The Express.
London, England, 1852-01-03 00:00:00

LATEST FOREIGN EXCHANGES.

PARIS BOURSE.

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3 per Casts. ...—.-
4 per Crate.
IS do. New Loot .-
3 per ata.
Exchange on Loam at eight, 23 20 ; 90 ear% 23 24.
Wean, 5, 1240 lO3 lbrary. Naples Slow
Do. 6, 13.2 — Roman Loan, 1251_
Do. Do. do. 1150— SD ...
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Pirdeto•A D. Centa. 91 B.ok Marrs 2610 ..
PARIS, JAN. 2.—St. Germain, 625; Versailles (right
hank). 313; do. (left bank). 210 ; Park and °Thane, 1,060; Paris
and Roam san ; Rouen and Havre, 260 ; Marseilles and As (-
anon, 3117 25; Strasbourg and Isa,e, Iga 73 ; entre. NO lloologne and
M 75; Orlrand and Butdeaux, 113; Northern, 693;
Par. and rtrarcuurr. 493; Tours and Nantes. 3/2 30; Mon-
tetra sa7o. d Troyes, 140 ; Mews and leteing, 233 ; Bonham* and
Term.

VIENNA, DY.C. 31.—Five per Cent. Metalliquea,
95 ; Four-and-a-Half per Cent. ditto, 841. Bank
Shares, 1255. Exchange on London, 11.30.
BERLIN, DEC. 31.—Voluntary Loan, 1021; New
Loan, Four-and-a-Half per Centa., 1021 • State
Loan, 89 ; Marine Society, 120. Bank Shales, 1011.

METALS.—Mr. Moate's circular states that in bar
iron sales to some extent have been made at low prices.
About 1,000 tons have been sold at 41.165., delivered in•
London. Staffordshire iron is in fair request for home
consumption, but tho demand for shipment continues very
limited. Scotch pigs have undergone a slight reduction in
price this week. Transactions have not been large. Or.
den for G. M. B. have• been easily executed at 38s. The
market claws Hat at 375. 6d. for mixed numbers and Ms.
for No. 1. Spelter continues improving in price. About
1.50 tons for spring shipments bold this week at 151. 12s. Gd.
per ton. Holders are asking 151. 7s. 6d. to 15/. 10s. on tlte
■pot.
rTwhiethi,R.Tegr.ot!oinni.onThfe IreqheuaLtticle favourable.
is
sof South '
American find ready purchasers. In British tin a further
advance this week of 2!. per ton has been effected. Banca
and Straits tin also continues advancing. This metal looks
well. We have, however, no new transactions to report.
Tin plates firm at the quotations.

COALS.-LoNnolo, JAN. 2.- Ct.oest OP Trill Man-
e Allerdean Main, 13s. 3d.; Buddle's West Hart-
ley, 145. ; Carr's Hartley, 141.; Howard's West Hart-
ley Netherton, 14s. ' • New Tantield, 14e. ; Redheugh
Main, 13e. ; Tanfield Moor Butes, 14s. ; Walker Primrose,
12.1. 9d. ; Walls End Clark, 13s. 6d. ; Walls End Clennel,
13s. 6d.; Walls End Gonforth, 15e. 3d. ; Walls End
Barton, 15e. 6d.; Walls End Ilebburn, 15s. ; Wall's End
Ileaton, 15s. 31 ; Walls End Hedley, 15e. 3d. ; Well's
End Lawson, 15e. ; Eden Main, 16s. 61. ; Lambton Prim-
rose, 16s. 6d. ; Walls End Belmont, 165. ; Walls End
Braddyll, 17a. 3d. ; Walls End Helton, 17s. 6d. ; Walk
}lea Haswell, 17s. 6d. ; Walls End Lambton, 17s. • Walls
End Lumley, 16e.; Walls End Polisher, 16s. ; Walls End
Russel's Helton, 175.; Wells End Stewart's, 17s. Gl. ;
Walls End Candor, 16s. 9d.; Walls End Hunwick, 145.;
Wall. End Kelloe, 17e. 3d. ; Wells End North Hartlepool,
145.; Walls End South Hartlepool, 175.; Walls End
Thernley, 16s. ; Walla End West Keller, 15s. 6d. ; Walls
End Whitworth, 145. ; Walls End Adelaide Tees, 161. 6d.;
Walls End South Durham, 15s. 3d. • Walls End Tees,
17s. 3d. ; Cowpen Hartley, 14s. 3d.; berwentwater Hart-
ley, 144.; Hartley, 13e. 6d. ; Nixon's Merthyr and Cardiff,
215.; Sydney's Hartley, 14s. 3d. ; Whitworth Coke, 20e.-
Ships at market, 192; sold, 106.

