The Express.
London, England, 1859-08-02 00:00:00

MONEY MARKE4-7SM LAY.

Two o'CLodi.
Sir C. Wood's statement on the finances of India
had no effect whatever on the fonds at the
of business this morning ;
that only 6,000,0001.

but the

will be eked in England this year, in addition to

the 2,000,000/. of the lut loan mimed, hu since

operated as a slight stimulus to the market, and
Consols now stand at an advance oft tot per cent.

compared with the closing quotations of yesterday.
Very little business is going forward.
In the other departments of the Stock Exchange
extreme inactivity prevail., and prices in nearly all
instances are nominally unaltered. East Indian
Railway stook is rather firmer.
The Three per Cent. Rental opened at Paris this
morning, according to Mr. Renter's telegram. at
69fr. for the end of the month, and quickly improved

to 1396. 30c., being i per cent. better than the but

price of yesterday. - -
Consols are officially marked 941 to 944 for
money, and 941 to 96 for the 9th of August. The
present quotations are 94/ to 1 for swab, and 941
exactly for August, and 941 to 95 for the
7th of September. Bank Stock has been dealt in
at 2211 to 223; the Three per Cents. Re-
duced at 94; to 94; the New Three per Cents., at
941 to 951 ; the New Two-and{-Half per
Cents., at 791; India Stock, at 219; the Indian
Four per Cent. Debentur, r, 1868, at 94; India
Bonds, at 3s. dis.; and Exchequer Bills, at 301.
prem.
The transactions in the foreign stock

market have been upon a very limited scale.
Prices, however, are firm. The Turkish loans
are slightly better, the Six per Cents,
of 1854 being quoted 811 to 821, and those of 1858,
711 to 721. Sales are recorded as follows:
Austrian Five per Cent. Metallic., 85 (exchange
103.) ; ditto Five per Cents., 1869, 76, ex div. ;
Belgian Fonr-and-a•Half per Cents., 991 (ex-
change 26fr.); Dutch Foar per Cent. Certificates,
1001; Russian Friar-and-a-Half per Cents., 981;
Turkish Six per Cents., 1854, for account, 82, 821;
ditto Six per Cents., 1868, for aosount, 72 ; ditto
Guaranteed Four per Cents., 102, 1021, ex div.
At Calcutta the New Five-and-a-Half per Cent.
Loan for 6,000,0001., for which subscriptions are now
vainly sought, is quoted 8 to 7 per cent. discount.
On the 30th inst. the period expires within which
the Turkish government bound itself not to issue at
a price below 90 per cent. the =allotted balance,
viz., 820,0001. of the Six per Cent. Loan of 1868.
The idea, however, of issuing this amount at the
existing depressed prices could not be entertained
for a moment.
There were no transactions in bullion at the Bank
yesterday. The Prince of Wales and Lightning have
arrived from Melbourne with 428,0001. in gold, and
the Asia from New York with 81,0001. The latter
NM has already been purchased for exportation and
it is doabted if any portion of the large Australian
supply will remain here.
The Avon has reached Lisbon from Brazil with
33,0001. in specie, and is expected at Southampton
in a few days. She sailed from Melbourne on the 19th
of May, with 49,000 ounces of gold, worth 196,0001.,
besides 25,000 sovereigns, and has now been at sea
74 days.
The steamer Indus is expected to take on the 4th
inst. about 300,0001. in silver for Calcutta and
China, 250,0001. of which will be on account of the
Council of India.
A large portion of the 1,000,0001. sterling in silver
which recently arrived at Vera Cruz from the interior
of Mexico appears to be on American account, the sum
shipped for England on board the steamer Teviot
being 2,250,000 dollars, or 460,0001. This remit-
tance, with other amounts of bullion, in all pro-
bably about 660.0001, will arrive at Southampton
in a few days.
The steamer Eaten reached Aden from Bombay
on the 17th of Jaly, and the Benares from Australia
on the 18th, in each case a day before they were due.
The light portion of these mails, via Marseilles, is
expected to be distributed in London towards the
end of the week ; the heavy portion will reach
Southampton about the 10th inst.
At St. Petersburg the exchange has risen to
34 15.16 d. . . . .

