The Express.
London, England, 1848-02-07 00:00:00

SXCRANONS AMD !STOCKS ABROAD.

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552• _ _
tallik F.' 111.47. 6g6n6. Lewalt.
3 par Cants. - 74 70 74 90 1 74 93 :--77-93 1-74-93
3 11.1.1165,Lpia: 76 65 TS 55 75 65 ; 76 66 76 56
I 106. 117 30 117 40 117 43 117 70 U 7 23
46 D.
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Esehatwe on London Web D. 22 46 offend.
Belem 0.1810 9.91 Mousy. Navies Rentio.. , Mossy.
Do. 11, UM— 94 . Reiman Loan ..1 46'
Do. 41...
Do. 21
FAA. VOLT, Rea. L—.4t;trlan Fire per Cats, 1021 hills;
Your per Cote., RS blas ; Ditto Three per CeOK, 04 hat ; Hark, 1.470
bills ; Prustian Pram. &h., 911 money; Ditto, M. Pelt. ed,.. bat. ;
Frankfurt Three pa COMA.. 01 NUB; Menith Throe per Cool., 11.4C1i0r,
241 bills, 232 moue, ; Do., Fite per Cents. lArdohas), 20 0111 s, 191 motley.
Atterarioam. 1/ebt, Tooand.e.Half per Cent..., 531
04 ; Ditto, Three per Cents., 64, 664 ; Your per Cents., 84f,
11 AMort. S)11.1.. Three-and a Dalt or Cents., of Com
Comp., You audallalf per Cents.. 1421. Esc nose :di Lorrb.n:
42 ; Inks,, too month.. 11 :.5: Hamburg, 34; Do., 2 mouth..., 34 ;
Zre, init., two mouths. 54 20.
P.O. 3.—Loats .0 1440, Flee per Cent.. 0E; Ditto, 11,43,
934: Ditto, 1.44, Poor and allalf per Cents.. 1,11 ; 11111. 143.0, Three per
; Ditto Troe.ol a.llalf per Cont., ; Lltyl‘gtn, 1443, ;
Spanish Liquid.. 10; Dark of Del‘ium. 741: louse of 1841. 1.04. El-
l:141RO; um .11.1.1111,1.110. Par ; IquJoe, ti 57 S ; Park tar ; rabkf ort. 211.

BELOII:II.—ENTItn SAMIIKE Ali 71 Nl:ft-sr.-Ih,
onLiial meeting of the sh itteliolders of the above tine v. hem .",_ll_
days agn, at company's offteee„ in the Nlonmcie.
sets. The chair was taken by Thomism flunkey,
rreadent of the company, assisted by Mr. e. uLitt, ere, i•nt
Amongst the other gentlemen prevent acre M. de fit..adear.
head engineer, and Mr. Pildiugton, the secretary. The re..
was read at the meeting luely held la London waswkly
mously.—The Chairman, in the course of his obsernitious,
the directors were quite satisfied with the contractor far the hmlh
7.
and with the chief engineer. reply to one of the &lariat a.:.•
holder*, it 'Oh. elated that the works lad been for the 1...7.
waded on the moue! sectors; that the capital hither.
up was nut sufficient to complete the entire hoe,
that the work, on the first liar were actively
A similar statement was made with reference to the works in theme'
tunnels. It was observed Lv Mr. Piddington that notwithstsadionb,
hodnesa of the timea in Flatland, till the calls upon the slisrehed.
(sod throe calls amounted to eight) had been well rests-gelid to
fiat section of the line would open some important micerai
A vote of thanks was pawed to the chairman. tai
THE Cintar Lt XEMBol:llll.—According to the IStb ankh
of the calsier deaehrges of the eonceseion of the crew Lou
railway, the &titian government is bound to restore to tbe
armoires the no-celled eaution money or ,scarier peal Mby um.
that ism say, to refund it in proportion to the exeintion of the seet.
or to the purchase of property, to double the valueul tie sum eget,*
tbe concuoionairce claim the repayment. In order, Lacier, toe.,
Oh the work with greater activity. and to inereue the number obi',
sons employed on them. the above c -.moony have sought te*
rather more favourable tongs in these times of !Mamie aMeek,
ard have requested the Itelgian government to refund the
money in sonic equal to these rope in miming on the .0.
have purchasing prnaund ; in other words, warn the mammy
have expender% for example, In either of the above saes the ,„„--7,
100,000 francs, they shall receive the like vote out of the d
their paid up security, new lying in the Belgian treasury, paps
the company will employ during the winter a main nurs.-7,
workmen, to he fixed hereafter. It will be seen that the gored„
runs no rink, inasmuch as the respective rums It refunds ma
reps ounted in the works executed or in the ground purchased. It kclear also that if that arraegement be acceded to, the
he able to prosecute their task with greater activity. The
in favourably disposed towards the appliestion, and it it pr44,-,74
it will be immediately submitted to the Chamber of itrpreweitatina
The general impression is, that the demand will hectometre wilt 1,
mar be observed here that the shareholders of the Great Larembureb
Railway are exclusively Eugliah ; that all the money
pan-hosing ground, or in eargring on thc works, h me from
hind ; that it was the money &rued from the Rome quarter nab
on the 'let of the company, the concession of the Lana.
bourg canal for 6,0un,0001., and which, moreover, defrayed .„
el of the works on the Ourte, since tine year 1948,•amt. ti;
fleet faction of the above canal. In tact, some 13,(100,5ut,
scribed by English sharehoklera, have been already expended a Deb
glum by the Great Luxembourg Company, aid in 111,110 wadi has
already- conferred muse benefit on the country. No utter ream,
has *pent so large a sum. It may be added, that the Greet lAseas
bourg Company has only received the gum of 101,054 frogs the bet,
gian government es part of the return money of the amity.

