The Express.
London, England, 1851-11-20 00:00:00

TO TIIECHANIREB. OF DEPUTIES.

The Chamber-
of Deputies being again assembled, the
undersigned delegate of the committee of Spanish bond-
holders in London has the honour to approach with the
most profound respect that enlightened legislative body, for
the purpose of calling their attention to an omission of se-
rious prejudice to the notional credit existing in the law
lately promulgated for the settlement of the public debt of
Spain. This consists in the second article of the said law,
which, whilst directing that the overdue and unpaid interests
of the Active Debt are to be converted into De ferredTh ree per
Cent .Debt, being previously reduced one-half,does not decade
the fate reserved for the other half of the said interests. It
being impossible that the law intended the gratuitous re-
duction to one-half its value of a legitimate and sacred pro-
perty, distributed among thousands of families, it can only
be attributed to the desire of hereafter rendering full justice,
and the omission must be, ascribed to the circumstance of
Outmode in which the other moiety of those interests are to
be provided for not having been resolved upon, foe those
interests form a credit of so sacred and privileged a nature
against the public treasury, and in favour of those who have
not received the value in effee,ive, as they ought to have
done, in accordance with the conditions of the loans from
which the claims emanate, and which are so much the more
deserving of attention u they were contracted for abroad
for the purpose of aiding the Spanish nation in most critical
circumstances
Her Majesty's government, being convinced of the truth
of this, have just presented to the Cortes a modification of
the said law in the part relating to the overdue interests of
the home debt called " Corriente del duce por cleats
papel," proposing their conversion into " dee& amorti-
zabbd."
Whilst this just reparation is made with respect to the
said debt, the reduction of a half of the coupons of the ac-
tive stock is nevertheless maintained, which has given rise
to such just reclamation' at the meetings held by creditors,
especially in England, where public promises are held in
such respect, and where the religious observance of good
faith has elevated public credit to a moat enviable height.
For these reasons, and not being able to persuade myself
that in stipulating the said reduction the government have
allowed themselves to he influenced by the circumstance that
the greater part of the claimants are foreigners who have
lent the capital from which the overdue interest arises, I
venture to solicit the Chamber of Deputies with entire con-
fidence, and with the greatest respect, to take into their
serious consideration this just reclamation and to decide
about the other half of the above-mentioned interests,
ordering them to be made good in the Deferred Debt of the
Three per Cents., the same as is decreed for one half of
them in the expressed law.
By a similar measure the Congress will most effectually
contribute to the permanent restoration of public credit,
which is now so depressed by the omission in question—
an omission which has given rise to deep sensation and
displeasure both in and out of Spain.
The delegate of the English Committee of Spanish
Bondholders.
DANIEL WEISWEILLER.
Madrid, Nov.ll, 1861.
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We may perhaps bo excused for drawing atten-
tion to the fact that the Express and Daily
News are the only papers that have continued
to note the progress of the revolutionists in the
northern provinces of Mexico up to the present
period, when they are in possession of Ma-
tamoros. The intelligence published from time to
time for months past relative to this important point,
and to the distracted state of Mexico gene-
rally, being in part, but in part only, derived rut the
United States, has in most instances been met with
expressions of doubt by parties interested, who have
not hesitated to stigmatise the whole narrative as a
malignant invention of the American press, though
what attainable object the United States jour-
nals could have in view appears inexplicable.
We feel bound to say that our American
contemporaries seem to have been actuated
by perfect bona fides in their statements relative to
Mexican affairs, as mistakes have in very few in-
stances occurred, and, where this has been the case,
the imperfect and irregular media of communication
with the southern republic afford a sufficient expla-
nation. The number of influential parties both here
and in Mexico who are interested in deluding the
bondholders as to the real state of affairs may ac-
count for the systematic course of misrepresentation
so long indulged in. Great alarm has now been ex-
cited among the bondholders, who begin to see that
the market has been artificially propped up, and the
question of the source from which the next divi-
dend payments are to be made, and the subject of
the actual position of the federal government are can-
vassed withalniost equalanxiety. Loud complaints are
indulged in at the petty amount of the custom-horse
receipts which have as yet come forward on dividend
account, and the full enforcement of the terms of the
agreement with the Mexican government is gene-
rally demanded. To sup for instance, that the
20,000 dole. which came forward by the last steamer
is the fourth (as agreed upon) of the total duties col-
lected at the ports hypothecated to the bondholders,
is regarded as simply absurd. Meanwhile, almost
the only prop to the declining price of the bonds is the
hope of the ultimate division of the two-and-a-half
million dollars of the American indemnity money,
and even this mace is now looked upon as decidedly
in jeopardy. It is one of the greatest complaints of
the bondholders, that they are kept in a state
of the most perfect ignorance as to their actual
position and prospects, and thus, whilst accurate
information is reamed by the London speculators by
every _mail, the actual bondholders are completely in
the dark, and can scarcely be said to derive the
lout real benefit from the staff which they keep up.

