The Express.
London, England, 1855-03-07 00:00:00

LONDON COURSE OF EXCLIANGE.—MAaca 6.

BWe and M. Mcney.
Time. Prime ma negotiated this day.
Amsterdam per C 3 Mamba 114 171et5.... 116. lrlate.
Ditto
Rotterdam
Antwerp
Brsesele
Bambara end Altana ~ •,ilhoes. 6 sell. limm. 1 selir
St Petetsbarg pair ruble 36 ... 36f
Paris per A Sad 25h. 10e. ... 25h. 154.
Ditto ,, I MonUis Ibtr. 35e. ... We. 40e.
. 23te. 33e. ... 25te. 400.
spar tlO. 111 M kr. ... 11318. kr.
Minim 013000 par t " 121. sikr. ... 134 Mkr.
Isms_,,~
Madrid
Oulu
Miro , 49 penes ... 4$ pone
, 4 penes .. 49, Mite
M.111.11.14.‘
..... . .; 49 pros ... 411 s pews
. . 49 pees ...4$ pease
. OP 600. ... $O2. 55e.
251 x. 60e. .. 331 r. 536 e.

Genoa
“apla .... ........ Per
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Messina. a “ 1
allrot 90 days clato
Oporto
New York SO days debt

mom 454 Peas
plea ... 134.14 peace
poses ... 130 e pew*
pees ... 631 poem
peen b3h prom
port ...16 paw

LORD MAYOR'S COURT.—Yesterday apetition v
presented to the Court of Aldermen, by Alderman Wire,
signed by Mr. Joeeph Callow, an attorney of the Lord
Mayor's Court, relative to the charge of 215., made by the
Clerk of the Seals, Mr. G. T. R. Reyna!, for the mayoralty
seal, and requesting the court to order the return to him of
e.. Bd., being (as alleged) the difference between his lawful
fee and the sum charged. The petitioner said that the sub-
ject which he had brought under the notice of the court,
was of great importance, netwithstanding the smallest, of
the sum in dispute, as a great many powers of attorney went
to New South Wales under notarial seals, and if the charge
were an improper one, it was made to the prejudice of the
person really entitled to the fees. The petition was referred
to the General Purposes Committee.
RESISTANCE TO FACTORY REGULATIONB.—A public
meeting of manufacturers took place at the Town-hall,
Manchester, yesterday, on the subject of fencing off machi-
nery, in cotton and other factorise. There was an exceed-
ingly large attendance of manufacturers. Mr. B. Hyde
Greg; Mr. Thomas Basally ; Mr. Nathan Worthington;
Mr. Oldham hktaker ; and Mr. Henry Houldoworth,
took part in the proceedings, and resolutions were adopted,
declaring that the meeting viewed with great dissatisfaction
the renewed attempt on the part of her Majesty's govern-
ment to enforce the fencing of horizontal shafting, and was
of opinion that such proposed fencing is unnecessary; also
regretting the renewal of the obnoxious instruction to the
factory inspectors, as calculated to perpetuate feelings of
antagonism between the inspectors and owners of factories,
which previous attempts to enforce the proposed regulations
had created.
HEALTH OP LONDON. The Registrar• General
reports :—The winter's cold has passed away, but its effects
still appear in the registers, on which during the week that
ended on Saturday last the deaths of 1,660 persons are in-
scribed. The deaths in the last seven weeks have been
10,988, and have thus exceeded the weekly averages of the
year round by 2,288. The moon was at the full on
Saturday (March 3) ; the barometer was low (29.368 in.
mean of the week) ; the mean temperature of the air was
40.8 deg., or nearly 1 deg. above the average, 9 deg. above
the freezing point of water, and 14 deg. above the mean
temperature of the previous week; the dryness, or the
excess of temperature above the dew-point, was 2.1 deg. The
wind was W. and travelled at a daily rate rising from 60
miles on Tuesday to 265 miles on Saturday. The sky was
often evereast, and 8-10ths of en inch of rain fell In the
seven days. Electricity was active and positive. Last week
the births of 838 boys and 888 girls, in all 1,728 children,
were registered in London. Ia the ten corresponding weeks
of the years 1846-64 the average number was 1,661.
ROMAN REMAINS AT BRIGHTON.—On the let init.,
whilst the labourers were digging foundations for the
Mares ea the Crescent now building en the Ruud Hill-
gatzatinliate, at Brighton, belonging to the members of the
Land Soilety they discovered an urn, evi-
=llfiess gftbsay. Oa being examined it was found to
Mom, *Usk bad been burnt before being so depo-
sited. TM sea stands nine inches high, and about six
Wise breed. No lid could be found, but that such had be-
longed tie the us is certain, from the fact that a well-made
bum bless, ie good preservation, was exposed to view.
Some Now antiquities were not long since dug out in the
immediate neighbourhood. It is possible from the character
att=4,7 that a Boma aseaspwat formerly nieted is

