The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-07 00:00:00

TRAFFIC RETURNS.

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The funds today are better. Prices aranOw
quoted to per cent. higher than at the clot* of
boldness yesterday. The monthly settlement
in Consols engages chief attention. The market for
English railway stocks was heavy daring part of
the morning, but has since advanced, and is now
firm.

Console fin. the 12th October were first marked
98f, and are now quoted 98; to 97. For money
transactions are recorded from 96i to 96f,
and the present quotation is 961. The
Three per Cents. Reduced have been dealt in at
971 tot ; the New 1 bree per Cents., at 971 to f ;
the Nesr ,Two-and•Hsdf per Cents., at 80; Bank
Stock at 2211 to 229; Indian Four per Cent.
Debentures of the first issue, at 98f, 98f, and 9811,
the Scrip of the second Mine, at 971; the March
Exchequer Me, at 31e. to 34e. prom ; ditto, Jane,
at 23e. prem.

The scrip of the new Turkish loan opened this
morning at lf to 1 dia., needed to 11 to 1
and has since advanced to 11 to 1 dis.,
the present quotation. The Six per Cents.
of 1854 are quiet, at 94/ to 951. Spanish Bonds
continue in demand, with an upward tendency, es-
pecially the Passive Bonds. Mexican Bonds are dull.
Sales are recorded as follows :—Brazilian Old Five
per Cents., for account, 1031; Mexican Three
per Cents., for account, 211; Portuguese Three per
Cents., 1853, for account, 48; Russian Five per Cents.,
110, ex div. ; Sardinian Five per Cents., 92 ; Spanish
Three per Cents., for account, 451; ditto New De-
ferred Three per Cents., for account, 291; ditto Pas-
sive Bonds, 101, 1011, 101 ; Turkish Six per Cents.,
for account (September 15), 941.

The shares of the Atlantic Telegraph Company
are quoted to-day 4001. to 5001., and the quotation is
no longer nominal.

The new Turkish Loan is following the course of
the Brazilian Loan, which, it will be remembered,
descended soon after its issue u low as 2 discount,
although in the latter instance the amount appor-
tioned to the public did not exceed 1,200,0001.
The allotment-letters of the new Turkish scrip were
received by the subscribers yesterday morning. Some
parties have reeetved as much as four-fifths of the
amount applied for, others three-fourths, and others
one-half; whilst in some cases only about one-fifth
bee been allotted. The contractors seem to have
been most liberal to persons who are considered
likely to hold the loan for investment, and to have
goaded sparingly to merely speculative applications.
The market for the new stock opened this morning
with a somewhat firmer appearance, at die. toper;
but it soon became apparent that the immediate bond
fide demand has been adequately supplied by the
allotment, and, in the absence of buyers, the price
gradually receded, finally closing at 11 to 1 discount.
The transactions do not appear to have been
by any mesas extensive, but were principally on
one side—viz., that of sales—aome of the bona fas
ellottees evincing discouragement at the marked
coldness with which the loan has been received on
the Stock Exokinge. As soon as the first payment
of 20 per cent. shell have been completed the scrip
will be ready for issue; a settling-day for the
transactions in the Stook Exchange will doubtless
be immediately fixed by the committee; and the
crane of the price of the new stock will then be
determined by the preponderance of genuine trans-
actions. Hitherto a large proportion of the deal-
ings hare been of a purely gambling character. If
it be true, as is currently reported, that considerable
purchases have been effected by the contractors and
other persons interested in supporting the stock, a
good effect may be produced by the withdrawal of a
portion of the scrip which has come upon the mar-
ket through realisations by the premium-hunting
class of applicsnte—realisations which were effected,
in many instances, prior to the allotment.
It is announced that Fuad Pacha has arrived in
London from Paris, with a view to the arrangement
of any details for which his presence may be de-
sirable.

The monthly return of the Bank of France will
be
_published next Friday morning.
The steamer Teo lot, with the heavy portion of
the Australian mails and 83,0811. in gold, is ex-
pected at Southampton on Thursday.
The bar silver by the West India steamer has
bees sold for the Continent at Os. Ofd. per ounce
Standard, showing no alteration.
The Brazilian gold coin by the Tyne has been dis-
posed of at 775. 7id. per ounce, and will, it is un-
derstood, be sent back to Brazil by the next steamer.
Messrs. Archibald Montgomery and Co., of Great
Wiachester.street, a respectable house, described ma

general merchants, but prineipally engaged in the
Australian trade, have stepped payment. Their
commitments are believed to be moderate in amount.

The acceptances of Mr. Richard Acutt, draper,
of Bridge-road, Lainbethb have also been dishonoured,
but the liabilities are understood to be small.

By advice' received yesterday from America we
learn that the Illinois Central Railway is now doing
the largest business known since 1866. It is stated
that wheat is being sent to Chicago from Union
County, which is the county next to Cairo, in the
south of the state. This denotes a considerable re-
vival in business, and gives a good prospect for the
autumn traffic. _ _

The Ceyton journals contain a long moonlit of the
proceedings at the cutting of the tint sod of the
Ceylon Railway, which was performed on the Srd
August by his Excellency the Governor, in the pre-
sence of about 8,000 persons.
The Brighton Railway traffic return presents this
week an increase of 1,5271.

