The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-01 00:00:00

MIN-18.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'Cuscu.
In the mining market to-dayy the principal feature
is a good demand for East Lovell and Great Vor
shares, which have risen to 15} to 16, and 34 to
35, respectively. On the other hand East Russell
have declined to 5* to *. The transactions gene-
rally are upon a limited scale.
St. John del Rey and Port Phillip shares are in
request at advanced quotations ; the former have
been dealt in at 35 to 36, and the latter at If
and 11.
An extraordinary meeting of the East India Coal
Company (Limited) is called for the 7th December,
to confirm the resolutions passed on the 21st inst.,
authorising an increase of the capital.
With reference to East Russell, the following
telegram was received yesterday from Captain J.
Richards :—" Hundred and thirty improved, worth
fifteen pounds (151.) per fathom."
The directors of the Port Phillip arid Colonial Gold
Mining Company have received by telegram tram Sues the
followieg advice, in anticipation of the Australian mail
from their resident director, Mr. Bleed, at Chines, giving
the result of the month of September lest :—.• Six wield re-
turn :—Quaatity of quartz crushed, 5,3 W tow ; yield pre
ton. 10dets. 4Sgra, or 2,7000 z. gold. Receipt., b. WO/. ; pay-
ments, I.OUUI. ; profit, 3,500/. ; remittance, 2,3001. All
well."

THE DEFALCATIONS IN THE POST-OFFICE SAVINGS
BANK.—From the most reliable sources es have gathered
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informatioo oo this subject, which will set at rest ;any of
the absurd exaggerations which have for ,o-oe days been in
circulation. In the first place the defaulter was detected
by the ordinary checks, and on the very d..y on which he
ought to have been detected by tho paper operation of
such checks. He appears to have foreseen this, sod dis-
appeared just at the right tame. It is true that officers
have been despatched to Australia after lam, but this bee
bees done on principle, and not by ratio° of the &mount of
the fraud perpetrated, which, so far from reaching the ex-
aggerated amounts which have been stated, is really under
100/. The loss will fall, of course, entirely upon the de-
partment, and no depositor will suffer, or would have
suffered if the loss had bees a thousand times as much. The
system of checks now in operation has reduced the possibili-
ties of fraud to • minimum, while in so case eau depositors
suffer by reason of such malpractices.—MorniAq A .I.ertiaer.
FREDERICK DOI:GUM{ AND Ht.{ OLD STATI!..
FredetiCk Douglass spoke in Baltimore on the evening ed
the 18th. In announcing his purpose to do so, in Zion
Church, Rochester, on the previous Sunday night, be said :
—.• What • wonderful change • few short years hav•
wrought! I left Maryland a slave. I return to her •
freeman ! I left her a slave state. I return to lied her
clothed in her new garments of Liberty sad Jeanie*, a
free state! My life has had two crises—the day on
which I left Maryland, and the day on which 1 return.
I expert to have a good old•fasbioaed visit, for I have
not been there for a long time. I may meet my old
master there, whom I have not seen for many years. I
beard he was living only • short time ago, and be will
be there, for be is on the right side. I made a °wrath
of him years ago. He was a very good man, with a
high sense of honour, and I have no malice to overcome
in going back among those former elaveholders, for I
used to think that we were all parts of one great social
system, only we were at the bottom and they at the Omt
If the shackles were around our ankles, they were 4to
on their seeks. The Common Council and the city Lathe-
Titles have promised to be present at the seat meetieg is
Baltimore. I shall be glad to see them. I shall retain
to them with freedom in my hand, and point to her fees
constitution, and am the olive branch was a sign that
the waters of the flood were retiring, so will the freshet'
which I shall find there be • sign that the billows elf
slavery are rolling back to leave the law blooming orbs
in the purer air of liberty and justice."