The Express.
London, England, 1860-01-11 00:00:00

INDIAN SECURITIES.

TO Till LOTTO% OP TIM =POW.

811,—The Times of the 9th inet. has an article on
"Indian Becurities," which is intended to prove that the
great absorption of these into this market Is iojarions. The
first segue:ant le that the supply is unlimited, bemoan
40,000,0001. to 80,000,0001. mote of the stock is held abroad;
but surely a great portion of this will remain there with the
Indian capitalists, when they see the estimation the stock is
held in here. But, suppose ft all cams ? The writer of the
article overlooks the most important result scorning from
inch a state of things—viz., that the larger ailment of
interest is far better paid to English holders, who will spend
it here, than it would be paid to Indian capitalists, who
would spend it there.
The payment of these interests here makes Wiz a direct
good to this country at once. In effect, India is now (by
the large Waren she has guaranteed to these eecurlttee)
paying am saurian* revenue in return for our expenditure,
proranica, to., to.—l am, &c., E. C. M.
Norwiob, Jan. 10, 1860.

THE DUKE Or CASIBRIDOE AND THE LONDON
RIFLE BitioAnn.—We understand that the Lord Mayor
President of the Council of the London Rifle Brigade, has
this morning received from his Royal Highness the Duks of
Cambridge an answer to an address recently presented to
him on behalf of the brigade, praying hie royal high-
ness to accept the coloordcy of the brigade. We
believe the duke has intimated his assent, a fact which, no
doubt, will be highly gratifying to the members of the bri-
gade, se the address was most numerously signed. As his
Royal Highness Prince Albert is Colonel of the Hoe.
Artillery Company, the City of London, in a military point
of view, will now be strong in royal patronage.
The Lord Mayor himself is known to have entertained
a wish to command the brigade (es Mr. Alderman Wilson
commands the City of London Militia), but of course the
claims of the Duke of Cambridge at once cast the pretensions
of his lordship into the shade; and probably no person now
feels the propriety of abandoning those pretension" better
than the Lord Mayor himself.

According to a statement just prepared the im-
port►tion of coal, seaborne and by railways and canals, into
Lthdon during the year 1859 was—seaborne, 10,693 ship%
3,299,170 tons; railway, 1,191,169 taut; and canal, 16,964;
making the total 4,607,303 tons. These figures show an
Masses of 32,721 tone, or about 1 per cent., seaborne, and
648 tons by mil (a merely fractional per-oentage); and a de-
creath of 3,260 war, or 16 per cent., b$ canal. The entries
of ships by the prinoipal factors daring the year were—Hill,
Wood, and Hughes, 1,763 ships; Maraball end Page, 1,138;
Dine, Harris, and Co., 1,364; Chaytor, Webster, end An-
drews, 968; 8. Clarke, 620; William Moines, 698; Taylor
and Plowman, 635; F. D. Lambert, 506; Metcalfe and
Cory, 870; Charleton and Watson, 864; Miller and Potter,
173; and Smith and Stanfield, 47.
A letter from Boston (U. 8.) dated the 28th ult.,
mays :—" Fanny Kemble Ia here, reading Shakapearo with
eminent moms, every reading being crowded with the airs
of our aristocracy—meaning some people who have brain,
and more who have mthey. She is just a$ rivulet as when
the first reed here in 1849. She acts as well as reads her
chief characters. Her Shylook is perfect —I never saw •
better one on State-street, which is our Rialto."

A Berlin letter, in the Gazette of Southern
Chreeetty, states that the beam of the reorgsnismion of the
Prundan uwy have been decided on oy the ministry. The
infantry of the line on the race footing will be increased
by 40,000 tneo, and will be 125,000 strong. The cavalry,
will, be increased from 19 000 to 24,000, sad the artillery,
from 14,000 to 15,000. The total strength of the line will
be 170,000 men. This will entail an additional expense of
24 millions of trues.

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WHITTINGTON CLUB.—Last evening the annual
juventle ball in c..nnexion with this portaer inttitution wee
Orld to the large hall in Atnodrl-street, Strend. The
juvenile portion of the entertainment commenced at 7 o'clock
and terminated at 111, when the adult vi.itots took poweeeion
of the door until 2 o'clock this morning. In the interval
of denting diasolviog views end other entertainments were
introdaced. The cooree of lectures and entensinmente
announced by the managing comooltios for the new year's
quarter ere well calculatid to sustain the populerity as well
ISA to pleaee the members and friend' of the institution. Mr.
8. C. Hell lead. oft on Thursdey next with his literary re-
miniecences of the authors of the sge, followed by otbet
lemuren, and numerous musical eatertaiunamta.