The Express. — 1847-12-06 (London, England)

MONEY MARKET.  SATURDLT ETZNIXO. In respect of business this may almost be called a dies non. The attendance at the Stock Exchange was very slender, as if by a sort of understanding to make a holiday. The variations of prices, as well as the transactions, have therefore been within the most limited compass. Consols opened at 851 to for money, and 8.61- to; for time, and left off with a few bargains only marked 851 to a money, and 861 for account. Reduced Threes 841 to 4. Three-and-aI Quarter per Cents. 85a to I. Bank stock 187 to 9. LoogAnnuities 8 9-16 to a". Exchequer bills 3a. to 6s. premium. India Bonds 28s. to 235. discount. Mexican stock has attracted still more attention to-day than before, and the dealings were more active and of greater extent than could have been expected iu so thin a house, and otherwise so circumscribed a market. The quotation first marked for the Bonds was 18, and after various fluctuations within a range oft per cent., they left off at 171 to 181. Spanish Fives were called 171 to 181; the Threes, 29 to ; Portuguese 22 to 3. Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents. improved to 541;t0 si, on the:prices coming higher from Amst, edam with some orders for purchase; the Fours, 84 to 1. In other foreign stocks no transactions took place, nor were any changes in the quotations marked. Money accommodation is becoming more easy with the banks and discount houses, and has been offorded in some instances at half per cent. below the minimum rate of the Bank, that is, at 51 per cent. That establishment, with deposits on the increase, and the reserve fund receiving a weekly accession from bill securities running out and not replaced, will cease to have the same monopoly of discounts should its peesent rate of charge be maintained, and other parties continue to undersell it. By the returns of last week, indeed, it would appear that the Bank was preferentially disposed to make advances on public securities, rather than lay itself out for discounts; or, perhaps, being outbid for flrst-class bills, was glad to employ a portion of its funds in loans upon stock or Exchequer Bills at Stock Exchange rates of interest. The government securities in the banking department had increased in the woek in question, as would be observed this morning, by 312,9871. The bills falling due to-day, as the 4th of the month, and therefore the particular bill day, are understood to have been in general satisfactorily met. The amount, it may be added however, was not considered to be heavy, nor at this the last month of the year are bill payments usually so large as in other previous months of the year, or as they will doubtless prove on the 4th proximo. There can be no doubt, however, that as a consequence of the discredit of the times, the quantity of bills put into circulation and falling due to-day, was more materially contracted than usual,  The advices from the United States by the Washington, represent that on account of the shipments of specie, and a greater demand for internal dealings, a sort of money stress had begun to prevail there. The banks wore discounting only for customers, and cautiously. The charges for good paper were es high as 12 pet cent. " In the street," that is on .of the banks, se much as le per cent. per month was sulked and paid. A report has been current today of the failure of a wooletapler in the Borough, and of a suicide in consequenoe. The name is given, but we do not feel warranted in mentioning it at present. From Glasgow three failures are announced, viz., of Mr. Henry Forrester, warehouseman; Messrs. Campbell, Harvey, and Co., warehousemen; and Messrs. Ferguson, Watson, and Co., in the silk trade. The first-named is uadentood to be for a considerable sum. The creditors of Mr. A. A. Lsckersteen, and of Mame. Lackersteen and Crake, met to-day, to consider the state of their affairs, ss developed in the baleate-eheet prepared by Mr. Wright, the mama_ ant. Mr. B. L. Behrende, of Ifewicaseet. was agog to the chair. It was stated in the cane of the 41emelon that the home of Lecterns= Brolbsee; et Calonta, might be expected to meet all alai= them 1 and that mow the debts named as glisci, may, that world be paid in MI, men those Tasman and Cook. Math meek &pm& gait the from Inia, and Si realteadma  of consignments there, in respect of the assets; but, there appeared about nine shillings in the pound on the cast° of Mr. A. A. Lackerateen, and fourteen shillings on that of Leckerateen, Crake, and Co. The inspectors appointed to superintend the windingup of the concerns, supposing they should consent to act, were Mr. James Brennan, Mr. Kingsford, Capt. Ingram, and Mr. J. Patten.