The Express.
London, England, 1851-12-16 00:00:00

LATEST FOREIGN EXCHANGES.

PARIS BOURSE.

Vor Account.
PARK Dec. 13. I V" II
Unary. !Opole, ROW Lowest I Ckwag. 1
per lksts. I 16 0 ss 7) 66 U 62 71 64 23
3 per Onus ' 101 50 106 0 102 60 100 0 102 SO
4 per Oasts. I ... ... ... ...
os do. New Laws - 1 ... ... ... ...
1 per Calm 4
nzekanse en Landow :I st sten, 13 174 ; 80 681 e. 22 0.
Bstran, 3, 1010 - None)
Du. 5, 16.2 — ... humus Loan, 13.31 71$ _
I).. 44
Do. 21 ... .. .. - ... Treasury Bonds ... ...
I wrlmont S n.eenta: 83 — liodt Nhist.r.
...

Deem, Dec. 15.—St. Germain, 440; Venallles (right
hank), 2n'; ditto :left bank:, 213; Paris and Orl JEVI, 1177 30; Paris
anti it sin. 015 ; &MVO and Havre, 236 25; iihrreilles sad Avignon,
210 2 i Stresbourg sad hole,' 73 : 1 eaUe, ; toologne and Arnim,
273; Ortelns sod Bordeaux, 330 73 ; !northern, 433 75; 'W.% and
qr., ...as: 3116 73 ; Tours and Nantes, 277 30; Monteresu and Troyes,
110.; Dieppe sad Pecan*, *JO.

MADRID, DEC. 10.—Three per Cents., 36! ; after
Boise, 30:. Four per Cents., Fire per
Cents., 16 ; after Bolsa, 16. Coupons, ; alter
Bolsa, Ap. Passives, ; after Bolsa, Bank
of St. Ferdinand, 98. Exchange on London, 50.50.

FIVE HUNDRED FEBAGNS DESTROYED BY A
WATRuseory—On Saturday intel!istence was received at
Lloyd's under date Malta, the Bth instant, of a most awful
occurrence at the island of Sicily, which had been swept
by two enormous waterspouts, accompanied by a terrific
hurricane. Those who witnessed the phenomena (which
was referred to in the Ezpress of the 10th instant) describe
the waterspouts as two immense spherical bodies of water,
reaching from the clouds, their cones nearly touching the
earth, and, as far as could be judged, at a quarter of a mile
apart, travelling with immense velocity. They passed over
the Wand near Marsala. In their progress, houses were un-
ro 4d, trees uprooted, men and women, horses, cattle, and
sheep, were raised up, drawn into their vortex, and borne
on to destruction. During their passage rain descended in
cataracts, accompanied with hailstones of enormous size,
land manes of fee. Going over Castellamare, near Stabia,
it destroyed half the town, and washed 200 of the inhabit-
ants into the sea, who all perished. Upwards of 500 per-
sons have been destroyed by this terrible visitation, and an
immense amount of property, the country being laid waste
for miles. The shipping in the harbour suffered severely,
many vessels being destroyed, and their cress drowned.
Atter the occurrence numbers of dead human bodies were
picked up, all frightfully mutilated and swollen.
FATAL ACCIDENT IN THE VAUXIIALL-BRIDGE-
' ROAD.—Yesterday afternoon Mr. Bedford held an inquest
at the Feathers, Dean-street, Westminster, on the body of a
widow, named Amy Lowe, aged 68. Deceased, on Thurs-
day evening last, was in the act of creasing the road at the
head of Rochester-row, when a cab which had come down
Warwick-street, and had just crossed the Vauxhall-bridge-
road, came in contact with her, and knocked her down, and
the near wheels jawed over her, inflicting such severe inju-
rite that she died almost immediately afterwards. The
witnesses all agreed that the road at this point is extremely
ill-lighted, and the jury in returning a verdict of " Acci-
dental death," expressed a wish that the attention of the
proper parties might be drawn to this circumstance.