The Express.
London, England, 1846-10-17 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL er MARKETS.

MONEY MARKET & CITY INTELLIGENCE.
The Bank of England averages for the week ending
the 10th inst., show the following differences on comparison
with the returns for the year preceding. In the department
of issue, less notes appear by 261,6601. ; the total avenge of
issue being 29,078,136/. In active circulation, there was an
increase of 221,705/. ; the average of notes out among
the public being 20,772,360/. The public deposits were in
increase by 2.5,2071., with a total average fund of 9,801,4021.
Other deposits were in excess by 1.55,4831., with an average
(on hand) of 8,322,6261. In " other " securities we have an
Increase of 140,8901., with an average account of
15,227,665/. In coin and bullion the stock had dimi-
nished by 234,3921., with an average quantity in
store of 10,582,234/. The Rest was less by 603,8271., the
average being reduced to 3,383,1581. The decline in the
Rest is sufficientlyfitecounted for by the payment of half-
years dividends on Bank Stock. The increase of active
circulation would partly arise from the same cause, and partly
from the enlarged amount of other" securities. So also
the increase of "other" deposits might be attributable, to
some extent, to the transfer of a proportion of Bank divi-
dends by the recipients to that mount
IToff-post Two o'Cloek.—We have rather a flat
market in Consols, as usually the case from the absence of
dealers on this day of the week.
.They are a shade lower,
being 941 to 5 for money, and 96/ to 1 for time. Exchequer
Bills, 13s. to 16s. premium.
Spanish bonds rule somewhat higher in consequence, it is
said, of the despatch of an agent to Madrid to urge the claims
of the bondholders. The Fives are 261 to 71 ; the Threes, 371
to 8. Portuguese, 41 to 3. The more knowing and sagacious
of the bondholders anticipate no very beneficial results from
the mission. It is suspected to be no better than a cloak for
some loan or conversion scheme, such as has been attempted
by at least one of the deputation before at Madrid. Mexicans
are 231 to 1.
ENGLISH FUNDS.—
Bank Stock, 2051 61
3 per Ct. Red. 93/ 4
3 per Cent. Consols, 94/ 3

The accounts received this morning from the Cape
of Good Hope bring news from Cape Town to the
10th August, but nothing very decisive from the
seat of war beyond the frontier. The operations in
the Amatola mountains proceeded. The Kaffirs were
dispirited, and having sustained considerable loss,
continued to retreat before the advance of Sir A.
Stockenstrom and Colonel Hare's divisions. If they
retired upon the Buffalo points, as was expected, they
would be outflanked, and compelled to encounter the
force under Sir Peregrine Maitland,
We are indebted to the Morning Herald for the
following extracts :
" The campaign was resumed on the 25th, Sir Andreas'
(Stockenstrom's) division taking the lead. On Saturday of
the above date, his division broke up camp at the Gaga
ridge, and bivouacked at Block Drift that night, whence
they marched to the Chumie Station on Sunday night.
Four hundred of the Kat River burghers, under
their officers, Groep, Botha, and Cobus Free, left on
Sunday night to iurn Field Commandant Joubert's force,
800 strong, and that of Mr. Joseph Read, 660 strong,
at Gaika's Peak, all to meet Sir Andreas' own force at the
Chumie Hoek, where there are said to be an immense ren-
dezvous of Kaffirs. Sir Andreas has now about 2,800 men
under him. Kat River, at the request of the inhabitents,
had been placed in his division. Captain Sutton has been
left in charge of the settlement, a service of the greatest im-
portance, as that is a gate through which the Kaffirs might
rush into the colony, should they, as on former occasions,
shrink from the front and re-appear in the rear of the in-
vading forces. I was told by an old commander under the
Hottentot chief Boesak, that on Van der Walt presenting
himself with an overwhelming force, he called his head men
together, and said, " We can't meet him on equal terms.
