MONEY MARKET.

3 per-Cent Consols Ditto for Account 3 per Cent Reduced shut

ses

974 , Danish 3 per Cents

Dutch 24 per Cents

Ditto 4 per Cents 267601/174801 34 per Cents 984 -Mexican 5 per Cents 1846

Long Annuities 7 5-161 . Peruvian 6 per Cents

874 84

Bank Stock — ; Portuguese 4 per Cents 1842. 68 4 Exchequer Bills 44 46 pin. Portuguese 5 per Cents 1824.

India Stock

shut 1 Russian .5 per Cents

12 14

815817 Brazilian 5 per Cents

89 91 Ditto 44 per Cents 1024 Belgian 44 per Cents 91 3 I Spanish (Active) 5 per Cents . 201 Chilian 6 per Cents 103 5 I Ditto 3 per Cents 18-12 40 Danish 5 per Cents 103 4 Venezuela 82 4

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFTERNOON.

The English Stock Market has been heavy during the whole week, and closes without any improvement, at the lowest quotation : Consols for Ac- count, 961 ex dividend. The business transacted has been of a very tri- fling character ; the only bargains of any extent being the purchases by the Government Broker on account of the Sinking Fund. The rate of discount continues the same, though money is rather more in demand in the Stook Exchange than it has been.

In the Foreign Market, the business has been as insignificant as that in English Funds. Prices generally are not quite so firm as in lust week. Mexican Bonds have been the most extensively dealt in. The price which after the usual hours of business on Saturday fell in consequence of price, sales to 34-1.4, opened on Monday at 34, but speedily reached 341 and 341- : this advance lies not been maintained, and the closing quotation this afternoon is 341 1. Peruvian Bonds are without change. Spanish Active has been rather lower; but the market presents a firmer appearance Way, in consequence of the Madrid news of the presentation to the Cortes of the bill for the conversion debt; the terms proposed being the same as those of the bill introduced into the last Cortes. Some considerable purchases of Passive Stock have been made upon foreign account without producing any effect upon the price. Portuguese Bonds are unchanged. The transactions in Russian Four-and-a-half per Cent Stock have been few ; but the quotation is well supported, the price this afternoon being 1021 to 1021. A considerable demand has for sonic time existed for every description of Stock of the United States of America ; the preference, of course, being given to the Bonds of the Federal Government. This impulse may be attributed to the , large produce of gold recently realized in California. ' The Railway Share Market continues to decline. The traffic for the -week

ending Saturday was immensely in excess of the corresponding week of last

year, and yet prices are lower. To account for this apparent anomaly, it is I only necessary to remark that speculation has carried Shares generally up. to-

prices that are too high even if all that has been anticipated from the an- ; creased traffic be realized. It must also be remembered, that the increase I itself will only be temporary, while it cannot be expected that the autumnal

traffic will be so great as usual, the holydayulakers having this year taken 1 their pleasure by anticipation. The decline upon the principal Shares has

been about 21.; North-western and Lancashire and Yorkshire, the two lines upon which the traffic presents the greatest proportional increase, not being exceptions to the rule of depression. The French Shares are steady, with but little doing. The market for English Shares became much firmer in the course of the afternoon ; the demand for French Shares also increased slightly.

SATtlanst TwaLva

The English Funds opened at higher quotations than yesterday, the first price of Consols being 968 1 ; the market has since been steady at the open- ing price. There is no change of importance in the prices of the Foreign Funds, The Share Market is not quite so firm as at the close of business yesterday. The operations as yet have been confined to the following bar- gains—Ambergate, Notts, and Boston, ; Caledonian, i2; Lancashire and Yorkshire 531; Leeds and Thirsk, 131; Blackwell, Tilbury Extension, 11; Midland, 49; North-western, 123; North Staffordshire, 9; South- eastern, 231; York and North Midland, 201 1.

SATURDAY, Two o'esocx. The English Funds close at the morning's quotations, without, the oc- currence .of any business of importance. The transactions of the Foreign Market have been insignificant, and limited to the following burgains—Bra- zilicua, 88; Mexican, 341 1; Spanish Active, 2011; Dutch Two-and-s-half per Cents, 601.

The Share Market has given way slightly, the upward impulse yesterday imparted to it not having continued. The transactions occurring have, however, been of a very general character, as will be seen by the following list of bargains recorded—Aberdeen, 111; Ambergate, Notts, and Boston, 4a ; Caledonian, 121; Eastern Counties, 6,1; East Lancashire, 15 141; Edin- burgh and Glasgow, 28'; Great Northern, 171 ; Ditto Half-shares A De- ferred, 51; Ditto Half-shares B 6 per Cent, In; Great Western, 841; Ditto New, 17/., 141 ; Lancaster and Carlisle Thirds, 81 ; Lancashire and York- shire, 531; Ditto Fifths, 31; London and Blackwell, 71; London, Brighton, and South Coast, 95; London and North-western, 1221; Ditto New Quarter- shares, 20k; Ditto Fifths, 154' London and South-is intern, 821 ; Midland, 49; Ditto 50/. Shares, 1613; Norfolk, 181; North British, 64; North Staf- fordshire, 8.1; Oxford, Worcester, and 'Wolverhampton, 16;South-eastern and Dover, 23 4; York, Newcastle, and Berwick, 19 1; Riau Extension, 14 1 ; York and North Midland, 20 a ; Royston and llitchen, 81; Caledonian 101., 61; Eastern Counties Ketensiou 5 per Cent No. 1, pm.; Boulogne and Amiens, 9; Northern of France, 15; Paris and .Strashourg, 10/.