The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-23 00:00:00

:?4 117 MARKET.-(THIS DAY.)

ONE OVLOOL

The sleek markets are dull to-day, and the
general mem of prioes is unfavourable. Nearly
all the dealings consist of sales, especially as re-
gards foreign securities, which have given way.
Egyptian of 1864 and Peruvian of 1886 are princi-
pallxoffend. Therment important rise in the latter.
stock has caused realisations. United States 5-20
bomb are also lower. Horne railway stocks are
supported, in consequence of the favourable traffic
returns just issued by most' of the principal com-
panies. Consols are dull, at the closing quota-
tions of yesterday. Royal Mail Steam shares still
exhibit a drooping tendency. The amount of
business generally is not large.
The rate for bills in the discount market is 1; to
per cent., and for loans in the Stock Ex-
change I.

Conaols aro quoted 941 to 4 both for money
and the account (November 6) ; and the Three
per Ceuta. Reduced and New Three per Cents,
93 to lk.
Very few transactions have been recorded in
railway stocks. Caledonian, and London, Chat-
ham, and Dover have advanced 4 to 4 per
cent.; while Great Eastern and South Eastern
have declined 4. Prices aro quoted as follows :
Caledonian, 711 to 1; London and North Wostern,
111; to 1124 ; Great Western, 481 to 1; Midland,
1121 to 4; London and South Western, 874
to 88f ; Great Eastern, 41 to 1 ; Brighton,
52 to 4 ; South Eastern, 771 to 1 ; Metropo-
litan, 1084 to 107 ; Great Northern, 1074 to
108; ditto A, 100 to 4 ; lancaahlre and York-
shire, 1284 to 4 ; London, Chatham, and Dover,
lif to 1; and Manchestin, Sheffield, and Lin-
colnshire, 48 to 4.

The foreign stock market is flat. Egyptian
Bonds of 1864 have declined 1 per cent. ; Peruvian
of 1865, ; and Italian of 1861, Turkish of 1863,
and the Orel Vitebsk Railway Loan, H. Annexed
are the quotations :—Brazilian of 1863, 79 to
1; Chilian of 1867, 941 to 1 ; Egyptian of 1861,
81/ to 821, ex div. ; Italian of 1861, 531 to ;
Mexican, 16 to 1 ; Peruvian of 1863, 81/ to
1; Russian of 1866, 90 to 91 ; Nicolai Railway
Loan, 681 to ; ditto Orel, 83 to 1, ox div. ;
ditto Moscow-Jaroslaw, 83/ to 1; Spanish of 1867
331 to j ; Turkish of 1838, 68 to 1; ditto of 1862,
691 to 701 ; and ditto of 1863, 411 to 1.
The Indian Four per Cents. have rece,lei 1 per
cent., the present price being 1021 to 1031. Tho
Ten-and-a-Half per Cents. are at 214 to 217;
the Five, 1141 to 113; the Bonds, 181. to
235. prem. ; the Debentures, 1031 to 106; and Ex-
chequer Bills, 17s. to 21s. prem. Bank Stock, 212
to 244.

Numerous dealings have taken place in London
and Westminster Bank shares, but the price is
unaltered, at 64! to 611. London and County,
481 to 491 ; Union of London, 331 to 311; Anglo-
Austrian, 61 to 7 prom., being ss. better ; Impe-
rial Ottoman, 11 to 1. prem. ; and Consolidated,
1 to j prem.
There is no change in miscellaneous shares.
National Discount are at 111 to 121; General
Credit, 21 to 21 die. ; International Financial, 11
to 11 dis. ; Hudson's Buy, 15 to }; Telegraph
Construction, 14 to 1 ; Atlantic Telegraph Eight
per Cent. Preference, 3,1 to 4} ; and Anglo-Ame-
rican, 211 to 1.

American securities show dulness. The 3-20
Bonds ire per cent. worse, at 721 to 73 ; Erie
Railway shares, 31: to ; Illinois Central, 964
to 971 ; Atlantic and Great Western De-
bentures, 361 to 37}; and the Consolidated Mort-
gage Bonds, 49 to 1.
The scrip of the Italian Tobacco Loan has
declined to 21 to 21 prem.
The shares of the Royal Mail Steam Company
continue heavy, transactions baying occurred at
50, or 10 discount.
The Council of India will receive tenders on the
4th prox. for bills on Calcutta and Madras to the
amount of 200,000/.
The joint traffic return of the Caledonian and
North British Railways shows this week an in-
crease of 3,467!. over last year.

TWO O'CLOCK.

