The Express.
London, England, 1859-06-04 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET -2111 S LAY.

Two &Glom.

The funds opened this morning with steadiness,
but have since fallen I per cent., upon some unfa-
vourable rumour*, coupled with the progress made
with the settlement, which has not yet
occasioned much inconvenience to speculators for the
fall. Business is limited.

In the other departments of the Stock Exchange
dulness prevails, and in a few instances prices are
rather lower.

Thequotations from the Paris Bourse, of this day,
have not yet come to hand.
Console are officially marked 92i to 931 for
money, and 921 to 931 for the 7th of June. The
present quotations are 921 to 1 for cash, 921 to 1
for the: approaching settlement, and 921 to $
for the Bth of July; Bank Stock has been dealt in
at 220; the Three per Cents. Reduced, at
92 to 921 ; the New Three per Cents., at 911 to 925;
the Indian Four per Cent. Debentures of last year,
at 941; the scrip of the New Indian Loan, at 93/
and Exchequer Bills at 18s. to 225. prem.
The foreign stock market is dull, and in some
instances prices are a little weaker. Turkish stocks
have declined 1 per cent., the old loan being quoted 671
to 64 and the new 561 to 571. Sales are recorded as
follows :—Brazilian Old Five per Cents, for account,
100; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., '1852, 90, ex
div. ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 1858, 91, ex
div. ; Mexican Three per Cents., for account, 17$;
Portuguese Three per Cents., 1853, for account,
42 ; Spanish New Deferred Three per Cents.,
for account, 281; Turkish Six per Cents.,
1854, 68 ; ditto for account, 681, 691, 87 ; ditto Six
per Cents., 1858, for account, 571, 58, 56 ; Vene-
zuela Five per Ceuta., 39 ; ditto, for account, 38$.

The steamer Malta, arrived at Suez on the 27th
May, with dates to the 17th of April from Melbourne.
The light portion of the Australian and Bombay
mails will be delivered in London on Monday
morning, and the heavy portion may be expected
at Southampton about the end of next week, by the
Ceylon.

HALF-PAST Two O'CLOCK.

No change has taken place daring the last half-
hoar, the quotation still being 921 to for
money, and 921 to 1 for the account (June 7).
The rates of discount are still falling. First class
bills were negotiated yesterday at 21 to 21 per cent.,
and, in exceptional cum, even as low as 21. The
applications at the Bank of England were very mo-
derato.

Messrs. Overend, Gurney, and Co., and Alexander
and Co., and the National and London Discount
Companies, have just announced a fresh reduction
of # per oent. in the rates for loans. For money
payable on demand 2 per cent. is now given, and at
seven days' notice, 21.
. _

About 4,0001. in gold was sent into the Bank yester-
day. Of the 113,0001. in specie by the Ocean Queen,
from New York, a portion wu taken yesterday for the
Continent. The 144,0001. ex the Kangaroo has not
yet come to hand.
There is some demand for silver for transmission
to the Continent, bat exporters do not appear willing
to pay the present price—viz., 62&d. per ounce
standard.

A considerable supply of Mexican dollars (irre-
spective of the large remittance despatched from the
western coast of Mexico_
_per her Majesty's ship
Alert) was expected from Mexico by the Parana, but
failed to arrive. The bills of lading have reached
London, having been brought to St. Thomas's by
the steamer from the Mexican Gulf, and it is we-
sumed that the dollars could not be shipped at Tam-
pico, owing to stress of weather. They will
doubtless come forward by the next steamer to
Southampton.
On 'Cnange yesterday aftet noon the rates for bills
on Holland, Hamburg, Frankfort, and Naples were
slightly lees favourable for this country. The
Vienna exchange has again risen. The rata are
shown below:
Amsterdam three months, 11.161 to I; ditto short,
11.12 to 13; Botterdem, three months, 11.151 to 1;
Antwerp, three months. 25.06 to 121; lieraturg, meats
haneo, three months, 13.31 to 41; Perla, thresdays tight, 56.6
to 121 •
~di:to, three months, 56.321 to 71 • Frankfort-on-
threlt 6 three months, 116 to 1; Petersburg, per
rouble, three mouths, 32 to 1; Vienna, rd to., three
months, 14.80 to 15.20; Trieste, ditto, three nooth, 14.80
to 16.20 ; Madrid, three mouths, 491 to 1; Cadiz, three
months, 491 to 1; Leghorn, three months, 30.10 to 30;
Getos, three months, 26.60 to 70; Naples, three months,
sfil to 401 ; Palermo, three months, 120 to 1; Menefee, three
month., 120 to 1; Lisbon, 90 dap, 611 to 1 ; Oporto, 90
days, 611 to 1. _ _

