The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-18 00:00:00

Messrs. Rothschild and Sons have announced the
dividends due the Ist Dec. ou the Brazilian Four-
and-a-Half per Cent. Loans.
The screw steamer Asia, from Halifax, which
was considerably oi ardue, has arrived at Queens-
town, short of coals and with her sails split. The
rate of insurance upon this vessel had advanced at
Lloyd's to 30 guineas premium.

The following report of the colonial wool sales is
from the circular of Messrs. Richard Dalton and
Son :

Our fourth series of colonial wool Bales base commenced
this day. The catalogue comprised 17 bales Queensland, 138
Sydney 621 Port Phillip, 101 Van Dremen's Land,
200 Adelaide, 1,187 New Zealand, and 1.182
There was a small attendance of foreign buyers,
but an unusually large one of the home trade.
Van Diemen's Land wools have maintained former prices.
New Zealand, are Ad. to ld. lower than the average of last
mks, but fully as nigh as they were at the slow. Capes,
Sydney and Adelaide are also id. to ld. lower. Greasy Port
Phillips, ld. lower, f, r those washed on sheep's back and
good scoured, very little difference. The quantity offered
of SydneYa and Port Phillips has been too small to fiz
prices firmly either one way or the other. Scoured Pod
Phillips and Adelaide' of inferior description were ld. to
lid. lower. _

The quantity of wool arrived up to yesterday for
the November and December sales is shown below :
New South %Vales and Queensland, 29,358 bales ;
Victoria, 13,264 i; Tasmania, 1,989; SoutbeAustralia,
5,533 ; West Australia, 198 ; New Zealand, 9,511 ;
Cape of Good Dope, 28,753—t0tal colonial, 79,620
bales.

Subjoiued is Messrs. Culverwell, Brooks, and
Co.'s report of yesterday's bide sales :

At the twentieth aerie; of hide sales for the year,
the quantity offered was moderate ; an improved de•
mind was experienced from the howo trade, atd prices
in some cases were i rather higher. FAO India.—
Ox and Cow : Calcutta were in fair request, and in conse-
quence of an improved demand upon the part of the home
trade, and the smallness of the quantity offered. full prices
to an advance of Id. to A. per lb. were obtamed. The de-
mand for export 11.13 limited. The analysis of the sales is
45,150 Calcutta new parcels, and 23,24, brought forward
from former sales ;:in all, 64397104.4,0 t which T.6,87:3 were
sold. East India.—Buffalo were only part sold. Leather.—
Etat Indian brought advanced prices. Australian realised
late rates. S►lted Hides—Cape sold fairly. Austr.dian
were firm at the maximum prices lately obtained. South
American brought former rates. Dry and laysalted
—Mauritius sold fairly. South American rather lower.
Mogadore only part sold. Persian bought in. German
were passed. Horse Hides—Jilted: N,rth American
brought fair prices. Dry : German realised late rates.
Bark.—Mimosa was mostly sold. Belgian oak bought in.
The return of the Bank of England for the week
ending Wednesday, N0v.16, compared with that for
the previous week, shows the following changes :
Circulation issue
Circulation active 20,194.365 Decrease 11'i,710
Public deposits
Other deposits
Government securities in _

banking department 10,371,542 Itcrease 402,000
Othersecurities m banking
department
Ooin and bullion in both
department!

Soyeix day anl other bills

The Rest-

Notes in reeerve

13,852,355 luempse 4:n5.085
556.115 lecmase 2i1,877
3.310,1118 Increase 5,50
7,571,8455 I:creas• 3`1i,04/1

Total reser►e Motes k coin
in banking dep trtment) . g,307.970 'crows ef5),795
The improvement in the position of the Bank
continues. Owing to the influx of government de-
posits, combined with the decrease in th.• private*
!securities, the reserve has experiet.cr d the ,atis-
factory addition of 400,7951. ; the incrc.,,e, would
have been Mill larger but for the fact that the
Bank have repossessed themselves of 402,0011!. of
government securities, which they temporarily
parted with during the recent pressure. The coin
and bullion have also increased 2015,065'., which
must be wholly attributed to the reflux of coin
from the provinces, the result of the import and
export movement of the week having been slightly
unfavourable.

PANIC OF ENGLAND. —An
anA ,th Vic, e. 32, for the week
OWL

T.STE DTP'
Notes tuned £27.;4 2M

L 27,74;, 1)

LORING D 1
Proprietors' Capital x 14.553.0601
Rest 3,310,t;i,
Public Depootta tin-
cluiiiag
Say. Danko. Com-
mis. of National
Debt. nail Div.

tre.ort pnrstunt to the Ad 7th
tn.kl4 ea Wtchie,:ay, Sur. 16,

,ATVINVNT.
Government debt.. .C 11,015.100
r ,ocur.t.ee
eetn and bul•
lion
nilt er Ludlam

MpattranlT.
It Government Remy-
, rill,. In ••;
Dead Weight An-
.
Other
Gott and tlllver
Coln

13,11C,240

.;C4llO

Accoints,
Other Deposits 14.4t3,2.14
SeTeo day and other
B&W 658,116

ZZ7,0i7,753

Nov. It 1861.