Foreign bonds remain dull. Peruvian of 1865
have experienced a fresh fall of per cent., since
I o'clock. the present price being 811 to j ; Mexi-
can and Spanish of 1867 are 1 to I lower. Railway
stocks, however, show firmness, and Midland,
Great Eastern, Great Northern A, and Lancashire
and Yorkshire have improved 1 per cent. On the
other hand, London, Chatham, and Dover is
lower. The government funds are unaltered.

FOUR O'CLOCK.
The English funds are without variation, at 941
to 1 both for money and the account.
The railway market is arm. and a rise of 1 to
per cent. is apparent in some cases. Caledonian,
711 to 72; Brighton, 52 to 1; Metropolitan, 1116}
to 2; South Eastern, 771 to 78; Midland, 1121
to 1131; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1281 to t ;
London and North Western, 112 to ; and
Great Western, 481 to
Foreign bonds are quoted about the same as at
2 o'clock. Italian of 1861, 63} to 1; Orel, 821
to 831; Nicholai, 681- to ; Turkish of 1865,
41 to } ; and Spanish of 1867, 331 to $.
About 72,0001. in bar gold has been sent into
the Bank.

At Paris to-day the Three per Ceut. Renter
opened at 70Er. 2.3 e. for the amount, being 1 per
cent. lower.

With reference to the Egyptian Nine per Cent.
Loan, it is announced that the money for the
dividend and repayment of capital at par, payable
the 22nd November, has been duly received by the
Imperial Ottoman Bank.
Bills of exchange on the government of Ceylon
for 230,000 rupees were yesterday disposed of by
public tender at the offices of the crown agents for
the colonies. The minimum was fixed at is. l Id.
per rupee, and the whole amount was taken above
that rate.

The Stock Exchange Committee have appointed
Thursday, the 29th inst., a special settling day in
the preferred and deferred (ordinary) stocks of the
South Eastern Railway Company, which are to be
marked in the official list.
At a meeting yesterday of the Panama, New
Zealand, and Australian Royal Mail Company
(Limited) the report of the joint committee of
shareholders and creditors was adopted, and it
was referred back to them to carry out its recom-
mendations. Four members of the committee
ere elected as the new board, with power to add
to their number.

We are requested to state that the application
list of the Mexican Railway Company's Eight per
Cent. Mortgage Bonds will be closed for London
on Monday, the 26th inst., and on the 27th for the
country.
The following is the official return of the cheques
and bills cleared in the Bankers' Clearing-house for
the week ending Wednesday, Oct. 21 :

Thursday, Oct. 16
saFritti,oo*. 16
Oct 17

Monday-, Oct W 9.14:000
Tuesday, Oct 20
Wednesday, Oct. 21 10,003,000

49624000
Joni C. Pomo; DepuSlty Impeder.
Bankers' Clawing-home, Oct. t 2.
The totel hpere shown is extraordinarily large, even

after allowing' for the heavy addition to the clear-
ances occasioned by the Stock Exchange settle-
ment ce the 16th.

The weekly rebus of the Beak of Frame shows
the following delu (Um exchange being taken
at Mr. to the pounds:

. •
foie and bullion , . Decrease 4268,000
Bills discounted
Notes ia circulation
Private deposits
Treasury balance lncrease 304,,000
Advances
The discounts, circulation, and privsto deposits
have all diminished considerably. There is also a
further decline in the coin and bullion, reducing
the total to 48,904,2001.

The return of the Bank of England for the week
ending Wednesday, Oct. 21, oompared with
that for the previous week, shows the following
changes:
. . . _

Circulation tame 233,860,976 Decrees@ 6232,896
Circulation active
Publudaposits 3,660,282 Decrease 287,831
Other deposits 20,406,864 Increase 174,373
Government esearities is

banking dimparimist . . 15,935,874 No change.
Other ineurltins in bank-
ing department
Coin and babas in both

departments 19,047,174 Decrease 217.076
Berea day sad other bills 673,915 Declare 21,962
The Best
Notes in reserve
Total reserve (notes& oath)
in banking department 10,463,384 Decrease 194,951
This return is influenced to some extent by the
completion of the dividend payments. The de-
cline in the government deposits is almost coun-
terbalanced by a further increase in the private
deposits, but, as the advances on " other" secu-
rities bare increased a little, the reserve has de-
clined 194,9.511. During the week upwards of
100,0001. in newly imported gold was sent into the
Bank. yet the coin and bullion show a decrease of
217.071;1., thus indicating still an unusually largo
absorption of coin in the internal circulation.
This way bo due, in part, to the pending elections.

DANK OP I
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