TIIIIIDAT Evunre.
The English stock market exhibited a further de-
cided reaction this morning, sellers preponderating.
After falling a per cent., a rally met in, and the clos-
ing range was only I per cent. below that of yester-
day. Intelligence that heavy fluctuations had taken
place on to-day's Parisbonnie tended to render prices
rather unsteady. The government broker has con-
tinued to sell stock on the rise of the last day or
two, but the public remain steady investors. The
improving tendency of the exchanges and the influx
of gold into the Bank may be referred to as favour-
able features, but at present the market is chiefly re-
gulated by considerations connected with the war
and with the Conferences at Vienna. Much impa-
tience is expressed for later. accounts from St. Pe-
tersburg. _ _ _

According to to-day's telegraphs front Paris the
bourse exhibited extraordinary fluctuations, but, after
experiencing a serious decline, the Three per Cents.
had recovered to 70.65 upon a rumour that Sebastopol
had fallen. The regular telegraphic despatches from
Paris, however, failed to come to hand. Yesterday
the closing price of the Three per Cent. Rentes
was 70.50.
At Amsterdam prices show no further change of
moment, but all the other continental stock markets
continue to rise. At Vienna extraordinary buoyancy is
shown: the Austrian funds have risen about 1 per
cent.: the exchange on London has fallen from
12.23 to 12.10, whilst the premium on the precious
metals is quoted 2 per cent. lower. At Berlin
Russian Five per Cents., have risen 11 per cent. At
Frankfort a further great advance is also observable,
amounting to 1 per cent. in Austrian stock.
According to Hamburg letters, large sales of the
Russian Five per Cent. loan of 1854 continue to be
quietly effected.
Consols ranged during the morning between 921
to 1, and 931, and were quoted at 4 o'clock 931 to
for money and Thursday's settling. The " con-
tango " to the 11th April ruled at 1 to 5-16 per cent.
The day's variations were in a great measure due to
the arrangements for the settlement of the monthly
account in Console, which proves" bullish"—i.e., spe-
culative operations for higher prices preponderate.
In the Stock Exchange money is well supplied at 3
to 34 per cent. on government securities. The
official business report is as follows :—Three per
Cent. Consols, for money, 93, 934, 931, 921; ditto,
for account, Bth March, 93, 931, 921. Three per
Cents. Rtduced, 93Z, -1, 4, 1. New Three per
Cents., 931, 4, 941, 931, 931, 931. Long Annuities,
expiring in 1860, 4 5-16, 41. India Btock, 224.
Bank Stock, 2134. Three-and-a-Halt per Cent. Ex-
chequer Bonds, falling payable in 1858, 991. India
Bonds, 10e. prem. The June Exchequer Bills
remain quoted ss. to Bs. prem.
The foreign stock market was quieter, but gene-
rally showed steadiness, except for Mexican, which
closed 1 per cent. lower than yesterday. Turkish
was only a trifle lower. Peruvian experienced
no movement of importance, the Atrato having
brought in no mail from Peru. Other stocks
fairly maintain the late advance. At four
Although the supply of foreign bills on 'Change
this afternoon was not extensive, it was in excess of
the demand, and the rates were generally quoted at
a further advance. The quotation on Paris reached
25.421, at three months ; on Amsterdam, 11.181; and
on Hamburg, 13.61. The rates on Vienna and
Trieste indicated the existence of a more favourable
feeling.
Owing to the recent improvement in the exchanges
only the Californian " parting " gold (which contains
an unusual proportion of silver) can now be exported
to the continent. During the last three or four days
a considerable quantity of gold has been presented to
the Bank for purchase, including that brought in by
the Marco Polo and Kent from Australia, and the fine
gold received from New York.
The subjoined is from the Committee of Mexican
Bondholders :
The Committee of Mexican Bondholders have advisee
from the city of Mexico, dated 2nd ult. Mr. Whitehead
had had an interview with the new Minister of Finansi
(Mr. Panes), and was continuing generally to attend oaths
interests of the bondholders. The packets brings 12,557.16
deli. from Tampico, but (for want of hard dollars) nothing
from Vera Cries (or the divtlend fund.
The annexed memorandum is from the Mexican
Financial agent :
Received per West India mail steamer, just arrived,
12,551.15 dole. from Tampico, for account of Mexican
dividend,. No remittance from Vera Crus, the mail hav-
ing been despatched before the arrival of the conducts.
The amount already deposited in the Bank of England is
51,1 ill. se.
In Mincing-lane to-day the sales of coffee went off
with spirit at rates about Is. per cwt. higher than at
the previous sale. A large ',proportion of. the suer
offered was bought in at very high rates; the portion
sold realised very full prices.
In the market for land shares to-day, the only fea-
ture was a rise of 10s. in Australian Agricultural.
Bank of Australasia shares rose 11., and London Char-
tered Bank of Australis, 10e. Peninsular and
Oriental steam closed at a further rise of IL Crystal
Palace shares were last quoted rather flatter, at
2 15-16 to 31.16. St. Katharine Do* stock has
been dealt in at 83, Australian Royal Mail Steam at
31 (101. paid); Berlin Waterworks at 3 and 21
(51. 10s. paid); General Screw Steam, at 141; and
Royal Mail Steam at 66 to 1.
Annexed is an extract of a letter dated Canton, the