Don't attempt to engage his force.. Disperse and attack in
large parties their homes; plunder, and that will disconcert,
divide, and disperse his command." This was done, and
had the anticipated effect.'
" The following from Sir Andreas Stockenstrom's camp
is interesting:-' Reli3ious worship is statedly kept up in RAILWAYS.
Sir Andreas' camp. A gentleman wha spent a night in it
says, that the camp appeared to him to be divided into eight The market is extremely good, considering the day
er nine sections, in each of which religious worship was of the week ; and in several lines, such as Ambergates, Cam-
held night and morning, Sir Andreas attending in person. bridge and Oxford., Leicester and Bedford', Staines, and
At four o'clock, a herald plays on the trumpet a tune to the Richmonds, Dutch-Rhenish, and East Indians, an improve-
hymn, ' Praise God from whom all blessings flow,' when ment in prices may be noted.
all assemble at their various sections to praise the Author of SALES EFFECTED CP TO TWO O'CLOCK TIIIS DAY IN
Life and the Lord of Hosts. The services are conducted LONDON.
either by the commandants or church officers (elders and (Yesterday's prices will be found in last page.)
deacons) who are in command. When he heard the deep Aberdeen, 15 Munch. and Birm., 74 5
manly voices of the Boers singing God's praises, it reminded Amb., Not., Bre., & F.. in., 241 Do. do., 1 sh. A, 121
Bus. and Matlock, 4 p
the narrator of the Great Protector's Ironsides, singing the Birm- sod Vonrudereri 1284 81
Manches. and Southampton, 1 •
100th Psalm as they marched to battle, and charging the Bir. and 0 n, a i
Bristol and Gloucester, e• Midland, 1341 6
enemy in the name of the Most High God! In the go- Caledonian, 211 Do. New, 35 6
vernor's camp there is the same noble reliance on the Do. 1 shares, 14 Newcastle and Berwick, 251 1
Supreme Ruler and Disposer of nations. May success now Cambridge and Oxford, 11 North British, 334
4
crown their honourable tails.' " Direct Northern, If Do. Halves, 141 15
Favourable accounts are still received from Waterloo Bay Damon and Bel East "' 2 Do. Quarters, 21 3
Eastern Counties, 211 1 Do. Extension, II
(on the east bank of the Fish River) respecting the capabi- Do. New, 61 1 P North Staffortlahire, 112
lities of that place for landing and shipping goods. A fair Do. yens Emeesices, 14 4 Portsmouth Direct.
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landing-place at that point is in effect the foundation of the Fast Lancashire, in I Scottish Central, 181
town and the founding of a settlement equal to any in Fast Lincolnshire, 1 I Shrewsbury and Hr., 3
Southern Africa. It will bring out the resnurces of some My and Huntingdon. 41 6 Shropshire Union. 4 d
Goole• Doman. and Sbeffielda d South East. and Dovor, 381
10.000 square miles of territory, already inhabited by perhaps , • . t •
Great N. of Eng., New, 34 Do. !is. 33/. 6s. Bdt) No. 2, 14 4
150,000 souls. The month of the Buffalo River also is pro- Great Western, 139 6 Do. (Is. 151.) No. 4, 21
bably approachable, and the river St. John's, beyond the Do. Halves, 79191 Stables and Richmond, I/
Kei, with some other indentations of the coast, may soon Do. Quarters. 191 181 South Wales, 31 41
be made to open the whole of the vast territory between the Do. Fifths, 301 1 West Riding Union, 1i p
Cape and Natal to trade. Supplies have been landed from Do. New. 74 Wilts, Scan., and Wey., 4
thSephia, at the mouth of the owie,K and the Sophia and huh and Selby, 108 York and Newcastle, 42
the
Do. Halves, 53 Do. New. 161 1
British Settler were in that river. Lancaster and Carlisle, 60 York E.te W.
