The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-18 00:00:00

MONEY MARIB7.-7HIB DAY.

Two °VIA=

The stook markets to-day are flat. Very little
business is going forward, and prices exhibit a
drooping tendency. The reduction in Consols doss
not exceed 1-18 to f par cent. British railway stocks
have declined about 1 per cent.
At Paris this morning, ►wording to Mr. Renter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rents were quoted
68.80, being per cent. lower than at the close yes-
terday.

The New Canadian Five per Cent. Loan is steady,
at 3/ to 31 prem. The Indian Five per Cent.
Stock is quoted 1041 to f.
Consols are officially marked 951 and 1 for
money, and 95/ and 1 for the account.
The present quotations are 951 to 1 for cuh,
and 951 " sellers" for the Bth February.
Bank Stock hu also been dealt in at 228/ ; the
Three per Cents. Reduced, at 951 and ; the New
Three per Cents., at 951 and 1; India Stook, at 222};
the New Indian Five per Cent. Loan, at
1041, 1,1, and 1; the Five Cent. enticed rupee
paper at 981, 98, and 951; ditto Five-and-a-Half
per Cent., at 1041 ; the Four per Cent. De-
bentures of 1858, at 981 and 1; ditto, 1869, at
981 and ; India Bonds, at 14,. prem.; and Exche-
quer Bills, at 26.. to 295. prem.
Little business has been done in the foreign stock
market. Turkish stocks exhibit an unfavourable
reaction of about per cent., the Loan
of 1854 being quoted 781 to 79, and that of
1868, 661 to /. Mexican Bonds remain fiat. There
has been some business in the Spanish Coupon
Certificates. Sales are recorded as follows : Dutch
Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 881 (exchange, 1211.) ;
Mexican Three per Cents., for account, 221, 221;
Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., for account,
951; ditto Three per Cents., for account, 711;
Spanish New Deferred Three per Cents., for
account, 331 ; the Committee's Certificates, 6k,
6, and 51 ; Turkish Six per Cents., 1864,
791, 79, and 791; ditto Six per Cents., 1868,
661; ditto for account, 881, 87, and 86/ ; ditto
Guaranteed Four per Cents., 105.

Ban Paulo Railway shares an quoted I to I Es.;
Bank of Turkey, t din to par; Ooean Marine Insu-
rance, li to 11; prem.; and Universal Marine, 1.16 to
3.16 prem.

The telegrams received yesterday from Amsterdam
announced a rise of a per cent. in Austrian stock.
The amount of gold withdrawn from the Bank
yesterday for exportation was 46,0001.
The shipments of gold and silver by the Calcutta
and China steamer of the 20th inst. are expected to
exceed 600,0001., inclusive of 30,0001. to Bong Kong
on government account.
The Atrsto, with the homeward West India mails,
now rine, is not expected to reach Southampton
before the 20th or 21st, in consequence of an
accident, on the outward voyage, to one of her
engines. She will therefore return working one
engine only.
On 'Change yesterday afternoon the prevailing dis-
trust of Austrian finance caused a fresh movement in
the exchanges adverse to that empire. It was difficult
to place bill. Paper on other continental markets
was inquired for, and in the case of Paris a decline
occurred. This movement is calculated to keep up
the flow of gold from England. The rates are shown
below :