12th January :
If you have had a wretched year at home, you have the
satisfaction of knowinz that you have contemporaries in
affliction out here. For what with the entire stoppage of the
import trade, no opportunity of ,purchasing for the capon,
and the exceedingly pleasant broken' reports and account
sales of last season's teat—all these combined will, I fancy,
tend to " keep the memory (of this year) green in our
souls," as Moore has it. New season's Congous must have
done much better on the average than the shippers could
have originally expected. But of course the peculiar state
of this port, immediately after the market opened, must
have had some effect on your side—small credit at you
attach to reports from Canton. The shipments now show
a falling off of between six and seven millions of pounds;
and from what we can gather of the class of tea shipped from
Shaughae and Foochow, 1 should imagine really good teas
will be scarce. The rebels have not yet made their entry
into Canton ; but in every engagement, both by land and
water, during the past month, they have been successful.
On the 7th inst. there was a regular " set-to," half-way
between this and Whampoa, which resulted in the rebels
destroying 20, and capturing 33, of the Imperialist junks. I
don't see anything to prevent the ultimate taking of Can-
ton—particularly as the insurgents have a number of
foreigners of all sorts in their employ. Until this event
takes plans we shall have no business; and, should they
succeed is their enterprise, and the channels of trade be re-
opened, I much fear it will be too late to secure this season's
crop in anything approaching to good condition, after its
long detention up the country. The only incident worth
notice in the market is the sale of about 1,200 packages of
new Taman' Congou, chiefly of indifferent quality.

THIS DAY.—Two o'CLocx.
The English stock market to-day is quieter, and a
shade less strong in character. The reduction from
the closing quotations of yesterday, however, does not
exceed 1 per cent. Consols for money and to-mor-
row's settling, after standing for some time at 92/ to
93, have recovered to 93 to 1. For the 11th April the
present quotation is 931 to 1. Three per Cuts. Re-
duced have been dealt at 931 to 1 ; the New Three
per Cents. (shut), at 931 to 1 with div.; Bank Stock
at 214 to 216 ; India Stock at 225 to 226 ; Exche-
quer Bills (June), at ss. to 85. prem.; Exchequer
Bonds, 1868, at 991 ; and India Bonds at 13e. prem.
Foreign stocks are steady. Turkish hu advanced
to 791 to 1. Mexican is quoted 201 to 21; Spanish
Deferred Three per Cents., 181 tot ; and Russian
Five per Cents., 99 to 101 ex div. Russian Four-
and-a-Half per Cents. have been dealt in at 89;
Peruvian Four-and-a-Half per Cents. at 70 ex div. ;
Equador, at 31; and Chili= Three per Cents., at 71.

GLASGOW AND SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY.
Trak for week *lutist/ March 3, 1865, 4,922 i. 94. 10d.; rot-
roopoodlog week last year, 4,8211. 120. id. Isoresoo, 1866,
1100 i. 174.

We are informed that the works of the Daston
Iron Ore Company are approaching completion. The
blast furnaces are in course of erection. The com-
pany are at present working the clay upon their
estate, with a view to the manufacture of bricks of a
superior quality, and have entered upon their first
contract to deliver one million, at the rate of 25,000
per week. A considerable increase in this branch of
the oompany's operations is anticipated.

THIS DAY.—Two o'CLocx.
The gold mining sharee to-day are quiet and
steady. Agna Fria are quoted I to Z ; Nouveau
Monde, k to I; Colonial Gold, 4to a; and Great
Nugget Vein, 3 to 4—all per share.
Australian Agricultural shares are quoted 304 to
314; Peel River, 24 to 3; Mirth British Aus-
tralasian, Z die. to par; and Scottish Australian
Investment, to Z prem.
Santiago shares have been dealt in at 4 ; and
United Mexican, at 34 to 32.