The Express.
London, England, 1849-08-17 00:00:00

31016
23,7411
9,588,808

s;tll2:nf.

... .619,761
... 6,491,391
.„ 4,813
... 99

79.062,00 i
DOK
$4,07,N0
3,544,111 S
2114,373
5,2a,1110

97

Due depopitora on demand 27,227,1N
individuala and corporations other thea books sad

depositors
..... 04,420
Due bunks on demand 10,296,564
Due banks ou credit
Due to others, not included in shim of the above heads
Add cents

Total liabilities "9,09",100
Compared with the returns of February, 1849, the leading items
present the annexed statement:
Feb. 24, June 30, Mercers
1849. 1819. June, 1849.
Dols. 1 m 1,.. 1/014.
Loons aid discount
Specie
Circulation
IJewitt:,

The British Packet, of the 9th. says, " The govern-
ment of the Argentine province of Jujuy, in order to
promote commercial int,rcouree with the capital of
the Republic, had issut d a decree subjecting foreign
goods introduced through any port not national to an
additional duty of 25 per cent. ; and, for the purpose
of fostering the relations with the sister provinces, it
had adopted other measures equally efficient."
11cr Majesty's steamer Lizard encountered very bad
weather en her voyage from Rio de Janeiro, which
place she lett on the 16th June, the advicee, there-
fore, from thence are only five days later than those
previously received. They report the market for
coffee as very dull, in consequence of the unfavour-
able account, received from Europe to 21st April.
The exchange was quoted at 25, but was expected
to give way, unless the accounts by the next packet
came more favourable. Freights, 40a. to 50s. Bra-
zilian 6 per Ceut. Stock was 894 to 89.
We give insertion to the following communication
on the subject of Buenos Ayres Bonds, which has
been addressed to us by a known correspondent.

TO THE EDITOR OP THE DAILY NEWS.
BUENOS AYRES BONDS.

Sta,—lt may be satisfactory to the bond Me holders of
Buenos Ayres S ock to kuow Chet the Ccmmittee of Spanish
American Bondholders have addressed the fallowing letter
to a gentleman, in answer to an application made to them to
adopt the same energetic course as in the Chdian, Mexican,
and other similar cases, with a ;treater or less degree of suc-
cess in the financial settlements of those governments.
1 am, sir, your obedient servant,
A. D.

(Copy.)
13, Austin.frlars, Aug. 10, 1849.
have to acknowledge the receipt of your letter of
the 6th inst. calling tke attention of the committee of Spanish
American Bondholders to the subject of the claims of the
Buenos Agrean bondholders. And the same shall he Laid
before the corrmi•tce at the earliest opp)rtunity.
I am, sir, your most obedient servant,
(S.gned) A. GOLFILEY, Secretaty.
P.S.—The committee has acted in regard to these claims
in former years—hut the well known polircul events that
have intervened have prevented till lately any chance of mak-
ing progress towards a settlement.
We have received the following communication
from the Committee of Spanish American Bond-
holders :
The billowing is it c toy of the agreement in regard to the
Mexican toreiga debt, of which the heads only were sent for
publication yesterday.

(TRANSLATION
Convention celebrated between his Excellency the Meximn
Minister of Finance, Don Francisco de Arrangoic. ant the
Agent of the Bondholders of the English Debt, W. P. Ro-
bertson, Esq.
1. From the lit of July, 1849, till the same date in 1869,
the interest of the said debt shall be three and a halt per
cent. instead of five per cent. per annum.
2. In just compensation for this diminution, the
government gives up to the said bondholders, be-
sides the assignments of which they are actually
in po•session, and which consist of the export duty on spe-
cie at the Mexican ports of the Pacific; of the fifth part of
the duties paid at the custom houses of Vera Cruz and
Tampico de Tamaulipas, and of the sum arising front the
%ha= revenue, which is assigned to the bondlmlders by the
9th article of the arrangement concluded with the creditors
of that revenue on the 28th of Janua7 of this year: the
circulation duties in the ports of the Pacific, and the circula-
tion and export duties upon 'peele at the ports of the Gulf
of Mexico, in order that their amount, less the burdens with
which they are actually encumbered, may be devoted to the
payment of the dividends and the sinking fund of the foreign
debt.

3, To satisfy the arrears of interest at the rate of 3i per
cent. per annum from the Ist July, 1846, to the same date In
1849, four millions of dollars shall be devoted from the
American indemnity, to be taken proportionally in third
parts hem the portion not yet recovered, and without pay-
ment of fresh interest on the part of Mexico.
4. Mexico shall make the payment mentioned in the pre-
ceding article at the favourable exchange of forty six pence
the dollar.

6. If the said four millions of dollars at the above men-
tioned exchange of fort'-six pence should not suffice to
satisfy the amount of the interest at 34 per cent. per annum,
which hu become due from the Ist of July, 1846, to the
same date in 1849, the deficit shall be given op by the bond-
holders in favour of Mexico.
6. The permission to import raw cotton, which the go-
vernment gave to the err diton on the 19th July, 1847, to the
amount of 680,000 dole., in payment of the auras which
belonged to them, and were abstracted from the maritime
custom houses of Vera Cruz and Tampico, remains definitely
for the 'event of the creditors, whatever may be the lose at
which they may realise it.
7. The difference of the interest from the let of July,
1846, to the same date in 1859, at the rate of li per cent.
r annum, or altogether per cent., is ceded to Mexico
r; tote, and without ground for any future claim on the part
of the bondholders of the foreign debt.
8. In compenseion for this cession, the government pays
to the bondholders 500,000 doll. from the American in-
demnity, payable proportionally by third puts in each of the
portions which are still pending recovery, which sum of
500,000 dole. shall be devoted to the interest already become
due and not paid.
9. If in the period which elapses between the let of July
1849, and the let of July, 1859, the dividends are not paid
at the rate cf 3i per cent. on their becoming due, it shall be
at the choice of the how holders to annul the present con-
tract, and they shall reassume their actual rights.
10. On the Ist of Jannaty, 1859, the government of
I Meal so and a commissioner of the bondholders shall make
fresh arrangements for the payment of dividends posterior to
the let of July, 18.59, more or lees favourable according le
the state in which the republie then happens to be.
11. The present arrangement shall not cause to Mexico
say expense for printing new bonds, or for any other outlay
seisms from aoraniasions, brokerages, &c., which mar have