The Express.
London, England, 1863-09-18 00:00:00

TO TIT 11D/TOR Or TNT ELPILESS.

Sir,—We beg that yon will palish the following reply to
Masan. Bircham's letter of yesterday's date. They say
" the imperial government expressly repudiates the WO&
that the Union Beak ban an special ;airtime' or arrange,
manta with them," and they add that they '` think it due
to the public that such an aneouseement should he made
officially, as the words, ' Imperial Royal
_Privileged in the
title are evidently calculated to mislead." It is then to
the title of the bank that Messrs. Bircham sad Co. take
exception as "calculated to misled." If so, the Imperial
government must be party to the deceptioo, for by this
title the bank ia expressly designated in the imperial cores-
siou. Our chi-nta, therefore, would really have misled the
public ; indeed, they would have affronted the government
sad virtually repudiated the carmine if they had called the
bank by any other name than that given Wit by the govern-
ment. Whatever, therefore, may be stated by Baron
Brentano, it is quite impossible that the Austrian govern-
ment an mean that the beak of our clients is anything
less, or else, than what they themselves denominated it
in the °Deerskin. What the privileges are to
which the hank lays claim are specifically stated
in the prospectus.; It is sot alleged that those
privilegre are special," if by that term is meant "rein.
sive." On the contrary it has been expressly stated, se one
of those privileges (the other being the right of banking in
Austria for 90 years), that the bank will not he "exposed
to indiscriminate competition as in England."
Our clients fully anticipated the competition of Messrs.
Birchatu and Co.'s clients ehould they obtain their eon.
*casino, but assuredly not in the preliminary and very
peculiar form in which it has been exhibited.
With this full explanation we desire to close our corms-
ponder. on this enbjeet.—We are, he.,
Cgowocs, MAYNARD, BON, and LAWYORD.
57, Coleman-street, Sept. 17.

An official return relating to the French railways
shows that in the first six months of the present
year there has been an increase of mileage opened
for traffic of no less than 693 miles or 949 kilome-
tres. The total length of all the railways on the
30th of Jnne last was 11,408 kilometres, or 7,130
miles English, giving a gross revenue for the six
months of 9,119,0001.
The Emigration Commissioners have engaged the
ship Utopia for the conveyance of passengers to
Adelaide.

Regarding the prospects of the production of
wine this year, Messrs. Southard, Gilboy, and Cu.
report as follows :
Onr eeetiosetal cerraseoedests still agree as to the most
important features eine:ly advised respecting prospects
for this year's harvest, while minor 'details offer the same
amount of conflietiog opinioas and ocejectures to which the
grapes naturally give rise at this critical period of their
growth. Cognac letters state that considerable good wes
effected by recent rains in counteracting the intluenoe of
sostieued drought and iotease heat. There appears to be
little doubt of very good quality in the brandies of 1863,
and Cognac, in common with other districts is Frees and
the hennas's., will suffer materially in quantity while
gaining to (inkly. Douro and Oporto advises allude to the
easapirated estimates of the spread of *idiom, which had
gained credence in estreimoas circles, but admit that very
great &wilts has already become apparent amongst the
eines. Reports generally coincide in regarding the pro-
bable yield lb. about oeothird lees than last year's
viatsge, or about 60,000 pipes of ail aorta coed
reiterate ~not epieleas that the quality will be
ezomptiosally good. Cadiz sews °Detain more &mein
Sotdltgeoa nepertieg the white grapes, which have sever-

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Useless wagered severely from want el We. Grown**,
=edm/eine as to quality, bet 1 MGM het hopes be
—wbieb rawly eimess—mme yam mil of sans
Japes before 1863 wises ma hMIMI : bless lemmes in
present prima on the ether side. Lmei —et the sew*
of France it is believed that from lig le ilvesi&M of as
limns yield will be withered.; bet Mt amp of wins
wise.will prove very daisies* in emptily. TM
::2Fersay districts are in tenth miss. sod 011=
for the hopes of a plentihd mil ini Wisest sew
very generally entertained. Geeimay las she has favoured
with suspicions atsiospherie tagmensen, end the vineyards
look remarkably well. Oar next will grelebly hoed yea
1 authentic reports from proximate psedesimpiewntries as hi
actual reenter'. The visteSmsw eemimensai in weal
communes of France, he, sad ellesied wedge famerable
auspices. In Roasilioa the is seallargssati mil tits
crop appears to ha both good sad .banded.
IThe return of the Bank at England for the week
ending Wednesday, Sept. 16, compared with that far
the previous week, shows the folkwihg changes :
Circulation Wm 09,334,460 Minos 11140,410
Circulation active ....
Public deposits 7,371,610 hares WOS
Other deposits
Government securities le
banking department L 1,0111,184 No owe
Otberescurities in healing
department
Coin and bullion in both
departments 15,461.5116 lamer, 116,078
Berea day and other bless 713,680 DieelgB 8,1181
TM Rest
Notes in imam 8,660,913 bereme 302,186
Total reserve (notes k min
in banking department). 9,398,021 Lerma 968,02
The foregoing return shows that the gold sent
into the Bank during the week has exceeded the
withdrawals, and there is also a satiefisetery increase
in the reserve of notes. The augmentation in the
deposits and other securities was to be limbed for.

