given for every two of the existing Lom-
bardo-Venetian shares. Official details, however,
will soon transpire. The entire operation, although
of such magnitude, bids fair to have little influence
upon our money market, for the majority of the
English holders of shares in the Lombardo-Venetian
Railway are understood to have long ago transferred
them to continental buyers, who, by the way, may
be considered the best judges of the value of the
ProPerty.
It is in contemplation to send out to Honduras,
for the protection of the creditors, Mr. Hodge, of
the firm of Hyde, Hodge, and Co., who lately stopped
payment.
On the 28th inst. the Admiralty will receive
tenders for the supply of 11,250 loads of Honduras
mahogany timber, and 7,500 loads of Moulmein teak
timber. In each cue the delivery is to take place
during the years 1859, 1880, and 1881.