The Express.
London, England, 1858-12-23 00:00:00

MONEY .MARICEI-TEUS PAY.

Two o'OLong.
The funds opened this morning at the closing
quotations of yesterday, but have sines advanced
about I per cent., although business remains
inactive. The government broker has made
his usual purchase. In the other departments of
the Stock Elchange there is no return of activity
bat firmness continues to prevail. The principal
feature consists of a rise in Midland, Lombardo-
Venetian, and French railway shares.

01rialeis were first marked 964 ez div. for the 11th
ha., and are now quoted 961, " buyers." The Three
per Cents. Reduced have been dealt in at 97 to 971;
the New Three per Cents., at 971 to 971 ; India
Stock, at 230 ; the India. Four per Cent. Debentures
of the first issue, at 991 to 100 ; India Bonds, at
14s. to las. pr m. ; and Exchequer Bills, both March
and June, at 365. to 395. premium
The transactions in the foreign stock market
hare been extremely few. Turkish stocks ex-
hibit no alteration, the scrip of the first series of
ihe new loan being quoted Ito die., that of the
seoond series Ito 1 dis, and the Biz per Cents. of
1864, 921 to 93. There are some enquiries for
Mexican and Portuguese Beads. Bales are recorded
as follows :—Bratilien Four-and-a-Ralf per Cents.,
1848, 961 ; Mexican Three per Cents., for account,
301 Portuguese Three per Cents., 1863, for
amonnt,4B, 481 ; Turkish Six per Cents., 1868,
{scrip of the first series), for account, 1, die. ;
Venezuela Five per Cents., for account, 44 ; ditto
Deferred Two per Cents., 181.
• At Paris yesterday (Wednesday) the Three per Cent.
• • tee closed at 73.36 for money, and 73.45 for
the met., showing a rise of nearly per cent
•compared with the closing prices of Tuesday.
A telegram announces the arrival of the mall
abrader at Suez, with the Calcutta and China mails.
The China exchange* are more unfavourable for
this country.

QV...ETRE-PAST Two.

Consols have receded to exactly 961 for the
11th Janwiry, owing, apparently, to the unfavour-
able movement in the China exchanges.
In the discount market the rats for the best bills
is still 2* per cent., with a good demand. At the
Bank the applications yesterday were upon the more
active scale lately noticed, including some from the
discount brokers.

The Kent, from Melbourne, with 390,7001. ii.
gold, has now been 77 days at sea.
In the corn market yesterday prices were quoted
the same u on Monday.
Juts sold freely yesterday at auction, at an advance
of 10e. to 16s. per ton.
Telegrams just received from St. Peters-
burg report a farther considerable rise in the ex-
change on London, the quotation being 37 7-111 d.
Only a few weeks ago it was ea low as 36(d. This
fresh rise gives countenance to the rumours of •i
owning loan, but the arrangements connected with
the payments on account of the capital of the Rus-
sian railways have, perhaps, some influence.
The next mails for Calcutta and China via Mar-
seilles will be made up in London on Cnristmas-day.
The stoppage is announced of Means. Metcalfe
and Co., distillers, of West Ham. The liabilities are
believed to be very moderate.
The B.spping Gazette publishes an elaborate
judgment, wnich has lately been pronounced by Mr.
Temple, the Chief Justice of the Supreme Cunt of
British Honduras, in the case of " Plum v. Hyde
and Co." The question at issue was, virtually,
whether the colonial creditors of Messrs. James
Hyde and Co., of Belize, should have a preferease is
the distribution of assets over the creditors of Masers.
Hide, Hodge, and Co., of London, the two hum
being, in reality, the same. The court has adapted.
the common genes view that there is no such law is
that country, and that the estate of an insolvent
must be distributed fairly and equally amongst all
his creditors, wherever they may reside.
The London and North Western Railway traffic
return shows this week an increase of 8421. ; the
Great Northern, a decrease of 3,3611. ' • the Great
Western a decrease of 3311.1 and the London and
South Western, a decrease of 1,4931. Attached to
the Great Northern Company's return is the follow-
ing official note :—" The apparent decrease arises
from the foreign traffic having been under-estimated
in the returns for the early months of the oorres-
ondiiig half of last year. This was corrected in
December,
1857, so that the returns for that month
were in excess of the actual traffic."

The sixth ordinary general meeting of the share-
holden in the City Beak is called for the 18th Jan.
The shares of the Maria Antonia (Florence) Rail-
way Company, with 331. tia. Bd. paid, were officially
marked yesterday 14, and the new shares, with 107.
•paid,43.

A decline of pa cent. took place yesterday in
New Brunswick Government Bonds.

With refasten to the market for American Rail-
;adeveseeurititie Mr. R. F. Satterthwaite reports ac
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The finance 001111111ittes of the Council of Indiawill
receive tendon ea the 28th inst. for the hire of ships
to carry 470 troops her Majesty's service from
IGravesend to Bombay, Calcutta, and Kurrsehee.
The Admiralty have taken up the following ne-
eels for the conveyance of stores, viz.: The City of
Peterborough, for Cape Town; Bridgetown, for liar-
lbadoes ; Emily, for Menthols; Rambler, Ibr Trin-
idad; Jahn Bunyan and Vriedoland, for Malta;
Hawk, for Gibraltar ; and the Lella, for the Ba-
hama.

WmNYDAS EVEItISO.

The funds opened this morning with a firmer ap-
pearanoe, and a recovery of 3 per mak was tem-
porarily established. This movement was partly
attributed to n-purchasse by iqmealatan who sold
upon the tint rumours of a cooing Itsmian loan, !
without stopping to inquire whether its introduction
is likely to be deferred for weeks or months. la the
afternoon less buoyancy was shows, bat the elating
quotationa were IV per asst. UMW than these of
yesterday. The gevene Wier maim his
day Investments in 11181Siiii gat&
The abases of any reipeere fist the Pid•Bawm•
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gave rise to some isavuuslibli.
In the other &partialities' the Obit
drums prevailed, asidealift is