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TIFOIMELT
Consols, which closed yesterday at 934 toI 1 fortis
Bth Oct., opened this morning at the sane
and so left off For money the lad price wee
to 4. The official business report is as follows :
Three per Cant. Consols, for money, ing, ;
Three per Ceuta. Reduced, 92, A ; New 'Phu)
per Conte., 02, ; India Stock, 228 ; ditto Five
per Ceat. Stock, 1084, *; ditto Four per Cent.
Debentures, 1866, 1004; ditto Bonds, 20a., 17s.
prem. ; Four per Cert. " enfaced" rupee paper, 984.
The India Five per Cent stock was steady, at
104 to I. India Bonds closed at 17s. to 20s. prem.,
and Exchequer Bills at par to Ss. prem.
The market for the foreign securities was very
animated, more especially for liPziesn, Spanish,
and Greek, and prices attained& farther rine, closing
with much strength.
The cotton market was flatter to-day, and quo-
tations declined in some cases. The sales were
10,000 bales.
The directors of the Midland Banking Company
announce the opening of a branch at Wellington,
Shropshire, on Thursday next, under the manage-
ment of Mr. Fergusson.
Bank shares were in increased demand, and
prices in many instances were firmer. Australasia
(new), Bank of Queensland, Chartered Mercantile
of India, London and China, City, Consolidated,
English and Irish, London, Buenos Ayres, and
River Mete, Louden and Colonial, Mercantile
Exchange, Oriental, &bade, Puojaub, and Delhi,
Union of Australia, and Union of London all met
with a strong inquiry, and closed at an advance.
Brazilian and Portuguese and Imperial Ottoman
were rather lower. In the miscellaneous sham
market Natal Land and Colonisation were in-
quired for.
' Ocean Marine shares were last quoted 13 to
prem. ; Thames and Mersey, 34 to si prem. ;
North British and Mercantile, 173 to 181 ; and
Commercial Union, 4 to 4* prem.
Oriental Hotel shares were nominally quoted
to 3 prem. ; Marine Investment, to 1 prem. ;
Buxton Hotel, to prem. ; and Star and Garter
Hotel, to 3 prem.

MINES.-(THIS DAY)

Two o'OLooz.

The operations in the mining market to-day
are npou a very limited scale, and prices generally
are quoted the same as yesterday. East Camden
shares are quiet, at 28 to 1. In the Stock Ex-
change °rambler and St. Aubyu have been dealt
in at 141 and 15, and Tincroft at 20.
Foreign and colonial mining shares are quiet.
Scottish Australian are officially marked par, and
United Mexican 71 and 711.
At the sale of copper ores yesterday in Cornwall a
fall of about 15s. took place in the standard.
West Cbiverton Mine sold, on the 15th inst.,
70 tons of lead ore, at 181. 15a. 6d. per ton, and 60
tons at 121. 3s. 6d. per toe, making a total of
2044/. 16e.
The directors of the Nova Scotia Land and
Gold Crushing and Amalgamating Company
(Limited) have received (through Messrs.
Robert Brooks and Co.) two ingots of gold,
weighing together 74 oz. 11 diem. 12 gr., making,
with the previous remittance, 107 oz 12 dwts. 12 gr.,
the prod uce of their crusher at Sherbrooke. Their
crushers at Wine Harbour and Tangier being now
about ready for working, a regular monthly
remittance may be anticipated.
A meeting of the shareholders in Chiverton
Mi.e took place on the 10th inst., when the
accounts showed a cash balance of 3,3611. 13a. lid.,
which it was resolved to carry to the credit of the
'next account.

CKVELTY TO A DRESI3MAKZICS ASNISTAINT. —A t
the NOcciegbain police.oourt on Tuesday, Clara Stone, ohm,
Steaette. drevamaker. Woodland-place, gut rendered to her
hail no the charge of baying unlawfuLy beater Emily Eliza
Rood, who said am 14 years old, and have known the
prisoner since I was a little girl I bane been travelling with
the circus of which her husband was the proprietor. I
with my mother previous to that in a London workhouse.
Since I have been with Mn. Steoetts she has beaten me
with a rope said also with • stick no my arms every day,
because, as she said, I did sot do enough work. She made
my ear bleed. When I did oot do my work right she iliart
also to cut my lingers with scissor', making them bleed. The
iorisoner took hold of me by the neck on Friday I ist,
and knocked my heed silliest the wall, hurting me. When
me iresamiaed she said Mrs. Stenette has brought me up
since her hasbaad died in Odessa, and has bees • kind
mother to me except when abe said that I did not week. She
has treated me well till lately. Mr. J. Thompson stated that
be had e umioed Use child, and found • great many bruises
about the bead. arms, lege, and bards, sad several &brumes
of the skin. Some of them were old marks, sod be was of
opinion that she must have been baste° very severely to
have received such injury. In dehisce. it wear elated that
the case had evidently bees exaggerated. The magistrates,
who did not think the ill-telatmeet premeditsted, sea-
tenceal the prisoner to two mouths' imprisonment with bard
labour.

EXTELORDINABY EECAPI OP A CHILD ON THE
MIDLAND RAILWAY.—On !startler, &lady socompuded by
a little boy. for rears old, left Deli* by the 3.38 exprer to
Bircitinshem .4 Bristol, tritin in a Bret-clear
carriage. After they had some s few mile' the
amine door widest which ilb• child was keels,, dew
woe, esti the fellow fell out. The mother was is
the greatest agony, hat the train did sot stop at Willing-
too, and eh* had to welt is the euspeees said
Barton was reached. fibs thee out of the *sin, told
what had occurred, aid NT, the elatlna muter,
meet as ezprees engine down the Use as tar es Williagton,
but the child was nowhere to be foetid. Directly after-
wards, however, a lowa trace es its way frees Derby
to Birmingham arrived- at Butes, and in the guard's ass
was the little fellow este cud sound. It that
when he fell as to the line he revived se Paelfssar isjaff,
and had the sense to tree the lac s sad to get oa the
beak, when " the goods" wain up, the driver slopped
hie eagles and took up the BMW eiresepr.