The Express.
London, England, 1853-04-15 00:00:00

THIS DAY—Two o'C►.oia.

The wok, mining share market has been very quiet.
prices 'ere generally steady, but in the absence of
demand no buoyaney is observable. Augua Fria
and Came,. I Creek maintain their improvement.
Australian Fi vehold have been done at dm.
Peel River are quoted 5 to 6 prem. Agricul-
tnrals are not so good, at 87 to 90. Nova Scotia
Copper „am 41 better. marking 2 prem.

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COOOO6 k1'.121111
NS. 'Pure Minn. Paid prima dam
pollards). to-day.
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100 00, 1 Asia Fria
„ma, 3 Ali& Au, Irallsa Gold all par Ipm
100,100 11... %nee Cali. WW"
10,000 10 tuatralaain.
20.000 2* tuatrallan . -
60,001 i Australian Oin 4111101 all i I per
too,ooo 1 tustrahm r. 441 - all Idl Par I
30,000 1 Aro Mona all 1i di.
300,000 i Initial, Australia: ";^!' all 1 i Pal
20,900 ro British iron .... . -- 3•'3 8
10,000 36 rtra.41.1.4, (1;....i. '•_,,r: I_9 3,,, 8.
SACO 30 Do.Caromand Cu. "" ... 01 61
11.000 ao Do. R. John Del I n Ii„ m3l
710,000 4 zxremen crest... ..... • ••• 4 / PO3 3 4
12,000 ay Cake . ..... aOl7 48
100,000 3 Colon= ....„. 1 2 21xII
Copley., '4 I
23,',000 et. Copper Mama o 7 Eng. '1
83 _B3
5,000 25 Do. Pref. 7, wow. all !II •4 Pr
10,0t0 4 rapt aurtrallaoC.,oprt all : II 4i. 31
103,000 2 Great Nugget Vein ... an •Pm3l 4
2,010 e ID • ies oral
72,011 r .)rant Dothy of Ilarlet all I. Vf Pa
11.097 Omit Polgooth all am
100.00' Lake Bathurst all I: dio
60.1* Liberty
9,00. [Arians all Ili '24
50.avr Loadon&Calllnra. Geld
Unarm Cruablairtk, all f i
100,000 Yariquila - all i dla par
2.1,000 1 allezicanantb-Ameriou 9 74 8 1
0 ;ea !few Granada .
78,060 ri0u....0 mom* .... ail 11 1a me
30,000 10 Nova Scotia Minlos and
Copper Smelting 5 11 1/ 7
19>,000 6 Port Philip I par Ipm 11
60,600 1 'lmam Kook all par Ima
10,001 30 nhymney Imo ...... .
Ditto New
7,00 10 Manisa de Cuba lof 61 74
30,000 I Muth Australian
0.040 10 fin Croft
43.174 4.3.111 !hilted Mamma
70,000 1 Waller - 4 dis 11 m
100,000 1 Waal Granada
100,010 I Was Mawwa all par Ipm
1,19,0011 1 Yuba

R. SHEFFIELD, AND LINCOLN.
SHIRE RAILWAY.

The adjourned half-yearly (meeting of
pany, held on Wednesday, was proceedingg wl
terday's rep set was desnatched. The eesult of
Mr. Morton's amendment was as follows:
Persons.
For the amendment bi

this com-
rhen our yes-
' the poll on

ABA►t

Votes.

504
1,711

ulority ea .iost 4.5 1,207
The CHAII,IIIAM ..ntiounced that the directors kad used
no proxies. The proxie7 they held against Mr. Norton
would have enabled them to tel 2,480 votes, representing
a capital of 1,1111,0521.
Mr. Moffat's amendment was the put to a show of
hands and lost, upon which be demanded n Doll.
After a further adjournment the poll was dt clued to be :
Persons. Votes.
For Mr. Mell,r's amendment 63 1,0.13
Against

Majority 53 981
The meeting cone. quently sood adjourned ti the Sth of
June. A Tote of thanks was gives to the eltairm3n, and
the proceedings termivated at a qutrter past six o't I ck.