UNITED linicliox Tsuirkasiscn AND GENERAL
PILOVIDILYT INATITUTIOI4.—Tba annual meeting of the
shareholders of this institution was held yesterday at the
Hall of Commerce, Samuel Howley, Esq., in the chair.
The report stated that at the last annual meeting 4,e60
policies had been issued, smearing the sum of 650,1991.,
yielding an annual revenue of 21,2961. 4s. 7d., and in the
course of last year 731 policies had been issued, assuring
130,260/., and yielding a revenue of 4,246/. Os. Gd. The
deaths in the past year hud been 23, and the claims 4,090/.
The accoanb to the 20th November showed the receipts of
premiums and interest for the year ending at that date to'
amount to 21,8771. 41. Gd., being 2,1801. 14s. 9d. more than '
in the previous year. the balance in favour of the institu-
tion was 67,0921.'95. 2d., showing an increase en the year's
business of 12,8691. 13s. Ild. The directors hail paid special at-
tention to the agencies in England and Scotland, and many of
the principal town. in the north and south, as well as in the
Channel Islands, had been visited by Dr. Lovell, one of the
directors, who had given the whole of his time since
February gratuitously to the institution ; and the number
of policies added by his exertions alone had been more than
130, producing an income of 1,0001. per annum ; a sum of
19,6301. had been invested on. good security at S pee rent I
thus securing an annual profit of more than 368!. beyond
the calculated interest, and arrangemeats had been made to
invest a further sem of 10,6001. By a clause in the new
act relating to Friendly Societies, the directors were em-
powerecito advance loans on the mouthy of policies, and
many members had availed themselves of the privilege;
while by another clause of the act the sums assured
to the widow, widower, or children of the deceased
members were payable free from legacy and probate duty.
The report having been received, the meeting proceeded to
the election of two directors in the mom of Mr. John Tat-
' hot Tyler and Mr. John Thomas Pritchett, who retired by
rotation, and who offered themselves for reseleetion. Mr.
Bannister was also a candidate. Mr. Tyler and Mr.
Pritchett were elected by a large majority. The meeting
then separated.
NEWSPAPERS AND PERIODICALS BY RAILWAY
—LITSKATIME or run RAlL.—Yesterday the South
Eastern Railway Company commenced, for the first time,
the entirely new system of transmitting newspapers and
periodicals by rill on a plan similar to that enjoined by the
Post-office for their transmission through theit own me-
dium. The plan, it is thought, will no doubt he generally
adopted by other railways, as it will place readers in the
country in rapid receipt of their papers and periodicals, and
so supersede their tardy traasmisaion by the ordinary post
delivery of the next cloy. The tariff, involving as it does
the economical transmission of the most %mete) media for
information and amusement, cannot probably be too widely
known. The charges for ocnseeyance of newspapers ..nd
unbound periodicals is for a single newspaper from any 'sta-
tion to any station, Id. ; half-a-dozen, 4d. ; and so on in
proportion, including the honking, but not the delivery.
SALOON RAIL CAL—The directors of the lioston
and New Haven Railroad (the land route to New York)
have resolved upon attaching a saloon car to each train, so
constructed as to enable treacle:nen to sit in groups, and in
which smoking is to he allowed. The carriage will be
placed on the road early in January.—Bosons paper.