The Express.
London, England, 1859-01-28 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET-1111d DAY,

Two °Viola.

The funds remain very quiet at yesterday's quo-
teflon.. The members of the Stock Exchange have
been principally occupied with the settlement
in shares and foreign stocks, which will be com-
pleted this day. French and Lombardo-Venetian
railway shares retain a drooping tendency, in the
absence of telegrams from the Paris Bonne of this
day. English railway shares are firm. The divi-
dend of the London and South Western Railway
Company exceeds expectation ; and this company's
stock hes consequently risen 13 per cent. The mar-
kets generally have derived support from the an-
nouncement of the arrival of large supplies of gold
from Australia.

Consols are quiet at 961 to 1 both for money and
the Bth Feb., and 95% to / for the 9th March.
The Three per Cents. Reduced have been dealt
in at 961 to 1 ; the New Three per Cents. at
961 to %; Bank Stock, at 228 to 229;
Indian Four per Cent. Debentures of the first
issue, ►t 991 to %; India Bonds, at 225. to 25..
prem.; the June Exchequer Bills, at 35s to 38..
prem. ; and the March, at 355. to 38s. prem.
Turkish securities are in better demand to-day.
The Six per Cents. of 1864 have advanced to 91 to 1.
The first series of the New Loan is quoted
6 to 51 dia., and the second series 6% to
61 die., after being marked 51 dim. for cash,
and 61 die. for the 11th of February. Mexi-
oan Bonds retain an upward tendency, andil
there is a fair demand for Venezuelan and Portuguese.
Sales are recorded as follows :—Austrian Five per
Cents., 781 (exchange 10ft.); Brazilian Four-end-a-
Half per Cents., 1838, 94 ; Dutch Four per Cent.
Certificates, 1011 ; Mexican Three per Cents., for
account, 20, 20%; Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per
Cents., for account, 92; Portuguese Three per
Cents., 1853, 47, 471; ditto for amount, 471;
Spanish Three per Cents., 441; ditto New
deferred Three per Cents., 301 ; Turkish Six
per Cents., 1858 (scrip of the first series), 791;
ditto, for account, 79, 791; ditto second series, 61,
61 die.; ditto, for account, 6/ du. ; Venezuela Five
pee Cents, 44; ditto, Deferred Two per Cents.,
17,171.
The Swiftscue and Blackwell have arrived from
Melbourne, the former with 84,775 ounces of gold,
and the latter with 80,589 ounces, worth together
661,4001. The Swiftsure ha. made the passage in
73 days.
We have received from a source upon which im-
plicit reliance may be placed, an account of the =-
premiena need by the Emperor of Austria in en is
with the directors of the National Bank, on
Monday last. His Majesty declared that he could
count with certainty, in case of need, upon the
strenuous support of the entire population of Gar-
many, but assured the deputation of his complete
confidence that an amicable arrangement of the pre-
sent difficulty will be very speedily effected. He
added that he had just received despatches from
Paris which greatly strengthened this conviction.
In ordinary times, the approach of the period for the
meeting of Parliament is often marked by specula-
tive uncertainty and depression ; but Thursday next
is looked forward to with extreme impatience, it
being presumed that the representatives of the nation
will, without • moment's unnecessary delay, avail
themselves of the constitutional means of extracting

from government such explanations as will relieve
the public mind of the prevailing suspense. The
commercial community want to know from anthority
whether they may conduct their transactions with
confidence in the maintenance of peace, or must cur-
tail businees whilst the diplomatists enter the arena.
Of all evils, suspense is regarded as the most intoler-
able and pernicious.
In the discount market and at the Bank of England
the demand somewhat increased yesterday. Trans-
actions still take place " out of doors," however, at
21 per cent. _ _

On Tuesday next a sum of about a million sterling
is to be paid on the Victoria Government Railway
Loan.
Of the 13,6001. in gold by the steamer America,
from Boston, 4,0001. was yesterday sent into the
Bank, and the rest was taken for the Continent.

A oonsiderable amount of specie is expected to
arrive about the middle of next week from the West
Indies and Mexico, by the steamer Parana.
The tea market is still rising. A large amount of
business is going forward in saltpetre.
It has been stated confidently both in American
and English journals that Mr. Worrell, who has
lately arrived in England, is charged with a spe-
cial mission from the government of Mee.=
to that of Great Britain. Without stopping
to raise the question us to whether there
is any government in existence in Mexico, we can
state, upon the best authority, that Mr. Worrell has
no mission of the kind. His case—he was banished
from Mexico at twelve hours' notice, for refusiog to
pay a forced loan—merely affords a fresh illustration
of the hardships to which British subjects will ever
be exposed in that distracted country, unless the
strong arm of their government is stretched forth to
preserve their rights and property inviolable. It is
most reasonably suggested that the British govern-
ment, before recognisiog any new administration in
Mexico which may succeed that of Zuloage, ought to
demand its programme, and obtain positive amour-
ances that the rights of British citizens and bond-
holders and of foreign commerce generally shall be
reerethe dividend of the London and South Western
Railway Company is officially announced at the rate
of
responding period r cent. pe
of lest year r annum, agtinst 61 at the cor-
.
The dividend on the stock of the North Stafford-
shire Railway Company is likewise officially an-
' nounced at the rate ot 2} per cent, per annum,
against 2 per cent, per annum at the corresponding
period ot last year. Although this company have
suffered from the inactivity which has prevailed in
the iron districts, coupled with the general depres-
sion of trade, their prospects are considered to be
now good, owing to the recovery which is in pro-
gress in the traffic, and to the favourable arrange-
ments which are understood to have been recently
concluded with the London and North Western

Railway Company.
It is stated in quarters which are usually well in-
formed that the undermentioned railway companies
will deelaredyidends at the following rates, viz.:

Leaks end North Western, tf per oesrper minus.
Lettceehlre and Yorkehirr, 4* per cent per annum.

idtsnd, 6j to eti percent. rin"enznn.
Greet Northern, 6 to 6; per cent. per swum
Great Western, 2 per cent. per annum.
Enthßrstislt, 3 to 3} per cent. per annum.

Norfolk, 4 to-74f pc Ce;t. persaitun.

The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway traffic
return shows this week an increase of 3,4291. ;' the
East Lancashire, an increase of 1,1021. ; the Man-
chester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, an increase of
1,0071.; the North Eastern. an increase of 9941.
(compared with the "actual " rewipts of the corre-
sponding week of last year); the Midland, an increase
of 1,2091. ; and the Eastern Counties, an increase
of 7101.
After the recognised hours yesterday afternoon a
considerable rise took place in the A stock of the
Great Northern Railway Company.
At the does of the settlement yesterday afternoon
the " contango" on London and North Western Rail-
way stock passed off, and a "backwardation" of
per cent. was paid on some large amounts.
The half-yearly meeting of the North Eastern
Railway Company is called for the 18th of February,
at York, and will be made special, to consider a wo-
weed amalgamation witk the Newcastle and Car-
lisle litilvray Company. Pending an application to
parliament [or an act sanctioning this arrangement,
at is proposed to make a traffic agreement.
The half-yearly general meeting of shareholders,