The Express.
London, England, 1855-10-26 00:00:00

THE CONTINENTAL MAILS AND THE

WEATHER.-( THIS DAY.)

We have received the following communication'
boa the Secretary of the English, French, and Belgium
Royal Mail Steam-packet Couipaay, Wag the report of the
easspeay's superintendent at Dover to the chief once is
Loadoa :

" Admiralty-yard, Dover, Oat. 28. 8 ca.
" It hie been blowing a perfect barrios's* all night.
" L'lmperstriee, with the French mail, due at 1 airs., ran
ter the Downs, and safely landed her malls.
" The Belgian government steam packet with the Ostend
mails left ()stand yesterday, at 7.30 p.m., but has not yet
arrived.

"Tee South Eastern Company's .team-boat acted not
land her passengers here hat night. She was obliged to can
to Bam•gate.
"Our mail boats, Vivid and Garland (the former for
Ostend, and the latter fur Calais), left all right last night,
but just satiny were leaving a great portion of the piles and
woodwork of the Admiralty-pier were washed away.
" The Baroness Stuttarbeisa aad family went over is the
Goland, en route to Germany. _

" Dover, 11.28. Ls

Theilielet, with the Beet& mails from Calais, aid
L'lmpsralrioe from the Dowse, hare Pastan* into harbour
all tare.

" Tim mails will loam by tae 12 o'clock Male."

A very hoary gale from this s•ath.wsst and want-*oath-1
wort ha bean blowing all night at Plymouth.
This mania,. at 4 o'clock, the Brazilian barque Than-
dolma, Captain Gown, went ashore, stars on-, is Bates
Bay. She Is from Havre, bound to Lisboa and Lima. If
the gale subside eb• will sot resolve such deans.

THE STORY TO-DAY.-11tie saoroitg at high water
the tide is the river rose us sa soused height, a heavy gale
blowlsg from the south west ; the water was level with the
coping ea the Cestom•hosso wharf, sad nearly up to the
sew lead'sg place at Billing/ate. At the half flood the
current in the stress was so rapid, that notwithstanding it
was what is termed a weather tide, the vessels in the Lower
Pool sad I. Blackwell and the Lower Reaches, could
seareely be held by their sashes; sad on the ebb, the wind
sad tide setting t►e same way, seven' ,owls, in the crowded
state of the river, brought their &ashore home, and came into
eollishm, causing musk damage to bulwarks, spars, and
*gig. Several of the wharves is the south side of the
Thum were Mandated, sad the atesters of fishing
and oyster smuts state that the law grenade
and marshes is the Heat sad Baser shone

are °veld mod ; sad Users Is roam to fear
that many sheep hare beim drowned, aid leash lojuty dose
to haystacks. Idea& the ants of the storm were very
&mimes; 1 boasts la the suburbs were unroofed,
chimney-pots blown down, and a great amber of young
true uprooted.

DETERIIINID SUICIDE 01' A FIINALII IN THE
RIOANT'II CANAL —AU half•past twelve o'clock this Mon-

big,Cboapioo, 128 8, woo oilfod from Hi`k-rtraat, Portland-
town, to tbo Case-bridge, Park•raad, 84...10hn'0 wood, by

gentleman who bad Mood s Menet sad 'bawl es the bridle
alluded to. He, accompanied by soother °Hem took the

drags. sad is the warm of abosi twisty minutes they ese•
oeeded is dragging s (male out She sae glued es

the bank, and a doctor was seat for, who pro-
nounced Mr dud, sad his *plain that vitality had
not been bug extinct. TM deceased was vary
respectably thawed. She had on a dark merino dress,
and abs bad tied a veil mu her head sad round her meek.
MIS abo had a gold ring ea one finger end isilver Wobble
on mother. ♦ gold watch, with a silk peed, was
feud in the bosom of her dress. She bad also two geld
tweaks. sad a silver spoon in her possession. Upon the
latter utak was eagramd, "To the mammy of a dear
child." The body was eonveyed to the infirmary of Mazy-
Mono Workhouse, New• road.

