The Express.
London, England, 1851-04-09 00:00:00

DEPTH OF THE OCEAN IN TIIF.SOI7TII ATLANTIC.

Letters dated Washington, Marsh 10, publish the following
passage from a letter of Lieutenant John It. Goldaborough,
United States limy, formerly assistant in the coast survey.
It is dated United .States ship Saratoga, Cape Town, Cape of
Good Hope, lkeember 20, 1850 During our passage
from Rio de Janeiro to Saida:lla Dal:, Cape of Good Rope,
ing in lat. '2B 21 S., and long., 119.1, W., we sounded and
obtained bottom at the depth of 3,100 fathoms, or three and
a half miles. Our sounding apparatus was a 321 b. shot,
slung with wire, and attached to a small line of 3,000
fathoms long, and sufficiently strong to bear a weight of
601 h. The sounding% were as good and fair as any I have
ever seen obtained, the line up and down and as taut as it
could be, and when attempting to haul it on board, aft( r
procuring soundings, it parted about 50 fathoms from the
surface. The time occupied in sounding was one hour and
nine minutes."

A 'll oaf.tN KILLED BY TIER iit'SBAND. GLOU-
i rsrut, Trr...n.tv Stony. Au inquest was concluded
this evening, before Scptimus Pruett, Esq., on the Ixsly of
Esther Curtis, a woman about twtnty-fiveyears awe, who
died from the effects of blows given to her by her husband,
a gardener. named Edmund Curtis, on Saturday (as stated
in yesterday's Lzpress). Mrs. Wilkes, keeper of the White
Lion Inn, Mar Gloucester, stated that on SaturtLy last de-
ceased went to her husband, who sem sitting in the kitchen.
Witness and the deceased and Curtis had sonic conversation
about a bill he owed for ale. Shortly afterwards witness
heard the deceased asking her husband to come home; he
refused; and then she complained of the hardship of her
being obliged to work at the house for half a day for 6d.,
and that he would conic thne of a night and spend a shil-
ling. They then went onside the door together, and within
a couple of-minutes a sharp scream was heard, and on wit-
ness going out she found the deceased lying on her stomach,
acn-s as iron palis.kding, and the husband beating her with
his list. She called a man to the assistance of the deceased,
and he was drag;tel from his wife, who then fell to the
ground insensible. She never spoke or moved afterwards,
Mr. Clarke, surgeon. made a post-mortent examination of
the body. There were two external bruises, one over the
left eye, the other on the right side of the head ; but the in-
ternal viscera were healthy, excepting an effusion of blood
at the base of the brain, consequent upon the blows, and of
which the deceased had expired. The jury found a verdict
of manslaughter against Edmund Curtis, who was com-
mitted to take his trial at the next assizes. At the inquest
the prisoner appeared to feel deeply the situation in which
hp had plunged himself.

TIIIS DAY.
The share market wears quite a deserted appear-
ance, compared with the scene of excitement which
it presented a week ago. Very little business has
been done. The market is generally flatter, as very
few descriptions meet with any
.inquiry, and the
preponderance of operations is, consequently,
m the nature of sales. North Staffords, North
South Eastems. Manchester and Sheffields, and
London and North Western stock have been trans-
acted at rates a fraction lower. East Laacashirrs arc
heavy, and the price has fallen to N.

PIiARES AND SFOCKS 17NGIJARANTF.P.M._

Two o'Ctoeg.
The prices of the home funds continue firmly sup-
ported. the arrangements for the settlement of the
monthly Consol account falling due to-morrow have
necessarily attracted some degree of attention to-day,
but the settlement excites little interest, as the " dif-
ferences" are unusually light, the speculative opera-
tions of the month, and also the fluctuations of
prices, having been upon a very restricted scale. A
fair average amount of business has been concluded
in the stocks lately opened, and the thinsactions in-
clude several operations in Bank Stock, besides a
further small puivhase on public account.
Consols have been steady all morning at yester-
day's price, 961 to Z for money and to-morrow. The
official statement is: Three per Cent. Consols, 961,
I'3; ditto for account. 961, ; Three per Cents. Re-
dueed, 96„1, 96 ex div.; Now Three-and-a-Quarter
per Cents., 9%2,1 cx div.; Long Annuities, 1800,
7., 5-16 ex. div.; 'Bank Stock, 211!, 212, 2111, cx
div. _ _ _

The market for unfunded securities is a shade
weaker. Ext•hequer Ilills, 1,090/., murk 555., 5 Is.
premium; ditto 54101., 5-Is.; ditto small, 585., ,i4s. ;
India Bonds, 1,900/., 625., 645. premium.
Business in the foreign stock market is very li-
mited, and prices are nominally quoted without alte-
ration. Speculation in this department seems at
present almost at a stand still. The official HA re-
ports tar„ tins in the following descriptions enly ;
Brazilian Old Five per Cent. Bonds for the
account of the 16th of April, 88', 89, ex dir.
Dutch Two-and-a-Half per Cents., 58' ; ditto Four
per Cent. Certificates, ST?, 7., ex die. Mexican Bonds
for account, 33 Peruvian Fire per Cents., 1343,
for account, ni!, ex dir. • ditto Deferred, 38% 39.
Russian Five per Cents., 11l ; ditto Four-and-a-Half
per Cents., 981, 2 ; ditto small. 981.
It is stated to be the determination of the Russian
government to carry out a ;;.cat extension of rhris
railway system. which will, it is understood, entbracc

the gr at sections betwet n Moscow and Wars sw, and
thus place St. l'etersb. rg ill communication with
Berlin. Vienna, Trieste. is, Lyons, Orleans. Mus-
sels, and Amsterdam. 'the loan for this purpr,s4, is
to bear a guarantee of five per cent., and is to be
under the joint management of limn Stieglitz and
an eminent firm in this city.
The amount of bills drawn by the East India Com-
pany on their rtsptetive presidencies, from the 24th
March to the 3th instant, is as follows :
Rate of Exchange.
Ben"' •• • • ElR,73i 411 2s. Id. per Co's ru,lec
Madras •• • . 11,1:17 U 7
100 0 0 2s. VA. per do.

