The Express.
London, England, 1863-04-14 00:00:00

MINEB.-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'Ciocw.

The miring market is quiet to-day, preparations
for to-morrow's settlement engaging chief attention.
East Basset shares have declined to 85 to 87i.
East Caradon, Great Fortune, and Tincroft are
also rather lower. On the other hand, North
Roskear and Marks Valley are somewhat better.
But Caradon shares are now quoted 421 to 1 ;
MarkeValley, 81 to ; North Roskesr, 39 to ; Roe-
kearnoweth, 14 to i; East Camßrea, 81 to 9 ; North
Crafty, 5* to 1; Wheal Beton, 250 to 255; Cook's
Kitchen, 27 to 28 ; Great Fortune, 34 to 35 ; Tin_
croft, 21} to 1; Mogan, to 1 ; and Drakewalla,
1.1 to 2i.
In the absence of business, foreign and colonial
mining shares are nominally quoted the same as
yesterday.
From Prosper United Mime the following telegram was
menisci* received from the parser :—" Primmer United,
splendid lode im the 50, worth 401. per fathom.
The Atlas Maim and Smelting Company have received
the fallowing report from Captain J. Warren, dated
April 8 :—" I moot give you any report of the mine this
week, as we have not takes down any lode in the bottom
levels dace I het wrote you, nor shall we do so for several
days to come, as it impedes the program of the ms ; but
from what we mno the lodes improve in value rather
this fall alfesially le the eastern end, where the wee
lave discovered a lairs hollow in the lode which miners
tom a 'nigh,' the Miss et when en gelid tin."

Datin.ana RAILWAY.—gam Day. }—At the half-
yearly meeting of the shareholders held at one o'clock at
the Leedom Taves, Kr. J. A. Ttaste in thecliair, the report
ma adopted and a dividend of liner cont. declared.
BPICOLATIONB ON MI Boner.—As we are re-
doolarour war expenditure, it la likely sem& that we
shall oleo reduce our war taxes, vie.—the Monne
tax and the existing duty on tea. Our drum-
den have earunted for some time that if a direst tax is
to be reduced there must also be a similar boost to
**larger clue of British 000sumes. So probably this
role will be observed now. Id is rumoured that llr. Glad-
es°, thinks the time favourable for abandoning his own
pet progeny, the stamp duties upon all sorts of mercantile
tramoctione, sad so pttion out of hie little quarrel with
the mercantile public. Bo much for one Piave of ingeoulty.
But soother is sow meld to be doomed in the form of the
elaborate scale of sugar duties. The attempt to mi•
Met the duty upon sugar in exact proportion to he
yens, its strength. sad the labour spout upon it has
lad to a world of evasions and bad commercial prac-
tices. It is now proposed, we are told, to abolish
all these distinctions of colour, welgbt, sod groin,
and to substitute the two broad ammo of refined
and tinredoed. One other alteration is natationed,
which, like the rest, tells tales of the straggles cosetantly
waged between the Chancellor of the Exchequer mad the
foss of ho pesos and revenue. The duty on chicory is to
be raised. it is said, to equal that on coffee, which eves
them will suffer great dimadventage in the fraudulent °maw
tition.

Tag ViriiTHZIL AND THZ CHOTS.—We have ein
had Ali h week of thoroughly seasonable weather. Somet
shown,* hare lanes, and their effects have been immediate.
Vegetation
. everywhere looks huh and vigorous, sad trees,
fields, and meadows are alike rapidly putting on a
springlike appearance. The yams grain crops are
Areas, healthy, and promising ; and the pastures seam
forward for the time of year. Fruit tree. are in We..
um, and the only auxiety now is lest the "trace"
preposticated as most likely to follow is May the same.
rosseatioous " fop" in March, should prove of a severe cha-
mber. As yet everything seem fall of hope and promise.
Accounts from all quarters Ana that our agriculturists have
bees actively employed is snakily good me of the h*lsly
&Tearable weather of the last month or sir weeks, and we
think it may be fairly assumed that we ester upon the second
quarter of 1863 under satisfactory and cheering auspices.
1.6 e accounts of the "Lathing " also some favourable.—
Sams

YOUWG—;2ID OLD SALllON.—Letters from the
banks of the &sem from Yoationseryahire down to Weir.
oestorehire, report that the markt' (young salmon) are
more numerous in the river Use they lasers been known
within the memory of living ens. One times, wide'
from Mettxt, where a protection • has Met hem
formed, says that " the starlets are in thousands," and no
anmerous are they lower down that the Severn Filiation
Protection Association hem Jost issued notices ositioaieg
Veand fishermen against taking them, and pointing
tt mealtime Sewed by their capture. There are
also more admit fish in **tipper waters than have hem
known for yearn. The meriMa are expected to go down te
the sea in a few dam, and these small Ash, now only 2 on.
or Sea. in weight, will in July come op the river again
as admen at from 21h. to Alb. weight The important*
of protecting the young Ash, therefore, in self-evideet.
But while the you,' and immature fish require protection, I
the old and enfeebled adult salmos, weak from recent 1
tpamniciall for similar vigils's, as was proved on a !
investigation at Tewksbury on Friday last 0.
me
=lthe y .Tosph
at Tewkes Wilke and Pitmao, two lisherium
Users were ted by the
elks of the United Aseosintberyies for tM Protecting of the
Severn Fireeries for taking and being in their poleserion
urnesumalde slam It appeared that the fistiennen had
taken in their nets at Tewkesbury weir a number of spent
Ash that Ware welting at the top of the weir for a "fresh"
of wdar to any them dew* to es. These Ask ought to
have be.. returned to the river, but the &harms retained
Shen sad hawked them about is Tewksbury and Melts-
' Isian at fed. per lb., the price of good inseam Ask befog
it Id. per lb. The magistrates convicted the defendants
each ia a penalty of IA., and 19e. 6d. coda. Two others
soaped for want of conclusive evidence of their wilt