The Express.
London, England, 1861-11-06 00:00:00

MONEY JKARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'CLocK.

The funds to-day are dull, but the closing quo-
tations of yesterday are supported. The prin-
cipal business has consisted of preparations for
to-morrow's settlement. In the other markets the
transactions have been upon a limited scale. The
railway market generally is unaltered.
C 011306 are officially marked 931 awl 93
for money, and 93 for the account (November
7). The present quotation is 93 to 1,
both for money and to-ntorrow's settlemeht.
The official business report is as follows :—Bank
Stock, 230 ; Three per Cents. Reduced,
91g, ; New Three per Cents., 91i, 1 ; India
Five per Cent. Stock, 1051, 105 ; ditto Four
per Cent. Debentures, 1863, 982, ; ditto
18r.i4, 98i ; ditto 1859, 982, 1 ; ditto Bonds, 15s,
prem.; Five per Cent. " educed " rupee paper, 98.
97,; ; ditto Five-and-a-Half per Cent., 105 ; Ex-
chequer Bills, June, 17s. prem.

The statement in the 3funitette respesting the
signing of the convention between the three
powers has given a renewed impulse to the
price of Mexican Bonds, which have been
dealt in as nigh as 281. The Turkish
loan of 1654 is quiet, at 791 to 2, whilst
that of 1858 has declined 1 per cent., being
quoted 67 to Venezuela Bonds are in demand.
Sales are recorded as follows :—Brazilian Four-
and-a-Half per Cents., 1960, 92i, 1 ; Buenos Ayres
Six per Cents., for account, ; Belgian Four-aud-
a-Half per Cents., 98 (exchange 25fr.) ; Chilian
Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 852 ; Dutch Two-
and-a-Half per Cents., for account, 642 ex
div. (exchange 12fi.) ; ditto, Four per Cent.
Certificates, 100, 991 ; Italian Five per
Cents., 68 (exchange 25fr.) ; Mexican Three
per Cents., 27/ ; ditto for account, 271, 281,
271, 28 ; Peruvian Uribarren Four-and-a-Half per
Cents., 94k ; Sardinian Five per Cents., for ac-
count, 821, I ; the Spanish Committee's
Certificates, 6, ; Turkish Six per Cents., 1858,
67, e ; ditto for account, 871, }, 87 ; ditto Gua-
ranteed Four per Cents., 1021 ; Venezuela Three
per Cents., for account, 22, f.

The Paris Bourse telegrams have not yet
arrived.

The discount market yesterday was quiet and
very easy, an impression being entertained in some
quarters that the Bank of England may perhaps
reduce their rate to 3 per cent. tomorrow. The
applications at that establishment yesterday *we
very limited. In Lombard-street the best bills
were discounted at 2k per cent., or 1 below the
Bank minimum. _ _

The annual drawing of bonds of the Turkish
Loan of 1858 will take place next month. The
amount applicable for the purpose is 1 per cent., or
50,000/. Reckoning from the present price, a
bonus of 321 per cent. will be gained by the holders
of the fortunate numbers, who will be paid off at
the rate of 100 per cent.
No gold was carried to the Bank yesterday.
367,5001. Atustrahun is now due.
Bills on the Continent being in fair demand yester-
day afternoon, the tendency of the exchanges was
rather unfavourable. The principal alteration was
a decline in the rates for short bills on Paris. The
Austrian exchange was firm. Subjoined is our
usual list :