A statement which has appeared in the American
intelligence, that the steamer Paramatta, which was
stranded on the 30th June last on the Ansgada
reef, has been got off, is presumed to be unfounded,
as no intelligence has been received at the Royal
Mail Steam Packet Company's office respecting the
vessel in question.
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steamer
Alma, which recently went on shore in the Red See,
has been altogether lost, having parted "amidships."
She registered 2,160 tone, with engines of 430 horse
power, and was worth about 70,0001. The cargo
consist:ad almost entirely of silk, of which 1,400
balm worth about 120,0001., have been lost.
At the half-yearly meeting of the Bank of New
South Wales, held at Sydney, on the 27th April, the
report, which was unanimously adopted, showed that
the amount of divisible profit for the half-year
ending 31st March, was 66,8221. 14s. 5d.1 of this sum
50,0001. was absorbed for dividend to share-
holders amounting to 20 per cent. per annum ;
11,6781. Lie. 9d. was carried to the reserve fund, and
5,1441.85. Bd. carried forward to next account. The
reserve fend has reached the large sum of 190,0001.,
and of that amount 3,3211.145. 3d. has been recovered
during the half-year from debts which had been pre-
viously written off as bad and doubtful. The direc-
tors had further extended the operations of the bank
by opening a branch at Wangeratte, in Victoria,
and an agency at Adelong, in New South Wales.
The proposed half-yearly dividend of the Great
' Southern and Western Railway Company of Ireland
is officially announced at the rate of 5 per cent. per
annum, leaving a surplus of 11,8001. to be carried
forward. The dividend toe the corresponding period
of 1858 was at the same rate.
At the meeting of the New Brunswick and
Canada Railway and Land Company yesterday, the
report of the Committee of foquery was received,
and, in order to allow tne directors time to consider
and reply to the recommendations and charges
therein contained, the meeting wee adjourned.
The half-yearly meeting of the Great Western
Railway Compeny, called for the 12th inst., will be
made special, to approve an agreement for the
transfer of the Birkenhead Railway to the London
and North Western and Great Western Railway
Companies jointly.
The half-yearly meeting of the East Kent Railway
Company is called for the 26th inst.
Tne Brighton Railway traffic return shows this
week an increase of 744 d.
The weekly traffic return of the Great Western
Railway of Canada, received yesterday, shows Ea
decrease of 1,3361.
Vice-Chancellor Kindersley, who is charged with
the winding up of the National Patent Steam Fuel
Company, intends, on the 4th instant, to make a call
of 11. 15s. per share on the contributories in Class C.
The Banian has arrived from China, with
762,9001b5. of tea.
With reference to the silk market, Messrs. 14.
Waithman and Co. report as follows:
The announosaient of peace on the 12th ultimo naiad
some excitement in the silk market, and led to Urge buitivcas
and an advance in price of Is. to is. 61. per lb. The
market has been quiet for the last fortnight, but etet.lY
bas rise doing, and the remit advaeoe well maintained. In
Chins silk as usual the chief operations have taken OW. Tl°
deliveries for the month are 6.760 bales. The bitters deli
vend to-day bring dates from Shaoghao le MO? %
(oh..
lest 'dykes about 1,',00 balm bad beetssettl foe at former
rate,, clearing the tostA4 of all salsa f f inform' Teat-
I a etock of only stout 600 bales. conejeling for
leenTaystams, andYneo fast. Totaleetttemo t
yeer
about 80,800 against 61,500 bah eat the warsoarlott:
sew .
Exchange, 6s. Only ""
nh!lidreirfromo'ltiMent• ts
crop bed arrived, ore fa as Gal be
h rine Suer size that
colour and quality appear better. thou tumid and Jetsam;
the silk of last year. Boer,' edk tally. . dilated in
the late move. patticularly the line cud met Ltd.=
silk, Ma (moue are exceedingly lira ted, very MO pin
sea inked, and in sows mistances have been oliWaed.

