The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-14 00:00:00

OOMNEEtCILL INTELLIGENCE.

NEW YORK. SWUM= 3, Evuntis.

A panic commenced yesterday in the stock
market, continuing to-day. Stock' are decreasing
from 3to 10 per ant. This depresaion is caused
by the reaction from over speculation. New York
Centrals are quoted 1281 ; Illinois, 122} ; Erie,
105 ; money is tighter. Gold is affected by un-
favourable political rumours. The last quotation
this afternoon was 32k per Dent. premium. Ex-
change on London : bankers' bills, 144} ; United
States Six per Cent. Bonds, 104. Cotton firm and
advancing ; middling upland, 69c. Flour and wheat
advancing. Corn dull. Provisions declining.
Coffee very firm. Sugar firm, and advancing.
Molasses steady. Crude petroleum, 35.

By advice' per the Asia we have detailed accounts
of part of the intelligence above summarised.
A special despatch from Washington on Augast
31 contains the following information respecting
Federal finances :

Daring the fiscal year ending on the 30th of June lad,
34,000,000d015. in gold was paid by the Treasury for interest
on the public debt. The receipts from customs during the
same period were about 69,000,000 dole, a considerable por.
tion of which was paid on demand notes, which have now,
however, almost entirely disappeared—the amount out
standing being leis than 2,000,000 deli. The custom duties,
therefore, are now paid altogether in coin, and the
receipts from that source largely exceed the went*
of the government. What effect this somenlation
of specie in the vaults of the Treasury will have
upon the price of that article can readily be imagiarl
Subscriptions for the five-twenties foot up about four mil-
lion*. The Treasury le one mouth behind in the delivery of
the coupon bonds, consequently the subscriptions are much
leis than if the bonds could be delivered immediately. Mr.
Chase has sow, however, nearly completed arrangements
for engraving and printing the bonds in the Treasury
department, where they will be under his immediate
controL A full supply of thousands and fifties are
already being delivered, and during the week the
Treasury expects to be able to furnish the full
' number of all deoominations ; and as soon as the
present orders are filled, the public will receive the
bonds with little or no delay. Those new beads of
the third series, being prepared without the aid of the
old engraving companies, receive, quite naturally, but
little praise from interested parties, but the facts that
the expense of printing these is one-fourth of their former
cost, and that they pawl absolute safeguards stalest fraud,
either by counter's:Wag the hood or altering the date of
the coupons, are sneleddist to satisfy the public that the
secretary has evinced so lees wisdom in this than he has
in every other matter relative to the management of hie
department.

THE MEDITERRANF.A.N.

(FROM 001 OWE

comm.)
MALTA, Bar. 9.

. '
Mr, Joyce Perceval paged t!lrg.‘.uga Dlaiiab OD
the 3rd, en route for Bagdad, rid Syria, to superistead the
leyier of the telegraph wires from India through Mesopo-
tamia ; sad on the sth, Lieutenant Smith, H.R., sad 14
sappers left for %shire, rid Bombay, to superintend the
same line from %shire to Bagdad. Both these parties
have ally to do with the laud portion.
Her Majesty's steam ship Phcebe left for Athens with
the mails for the fleet oa the 7th.

Her Majesty's steam ship Queen is takiog in provisimm
&leo for the fleet in Greece.

The Maltese barque Duodechnus, from Cardiff, with 003
tons of coal, ran ashore near St. Paul's Bay, Malta, at 2.30
MP. on the 7th, and became a wreck.
The excitement 0000erning the petition still continues,
and public attention is kept alive by a continuous series of
placarda.
It u penally understood that the present governor'.
term of office has beep renewed for two years, sod that the
harbour works and sew dock are to be completed according
to hisoriginal phis. Three works and the new theatre have
been amid on with renewed energy eines his return.
The weather at Malta for mina time past has bee. most
delightful, by no means too warm, and moor persons who
usually quit the island during the summer bare bees in-
duced
to rerasiu. In the evenings the harbour. are gay
with numerous boats and Matteis semis parties ; sod wire-
eel times in each wask, a military boo,' Oa/1 time 9 to 11,
p.m., in one of the prommadea.