Not much business has been done in bank shares
this week, and quotations have scarcely varied. The
sales reported comprise :—British North American
(501. paid), 451 ; London Joint Stock (101. paid),
181 ; London and Westminster (201. paid), 291 ;
Provincial of Ireland (25?. paid), 431 ; Union of
London (101. paid), 151, 1, j.
Dock shares are firm and looking up ; Commercial
stock is well supported at the late use, marking 851.
London stock has risen 30e. more, being quoted
1181. East and West India is worth 1421 to 143,
being a rise of about 11. on the price that ruled a
month ago.
In steam-boat shares there has been a fair business,
and no particular alteration in value. General Steam
Navigation have improved, being quoted 271. Penin-
sular and Oriental Steam, 70, 691, 701, 70; ditto,
New, 151, 16. Royal Mail Steam, 80, 791, 1, 80,
97 I.
The market for insurance shares feels the influence
of the improved condition of the money market, seve-
ral descriptions of these securities meeting with in-
creased inquiry, with prices tending upwards. Atlas
shares have further risen to 17 and 171; and Guar-
dians have realised as high as 55Z, 551, and 55. In-
demnity Marine shares, on the other hand, mark 48
only ; and Legal and General Life have receded to 44.
Miscellaneous shares are quoted as follows in the
official list:—Assam Tea Comwy, 9; Australian
Agricultural, 13; Australian Trust, 201,1 ; Anglo.
Mexican Mint, 241; Canada Company, 471 ; Hud-
son's Buy Stock, 206; Price's Patent Canine Com-
pany, 23l ex. div.; South Australian, 231; Van
Diemen's Land, 1. These prices arc the same as last
week. Electric Telegraph shares are this day, for
the first time, introduced into the official list, but no
business is as yet marked in them.
The Submarine Telegraph shares sold briskly yes-
terday in London and Paris at a premium.

_ENOLIBII FUN D9.—Tcts !Ur.

Hank Reek, 214 15—"‘"
334oxver (.1.. Led,
wuz.l .21
Fit per Ct. Coeole.A
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41 per CL Dolelan, 88:W 4 ' 3 per CL 3ltilotn. 234 4
b per Ct. Urarihao, a 8 5 per Cc. l'eruri.lu. 87 81
Do. New, Pi 8 Ditto Deferred. 40111
6 pee Ct. BCIOII4, AVM. 413 5 per Ct. Portutrue,, 65 7
6 per Ct. Ch.h.tn, 10l 3 5 pa Ct. Rushian. 111 13
3 per Ct. CilliLYl 64 6 44 per CL Itumkto, 102 O
3 per Cc. tkalAtt. 76$ b mr Ct. ,taulhih. Acute, 214 14
.14 per CL Dutch. '.611 94 3 ptr CO. Bpolish. 34 404
4 per CO. Dutch, 84 904 Do. ra,alve. 54 1
fique.lor, 3 i 24 per Ct. Veueruela. 3.51 Oi
1 pee CO. Grenada. 14 15 lk, Deferre 1. 12 13
Strthnlan 5 per Cent., 14 i Ws.

LOCAL NIIARE MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL, Nov. 19.—The share market opened this
morning with some depression as compared with yesterday,
but during the day has become very strong again, and we
close with great firmness, and rather higher rates than yes-
terday. The following are the transactions :—Aberdeen,
10.—Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Md.—Black-
burn (late B. C. and W. Y.), 4.—Caledonian, 14 1 3-16—
Ditto (preference shares), 7 3-16.—Lancashire and York-
shire, oil 1 I.—Lancaster and Carlisle (third shuts), 81 p.
—Leeds Northern (late Leeds and Thirek), 131.—London
and North Western, 116 151 16.—Ditto (new Is shares), 3
Ip.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 29 30.—Mid-
land, MI A A 1 53j t A 4.—North British, 61. *orth Staf-
fordshire, 8 1-16d.—Shrewsbury and Hereford, 4 d.—South
Eastern and Dover, 191 20 j 20 201.—York, Newcastle,
and Berwick (extension No. 1 and 2), 61 d.—Ditto (unpaid
up), n d.—York and North Midland, 201.
Binutno it am, Nov. 19.—This market wan much more ac-
tive to-day, and prices continued to improve. Midlands were
done at 54, 531 ; Shrewsbury and Birmingham (B's.), at
41 per share; Shropshire Union Paid-up Stock, 471 per
cent. ; Old Birmingham Canals, at 95, 951 ; and General
Steam Navigation Company shares, at 271.
biANCIIIB2I6II, Nov. 19.—The market was very flat in
the morning, and only three sales were made, but prizes
improved later in the day, and there was a good deal of
business at yesterday's rates, whilst the closing was at an
advance even on this. Leeds, 57, 571 ; Midland, 531, 1, 64 ;
Dover,, 191, 20; Sheffields, 291; Bristol and Exeter,
79. The other sales were in small stocks. In Midland and
Dover stocks there was a very large business.
Lanni, Nov. 19.—We have had on the whole a less
active market this morning, but prices generally have been
maintained and arc firm. In Midlands the sales have been
numerous, and the closing sale of this morning compared
with that of yesterday shows au advance of IL The closing
sales were as follows : Midland stock, 531: Leeds Northerns,
131 ; Caledonians, 131; South Eastern and Dover,, 191 ;
York and North Midlands, 201.
Bularob, Nov. 19.—Our market was buoyant at im-
proved rates: Great Northern, 17 1-16 ; Wilts, Somerset,
and Weymouth, 911; Clifton Gas, 28.

