The Express.
London, England, 1849-09-28 00:00:00

more inquired for. Spanish and French were with-
out variat'on. In other stocks very little blisitew was
doing. The prices at which the last transactions
were marked are the following : Mitch Two-and-a-
Half per Catty., at 53 13-16 ; the Three
per Cents., at 631 to 1; the Four per
Cents. at 83/. Belgian Two-and-a-Unit pee
Cents. (Rothschild) at 461. Spanish Ardoin at
11 7.16 ; ditto Three per Cent. Interior Debt at 271.
Portuguese Five per Cent*. at 30 3-16 ditto Four
per Cents. at 311. Russian, 1798-1826 (Hope), Five
per Cent. at 1041 to t : ditto. 1828-9, Five per Cent.
at 1041 to 1; ditto Five per Cent. Certificates, 1831.3,
at 93i to j; into Four per Cent. (Pop,) at so to ;
ditto Four per Cents. (Stieglitz) at 831 to 841.
olish
Four per Cent. Certificates at 771. Austrian Five
per Cent. Metalliques at 84/ ; ditto New at 881 to
891; ditto Two and-a-Half per Cents. at 441. French
Three per Cent. Obligations at 62 9-16. Brazilian
Five per Cotta. at 88. Mexican at 27. Grenada at
17 7-16. Greek Five per Cents. at 5. Discount was
quoted at 21 per cent. Ezchanze on London, 12.071
for two months ; on Paris, 56.50 for two months; on
Vienna, 33 for 11 month. The sovereign was worth

12 to 12.15.
Advice* from Antwerp of yesterday state that the
amount of business transacted on the Bourse con-
tinued amen. The Simi&
__diehe were ma ea Sno
price; the ettorpdffinemptereeetatained premien;
values. The last money prices were as fallow.: Bel-
gian Five per Cents., 931 ; ditto, Four-and-a-Half per
Cents., 88; ditto, Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 49.
Lean of 1848, 931. The Five per Cent. Metalliques,
881. Austrian "lots" cf 2508., 660. Spanish
Ardoin (nominal), 111; the Thres per Cent. Interior
Debt, 27Z sellers.
The quotations received from Brussels of actual
operations, on the same date, are the following: Bel-
gian Four per Cents., 1838, at 83 ; ditto, Five
per Cents., 1840, at 951; Five per Cent. Loan
of 1842, at 951; Four-and-a-Half per Cent Loan of
' 1844, at 88. Bank of Belgium shares at 71 sellers.
Tire Bonne at Frankfort on the 24th alosed firm
Ifor the Austrian 7Aletalliques : the Five per Cents. were
done fully 1 per cent. better, and the Two-and-
a-Half per Cent. a per cent. better than on
Saturday. The following were the closing pikes
for money: Austrian Five per Cent. Metal-
liques, 881; the Four per Cents, 731; the
Three per Cents, 64; the Two-sand-a-Halt per Cents,
48. Bank shares, 1328. Austrian " lots" of 2506.,
106; ditto 5008., 1511. Prussian Three-and-a-
Half per Cents, 891. Russian (Stieglitz) Four
per Cents. 831. Bavarian Threeland-a-Half per
Cents., 841. Wurtemberg Four-and-a-Half per
Cents., 911. Two-and-a-Half per Cents. Dutch, 541.
Belgian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 881. Baden
Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 1842, 80. Darmstadt
Three-and-a-Half per Cents., 82 Hesse Electorate
Four per Cents., 90Z. Spanish Three per Cents., 271.
Polish Loan, 300 tl., 108 ; Ditto, Obligations, 500 fl.,
814. The sovereign was worth 12 8. 3, and the
Prussian dollar 1.43. Exchange on London, 1201 for
two months ; on Amsterdam, 991 for two month/ ;
on Paris, 951, short.
Letters from Vienna of the 22nd state that the
New Four-and-a-Half per Cent. Subscription Loan
had been readily taken us both there and abroad, and
large amounts had been subscribed for at Prague in
particular. It had already been negotiated on the
Bourse at 88, or 1 per ceut. premium. A better tone
prevailed on the Bourn, and the Motalliques had im-
proved / per cent. on the previ,us day. They were
quoted at the close on the 21at—the Five per Cent?. at
90; ; Ditto, Four per Cents., 781 ; Ditto, Two-and-a-
'rim:: r Cents., 49 ; Loan, 1834, 163 • Loan, 1839.
115 ; sank Shares, 1,218. Northern ItatlM^w ;;lzes;
110; Milan nartreau, or. cold Agio, 11 per cent.;
Silver Agio, 7 per cent
At Trite, on the 20th, the exchange on London,
in sympathy with the rate quoted at Vienna, had de-
clined to 10f. .500.
Commercial advices from Alexandria of the 12th