LATEST FOREIGN: EXCHANGES.

tOr Aeouuu..
For
retrAillaCeL4Arla I 11110"4.415.. L°Bow7s'. C7O .1 '4.5
per Cents., 1825 99 73';1 •••
pa Cent., 1852 103 OS In 10 103 40 10.1••13, • 103 13
ter Cents.
ler CentnNew Laud ... I • •

3 per Ceuta. ' 10 45 I tO 60 i 00 60 SO 35 , SO J 5
4‘ per Cent.., 11125 99 75 11 ,• -••
44 per Cents., 1855 103 00 II 303 10 103 40 103 13 . 105 15
4 vie Cents.
31 ea CentaNew Laud I . •
Ezehan,p, a londgis 11401414 23 6; 90 dale, 21 83:.
lialitanoperet.l6lo Allonny NAltleo Kenn. — Macey.
' Do. ....... Roman per Cents
DJ. 24 .
Piedmont p.Ct 99 0 Treasury Bonds ... St ...
Do. 3. 16.13
PARie, APRIL 14.—St. Germain, 1,690; Versailles (right
leslo. —; ditto (left haply, 350; Paris and Ori• bine, 1,040;
PIMA and Roue., 1,090 ; Rouen and Havre, 317 50; Morsedies
and Avian. n (Converted; —• Strasbourg and Bak, 330;
Nerthera, 906 23 ; Paris and ,Lira-bottrg, 645; Puri. and Lyons.
950; Lyons sad Medltemeena. 910 ; Ouest, 767 SO; [Perine and
St. Mier to Gray, 550; Paris and Cherbourg, ca s'l Dijon and
Besancon 070; 634 73; Mootereau and froyes, 315;
Dieppe arid Ferman, 363; Andrenieux and Rowse, —; Paris and
Reeauz, 215; Bordeaux and Testy, 267 50; Anvers and Gond, •
Centre oh Italy, 930 ; Centre of Switzerland, 460; Gradalll4lo sad
Biskra, 510.
BERLIN, APRIL 12.—Voluntary Loan, 101 1 ; New
Loan, Four-and-a-Half per Cent. (1830), 1031;
ditto (1852), 1031; National I)ebt, —; Com-
mercial Marine Society's Premium, 150 i;. Bank.
Shares, 1091,. •

ROYAL MAIL STEAM PACKET COMPANY.

Yesterday the half-yearly meeting of this company
took place at the London TIMM, Bishopsgate-ttreet, kir.
COLVILLI in the chair._

Captain CHAPPELL, R N., the 'meters, read the report,
from which we make the following extracts:
" The statement of accounts for the year 1952 has already
bees delivered to each of the . shareholders, who, by com-
paring the same with the preceding annual account, will
have been able to ascertain the results of the company's
' operations. It will at once be perceived that a large increase
of expenditure has been incurred, occasioned by different
ceases. The essirge for coals aiene exceeds that of the pre-
. vions year to the extent of 49,6741. Os. 9d., which increased
outlay has been produced .by working some new ship', of
' more then double the stein, power of those heretofore cm-
' ployed, added to which Must be considered the enormous
rise in the rate of freight, arlsing from the uepresedented
demand for shipping for Australia and the augmented price
of the coal itself. The portion of the company's service
with Brazil and the River Plate continues to be performed
with regularity, and to the general satisfaction of thepuldie.
' The shareholders will bear in mind that this service edited
163,864-miles of steam commtthication to the 393,432 miles
previously contracted for bythis eompany,with the addition of
only 30,0001. per annum to the compensation granted by
the government, thus reducing the rate of pay from 12s. 2d.
to th. 10d. per mile. As relates to the performances of the
three new steam ships, Magdalena, Orinoco, and Parana,
the proprietou will be gratified to learn that their thirty
trips across the Atlanfic have Iveraged a rate of speed equal
to about ten knots per hour, end chiefly through a winter
season; which leaves no reason to doubt they will, under
ordinary circumstances, equal what has been estimated for
them in the tables of routes ; whilst Lu Plata, having 200
hones greater power, hss of course shown a superior rate
of speed. Since the last general meeting the Avon has
been lengthened, thoroughly repaired, and fitted with new
boilers; she was despatched to the West Indies on the 2nd
of last month, to be placed upon the intercolonial service ;
and the reports received afford femlident expectation of great
improvement in her efficiency and performance. The Clyde
likewise has been thoroughly repaired, fitted with new
boilers, and will shortly be Atitinned upon similar duty, to
which a new ship, the Silent, will be added, the moment
that vessel can be completed, which, it is expected, may be
accomplished by the end of next August. Contracts heat also
been entered into for two additional new ships, one of iron and
one wood, to be called the Tyne and the Tamar, each of about
1,850 tons and 400 horser'power ; which, with the Atrato
and the Wye, approaching Elmpletion at Greenock, are
intended to remedy irregularities, and to place on a more
satisfactory Rioting the various branch cemmunications in
the West Indies. Thus no less than nine new ships, com-
prising an aggregate of 20,142 tons and 5,590 horses power,
will have been voluntarily ;added to the strength of the
company's fleet, since her Majesty's government enlarged
the term of the contract .in 18.)0. The profit, of the
past year are such as might have induced the expectation
of someinerease to the dividend; but with the outlay that hag
already been made upon new ships, the sums still becoming
payable for vessels now in course of construction, and the aug-
mented charges for coals, wages, provisions, and insurance,
the directors are clearly of oiiinion that two pounds per
share should be the rate of dividend declared upon the
present occasion, and they propose that the same shall be
paid, free of income tax, on sod from the 19th instant, at
No. 66, Moorgate-street, between the hours of eleven and
three o'clock."

