The Express.
London, England, 1856-10-02 00:00:00

THE MOVEMENT OF SILVER.

HAMBURG, Barr. 29.
The very unsatisfactory state of our money market
is beginning to excite eerious spprehentions amongst
our most experienced financiers, and the. great loco
Rations in the pries of silver end depreciation of the
currency, together with the enormous rate of discount,
have a disturbing influence on the produce markets
and prevent purchases on a large scale from being
made by our merchants, wbo are constrained to limit
their transactions to the execution of bone fide orders
accompanied by remittances.
In addition to the large quantities of silver bought
by the firm of Messrs. H. J. Merck and Co., and sent
by them to Austria to pay the workmen and materiels
of the Great Elizabeth Railroad (Vienna to Line, to
join the Bavarian line), some considerable parcels of
the same precious metal have been bought up here by
the eminent banking-hones of Paul Mendelesobee
Bartholdy, and sent to Berlin for coinage at
the Mint, as the want of en adequate gum-
' tity of the circulating 'iridium is severely
felt in Prussia, where large quantities of dollais
are continually being exported for the purpose
of being melted down. There are slur at this moment
no less than six millions of dollars withdrawn from
circulation and deposited in the cellars of the Hamburg
Bask. The rate of discount, which has risen to 9
and n per cent., has never been so high here before,
with the exception of the great crisis of 1826, in
iwhich year it varied for several months between 10
and 16 per asst.
Under these circumstances it is proposed to esta-
blish a gold standard in addition to the existing silver
one. This idea appears to give general satisfaction,
and a petition to the Senate on this subject has been
Rot up and lies for signature at the Exchange
Rooms.

A steamer arrived in the river to-day from England
brings 50,000 lbs. of silver.

It is said that a large oompsvy is forming in Paris
to supply the public with wine, milk, bread, groceries,
fruits, aced other adjuncts to the dinner table, at prices mere
reouneble than are at present paid.
On Tuesday a boy wee charged before the Tribunal
of Correctional Police at Paris, with picking pockets. It
appeared from the evideice teat he row, lied a white moue
which he exhibited in the public thoroughfares, and which
he calmed to perform several little tricks. During each
performance he dripped the mouse iota the pocket of one
of the spectators, and then en pretence of sacking for it,
he proceeded to examine the pockets of several. In the
cthrse of his ezamination he wee in the habit of stealing
money, purses, knives, hindkerchiels, or anything else Its
Imputed to find.
A Z suave named °lesson, who lost en arm in the
attack on the Malakhiff, wee the prosecutor at • courts
martial held on Tuesday in Pavia. When he war called om
to give his eviderre, the president of the curt, not noticing
that his arm had been amputated, to'd him to raise hlc rigid
hand and swear to till the truth. " Coknel," said the man,
"my eight hand is absent without .leave ; it is reposing In
peace in the truck's of 'he Malskhoff, but its left ,site heir-
at-law ; will that do as well 1" t. Ab, my man !" said the
colonel kindly, " you are amputated. Well, raise your left
head."
HOMEOPATHY IN FRANCE.—A question of cone
eidereble interest has just been decided by the Imperial
Court of Angers. M. Clued, • home 'r ethic physician, now
of Paris, formerly practised at Augers, and provided the
medicines which he himself prescribed. He was, in cones-
queues, summoned before the Tribute( of Correctionel
Police of Angels on the charge of having ills.
gaily practised pharmacy ; he did not appears
but as the diatr bution of medicines by him wit
proved, and as besides several glees tubes filled
with globules were reined in his house, he wry
sentenced to ten days' imprisonment end Mfr. fine. He, •
few days ego, appealed to the Imperial Court of that city
against the condemnation, and hi• counsel employed a good
deal of learned argument to show that the law relative M
the illegal distribution cf medicines was not intended, and
could not be made, to apply to homeopathists; but the
court declared that the conviotion of the defendant WI
good in law, and eocordingly ordered him to pay the Rao in-
dieted, but it reduced the imprisonment from ten days In
three.
An annular eclipse of the sun took place on Mon•
day, bat was visible only in the north of Asia and America.
Oa the 23rd inst. there will be a partial eclipse of the moon,
exusastelag at hell-past sins at night.