ITALY.

I.OMBARDT.

,PlllOlll OC$ 11111i.1•1.

VOLTA, Jere IL
In my last letter I told yea that it wee my Wes-
ton to wearier 6111014 he • fewwitsar =MINI=
places is the Maatasate=e to
the COSTestioa an 07vii—p—i-jby
the French messy. After ha ' paved once more
through the battle-fields wf Bolferiao and Carrion*,
I arrived here this aiming, sad found the pie-
toresque village of Volta Mantovana occupied by a
portion of Marshal Csareberes corps d'acmfo. This
village, or rather town, is situated on the senthere
declivity of that nap of hills which, bordering the
Luke of Garda, extend almost to the right beak of
the Mimic. It wee hers that is June, 1648, the
last fierce straggle between the Austrians sad
the Piedmont's, maims took place. The tram
of that bloody engagement are still dis-
cernible in every street, and still more so
in the cherehyard, from which there is a =gni&
sect view of the whole of Lower Lombardy. Mar-
shal Usnrobert ham taken up his quarters in the
splendid villa once belonging to a Marquis Guerrieri
Groom" sow the property of Prince Gonzage, a
descendant of the illastneas etoqueror of Mantua in
the middle vela As yea may 'Gaily suppose, the
great talk of the day here ia, as no doubt it is
throughout the whole of the Italian peninsula, the
peace so hostily and so mysteriously concluded at
%Waimea. The Emperor, who was only a fort-
night ago the grand favourite of the Italians, is not
spoken of as warmly as he whining the war. This
morning I happened to be at the oft of the village
whilst a discussion was going on between some
French officers and a few of the folks of Volta. The
former of coarse were anxious to justify Louis
Nap:deo:id policy, but the latter condemned it,
though with the reserve which was made advisable
by the presence of the French corps d'arinee
encamped within the walls of the town.
When the last of the French officers had

left the café, one of the bystanders, addressing me,
asked politely if I had the honour of belonging to
the noble rue of Gallia. On my answering that
such was not the cue, he began to discus
again and more freely the great topic of the day, and
I can assure you that the imperial name was not
very reverently mentioned during the discussion. As
might be expected there were some of the disputants
who did not fail to alums the English government
heartily, and to speak of Lords Derby and Pal-
merston in the severest terms. I am not going to

endorse all the absurdities I heard daring triat lOng,
and rather confused, discuasion; but I cannot help
agreeing with the conclusion to which those good
folks of Voile came, that ts to my, that the peace

of \labiate& has rendered Italian - mitten a 'groat
deal worse than they were before the war. This is
the general opinion which prevails in Lombardy,
and I bare found that it is not only shared by the

upper classes of Italian society, but that it !maimed.
i:* way through the rural population of the country.

