The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-22 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SMARR MARKETS.

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LlllllllOO4 MAY 2L-Haire to-day: Great Emden], &
caahire and 'ltoluldre, 1101 1-London and North a:lt
1011c.-Buffalo and take Huron, 6918-Confederate Una, 11 p.
BluitimolLut, MAY M.-West Midland, Oxford Ist Guarantee
Stock, soul at 1211, and Birmingham and Staffordshire Gas nu
shares at Yp. Imperial Continental Gaa were balers at 114 -
Oxford Debenture at ck at 108-Midland Preserence Poar-and.t-
Half per tnots. at 1021-and Stour Valley shares at 89. Bir-
mingham Canal were quoted 93 to 94-Birmingham Bank, t 7 to
1-Birmingham and Staffordshire Ohs, 96 to 90-sud Metropoli-
tan Wagon new 114.0 d. to lea 3d. p.
SlascutsrML MAY 21.-The market is quiet, without much
chririgi!iii quotationm. B nit of Manchester, 'Oil- Buffalo and
Lake Huron, 51-Great Eastern, 6113-Great embourg, 141
-Great Northern A's. 1290-Great Ship, no. ed.-Grand eruct
of Canada, 191 10 101 SO-Crest Western, ell-Lantarshire and
Yorkshire, 110 i aft) -Lo "lon and North Weider°. 101;
-Manchester and Comity Bank, 2 p.- nancheeter, dheMelii, and
Liwolnabire,43l-Di s to three-and-a-Quarter per Cent, Pref., ep-
, Ditto Redeemable. 11.16 p.-Metropolitan, 11 9-113-Ditto, Exton-
' Oen, p. -141113ni1, 127/ -Ditto, New 51., 3s. Od. p.-North
Brialsk, 511-North Staffordshire, 163-10-Thames and M
marine Insurance, 7 ps -East Anglian Seven per Cents., C,
-Edinburgh. Perth, and Dundee. 949-
DL", MAY W.-Three per Cent. Consols, 92}-New Three
per Cant. Stock, 911 e-ditto for Account, eat ea* 911 f-
India Mr iar Dints Stock !transferahle at the Bank of irelaaM
1081--Bank of Ireland, 1991 told, 1./I—Nations! Bank of Inland
1104. paid, 78 -ditto for Account, 78-National Bank of Liverpool
(Limited, 51. paid. 10-ditto for Account, 10- Provincial Bank of
in tool, ISt psis!, 901-Duhlin and Belfast Junction, 501 paid,
401-Inblln, Wicklow, and Wexford Mesh 81-Sildiaed Great
woo, and 111, Curial. POI. paid, 519 1-111illaud Great Wetter.,
, half 3! area, MI paid. 251 f -ditto for Account, 251-Duillin end
Droglis.da, 1021. paid, 94-Dublin and Dregheft, 3 per cent., tit,
pat, rd., Z 1 a:dies-Dui:Ain, Wicklow, and Wexford, epee cent.
perpetual, 1311-Great Southern and Western, 4 p. c. peep.,
1001 paid. WI.

SILK.—It is an interesting historical fact that
although the rearing of silkworm@ and the unravelling of
the thread from them to be manufactured into articles of
dress, was first practised by the Chinese, the Miro-
duction of this branch of industry into Europe was due
to Justinian, who in the year 550 first succeeded in
having the eggs brought to Constantinople. Mulberry
trees were planted and every attention bestowed on the
rearing of the insects. In a subsequent reign, we are
informed by Gibbon that such was the progress made,
that China silk was successfully competed with by the
new industry. Spreading into Greece, it did not ex-
tend further till the 12th century, when, on the snaking
of Corinth and Athens by the King of Sicily, it was
introduced into Italy, and from thence, in the latter part el
the 15th °votary, the rearing of silkworms was first prose-
cuted in the South of Franoe. There it was deemed of each
importance rbusberuce
ebuyg.Hg.deoryisltVh; thmsatnutct%rtriewaraidsukisersfgstswekw_hoo
years with patents of nobility. The value of silk at Lame
in Julius Cinsar's time was that of gold ; a pound of mak
being worth the same weight of the precious metal. Joe-
ltinisn's labour was not is vain, as Europe has since remind
its advsetages, and it is now a remarkable, bat far Toth&
economists a gratifying, fact that at the present day the dis-
trict of Brousit occupies the foremost rank for the probe-
thin of this valuable filament —Levant Nereid.

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