MONEY MARKET.

-STOCK 'EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON.

The English Stock Market remained without fluctuation at the prices of last week, till yesterday, when some slight activity was apparent, accom- panied by a trilling improvement in price. Today the tendency to advance has continued , and as the books of the Three-and-a-quarter per Cents, Re- duced Three per Cents, Long Annuities, and Bank Stock, have opened for private transfer, the transactions have been on an increased-scale. The di- vidends will be paid to thepublic on Monday ; and from the state of the market it seems probable thatthe investments usual on these occasions will be of the average amount. The following are the prices at which business has been done—Bank Stock, 2101; Long Annuities, ; Reduced Three per Cents, 961; 'Three-and-a-quarter per 'Cents, 981—all ex dividend. These prices, with the exception of Bank Stock and Three-and-a-quarter per Cents, are in proportion to those of the other Stocks. Bank Stock was done before the books closed at 216, and the quotation of 210/ ex dividend is equivalent to one of 214 with dividend ; thus marking a decline. Three-and-a-quarterper Cents closed at 99 ; and the present price, 981 ex dividend, is equivalent to one of 998 with dividend ; indicating an advance of nearly I per cent. There is no material change in the value of money, and the rate of discount con- tinues nearly the same. The transactions in the Foreign Market have been unimportant, and no material variation in prices has occurred. Late intelligence from Mexico has produced an unfavourable effect upon the Bonds, wbich have declined about 1per cent. It appears that the Government are using the pretext of unsettled accounts with their late agents, Messrs. Schneider and Co„ to delay the payment of further dividends. In the discussions of last year betweer. the Bondholders and the Government, respecting payment of the =liquidated balance of the dividend of January 1847, the same cause was urged as an excuse for delay. The South American Bonds are without ma- terial change ; as are the Spanish and Portuguese Stocks. The markets for the Russian, Dutch, and Northern European Stocks are not quite so.firm as they have been. The exchange on Holland still declines slowly. This de- pression is owing to the substitution of a silver for a gold and silver circula- tion, which is understood-to have been adopted by the cautious Dutchmen in anticipation of the depreciated value of gold likely to arise from the large produce of that metal in California. The Share Market was firm on Monday, but has since declined, and most of the more important Shares are now from IL to 2/. lower -than they then were. We are informed that several real sales have been effected at the re- cent improved prices, and that almost every description of Railway Stark is more abundant than it has been for some time. There is no remarkable feature in the transactions, unless it be a general disposition to think more hopefully of railway property.

SATURDAY TWILLID O'CLOCK.

The French mail of yesterday has not yet arrived, and we are without any intelligence of a later date than Thursday. There is, however, a report that the Funds fell 40 cents yesterday in Paris, viz. from 92.40, the closing price of Thursday, to-92. There is no change or business of importance in either the English or Foreign -Stocks or Railway Shares ; and we can only quote the prices here given as in the majority of cases nominal. SATURDAY Two °Timm.

The official announcement that upwards of 861,0001. will be applicable to the purposes of the Sinking Fund during the current quarter has produced a rise of 1 per cent in the.prices of the English Funds; whieh close firmly at the advance. The Foreign Funds are rather better, the little business trans- acted haring been at improved-prices. The following is the record of the day's transactions—Danish Three per Cents, 76 ; Ditto Five per Cents, ex dividend, 1001; 'Mexican, 31 1 ; Peruvian, 80 791; Ditto Deferred, 33 1; -.Spanish Passive, 31 ; Ditto Three per Cents, 381 i ; Belgian Four-and-a- half per Cents, 91f.

The Railway Share Market was heavy in the morning, but has improved in the course of the day, and was .firm at the close. The following are the principal bargains recorded—Aberdeen, 91; Ambergate, Notts, and Boston, 2 ; Caledonian, 81 1 ; Chester and Holyhead, 101 ; Eastern Counties, 61 ; Ditto New Preference 6 per Gent, 11} ; Edinburgh and Glasgow, 261; -Great Northern, 131 14 ; Great Southern and Western, (Ireland,) 36 ; Great

Western, 691 701; Ditto New, i 171. 91 1; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 491-9 ; Ditto Fifths, z I; London and Blackwell, 6 ; London, Brighton, and South Coast, 83; London and North-western, 1151 1 16 ; Ditto New Quar- ter-shares, 191; Ditto Fifths, 141; London and South-western, 671 8; Mid- land, 431 41; Ditto 601. Shares, 13141; North British Preference, 6; North Staffordshire 71 1 ; Oxford, Worcester, and Wolverhampton, 11 ; and Berwick, 161 ; Ditto Extension, 111 ; Ditto G. N. E. Purchase or Scottish Central, 121 ; South-eastern and Dover, 201 1 1 ; York, Newcastle, Preference, 44 1;York and North Midland, 231 1.41; Ditto Preference, 8 ; Namur and Liege, 8 ; Orleans and Bordeaux, 211

3 per Cent Consols

Danish 3 per Cents

76 8 Ditto for Account

97

Dutch 21 per Cents 574 S

3 per Cent Reduced

Ditto 4 per Cents 681 9 St per Cents Long Annuities . 7

Mexican 5-per Cents 1846 ..

9-6 / Peruvian 6 per Cents zlit 4 791 80 Bank Stock 210 212 Portuguese 4 per Gents 1842. 32s al Exchequer Bills 65 68 pm. Portuguese 5 per Cents 1824. 76 8 India Stock

Russian 5 per Cents 109 11 Brazilian 5-per Cents 89'91 Spanish (Active) 5 per Cents.

38, 9 'Belgian44 per Cents

6 per Cents 91 99 101

Ditto 3 per Cents 1842 ......

Venezuela

18,

3211

Danish 5 per Cents ..........

.99 101