FATAL ACCIDIMT ON !NZ LANCANNINN AND
YOZIODDIR SAILWAT. —At about twelve Wastes to
twelve on Bata:day het, whilst a man named Edwards,
a platelayer, employed on the Latweabire sod Yorkshire
nitread, was esdeavooriog to keep the line at the flesdhille
Mathis, sear Liverpool, clear of the crowd which tamed
the parties of the It.. wiser to see the execution at Kirk-
dale, be was keocked down by an engine, and nte ever.
The injuries were each as to mom almost imilsateseons
death. Yk• demaied leaves a wife and family.

WEST INDIA AND PACIFIC MALLS.

The Royal Mail Company's steamship La Plata,
Captain Weller, with the above mails, has arrived.
She brings 98 passengers ; specie, value 1,356,705
dollars, of which 644,112 dollars are silver, and
712,593 dollars gold ; also jewellery, 2701. ; pearls,
1,3151. ; platina, 5201. ; and the following cargo,
viz.: 294 serous cochineal, 14 casks coffee, 171
sacks cocoa, 18 bales cotton, 11 bales sarsaparilla,
37 casks ginger 6 cases shells, 4 cases suandes,
1,115 bales bark, 134 bales rubber, and 88 pack-
ages sundries.
The dates brought by the La Plata are—Hon-
duras, August 14 ; Grey Town, 18th ; Colon, 24th;
Porto Rico, 28th ; Demerara, 24th ; Tobago,
24th ; Trinidad, 25th ; Barbadoes, 26th ; Grenada,
25th ; St. Vincent, 26th ; St. Lucia, 27th ; Mar-
tinique, 26th ; Guadalonpe, 28th ; Antigua, 28th ;
St. Sias, 28th ; and St. Thomas, 30th.
Her Majesty's ships Aboukir, Galatea, Desperate,
Cygnet,' and Landrail were at Jamaica, and the
Phaeton at Antigua.
News arrived at Port Rioo-on the 28th August
that the negroes in St. Domingo bad risen in
rebellion against the Spaniards. Two thousand
troops were to leave Porto Rico on the 29th for the
scene of war.

A diantrotui fire had occurred M Callao, aad
fooperty to the satelit of 40,000 dole. was totally

Extraordinary accounts are received from come
of the Copiapo mines. In the silver mines of Lo-
vete? and Dolores Tamers the metal is being found,
it is Said, in • pure state, and in so peat shun-
&lice that the enviers can extract as much as they
like: A Copiapei tiewspaper gives the following
report of •gold "The principal vein of gold
is about two inches wide, with ramifications, and
the depth cannot be ascertained. The proprietor is
in possession already of some 10 to 20 quintals
of gold, and he will not exchange it till he has in-
creased the quantity very much more. What he has
already is so much that no single house on the
coast would be able to pay cash for it. On account
of these almost fabulous discoveries, nearly all the
neighbouring district is directing its attention to
working the mines."
Property to the extent of 20,000 dollars has again
been destroyed by fire at Valparaiso. Business had
somewhat improved since the but packet, and better
things were looked for. Vsesels for home charters
were wanted, those offering obtained extreme rates,
41. 3s. to London, Liverpool, and Glasgow, and
41. 7s. 6d. to any other British port, was given for
nitrate front Iquique. Exchange at Valparaiso on
London, for 60 to 90 days, 44$d. to 45d. ; on Paris,
4.70 ; Hamburg, 39}. Bar silver per mars, fine,
10.50 dole. Bar copper, per qql. 100Iba., 16.62}
dole. Nitrate, per ditto, 1 doL 65. Hard dollars,
8 per cent. premium.
This anniversary of Peruvian independence was
celebrated with uncommon , splendour. From the
28th of July, which is the great day, till the arrival
of President General Pezet from Europe on the
3rd of August, the whole body of the people sus-
pended business and work of all kinds. Pro-
cessions, public banquets and festivities were in-
dulged
in by rich and poor. The illuminations in
lima and Callao were very costly. The reception
of the President was most enthusiastic. The whole
of Callao turned out to receive biro, and the streets
of Lima were crowded during his escort to the
palace and throughout the day.
His message to Congress and his address to the
nation gave no definite indication of the political
oourse his administration is to pursue. Business
in Peru was good, and statistic* of exports to the
30th June exhibited a considerable increase over
those of the same period last year Exchange on
London was 37 pence per dollar.
The disturbances at Barbadoes had entirely
ceased, and order again restored. Labourers were
leaving the island for the Danish colony of
St. Croix and Antigua. The Legislature met
on the 11th, but nothiha of importance
transpired. The crops continued to improve,
and an average harvest for next year was expected.
The Demerara Court of Policy met on the 10th.
Despatches from the Duke of Newcastle were read,
acknowledging the address to the Queen on the
marriage of the Prince of Wales, and a reply from
the Lords of the Treasury to the resolutions as to
the sugar duties passed by the last combined court.
Her Majesty's government promised the fullest con-
sideration to all the evidence laid before them,
but stated that the time had not arrived for the
subject being brought before parliament.
The Jamaica Guardian says :—" The steamer
Teviot, from Belize, brought intelligence of serious
outrages having been committed on the night of
the 15th on the people of the town by the soldiers
of the Ist West India Regiment stationed there.
Several persons were dreadfully beaten by the
soldiers, and the houses of many of the poor people
broken into and their furniture destroyed. The
officers and seamen of the Teviot rendered valuable
aid in restoring order. The case was to undergo
investigation by the local authorities."

