The Express.
London, England, 1861-03-09 00:00:00

MONEY MARKE2.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'L'wvw.

The funds to-day are firm, at yesterday'sim-
provement, with few transactions. Throughout the
Stock Exchange there is no movement of the
slightest importance, business being languid, ex-
cept as regards Turkish Bonds, which continue in
demand, and have again advanced. British railway
stocks are quoted exactly the same as yesterday
afternoon.

At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Renter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes opened
at 68fr. 25c., being se. better than yesterday.
The scrip of the new Indian loan is firm at
wog to d.

Consols are officially marked 914 and 1 for
money, and 9n and 3 for the account. The
presentquotations are 911 to for money,
and 921 to 1 for the 10th of April. The official
business report is as follows: —Bank Stock,
234 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 911 ; New
Three per Cents. (shut) 911, 4 ; India Five per
Cent. Stock, 1001, 100; ditto for account,
1001 ; ditto Scrip, 1001 ; ditto Four per Cent.
Debentures, 1868, 951 ; Five per Cent.
" enfaoed " rupee paper, 944 ; ditto Five-and-
a-Half per'Cent. 1001 ; lachequer Bills, 3e. die.
A fresh improvement of to j per cent. has
taken place to-day in Turkish Bonds ; the Loan of
1854 is quoted 71 to 4, and that of 1858, 534 to 4, ex
div. Mexican Bonds are firm. Sales are recorded as
follows :—Mexican Three per Cents., for account,
24, 234 ; New Granada Active, 16 ; Peruvian
Four-and-a-Half per Cents., for account, 934,
94, ex div. ; Portuguese Three per Comte.,
1853, for account, 461 ; Spanish New De-
ferred Three per Cents., for account, 41; Turkish
Six per Cents., 1864, for account, 71 ; ditto Six
per Cents., 1858, for account, 63, 4, ex div. ; ditto
Guaranteed Four per Cents., 991.
The Canada, which sailed to-day for Boston,
took 176,6201. in specie.

- Haur-rear Two o'CLoci.
Consols remain quoted 911 to I fur money, and
921 to 4 for the account.

About 48,0001. in gold was taken to the Bank
yesterday, and it is worthy of remark that about
20,0001. of it consisted of French gold coin, brought
over by the high range of the exchanges. On the
other hand, b 5,000 sovereigns were withdrawn, for
transmission to the United States by the Canada
to-day. The Tyne will take 1,6781. in gold
and 16,0001. in silver for Brazil.
The Mexican dollars by the last packet were sold
yesterday, to be refined, at 4s. per ounce,
showing a fall of ed., compared with the price ob-
tained for the previous supply. The value of this
coin is now regulated by that of bar silver, the
demand for China having subsided.
_ _

The value of money here oontinning much above
that current on the continent, the foreign exchanges
yesterday afternoon were firm, at the late advance,
which, as the facts above recorded show, tis suffi-
cient to attract moderate amounts of specie. Sub-
joined is our usual list :

Amsterdam, 3 months, 12.1 to j • ditto 3 days, 11.184
tom ; Rotterdam, 3days, 12.1 to j; AntweTi: days, 25.65
to 71:1; Hamburg, ms. bun 3 days' 13. to 10. Paris,
3 days, 25.40 to 5 ditto 3 months, .75 'to 80 ;
Frankfort-on-the.Mtine, 3 months, 1194 to 4 ; Petersburg
(per rouble), 3 months, 334 w ; Vienna, if. 40., 3 months,
15.45 to 55 ; Trieste, eff.tins 3 months, 15.45 to 55 ;
Madrid, 3 months, 481 to ; Otdis, 3 months, 484 to j ;
Coro, 3 months, 25.95 to 26.05 ; Genoa, 3 months, 25.85
to 90 Milan, 3 months, 25.85 to 90 ; Naples, 3 months,
39j to Palermo, 3 months, 117 to 4 ; Ifessina, 3 months,
5
117 toto ; Lisbon, 90 days, NI to ; Oporto, 90 dsday;2j

