The Express.
London, England, 1859-12-12 00:00:00

MONEY MARKE4.-7111S DAY.

Two oVuXic.

The funds to-day are dull, with a very scanty
business. A little flatness prevail., and Consols are
quoted at the reduction which took place after the
close of the Stock Exchange on Saturday.
In the other departments of the house, the
transactions have been upon a very limited scale,
except in Lombardo-Venetian Railway shares, which
have risen considerably. Prices generally are firm.
The New Indian Five per Cent. Loan has declined
to 1081 to I.
At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Renter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Ftentes opened at
70fr. 70c., ex die., mhos ing a fresh rise of I per cent.
since Saturday.
Consols are officially masked 93,1 and I ex div.,
for the 10th January. The present quotation is
931 to t. Bank Stock has been dealt in at 228
and 227 ; the Three per Cents. Reduced, at 93/
and I ; the New Three per Cents., at 96/
and j ; the New Indian Loan, at 106* and 1 ; India
Bands, at 3s. to 13.. prem. ; and Exchequer Bills, at
275. to 30.. prem.

The foreign stock market is likewise quiet. i
Mexican Bonds remain flat, and other descrip-
tions pretty steady. The Old Turkish Six per Cents.
are quoted 771 to 78, and the Loan of
1868, 66 to I. Saks are recorded es follows :
Brazilian Old Fire per Cents., 103, 102 i; Mexican
Three per Cents., for account, 291; Sardinian Five
per Cents. (small), 861 ; Spanish Three per
Cents., for account, 461 ; ditto New Deferred
Three per Cents., for account, 331; ditto
Passive Bonds, 101 ; Turkish Six per Cents., 1868
for account, 68, 681, NI; Venezuela Two-and-a:
Half per Cents., for account, 281.

The shares of the Ocean Marine Insurance Com-
pany are quoted 11 to j prem., and those of the
Universal Marine Insurance %to prem.
The last investment bat one fell due on Saturday
on the Russian Loan. There wag' also a call of tit.
on East Indian Railway "E" and Jubbnlirre
shares, but very little remained to be paid.

Several private letters from St. Petersburg coun-
tenance the report that Messrs. Rothaobild have
purchased the St. Petersburg and Moscow Railway
from the government. Others deny the completion
of the bargain, but allege that negotiations were in
progress. All the railway is said to have cost the
government, from first to lut, about 140,000,000 of
I silver roubles, or 22,000,0001. sterling, the transac-
tion would be a gigantic one were the buyers to take
it at even one-half or one-third of the cost price.
About 20,0001. in gold was withdrawn from the
Bank en Saturday for the Continent. The amount
recovered from the Royal Charter remains lodged
in the Bank warehouses unsold.

The imports of the precious metals last week
were to only a moderate extent, oomprieing 294,00 W.
by the Bwiftsure from Melbourne, 1,0001. by the
Asia from New York, and 9,2471. by the Oneida
from Brazil.

The total is 304,0001. (exclusive of the silver
received from the Continent). The whole hes been
sent away.
The prospectus of the Universal Marine Insu-
rance Company has been issued. The capital is
fixed at 1,000,0001., in 201. shares. Reference is
made to the enormous premiums borne by the
shares in the existing marine insurance com-
panies, to their vast premium incomes, and
to the necessity now experienced of car-
rying a good deal of business of this kind to
Hamburg, Bremen, Antwerp, and other Continental
cities. Steps have been adopted to secure the ser-
vices of an underwritsr of " acknowledged experi-
ence and high standing." Advantage is to be taken
of the measure promised by government for the limi-
tation of the liability of insurance companies; and,
in tke meantime, "in every transaction of the com-
pany the liability of the shareholders will be enpe-
daily restricted to the amount of their shares." The
board consists of Messrs. John H. Dillon, S.
Pinto Leitf, Harvey Lewis, John Lubbock, the
banker, Henry Woodfall, of Liverpool, M. Usborne,
Alfred Ricardo, and Z. C. Pearson ; and additions
are to be made to it.
The adjourned meeting of the London and North
Western Railway Company, fixed for the 24th inst.,
will be made special, to affix the company's seal to
the proposed arrangements with the Lancaster and
Carlisle and Kendal and Windermere Railway Com-
panies.
The annual meeting of shareholders in the Lon-
don and Westminster Bank is called for the 18th
January.
The traffic on the Trieste line of the Lombardo-
Venetian Railway Company for the week ending
the 2nd Dec. was 30,6011., being 12,1671. more
than in the corresponding week of last year; and
that on the Lombardo-Venetian line 13,6811., show-
ing an increase of 6,3401. The angregate increase
on both lines since Ist Jan. is 776,1821.
The Polmaise has arrived from China with
1,003,2001b'. of tea.

SATURDAY ETINIIC

Consols, which closed yesterday at 951, " buyers,'
ex div., for the 10th January, opened this morning
at 961, "sellers," and closed at 93t, " buyers."
After the close of the Stock Exchange the market
was flatter, stock being offered at 93t. The official
business report is as follows.—Three per Cent.
Consols, for money (shut), 971, 97; ditto, for amount
(10th January), 931, 95t, ex div.; Three per Cent,.
Reduced, 951, f; New Three per Cents., 961, ;
Thirty Years Annuities,expiring in April, 1885,171;
Bank Stock, 227, 228; the New Indian Five per
Cent. Loan, 1081, 4, I ; the Indian Four per Cent.
Debentures, 1868, 97, 971; ditto, 1869, 96,1, 97;
India Bonds, 3s. prem.
The New Indian Five per Cent. Loan scarcely
participated in the flatness of the funds, leaving off
at 1081 to 1, although a number of exchanges from
this stock into the rupee loans are being effected.
The Indian Four per Cent. Rupee Loan wry quoted
79 to 80; the Five per Cent., 934 to 98, showing a
fresh improvement ; and the Five-end-a-Half per
Cent., 102 to 103.

Exebequer Bills remain quoted 275. to 30e. prem.
The foreign stock market wu quiet. Turkish
sleeks were steady, the Loan of 1854 being quoted
774 to 78, and that of 1858, 66 to i. Mexican
Bonds were fiat, at 221 to t, the supply continuing,
and Russian Three per Cents. steady, at 66 to 1.
An auction of the foreign redeemable debt of
Spain is to take place at Madrid on the 30th inst.