Amsterdam, 3 months, 12.01 to 11 : ditto, 3 days, 11.184
to 19 ; Rotterdam, 3 months, 12.1 to ; Antwerp,
months, 25.621 to 74 • Hamburg, ma. bane*, 3 months,
13.91 to 101 ; Paris, 3.days, 25.25 to 35 ; ditto, 3 months,
25.624 to 7l ; Frankfort-ou-the-Maine, 3 months, 1191 to
; Petersburg (per rouble), 3 mouths, 321 to 33 ; Vienna,
eft. so., 3 months. 14.15 to 25; Trieste, elf. so., 3 months,
14.15 to 25; Madrid, 3 months, 481 to ; Cadis„ 3 mouths,
al to ; Leghorn, 3 months, 25.774 to 824 ;
_Genoa., 3
months, 25.774 to 821 ; Milan, 3 months, 25.774 to WI ;
Naples, 3 mouths, 394 to ; Palermo, 3 months, 1184 to ;
Messina, 3 months,
I 118 to I ; Lisbon, 90 days, 52 to I ;
Oporto. 90 days, 524 to I.
The Liverpool cotton market continues heavy.
The sales yesterday were only 3,000 bales.
Ceylon Government Six per Cent. Debentures
were disposed of by public tender yesterday at the
offices of the Agents-General for Crown Colonies, to
the extent of 100,0001., at prices varying from.
1041. 2s. 9d. to 1061. The minimum was fixed at
1031. The total amount applied for was 642,0001.
As these debentures have only seven years to run,
and are new to the public, the price obtaincd
is a very good one. With one exception (the Cape
of Good Hope Loan, the first sale of which was at
105 to 108), it has never been exceeded as a first issue
by the securities of any of our colonial possessions.
A meeting has been held of the creditors of Mr.
W. Harryman, hop merchant, of the Borough,
but the details have not been allowed to transpire.
The London, Malta, and Alexandria Telegraph
(via Tripoli and Bengasi) being now in suocesafcl
operation, the rates at which messages are to be
transmitted have been publisned. For a message
of 20 words from London to Alexandria the charge
will be 21. 6a. 9d. The communication between
Malta and Alexandria does not occupy more than
five minutes. Should the English clerks who are
being placed at the principal Italian telegraph
offices, under a convention signed by the Italian
government, experience no impediment in the pro-
secution of their labours, iris believed that the period
required for sending &despatch through from London
to Alexandria will not exceed five or six hours.
_ .

Subjoined are the latest quotations of insurance,
gas, dock, and other shares, as given in the last
Stock Exchange list :

Inauranew —Alliance British and Foreign, 144 ex div.
Ditto Marle, 564 ; Atlas, 114 Eagle, 76 ex div. ; =sty
and lAw, 7 ; Gasadian, 49 ; Imperial Life 204 ;
ail y Marine, 160; Law Life, 81 ; Liverpool and Loudon Firs
and Life, 74 • Marine, PS ; Mercantile Fire 24, ; Ocean
Marine, 94, ; Boek Life, 84, i.; Each .3•41-
Gas Light and Coke.—Brig ton, ; Commons'', 364
ex div. and ex new ; Equitable (new), 14 ; European, 124,
; Great Central, 124 ; Imperial.Bl4, 2 ; London, 69 ex div. ;
'Surrey Consumers, 14 ; Vlestminster Chartered (new), 294;
Western, 174.
Docks.—East and Wass India, 124 ; London, 64, 4, 4 ;
Victoria, 97
Regen 4.
Moak —t's (at Loudon), 22.
Walerwarim 1; Chelsea, 233, ; East London,
1%; Southwark and Van ba I, 118.
Bridges.—Waterloo, 4.

TtIEfIDAT EV .11(LTO.

Consols, which closed yesterday at 93 to.
for money and Thursday's settlement, opened this
morning at the same quotation, fell to 921 to 93,
and closed at 93 to 4. For the sth Dec. the last
price was 934 to 1. The official business report is
as follows :—Three per Cent. Consols, for money,
931, 921, 931 ; ditto for account (Nov. 7), 931, 93 ;
Three per Cents. Reduced, 911, 5,5; New Three
per Cents., 911, 5, ; Bank Stook, 229, 230 ;
India Stock, 225 ; ditto Five per Cent. Stock,
1051, 1041, 1064, ; ditto Four per Cent.
Debentures, 1863, 981 • ditto 1864, 981 ; Five-
and-a-Half per Cent. "enlaced" rupee paper, 1044.
The India Five per Cents. were rather dull at
1041 to 1061.
The rupee paper was rather flat. The Five
per Cent. closed at 971 to 98, and the Five-
and .a-Half per Cent at 1041 to 1.
There was a fresh rise of Is. in the Juue Ex-
chequer Bills, which were quoted 15e. to 18s. prem.
The March Bills were staid), at ss. to Bs. prem.
Mexican Bonds, after showing dulness, recovered
in the afternoon to 27/ to Turkish declined
per cent., the Loan of 1864 closing at 795 to I,
and that of 1858 at 675 to 5. Venezuela Bondi
left off slightly lower than yesterday, at 22 tt. 5.
Buenos Ayres were again better, being marked
Mend 90.

NATIONAL TAximor4.—On Monday eveuing Mr.
Robertson Gladstone presided at a public meeting held in
the Concert-hall, Liverpool. on the subject of the " present
enormous amount of taxation and wasteful extravagance of
the public expenditure." After the chairman had delivered
a long speech, during which he contended that indirect
taxation was demomlisiog to the workiug cl mse., Mr.
Washington Willis delivered a lecture upon the subject,
in the comma of which he earnestly requested the men of
Liverpool and of England to examine into the present
of taxation, and endeavour to reform it in order that
Litruight be happier and better.