The Express.
London, England, 1853-09-19 00:00:00

making
Doe date. I ,caw. pd.
Dublin and Drogheda, Pre-
ference 25/ Oct. 1, 18.53 £2 10 15
Ditto, ditto, ditto Jan. 1, 1854 210 174
East Kent Oat. 31, 1833 210 6
Orrat Luxembourg, guaran-
teed 6 per cent Oet. 3, 1853 1 0 6
Hamilton and Toronto Shares Oat. 13, 1853 6 0 104
' Lancaster and Carlisle New
Thirds
Losdon, Tilbury, and South
end Oct. 15, 1853 110 84
Lyons and Mediterranean Oct. 1, 1853 1 0 10
'Midland New 51. 4 oer cent Oct. 24, 18.53 1 10 Dep.
Namur and Liege Preference Oct. 16, 18.53 3 0 16
Newmarket Extension Oct. 11, 18.53 010 5
Paris and Orissa' Bonds, 1852 Jan. 1, 1851 4 0 20
Paris and Strasbourg, Bonds
of 1862 Dec. 10, 1553 5 0 20
Royal Danish Oa. 1, 18.3 3 0 9
Dittt
Shrewsbury and Hereford Nov. 1, 1853 1 0 10
South Wales, guaranteed 201 Nov. 10, 1853 4 0 9
York, Neweasile, aid Da-
wick, (1. N. E. Purchase Jan. 1, 1854 1 10 13
Zealand Oct. 1, 1853 3 0 12
Ditto
The list of calls for the present month has lately
been increased, as is shown in the enclosed, which
we extract from Mr. Slaughter's TVeekly .Railway
Shure Lill :

amount per share.
Due dy Nuniher
Due in 8ept.,1833. date.Alrea tan. of
•East Indian Paten
'lon, B l5 1 1 0 0 50,800 50,000
Greatsforthiris,Nt w
41 peret CIO Scrip 30 76 210 0 81,03) 201,500
Lancashire k Ygrk-
shire, Fifths
*Laces and Pistoja,
Preference l9 8 1 0 0 3),0r0 30,000
.311wIras 26 76 80 0 AOl/0 75,1i00
Middieshni k Red
Cu', New Zl5 1 1 30 0 18,000 31,900
Peebles
oat. Andrew's and

-iitsin7e;ciava T. 7 30 4 20 0 40,0,0 00,000
•Western of bwitS. _ _

erland
Wimbledon and
Croydon 2s Es. 110 0 4,530 G 025
--• 767,55 i

Total callai in 1653
• The proportion called by foreign companies is C 300,000. but the
holdings..tE ish p.oprtetor. are not known.
Annexed is tk releinte; of the railway meetings
lately convened, viz. :—Caledonian, September 20, at
Glasgow; Central of Switzerland, Sept. 29, at Basle;
Darenth Valley, Sept. 27, at 4, Great Winchester-
street; East Grinstead, Oct. 7, at East Grinstead;
I Grand Junction of France, Sept. 29, at Paris ; Irish
South-Eastern, Sept. 29, at Dublin ; Lancaster and
Preston Junction, Sept. 19, at Lancaster; Lon-
donderry and Coleraine, Sep*. 20, at 4, Coleman-
street-buildings; North Metropolitan, Sept. 29, at
14, l'arliarnent-street ; Rouen and Havre, Sept. 30,
at Paris; Severn Valley, Sept. 16, at 31, Parliament-
street; Shropshire Union, Sept. 29, at Shrewsbury;
Tournay, Jurbisc, Landen, and Hassell, Sept. 27, at
Brussels.
The undermentioned railway companies are at
present inviting tenders for loans, viz. :
Newport, Abergavenny, and Hereford.—Tenders for
bond., to sums of 2.501. or upwards, for periods of three or
five years.
Great Northern.—This company is again prepared to re-
ceive tenders for loans on mortgage to a limited extent, in
sums of 6001 and upward., and for periods of not less than
five years, at h per cent. per annum.
Eastern Union.-I'his company receives tenders for loans
on debenture, for periods of three or tire years, at 4 per
cent. intermit, to meet debentures falling due.
Leeds Northern.—This company is open to receive loans
on debenture at 4 per cent. per annum.
Annexed are the latest report,' from continental
bourses, as received by Mr. Neuter's express :
Amsterdam, Friday, closing prices :—Dutch Four
per Cents., 914; ditto Two-and-a-Half per Cents.,
62 7-1 G; Spanish Deferred Three per Cents., 22 5-16;
the Coupons, 5„; Austrian Five per Cent. Metal-
lies, ; Mexican New, 241; Granada Deferred,
; Portugu...se New, 391; Granada Active, 21.
The Irish Bank returns for the four weeks ending
Saturday, Sept. 3,1853, are as follows:

