The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-11 00:00:00

MONEY MARKE2.-.(THIS DAL)

Two o'CLowz.

Business on the Stock Exchange to-day continues
limited, and the general feeling is less favourable,
the news from America being considered unsatis-
factory. The present quotations of Consols, how-
ever, do not vary from those of Saturday afternoon.
At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Reuter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes opened at
68fr. 10a, being ric. lower than on Saturdayt
The scrip of the New Indian Five per Cent.
Loan remains at 1001 to _ _

Consols are officially marked 911 and # for
money, and 9n and f for the account. The
present quotations are 91„ to 1 for cash, and
92f to I for the 10th of April. The official
business report is as follows: —lndia Stock,
221 ; ditto Five per Cent. Stock, 100, f, ;
ditto Scrip, 1001 ; Exchequer Bins, €6., Is. die.
In foreign stocks, Turkish Six per Cents. are
again firmer, the 1854 Loan being quoted 71 to
72, and that of 1858, 53 to 64. . Mexican
has also improved to 24 to 24f, and there
have been some inquiries for Spanish bonds.
Sales are recorded as follows:—Brazilian
Four-and- a-Half per Cents., 1800, 811 ;
Mexican Three per Cents., for account,
24 ; Portuguese Three per Cents., 1863, for
account, 461 ; ditto Three', per ;Cents., 1866,
1867, and 1869, 461; Russian Four-and-a-Half
per Cents., 91 ; Spanish Three per Cents.,
for account, 481 ; ditto New Deferred
Three per Cents., for account, 41, f ; ditto Passive,
171 ; the Committee's Certificates, 61 ; Turkish
Six per Cents., 1854, for account, 71# ; ditto Six
per Cents., 1858, for account, 531, ex div. ; ditto
Guaranteed Four per Cents., 991.

The Thames and Ydsle have arrived from Aus-
tralia, the former with G 9,0001. in gold ; and the
latter with 23,0001.
At Vienna the exchange has fallen from 150.50
to 148.26.

The transfer books for the stocks on which the
dividends become due in April are now shut.
The fortnightly settlement in shares and foreign
stocks will commence to-morrow (" continuation
day") and terminate on Thursday.
We understand that it is proposed to send in the
address to the Turkish minister respecting the ap-
propriation of the Constantinople Customs Dutien
early this week. It is very desirable, therefore,
that holders should avail themselves without delay
of the opportunity of appending their signatures
to it.

About 20,000 Z. in French gold coin was on Satur-
day sent into the Bank.
The amount of specie shipped by the Canada,
which left Liverpool on Saturday for Halifax and
Boston, was 176620/., making a total of 4,383,1G01.
since the 28th November.

The Magdalena has arrived from Brazil with
38,9511. in specie.
The Delta will take to-morrow 134,5401. in
silver and 25,6001. in gold for Bombay, making
together 160,0401.
A meeting of the creditors of Messrs. lk nyon
and Co., flax spinners, of Leeds, was he:d on
Thursday. The liabilities reach 52,2661., while
the assets are estimated at 17,071/. The re:ativee
of the partners offered to give 10,0001. to allow the
payment of a dividend of 10s. in the pound, but
the creditors were not disposed to accept less than
15,000/. The meeting was consequently adjourned
for a week for further consideration.

The annual meeting of the British Aiaerican
Land Company is called for the 27th inst.
The half-yearly meeting of the Pernambuco Rail-
way Company is convened for the Bth of April.
An extraordinary meeting of the Zealand Rail-
way Company is called for the 10th of April, at
Copenhagen, to decide whether the company will
undertake the construction of a railway from Co-
penhagen to Elsinore, just authorised by the govern-
ment.

The annual meeting of tho Belgian Eastern Junc-
tion Railway Company is called for the 28th Mat
in London, and for the 30th at Brussels.
The half-yearly interest is advertised on Vic-
toria Government Debentures.

A half-yearly dividend is announced on the
shares in the Rock Life Office.
Mr. M. Slaughter, Secretary to the Railways
Department of the Stock Exchange, has just issued
a new, being the 14th, edition of his valuable
" Railway Intelligence."* The prese:it issue con-
tains reliable details of various important arrange-
ments connected with the Brazilian and Canadian
railway companies, as well as a deecri?tion of seve-
ral measures, lately sanctioned by parliament, of
importance to investors and dealers in railway secu-
rities. The substantial accuracy of the work is
guaranteed by the official position of the author,
which necessarily renders him familiar with a great
variety of railway statistics. The volume will be
found very useful for reference by every person
interested in this class of property.
A " Handy-Book on the Law of Principal and
Surety." (Effingham Wilson, Royal Eachauge), by
Mr. Edward Lawrence, jun., furnishes, iu a very
neat and compact form, a summary of a branch of
the law which possesses considerable interest, and
which, as a rule, is but imperfectly understood by
the public.
The returns of the quantities of silk passed
through the condition-houses are looked
upon abroad as indexes of the movements
of the silk market At Lyons these re-
turns are made daily. As the came bale of silk is
not unfrequeutly passed through the condition-
house more than once—these returns however show
more than the amount of silk consumed : they are
really indexes of purchases and sales. It is the rule
abroad to condition every parcel of silk as it changes
owners. In England the custom of sales at con-
dition weight having been introduced only within
the last ten years, thin is the exception. The im-
port of silk into London has within the last year been
upwards of nine millions. The London condition-
house return is little more than a quarter of a
million.

Quantities of silk conditioned at the principal condition•
houses of the Continent nod in England during the year
1860 : _ .

Bales. lba.
Aubenas
Bergamo
Brescia 463 ..... 85,383
Como
Crefeld
Elberfekl
St. Etienne 9,251 1,271,090
Florence
London 1,140 ...... 211,942
Lyons
Manchester
Milan
Turin
Udine
Vienna
Zurich

Subjoined is an account of the quantities of the
principal articles of imported merchandise re-
maining in the Customs warehouses of the United
Kingdom on tL•e 31st January, 1861, compared with
the quantities in warehouse on the 31st January,
1860:

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Remaining in the Customs Warehouses
3lat Jan.. 1860. 31st Jan.,1661.
Comm
Coffee
Currants
Raisins „ 180,430 ... 59,546
Pepper lb. 5.709,218 ... 5,738,878
Rum
Braedy.
5,011,786 ... 3,203,393
Sugar, reined (foreign) eih. 47,146 ... 83,061
Ditto, unrefined „ 1,609,606 ... 1,465,428
Mamma , 96,009 ... 136,085
Tss
Tobariee
Wine Pls. 9,730,763 ... 12,245,054
Commenting upon this statement, Messrs. Joseph
Travers and Sons observe : - --

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It will be seen that the country is comparatively well
supplied with most of the artizles in the shove list. Out
of thirteen items, only two chow an important 'eduction,
and in nine there Is a oonaid,rable augmentation. Those
• Publiaba by the author.