The Express.
London, England, 1859-06-29 00:00:00

COMMERCIAL INTELLIGENCE.

The Tyne is bearer of drafts am ewing to 660,000/. on
London, of which 130,0001. is for aecoant of the govern-
ment. The general eschew° on Lmdon Is 211, 24}, 'ad
to-day the exchange on Lmidon is 21! to 25. She also
brings 1,600,000 L on Perth ; the exchange on that town 14
393 to 400. She further brings 80,000 mama beano on Ham.
burg, the exchange on which pin,' is 890.

Sidpatent of coffee place the last mail for the United States
29,361 bap; for the Channel, 17,440; for Ilene, 6,334 ; foe
Marvilke, 4,021. Sold this moath and not yet shipped,
109,600 bap, of which 82,000 are for the United States;
26,000 for the Channel ; 2,600 for the Mediterranean.
Stock, 120,000 bap. Price, 6,300 rein to 6,600 Rio.

Milan will long be a word of rleasant memory to
the a there of France. "Never yet," eaya • letter from
that city, " were men made so much of—l speak not of the
officers only, but of the rank and file. The private sentinel
finds himself the hero of the hour, welcomed and careesed in
society Into which, but for this campaign of liberation, he
would have gone down to his grave aithout penetrating.
The Zmave is particularly in demand. One sees him
driving about in elegant carriages with mistocratlc
Ladies, and attended by liveried domestics. With
one arm in a sling, he gives the other, clothed in the
come uniform cleave, to delicate silk-clod dames and dam-
sels, who gladly accept his escort, walk with him in the
street, and eh with him in caNe. Many of those ladies have
made his acquaintsnos in the hospital, and, having nursed
him into convalescence, desire to complete his core, that he
may again go forth and do battle In Italy's cause. Although
a rough customer in the field, and by no means renowned for
refinement and pobsh, he appears to show considerable tact
and discretion in the society in.° which he hem unexpectedly
and suddenly been introduced. Bashfulness is by no means
• Zoller° weakness, and being free from m•ruesur /oats heist
rarely awkward."

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The town of Clermont Formed has been fixed
upon by the Breech government u the pewits' place
rultlenee 6.r the euptrior officers among the Austrian
primary.

The Journal de la Curse states that upwards of
1,000 Austrian prisoners are to he mut to Butts, Calei, and
Bunlfveio. Ajaccio is to receivo some of the wounded of the
army of It.ly.

liirrEertro s Srv.—A clever device of a Pied-
ettenerie colonel, who woo presiding over a court inertial at
Turin, is related :—A luau was tit iel on the charge of being
an Materna spy, but he vehemently maintained 'het he wee
• Unseen trader. Be, however, could not produce any
&contain le prove his ell, g,etion and coati not satisfac-
torily explain shy be was in Piedmont. " Prisoner," said
the colonel, all at once, " come chaser to me—l do not hese
well." The man advnced Ab," raid the colonel, " I
emethat you step with the left foot forward, with your arms
ekes to your sides, and the little finger on the ream of the
creasers. You ere a soldier The mon, greatly confuted.
could no longer decoy that he was lath a slither and a spy.
OPENING A BRIDGE OVER TIIF: Itin.r.—A letter
from Alexandibt, of the Ilth pay..—•• Dove was a geandt
Pie—wbat the Arabs ex I renively call a fantasia—at Kafrte.
late last week, on the occasion of tee op nine fur traffic of
the splendid iron bet Igo thrown Mole the Nile there, over
which the railway to Coiro peens. Said Pacha, attended se
usual on such putiltc oceniies by some 6,000 or 6,000 of hie
troops, was peanut easieticet at the ceremony. The tin-
t main Of hign ministers of religion, were in attendance, end
opened the proceedltga by the customary prayers; after
which twenty bulk. ha were sacrifice I, the bridge being
sprinkled with their blood, and the flesh distributed
among the poorer claws of the bymanders. This religions
part v‘tbe ceremony being concluded, Sid Peck., accom-
panied-by M. It nee, the chief engineer of the railway, and
other officials of the Viceroy, pared in the first testa over
the bridge, which for its wbun length was heed on either
side by the troop., lb. nelites7 band playing, and amidst
the hurrahs of the English workmen, which were feebly
attempted to Lc fisi and by the hoops. Said niche dia-
-1 played hie usual liberality on the occultist by not only having
provided a sumptuous dinner far all the workmen employed
! in the erection of the bridge and the officials et the railway,
but la the more tangible way of ordering one month's pay to
be presented to them, sod a baksheesh of 10.000 dollen
ordered to be paid to M. Reuse, and of 3,500 dollars to Mr.
Marken, tuperietending enginer."

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