The Express.
London, England, 1848-04-01 00:00:00

relating to the directors be not approved ot-Mr. Bun supported the
motion.-0a the suggestion of Mr. Monerieffi however, that it be in-
serted In the mintage of the meeting, that the directors whom e.
were at present In the bill Mould retire after the passing of themet ;
and In the event of their not b•ing re-elected it woe not to be looked
on u Implying any 111 feeling towards them &thaws. Dunmire. and
Bahlwlthdiew their motion.
OWOOW, AIRDRIE, AND itlONlttairml.-Ilalf- yearly
ffis.~.-Olessow,.March 21.-Mr. John Sligo In the chair. The re-
port stated that owing to the I:6preeedented pressure of the times
nothing had been done to the w dose Mat meeting. Their con-
Went *, however, was as firm an one in the line being ultimately a
refilketiee ems, The directors were gill of opinion that it would he
of great advantage to obtain a crossing of the Clyde. A bill had bass
hit mew for that purpose. Which was very nearly enallad,
ani7thcery had this also introduced a bill for a similar object. Ifs
report was The meeting IVY then made mede, foe the
Posed a draft of the bill introdmed Into parlieMML
The °ha= selinli that the directors thought it advientfie to preMed
so far that notice of their bill had been given, to see if there wee any
likelihood of it pawing thoeueon. It wee a matter of great tense-
quenee to this company, an it would afford • junction with the her-
ward
tour, which would te of great advantage to their traffic, end
Conned their ithe, particularly with the Ayrshire, and Edinburgh Mg 1
Glas4Toll Railways. He might also mention that he had the premed
fwm," other
ul:mthtbeecfreosPiutheeldt:l°ldinthbgePie 17;t1teeethostfinperaegdtiwielnetnlitPc'elfo:P:IreWethUleurthres'.1e Interest. rti.aeasdcglemeelikliHreb:-
holders. Mr. Hill seconded the motion.-Mr. Jae. Dunlop was op-
posed to the other directors in reference to this =flee. The time
was now come when they should employ their money in their own
line, and he thought their money should be exclusively employed for
that purpose. Ile therefore moved that the company take no steps in
the getting of their hill and incurring additional expense.-Mr. Jas.
Murray seconded the amendment.-The vote was taken, and the
motion carried by a large majority.
BUSINESS °FUSE ENSUING WEEK.-(From Rattrap elsraaicle.)
MENTINC"-Eirkeabead, Lancashire, and Cheshire Junction-April
8, Birkenhead ; Birmingham and Oxford-April I, Birmingham ;
West Cerulean -April 5, 35, Broadotreet-buildinge.
Coot er, a-Bristol and Exeter-lron under careingee, ism goods
and call waggons, carriage and coke trucks, Wein-clam carriage
bodice, wooden timber truck', horse-box bodies, and fiat and second
class and compesito carriage and luggage-van bodies, April 26 ; East
end West India Docks and Birmingham Junction-Works, April 27.
Dientwoo.-Birkenhead, Lancashire, and Cheshire-Interest at
the rate of 5 per cent. per annum on the 271. Ina. and 221. shares, and
lat 4 per cent. on the 311. shares ; Benne' and Exeter-11. 13e. 9d. per
1001 share, free of income tax ; Dundee and Perth-At the rate
lof 8 per cent. per annum ; Furnesa-At the rate of 2 per cent.
per annum ; Glasgow, Paisley, and Greenock-At the rate of 6 pee
r
sent. on the preference shares; on the 251. shares; and ss. on ter
121. 10s. chores; Lannishire and Yorkshire-21. 176.5 d. per 1001.
share ;per 501. share • 4s. d. per 61. ss. share ;
10s. Id. 4-sthe per 231. share; 7a sd: per 20/. share; and 3/. sa. Id.
per 1001. share ; Manchester, Bolton, and Bury stock, lees income
iax, payable March 25' Meryport and (Mellott-16a. on the
fief. share% and 11. a on the quarter shares; Middlesborough
end Redear-e. per share, lees income tax ; North British-
12s. 6d. on then 51. Mares ; 2s. Cal. per Si. Mare, Valkeith stock ;
Northern and Eastern-On the shares guaranteed S per ant- per
annum, 501. paid, 11. ss. ; 1234 paid, 9s. Bld., 6 per cent. per
11.'mum 501. paid, 11. 10e.; 231. raid, 14s. 7d. ; South Esotern-
Is. on path up shares; 13.. sd. co the shares created March
19, 1844; and lob. bd. on the shares created Nov. 7, 1844, lees
income tax, payable March 22; Wear Valley-IL 101. per share;
11. ss. lld, per 581. share; 15e. per 251. share; sad ss. 21d. on the
251. shares, 61. Se. paid up.