T0ta1.... L. 29.972 5 6
A fair amount of business was transacted yesterday
in the market for foreign exchanges, and an upward
tendency in bills on Hamburg, Holland, and Italy
was perceptible. Paris remmued the some us last
post, 24.971 to 25 for short, and 25.20 to 25 for three
months, but not much was done.; since the demand
canscd by remittances for railway shares has
ceased, these seetnities being at the moment
rather higher in l'aris than in London. Hamburg
was a shade higher, closing at 13.7 to 13.71 al-
though at the beginning of 'Change several farge
amounts were negotiated at 13.7. Amsterdam beim;
more freely offered, closed at 11.161. Bills on Spain
were again in demand, and readily taken at last
post's quotations. l'or Vienna and Trieste the mar-
ket was a little in titvour of sellers, the rates being
13.12 to 15 fur the former, and 13.14 to 18 for the
latter. _ _

The expected operations or the government broker
in the ensuing rarter in the Emt.ish stock market
arc looked to with interest. The Commissioners for
the Reduction of the National Debt are autho-
rised to lay out in the forthcoming quarter
ending the sth of July, 1,7011., whizle
is a larger amount than in the corresponding cptarter
of last year, though a smaller amount than in the
quarter just expired. 'l'he results it is imisossible to
foretell, as no one can divine the isolated intentions of
individuals, but it is evident that in the present state
of the market a very small sum relatively will greatly
affect it. or late the markets have been kept up by
the small periodical purchases of the eommissionerie
broker, although the whole sum appropriated to the
quarter wax nulls betti,7to4/. If. however, in this
lquarter the public who are about to receive, with
6,569,000/. dividends on funds, a sum of not less
than io,ooopoot. in dividends and interest, should
appear to invest any portion in the English
stocks, prices must considerably advance. As,
however, the commissioners without any very
good reason, are in the habit of purchasing,
concurrently with the public, directly after the
payment of dividends, it may happen nr.p tin that
the rise of prices may frighten investors out of
this market into investments in foreign and railway
stocks.

The sums appropriated to the commissioners for'
the redemption of stock in the lust year and a half
have lien 3,813,753 f., distributed as follows :-
18:/0—Jameiry 7 £306,748
April 4
July 7 104,412
October II 861,628
1811—January 7 865,783
April 4
At the present moment there is a pretty general
slackness of business, partly dependent on the season,
and partly on the approach of the Exhibition, and
this is felt throughout Western Europe; nor is it
likely to abate until after the Easter vacation. About
that period a series of events will come into action,
which will give a material impulse to business—the
arrivals from the Baltic ports, from the Erie and the
Welland Canals, the remittances from California
after the winter rains, and the opening of the Exhi-
bition, will act simultaneously. When, too, it is
considered that here capital is superabundant, that
in Central Europe the rate of discount is 11 per
cent., and that in Paris an enormous accumula-
tien of bullion to the extent of 22,000,0001.
now exists, there is strong reason for be-
lieving that at one and the same time, if no
political catastrophe occur, and none such appears on
the horizon, a great and rapid change in trade and
prices may take place. With such a prospect it
will be the more incumbent on capitalists to be
cautious, and properly direct their operations to a
permanent result.
The Belgian government have published the re-
turn of the working of the postal reform, consequent
on the introduction of postage stamps and cheap
postage. with a view to relieve the commercial inte-
rests of Belgium. The receipts for inland postage in
1844-9 were 123.2227• ; and in 1819-30, 104,0461
This result is considered satisfactory in comparison
with the large reductions made, and it is found the
revenue is advancing.
As we were the first to advocate the establish-
ment of a share-market calculated to protect the
mining interests, 40 we have from time to time re-
corded the progress of the negotiations, and put
our readers in possession of the various steps
which have been taken. We have now to repoet a
still further advance by the opening for business of
the Mining Exchange in the temporary offices over
the Jamaica Coffee-house. A committee has been
named, an official share list is to be published twice
a week, and regulations are being formed to make
the exchange accessible to all persons legitimately
interested in mining, and to secure the proper con-
duct of the business in accordance with the require-
ments of the leading mining capitalists. We have
every reason to believe that the results of these pro-
ceedings will be such as to give satisfaction to the
whole mining body, to afford considerable protection
to the public, and materially to promote the advance-
ment of mineral enterprise.
b IMMO UNDS.
5 per 04 Austrtus —1 per ea Orally!' Bde. 174+8
44 per 04 Diig. liciadr.l,3 4 Omni& Darer,'
84 per Cent.. 5 P.l' et 1. WM.. 331
6 wfaCoLxlelzl4l7 tir,ii,BB 90 Peruvian Ma. 84 6
Commute) Convertod 35 5
01 per Ct. Hutu, Ayer, 55T 6 ter Ct. our. e... 11 112
Spar Ct. Milken Kb., 102 4ex ST Ditto ipexiab 888 Si
Ditto Oolumb. Der. lu.4s, 3 par 04 Omen Bda, 36)8
41
C.lumblen Fans tor DO.. zi 4 Do. Deferred H 44,
t are 04 Darnel PD. 74 Bre die Ihttn Pa. It,:: Ed 4 31 6
24 gar us Duet &14, 45, Perr 04 venasea ad, 31
iner Ct. Dutch Cert4.lPl W _3 4la Veneweeta Deterred Bowls. 13