The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-17 00:00:00

The following shows tho flu
T cent. :

per share and

Chester and Holyhead

Per cent.
1•
1
1
1

Abenleenq •

Caledonians
North British
Oxford and Wormier
York and Newcastle 1
Great Northern
Manchester and Sheffield
York and North Mi.lland
London and Blackwall

Eastern Counties
North Stafford,

South Eastena

141idlantla
l.aneuh'frc and Yeadik•

Ea.t Llne.ohire
Great R'r•tern
London and South Westerns

Brighton%
Edinburgh and Glasgow
Loudon and North Westerns
In consequence of our remarks yesterday on the
Ave Maria Company, the promoters have conic for-
ward to offer explanations and to exhibit their lease
from Colonel Fremont. The prospectus was written
before any Agua Fria Company was brought before
the public here, and the references to the operations
in that spot were only meant to attest the produc-
tiveness of the district. The specimens of gold
quartz from Ave Maria we have seen are of two
kinds—one in which gold is not visible in the solid
state to the naked eye, but which is found abun-
dantly on reduction; and the other in which the
gold is as thickly disseminated as in a good stone of
copper.
A meeting of the Spanish bondholders has been
convened by the committee, at rather short notice,
" to take into consideration the mode of the conver-

sion of the bonds and coupons into the New De-
ferred Three per Cent. stock, the Spanish commis-
sioner having arrived for the purpose of carrying it
out, and to authorise the committee, for reasons then
to be assigned, to intervene in the conversion." The
Dutch committee, it is further stated, intend
a certificate signed by their authority for the half issuing
the coupon not funded, which will he a claim upon
tko Spanish government, and the principal object of
this meeting is to consider the expediency of making
a similar arrangement for the English bondholders.
It is to be hoped that the exertions of Mr. Oliveira at
Madrid will not be paralysed by any steps taken at
this meeting, where, it is probable, the majority of
those present will have no interest in the question
at stake. _ . .

The traffic returns for the last week on the under-
mentioned English lines of railway, as made up to
this clay, are as follows:

1851. 1650.
London andNorthWestern £61,314 .... £47,436
Midland
Lancashire and Yorkshire 19,617 .... 14,315
London and South Western 15,763 .... 11,361
London and Brighton
Great Western
South Eastern
York and North Midland
Exeter and Credit=

...--. ----
Bristol and Exeter —
5,449 ....
York, NeW(.3.IIC, and Berwick 16,458 ....
Shrewsbury and Chester 1,825 ....
Shrew,.bary and Birmingham 663 ....
Great Northern 13,66.1 ....
Leeds Northern 970

5,327 ....
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock,
and Midlands Junction
Chester and Holyhead
Manchester, South Junction,
and Altrincliam
East Anglian
South Wales 2,055
Manchester,,Shettield, and Lin-
colnshire 11,219 ....
London and lllackwall

Total 1:201,290 £190,676
The return per mile per week on the chief lines is
subjoined :
18d1.
London and North Western .. £122.26
Midland
Lancashire and Yorkshire 74.56
London and South Western 61.43
, Gnat Western
London and Brighton
South Eastern
York and North Midland
York, Newcastle, and Berwick 6.5.97 _
Great Northern C56.64
Chester and Holyhead
Bristol and Exeter
The returns on Scotch lines are as undor :
18.51.
Aberdeen
Caledonian 9,218
Glasgow and South Western 3.916
North Briti,h

1850.
.... £91.53
48.59
.15.17
46.51
6.5.88
71.77
64.58
32.01
48.01
30.58
30.84
53.65

1840.
.... £1,322
8,622
.... 3,218
.... 3,713

Total £18,328 L 16,90.5
In the aggregate these returns show an ineretu
over last year of 1,423/., or 8! per cent.
The Irish returns arc:

19.11.

Ulster
Belfast and County Down
Belfast and Ballymena
Dundalk and Enniskillen
Waterford and Limerick
Midland Great Western
Dublin and Drogheda
Dublin and Belfast Junction
Londonderry and Enniskillen
Great Southern and Welikrn
Irish South Eastern
Dublin and Kingstown

224 ....

____ ....
2,408 ....
1,033 ....

"if=
....

175 ::::
4,66.5 ....

151 ....
1,026 ....

Total
The total returns on the corresponding lines being
12,269/. against 10,2011. last year, we have au in-
crease of 2,068/., or 20 per cent.

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