Amsterdam, three mouths, 11.141 to 15; short, 11.124 to
13 ; Rotterdam, three months, 11.141 to 16; Antwerp, three
months, 36.171 to 20; Hamburg., =dm bemoo, three months,
13.41 to 6• Pena, three Asp idght, 26.6 to 124; ditto,
three mouties, 26.30 to 21 ; Premlftrhes-Ws-Maths, dine
mouths, 1161 se IIT ; Petersburg, per rouble, three meths,
361 to 1; Vienna, elf. do., three months, 13.10 to 20 ;
Trieste, ditto, three month', 13.10 to 20; Madrid, three
maths, 491 to 6;
Cadiz, three maths, 401 to 60 ; Leg-
horn, three mouths, 30.274 to 321; Oen*, three mouths,
26.40 to 6 ; Naples, three mates, 401 to ; Palermo,
three months, 121 to t; Messina, three soothe, 1211 to ;
Lisboa, 90 days, 621 ts ; Oporto. 90 days, 624 to 62
The Finance Committee of the Council of 'ladle
have drawn only 1391. 18s. 6d. in bills by the out-
going Bombay mail.
The purchases of Peruvian Uribarren Four-and-a-
Half per Cents. for the half-year's sinking fund have
been completed, at the price of 811. The quotation
this afternoon was 811 to 82. The amount of stock
absorbed upon this occasion is about 64,0001. A
sum of about 18,0001. has also just been invested, for
the half-year's sinking fund, in the Peruvian Four-
,
and-a-Half per Cent. Bonds guaranteed in favour of
the Arica and Tacna Railway. The holders, who
are very few in number, have again obliged the
agents of the government to pay them 99; per cent.
The next purchases for the sinking fund will take
place in March, when about 136,0001. stock in the
Anglo-Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Debt
will be extinguished.
The annual meeting of proprietors of the London
and County Bank is called for the 2nd February.
The weekly traffic return of the Great Western
Railway of Canada, just received, shows an increase
of 2761. sterling, and the Grand Trunk an increase
of 4,1761.
The gross traffic receipts on the Geelong and Mel-
bourne Railway for the six weeks ending 10th
November last amounted to 6,7311. 9e. 10d., less the
amount paid the colonial government for toll over
the Melbourne and William's Town Junction line,
8371. lla. 4d., leaving the net revenue at
6,8931.18 e. 43d. This company's undertaking was
abent to be transferred to the government by legis-
lative enactment, and included in the general system
provided for ander the Victoria Railways Loan Act
of 1867. _ _ _ _

Vice-Clianoellor !tindersley has made a call of 3!.
per share upon the members and contributories of
the Protestant Life and Fire Insurance Association,
igable the 21st February, and proposes on the 27th
nstant to make a call of 11. 16e. per share upon the
contributories in class C of the National Patent
Steam Fuel Company.

Ths following pa riic^alars relating to the Illinois
Central Railway are from an official source:

The receipts of the Illinois Central Railway for December
emceed those of the same month in say previous year. They
are 191,000 dole. against 16.3,990 dole. in 1858, 146,066 dole.
in 18.57, and 175.344 dole. in 1866. The collections la the
land office were 61,310 delve, being larger than in any month
In 1859. At the office of the company ut London 22,764
shares have now twee paid in fall, making, with the lam
advice' from New York, 26,468 in all. The call has bees
already paid In advanos as 9,167 shams. Thews payments
kers &morbid 687,000d015. of the Free Land Bonds, and
79,9001. of the Sterling Debentures.
An addition has been made to the firm of Good-
liffe and Smart, shipbrokers, in the person of Mr.
John Goodbffe, brother of the senior partner.
The Wellington is to convey government emi-
grants to Table Bay ; and the Clyde, Bengal, and
Somisquois, stores to India.

TONEDAT EYEIVINO.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 931 to I for the
Bth Yebraary, opened this morning at the same
quotation, and closed at 951, "sellers." For money
the lut price woe 951 to 1. The official business
report is as follows :—Three per Cent. Consols, for
money, 951,1. I, 1; dittos for account (Bth Feb.),
951, 1 i Three per Cents. Reduced, 951, 1; New
Three per Cents., 951, 1,1, 1; Bank Stock, 2291,
' 228, 230 ; India Stock, 2221; the New Indian Five
per Cent. Stock, 1041, /, 1,1; ditto, for account, 1041;
the Indian Four per Cent. Debentures, 1858,981, 1;
ditto, 1859, 981, 11 the Five per Cent. "enlaced"
rare paper, 971, 1. 1. 98.
The New Indian Five per Cent. Stock rose to /
per cent., closing at 1041 to 1. The rupee paper
was again in considerable request, at an advanoe :
the Five per Cent. was last quoted 97/ to 98, and
the Five-and-a:Ralf per Cent., 104 to 1. Exchequer
Bills declined ls., leaving off at 275. to 30s. prem.
The Turkish Loan of 1858 was again in consider-
able demand to-day, partly fn anticipation of the
dividend due the Ist March, and rose 1 to 1 per cent.,
closing at 661 to 671. The Loan of 1854 was last
quoted 791 to 1, showing arise of f. Mexican Bonds
were dull, at 221 to i. Spanish were again inquired
for.
Bank shares to-day were steady. Those of the
English, Scottish, and Australian Chattered Bank