SMITHFIELD HAY MARKET.—THIS DAY.
Messrs. Cooper and Davis report the trade at the follow-
ing prices:—Prime Meadow Hay, 725. to 765.; interior,
60s. to 68s. ; Rowan, 60s. to 66a. ; Clover, 70s. to SM.;
second cut, 60s. to 700. ; Straw, 235. to 265.

SIR JAMES GRAHAM A CULTIVATOR OF FLAX.—
Mr. Brown, steward to Sir James Omham, has been on a
visit to Ireland for the purpose of acquiring information as
to the cultivation of flax. The right hon. baronet is about
to make an experiment on the Nethorby estate ; be, or
some of his tenants, ore to be the growers.—Carlisle Patriot.
KENNINGTON COMMON.—AR act of parliament is
to be applied for to improve this common and to divert tho
bithway.
LONDON AND BIRMINGHAM EXTENSION RAIL-
WAY.—A call of 11. 13s. per share is to be made to pay off
this company's liabilities.
EDUCATION BlLLS.—Noticce of intended applica-
tion have been given for an act to promote the education of
the people in Manchester and Salford, and the contiguous
townships of Pendleton, Pendlebury, and Broughton.
LEAP FROM A RAILWAY TRAIN.—OR Saturday
' morning last Francis Farrington, one of the six prisoner"
committed at Wolverhampton on Wednesday last, on
charge of night poaching with violence, succeeded, by •
desperate effort, in escaping from the custody of Sub-in-
spector Thompson, of Bilston, whilst being conveyed by
train from Willenhall station to Stafford. Farrington and
several other prisoners were handcuffed in the usual way
to a chain. Farrington sat next to the locked door of
the carriage, and by some means succeeded in working
his hand out of the handcuff unobserved. Soon after the
train had passed Wolverhampton station, and whilst it
was at full speed somewhere in the neighbourhood of
Bushbury, Farrington jumped head foremost out of the
window, and fell on the outside of the line. Thompson
endeavoured to arrest the attention of the guard at the
foremost part of the train, but could not succeed in doing
so. He was seen about a quarter of an hour afterwards on
the ground, near the line, bleeding from his head, by some
platelayers in the employ of the railway company, %he in-
quired how he got there, but they could not obtain from
him any satisfactory answer, and shortly afterwards they
saw him going across the fields towards Wolverhampton.—
Wolverhampton Chronicle.
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DEATH OP MARIA CLARKE, THE INFANTICIDE.—
Yesterday Mr. Bedford held an inquest at Milbank Prison,
on the body of Maria Clarke, the young woman who, hav-
ing been found guilty at Ipswich of the murder of her
child, by burying it alive, was sentenced to death, but
afterwards respite and transferred to Milbank Peniten-
tiary. The deceased arrived at the prison Sept.:lB, in good
health, and was sent to work in the laundry, described by
the surgeon of the prison as a lofty and airy room, where
the women work at a table from six in the morning till
seven at night, without taking open-air exercise, except on
Sundays.. The surgeon said the women generally prefer
working in the laundry, because they are allowed to talk
and have beer. She was removed from the laundry on
Oct. 22, and her diet was changed. She seemed much de-
pressed in mind, and on the sth of November entered the
infirmary, and went to her bed, from which she never
again rose. During her illness she had regular medical
attention and suitable diet, but gradually sunk. She had
no wish to live, and did not want to see her relations. The
jury returned a verdict of " Natural death from dysentery,"
and, at their request, the medical gentleman pledged him-
self to represent to the governor their opinion that the
women in the laundry ought to be allowed an airing at
least ones a day.
A WOMAN KILLED HT HER 110811AND.—WOKINO-
Hall, Nov. I9.—A ease of great brutality and violence,
which Me terminated fatally, has occurred in the neigh-
bourhood at this town. It appears that John Carey, a pub-
lican, at Winktleld, has been latterly living on very un-
happy terms with his wife from certain rumours that she
kept up an illicit Intercourse with a young farmer
aft hr distant. About the middle of last month
sometldwg transpired to stren the suspicions,
and be then, in great fury, baaaa belabouring her
to do meet manner, afterwards kicked
bur Ma the woe shoot tenable to may. The poor woman
wee as severely War* that at wee obliged to be removed
to her bed, saftmallsel sesielosso was celled, but she
continued to sink, end expiced akw days since. Carey
win *ea takes j =BOO, and yesterday underwent a
lengthened esawdoetisa beim the county magistrates at
eue 00111111111 pie* seseloas. TM evidence given was eon-
flonsemy fps
pollsoloss above detailed. Au inquiot
woe esimoossil • Nasabish biro Mr. Clark, the coroner
fee the diesels 6 sod It MY adjourned for a week, as the
case was then la die Mob of the magistrac . The magis-
trates base isormiod bit he a few daye, bj which time
all the auesssary alines will be collected to enable then
to commit him Ise Idol at the snipes.