The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-07 00:00:00

dols. ; Trieste, 311 per cent. prem.; Valparaiso,
9 dols. 7c. per mare ; Venice, 30 per .eent. prem. ;
Vienna, 31 per cent. prem.
Silver holding 5 grains of gold is ss. ltd. per
ounce standard at London.
The last prices of five-franc pieces are :-Amster-
dam, 28. 34 to 37; Frankfort, 2fi. 211 to 1 ; Lisbon,
870 reis; New York, 961 c. to 97 c.; San Francisco,
95c.; Trieste, 28. 341.
The last prices of quicksilver are: London, 3s. 9d.
San Francisco, 15 to 153 dols. ; 'Valparaiso, 120 dols;
The imports of bullion during the week have been.
50,000/. by the Pacific from the United States, 451)1.
by the Ganges from Gibraltar, and 8,0001. from Lis-
bon, and 5001. from Gibraltar by the Montrose Pe-
ninsular and Oriental steamer. The total is 58,9,50/,
The amount of the precious metals exported direct
from London during the week ending Thursday
lust, we learn from official sources, was 111,642 ozs.
of silver, and 2,000 sovereigns, and 5,976 ounces of
gold, shipped as follows : Silver coin, to Rotterdam,
14,000 oz.; to Hamburg, 7,0110 oz.; to the Mauritius,
8,000 oz.; to Belgium, 24,000 oz. Silver bars: to
the Cape of Good Hope and Madras, 11,700 oz.; to
Hamburg, 22,142 oz.; to Belgium, 20,000 oz.; to
Dunkirk, 4,800 oz. Gold dust : to Havre, 187 oz.
Gold coin : to Hamburg, 35 oz.; to Madras, 2,000 oz.;
to the Mauritius, 2,000 sovereigns. Gold bars: to
Belgium, 1,234 oz.; to Dunkirk, 2,500 oz. The total
value of these exports is about 53,0001.
In addition to this, the Ike, \Vest India steamer,
took out 23,000/. from Southampton.
'fhe last quotations of exchange at foreign places
on London are as follows, and arc tolerably steady :
Previous Latest
Quotations. Quotations.
Amsterdam (short) Iltl. 75 lltl.
Ditto (two months 1111. 671 11t1. 671
Antwerp
Berlin (three month.).
Bremen (two months) 617 615 618
Calcutta (six mouths) 2s. 211., 21d. 2s. 21d., 215.
Colombo
Constantinople (3 mos.) 110 p. 114 p.
Copenliazen (short) 9.2 9
Ditto (3 months) 6.91 8.90
Florence (3 months)
Frankfurt (short) 1111, A 1181,
Hamburg (short)
Ditto (3 months) l3m. 13w. 41
'Althorn (3 mantle.)
Leipzig (3 mouths) 6.201 6.201
Naples
lonic 4BO 477
Smyrna llol,lllp. 1110.
BYra
81. Petersburg,'
Trieste
Venice
The market for shares in the various insurance
companies is quiet, the only change in price that him
occurred during the week being an improvement in
the Guardian, and a fractional decline in the
Rock Life. Considering the great benefit pal-
pably conferred upon Assurance Societies by
publicity, it is rather surprising that some of the
old companies persist in shrouding their pro-
emlings from public observation. The Economic,
the Family Endowment, and the Palladium Com-
panies persist in refusing admission at their
meetings to the representatives of the press, on
the ground that members or shareholders only arc
admitted. Assurance associations arc undeniably
public establishments, and, as such, ought to court
the fullest inspection, the more especially as there is
hardly a class of institutions in the stability of which
persons feel more interested, prior to embarking as
shareholders or policy holders. The quotations at pre-
sent ruling arc as follows-viz., Albion, 86 ; Anchor,
; Atlas. 171, ; British Commercial, 71 ; Cle-
rical, Medical, and General Life, 20 ; County,
86; Crown, 15; Eagle, 6 ; Equity and La;y,
5(; English and Scottish Law Life, 2a, 1;
European Life, 111 ; General. 53; Globe, 135 ;
Guardian, 56, 531; Imperial Fire, 245; Imperial
Life, 181; Indemnity Marine, 471; Law Fire, 21;
Law Life, 431, 46 ; Legal and General Life, 41;
London Fire, 17a, cx div.; London Ship, 17Z, cx
div.; Medical, Invalid, and General Life, 21;
Monarch, 1, ex div.; National Loan Fund, 21;
Palladium Life, 21; Phoenix, 155; Professional Life,
V.; Provident Life, 30 ; Rock I.ifc, 61; Royal Ex-
change, 220; Sun Fire, 209; Ditto Life, 48; United
Kingdom, 41; Victoria Life, S to 1.
From an analysis of the railway traffic returns of
the United Kingdom for the last week, published by
Ilerapath's Journal, it appears that the total receipts
on 6,284 miles were 234,017/., or at the rate of
371. 10s. per mile per week. For the corresponding
week of last year, the returns were 219,4711. on
3,397 miles, or at the rate of 39/. ss. per mile per
week. There is thus an increase of 14,5461., or 6.62
per cent. in the gross amount received, on increase
en the mileage of 687 miles, or 12.27 per vent., and
a decrease of V. 15s. in the amount received per
mile per week.
The Railway Times estimates the gross traffic re-
turned since the lot of January, on 6,295 miles, at
2,893,8751., which shows an average of 459/. 14s. 21d.
per mile. For the corresponding period of 1850, it
reached 2,621,1331. on 5,670 miles, which is
equal to 462/. ss. 71d. per mile. The balance is,
therefore, against the present year to the extent of
21. 1 la ,7d. per mile.
The Railway Times states that the Eastern Coun-
ties board has again been occupied during the week
in perfecting its new traffic arrangements. The con-
ciliatory policy adopted by the directors has already
produced an effect on the public, the receipts having
this week increased 4001., and it is believed they
will soon reach those of the corresponding period of
last year. The new arrangements come into opera-
lion on the 14th inst.
The progress of railways has now completely al-
tered the details of traffic, and the number of eta-
' lions has so increased, that no railway man can bear
in mind the names of all. This has rendered neces-
sary the publication of a book of 80 pages, and a
map, called " Macaulay's Station Map- of the Rail-
ways," by Smith and Ebbs, in which are included
the names of two thousand stations, showing the
number of points on which the traffic of the country
has been undertaken by railways.
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