The weather at Jamaica bad been more favour-
able for the planters. In some parts, however, the
drought continued in a Berme form, and the coffee
and sugar crops were expected to fall far short of what
was anticipated. The Pimento berry had suffered
considerably, but the yield was not expected to fall
far short of the average. The markets continued
very quiet, and business dull. Coffee was scarce.

RIMOITHED VISIT OF THE ALABAMA TO HATRE.—.
Advisee from Cherbourg in the Coerrier du Havre state
that the Confederate steamer Alabama is probably about
to visit that port. A letter received some few days beck,
addressed to Captain Semmes, her commander, gives some
fouodatioo to the rumour.

REPHISKNTATION Or TAILWORTH.—Mr. R. Peel,
• son of the Dean of Worcester, is spoken of as a auxlidate
for the representation of the borough of Taniworth, in the
room of Lord Itainham, who snooped' to the peerage. Mr.
Daniel, Q.C., is oleo mentioeed as • probable candidate.

RIPRISRSTATION or NORTH WARWICK...OHRE.
It is officially aonouimed .that Mr. Spooner " will retire
from the representation of North Warwickshire upon the
next dissolution of parliameot ;" and that " the Hon.
Charles Lennox Butler has bees requested, sad has signi-
fied his willingoess to offer himself, to represent the coo-
egitnenCyael conservative Ur. Charles Unit
:inuregriZee uas Catatonia! :Zr Come torwaril in the liberal
interest.

Hwz'a OAK.—On Thursday afternoon, soon
after the arrival of her Majesty at Wines°, Castle, the Queen
and royal childreu visited Herne's Oak, which had not been
removed. Sims the downhill of this venerable relic it has
been religiously guarded by keepers, soil her Majesty's
pleasure should be known as to its ultimate destination.
During the late storm which passed over Wiodaor another
lies old oak was struck down by the lightning.—Court
Journal.

THE HARVEST IN SAE NORTH Or FRAHM
The subjoined is horn an agricultural letter from • Paris
correspondent of the Increpenciaretx :—"1 have just made
a tour us the mirth of Frames, and remarked everywhere
the satisfactory result of Vas harvest, both in quantity and
quality. Many crop. on large farms bare yielded about 45
bushels to the acre. The gram is unusually heavy. lam
certain that this year's crop will keep any number of years,
, for each grain is perfect is form, and well ripened ; for seed
lit would be impossible to find anything beer. No doubt
there is, a. usual, • mixture—that is to nay, that all the
crop is sot so remarkable in quality as that to which I
have referred, but the departments in the math have been
generally favoured. The micas are also very fine. In some
pleas I have seen as much u 55 bushels to the amt. This
Ins a splendid yiebl. The beetroots were at are moment
sedately esdanpred by the drought sod vermin. The late
mien have, however, saved them, aed • little warm weather
from time to time is alone required to produce • full crop." •
GREAT EASTIIRN RAILWAY. —Tbe directors of
this company will commie°e the steamboat service from
Harwich to the eioetinent, so far as cattle and goods am con-
owned, ma the Ist of October. Ground has been cleared for
•
Use mattes of sheds for rattle,

Gala! NORTILIAN RAILWAY.—This company has
tonamoniand artasisamats for the formation of the Ilse from
Speldien to Ifatah. for which powers were obtained last
Sagas. The route from the propoeed juoctioa with the
Imp et the main lies at Spalding ban been staked out se far
es
as river WelLad.