The Express.
London, England, 1850-03-06 00:00:00

MONEY MARKET.

TUESDAY EV2117110.
The market for public securities was rather more
buoyant to-day, and the prices of the home funds at
the clogs show an improvement of 1 since the morn-
ing. Console were first called at the advanced price
of 95/ to 1 for transfer, and 951 to Z for account,
when the accounts from Paris of the pacific declare.
tion of Prussia relative to the affairs of Neufchatel,
and the consequent improvement in the French
Beaten, gave increased firmness to the market, and
Consols touched 951, but subsequently became a little
weaker, and closed at 951 to 4 for money, and 95Z to
1 for the 13th inst. The Three per Cent. Reduced
were done from 951 to 96 ; and the New Three-and-
a-Quarter per Cents. from 971 to 981. South Sea
Old Annuities were dealt in at 951.
Exchequer Bills of all descriptions were negotiated
at 57e. and 645., and India Bonds at 84s. and 87s.
prem. Long Annuities, 8 9-16 and a • ditto, 30
yetis, 1839, 8 7-16; ditto, 30 years, 1860, 8 5-16
and 1. Bank Stock, 2071, 64, and 207.
The business in the foreign house was not of much
importance. Peruvian and Venezuela Bonds were
firmer, and both were done at a slight advance.
Peruvian fluctuated between 74 and 751. Russian
Five per Cent. Bonds were dons at 1061
and 1071 ex dividend. Chilian Bonds marked
101. The traosaet4se comprise the following :
Belgian Two-and-a-Half per Osets. at 50; exchange,
25f. Brazilian New Bonds, 1829 and 1839, at 871
and 88. Buenos Ayres, for account, at 52. Chilian
Six per Cents. at 101. Data Two-and-a-Half per
Cents., at 651; exchange, 12 gulls.; the Four per
Cent. Certificates, at 861, 1, and 4. Equiidor, at 34.
Mexican, for account, at 291 and 1. Peruvian Four
lr Cents., 1849, for the 15th March, at 741, 74, 751,
and 75; the Deferred Debt, from 321 to 331, last
at 321. Portuguese Four par Cents., for account, at
321 and 33. Russian Five per Cents., at 1061 and
1071, ex. div.; the Four-and-a-Half per Cent.:Scrip, at
11, 11, 2, and 14 premium. Spanish Five per Cent.
Active, at 171 and 2 ' • the Three per Cents., at 361,
1, and ( for cash, and 361 for time. Venezuela, at
341 an 34 ; ditto, Deferred, at 131, a, and 13.
Ma foreign exchanges today presented scarcely
even a fractional variation in the rates from those
which ruled on Friday.
Hamburg advice* of the let inst. mention that com-
paratively nothing had been done in coffee during the
week, the principal holders having withdrawn from
the market pending the result of the Datch Com-
pany's sales to take place next week. The sales ad-
vised do not exceed 3,000 bags Brazil at 44sch. to
Gsch. The stock at date was 1,000,0001b'. in ex-

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cess of the three previous years at same date. Sugar
was inactive, and the market depressed. The
stock at date was 3,300,000 lbs. in excess of the pre-
vious
year. Of Carolina rice a small parcel had been
disposed of at 13 to 13j marks. The stock of cotton
continued small, and scarcely anything had been done
in this article. In tobacco several transactions were
reported, and in Havana at reduced prices. Dye-
woods were in demand. South Sea train oil was
held at 48 marks. About 8,000 centner spelter had
been disposed of at 101 marks. Several parcels of
inferior wool had exchanged hands at 13 and 14 sch.
hence. The market for grain continued dull and
inactive. In funds and railway shares nothing was
doing. Money was abundant. The price of gold
continued to advance. It was quoted at 437 mark,.
In exchange little had been done; the rate on London
was 13 10 for 3 months, being a decline of j ach. since
last post.
The Chamber of Commerce at Stockholm, by de-
cree of the 21st February, has committed the unac-
countable folly of continuing under the classification
of "infected by cholera " the ports of Banff, Dart-
mouth, Grangemouth, Liverpool, Leith, Peterhead,
Westport, and Wick; whilst the ports of Aberdeen,
Berwick, and Montrose are declared " suspected."
The United States journals furnish us with some
particular& of a bill entitled "A Bill providing for
the free navigation of the St. Lawrence River, and
for reciprocal Trade with Canada," which has been
introduced into the United States Senate, and author-
ises the free admission of various articles of Canadian
produce, as soon as the government of Canada shall
permit the free introduction of similar United States
produce into the British territory, and shall throw
open the navigation of the St. Lawrence to vessels of
the United States. The provisions of the bill, which
is introduced by Mr. Douglas, are as follows:

