MONEY MARKET.

STOCK EXCHANGE, FRIDAY AFIRRNOON.

The Money Market has not been so steady during the past week; and on one day a decline of it er cent in the price of Consols was produced by an ex- aggerated account of the revolution in Greece, which arrived when the opera- tors for the fall were enabled to make a greater impression on the market in consequence of the absence of the influential Jewish speculators, who were then celebrating the festival of their New Year. The depression was not, however, of long continuance; the lost ground having been recovered on the following day. Prices gave way again yesterday afternoon, in consequence of a sale of 100,000/ by the broker for the Scotch Banks; and the closing quotation of to- day is about 4 per cent below that oflast week. Money, though abundant for commercial purposes, has been rather more in demand at the Stock Exchange. The premium upon Exchequer Bills continues the same. In the Foreign Market, the business has not been of an extensive character; but prices are generally at an advance. The conversion of Columbian Bonds has proceeded very rapidly ; Messrs. RID, IRVING, and Co. having received them for that purpose on every day during the week.

Messrs!. LIZARD' and Co., the agents of the Mexican Government, have, in a letter addressed to the Committee of North and South American Bond- holders, furnished an account of the receipt and appropriation of the funds remitted for the payment of the Dividend upon Mexican Bonds since 1842. The total amount received has been £264,047 5 2 Of which has been paid, For the Dividends of April and Oct. 1842 £161,904 15 7 Reserved for the payment of one-third of the Dividend due in April last 47,895 16 8 209,800 12 3 Leaving a balance of 54,246 12 11 From this must be deducted a sum set apart for Messrs LIZARDI by the Government 11,339 5 11 Leaving to be provided for 84,421 5 11 And as the balance in hand is only, as before atated, ...... 42,907 7 0 There is a deficiency of £41,513 18 11 or nearly 108. in the pound. Leaving a balance applicable to the payment of the present Dividend It further appears that the amount required for the pay- ment of the present Dividend is 139,791 13 4 Less paid by certificates 55,870 7 5 42,907 7 0

Nothing has yet been determined by the Committee of the Stock Exchange as to the condition in which the Mexican Bonds shall circulate in future ; and the general feeling among the Stockholders appears to be that of abstaining from receiving the half of the Dividend advertised, until the opinion of a general meeting, to be called upon an early day next week, shall be taken upon the course to be adopted.

Portuguese Bonds are without any material variation, and close nominally at the quotations of last week. Spanish Stock has advanced, notwithstanding the gloomy appearance of matters in the Peninsula; and is today i per cent above our last quotations.

Nothing of importance has occurred in the Railway or other Shares. SATURDAY, TWELVE O'CLOCK. The business of the morning has been quite trifling; and prices are without any variation, either in the English or Foreign Funds. Colombian Bonds are no longer quoted in their original form. This being the last day for their con- version, the Stock will be henceforth quoted under three varieties : viz. Vene- zuelan Active, which is now 35 to ; Ditto, Deferred, now 9 to 4; and the portions of the unarranged debt allotted to the Republics of New Granada and the Equator, which circulate in the shape of the old Colombian Bonds, marked as having been freed from the liability of the Republic of Venezuela, and Called Colombian ex V( nesuela, and now worth Ili 12.

We can only notice the two following transactions in Railway Shares— London and Birmingham, 217 218; York and North Midland, 104 103.

SATURDAY, Two o'cLocx. There is no change of importance either in the English or Foreign Funds, and prices are the same as in the morning.

We have to notice the following transactions in Shares : Bolanos Scrip, 55; Real Del Monte, Reduced Debentures, 5: Railways—Birmingham and Glou- cester, New, 134; Eastern Counties, 8; Birmingham, 219; Ditto, New, 234; Manchester and Birmingham, 294; Northern and Eastern, 384: Australasian Bank, 50; Union Ditto, 28; Anglo-Mexican Mint, 105.

31'S? Cent Consols 941 5 Chilian Deferred 39 41

Ditto for Account 93 4 j Colombian 6 per Cents,1824.

3 per Ceut Reduced shut ex Venezuela 114 42

34 per Cent Ditto. shut Dairsh 3 per Cents ..... .... 854 74

New 34 per Cents... ....... 102 4 Dutch 21 per Cents 63 / Beek Stock for Account... Ditto 5 per Cents 101 4 Exchequer Bills Prem. 60 64 Mexican 5 per Cents Coned. 34 4 ladia Stock Portuguese New 5 p. Cts.1841 421 34 Brazilian 5 per Cents 75 7 Russian 3 per Cents 1144 151 Belgian 5 per Cents 1044 54 Spanish (Active) 5 per Cents. 191 4

Chilian 6 per Cents .... 100 102 Ditto 3 per Cents 1842 261 4

The monthly return of the circulation of the United Kingdom for the four weeks ending 23d instant, exhibits as compared with the last, a decrease in the total circulation of upwards of 1,000,0001.; of which, 919,000/. is in that of the Bank of England, and the rest in the Country circulation. The amount of bullion, during the same period, has increased 277.0004 and bas reached 12,250,000/.