The 611.11- 18 II A N moved the adoption of the report,obserw-
ing that that document had entered so fully into all the
circumstances connected with the present condition of the
company, that it was unnecessary for him to make any ob.
ions on this occasion.

Captain fingrucan neCanded the motion.
The report was adopted, and • dividend declared at
the rate of 21. per share.
The retiring directors were then re-elected, and the
reguiar business terminated.

THE EAST INDIA HOUREJ---Yesterday & Court of
Directors was held at the Eat Indi► House, witen the new
directors elected on Wednesday lent, viz , Henry Alexander,
Esq , the Hon. Wm. Henry Leslie :Melville, Major James
Oliphant, Heury Thoby Prinsep, E:q., John Shepherd,
Esq., and Dudley Cou•ts Marjprilianks, Esq., took the oath
and their seats. Russell Eldce, Esq., was chosen chairman,
and Major James Oliphaut, depoty-chairman, for the year
ensuing.
GENERAL SCREW STEAM SHIPPING COMPANY.--,
Ye■terda the half-yearly meeting of this company was
appointed to be held, pro fork a, at the offices, Royal Ea-
chaoge.buildings, but was Adjourned until the 28th inst.,
fur the transaction of business.

111 E EMIGRANT SHIP CoROMANDEL has left Spii-
bead for her thstination, H..lwrt Two, an examination
into the circumitances of th, leakage raving been previously
mado by au officer sent down by the Govt.:inflect Emigra-
tion Commissioners.
' THE SCREW STEAMER Al:CO.—Thiel large and tine
vessel, the property of the General Screw Steam Shipping
Company, leaves London on the 21st for a trial trip, with a
large party of noblemen and g. ntlemen and the chairman
and directors. In order to enable the directors as fur as
pOisike to test her etliency before she proceeds to Austra-
lis, the run will be extvnded t 9 the longitude of Sully, and
thence to Southampton, from which port she will rail on tho
4th of next month for Port l'hiltip and Sydney.
ADMIRALTY, APRIL I4.—APPOISTMENTS.—Sue-
gems S4periatendent J. W. Bowler, to Made. Clerk E.
Faulkner, to ilostmwen.

PERIAL PARLIAMENT

HOUSE OF LORDS.—THURSDAT, Aran. 14.

Tim 4rou CNA mcmou took Wettest at 3 o'cieck.
• re. }. trl of KIN MAME and the Earl of FimGALL took the
oaths sod th-tr .►ata.

PETITIONS PRESENTED.
UNIVZIVIITT 1...n.1 EU LINTON, from
raw, againgt

11ATIIS IN ellateria.—By Lord LINDUUI ST, from
holmium. us the so4eet nt.
PINITAOItrkirrIittCoLONIIIN —BytheNimquis f BREAD-
A LIIANE. Itunt a plate nut hear I, praying flat the system
of penspirAtag• might his estended to the eolecies.