FRONTIER.-In the Graham's Town Journalof Ist August Leicester & Bedford, 1 d., Ip. Riding E., 16/ 17
details successful operations on end beyond the Kei river London and Blackwall, 91 Boulesne and Amiens, 141
are given. The Governor is now giving a practical reply London and Brighton, saj 60 Direr
1 tcl: ilmnbi:g 85
"r",
i
to the lay critics by whom his delays have been so sharply D'l. °msolidated Fifth"'o474 - Fpuyit I '
London and Croydon, 211 -
handled. Having drawn up his forces from all parts of the Do. Guaranteed .5 per Cent., 10 Great S. of madras, 1
colony, and amidst dreadful difficulties secured provisions Lon. & Green. Pref. or Priv,;22 Italian and Austrian, 11
for them, he has in the course of two or three days swept London and N Western, 195 Lurumbours 11 /
Kaffirland from the Buffalo to the Kei, performed a bold Do. Qra New, 161 Madras, Nell.cee, & Arcot, 1
and startling inroad in Kreili's country, and is now seen 1015,30 n &S. Western, New, 11 I Namur and and Itege,t:tl.4
124 1
enclosing, on three sides, the whole tribes of the Gallus in Landon, Salisbury, & Yeovil, I Orleansran„,ark,TaGaseing, 71
LTan and Derehara, 131 1
their last strongholds among the Amatola mountains, from 362, Sc Lee& Halves, 471 I Paris & Lyons Coastituted, si
which their principal chiefs already sue for peace. Peace Ditto Fifths, 81 Paris and Bonen. 361
they c-nnot have. Mercy is what will be granted, the Ditto Sixteenths, 71 Sambre and Meuse, 515
country having been formally taken session of by the in- MANCHESTER, Ocr. 10.
suited and outraged government of the Caps. Sir Peregrine, Birmingham & Dudley, 21 1 p Liv.,Orm.,& Pres., 3 3-16 10
with a large fora was near the gorges of the Amatola, on Ifir. and Oxford in., 31 1 P Lon., Man., &Mr., Qrs., C. p
the south-east side, on the 28th July, and an express had Man., Btu., & Mid., 4 Eastern Counties, 211 -, Mat,
Do., York Extension, 11 p North Eastern, li d
been sent to Fort Beaufort, directing an immediate move- Ea,, .b,,,,. 4 p N. Staffordshire, 11 1 p
went of Colonel Hare and Sir A. Stockenstrom, on the Oldtuun, Bir., 215. d
western and northern aides. By this time it is highly pro- Do. do., New, 21 31-16 p
East Linoolruthirc, Bs. 7s. 6d. d 1 Preston and Wyre, Halves, 8,45. p
table that the final blow has been strack. Edin. and Glos. Halves, 8 p Shrews., & Binning., par
Exeter and Exmouth 14s. 3d. d Shropshire Union, 11 d
The following article, which contrasts the present South East. & Dora Nu ipp
with Grim. & Shef., s'a
with the former campaign against the Kaffirs, is ex- Stud. and Man. R. & C., 15-161 p West Riding Union, 114x6 p
Liverpool & Bury, New, 1 p Whitehaven It Furness, d
tracted from the South Afr lean Commercial Ad- BIRMINGHAM, Oct. 16.
rertiser. Ambers., Not., Boston, &c., 4 d 1 Macclee. and Lich. 1,11 a 3d. d
" The last war with the Kaffirs commenced about the Birm.,Wolv.,and Dud.,2l 330.1ki.p North Staffottl., 36s- &L. 338. p
middle of December, 1834. On the I,sth of April a Colonial Birth, Weir., & Stour., i p Stirop.Un. R. & C., 41 d
force leached the Kei river, and tn.wead it. threatening HULL, Ocr. 16.
East Lancashire, 181
Hints for having abetted or given refuce to the enemies of E. Counties, York Ex., 345.