_ . .
Th. wheat market yesterday was very dell atMon-
day's prices.
The weekly report of the Liverpool cotton market
shows transactions representing an aggregate of
97,310 bales, and a rise of id. to ;d. above the
previous Friday's rates.
The Bombay, Baroda, and Central India Railway
Company invite applications for Five per Cent. De-
bentures having five years to ion, to the extent of
300,000/. The deposit is fixed at 10 per cent., pay-
able on application, and the final instalment of 20
per cent. falls due on the 29th of September next.
Payment of the principal and interest is guaranteed
by the Secretary of State for India in Council; and
at the expiration of twelve months the holders will
have the option during the remaining. period of the
currency of the debentures, of converting them into
Five per Cent. Guaranteed Shares.
The Indian Clevernment Five per Cent. notes are
quoted Is. 0/d, to Is. 10d. per rupee.
On the Ist proximo falls due the half-yearly gua-
ranteed interest on the Indian railway shares, as
well as dividends on the Dutch Two-and-and-a-Half
per Cents., Peruvian, Uribarren, and Regan bonds,
Portuguese 'three per Cents., Russian Fonr-and-a-
Half per Cents, Spanish Three per Cents., and Bel-
gian Two-and-a-Half per Cents.
The Eastern Monarch, which has just been des-
troyed by fire at Spithead, belonged to Messrs..
' Soma, of Blackwell, and registered 1,631 tone. Her
cargo included 2,782 bags of saltpetre, 15 oases and
784 pieces of elephant's teeth, 58 cues cassia lignin,
31 peskages gentle leaves, &c. The loss will fail
partly on Lloyd's.
Application has been made to the Committee of
the Stock Exchange to appoint al settling day in
the shares of the Atlantic Royal Mail Steam Naviga-
tion Company.
The seventh ordinary general meeting of the
London Chartered Bink of Australis took place yes-
terday. The directors' report, which recommended a
half-yearly dividend of 3 per cent., making 6 per
cent. for the year 1858, was adopted.
The Caledonian Railway traffic return shows this
week • decrease of 8081.
A dividend becomes payable on the stock of the
Regent's Canal Company on the sth of July.
A ballot of the shareholders in the Great Britain
Mutual Life Assurance Society will take place on
the 17th inst., .es decide upon the proposal for the
transfer of the company's business and liabilities to I
the European Life Assurance Society.
e n Td
ihneg r ewt nerndnesdof
atyhe, Bank o
June lf,
comparedo
eel England
wfirththte week ,
ohs
epeet 1
skim weekly return, shows the following results:—
CircuWion issue
Circulation active .21,092,366 Morose' 129,320
Public deposits
Oskar deposits
Government ercurities in
Imaldnidefertment
Other eseuritme in tanking
divestment 19,206,940 Decreeas 91,634
Coin and bullion in both
departments
gave day and other tills, 783,705 Ingram 17,709
The Rest
Notes ate
reserve . , coin) 10,478,390 Inman 619,740
Total reserve (now.):
hi wasps deportment 11,147,241 Increase 486,447

The movement of the deposits and securities is
favourable, and the reserve of notes has consequently
increased upwards of half a million. The bullion
also continues to increue, and now exceeds 17;