The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-29 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SNARE MARKETS.

11•11011:1111TIR, MAWR 26—Prtees were rather lower, and
there was a quiet market. Gent Luxembourg, nee amount
131-16—Grand Trunk of Canada, 344: next account, 361—Greali
Western of Canada, next account, 17 7-16—tancashire and York-
shire, 1061 next account, 106—london and North Watery
next account ki 31 ,t—Manchastor, and Lincolnshire,
next account 431—Ditto, Redeemable Preference, 11-16 p.—New
York and kris, 331—South Sestina, next account, 84—Dfstric7
Bank, in IT p—Bask of Manchester, 21 p.—London and
South Western. 1001.
Stan:MG/lAN NUMMI Us—South Staffordshire Railway shares
were Bold at 10 Worcester and Birmingham Cans! at Ili , Bir-
mingham Wakrworke (B shared), at 40. A, ex dlr.: and
Gloucester Weakens, M if p. Dims were buyers of
Goa shares at 144. and sailers at 1441; buyers of lißtairrfolhamhire
Gas at 100 : and buyers of Stone:edge and Kidderminster Bank
at 101. Market moderately arm

Murree Rgrergm The traffics reoeipte of rail-
ways in the United Kingdom amounted, for the week ending
March 22, on 10,124 miles to 470,1871., and for the onrospoo d-
tog week of lut year on 9,875 miles to 492,3441., showing ars
increase of 249 miles mid a dew's'. of 2/,1571. The gross
receipts on the follow* 1.4 railways amountatiletk=
gate on 6,617 miles to Mk 71.11., and for the e
week of 1861 at 6,458 miles to 360,8821., showing
an increase of 159 mile* and a decreased 24,1711. The de-
crease on the Eastern Counties Railway amounted to
1,5631. ; on the Great Northern to 2,6351. ; on the Great
Western, to 1.9191. ; on the Lutoubire ant{ Yorkshire to
4,427/.; on the London and North-Western to 4,4421. ;on
the London and Brighton to 9311.: on the London and
South-Western to 2,1611. ; on the Manchester, Sheffield,
sod Lincolnshire to 2,0941.; on the Midland to 1,561/. ;
on the North-Festern to 2,8021. ; and on the South-
Eastern to 9121.—total, 15,4471. But from this must be.
deducted 1,1191., the Weems oa the Caledonian ; 471.
on the Great Southern and Western ; and 1101. on
the North British—together, 1,2761. • leaving the de-
crease, as above, 24,1711. The goods iind mineral traffic
on those lines animated to 206.14111., and for the cor-
responding week of 1861 to 222,9861., showing a de-
crease of 14,8381. The mostpt• far pasegem. PUusls,
he., amounted to 148,5631., against 157,8951. eboung •
decrease of 9,333/. The balk reesipte as 85 other lines
amounted, on 3,507 miles, to 113,4719., and for the
corresponding week of kit year ea 3,417 miles, to
111,4621., showing an imams of 90 miles and of
2,014/. The falling off io the Waffle of the past week as
compared with the correspond* period of 1861 is con-
siderable in the goods, mineral, and pamenger traffic of
the great lines, tamed amaranth' by the d on of
trade in the manufacturing districts. The teabio receipts
of the pad week show a demises of 4,0581. as compared
with those of the preceding week ending the 15th inst.
STANDING Fiaa.—We find in the Baden Journal
the followtog communication from one who has recently
been in battle :—" I do not *pose I have much physical
or moral courage, but the sensations under fire, ridging
from my experience, are differed from what is expected. A
reasoning man at int helm alarmed, and his impulse is to
run away ; end if bashes no reason to stand, be probably
does ran ; bat at sash expossua he grows less timid, and
after bearing emister and grape about his ears a dozen
times, begins to think he is not destined to be hurt. Be
still feels issesey. perhaps, but the dangerbecomes fascinat-
ing, and, though be &met wish to be hit, he likes to have
narrow escapes, and so voluntarily places himself in a pod-
Coo where ho can incur more risk. After a little while he
begins to reason the matter, reflect' open the doctrine of
probabilities, and how much powder and lead is neoesearily
wasted before any man is killed or wounded. Why should
he be, he thinks, so moth more unlucky than many other
people? and be soon can hear the whizzing of bullets with
a tolerable degree of equanimity, though he involuntarily
or tries to dodge the cannon bells or shells that go
teodwiCg around his immediate neighbourhood. In the after-
noon be is quite a different creature from what be was in
the morning, and involoaterlly smiles to see a man betray
the same trepidation which De himself exhibited a few hoots
before. The mere he is ammed to fire the better he can
bear it, and the timid being of to-day is the hero of to-
morrow, and he who runs from danger on the first battle-
field will run iuto it oa the out, and court the hazard he
ones so dreaded. Thus mange, es it is styled, is little more
with most men than custom, and they learn to despise what
has often threatened without causing them harm. If
wounded, they learn wounds are less painful to bear than
they had supposed, and then the doctrine of probabilities
teaches them once more they are less liable to be wounded
again. So the mental mem goes on until the nerves
become by degrees the subjects of will, and he only fears
who has not the will to be brave."