Leeds and Dewsbury, 334
the colony. At that date the Gaika chiefs were in the MM, Raja' sei.nilb);=AV Liver., °rms., Sc Pres., 31. Is. p
Amatola mountains. N. British, Quarters, 68s. 595. North Staffordshire, 395. p
" The Lieutenant-Governor's proclamati• m, declaring the Do. new scrip, list. 6d. 115.9d.p. I Wen Riding L'nion, 34 31. Is.
present war, is dated 31st March, 1846. On ,'he 21. st July a Amber., h'hani, Boa., &c.,411.435. i Rugby & Huntingdon, He.
colonial force reached the Kei river, and cross nd it, and de- LEEDS. Ocr. 16.
nonnced Kreili, Hintaa's successor, for having' abetted or E. and W. Yorkshire 30s, d New Carlisle', Ins. 6d. P
North Staffordshire, liz
given refuge to the enemies of the colony. The (-lulu chiefs reddli,i=ldre,. 110.42 p
Man ft Leeds Plfdw, r_
are in the Amatols mountains. Leeds and Thtrok, 31 31 er East Lancashire, Si. as. W. p
" From the middle of December to the middle of ihnil it Dewsbury Branches, 13s. p Divet Northern, 20.. 225. 6d. d
four months. That was the time required by Sir Ben.,;antin New Thirsk., 31 d Ormskirks, V. 19a. 31. p
D'Urben and Colonel Smith to ruse and organise an s rstst Leeds and Bradford, 434 P Matlock & Buxton, ss. P
of about 6,000 men, and to force their way to the li. Man. & Leeds Ex., 15s. p North Western, 3s. d
W. Riding Unlon,2/. 19s. 31. 1.6 d.
From the Ist of April to the 21st of July is something le.‘ ,3„TBlriant(iNeurilitell ___,..__ 14
Br. Ha6d. 435. p Leeds and Desmoar), P
than four months, and that has been the time taken by Sir ''' '
EDINBURGH, Ocr. 15.
Peregrine Maitland and CJlonel Hare to raise and organize .-brwan & Devon omi
teal, 32..6d. I Edinb. & Northern. 101. la
an army of about 10,000 men, and to force their way to the ` Dir.Boni.& Madras, 15.., 170, 30. Great North of India, 63-
%6. DIIV.I Northern, 30s. Ha 6d. North British, 331, 331
"In the former war the Kaffirs in Lower or South-Eastern East and Perth, New, /,tip I Do. New, quart., Scrip, 23a. Gd.
Kaffirland portend to be friendly, and even assisted the ie-tan RAilirahl33.

PRlCES.—Tirxxx o'CLocz.
Ditto for Acct., 931 I
3.1 per Cen 951 a
Exchequer ts,
Bills, 13s. 18e.

3 per Ct. Austrian Iklm.,
91 per Ct. Belgian MP., 96 8
2; per Cent. ditto, 51 7
5 per Ct. Brazilian 13d a, 83
3 per Cent. New Brar. Bd.. 84 6
6 per Ct. Buenos Ayres Bd., 946
G per Ct. CRBlan 8d5.,97 9
6 per Cent. Columb.def.Bda.,
Columbian Equator Bds. 36 i
3 per Ct. Danish Ada, 116 8
24 per Ct. Dutch Ihts., 581 96
per Ct. Dutch Ccrts., 91i 2

1 per Cent. Grenada Bda., 201 11
Grenada Deferred Bda., 3/ 4
3 per Ct. Mexican, 1846, 231 I
6 per Cent. Peruvian Bda., S 6 8
Portuguese CMS'. Bds., 41 3
5 per Ct. RUfelall Bda., 110 12
5 per Ct. Spaniah Bda, 261 7i
3 per Cent. Spaniah eds., 371 8
Spaniab Deferred Bda., 174
Spanish POSPITP Bde., Si
2 per Ct. Venezuela 41 3
Venezuela Deferred Bda., 121 131