The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-11 00:00:00

LATEST BY TELEGRAPH VIA FARTHER

POINT.

NEW YORK, JULY 30, VINING.

The European advice, by eteam-ship Anglo-Saxon
reached here yesterday, rid Farther Point, in nine
days after the vessel's departure from Liverpool.
The money market is without essential change.
Sterling exchange is in moderate demand, at about
former rates; bankers' bills quoted 1101.
Cotton has been firm and active, but today the
market became dull, and prices declined jc. Mid-
dling Upland, 121 c.
Flour has been in good request, and quotations
hays advaneed 13c. to 30c. per barrel during the
past two days. Sales of superfine state at 4.60 to
4.90 dols.; round hoop Ohio, 6.26 to 6.60 dole.
Wheat scarce, and 3 to 5 dearer. Corn heavy and
dull. Mixed Western, 76 to 80c. Mese pork heavy.
Prime firmer. Lard, quiet at 101 to tote. Spirits
of turpentine quiet, 46 to 45i, and taken for Liver-
pool at j to 3.16 f.
NEW ORLEANS. JVLT 29.

Cotton firm at 12c. for middling. Two bales of
new crop of cotton were received here on the 27th,
from Texu.

MONTREAL, JILT 30.

Advises from all parts of the provinces speak of
bountiful wheat harvest. The damage done by the
Hy is only partial.
Reich, late of the Grand Truuk Railway, is said
to have resigned his situation as general manager.
He had an engagement for tbree years at 2,000/. per
annum, and it is said he is to have 4,000/. u com-
pensation for giving it up.
Our flour market to-day was rather better for all
descriptions. There is no wheat on the market.

The Diriao of Turin reports, on the authority of
Loan from !halos, that 200,000 Amnions will remain in
the Venetian oounuy during the winter.
A party of 300 Austrian prisoners strived in Paris
en Tuesday from Arr.w. 180 from Amiens, 250 from Benoit,
400 from Blois, and 230 from Abbeville, making together
1,160. They were sent of ems after by the &tubers
I Railway,

The Saha Public of Lyons states that two of the
loarasts of dun dy, the Charritr and Omits, were resod
et the pats.adke et Chuabery for publishing artioies &yow-
-1 We to the sanortuiaa of Savoy to Franca.

CHINESE CmusTimis.—The North China Herald
settees the niserbiee of a couple of Chicago Christiana, by
the Rev. H. C. Weep, a Chinese minister, se the Brat In-
stance In which all the wiles concerned wars at ewe
Chinese, Chrietien, and Proterant. TLe bride was entirely
bidden under the red tone., crown-shaped head.drere, and
red crape veil of the Hip/ dynasty, a corn= which the
Tartar conquerors bees never succeeded in changing. There
was music, end a profusion of prim . and ewers. The
whole wee distinctively Chinese, bat the writer home tart
soon the "wedding ran" may be coasted auras the 'tete-
Misled institutional of the (winks of China.

„
A LITERARY EXAMINATION IN CMINA.—The
North C'Aina Herald draws • picture of • literary OZAMILIS.
non in China in Kwan aim, the chief city of the preferure
of Soo-chow. "Upwards; f 10,000 competitors had serembled,
who had already passed the 'HitJe go,' and were shoat to
compete for sew-teen, the first or lowest degree. Sum Peon-
=lmperial. Commissioner, Vke-President of the
of Revenue, sad • mandato of the 2nd
rank. presided. Before Interim the aspiring sew-tsars hal
collected In the hall, and received their dame., aesiped
without any indication niche works from which they wave:.
teamed. The first was from Wen( Tsang,' publiehed 1800
years aro, and may thus he tranolord. ' They'—the
dlot-
pies of Confircia•—• were se fait at the Five Classics. The
next, taken from • work of the third outcry, wee, The
superior man nourishes the source' alluding to the Em-
peror; the third was 'My soul Is devoted to mimic and
study.' The way on this last had to be written In enemas
of seven words to • line. The whole c intinued from 22nd
March to oth April. After three yews, the successful can-
didates go up for the second degree in one of the ef4ebtarn
provincial cities, and after three more years for the third de-
gree in Pekin.”