Wolverhampton, and Stour Valley-U. 10s.,
due April 21 ; Bolton, Blasklaurn thitheroe' and West Torkahire-
-21. on the B preference shares, duo March 15 ; and 11. on
the "A" Mores, due April 5; Caledonian-21. 100. on the
half shares, due April 7 • Chester and Holyhead-31. en the
preference shares, due Mirch 2, 51. on the original shares, due
April 21 ; Demerara-21. 10a., due 'March 2.5; Dundee and Perth-
-51. on the new stack due March 9,• Dutch Rhenish-10s. due April
15'; Bast Anglian-14 on the new 5/. shams and on the new 34 lea
slim. both due March 31 ; East Lancentare-21. on the new
111101411111abered 35,436 to 13,600, due March 20 ; and 2/. 10e. on the
cures, numbered 83,601 to 118,320, due April 10; Great
/41ciaer of England-51. on the 151. shares, due Aped 17 ;
Great Southern and Western (L)-21. les., due April 10;
Huddersfield and Manchester-21. on the 90/. shares, and 14 on the
third shares, both due April 1 ; Lancealare and Yorkshire-11. on the
fifths, due March B;the Mancheeter and Leeds 501. sheen, and
54 on the Liverpool and Bury 50/, share*, both due April 12 ; Leeds,
Dewsbury and Manchester-51. on the 501. shares, due Aped 17 ;
Leeds am Think-31. 105. on Leeds and Hartlepool extension shares,
due April 1; n Valley-14, doe March 25 ; London and Black-
well-21. 10s. write extension shares, due March 27 ; London and
South-Western-1/. 13s. 4d. on the new third shares, due March
31; Louvain sla Sambre-11., due May 1; Manchester Shef-
field and Linoeinshire-51. on Great Grunthy and Sheffield 50/.
shares; 21. on Great Grimsby and Sheffield 201. skates; U. ss. on
Great Grimsby and Sheffield 121. 10/4 shares; 21.10 x. on Sheffield and
Linoolnehire 251. shares; 27, 10e. on Sheffield and Lincoln-
shire extension 251. shares ; and 21. 10s. on Grimsby Dock shares,
Numbered I to 12,802 inclusive, due March 31 ; Manches-
ter and Southport-2/. 10e., due April 7 • Midland Great Western
(1)-54 due March to; Newcastle and Carlisle-211. on the black scrip
share., and Is like proportion on the quarter shares, due March 2 ;
North Western-11. ft., due Meech 6; Northern of Prance-
3/., due March 6; Paris and Lyons-11., due April 6; Scottish
Midland Junction-2f. 10e. on original stock, due Ap• 11 26; and
21. 101. on new stock, due May 10; South Emtern-11. sa. on No. 4
sheeny, due April 17 ; South Staffordshire-11. 10a. due March 31;
South Wales-61., due April 6; Taff Vale-1/, cm the new 101. blares,
due March 10; Taw Vale-21., due March 31; Whitt-hasten and Fur-
meanests-11., due March 12 ; Wilemtown, Moraingside, and Colt-
neea-5/., due April 1.
TILATTIC.-Wocks offing Mardi 18 to March 25.-(From the Railway
Clerorrick.l
1518. 1847.1 11848. 11847.
Birkenhd . Lon ,Ches. 629 e22lLondonarid Black-mill 717 el 9
Dublin a Itneeheds 193 7081London,lirightnare.. 6,717 6.319
!Jubilee to Knermien. 76 651 London& N. Wepto... cal 6,046
Deed. pen•k•yi,de.,ll4 -
ER 253 Mane. Shoff. Line.. UM 1,1138
o 818 612 Memo's °Lathe... 466 478
ECTII Counties 10,567 9,011 MI .. 114566 17.955
Eastern Unlon
Edluieurgh a Mug_ 3,167 3,089 Norfolk 1,673 1,566
EdiniturehlNorthern 1,116 - North British - 1,485
Ohre., Pala, k Ayr.. 2,01 2,3L9Shremburyk Chest 687 415
Glam., Pala, k Gee... 9201 I,oo4llouth Devon ...... 916 675
Greet south. Wes.
