The Express.
London, England, 1851-10-03 00:00:00

1851. 1850.
London and North Western £59,338 .... £48,035
Midland
Lancashire and Yorkshire 17,380 .... 16,023
London and South Western 16,446 .... 11,889
London and Brighton
Great Western
South Eastern
York and North Midland

Exeter and Creditor
Bristol and Exeter
York, Newcastle, and Berwick 15,816 ....
Shrewsbury and Chester 1,805 ....
Shrewsbury and Birmingham& 743 ....
Great Northern 14,260 ....
Shropshire Union 731 ....
Leeds Northern 1,231 ~ , .
North Staffordshire
Manchester, Buxton, Matlock,
and Midlands Junction
Chester and 11 lyhcad
Manchester, South Junction,

and Altrincham
East Anglian
Liverpool, Crooby, and South-
Port

611 ....

439 ....

4,59•5
15,116
1,796

9,333

494
1,204
6,129

183
3,5•50

Total £210,813 £199,680
The total receipts upon the corresponding lines
being 210,710/. this week, against 199,689/. m tho
corresponding week of last year, the increase is
shown to be 11, 021!., or 20 per cent. The num-
ber of miles open was, in 1831, 3,772 b and in 1850,
3,6371; being an increase of 11.1 miles, or 3 per
cent. The aggregate average return per mile per
week was, in 1831, 63/. los. 2d., and in 1830,
51/. I Is. led.; so that the diftimence remains in
favour of the present year to the extent of 91. Is. Id.
per mile per week—a result which sufficiently attests
the vast increase of movement pervading every part
of the kingdom; whilst the extraordinarily largo
figures of the various metropolitan lines, as com-
pared with the same week in last year, when the
advance of the season produced a considerable reduc-
tion, would tend to prove that the Exhibition pos-
sessesau almost undiminished attraction for our friends
in the country. A good illustration of the avidity
with which the ever-ready spirit of speculation avails
itself of an opening is to be found in the course of
the railway share market since the World's Show be-
came a tangible reality. In Aril, May, and June,
before the receipts had become in the least affected,
the prices of every line in the kingdom, in-
cluding, singularly enough, Scotch and Irish
lines, upon which the influence of the Exhibition
might be expected to prove the reverse of beneficial,
were carried up with extraordinary rapidity. by a
vast speculation, which appeare to originate in
London, and thence extended into every. minor pro-
vincial market, " little-go" speculators in hundreds
lending their aid to swell the movement, and, as a
natural consequence, the gains of its first promoters.
The next phase of the markets was the usual reac-
tion, the striking anomaly being for months ob-
served of falling prices and immensely auo-
menting receipts, so that, in fact, the realisa-
tion
of the anticipations indulged in was at-
tended with every external sign of disappoint-
ment. It is only. within the last three weeks that
the market has given proof of being affected by tho
greatly increased resources of the various lines, tho
effect of which upon the pockets of the shareholders
must of course be strikingly apparent at the next
dividend period. Whatever disappointment may
have been excited by the discouraging views taken
of the future of railway property by parties to whom
the public have been accustomed to look up for coun-
sel, let figures speak for themselves, and as an in-
stance we would refer to the aggregate receipts of
the London and North Western Company since the
beginning of the current half-year ; they amount to
no less than 814,7191., being an augmentation of
169,306/., or full 26 per cent. oser the return at the
corresponding period of last year. An examination
of the weekly receipts of other lines will show them
to bo in an almost equally flourishing condition.

The returns this week are swelled by several perio-
dical occurrences. Thus the Great Northern is largely
increased by the Doncaster Races; the London and
North Western, ;and the other lines converging upon
Manchester, by the Manchester races; the London
and North Western, also, by the Bedford races; the
York and North Midland (Hull and Selby branch),
by the great horse fair at owden ; the London and
South Western, by Winchester great sheep and lamb
fair ; the Brighton, by Lewes great sheep fair ; and
tho Great Western by Reading fair.
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The check to the upward tendency of the market
for foreign exchanges, noticed lust poet, was con-
firmed to-day, prices being in most cases a shade
lower, owing to the arrivals of gold, and a mom
plentiful supply of bills on London abroad. Tho
prices negotiated arc as follows :

Prices negatute4l.
Prom To
1111. 1.1 ate.... Ilft. 1914tv.
1124. Data. .. 1211. jet.
11d. j eta.... 1211. .1 3tv.
13.1.c5. Ifirchl. 13inc4. 1111fek.
12011. Okr. ... 129111. Okr
12e. 71cr. ... 1211. RM..
1211. Skr. ... 1211. 10kr.
25fr. 42e. ... 25fr. 50e.
23fr. 41c. ... 25fr. 50e.
231 r. 430. ... 25fr. 50c.
251 r. Sac. ... 23fr. 25c.
eieSifr. 40e. ... 25fr. 45e„
231 r. 220. ... 25fr. 4710.
........„. „ „ 25fr. 423 e. ... Mfr. 47;e.
Lynes ...............„. „ „ 25fr. 421 e. ... 21fr. 4710.
Mereeillee. ...... „ „ 231 r. 420. ... 25tr. 47/a.
Genoa
Leghorn .... 7,301 r. 65r. ... 301 r. 70e.
Sepia. Mt duet,, 401 pence ... 401 Pence
ra1erme.........- per ounce „ 120 pen. ... 1201 pence
Momenta
Madrid per dollar „ 49; pence ... 491 pence
radio „ „ 501 pence ... 3.1 pence
Malaga 99 99 491 pence ... 49 pence
Gibraltar „ „ 49{ pence ... 49/ pence
Seville
liArceloos e 33 49/ pence ... 491 pence
1.1.3.i0n per =trek „ 33 pence . . 531 pence
01 ortl „ „ 53 pence ... 311 pence
St. Petersburg per ruble „ 36/ %mice ... 57 pence

Amsterdam per £ Short
Ditto
Rotterdam
Haniburg and Altona „

VIIIIIII
Trieste
Antwerp .......
Ghent
Perla
Ditto ....-- 7
ii
Bordeaux.

OLIBII llli
Itank Stock. shut
9 par Ct. Itt‘l6.ol, shut
3 per Ct. Cono)11, 964 j
31 per Ct. Consuls, shut
Couruh fur Acct., :nib 97
43 per Ct. Belden, 7.3 3
per Ct. Untriletu, 83 7 et dlr
Do. Now, 84 6
per Ct. Bueno9 AP.. 49 ZO
6 pur Ct. Chilton, 102 4
3 par Ct. Chilian, 611
3 par Ct. 199n0a, 779
31 per Ct. Dutch, 681 9
4 per Ct. Dutch, 90 1
a:gender, 3 I
1 1.0 CL Granada, 14 15
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FUNDS.
3 per Ct. Merterio. 37
6 per Ct. Krut an. ttel 3
Ditto Deferre.t. 41 5
3 pie Ct. Purtueue.., 88 8
5 per (3. Rue Owl. 111 113
41 per (h. Ittpolatt. lut 1
3 per Cl. ,tonl4ll, Aetna. W/ 1
3 per Ct. tipslath. 374
Do. Pa.4ive, 7.4 1
g.or Vetioppeila.s.l 31.
ltderre.l. lui 111
Cent.. 31 26 JD.