The Express.
London, England, 1861-02-25 00:00:00

MONEY MARKE2.--(THI8 D 41,1

Two o'Cuww.

Business on the Stock Exchange continues in-
active, but prices are fairly maintained. British
railway stocks show a firmer tendency.
Consols opened at 914 to 4 for money, and 914 to 1
for the account, or the same as on Saturday, and
remains without alteration to the present hour.
The official business report is as follows :—Three
per Cent. Consols, for money, 914, #, I, 1;
ditto for account, 911 ; Three per Cent. Re-
duced, 91f, 1; New Three per Cents.,
91i, 1,1; Five per Cent. Annuities, 107 ;
Bank Stock, 2354 ; India Stock, 225, 223 ; ditto
Five per Cent. Stock, 991, ; ditto Four
per Cent. Debentures, 1858, loot ; ditto
Bonds, 20a, 18s., die. ; Five-and-a-Half per Ceat,
" enfaced" rupee paper, 95; Exchequer Bills, 54.,
25., 6a, die.

At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Renter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes were
quoted 68fr. 10c., being sc. lower than on Saturday.
In foreign stocks Turkish Six per Cents. of 1858
have improved to 54} to 55, the Loan of 1854
being steady at 69 to 70. Spanish Certificates
have been more inquired for. Sales are re-
corded as follows :—Brazilian Old Five per
Cents., 100, / ; ditto Four-and-a-Half per
Cents., 1860, 851 ; Dutch Four per
Cent. Certificates, 1001; Mexican Three per Cent&
for account, 23} ; Peruvian Three per Cents., 731;
Portuguese Three per Ceuta., 1853, for account,
461 ; Russian Three per Cents., 1869, 601 ; Sardi-
nian Five per Cents., for account, 811 ; Spanish
Three per Cents., for account, 481 ; ditto New
Deferred Three per Cents., for account, 401, 41 ;
the Committee's Certificates, 6, 1.
The fortnightly settlement in shares and foreign
stocks will commence to-morrow (" continuation
day "), and terminate on Thursday.
The Board of Trade returns for the month and
twelve months ending Dec. 31, have at last been
issued, after a delay which is really disgraceful to
the department charged with their compilation.
The returns indicate that the money crisis, even
when combined with the crisis in America,
has scarcely given any check to the export
trade. The total export. in the month of
December are stated at 12,128,5411., being
11,301,2991. more than in December, 1859 ;
and 2g15,3471. more than in December,
1858. The exports for the twelve months of 1860
were 135,842,8171., being 5,431,288 E, or 4 per
cent., more than in 1859, and 19,234,061 E, or 16
per cent., more than in 1868. Under the circum-
stances, these results are really surprising. Tho
Principal increase in the months shipments is again
in cotton manufactures, which have been sent more
largely than usual to China, Brasil, and some other
parts. It is still more interesting at present, how-
ever, to examine the figures bearing upon our trade
with the United States. The ,declared value of the
exports to that country was 5,253,4861. in the last
quarter of IMO, against 5,046,1831. in the last
quarter of 1859, and 4,187,5411. in 1858. A con-
siderable decrease bad been looked for. The ex-
ports to the United States for the whole year are
21,018,5001., against 22,116,3721. in 1859. The
chief deranging influence rots with the great in-
crease in the imports of American and other foreign
grain.
The amount of specie shipped by the Niagara,
which left Liverpool on Saturday for Halifax and
Boston, was 75,4021.

At New Yoh on the 11th the exchange was
quoted 106, for bankers' bills ; and private telegrams
report the tendency to be " heavy. Accordingto
some of them, however, the course of politics was
rather more favourable.

The only failure announced on Saturday in the
Levant trade was that of Mr. T. flues, whose liabili-
ties are stated to be about 30,0001. The assets are
mostly claimable from houses at Constantinople,
and no definite estimate can yet be formed as to
how they will turn out.
The advices from Paris aad Constantinople con-
tinue to express confidence that all M. Mires en-
gagements will be provided for. It is possible,
however, that the shareholders in his Cause may
suffer.

The Liverpool cotton market on Saturday was deci-
dedly firmer, and prices were quoted id. to id.
above the lowest point of last week. The sales
reached 10,000 bales.
A private telegram announces that the traffic of
the Illinois Central Railway Company for the first
week of February shows the remarkable increase of
30,000 dole., compared with last year.
An extraordinary meeting of the Grosvenor and
West-end Railway Terminus Hotel Company is
called for the sth of March, to consider the advis-
ability of increasing or diminishing the number of
directors.

An extraorditiari meeting of the Patent British
Elastic Material Company (Limited) is ;called for
the 28th inct., to confirm the relolution already
palmed for a voluntary winding up.
The half-yearly dividend is announced on Georgia
State Five per Cent. Sterling Bonds.

SATURDAY EVERINO.

Consols, which closed yesterday at 914 to for
the 7th of March, opened this morning at 914,
" sellers," and closed at 914 to;. For money. the
last price was 914 to 4. The official business
report is as follows :—Three per Cent. Consols,
for money, 914, ; ditto for account (March 7),
914, ; Three per Cents. Reduoed, 914, jj ; New
Three per Cents. 914, 4, ; India Stock, 225, 2234 ;
ditto Five per Cent. Stock, 994 ; ditto Four per
Cent. Debentures, 1858, 954, ; ditto, 1859, 954 ;
Five per Cent. "enlaced" rupee paper, 944.
Exchequer Bills were quoted 7s. to 2s. dm., being
unaffected by the official announcement that the
interest on the March bills is to be raised from its
present rate of 14d. per 1001. per day to 2d.' or
equal to 31. Oe. 101 per cent. per annum. The
bills are to be sent in for renewal by the 6th of
March. .

The scrip of the New Indian Loan was steady,
at 100 to
The foreign stock market is quiet. Turkish
Bonds clamed steadily, at yesterday's prices, viz.,
89} to for the Loan of 1854, and 544 to I for that
of 1858. Mexican Bonds were last quoted 23k to
It being steady ; and the Spanish Coupon Cer-
tificates, 51 to 81, being rather firmer.
There was no alteration to-day in the market for
bank shares. Canada Land have improved, and
there were more inquiries for Crystal Palace. A
fall occurred in the preference shares of the Company
of Copper Miners of England.
The closing quotations for shares in new under-
takings to-day were as follow :—Ocean Marine In-
surance, 2} to 3 prem., ex int. ; Thames and Mersey
Marine, I to 1 prem. ; Universal Marine Insur-
ance, 1} to 11 prem. ; London and Provincial
Manse, par to k prem. ; East India Irrigation, k
to A dis. ; India Cotton, par to I prem. ; East India
and London Shipping, par to I prem.