The Express.
London, England, 1853-03-24 00:00:00

The.amonnt of bills drawn by the East India
Company on their respective Presidencies from the
Bth ult. to the 23rd instant is as follows :
Rats of Etchings.
Bengal £33,14.5 6 2 I 2s. ld. per Company's
Madras 6,6 IS 6 6 i rupee.
Bombay 276 6 0 2s. lid. per ditto.
Total £39,07616 7

The Directors of the East India Company have
re-published, for the information of proprietors in
Europe of the Five per Cent. Stock of the Transfer
Loan of India, the notification issued in India rela-
tive to the conversion of this debt into a Four per
Cent. Stock. The document in question will be
found in our advertising columns. Pro rietoes are
required to attend at the India House to signify their
assent to the conversion, or to apply in writing for
proper forms for signature.
The Berlin Wster Works Company, known to
have been for some time past in course of formation,
le at length on the market. The capital is fixed at
360,00 W., in 101. shares. The concessionaires are Sir
Charles Fox and Mr. T. C. Crampton, who have ob-
tained an exclusive concession from the Log of
Prussia, by whom the project is stated to be warmly
supported. The concession is to be of 28 years' du-
ration, and all net profits above 10 per cent., up to
lb per cent., are to be divided equally between the
state and the company. At the cad of the 28 years
the government is to have the option of taking the
whole of the works at an equitable valuation. The
promoters' estimate of the not profits likely to accrue
to the undertaking show a dividend at the rate of 18
per cent. per annum. Arrangements have been entered
into with hAir C. Fox and Mr. Crampton, by which those
gentlemen engage, for the sum of 327,0001., to hand
over to the company within two years the entire
works required, the above sum including expenses of
every description. It is stated that the company is
already completely registered and the deed of settle-
ment executed, and it has been determined to all up
21. 10s. per share on all the shares of the company,
on which 6 per cent. interest will be payable in
London.

Another undertaking connected with the north of
Europe, and promoted by English capital, is the
Royal anish Railway, which is to run from the
frontier of Schleswig to Flensburg and Terming.
Messrs. Peto, Betts, and Braasey have undertaken to
lease the line for a period of 14 years and pay a
minimum rent of 6 per cent. per annum, divid
: lordly with the shareholders all profits heyoeL
During construction 5 per cent. interest is to be
allowed on all payments, and the concession is is
perpetuity. The promoters, it appears, have adopted
the unusual course of allotting the shares amongst
their own connexion. without publicly soliciting sub.
scriptions. The allotment is already made, and the
shares were quoted in the Stock Exchange to-day
to 21 prem.
The quotations of stocks at Amsterdam on Tuesday
are thus reported by telegraphic express:—Dutch
Four per Cents., 95 5.16; ditto Two-and-a-Half
per Cents., 65 1-16. Spanish Deferred Three per
Cents., 24 7-16. Mexican New, 251. The Spanish
Committee's Certificates, 81. Austrian Five per
Cent. Metallic., 811. Spanish Old Three per
Cents., foreign, 48 5-16. Granada Deferred, 111.
Peruvian, New, 88. Portuguese, New, 38 11-16.
Most of these prices show a raily. At Vienna on
Tuesday the Five per Cent. Metalliai were quoted
93,1; and exchange on London, 10.54.
In miscellaneous stocks there was no feature of
much importance to-day. Australian Agricultural
closed 100 to 105, and North British Australasian,
sellers at 11 prem. being rather flat. Scottish Aus-
tralian Investment shares, however. were better,
closing 2to 2k prem. Van Diemen's Land left off
23 to 24. British American Land, which closed yes-
terday afternoon 68 to 70, did not fully maintain
their rise today, marking 66 and 65. In the market
for Australian Bank shares, China Bank were firmer,
but the Australian Scottish, and Union of Australia
flatter. Oriental Bank shares continue in demand.
London Joint Stock Bank shares were done at 201;
London and Westminster Bank, 35,1; Union Bank
of London, 171; Crystal Palace (51. paid), 6,1;
General Screw Steam Shipping (121. paid), 11Z, 12;
North of Europe Steam (51. paid), 4/, 5; Peninsular
and Oriental Steam, 84, 1.
The market for insurance shares is steady, with no
especial movement. The present quotations of the:mar-
ket are subjoined :—Albion, 90; Alliance, 251; ditto,
Marine, 55; Atlas, 211; British Commercial, 7 ;
Church of England, 31; Clerical, Medical, and Gene-
ral, 201; County, 121, ex div.; Crown, 171; Eagle,
; Equity aui Law Life, 5Z ; English and Scotch
Law Life, 3f ; European Life, 20 • Family En-
dowment, 4 ; General, 51; Globe, 150 ; Guar-
dian, 611; Imperial Fire, 310; ditto Life, 191; In-
demnity Marine, 58 et div. ; Law Fire, 41;
Law Life, 50 •, Legal and General Life, 51;
London Fire, 281; London Ship, 281; Marine, 22;
Medical, Invalid, and General, 3; Minerva, 6;
Monarch, 1/ ; National Loan Fund, 21; National
Provincial, 11; Palladium Life, 3; Pelican, 45; 1
Fl:raiz, 173; Professional' Life, 1 prem. ; Provident 1
Life, 41 ex div.; Itock Life,B; ; Royal Exchange. 236;
Union, 220; United Kingdom, 41; Universal Life,
45; Victoria Life, 5/.
The Equitable Reversiotitiry Society's shares are ;
quoted 120; General Reversionary and Investment,