The Express.
London, England, 1846-11-05 00:00:00

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Among the sixty-seven passengers by the Thames
is General Paredes, the ex-President of Mexico. She
brings a freight of 311,400 dots., all of which are on
merchants' account; 1,372 oz. of platina; 1,149 oz.
of old silver ; 5001. in British corn ; 5,051 oz. of
gold dust ; 300/. worth of pearls; 113 brla. of sarsa-
parilla, &c. There is no shipment of specie from
Vera Cruz or Tampico, on account of the dividends.
Her latest dates are : Tampico, Sept. 24 ; Vera Cruz, '
Oct. 2 ; Havannah, Oct. 13 ; Honduras, Sept. 20 ;
Jamaica, Oct. 9 ; Chagres, Sept. 25 ; Carthagena,
Sept. 28 ; Demerara, Oct. 4 ; Trinidad, Oct. 6 ; Bar-
badoes, Oct. 9 ; Grenada, Oct. 10 ; St. Thomas, Oct.
15 ; La Guayra, Oct. 7 ; Bermuda, Oct. 21.
When the Thames left Vera Cruz nothing was
known of General Taylor's successful attack on Mon-
terey. Santa Anna was marching with 4,000 troops
to join Ampudia ; but it was supposed that the affair
would be settled before his arrival. Santa Anna had
failed in procuring from capitalists the sum he re-
quired, 2,000,000 dollars. Money was very scarce at
Vera Cruz ; the troops were not paid, and numbers
were sick in the hospitals. The General Commandant,
Landres, had thrown up hie command. About 1,200
troops were at Vera Cruz and San Juan de Ulloa. Gen.
Paredes was brought from Mexico, and placed on
board the steamer under a strong escort.
The following was the distribution of the naval
forces in the Gulf when the Thames left :
Her Majesty's ships Endymion, Alarm. Electra, and
Daring, at Vera Cruz. H.hl. sloop Rose sailed front Vera
Cruz on the 14th of September, and Havana on the 4th of
October, for Spithead, with about 150,000 dollars on board.
American blockading squadron off Vera Cruz.—TheCum-
berland, 54 guns, Commodore Conner; Raritan, 54; Saint
Mary's, 22; Somers, 12; two small steamers, and four
schooners.
Off Tampico.—The Porpoise, 12 gun brig.
The Company's steam-ship Clyde, Capt. Symons, left
Grenada, for Trinidad; and the Trent, Capt. Rivett, for
Jamaica, on the 10th of October; the Reindeer was at Saint
Thomas's on the 15th of October; the Tay, Bapt. Boxer,
sailed from Havana, for Vera Cruz, on the 10th of
October; the Forth, Capt. Chapman, was left at Bermuda
on the 21st of October ; and the Tweed, Capt. Parsons, was
at Jamaica on the 9th of October.

The accounts from the several West India Islands,
are satisfactory. The sugar crops were tine and pro-
mised an abundant return. In Jamaica there ha?„
been heavy rains and severe gales, especially on roe
east coast, which were considered to be influenced by
some hurricanes among the Windward Islands. The
election of coroner had given occasion for a Pkrious
riot at Falmouth ; but a heavy storm dispe.r.md the
mob just as the military were called upon to '.nterfere.
The new governor, Sir Charles Grey, was expected
from Barbadoes on the 31st October.

From Demerara the accounts are highl— satisfactory
The estates everywhere had come into, full operation
and report speaks favourably as to the yield of the
canes, which would improve so 'long as the dry
weather continued. Fields on the cast, the west, and
the Arabian coasts which 14 says previous yielded
only an average of a hogshead an acre, were making
one and a half and two, an?m larger returns in some
instances. The people work steadily, and there was
no longer any dissausfactice' even in Leguan.
On the question of wag( "the Guiana Times says :
" One of the remarkable f stares of the times is the singu-
lar good sense and good Jature with which the immense
majority of the labouring , jam has yielded to the demands of
their employers to have e' "iciest work for their money. The
able-bodied labourer
wryet earn easily, either cutting canes or with the shovel, a.• faUder for four hours work. Still it
is important to get a c Lingo from the careless, slovenly, and
uncertain pmforman, of labour to efficiency and constancy,
effected without a Fr Amble from those who feel it most.
" In the city tree se still continues in an extremely depressed
state, and one Inc' .vsntile firm is reported as having sunk
beneath the Imes` mire of the times. It is quite a melancholy
thing to walk di ma Water-street at noon, and look into the
stores. The car Auto( the magnificent province looks deserted.
Things cannot . lest this way, however. The lose of half the
crop account, Mit great measure, for the falling off in the
circulation, smoking every allowance for the drafts upon
mortgagees awl others to pay for indispensable labour. We
trust by r ext mail to have to report that things arc begin-
ning to r swine a better appearance.

