The Express.
London, England, 1860-03-29 00:00:00

ADVANCE IN THE BANK RATE OF DM-

COUNT.

Two o'OLocz.

The Directors of tho B.nk of England, at their
weekly court to-day, have raised the minimum rate
of discount from 4 to 411 per cent.
The announcement has not canned any further
decline in the funds, which are now quoted the
same as they closed yesterday. The market is dull
in character. Support is derived, however, from
the strange flee in the French funds, which this
day has made further considerable progress. In
some quarters it is suspected that the French
government is supporting the Bourse
At Paris this morning, wording to Mr. Reuter 's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rented; opened at
69.30, and improved to 69.35, showing a fresh rise
of 11 per oent. since yesterday.

The Indian Five per Cent. stock of 1869 ie dull,
at 1041 to I, for the amount.
_

Con;ola are officially marked 94/, 1 f, and
for money, and 941 and for the account.
The present quotations are 94/ to for
money, and 94 to i for the 11th of
April ; India Stock has been dealt in at 2201 ;
the Indian Five per Cent. Stock of 1859, at
1 1041 ; and Exchequer Bills, at 16s. prem.
The foreign stook market is dull. Turkish stocks
remain at yesterday's reduction, the loan of 1854
being quoted 781 to 79, and that of 1858, 601 to
611. The scrip of the New Brazilian
Loan has declined to 11 to of dia.
Sake are recorded as follows :—Brazilian
Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 1860 (scrip),
1 dis. ; Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 651
(exchange 126.) ; ditto Four per Cent. Certificates,
1011, 1011 ; Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
971 ; ditto Three per Cents., 1859, 65 ; Spanish
New Deferred Three per Cents., 34, 34} ; ditto
Passive, 141 ; Turkish Six per Cents., 1854, 79 ;
iditto Six per Ceuta., 1858, 601 ; ditto for ac-
oount, 611.

The securities of the Grand Trunk Railway of
Canada sustained a considerable fall yesterday, in
consequence of the issue of the re ..rt of the London
directors, which states that 1, .11,0001. must be
raised without delay to pay oft existing liabilities,
and to provide for the increase to the rolling stock,
and improved accommodation. It is proposed
raise this sum by the issue of bonds without inter-
fering with the existing preferential rights of ilia
bondholders of all classes.
The half-yearly dividend, due the 10th of April,
is advertised upon the Turkish Six per Cent. Loan
•
of 1854.

The amount in sterling of the loan announced by
Sweden is 1,400,0001., and not the larpr sum
mentioned a day or two ago. Of this thebank of
Sweden will take 220,0001., so that the sum
yet to be subscribed is 1,180,0001. The
only Swedish state loan as yet in ex-
istence is the one for 1,200,0001. which was
concluded in Germany, in a Four-and-a-Half per
Cent. stock, in the year 1858. This loan is now
quoted on the Hamburg Exchange at 91111 to 97.
The Swedish Provincial Mortgage Loan, quoted in
the London Stock Exchange list, does not entail
any liability on the government of Sweden.

billy three gold -ships are known to be now at
sea, vu. the Copenhagen, Wellesley, and Suffolk,
with an aggregate of 380,0001., the greater portion
of which is due. A telegram is daily e
however, announcing the sailing from Melbourne
for England of additional vessels with gold.
The first annual meeting of the Atlantic Royal
Mail Steam Navigation Company was held yesterday.
The discussion was of a somewhat protracted cha-
racter. Dissatisfaction is expressed by shareholders
at the scale of expenditure shown in the accounts.
The directors' report was ultimately adopted. The
fortnightly postal service between Galway and the
United States, arranged between her Majesty's go-
vernment and the company, commences in June
next.- The annual subsidy to be paid to the com-
pany is 78,000/. It appears that of the 27,700 L
awarded to Mr. Lever for his " interest in the line,
concessions, privileges at ports, &c.," he takes
' nearly the whole in fully paid-up shares. With
regard to the 10,0001. set down as " remuneration
to promoters in paid-up shares," and another sum
of 13,9012., classed as preliminary expenses," the
directors observe that they ' wish to remind the
proprietors that they have by this expenditure ob-
tained a line which is of European and American
importance, and which, together with the contracts
for the mails, is acknowledged to be of very con-
siderable value. As evidenoe of this, the directors
refer to the large sum offered for the line and con-
tracts some months since by a firm of great experi-
ence as steam-ship proprietors."