).376,341
;9.505.241
7,571,b.16

73,3,114

c. 967.714
W. MILLER, 163 d t abider.

TErRSDAT ETVIING.

Consols, which closed yestrTfai7.i to I
es div., for the Bth December, opened e3is morn-
log at the same quotation, and cloned at 69/. to
For money the last price was 90i, to ;I with div.
The official business report is as follows :
Three per Cent. Consols, for men' y, :el!. 91;
ditto for account, 893 ; Three per Cent.,. Reduced„
883, I ; New Three per Cents., 881. ; Red
Sea Telegraph, 20 1-16, 20 ; India per Cent.
Stock, 106*, 3. *; ditto Four per Cent. Debentures,
1866, 98; Fire per Cent. "enfaced" rupee ?apes., 89.
The foreign stock market was did:, :14.1 sowe
of the more speculative descriptions
drooping tendency. Turkish Bonds 1••:.3 de-
clined * percent. ; the Consolithis ar.,l Gra-
nada Deferred, I ; and Mexican and lioani-h Pas-
sive, Italian improved 4. Venezu,,:a3 lt,.nds of
all classes were greatly depressed, the 01,1 loans
falling * per cent., the Six per Cents. of l a;2, 2 ;
and those of 1864, 1 per cent.

MINES'.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'CLocr.

The mining market is firm to-day. c wing partly
to an advance of 24 in the standard, at the sale
of copper ore iu I.lornwall yesterday. List Lovell
and East Grenville shares are in request,
and have risen to 141 to 151 and to L,
respectively. East Caradou are to 191,
and Emit BassA, 50 to 65. Grea: Vur are
officially marked 341.
Foreign and colonial mining sharr.s are quiet.
Tudantunutana are inquired for.

SERIOPS Ai .i.IDENT AT ANCHL,ITEIt. —On the
arrival of the London end North Western train from Leeds
at the Victoria Station. Ilancheater, yesrt aft. i nous.
at 5.15, an elderly woman, namei !!'Nally, o onallware
dealer in Timber-street, Dantrie-street, who w■s a pas.
I @eager, attempted to alight before the train woe brought to
a stop. Her drew caught the carriage step, she w:s rwso
round, fell between the carriages. and the wheels passe
over her. She was taken into the waitiog•rro:a, and the
leg most injured was bound to prevent tLc of blood ;
afterwards she was conveyed to the Royal Intim eery, where
the left leg was amputated. There is little hope of her
recovery.
THE ATTEMPTED MI-RDER IN LET'
—A special sitting of the Ashlay-desla-Z,..)i bench of
megistrotor took place yesterday (Thursdays, W. W.
Abney, Esq., in the chairothen John Potter, a groom,
of Thringstooe, was brought up on a charge of attempting
to murder his sweetheart, Sarah Ate NOith, a young
woman, 2: years of age, by cutting her throat with a
razor, while standiig in compan♦ with a feniabs friend
lotkisg in a shnp•window in Whitwick t,:wt t-place,
on Saturday night last. The injury the proeecutrix
received wu of such a slight nature, that her wound
is DOW almost well, and she was able to be
present awl give her testimony. She, b 'waver. ap-
peared to be in a very weak condition, and frequently
fainted away in the course of her examination. sod stewed
greatly affected at the prisoner's position. The prisoner
was committed for trial at the next Leicesterthire Assizes.
On being removed to his cell to await his c.:tiveyance to
Leicester, he made a desperate effort to commit suicide by
tying one of his garters round his throat aril pulling at
both ends until nearly choked. It was only by the gurgling
noise he made that the policeman discovered him. He was
then lying on his hack on the cell bench tryirg to and hid
existence in the above way. He gradually recovered.
A NEW CONFEDERATE CRCINER.—We hare much
rhusure in being able to state that almost at the note
time when the Florida was treacherously reizsi in Bahia
harbour, the Confederate ffsg was hoisted on a new cruiser at
least the equal of the Florida in armament, thud, and gene-
ral efficiency. The Shenandoah starts upon her career with
every prospect of emulating the fame of her prodecesaini.
She is comm soiled by Lieutenant Waddell. C ofederato
States navy, and s gallant staff of officers. Having received
her crew and armament—everything, in fact, that cow
atitutes her a belligerent vessel—on the high seas, far be-
yond any neutral jurisdiction, there can fortunately be no
pretence of unmet her of any violation of municipal laws
or intern►tional obligationc—lndea.