SOCIETY OF A PICTURE—III your chamber bangs
a picture of one whom you never knew, but whom you
have long held in tenderest regard, and who was painted for
you by a friend of mine, the Knight of Plympton. Sbe com-
munes with you. She snake on you. When your spirits are
low, her bright eyes shine on you and cheer you.
Her innocent sweet smile ix a caress to you. She
FRIDAY EVINING. never fails to soothe von with her speechless prattle.
Consols, which closed yesterday at 931 to 94 for Yon love her. She is alive with you. As you extinguish
the 10th of April, opened this morning at the same your candle and turn to sleep, though your eyes me her
not, is she not there still smiling ? As you lie in the
night awake, and thinking of your duties, and the mor-
quotation, and closed at 931 to I. For money the
rain as with a remorse, the crackling Ire gashes up for
last price was 931. The official business report row'. inevitable toil oppressing the busy, weary, wakeful
is as follows:—Three per Cent. Courols, for moment in the snits, sod she is there, your little dean-
money, 931, L it, I, I, I, I ; ditto, for sccoun' teem Maiden, smiling with her sweet eyes ! When MOOll is
(April 10), 931, 1 ; Three per Cent.. Reduced, do
aren when
ose is
ire tie out, when
not curtains are drawn,titenolinds
though invisible,° present andr smiling still ? Friend, thegl
928, 1 ; New Three per Cents., 921, it ; New Two-
the time were drawing near when it shall he given to men
and-a-Half per Cents., 771 ; India Five per Cent. Ueieen One aro round about us. Dees it not seem iis if
to behold the ?—Cornkil/ Maga-'tine for April.
Stook, iosg, i, i ; ditto Four per Cent. Deben-
tures, m
tures, 1864, 100, 1 ; ditto Bonds, 24e. prem. ; Five A NNW ILEMOBTATIC. —The various remedies
per Cent. " enfesed " rupee paper, 1031, 103 ; now M tlen fer etenieg • 0013 hale flea of Moo though
nos equally applicable to all came, and any addition to
ditto Five-and-a-Half per Cent., losg, 1; Bank generally active enough.instance, lunar caustic,
(maim. latterly, a plant, called Peagawar Jamb& (Pales
Stock, for account, 2351, 234. the list at snob remedies is always acceptable to the pro-
ne India Five per Cent. Stock improved 1,
clueing at 1081 to ii. Moth), has been brought over from Java, which pos-
sesses extraordinary luencest&tio qualities. It is a kind of
Exchequer Rills were rather firmer, at 17.. to fem, yielding s. mass a delicatefilamentssolight .4
20.. preen. flexible as to be capable of Beatles a long time in the air.
The foreign stock market was dull. Their colour varies. *acceding to their thickness, from •
In the market forßank shares there was a further
brownish gold hue to a grey black. Six grains of these
filaments form a sufficient quantity to stop the bleeding of
improvement in Bank of Egypt, and a decline in
City Bank. National Discount, Red Sea Telegraph, g,,,,,i,y,
an artery a twelfth of as inch in diameter. The sobstanoe
such avidity for water, that it in soaked
land Anglo-Mexican Mint shares were all inquired through and sinks to the bottom of the vessel
*R. isoataieing it in less then half a minute. If exposed to
The cloning quotations foe shares in new under. hest, it exhales an ecopyreumatic perfume, and if it be
sammos, 7 to} prem. ; Thames and Mersey Marine, capn,---,.." attraction,
takings to-day were ma follows :—Ocean Marine In-
tonbutable to the rapidity with which ite filaments, acting by
bond it explodes. Its styptic properties are witurally &twi-
litto 1 prem. ; Universal Marine, 211 to and thus cause its immediate uulation. Moreover, the
dia. ; don and Provincial Marisa, par to 1 elasticity of these filament*, swollen by the absorptioo of
&bomb the aqueous parts of the blood,
rem • Mercantile Fire, 4 to I pre= ; porn. the liquid, causes them to form a kind of
itimpenetrable
mess Milan, ito }die. • hnianft Bank of advantages of this styptic over those already known
London and Liverpool, 4i to' f prem. ; Rio Im- sr-the promptness of the effect, and the possibility of
holedget which, &diacritic to the wound, keeps well closed.
