The Express.
London, England, 1852-06-19 00:00:00

LATEST FOREIGN EXCHANGES.

For Mecum.
nius. ha. O.
Mosey. Opals. MOW. Lowest. Closing.
——
3 par Oasts.
44 par Orate ,
:.:
110 00 100 23 100 70 100 03 100 70
Spar Cada.
3 per Cents
per Deets. New Loan
on Lesdei; : at statitS, 23 3761.20 8878.10 374.
Bel,rl6=llllo 1003 Mussy Naples Bents — Mowry.
Itman 3 per Cents 94. ...
Do. 3
Piedmont S p.Ct 97 60.. Treasury Bonds ... 3
Do. 11, 1831 93 0 Bank Mures
Paws, JUN. 18 —St. GarialdE, 906; Versailles (right
bank), 1172 30; ditto (left bank), 297 30; Paris and 11=224 .0 ;
Paris and Bourn, ; Rosen end Havre, 327 10 ; and
Aviv.) 890 ; Strasbourg and Bale, 267 50; Centre," 620;
Orleans leans Bardsauz, 038 73; Northers, 616 23; Peels sad Pus,-
bourg, 383 30; Paris and Ly 638 73; lours and Na...., 183;
Mesterei. and Troyes, 101 23 ; and Fecamp, 948 73.
BERLIN, JUNE 18.—Voluntary Loan, 101/ ; New
Loan, Four-and-a-Hall per Cent. (1850), 103 ; ditto
(1862), 103 ; National Debt, 911. Commercial
Marine society's Premium 124/. Bank Shares, 1021.
VIENNA, JUNE 18.—Pive per Cent. Metalliques,
961; Now Loan (series B), 11l ; Bank Shares, 1,355.
Exchange on Landau, 11.68.

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1,903
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3,406
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11,373
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6,434
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22,606
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1,136
22,448
6,001
13,619
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7,478
9,968
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STRIKES AND THEIR MANAGEMENT IN FRANCE.
—A serious strike has been going on among the journeymen
carpenters at Rouen. The workmen are accused of having
used threats to induce others to join them—not only those
of their own trade, but also the joiners and house-painters.
A meeting was convened in the Place Notre Dame on
Tuesday, to discuss the rights of the workmen. Out of the
600 or 70, carpenters in Rouen only 98 attended, but thee.
were all arrested. Probably the comparatively smell at- THE AUSTRIAN CURRENCY.—One of the OMnw
tendance was owing to the intention of the authorities . pendent■ of the Arlystrury Allgemeine Zeiiung, gives an
to stop the having got wind. At Nantes, where ; apt il.ustration of the state of the Austrian currency is a
the joiners' strike continued for a long time, the authori- 1 letter dated " From the Eigen," a small district in Saxony,
ties have adopted very severe measures. Arrests have been . close to the Bohemian frontier. He says :—" A few weeks
made daily, and the Procureur-Oiniral has signified his ' ago the extremest anxiety was felt among this population
intention to prosecute the prisoners. The police has seised, 'as the Austrian six kreuser piece, which, throughout the
at the post-office, money that has been sent front different Bigen, as along the whole frontier, had exchened for two
parts of the country to enable the men to subsist during the I new pooches, suddenly fell to a pfennige. lite excite-
strike. These determined steps seem to have produced an ; meat which arose within the space of two days was bound_
effect, for in a postscript to the latest number of the Union I less, for Saxon or Prussian small coins there were none,
Bretotote, it is stated that the men had agreed to return to ' and the six kreuser no one would take. As ever, in such
their work, and to accept the arbitration of the architects. crises, the day labourer, the weaver, and the poor gene-
RAPID VOYAGE.—A small open yacht, .5 1.94 tons, rally suffered most, but the better circumstanced classes
recently perforated a remarkably quick voyage front Ply- loot considerably. Tumults and sedition --
mouth to Sheerness, a distance by sea of 320 miles. The , for a time, but these were happ
beat is the property of the Rev. Rowland Wilson, late intervention of the government, N
chaplain of H.M.S. Impregnable, and now of 11.31.'s all the six kreuxers, exchanging
Dockyard at Sheerness. This boat sailed from Plymouth Although the crisis was but of t
on the 31st ult. at 12 at noon, and strived at Sheerness on lose sustained by print, '
Wednesday following, at 12 at night, being only 80 hours, thousand thole's!

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