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Mary 'luxes' ISt last.Axo. —By thollarquisof BREAD.
*LISA NE. from Donegal, toriplasoing of the icerlicieney of
the laws for the supprissioo of disturbances. The petitioners
pr ,)rd that magistrates might have the weir of refusing
licenses to public-house which gave itutertaaiment to per-
sor s holding illegal meet•ngs. The Dub!, Marquis sold
thst within the list three wicks, n•, le►s than three prams
hail been tired at in noon slay in the district from which the
pumas came—one of them being s 'Warn catisolic priest.
who hail denounced these practices from tie attar, although
his brother was one of the party.

()HUMPS ol Till ('‘ %%% % PAI.ArE Till annn n
—l:y the 1111. ho;• WINCIINSI KIL, from rt luthauspten,
am I the Berl oa WINCIiILSLA, trots several Ours
against.

1 ON UIT TO MATN.,oTO.—By the Earl of HODES,
from several pliers; and lb* Earl of WINCIiILSEA,
from Ledo. Reid% Tanhridge Wells, Walverhaniptee, and
snag other plasm: against.
In.revrtox ur Nt xsEittiti. —ll3, the Earl of WIN.
Clll Lhk,h. from severel places, la favour of.

i AIMS COX KIIO% Lcout —137 Lord LYTTELTON,
from Britton, mistiest the taxes ea aesepspers aad adver-
tssearram

BRIBERY AT TILE CLITIIF.ROE ELECTION—
ADDRESS TO THE CROWN.
After • Warn of the managers en behalf of their lord-
ships from • conference with Cie managers fur the Com-
mons on the subject of the address to the Crown with refer-
ence to • cossisisaion to inquire into alleged corrupt prastices
at the ret eat election fir Clither.
The Earl of ABERDEEN move I for the production of
the report of the committee, and gave notice that he should
bring the subject before the house on Thursday nest.
Agreed to.
Cord LinnwasT begged to suggest to his noble
friend opposite, hi coasegoeisee of what had recently
passed, that it would be macs:mat to have the report of
the Chat. roe ennunit•ire, sad he would move that a mes-
sage be sent to Co. other hose for the purpose of obtaining
a copy of that report. lie would take that
opportunity of stating what he had mentioned
in the house the other night, and which ap-
peared to a eert dn extent to have been mis-
understood out of d...urs, and to have been misrepresented.
He said that he thought it would he establishing a danger-
ous precedent, if, instead of inserting in the address to her
Alb Jetty the report in the tgrins expressed by the committee,
they were to adopt other eapreuinns in lieu of them. And
he 'nether stated that he thought they had no right to refer
to the report of the committee and the evidence, for the
purpose of extending end varyinr the terms of that report.
These were not technical points, but emphatically points of
principle up..n which the act uf the last onion of parliament
Was rounded. flow far the &dike he gave might be con-
sidered prudent or not when they came to consider the
Clitherot ca.e, ne would not anticipate. It appeared to
him, howeser, that the Clitheroe else had some extraordi-
nary circumvences connected with it, because he found,
on looking at the papers that even;ng, cabinet ministers, of
both sections of the government, voted distinctly against
the address.

The Earl of ABERDEEN said he had already moved
for a copy vet the resort.
Lord CAMPBELL merely rose to acknowledge the per-
fect accuracy with which his noble and learned bleed had
stated the principle upon which he proceeded ; end as some
obs,rvations had been made upon what he (Lord Campbell)
had said, he begged to explain the principle which he laid
down, and which was that under that act of parliament
they were proceeding judicially and not legislatively, and
they were bound by the act of parliament under which they
proceeded. They had no right, undo r that statute, to ad-
dress the crown not- is the election committee had reported
their reason to believe that there had been extensive bri-
bery. But it was not necessary that those very words
should he used, foe if the words adopted were equivalent,
they had then a perfect right to pt ,ceed under the act of
parliament. Ile utterly dia:laimed the idea that he thouaht,
without such a report, their lordships had any authority to
The
in such an address, or that a commission could isms.
The conditiooa must be fulfilled upon which their power
was founded; and units, the petition did substantially say
that there had then such a report by the committee, they
had no power to address the Queen. In every instance
where it appeared there had been nu such report, he should
undoubtedly resist any address to the crown.