The Express.
London, England, 1858-12-30 00:00:00

MONEY MAKEIII-THIS DAY.

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Two Moos.
Borne sales of stock for money having been premed,
and the announcement d the new Victoria Railway

Loan having produced an unfavourable impression, the
funds have to-day sustained a fresh decline
of I per cent. The government broker
has made his usual purchase. The share
markets, in which the settlement is in comae of
completion, are little affected by the heaviness of
the funds. English railway stocks exhibit especial
strength.

Consols were first marked 961 ex div. for the 11th
of January, and are now quoted 961, " millers."
The Three per Cents. Reduced have been dealt
in at 97 to 971 ; the New Three per
Cents., at- 97f to 1; Bank Stock, at 226 k;
the Indian Four per Cent. Debentures of the
first issue at 991 to ; being rather more
offered; India Bonds, at 16s. prem. ; and Ex-
chequer Bills, March and June, at Ns. to 395.
prem.
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- The foreign stock market is quiet. The prin.
eipal feature has been a fresh decline in,
the New Turkish Loan. The scrip of the
first series is marked for money se low as 11 dia.,
but the present quotation is 11 to 1 dia.; :the
scrip of the second series is now quoted
11 to 1 die. The Six per Cents., of 1854, after being
marked 911, are now quoted 911 to 92. The scrip
of the New Chilian Loan has been dealt in ,
at par, the nominal quotation being par.
to 1 prom. Portuguese and Venexaelan Banda are
inquired for. Sales are recorded as follows :—Bra.
:than Five per Cents., 1829 end 1839, 102; ditto
Fonr-and-a-Half per Cents., 1868, 96; Chilian
Four-and•a-Half per Cents., 1868 (scrip), par;
Dutch Four per Cent. Certificates, 1001;
New Granada Deferred Bonds, 61; Portuguese Three
per Cents., 1863, 481; Turkish Six per Cents.,
1864, 92, 9111 ditto Six per Cents. 1868 (scrip of
the first series), 11, 1/ dia.; ditto for mount (14th
January), 1 to 11 dia. ; Venezuela Five per Cents.
for account, 441.
In

and at the Bank of England
the demand for money yesterday was brisk. The
minimum for the beat bills is 21 per cent. in all

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The official notification relating to the New
Victoria (Australia) Railway Loan has been
burned. The committee will receive tenders en
the 7th of January for 6 per cent. bonds to the
amount of one million sterling, being the first
issue. The bonds will be in amounts of 1,0001.,
5001., and 1001. each, and will be redeemable at the
expiration of 25 years. A deposit of 6 per cent. is
to be previously paid, and the remaining instalment
is apparently to be liquidated with little delay, in
one sum, for it is intimated that " the debenture' me
eactracted for will be deliverable to the subscribers
at the London and Westminster Bank, on Mirada,'
the Ist day of February next, upon payment of the
balance due thereon." The operation consequently in.
valves an immediate call of upwards of a million sts‘
ling upon the money market; but a very large pewee-
don of this, as in the ease of the Chili= Loan, will I
doubtless be expended here in railway materials.'
Few but boas fide investors will be disposed to take
part in the negotiation. Probably a considerable
amount of the bonds will be absorbed by insurance
offices and similar establishments. The price of the
series of Violeta Government Six per Cent. Bonds
quoted in the Stock Exchange list has ranged
of late between 112 and 113. The offi-
cial notification might have been more ex-
plicit in designating the period at which
the next hone is to be brought forward.
The financial position of the colony of Victoria is
undoubtedly very flourishing.
A memorial to the Stock Exchange Committee,
in support of a proposal for closing that establish-
ment on Saturday next, the let of January, has re-
ceived numerous signatures. The memorialists urge
that very little business is now done on Saturday.,
and that the let of January is observed as a close
holiday on the Bourses of Paris and moat of the other
continental cities.
Considerable arrival. .f specie are expected during
the aext few days by the steamers from the West
Indies and Mexico and New York.
About 44,0001. in Russian gold same to hand yes-
terday, and was purchased for the Continent.
The delivery of the letters from Caleatta and
China has given additional firmness to the elver
market. To purchase any considerable sum, lia. lid.
per ounce would have to be paid, or id. above the
present nominal pries.
The advice. from China hays led to an increased
demand for some descriptions of tea.
The corn market yesterday wee very quiet, at
former prices.
A telegram received yesterday from fit. Petersburg
quotes the exchange on London at 36 11-10 d. No
important alteration had taken plans in the market
for predate, but flax showed increased &muses.
The London and North Western Railway traffic
return shows this week an increase of 6,0641.; the
London and South Western, an increase of 8641. ;
the Great Western, an increase of 1,6951. ; and the
Great Northern, a decrease of 3,0011.
It is rumoured that the forthcoming traffic
return of the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Company will show an increase of about 6,6001.
The system under which some persons obtain prio-
rity of information is highly objectionable.
The half-yearly meeting of the London and Green-
wich Railway Compaay is called for the 11th Jan.,
when a half-yearly dividend of 11. 7s. 6d. per cent.,
or 5.. 6d per share, will be recommended on the
ordinary stock.
A gametal meeting of shareholders in the Bank of
Loodsa is called for the 20th January, and a half-
iMlyaneetiag of shareholders in the Cosizamekl
of Leedom for the 18th January.
The half-yearly meeting of shareholders in the
Unity Bank is called for the 21st January.
Meese. Dent, Palmer, and Co. alumnae the half-
yearly dividends on South Carolina Bonds.
The interest is also announced on the debentures
of the Melbourne and Hobson's Bay Railway Cotn-
WV
At a meeting of the London creditors of the noes.
✓ioes;Colonel Win. Petrie Waugh, hell yesterday, Mr.
Flower in the chair, it was proposed by Mr. Atoka
@seceded by Mr. Helbronner, and minalansedy re-
solved : " That this meeting °enactr wilit theasealr,
creditors in their opiniaa that it is inriedeobisesder
pesent circumstances to prosecute Goland Weigh at
the expense of the taints, such a °oars* ',Ababa el
poeuniary advantage to the creditors, bat geliiiide a
merlons diminution of the meta." It was timspos.
posed by Mr. Gwynos, seconded by Mr. Fula %sed
unanimously resolved : " That the etosbupea.
cad to obtain the appointment of a si Ss the
division of the present eases, it heist to
&peas of the claim of the Lonricasaßeeek,
aid that the assignees be requited Is rode emit
as
well in respect of the debt said to beds. to
bank
as of the alleged liability of Coked
se a contributory." It was further
resolved: "That the thanks. of
the eddling be and they are kere:r given
to Mears. J. and J. H. Linklater Hawk-
weed /*their successful management of the estate."
The andat of debts proved against the estate is the
Banked*, Court was about 30,0001. This sant is,
of course, irrespective of the large dela doe by
Waugh to the London and Eastern Beek. It is
perhaps scarcely surprising that the private credi-
tors of this dieunguialied criminal should decline the
task of prosecuting Aim, which ruts mash men
properly with the repressatatives of the defrauded
With referenee to the market for Ausszioan reli-
ne securities, Mr. E. F. Setterthweite reports as
faftws :
The market la Leedom for AMAMI emarlass lea, defies
Ike pee week, been wry Woeful., snd qesteakes roma