The London end North Western Railway traffic
return shows this week an increase of 3,901. ; the
Great Western, an increase of 1,1211. ; the Great
Northern, an increase of 2,7671. ; and the London
and South Western, an increase of 868/.

Advice's received at Lloyd's mention the loss,
on the 44th February, of the Oriental Inland
Steam Navigation Company's steamer Indus,
between Kurraehee and Clhisree. The crew and
barges were saved.

We are informed that M. de Salamanca, the
Madrid banker, has become joint contractor i o
complete the Atlantic and Great Western Railway.
Subjoined are the latest quotations of insurance,
canal, and miscellaneous shares, as given in the last
Stock Exchange list :
Insarance.—Atlas, 161; Alliance British and Forma,'
17/ ; ditto Marine, 6,sl2mEquit alzd4ifew, 61; Glebe, 99;
Guardian, 53, 521; I .ity • 165 ex div. ; Menne,
1101 ; Ocean Marino, 81 ; Back •0, 2i: Univerl9l
Marine, 21, 3 ; Universal Life, 29.
Gay—Brighton, 19 ;„ City of London A,
_2Ol, 20, ex div. ;
Great Central, 104, 101 ; Imperial, 731, 721 ex div. ; ditto
debentures, 206, ex div. ; Imperial Continental, 474 ;
IPhonis, 60, ex div.; United General, 23; Weetmineter
Chartered, 60, ex div. ; Western, 12.
Docks.—Loadca, 691; Victoria, 100, 101.
Waterworka.—Berlin, 41 ; Chokes, new guaranteed, 241;
Lambeth, Mk
Canals:4lmnd Junction, 58 ; Regent's, 121,
The half-yearly meeting of the London Gas
Company is to be held on the 11th of April.
Means. Hampton, Vfalah, and Co., have been
appointed agents for Lloyd's at Aleppo ; and Mr.
W. Briggs agent at Lancaster.

WZDIGSDAY Emma.
Console, which dosed yesterday at 94114 "
morning at ,
buy a”
for the 11th of April, opened this
fell to 944 to It, and were quoted at 4 o'clock ;
"buyers," the quotation for money being at the
same hour 94* to i. After the clam of the Stock
Exchange, the price receded to 941 to g for the
aooount. The official Weiner, report is as fol-
lows :—Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 9!
}},
,A, I ; ditto, for axount (11th April), is
may, stook, Mk ; the Indian Five per
stock, 1859, 1014, 11, 4 ; the Indian Five per Cent.
enlaced rupee paper, 98} ; ditto Five-and-a-Half
per Cent , 104, 10411 ; the Indian Four per Cont.
Debentures, 1858, 971 i.
The Indian Five per Cent ririe paper was dull,
at 98 to It, and the Five-and-a-Half per Cent. at
104 to h.
The Indian Five per Cent. stock of 1859 wee
last quoted 100 to I, for the account. Owing to
the pressure for money, Exchequer Bills were again
offered, and the transactions were at 15e. to 18a.
prem.

The foreign stock market was heavy. The
Turkish Loan of 1858 fell 1 per oent , the closing
price being 601 to 61, or the karat point of the
(ley. The Loan of 1854 derived some support
from the approaching payment of the divi-
dend, but fell per cent., leaving off
at 78.} to 79. There were some considerable
transactions in Mexican Bonds, which, after reco-
vering to 211, " buyers," left off the saint as yes-
terday, at 21 to 4. The annowlatliput of the
conclusion of peace between Spain and Morocco has
ocossioned some improvement in Spaniah 80/16.