C' aiIMERCIAL MARKETS.
M .ONEY MARKET & CITY INTELLIGENCE.
Helf-post Two.—We have an animated market to-
dr 1 in the fends, with successive improvements in the quo-
* strong. Consols opened fur money at 941 to 1, and 941 to
g for account, which were the elosinv prices of last evening,
but shortly after the commencement of business, they
advanced 1 per cent., and have since improved another I,
being now quoted 941 buyers for money, and 941 buyers for
account. Exchequer Bills rallied to Se. to 12s. premium.
The activity of transactions to-day contrasts rather strongly
somewith the dull and depressed state of the market for
past. The more quiet aspect of affairs
on the side of France and Spain, with the reported
triumph of the Queen's troops over the insurgents in Por-
tugal, which would seem to promise the re-establishment of
order in that distracted country temporarily, though at the
expense of constitutional government, will have tended
mainly to this improvement in funded velure.
The foreign market has not participated in the upward
movement of the home stocks. Front %vim, the tenor of
the intelligence, so far as it has transpired, is not favourable
to the interests of the old bondholders, and less so still to the
new bonds created under the conversion scheme. The
West India mail-steamer Thames brings no remit-

tance on account of the dividends, nor indeed could
any be reasonably expected. It is stated that a com-
mission had been appointed in Mexico to take the matter of
the conversion scheme into consideration, but so far only as
related to the conversion of the Deferred Debt. The con-
version of the old active bonds was out of the question
altogether, as indeed front the former proceedings of the
government, was anticipated. They formed no part of the
decree p:.sed by the Mexican Congress for the regulation of
the deferred debt, as is evident on the face of the bonds where
that decree is recited, though in a garbled way; and we
know from Senor Murphy, the late Mexican Envoy, who so
straneely sanctioned the conversion, that such dealing with
the active stock cocustituted no part of the private instruc-
tions from his government, under which he acted. The con-
verted bonds are 211 to 2, without business. The Peninsu-
lar stocks are heavy. Spanish Fives however, are called 261
to 1, which is a shade better ; the Threes, 37 to 1. Por-
tuguese, 381 to 91.
The Proprietors of the Ceylon Bank held their
fifth annvel general meeting this slay, when the report of
the directors was read. The nroceedines were of so satis-
factory a nature, that no discussion arose. The Chairman
(Thomas Young, Esq.) then declared a dividend for the half
year, at the rate of 17 per cent. per annum upon the paid•up
capital to the company. The introduction of English capital
into that island has Leen the causo of increased activity in its
commercial community.

ENGLISH FUNDS.—Tnare o'Cioca.
Bank Stock, 2041 S.'. Ditto for Acct., 941 borers
Slier Ct. Red. 931 1 SI per Cents, 951 1 •
r.per Cent. Consols, 941 buyers I Exchequer Ms, Ss. 12s.

