The Express.
London, England, 1857-06-24 00:00:00

MONEY MAREBT.—TIIIS DdY.

Two o'CLoca.
The funds opened this morning at the final quo-
tations of yesterday, and have since receded about
1-16 per cent. Great inactivity prevails through-
out the Stock Exchange.
Consols opened at 931 to 1, and arc now quoted
93 1-16 to 3-16, or exactly 931 cx div. for the
9th July. The Three per Cents. Reduced are
marked 92;, to 93; the New Three per Cents.
921 to 03 ; Exchequer Bills, 4s. dis. to par. ; and
India Bonds, 7s. die. .

In foreign stocks there is no variation of im-
portance, and the transactions are limited to
the following, viz.:—Dutch Four per Cent.
Certificates at 971; Equador New Consolidated
Bonds at 14 ; Mexican, for account (30th June), at
221; Russian Five per Cents., at 110 ; Spanish
Old Three per Cents., at 42 ; ditto, for account, at
421; and Turkish Six per Cents., for account, at 96.
It is known that the position of the Bank of
England is experiencing a steady improvement
from day to day, and the appearance of the
crops is most favourably spoken of ; but in the
absence of any decided fall in the value of money
the public hold aloof from the Stock Exchange, and
the speculators are indisposed to operate to any im-
portant extent.

There was yesterday a good demand for money,
both in the discount market and in the Stock Ex-
change. In the latter establishment the current
rate for loans on government stock was 6 per cent.
Of the specie brought from the United States by
the Arabia, the 353,0001. destined for England
reached London yesterday. Of this sum about
80,0001. was sent into the Bank ; 50,000/., consisting
of American eagles, was purchased for exportation
to the Continent ; and 50,0001., consisting of
Mexican dollars, will be sent to China. The rest,
which is in gold, remains on sale, and a portion of it
will probably be sent into the Bank today.
The amount of silver as yet actually engaged for
shipment for the East by the Colombo on the 4th of
July is about 300,0001. It is at present computed
that the total remittances by that vessel will not ex-
ceed 700,0001. or 800,0001. This estimate may per-
haps be hereafter modified; but, as we have before
mentioned, the shipments by the Pere on the 20th
inst. were altogether exceptional, being greatly
swelled by the large arrivals of silver from Mexico.
The steamer Alhambra has brought 2,463/. in
specie from the Peninsula.
The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon were
generally firm, and as regards bills on Hamburg the
rate was even somewhat higher than on Friday last.
The quotations on Paris and Vienna, however, were
rather lower. The current rates are shown below,
vie. •
MOW/edam, three months, 12.01 to 12.0! ; ditto, short,
11.171 to 18 , Rotterdam, three months, 12.01 to 01 , Ant-
werp and Brussels, three months, 26.60 to 21 ; Hamburg,
thee, month', 13.81 to ; Paris, three months, 25.871 to 721 ;
ditto, short, 25.25 to .10; Marseilles, three months, 25.70
to 21; Frankfort-on-the-Maine, three months, 1191 to 1;
Petersburg, three month., 37 to 1; Timms, three months,
10.29 to 31; Trieste, three months, 10.30 to 32; Naples,
three months, 421 to 1 ; Genoa, three months, 25.80 to 5,
three months, 29.75 to 80; Oporto, three months,
62 to *, Lisbon, three months, 521 to 1.
e Paris advice. mention that the French Ame-
rican Steam Company has obtained the concession of
the Spanish transatlantic steam lines, with the grant
of a subvention derivable from the revenues of Cuba.
The shares of the Euphrates Valley Railway
Pr Company were in demand yesterday, and closed at
i • 1-16 to prem. (with 28. paid), owing to the favoura-
ble reception given yesterday by Lord Palmerston to
the influential deputation which waited upon him
r with reference to this company.
In giving the subjoined explanatory note we may
mention that the paragraph referred to was a literal
abstract of the official notification put forward by the
k Monarch Assurance Company.