COMMERCIAL AND .MARKETS.
COTTON.—LanwrooL, Pecs. s.—Then Saar
market today, and the sales were 4,000 tialev, including Ikre
MANCHESTER, FEB, s.—The increased demand tapers
euitable for India which set in on Wednesday continue; imd ate
kinds are In &vomid even beyond the stocks en kid. The eft.
quenee it that the increased mice quoted on Thursday I fully mata,
taiited, although in other qualities of twist there O no aderatics tithe
sr to demand or Price. The increased prixhietion of clads; dtoteew
biros the prier! row, unit though Ptineh nlntialgs n 1 oia and 1.4
recd.* have been in ',quiet, no advance on the estrivocly ow rsg,
lately obtainable m.thl be had. The demand how-trate
houses for lung dome,tios i marled with I -thtome th,mth tie
Sale of long elcrhs boo been fully equ d to that r I Lot week. In to
I. neer dew-I-tombs of printing cloths a better bra-inter 6 doing, pct
SS “ncl 72 twit printers are lot little sought atm, ki.nafacuren an
in better heart as to toe future since the demand for Irk
and the propodtion t a return to abut t lime, with t:c cirque rictstot
of Ashton, where the masters mime to a revolution ycterday
restrict production, meets at prevent with little practical crap.
ragement.
WOOLLENS.—LErIff, Fin. b.—Then was a lea
nUendance of merchants at the cloth-halls thin meaning; fel dikkak
a large quantity of goods were 0.K.-nod, the valor effected wen ad
ao numerous or extensive a• atom. at Tureday's nuirktt The cloths ie
demard were wont.oyed blaclo, wonted blues, c. la the ware.
heaves there li.or been rather mote doing during the week is gook
suitable for the sht,ping trade.

THE IRON TRADE —BittniNGIIAM, Fog.
pons of firth embarrassments of the principals in one or two Lam
house* in the iron trade of the district are current to-day, lent is it
absence of anything like autticient confirmation of thee it would le
in the highest degree iimpru.lent to allude to nimaur. which after
all may be unfournici. The trade remains in a state of the moat de.
pinesible & prtraion, and It is greatly to be feared that no improis
ment is at hand. Little has been done during the week to bin( stoat
an adjustment of the differences between the masters and the um;
they are, for the most part, still upon strike, am, for the rest
matters temain almost in Oulu goo. A doadd(rw, naabw
of the colliers hare returned to their work at the dim,
but the mill-men and forgers still stand out again.* any
reduction of wages—the result of which piece of fo ly i. that sere L
additional forges hare been blown out in the neighbourhood of Dab
ley during the week. 'the men were blindly celculaung upon the
chances of the influx of orders the molten will receive in the epriag
for in*, for railway purposes, forcing them to allow a resumption
work at the old peters, thus preferring to wait for chances whidi
may not occur, rather than receive ranch wages an are consistent wish
present prices in the meantime. Some of the mailer manufacture"
are still pa: ing to the men the full wages; they ore enabled to do
no by semen of the fart that as all the largo ao,ko,,re completer at
a stand, the orders which require immediate execution alcsiree hl
into the hands of thiee limited producers. it is to be hoped, howeret,
that before lung some comp' "mese will be effected, and that the heads
of the great houses may find it conducive to their intcrsst, as well u
for the future prosperity of Ms district, to stretch :v point in the inn',
tavoar. 'The iron moulders aro still out; they hare held moan
marling at Tipton; they calmly and temperately eliceussil the ques
tunes at Swim between themselves and the niastere; and in the and
they resulted unanimously not to submit be any redaction in their
wages. The forgemen hare also had smother meeting at Dairy;
the proceedings were conduced in a very orderly ; they de.
tailed their grievance's in various speeches, and these seemed to co-
solve themaelres into this—that they would not hare rebelled
againat a reduction of wears in the time of depression, pro-
vided the remuneration for their labour lead been propor-
tionately augmented with flourishing reasons, and when the
masters were receiving high pricey fur the iron produced. The*
masters on the other hand allege that the men teed the fullest ad.
vantage to which they were entitled in the time of prosperity; but bs
this us it may, the men unanimously meshed to submit to no redac-
tion whatever; and there is the more renon for believing that they
will stand firmly by this resolve, seeing that they report the "trade
fund" as aulikient to support those who are numbers of it for three
months at least.. Such is the pun. ion of affairs in South Staffordshire
at this moment; it is long indeed nine they presented anything like
on gloomy an aspect ; all its industry and ail eta enterprise ,lumbering
amidst the means for cretting wealth, and assuredly unless some change
speedily take piece, twinging rum where ioomparatire with it pros
!Kielty might exiat.—ln this town the Mate of trade in scarcely of a
more cheering character the depression has not for a long time past
been greater than it has been Luling the lost month; in nearly every
• branch the manufacturers mecca in reporting the esteem. eauceity
oftheorile.r..Tbwieheionitheetra.re is in
men ace
owlrrtytewhol eondiinghautionor, unioy
at saase threenf
quarter time.