S per Ct. Austrian Wu,
14 per CtßelgiarAlds., 944 Si x.d.
per Cent ditto,
S per Ct. Brazilian Ada., 85 7
5 per Cent. New Braz. Dde.,
6 per Ct. Buena Arm; Bdu, 43 3
6 per Ct. Malian 8&,96 8
6 per Cent. Columb.der.Bdh, 15 6
Columbian Equador Bd. 34
per Ct. Dorm& Mu., 88 8
24 per Ct. Thatch Ada., 38i 9
4 per Ct. Dutch Certh, 914 2

4 FUNDS.
I per Cent. Grenada Hitt, 204 It
Grenada Deferred Eds., 34 4
5 per Ct. Ifeztean, 18,6, 214 2
6 per Cent. Peruvian Bda, 33 7
Portuguese emir. Bde., 334 94
3 per Ct. Russian Ikts., 110 112
5 per Ct. Spanish Ma., 264
3 per Cent. Spanish Bde., 374
Spaniels Leferred Bde., 161 74
Spanish Pensive ads., 34
2 per Ct. Venezuela Bds., el 3
Venezuela Deferred Bda„ 12 13

RAILWAYS.

The impression that, at length, the India Board
have come to a decision in favour of the East India and
Great Western of Bengal lines, on which it is proposed
to guarantee a return of 4 per cent. on five millions of
capital to the proprietary, to commence, however, only
on the payment of 15 per cent. of the subscribed ca-
Ppital, has led to considerable business in the shares of those
ines, accompanied with a slight improvement. The
prospect of forthcoming calls will perhaps tend to pre-
vent any great rise in prices. The East Indian are called
to premium; Great Western of Bengal, jto I. The
market is generally good for both shares and scrip. North
Staffordshire, at 2; to 31 premium, are in fair demand.
Caledonian rather Hat, at 16 to 7 discount.

SALES EFFECTED UP TO TWO THIS DAY IN LONDON.
(Yesterday's prices will be found in last page.)
Aberdeen, 191 4 Manchester and Birmingham, 741
Amb., Not., Bog., &E. Jn., 321 Do. Qrs. A), 12
Bic. and Oxford Jn., 8 1 Do. do. 13). 121
Bristol and Exeter, 81 120. do. 0, 8
Do. New, 9 Mane. and Southampton, 11
Buckinghamshire, 1 d Midland, 133
Caledonian, 24 1 Do. New, 61 7
Do. Halves, 24 1 Newcastle & Berwick, 331 3
Direct Northern, 11 1 North British, 381 74
Eastern Counties, 221 4 Do. Halves, 161 4
Do. New, 71 p Do. Quarters, 3/
Do. York Ex".., 31 Do. Extension, 14 1
East Lancashire, 181 North Staffordshire, 21 1 p
Do. New, 81 1 North Wales, 14
Fast Lincolnshire, 1 Oxford, Woe., and Wolver., 61 1
Edo. & Glasgow, 78 Preston and Wyre, 344
Do. Halves, 204 Royston and llttcben, 11
Do. Quarters, 194 Scottish Central, 201
Fly and Huntingdon, 13 121 Shropshire Union, 1 1 d
Exeter, Yeovil, & Dorchester, 31 south Wales, 4
Great N. of England, New, 204 West Riding 171 Con, 11 p
Great Western. Qrs., 20 191 Wilts, Somerset, & Wry., 31 4
Do. Fifths, York & Newcastle, 431 4
Do. New, 73.11. rt Do. New, 171 184
Hull and Selby em, 234 Do. Preference, 64 1
Lanms. and Carlisle, New, 104 1 York &N. Midland lvs., 49 84
Leeds .8t Bradford, 744 York and Selby Extension, 414 1
Leeds and Think, New, 21 Do. Preference, 101 1
Liver., Man., ft Newe., Jn., 11 York E.&W.R. Eaten., 201
London and Blackwell, 94 Boulogne and Amiens, 141
Laid., Brigb., & S. Coast, 591 Demerara, 21
London and N. Western, 196 9 East Indian, 4
Do., Qrs., New, 164 Great Western Bengal, 4
ton. and S. Western, 684 7 Luxembourg, 14
Len. and York, 212 Namur end Liege, 31
London, Salisbury, & Yeov:l, 11 North. of France Coast.. 111 6
Linn and Dereham, 15 16 Odeon' and Bordeaux, 71 1
Man. & Leeds, 106 Paris and Lyons Cowl., S
Do. Quarters, 6 Paris and Rouen, 351
Ditto Fifths, 8 Sambre and Diner, 44
?danc., Buxton, atiatlock, i 11 p

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