The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-23 00:00:00

ECCADOR DEBT.

CommitteeWip; Bondholden,
8, Broad-street-buildings, March 22, 1853.
The following eztratts are from the two letters received
this morning by the Committee of Spanish American Bond-
holders, from their commissioner, Mr. Mocatta, dated
"Guayaquil, Jan. 26, 1863.
" I avail myself of an opportunity, via Panama, to in-
form you that the government have received a despatch
from the government of the province of Manabi, announc-
ing that a gold mine had been discovered at a place called
Jams, and that a commission had been despatched to ascer-
tain the extent of too same, the result of which I expect I
shall be able to report to you by the ete imer of Ist pro:two.
" Private letters differ as to its importance, some stating
it to be inexhaustible, others admitting it is extensive; be-
yond a doubt, the people from Coat district are flocking
thither, in spite of bad roads and heavy rains.
"Either by land or sea, it requires about seven days to
reach Jansa from this.

"I have commenced my conferences with the commis-
sioners for regulating the debt, on which I hope to report
by the steamer."
" Guayaquil, Feb. 1, 1853.
" I have the honour to acknowledge receipt of your
favour of lit December, and 1 beg to enclose duplicates of
iny,last respect!.
As yet nothing farther known about the gold mine ;
the public opinion is now not so sanguine as at first, but
we must awnit the result of the Commiuion sent by the
Governor of Manabi.

"As yet I have not been able to come to any settlement
with the Commissioners ; they made me a proposal so en-
tirely inadmissible, that I considered it my duty to reject
it at once, since which we have not met. His Escellency
General Urbino assures me that he will urge on a settle-
ment on an equitable basis. The Commissioners insist on
even more favourable terms than those of New Granada,
and also what they wilt propose as an ultimatum must have
the sanction of the renting congress, which is to meet in
Quito neat September."

Further allusion to the gold discovery reported
above is made in private letters, dated Guayaquil, lit
February, which observe :
A gold "placer " has hcen discovered in the northern
part of the province of Mauan. Some private letters say it
is considerable, others that it is inexhaustible, that it beats
California. As the rainy season is setting in the approaches
to it are bad, and will render provisions of course very
scarce and expensive. The whole of the people round about
are setting off, and the mania is beginning. Four hundred
persons have gone from Manta and Monte Criste. Here
already two vessels arc up fox Mauta. _ _ _

At a meeting of the committee of the silk trade,
held yesterday, G. T. Kemp, Esq., in the chair, rules
and regulations reepectiug the sales of " condi-
tioned " silk, to be signed by the members of the
trade, were finally settled. It is expected that the
practice of conditioning silk will much facilitate all
transactions between buyer and seller, when once it
shall become as general as it now is on the Conti-
nent. The merchants' rules of 1802 will still continue

to apply to all silks not conditioned.
Letters from Riga mention that the students at
the University of Dorpat had been ordered to join the
Russian army. This was regarded with some un-
easiness, as a warlike sign. the rate of exchange at
Bt. Peteisburg on London is quoted 38 7-16 to id.,
much too low to admit of soy shipments of gold
from this side.

There was no material alteration in the quotations
of foreign exchange this afternoon, and business was
limited : but the general tendency on continental
places was slightly upwards, bills on Paris, Ham-
burg, and Amsterdam being more offered. In conse-
quence of the advanced quotations from abroad,
paper on Vienna and Trieste was done as high as
11.7 to 9.
We notice, with a feeling of melancholy satisfac-
tion, that a subscription is being raised with a view
to providing for the education of the children of the
late Mr. John Sparks Dalton, whose career of useful-
ness was prematurely cut short by his death, at the
ago of 36. Mr. Dalton was originator and editor of
the Bankers' Magazine, and founder of the Banking
Institute; and in various ways rendered important
services to the banking interest, with which his me-
mory is honourably associated.
The Australian Land Companies' shares were ge-
nerally better to-day, though quiet. Australian
Agricultural closed 102 to 105; and Van Diemen's
Land, 231 to 241. Australian Banks were also
firmer, and South Australia rose 11. Oriental Bank
shares were again in demand, at enhanced price'.
London and Westminster Bank shares were done at
351 ; Australian Royal Mail Steam (61. paid), 51, 5 ;
Crystal Palace (51. paid), 64; General Steam Navi-
gation, 30 ex div. and bonus ; Peninsular and Orien-
tal Steam, 84. Beziers and Graisseasac Railway
shares are quoted 1 to 1 prem.; Royal Swedish Rail-
way, Ito din.; ''French South Eastern Railway,
1 to 1 prem.
The quotations of stocks at Amsterdam on Monday
are thus reported by Mr.Reuter's telegraphic express:
—Dutch Four per Cents., 954 ; ditto Two-and-a-
Half per Cents., 64Z. Spanish Deferred Three per
Cants., 23Z. Mexican New, 25 7-16. The Spanish
Committee's Certificates, 7 15-16. Austrian Five
per Cent. Metallics, 80 9-16. Spanish Old Three
per Cents., foreign, 481. Granada Deferred, 114.
All there prices are lower, doubtless owing to the
Turkish accounts, which had so much effect upon the
London market yesterday. At Vienna on Monday
the. Five per Ccut. Metallic' were quoted 941; and
exchange on London, 10.58.

LONDON OOURSE OF EXCHANGE.—Mmica 22.
Time. Prime as negotiated Ude day.
11111.1 and H. Money.
Amsterdam ' pert Short 1,3. Itaatr. 1111, le am
Ditto
Aotterdnm .. 119.10 119. 1009 v.
30

Antwerp
Brussels
Humbug and Altoca ,w . „ 13ruce. lifell. :3mol. A:rek.
St. Petersburg per ruble 38 pence ... 371 pence
Pans per g abort 23h. 23r. ... 24r. ?de.
Ditto „ a .4onths 1.51 r. Vic. ... 231r.:70.
Marseilles.
sr re
Pr.tnefort-on-thr.3lslpe per £lO „ 1191 A. tr. ... 1200 .kr
beau (erectly.) per/ „ 111. tikr. ... 114 lOir.