--
EDINBURGH AND GLABOOW.—A special meeting motion of stock by the public, places this market
ittalesTierspany was held 11:1 ea
the Ivb.d...a.
.g. at. Glz;:;m3dr.
upon a very firm basis. The fall to 881 which Coa-
ted tie advehtsamvat Diller the nesting. the Chains= sole sustained a week or two ago, was chiefly &Mi-
scued that the same whisk the shareholders were sow ,_ ,
called sun se fain under the nut lately obtained wire ant Man at the time to the large realisations by the
a sabartutee et 80.0001. to the lielessbarab Railway, Bank of England, coupled with the accompanying
60,0001. to provide plant for that Ilse, 60,0001 (alressly
paid from ether r ) for pleat oa the Ildr- operations of speculators for lower prices. Within a
Rug sad Danferalia• Be, MM. for the Cewlsirs very abort space of titnethe whole of this mass of stock
Ismael, wad 30,0001. for land taken from the Deed« appears to have been cleared off The market by the in-
sad
armors Company
of
m.O
oato
IW. aTvehreley- bridge station, =skies In
regent was not the moat vestments of the publie,which have caused a recovery
&seeable time for raising money, bat he thought that 5 of nearly 2 per cent. from the lowest point of the
per seat professes shares would be takes up readily. Re depression.
late ln fact, the supply with which the
then moved a series of nodulose. preldieg for the issue
et 27,000 shares of 101 eaeb, to be ranked as 6 per cent. jobbers are now feeding the public demand appears
pretenses abuse. He stated that watt shareholder would to waist chiefly of stock lent in the market by the
Yaws the offer Mona Dew 101. share for every SOL of stock
bald by Me. sad that the calls weld extend our two years, Bank of England. Upon this stock the Bank finds
is tea letabeete of M. sash, Feld at ia, trsl4 4,, taw" itself able to borrow money in the Stock Exchange
teethe. Mr. Headmen, of Psi% Itaraia the atlaittaal
dabs reeeletieus, sad they were passed unanimously. A ail low as 21 per cent., owing to the greater com-
ime el Slash@ to the minimum dosed the proceedings. panties scarcity of Consols. On the other govern.
Laleitex.—The Coquette, a very handsome vessel, meet stocks the current rate is 3 to 4 per cent.
of NI leek Intended as • despair& boat, was leenehed from
11. H. sad H. Gresn's baildise-yeed, at Blackwell, The feeling in the discount market seems firmer,
PALACE.— Romeo DAT,
ipasesisy. but the rates are well maintained. The more
OM 2-3. favourable feeling is prompted in great mea-
Oaywra.
rrl_teratut. 2,684 / ditto by se"" tkkoa• sure by the retention in this country of a
ei, kw. Correspeedtee day last year. 2,191.
Advertioncenus.
ausemirat.)—A4 portion of the gold recently received from
4.1111-umashihost.llllll3." InAll'im ortallini. Australia. The amount sent into the Bank
embeasio.ereamilibes me tem el assuircurse. yesterday is reported to have reached about 300,0001.,
te
otat-sonea_.....,
Mierlissass ant 00d and some further parcels were presented to the insti
-ru.7 cation to-day. The reported arrangement between
. tenant ateure.Peatedbm. Mime SilLta-1. the Bangs of Prawn and Amsterdam, by which the
Moe mass isseasi ere wises Gamma et sa as former is stated to obtain some considerable specie
(AAVOrtiseIIanka—ECILLOWAVII PILLS TER lIIMPT _n ~ ... . hoped, tend mitigate
arecesses nenesens Lou meatess easetersies.—late accommodation, will, it Is
61 Mai to maldS Ma vssan =WM a mellpeiem the French drain upon this market. It is reported,
boa Ask amempded Was avid" of MD ad Wool however, that the next return of the Bask of Eagland
11/Asellatt be `der lieleeiarat of mad mil ler tire
g mbrea Mewed ea seesseoss as Meade hessineMermea sr Ma will exhibit a further onsiderable diminution in the
soda of tbeettsas el his Itmedar. ilbpsliamen win end Noon.
wilmimilbe beasseazabusame Mk pinalenniregembsiMpeninner." =art. At Paris to-day the French funds experienced an
°Melbas ass lir el th. tbeell". lenwi•S___. free , improvement of Ito I per ant.
alsmamed Oa mg tarerear al Pm" sida ranged between 88 and 881, end were
• wee meessere He, ant se,
ritheimlistrollke lalh quoted at 4 o'clock at 881, exactly, both for money

it-

and the Bth November.. The official business report
is as follows :—Three psi Cent. Consols, for money,
881, 88, 881, 871, 88 ; ditto, for account, Bth Novem-
ber, 88k, 88. 881, 1,1, 88. Three per Cent. Redimed,
f. New Three per Cents.. 88, 881. Long An.
names, expiring in January, 1860, 31, 3 7-16; ditto,
Thirty Years, Oct., 1859, 31, 31. Bank Stock, 207.
Three-and-a-Half per Cent. Exchequer Bonds, falling
payable in 1838 and 1859, 981, 1, 1.
India Bonds and Exchequer Bills were steady, at
2s. dis. to 31. prem.
In the foreign stock market attention is still chiefly
directed to Turkish. The Six per Cents. were again
inquired for this morning, and touched 791, but a
fall to 781 to 791 then took place, and the closing
quotation was 791 to 1„ or per cent. below that
of yesterday. The scrip of the New Four
per Cent. Guaranteed Loan, after martin
21 dia., closed at 3/ to 21 dim., being
per cent. worse than yesterday. The scrip o
the new French loan was last quoted par to 1 preen.

MINES.-THIS DAY.

Two o'CLocw.

The gold mining shares continue to meet with
little or no enquiry.
Tin Croft snares have been dealt in at 3f, Im-
perial Brazilian at 21, and United Mexican at 41, to
ob showing a farther rise.
"

Annexed is the Mining Exchange official list of yes-
terday's sales :
But Russell, 261 27.. 64.; Irybridge, 275. 61. ; Lady
Bertha, 215., 20.., 21.., 19s. 6d , 205., 21... 21.. 6d. ; Tama:
Consuls, 4 ; Treleigh Consols (ohs), 20s. ; West Celle.
comb., 10.. ; West Sortridge, 61.. 6s. 344 ; West Promo,
32, 35, 38: Wheal Trefasis, 13f, 14.
We also hear of the following transactions in the
Stack Exchange, viz.:
North Bwet, 32; Bortridge Corool•, 6f, 613 113; Vale
of Towy, 20a, 211.; Eut Russell, 27.. 6d.; Lady Berths,
205., 225. ; Defeo, 64. 3 ; West Collacombo, I.