The rates of discount current in the principal
continental cities are subjoined :
Bank rate. Open market.
Park, 7 per cent.
Vienna. 6 „
Bailin
deasteress 3 „
Frankfort
Bewails
. Turin
„
Hamburg (no bank rate)

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Pt
2

An instalment of 20 per cent. falls due on the
Indian Loan on Tuesday next.
The Caledonian Railway traffic return shows this
week an increase of 1,1071.
The half-yearly meeting of the Ceylon Railway
Company is called for the loth inst.
The petition to parliament against the imposi-
tion of the double tax on incomes and profits
derived from India, now lying at the offices of the
Oriental Bank Corporation and Agra and United
'Service Bank, has already received the signatures
of the following influential firms, viz. :—N. M.
Rothschild and Sons, Baring Brothers.. and CO,
G. Peabody and Co., Dent, Palmer and Co.,
Dennistoun, Cross, and Co., Crawford, Colvin,
and Co., Hambro and Son, Frith, Sands and Co.,
Finlay, Hodgson, and C., Matheson and Co.,
Capel, Noroury, and Co., P. Cazenove and
Co., &c. The petition has also been signed
on behalf of the following banks :—Oriental
Bank Corporation, Chartered Mercantile Bank
of India, London, and China, Agra and
United Service Bank, Commercial Bank of India,
Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China,
London Joint Stock Bank, Union Bank of London,
London and County Bank, Bank of London, and
City Bank.
It will be noticed that the drain of specie to
America is partly compensated by the influx from
abroad, and from the country circulation. The
decline in the bullion is consequently limited to
148,9381. The reserve presents a small increase.
The note circulation continues to be contracted
within narrow limits.

The return of the Bank of England for the week
ending Wednesday, March 6, compared with that
for the previous week, shows the following changes
Circulation issue
Circulation active
Public deposits 5,906,487 Increase 85,617
Other deports 11,848,778 Decrease 201,003
Government securities in

banking- liepu;;;;21 .7 8,954,776 Increase 184,000
Othersecuritice in !making
department
Coin and bullion la both

departments— 12,059,7113 Decrease 148,938
Seven day and other bills 623,124 Increase 36,648
The Rost
.1,11113,199 lonesome 36114.1.64

Notes in reserve
Total reserve (notes&cein)
in banking department

033,785 lambs 7,160
7,241,813 Increase 76,202

The Gazette specie statement for the week ending
Wednesday last gives the following totals, viz. :
Imports of gold, 158,0542. ; exports of gold,
E 45,5201. ; imports of silver, 357,0281. ; exports of
silver, 239,7611.

FAIR OF ZNOLAND.—An
and istb Vie.. a. 34 for the in
0, MIL

lonnt purnsutt to the Act 7th
ending on Wednesday, March

Notes imam niTeliiii

-lro;e—tii;;lent debt.. L 11,015,100
Other securities. - . 3,09,900
Gold coin and

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10,308.393
Itthror bullion .... Male

MAIM
sumo DI
Prorietors' Cali
R 414.6400D.190400
Rest
Public Depodts (In-
cluding Mellen.,
Dar. Banks, Cos-
rata of Nntlond

Z 25,06,716

PANIVIDIT.
Government

rilleaiieliing
Dend Weight An-
nuity) 44,64.77.
Other Securities 54=7,00
/totes
Goad and Silva
Cola IS

Accts.) &MAT
Other pep:rata— 11,11A7711
Seven dey and other
Sills

1-10.734,698
Much 7, 1561. 3

1,36.ri4,1118
MAZAKALL. Chief Coeliac

FILIDAT EVE:MO.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 92, " buyers,"
for the 10th of April, opened this morning about
the same quotation, and closed at 921{ to t.
For money the last price was 911* to t.
The official business report is as follows :
Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 91i, t, ;
ditto, for account (April 10), 92, 911, 02/ ;
Throe per Cent. Reduced, for mone, 91t, cum
div. ; hew Three per Cents., 911,t, g, ; Bank

