The Express.
London, England, 1861-08-06 00:00:00

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MONEY MARKET.-(THIS Ail.)

Two o'CLocz.

The funds to-day are steady, at yesterday's
closing quotations, with only a moderate business.
Preparations for to-morrow's monthly settlement
chiefly engage attention. The other departments
of the Stock Exchange are dull. English railway
stocks still exhibit a drooping tendency.
At Paris this morning, according to Mr. Reuter's
telegram, the Three per Cent. Rentes opened at
68fr. 25c., showing no change.
Consols are officially marked 901 and 1 for money,
and 90/ and 1 for the account. The present quotation
is 90/ to f both for money and to-morrow's settlement.
The official business report is an follows
Bank Stock, 236, 2341 ; Three per Cents. Re-
duced, 901, 4, 90 ; New Three per Cents., 901, 1 ;
New Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 74 ; India Stock,
2201, 219 ; ditto Five per Cent. Stock, 991, 3, ;
ditto Scrip, 1004, 1 ; ditto Four per
Cent. Debentures, April, 1864, 94 ;
ditto Bonds, 10s. dia.; Five per Cent. " en-
faced " rupee paper, Dii, 1 ; ditto Five-
and-a-Half per Cents., 102 ; Exchequer Bills,
March, 15e. die; ditto small, lls. die ; ditto Jane,
par, 3s. die. ; ditto small, 4s. die., par.
Turkish Bonds remain very firm, and show
a fresh improvement of 4 to per cent,
the loan of 1854 being now quoted 79 to
4, and that of 1858, 691 to 70. Other foreign
stocks are inactive. Sales are recorded as fol-
lows :—Brazilian Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
1860, ni Equador New Consolidated, 121 ;
Peruvian Uribarren Four-and-a-Half per Cents.,
864 ; Russian Three per Cents., 1859, 601 ; Sar-
dinian Five per Cents., for account, 784 ; Turkish
Six per Cents., 1858, 70 ; ditto, for account, 691,
704, 70 ; ditto 1001. Bonds, 711.
The discount market yesterday was quiet and
easy. Good bills were taken at 43 per cent., and
very little business was done at the Bank. The
payments due on the 4th appear to have been very
, well met. The amount was not so heavy as usual,
the dulness of trade curtailing the supply of bills.
In the Stock Exchange yesterday the supply of
money was likewise large, and short loans on govern-
ment securities were obtainable at 3 per cent. or
less.

At Vienna on BatUrday there was a slight im-
provement in the Austrian funds. The exchange
has receded to 137.

About 27.0001. in gold was sent into the Bank
yesterday. The steamer Great Britain has arrived
from Melbourne with 82,195 oz. of gold, worth
1329,000., the whole of which is expected to be
taken to the Bank during the next few days ;
20000 has also reached London from the Levant.
me news from America has caused renewed ex-
citement in the Liverpool cotton market. The sales
esterday reached 20,000 bales, and an advance of
id. over last Friday's prices took place.
The latest quotations of public securities at New
York, on the evening of the 25th ult., were as fi
lows ;--Virginis Bonds, 50 ; United States Five
per Cents., 804 ; Missouri Bonds, 411 ; Erie Rail-
way shares, 231 to 24 ; and Illinois Railway, 63.
The market is reported to have closed steady.
At an adjourned meetingyesterday of the commit-
tee appointed st the fire insurance meeting at the
Mansion House, on the 25th ult., it was resolved
that • new company shall be forthwith established
on the principle of mutual insurance. It is to be
brought forward under the auspices of a powerful
board representing the various large interests who
are promoting this movement.
The Brighton Railway traffic return shows this
week an increase of 4,7671., and the South Eastern
a decrease of 1,564/.
The Emigration Commissioners have taken up
the ship Brechin Castle for the conveyance of
coolies from Trinidad to Calcutta.

MONDAY ETZMO.

Consols, which closed on Saturday at 901 to 1,
for money and next Wednesday's settlement,
opened this morning at 90 to 1, and closed at
" buyers." For the 10th September the last
price was 901 to *. The official business report is
as follows :—Three per Cent Consols, for money,
90, 1, 90, 1 ; ditto, for account (August 7), 90 ;
Three per Cents. Reduced, 901, 90 ; New Three per
Cents., 901, 90, 1 ; Bank Stook, 2191 ; India Five
per Oent. stock, 99/, 1, * ; ditto, for account,
991 ; ditto Four per Omit. Debentures, Oct.,
1863, 96 ; ditto April, 1864, 961 ; ditto 1859,
961 • ditto Bonds, ss. dia. • Four per Cent.
"enlaced" rupee paper, 78 ; ditto Five per Cent,
94 the scrip of the new India Loan declined I
per cent., closing at 100 to 1.. The Five per Cent.
stock was last quoted 991 to 1.
There was a fresh fall of 2s. in the March Ex-
chequer Bills, which were quoted 15s. to 108. die.
The Jane bills remain dull at 4e. dis, to par.
The Turkish Loan of 1858 opened rather dull,
and was first marked 69/, but soon came into re-
newed demand, and was purchased as high as 70k.
Ths closing quotation was 691 to 70, being 1 per
cent. above that of Saturday. The Loan of 1854
was firm at 781 to 79. Mexican Bonds remain.
dull at 22 to 1.
Bank shares remain without variation of im-
portance. Miscellaneous shares were equally quiet.
East India and London Shipping were flat

The closing quotations for shares in new under-
takings to-day were as follows :—Ocean Marine
Insurance. 44 to prem. ; Thames and Mersey
Marine, 1 to b prem. ; Universal Marine In-
surance, to dis. ; London and Provincial
Marine, par ; China and Japan Steam, par too
prem. ; Natal Land, to dia. ; Oriental
General Marine, to prem. ; Mercantile Fire
Insurance, 1 to 14 prem. ; and Compressed Coal,
to pram.
The list of applications for shares in the Mercan-
tile Fire Insurance Company will he closed on
Wednesday next. The directors will then at once
appoint a manager with a view to the bumediate
commencement of business. Promptitude in this
respect will further confirm the confidence of the
subscribers.
The Five per Cent. Preference stock of the Lou-
don, Chatham, and Dover Railway Company has
risen to-day to 95, the company having, it is said,
made arrangements to meet the dividends ou this
stook within a short period.

MINES.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'CLooic.

There is rather more business to-day in the
mining market. The inquiries are chiefly for
Marks Valley and East Caradon shares, which
have improved, the former being quoted 94
to 1, and the latter 24 to }. Tincroft shares are
marked in the Stock Exchange 51, and Sortridge
Commix, 11. In other respects there is no change
worth mentioning.
Foreign and colonial mining shares are very quiet.
Great Northern Copper are marked f prem.