Cireulatio.. Average Average
Name and Title. mamma. Circala- amount
thou (4WD. /
The Bank of InAand 3,738,428 2,69.1,750 766,492
The Provincial Bank of Ireland 927,667 744,693 2111,630
the Delf.ot Banking Company
The Nonhern Kinking t umpany 243,44,, 215,344 63,365
The Miter Hulloing Company
The Piot:anal Park of Ireland 761,757 773,555 169,363
Ike Carrick-on-hair National
bank of Ire.and 21,044 16,766 6,439
The Clunmet Notional Houk
Ireland. 66,423 40,036 i 7,061
Total _ 7—,230,37J-17-047,310

Total 6,354,4M I 5,230,3'; 1,417,810
After an uninterrupted diminution in the circula-
tion for seven successive months, the present returns
show at length a change in the current, as is usually
the case at this period of the year, the circulation as
compared with that of the preceding month exhi-
biting an increase of 70,934/., while in the amount
of bullion there appears to have been within the
month a decrease of 21,0041.

THIS DAY.—Two co'Cl.oex.
The stock markets to-day arc flitter. The funds
now rule at a reduction a
and
per cent. from the
closing rates of Saturday, and railway stocks have
also given way. Consols are at present quoted 951
toy for money, and 95Z to for the 13th October.
There has been little fluctuation, business generally
being upon a more quiet scale. India Stock marks
250 to 253; South Sea Stock, 1141; Exchequer
Bills, 7s. to 3s. dim.; and India Bonds, 54. prem.
Foreign stocks have ruled steady. Mexican has
advanced to 251 to and Spanish Deferred to 224
to t. Peruvian maintains its rally. Peruvian Four-
and-a-Dalt per Cents. mark 77 to 78; Equador, 41 to
; Granada Deferred, 9; Portuguese Fours, 441;
Russian Four-and-a-Half per Cents., 1001 to a ; Sar-
dinian, 93 to # ; Spanish Old Threes, 461; tho Cer-
tificates, 51 per cent.; Venezuela Actives, 37 ; Dutch
Fours, 97; to 1.

THE " HOPE or AUSTRIA" LI DANGEIt.—The
German Frankfuri Jovniml states that on the 10th instant
the Emperor of Austria suddenly was placed in a situation
of great peril. When proceeding with his plunger brother
to Schernbrun, in one of the imperial carriages, the horses
took fright and ran away at great speed. Fortunately the
e nehmen succeeded, after a little time, in stopping them.
The Emperor and his brother then went on to Schcenbruc
iu a carriage belonging to a private gentleman. In re-
membrance of another escape, that from the dagger of
Libenyi, the Emperor has ordered Count Charles O'llonnel,
who came to his assistance on that occasion, to add to his
armorial bearings the initials of the Emperor in the centre
of the arms of Austria, on the breast of the imperial
crowned two-headed eagle.
POOR RELIEF AND HOUSES IN THE METROPOLIS.
Ou Saturday two returns moved fer by Sir Be Lacy Evans
and Lord Dudley Stuart were printed in one document, of
the amount of property assessed to the relief of the poor
for the year ending the 25th March, 1853, within the Me-
tropolitan Police District showing the rental, population,
and number of houses iu 18.51, and number of houses in
1839. It appears that the rateable value of property assessed
to the pours-rate is the year ended Lady Diy last was
10,663,8331. The amount of rental upon which the Metro-
politan Police rate was assessed in 1842 was 10,546,3741.
The population in 1851 was 2,411,410. The number of
houses in 1851 was 372,912 and the number of houses as-
sessed to the relief of the poor in 1839 was 268,295. The
return consists of parts of Essex, Berta, Kent, Middlesex,
and Surrey.
WEATHER AND CROPS IN SOUTH WALF.S.—The
weather altogether has been very favourable for harvesting
operations, and a large quantity has been secured in good
condition. The wheat is tolerably good, and sound, hut
altogether it is rather light in the car, and will not quite
reach to an average crop, either io bulk or quantity. This
is not, however, the ease in the county of Cardigan, where
the h t is will spoken of, sad deemed likely to yield
more than an average crop. The produce of barley and
oats is very aatisfactory, and more than the general run of
these grails. The green crops have been very fair. The
potatoe blight, it is to be regretted, has spread exceedingly,
but as the tubers were more matured than on former oc
elision', it is hoped that the injury will not be so fatal.
Gardens appear to have suffered mon than field crops.
TILE BIRMINGHAM BOROUGH GAOL INQUIRY.—
Mr. Welsby, Dr. Daly, and Captain Williams, the Com-
missioners appointed by Lord Palmerston to inquire into
the abuses of the Borough Gaol of Birmingham, have re-
turned to town, after concluding their inquiry, but have not
yet sent in their report. They will proceed to-morrow to
Leicester, to open a similar investigation there.