inst. have been received. They report the motion
market as having been in a very excited state during
the last 14 days, and the price had risen full Id. per
lb. • and altogether upwards of 80,000 centners had
exchanged hands at gradually increasing rates during
that period. 16,000 centeers of Ibrahim Pasha's sold
at 9 dole., had been resold en the spot only ten days
later at 10 dole.. equal to 6 28-100 d. free on board.
The market bad latterly become more quiet, and
the quo*a'ions last given were, private cotton, 81
dole. to 91 dole. ' • Pasha Be)'., 91 dole. to 103 dole.;
superior lots, 11 dole. Should the favourable accounts
from England be continued, a further advance was
expected as an inevitable consequence. For grain,
the demand was very limited, and the market gene-
rally depressed, owing to the advices received from
this country. Wheat, :buns, was quoted at 18e.
f. o. b. Beans; Dew private, at 16e. 6d. to
16s. Ild., f. .?; b. Barley, private at
10s. 11d. to Ils. ld., f. o. b. Linseed, Shuns,
at 325. 2d ; ditto private screened, at 31s. 2d. to 325.,
Eo.b. Flax, owing to the small arrivals, maintained
prices : 181. 19e. to 191. ss. for superior ; and private
dressed, which varies muoh in quality, at 21/. 16e.
to 261., f.o.b. Pasha's band-dressed had been paid
with 241. 155., f.o.b. These quotations are calculated
at the exchange of 97 piastres the £ sterling. Ton-
nag. at the moment was not in much request.
Freights were : 6s. to 6s. 6d. for grain ; ss. Bd. for
cotton, in square, and 9e. 6d. in round bales; flex,
dressed, 31. Si. to 31. 7s. 6d.; ditto, rough, 3/.125. 6(3.
to 3/. 15a.; with only two vesaels in port disengaged.
Exchange, 971 to 98.
Singapore letters of the 4th August state that
there had been an entire absence of arrivals of native
boa's during the month of July, and consequently
the demand for piece goods had been trifling • busi-
ness transactions had thus been very limited, and
priors in many instances were next to nominal. On
the 31st, however, a few Bugie boats arrived, bring-
ing coffee, tortoiseshell, and other articles, which
immediately found purchasers at fair prices.
Other descriptions of produce, with the exception
of pepper, coffee, and sago, were declining in
value. The Caroline, Sunda, and Belhaven, had
arrived from Great Britain daring July, but
added little to the stock of manufactured goods. In
cotton gor ds, cambrics were of current sales, and the
finer descriptions in some demand. Grey ehirtings
were in very limited request ; white shirting. also, in
consequence of sales of damaged goods by auction.
Cotton twist was in little demand. Metals were
rather dull, with the exception of Swedish iron and
pig lead. Coffee was in good demand at
dole. 23c. to 5 dole. 50c. for Belli ; and
4 dole. to 5 dole. 60c. for Bogie. Tin was in
demand, and bad commanded 16.60 to 16.05 dole. for
the Calcutta market. The supplies and the demand
for Gutta Percha were greatly on the increase. In
1845, when this article first became known, the ex-
port was only 169 peculs, whilst from the Ist of
January to the 31st of July this year the export
amounted to 12,646 punk. The revenue of the
settlement for the official year 1848.49 was rupees
393,232, and the expenditure rupees 620,827,
of which more than one-ball was for mili-
tary and convict., showing a deficit of ru-
pees 227,695. Up to 1845-46 there had been
invariably, with very few and unimportant excep-
tions, an excess of revenue over the expenditure; but
since then the revenue has fallen off about 20 to 25
per cent. annually, whilst the expenditure bas in-
creased from rupees 497,186 to rupees 620,827. Bills
on London were scarce, and the exchange was quoted
at 41.4 d. for six months' sight, and 4s. 2d. for 30
days' tight-on Calcutta 219 to 220 for com-
pany's bills-on China, 4to 3 per cent. discount.
Sourabaya letters of the 20th July state, that the
demand for suitable English cotton goods still con-
tinued, and sales to some extent had been made in
prints, sarongs, drills, and handkerchiefs, but the
market being fully supplied, prices had in some cases
given way. The blockade of the island of Balli, it
was expected, would soon be raised, and then
business would resume its regular course. There was
very little coffee at market, and the price was nomi-
nally 16 to 17 silver guilders per picul. Sugar was
beginning to appear in the market, but it could not
be expected to arrive in quantity under a month:
meantime the price was nominal, though it generally