2,423 1,170 South Sargon 7,045 6,822
Greet We tern 10.062 16,61111'a Vale 1,663 1,167
Kendal it Windom.. • 191 - Ulster 776
Laneamer t (Wink.. 1.492 908 Whnehaven Junction l6l
Unmoral* k Earful,. 8,809 7,4)16 York, Newe. Bwk lO. 87603
Lonikui N. Wenn...24,7a 36,4294T0rk tN. Midland 7,192 6,646

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COMMERCIAL AND M.4RERTS.
PRODUCE.—MiNcirto-uomi. MARCH 31.—The sugar
market has dosed for the week, showing s further decline of nearly
IL 180 Wide. West India. sold, making 1,000 only far the week.
9,000 togs Mauritius were offered in the public sales ; about 6,000
found buyers at the above decline. 2,300 bags of Bengal were also
offered, but nearly all win bought in ; also 1,000 bags Penanit Re-
fined, of standard quality, declined to 536. to 63s.6d.—The coffee sake
went off heavily, without any material alteration in prices.—Salt-
petre : The result of the public sales fully established the late advance;
by private contract refraction 161 to 11 sold at 32c. 6d. to 33a.;
refraction 21, very good quality, 3.sA—l'epper : 500 bags common
dusty Pemum sold in public sale at 2d. 2102. per lb.. chiefly at the for-
mer price, which established thedecline quoted on Tuesday.—Pimento
sold at a decline of Id.spot, ; 250 bags in public sale, at 34d. to 4d. per lb.—
Tallow steady ;on the 535. ; Australian cold at 480.9 d. to 525. Bd. ;
South American, 49e. to Sun. 9d.—Tea steady in prices, but the de-
mand continues limited—Rum out of demand—Cotton inactive;
prices, in part, 110Mi.113L—Tapioca mid at scl.—St. Vincent's arrow-
root bought in, sd.—Pod pepper bought in, SOL—Straits Tin bought
in, 765.--Gambicr bought( in, 9s. 6d.—East India jute, partly sold,
lit to 171. 15L—The week closes showing rather lower prices for
nearly every article, except saltpetre, which is now a warApeculatire
article. The absence of exporters from the markets has a depressing
influence, and the, stocks of most articles ars expected to increase,
from shipments being made to thin port that in tranquil times would
have gone to France and the near ports on the continent.
SUGAR.—The average price of sugar, the produce of the
British possessions in Amenca, computed :cora the returns made in
the week ending the 20th day of March 1848, is 225. 114 d. per cwt.
Sugar the produce of the Mauritius UM. Sid. per cwt. Sagar the
produce of the East Indies is 265. Bd. per cwt. The average price of
. the three foregoing descriptions, jointly, is 245. 21d. per cwt.

COALS, MARCH 31.—Ships, 64 ; sold, 38.
FUWCMITLIL I. d. BrIIDISLASD.
Holman Mala . 15 0 &len Main. . . * ....
North Percy Hartley ... .. 14 4 Walls End Lealbton....
Taatield Moor . 14 u Walla Rad Walnut. .. ...

COTTON.—Livahrooto MARCH 31.—The market to-
day was without alteration. 4,000 bales were sold. 24,610 bake, in-
cluding 600 Auteticaa, and 3,350 American and 00 Madras for ex-
port. Preen New Orleans, 31 to 21; Bowed Georgia, 4to 5;
auras, 21 to 31.
WORSTED STUFFS.—BRaDiOao, MARCH 30.—The
attendance of buyers to-day was better than might base been ex-
pected, considering the dulnere of the woollen Vide. The principal
businew transacted was for the home trade, comprising most descrip-
tions of fancy goods, but there was little demand for plain fabrica, and
scarcely any sales on foreign account. The yarn market was dull,
and the stocks on hand appeared larger, though some of the spinners
have recently curtailed their production. The once, realised were
said lobe scarcely adequate to the met of the staple material. The
wool market was remarkably inactive, yet price. kept up, notwith-
standing the shearing season Ede already commenced. For node and
broke wools the demand was scarcely so active Is of late, and then
was a slight recession in price.