BRESCIA, Jute 28.
The disappointment and exasprrstion which were
apparent in every face when I left this town are now
greatly modified. A few days ago the Italians of
tares provinces firmly believed that all their dearest
hopes had been sacrificed by Napoleon at Villafrance.
Nate that desponding sentiment hu given place to a
eamier and more reasonable tone, and long cherished
hopes are reviving. If the prestige of Louis Napoleon
is uo longer the ice, at any rats the epithets that
were applied to him lately is army Italian conversa-
tion have been dropped, as if • met of truce had
been agreed on between the deceived and the de-
ceiver. The causes of this change ON OWIIVIOI. It
is partly owing to the doubts which still mead
as to the details of the Villafranca bargain, partly to
a rumour that when in Milan the Emperor assured
tourit Arne, an intimate friend of his, that the mein
points of the peace are quits in scoordance with the
wishes of the Lombardo-Venetians. Besides, French
elicits of every rank are eustantly assuring this
people that their brethren of the Venetian kingdom
will not be left under the galling yoke of Austrian
domination. They say that an independent kingdom
will be eutatitomel theie under the Archduke Maxi-
radian, who will rule it with an Italian government
and an Italian army. The Lombards are this allured
by new hopes, and they are now content to await
the decision of the Zurich conference, or, as they
say, the more important one of a European Congress.
Enghuitl, too, which was here so heartily abused only
• month ago, is now highly spoken of, and the
greeter putt of Italian hopes rest upon the liberal
pracy of Lord Palmerston. The fact is ea evident,
last oar Kagli•li tourists who are pouring in here
en their way to S aerie.) and San Martino are now
more than kintey Trutt td by those very Itelisus
who only a few days ago f.lt a tort of horror of our
countrymen. The Lombards have takes it into their
betide that free England cause lea party to patch-
log up a peace which would be apormaneat cause of
It% olatiao. They micas span the islhaht• which
Eagland mast naturally minis* in the forthcoming
Cosi:sea, and hope that Lard Palmerston will sac.
cud in persuading Abatis to leave the Italian* in
themselves- If our ministers at home will act ac-
cording to the interests of Ragland. there cannot be
• shadow of doubt as to the inluence they can now
acquire in this umatry. Napoleon's prestige is gone
(,r ever if the terms of peace he has agreed to
Iv* not in accordance with the istmests of the n 4 t Meal
What tta ruler of France his lost may
therefore be mut:, acquired by, us, for we have
nothing to fear from the million of European
demists.
Orut iodiguation is felt in high querters at the
Pope's lost Footnote. To have attacked the govern-
ment of Piedmont so openly at this moment his been
couidered madness worthy Oily of the Vatican.
Even the lower classes in Italy begin to laugh at the
poweriess wrath of his Holism, and I have beard
common people say that the Pops is the best
friend the Austrian bare got. The priests them-
selves are now animated by more patriotic
sentiounte, and they condemn without reserve
the holy proclamation, which they accue
cf having been pr. mpted by Cardinal Antonini and
Ls minions. of Brescia of souse does
not share three sectio-tnue for he belongs to the
most thcichci and craLy of the tiltramontaos party.
The (mom quencee of thus priestly squabble naturally
tells upon the relgious feelings of the people, and
faith is almost gone in this cradle of the Catholic creed.
Italy I. sow becoming too perm to he eared even by
Protestantism. Toe great event of the day has been
the funeral mass celebrated this morning in the
Tluceno Vecchio in honour of the sacred memory of
Charles Albert. The Demo Vecchio oneof the moat
at.cient chumhem)f this city,and offs rs 'nattier ;notaries
of the preference the Lombards for the round form
of architecture. It was built between the years 0;60
and 073, by Muqeardo and Frodoardo, two Lombard
count-, with the assistance of Orimbald, Kiog of the
Lombard.. The walls of the church are of stone;
t .e circuit on the outside is divided by pillars into
24 portions. surmounted by a brick cornice. Within
there is an insulated peristyle of eight piers, bearing
toned arches, which help to support the dome in
toejesetion with the outer circle of walla. The inte-
rior had been tidily decorated with black velvet
curtsies embroidered with silver ]el leaves.
leaves.
The Italians really understand than
any ether people in Europe the art of
decorating their churchm. I never saw, either in
. Paris or ientm. more elegant decoration then that
which was exhibited this morning in the Daum°
`Vecchio. Officials, both military and civil, were in
attendance, w.th a great umber of Basset= ladies
in black crape, which they poser the art of wearing
most becomingly. French and Italian urinary
bande were paying sad and solemn music, and the
maenad drams were beating over the canopy stand-
ing in the middle of the church. At noon the man
wee over and the crowd dispersed, blessing the
saw of the gallant King who was the initiator of
Its isispeadosa.

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