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep-eeenta-
tives of the Urited States of America in Congress assembled,
that whenever the Government of Canada, being duly autho-
rised by the Government of Great Britain, shall confer upon
the citizens of the United States, in American bottoms, and
with boats and vessels of every description under the Ame.
riven flag, the privilege of using and navigating the river
St. Lawrence, together with all waters, including the
canals, connecting the upper lakes with the Atlantic
Ocean through said slyer, on an equal footing, and in
accordance with the regulations which now exist, or
shall hereafter be prescribed, for the use and naviga-
tion of .the same by the inhabitants of Canada and
subjects of Great Britain; and wh the President
of the United States shell issue hie proclamation, declaring
the articles hereinafter enumerated, being of the growth or
production of the United States, to be admitted into the
province of Canada by law free of duty—then, on and after
that day, until otherwise directed by congress, the like arti-
cles, being the growth or production of the said province
of Canada, shall be admitted into the United States free of
duty, when imported direct from said province, so long as
the said enumerated articles are admitted into said province
of Canada from the United States free of duty, to wit :
grains and breadstuff. of all kinds, vegetables, fruits, seeds,
animals, hide!, wool, sugar cheese, tallow, horns, salted
and fresh meats, ores of all kinds of metals, stone and
marble, ashes, timbir, staves, hemp, wood, and lumber of
all kinds.
A bill has been introduced into the legislature of
the state of Pennsylvania, to authorise a new loan
bearing 5 per cent. per annum interest, repayable at
any time after 1875. The object of this loan is to
provide for the payment of about 3,000,000 dollars
of the state debt now due, and falling due during
1850. _ _ -

Advice' from New York supply some particulars
relative to the whaling business of the United States
from which it appears that the prospects of this
branch of trade are not promising, The whole fleet
engaged, on the Ist of January last, consisted of 510
ships and barques, 20 brigs, and 13 schooners, being
a decrease of 71 ships and one brig, or 25,626 tons,
as compared with the same date in the previous year.
Several circumstances have united to diminish to •
considerable extent the business of whaling, but it is
considered that the decrease in the whaling fleet is
to be attributed to the great number of vessels which
have left the Atlantic states foe California. The
more general competition of gu has for some time
put gradually diminished the use of candles, and the
various substitutes for oil have caused a great falling
off in the sale of that article.

peper Cant. t.
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coweb----- ---- --
041
31 Stock 961
Dublin and Kingstown Rail De .d per Cent.
Royal Bank (111. paid per
Mining Company of Ireland (7 I. paid 51 I
Wicklow Copper Mine (11. pakl) 13
Dublin and Belfast Junction
Midland Gt. Western and Royal Canal Company 33
tiFeIIA?IORS A. D lITDCIIS ABROAD.

1311MIL/4MoanLaoper Cent.,
99/ ; Ditto, 1848, Fire per Cent., 941; Ditto, 1844, Four-and-s-Ilalf
per Cents., 891 ; of the City, 1832, Four per Cent., 100/ Ditto,
1843, Vire per Cent., 951 ; Bank of Belgium, Four per Cent.,
84/. Exchange on London, 23.4/j.
kermess, MARCH 4.—Y.schange un London, 25.47/.
Mmteu 28.—Duteh Funds : Active Debt, TRO4IICI.I.
Half per Omits., 541 money, 531 bills; Ditto, Three per Cents.,
64 money. 63 kills: Dittm Four per Cants., 83 money, 1451 bills;
Amort avail Three-and-a-Half per Cents., $3 moue , Sal bills;
Frankfort Three per Cent. Certif., 531 money, 94 bills; RuWun Fine
perCenta, Elope and Lb. 101/ money, 1011 bills; Stieglits Four per
Cents., 84/ money, 844 bills; Spanish Fire per Ceuta. 11/ money,
11/ bills; Ditto, Three per (ants., inland, 2111 money, 291 bills;
Austrian Fine lee Cents., Metallic+, 78 money, 781, bills; Ditto, Twu.
and.s.Half per Cents., 411 money, 411 bills.

THIS DAT.

Two o'CLooc.

The favourable accounts from vario;;ParteOithe
Continent, but more especially the moderate
tone assumed by Prawns with reference to
Schleswig-liolstein and Switzerland, have increased
the confidence of the speculators for a
rise in the English funds, and the market
in consequence opened to-day at en advance
of i over yesterday's :final prices, which has since
been well supported. Console were first called 96i
to I, and fell for a short time to 95 for transfer ;