The Express.
London, England, 1849-01-16 00:00:00

BANKRUPTS.

WILLIAM BROADY, Uslken-street Writ, Eelgrave-street,
commiseion arent
LAZARUS CoNODox, Rprin.,•street, Paddington painter.
CHRISTOPHER JOSEPH KNAPPING, Elmwood, Elie',
cattle dealer.
TH-MAS CARPINTIIR DIXON, Gravesend, oilman.
JOHN CoLES, 'Appian, Oxfordshire, baker.
EDWARD WILLIAM HUNT, Newgate•inarket, Ci'y, vic-
tualler.
YalirLUN LEIGH, Manchester, tea merchant.
HORATIO KEMP, Threadneedle-street, City, discount
spot.
Ito ItERT WILLIAM HURTER, Prod-street, Paddington,
baker.
WILLIAM CHILDERUoIisE,juII., Montpelier-place, romp-
ton. builder.
WILLIAM THOR/SLIT. Rifle), Derbyshire, grocer.
WILLIAM PARROTT, Leicester, stone mason.
JOHN JACKSON, Clifford, Herefordshire, farmer.
HENRY RICHARD Baxauw, Malvern Wells, Worcester-
shire, veterinary surgeon.
DAN lIL BOLT, Bristol, sharebroker.
JOHN BIENHENITT, Plymouth. builder.
RoBEIT Low's, Smrbnttom, Yorkshire, miner.
JOHN SERJEANT, Worksop, Nottii.gbanwhir • grocer.
WILLIAM DARRIT. Newcastle•upon Tyne, bc;okveller.
WILLIAM ADAM MASSEY, Liverpool, wood turner.

SCO MIL SEQUESTRATIONS.
JAIIIRS YOUNG. W.lnfleide, Ambler, grain claaler.
JOHN lluAnn, CrielT, yarn dialer

FRENCH MAIM—The Chamber of Commerce
Calais has addressed a memorial to the minister of finance,
le favour of the transmission of the mails by that port. It
declares that the semi, e can be effected with greater regula-
rity and surety by Calais than by any other port, and founds
its assertion on the following reasons The formal al:
firmatien of six captains of English packets, that Calais is
to be preferred; 2. a certificate of Capt. Hamilton, now re-
tired from the service, and the oldest and most experienced of
the English packet emisins, in favour of Calais; and, 3, •
letter addressed by Sir J Birrow,Pecretary of the Admiralty,
to Viscount Cannino, Under Secretary of State for Foreign
Affairs, declaring the opinion of the Lords of the Admiralty,
that the port of Calais i. preferable to Boulogne or Dunkirk
for the trammission of the mails. The trial of a year made by
Boulogne, the memorial states, has Lad the effect of now
inducing the English poecollice to confine the whole ser-
vice of the mails to Calais. The Northern Railway Com-
pany. it up, engages to convey the lerters at present
from Celai• to Paris in eight and three quarters hours, so
that they will arrive in Pans by a quarter past eleven, i .
ample time tie the Bourse. being only twenty-five minute.
later than they now arrive by the Boulogne line. That
difference of twenty-five minutes will, it says, disappear
altogether in March or April, when more powerful looomo-
fives will bring in the mails at the same hour as they now
arrive from B ulogne. The memorial comes to the conclu-
sion, le, That Celan is to be preferrod to Boulogne in tte
trareMnimion of the mails far regularity and safety ; and 2nd,
That the celerity wi,l be as great as by Boulogne in March,
and that until that period the difference of twenty five
minutes will be made up by the greater certainly of
arrival of the packets at Calais. Tee memorial also
pleads in favour of Calais its exclusive ponession of the trans-
mission of letters m " time immemorial," and declares
that it is only just to resters to it the elements of prosperity,
which had been taken from it list year to the decid. d benefit
of Boulogne. By doing that, it s.ya, the French government
will only second the views of the Bogli-h Pcm-oMoe, which
halt intimated to the &Run consul that the change is to
consomme on the 16th insL, and that he is to take measures
accordingly.
POST-OFFICE NOTICE.—On and after the 15th lint.,
the British rate of postage of 6d. the half-ounce on letters
from the United Kingdom, addressed to Oldenburg, and
conveyed by the direct Hamburg packets, sr by private
ship direct from London or Hull to Bremen, will to, com-
bined with 3J., the rate due at Oldenhurgb, which includes
the transit rate pay.ble to Bremen. Trio combined rate of
9L the half-ounce, he , may (jitter be paid in advance or
left unpaid, at the option of the sender; but the payment o
the British rate may, mending to the existing practice, will
not be permitted.
SHIPWRECK AT CARDIGAN BAIL AND Loss OF
Twat Livia—We noticed in our shipping list yesterday the
loss of the Agnes Lee at Cardigan-bat. A correspondent
ives us the f dlowirg details of the melancholy wreck: On
Thursday, the 11th mutat, it blew a violent gals from the
north-west. About three o'clock, p.m., • large brig was
seen to roe into the beesken. The mewl was ascertained
to be the Agebs Lee, of North Shields, John Cla-
Tense, muter, b mud from Alexandria, with wheat.
She left the Cove of Cork on Tuesday morning last.
The sea bead g wry high, no boat could go out to
TWAT assistance, although several attemps were made.
There fie no life.bmt at Cardigan. The crew launched the
folly-boat, which was filled with eleven of the crew, and
captain, wife, and child, one of the crew taking to the
rigging. The best swamped after leaving*. Vitasei. The