provements, Ito 1 prem., ex the paid-up shares • prodaoing the cosculam whets otter agents fail, as for in-
Branch Railways, g to 1 prem. ; and Imperial
ditto paid-up Aar", 1* to ll prem. ; Indian 'hum, in caroinomatoas and scorbutic ulcers. Before using
Bank, ito 1 prem. • to the wound, and a oomprees adapted over it. The styptics
it It must be tritorated, a certain quantity is then applied
, thus penetrates into the narrowest fissures, and instantly
The new Victoria, Loan was steady, at 1041 to I. WASPS the desired *Eon. —Calignani.

The bar silver by the West India packet was
sold yesterday for India at 5s Id. per ounce, being
IL below the price obtained for the previous
supply. The causes of the heaviness of the market
have already been referred to. Mexican dollars
have receded to Ss. Old.

The foreign exchanges yesterday afternoon were
again firm. The tendency of the rates on Paris is
especially favourable, and, should the movement
continue, gold will be attracted over from the con-
tinent. Subjoined is our usual list :
Amsterdam, 3 months, 11.181 to f ; ditto, 3 digs,
11.161 to ; Rotterdam, 3 moetlas, 11.18; to f ;
Antwerp, 3 months, 25.52 f to 74 ; Homburg, me. beam
throe moths, 13.84 to 1; Pans, 3 days, 25.271 to 321; ditto,
3 mouths, 35.50 to 5 ; Frankfort-os.thirMaine, 3 mouths,
1181 to 1194 ; Petersburg (per rouble), 3 mootbs, 324 to f ;
Pienee, eff. do., 3 teasel" 13.95 to 14.00 ; Trieste. if. 80.,
3 m001it5,13.95 to 14.00; Madrid, 3 months, 481 t 04- Gediz,
S months, 481 to 1 Leghorn, 3 months, 25.52it0 74 ;
Genoa, 3 months, 25.11; 2f to 74; Milan, 3 months, .524 to
741 Naples, 3 months, 404 to ; Palermo, 3 months, 120
to ; )taus, 3 months, 130 to 1 ; Lisboa, 90 days,
to 53 ; Oporto, 90 days, 524 to 53.
At Paris the money market is very easy, and the
rateof discount in the open market is 3 per cent.,
or below the charge of the Bank of France. At
Vienna the rate is 5 ; Berlin, 3} ; Hamburg, 2
Turin, 4i ; Brussels, 3 ; Amsterdam, 31 ; and
Frankfort, 2 per cent.
The Liverpool cotton market remains firm, but
quiet.
Tenders were received yesterday by the Cape Town
Railway and Dock Company for Six per Cent.
Debentures, to the amount of 27,0001 The
minimum price was flied at 105/. Tenders were
received for upwards of 45,0001. All the deben-
tures were disposed of at an average of 1061. The
highest tender was 1071. 7s. 6d.
The directors of the London Chartered Bank of
Australia have elected their late deputy-chairman,
Mr. William Fans De Solis, to the office of chair-
man, vacant by the decease of the late Mr. Duncan
Dunbar. They have also appointed Mr. James
Fraser, of the firm of J. and L. Fraser and Co., to
be deputy-chairman.
The Marquis of Tweeddale, late Governor and
Commander-in-Chief of the Madras Presidency, has
joined the board of the Indian Branch Railway
Company.
Although the prospectus of the Imperial Bank
(Limited) has been only three days before the
public, we are informed that fully two-thirds of
the first issue (1,000,0001.) of capital has already
been subscribed for. The establishment of this
undertaking is thus assured.
The Caledonian Railway traffic return shows this
week an increase of 1,1201.
The Gazette specie statement for the week ending
Wednesday last gives the following totals, viz. :
Imports of gold, 201,9401. ; exports of gold,
123,9764.: imports of silver, 80,61. ; exports of
silver, 313,4381. . _