BLANKETS.— MECHMONDWIHE, MARCH 30.—There
was only a limited attendance of merchants In the blanket hall to-
day, mil the market wee considered a very fiat one, few purchase
being made from sample, and scarcely any orders given out. Press
underwent no change.
HOSIERY AND LACE TRADES.—Normouma,
Manes 31.—The wrought cotton hone branch, in some of the village
in the county, has met with a sudden damp, and the frames have tem
to some considerable eaten either stinted or stopped. The dramr
branch, so important to Nottingham and suburbs, keeps yet in a
tolerable Mate when compared to what it was at thin time leg year.
The silk glove branch, though somewhat drooping, is better OM
was a few months since. The same mar be said of the make OM
trade. The silk hose trade ie in a most lamenteoleconditim; betel
return of the English gentry in each numbers from Paris and nee
parts of Frame MU no doubt, ere long, increase the demand Mg
elk hosiery in this country. Intelligence has been received from
roma of the stcekingers who embarked in the Turkish expedition
it appears that they arrived in the midst of winter, and were
sent too distance from Constantinople. The agent they complain not
only neglected providing them with proper and requisite accommoda-
tion, but rehired to pay them wages according to agreement. The •
bobbin net trade, though still very seriously depressed, Is evi-
dently in motion, Se some of the principal factories are setting on •
machines, and are preparing for more. From ail we can Irate Ware
seems a panic in the lace trade in France, not only with the lace mer-
chants and maehine-owners, but also with the English tertian, who
are returning In crowds under the fear that the French people will
compel them to depart. This bas been much Maenad by int French
maehine-owners, who imagine if they could break up the English
taetories by sending :home the English workmen and machine-
owners, they could supply. France with their own produc-
tions, trusting to a more efficient Docane and public
vigilance and public mita to assist them. There is no doubt that
threats have been used in some quarters; but, from information upon
which we can rely, we learn that in many inetamen the workmen
have received mere= from the French working-dames that they
shrill not be disturbed, the imeide being directed principally against
the Flemish. German, Swiss, and Spanish workmen, whom the
French masters have employed as foremen, not chopping to intrust
their own countrymen. Silk laces slid continue to be better in de-
mand than cotton. As In all probability the traverse method will be
introduced by the English workmen from France, a great change will
take place in the Nottingham trade, as the circular-bolt machines at
Loughborough and other places will come into operation, after
they have been comparatively idle fur so many years.—l ottingAinfa
Juurnal.

From the LONDON GAZETTE.—Friday, March 31.

BANKRUPTS.
Joule RLDRISHR, TURStall. Staftorlethire, druggist, to surrender
April 16 & May IS, at 11, at Birmingham Ct. Sot, William;
Manley, Staffordshire; off. swig., Christie, Birmingham.
Jowl Barn, Northamptonshire watch maker, April IS
& May 12, at I, at iil.l4L f oL, Pearmwa, Clifford's-Inn; off,
swig., Whitmore, Eman-it.
Wig., &Aar, .ury, cutler, April IS at I h May 12 at 124,
at landnghallst Sot., Jorge, Cluality-ct.: off. swig., Cannon,
Bachla-lase.
D.Nuct. BRADSHAW Bridgannill, Yorkshire, merchant, April 11 lk
May 1, at 1, at Leeds CL Sols., gin ow & Co., Bedford-row, & Floyd,
Iluddenind; off. sing., Hope, Leeds.
MARnir Casco'', Ueda, iron founder, April 20 & May 5, at 11 at
Leeds Ct. Son., Hawkins k Co., New Borwell.M., & Atkinson &
& Blitekkura, Leeds; off. Wag, Young, Ueda
CRAWS Eow.m. MiaMnt., Poplar, draper, April 12 at 2,
& Ilay Id at 124, at gots., Songs Tomer, Alderman-
bury ; off. sang., Gram, bury.
Joey Cow Heated, Middlesex, achoolmaater, April Sat 2, k
May 16 at 1, at aaimgt ll.w BM., Hughes, WafeLat., &d.ford•row ;
War*, Polk; Ilminbrootpet.