The Express.
London, England, 1851-05-13 00:00:00

LATEST FOREIGN EXCHANGES.

1 For Amorist..
PARIS, AL4T IL ..F.' ' —mori - -
money. tOpealng filettrAt Larea Cl.ing.
i per Cents. ........ 5.5 95 36 J 5 59 to 3 58
•MK Cents.
I per Cents.
. do. New Lass
I per 0nt0..._ ... .
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Exchange ea Leedom: insight, 24 974 ;nn d.”, It 424.
Belsins, i. tow ...... NI May 1..... nenut 29 Maw.
Do. 5; 1641 ...... . ... 4uoz.in Lon., 100 754 ...
Do. 44
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Ito. 24
Piedmont 5 p.CL 16411 N ... limit ohm. .... 2050 ...
PAIIIII, MAT 12.--S4. Germain, 437 30; Ver.:idles (right
hank). 247 50. ditto (left bank), 217 5., ; 1.41 ii and Dri.ma, 0, 75;
Karla and Rouen, 620; Marmites and Avi.rntm, 215; ...v.v....0re snd
Hale, 146 25; Cat tre. 430; Boulogne and Anon' 255; Nochern,
.25 75; Pans and Strasbourg, Ant 45; ithirA and Naomi, 274 Li;
Dieppe and Yeinam, 192 50.

?Cumin, MAT 7.—Three per Cents., 3.5 7-16; after
3.11 casti,l4sj paper. Four per Cents., 14. Five lier
Conte., 151 • after &lilt, 151 cash, 10 paper. Coupons,
$ cash; alter Bohai, cash, paper. l'ussives, ; atter
Doha, 6j to 7-16 cash, ci paper. Bank of St. Ferdinand,
105 cash. Exchange on London, 50.90.

CULTIVATION OP TUE TEA PLAT IN INDIA.—It
is stated, in the lieu advioce received from China, that Mr.
Robert Fortune, who has been engaged by the Honourable
East India Company to procure and transmit to India a
selection of the tea plant, for cultivation in the north-west-
ern provinces, has succeeded in olgai iiii from the green
tea districts a large number of the finest plants, with which
he was leaving fur Calcutta. Ile html also secured tho
services of eight Chinese, front the di,trlet of Wei-
chow, who have agreed to serve hint for three years, at
the rate of fifteen dollars per month each. Six of theta
arc regular tea manufacturers, and the other two
ate Powtarors, whose solo business in that of pre-
paring load casings to the tea-chest,. Mr. Fortune had
penetrated into the interior of China about three hundred
miles; and during the whole of his lengthened absence
from consular ports bad never been molested, nor in any
way insulted. He expects to have completed his laboun in
arranging the plantations for the ErAt India Company let-
fore September next. The find plants transmitted ray Mr.
Fortune have flourished an well an could possibly be ex-
pected, but under his personal superintendence end the at-
mutton of the native tea manufacturers, there is every
reason to expect the most favourable results. l'robably in a
few years tea will form an article of exhort front the Indian
presidencies: s

A LADY'S REASONS TOR NOT DRESSING AS SUCH."
—Mrs. Bloomer, editor of the Lite, ha.v iulopta.vl the " short
drew and trousers," and says in her paper of this month
that many of the women in that place (Seneca Falls) op-
pose the change ; others laugh ; others still are in favour ;
"and many have adopted the drew." She closes the article
upon the subject as follows: "Those who think wo look
' queer' would do well to look back a few year., to the time
wnen they wore ten or fifteen pounds of petticoat and bustle
around the body, and balloons on their arms. and then
imagine which cut the queerest figure—they or we. Wo
care not for the frowns of over fastidious gentlemen • we
have those of better taste and loss questionable morals to
sustain us. If men think they would be comfortable in
long, heavy skirts, let them put them on; we have no ob-
jection. We are more comfortable without them, and so
kayo left them off. We do not say that we shall wear this
deem and no other, but we shall wear it for a eqativree deeps;
and we hope it may become so fashionable thiel,=yrk,.
wear it at all time and in all places without
singular. We haveralmady become so
we dislike changing to a long one."—
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