Stock, 234, 232; India Stock, 221 ; ditto Five
per Ceut. Stack, 1001, 100, 914, 1001 ; ditto
Scrip, 1001, 1 ; ditto our per Cent. Debenture*,
1858, 94, 4 ; ditto 1869, 95/ ; Five-and-a-Half
per Cent. " enfaced" rupee paper 1001.
The scrip of
100*the to
Newi
;Inutians Lir
cent.
paper, 94 to 95 ; the 51 per cont., 100 to 101
and Exchequer Bills, Gs. to 24. die.
Turkish Bowls were in renewed demand to-day
and experienced a further improvement of 1 to i
per cent. ; the Lnan of 1854 closed at 701 to 71, an
that of 1858 at 52'2 to 53, ex div. was
quoted this
Bank shares to-day were very quiet, at former
prices. In the miscellaneous share market there
was likewise no variation of importance.
The closing quotations for shares in new under-
takings to-day were as follow :—Ocean Marine In-
,surance, 21. to 1 prem. ; Thames and Mersey
Marine, 1 to 1.1; prem. ; Universal Marine In-
surance, 12, to 11 prem. ; London and Provincial
Marine, par to prem. ; East India Irrigation,
1 to 1 die. ; East India and London Shipping, par
to I prem. ; and Trust and Agency of Australasia,
1 to 1 prem.

MINES.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'CLoot.

The mining market is quiet, as usual on a
Saturday, and prices showed no varia-
tion of importance. In the Stock Exchange,
Alfred Consols shares have been dealt in
at 3 and 3k ; Devon Great Congo* at 360 ; and
Great South Tolgus, at 7, ex div. There have also
been transactions in West Seton, North Treekerby,
East Basset, and Wheal Grenville.
. . . . . _

In foreign mining shares St. John del Rey are
marked 301 and 3011, being still flat, and United
Mexican at 41, and 4, showing no change. Colonial
descriptions are inactive.
. _

At Stray Park Mine meeting on the sth inst., the accounts
showed a debit balance of 4511. 9e. Rd.

Crookhaven Mine on the 4th inet made 11 call of 2s. 6d.
per share.
From Wheal Concord (March 7) Captain Laike states :- -
" There are now 30 fathoms of pumps in the shaft. During
the coulee of next week we shall have them down to the
50, when we shall immediately prooeed to fork the mine."
From Pencraig Lead Mine (Limited) Capt. Roberts writes
(4th March) ' About 12 tone of ore here been already
raised, and are nearly ready for the market. By the end
of the month we hope to have 20 tons raised. Everything
is going on orderly. and the ore continues good."
From Hingstsni Downs Consols the agent reports " The
ground in the 120 east of Morris's engine shaft is easier of
progress. The lode produces 2to 3 tons of ore per fathom.
and is exceedingly promising. The 75 east is producing
good stones of ore, and promising improvement. No
change in any other part of the mine. We have sampled
300 tons of ore (computed)".
From East Wheal Russell (March 6) Captain J. Defiles-
worthy states :—" There is no change ill the 110 east of
Homersham's shaft since last reported; lode producing good
stone of ore. There is no change in the 10U east crosscut
north since last reported. The 100 east on the south part of
the lode—The drivege will be resumed today ; lode worth
2 WWI of rich ore per fathom. The stope in the back of the
RR on the north port of the lode is worth 25/. per fathom.
The lode in the 65 east and west of Thomas's crosscut is 5
feet wide, producing good stones of yellow copper ore—a
kindly lode. No other change in any other part of the
mine."

From Holmhush (March 6) Captain F. Pryor writes :
" The 20 on Flap jack lode is gradually improving, and is
worth about 10/. per fathom. We set • rise in the back of
this level ; lode large, with • promising appearance. We
have suspended the 50 end west for the present, so as to
enable us to sink • wins* below this level for ventilation.
The air would not admit of our driving and sinking at one
time ; wince worth 7 tone per fathom. All other places
much the same as for some tune past."