The deereaae shown in the weekly teat& return of
the Great Western Railway of Caoads is 982 i.
The certificates of shares of the 2,000,0001. capital
(Nagpore Extension) in the Great Indian Peninanla
Railway Company are now ready for delivery.

MINES.-THIS DAY.

Two o'CLocr.
The mining market to-day is flat, and in earne-
rs= canes the tendency of prices is downwards.
There are inquiries, however, for shares in Alfred
Console, East Wheal Russell, Wheal Trelawoey,
North Robert, and Thymic

Foreign slid colonial descriptions remain very
qaiet.

COMMERCIAL AND MARKETS.

LIVERPOOL CORN MARKET.--TIIIB DAT.
(av BIUTEBH Ali TIDE lIIAOWNTIO TELDORAPR.)
meow ova ova ooattrovomovsev.)
The grain market Is dna. . Whist to ht good demand at
hill rates. Flour obtains boar
orbs'. ladiaa lo to
good demand ; ("stet is at 811 s.
Egyptian bows, 37.. to SAL
Other ertiolat aro onclukagod.

IMINCTNO-LANE.—THIS DAT.
Suoas.—Tba market has oral with a nutlet appearance,
mad the importers are buylag ikealy at the public min to
made prier. Refined lumps gusted 6346 to Ks.
Comma—Me public maim ars gob* off without showing
material alteration In plea.
The private contrast market is insulin, partly in
consequence of the public sake declared for to-morrow.
Sairrwrns.—The marital is steady, and holders are firm,
refraction lig bsb Issiglitisi SI 435.
Rica mains Weedy,
Rum.—Commes Lemmas Ma L. 3d. prooL
In other &reels so isatssisi sitirstioo. Muleta gene-
rally have s quiet scpssmos.

TALLOW MAIDENT.—THIS DAT.
The market is 'toady at the following quotstkao Tows
600. ed., sett orb ; Potasaburg Y.C. on the opt,
61a. 3d.; Septasotor, 60a. dd. to 6a. 96.; °Motor to
Doootober. 490. ; ditto, asporotoly, 60s. ; .Itotaory to
arch, 600.
SMITHYTITLD RAY If ARKET.—THIS DAT.
Kr. 8.7. Davit fel:worts' good tiappir.--niewt: Prioas mea-
dow bay. 78.4. to flea. ; superior do.; Ida. to 904. ; esfarisr do..
fraa to 72t ; tetras, 00a. Is 72a. ; dower, old, Des. to
110 a. ; second out, 70s. to 965. ; straw, 30a. to als.

A RIDE PROP BET OUT TO BALLBEC
AND DAMASCUS.

No. 11.

Ores of the luories of travelling in the East is the
weather. As soon as the rainy season is fairly over,
you may lock up your umbrella for months, unless
you intend to use it as • parasol. for you have bid
sdieu to clouds and showers. The season bad not
quite ruched that point, but there was a hot sun
shining when my new servant came to announce to
me. ere the general public of Beyrout was stirring,
that the horses was at the door, and that my coffee
wee ready. Breakfast was soon over, my riding
costume competed, and I sallied forth to start on our
journey. M hat a treasure of a Guy I should have
bees in England, es I appeared at that moment' And
what guffaws would have
gN.,etsd me tie. irreverent
boys' You know my majestic figure--I need not
my how many inches I measure under six het. On
the top of it was a wide-awake, covered with linen,
with several yards of muslin twisted need it tor•
ban-wier, the end hang down to pretest my neck
and shoulders. My other extremity was aimed in
a pair of high yellow Rhodes boots, reaching above
the knees ; and the rest of ma was covered by a white
maahlah, an admirable gamut for protesting one
from rain and duet. I'm may maks one if you
like, for the next Herby-day; him is the formula
Take a piece of white cashmere, or other thin
woollen material, deep enough to reach from the
shoulders to the heels, and three yards wide. Turn
over two feet two inches on either side, which will
leave four inches between the edges. Sew up the
top edge where the cloth is doubled over, cut two
holes at the sides close to the top to poke your arms
through, and you have a mmblah—lacking only the
silk embroidery at the place where the collar would be
if there were one, and reach og about eighteen inches
down the edge of the pieces turned over.
Can you tell ass why it is that Arab tailors cut
everything square and straight ? One would sup-
pose that the people were all built like three things
they use to brush coats ou, and that look like port-
able finger posts. Jackets, waistcoats, and shirts,
are all cut in that style ; and why on earth they go
through the faros of measuring you for cloths@ I
cannot divine. As to the trousers, 'they are nothing
more than a bag, like say other bag, with a cord
running through the upper part to draw the mouth
together—only your uitegunientary bag is three
yards wide, and about a yard in depth. At the
lover corners are two slits, through which you
thrust your legs ; you gather in the slack round
your waist, and the business is done.
But I have not got on horseback yet (I shall
never get you to Baalbec at this rate), and there
was a considerable assembly waiting to see me
start. A Frank setting out for a journey is a
public benefactor in a Syrian seaport, furnishing the
natives with a spectacle gratis, which they enjoy
with becoming gravity. Besides the troop of ragged
idlers by p who are always on the look-out
for stray coppers, there was a goodly collection of
temporary idlers, who represented the pit and boxes,
perched on convenient heaps of dirt and pieces of
stone or timber, smoking their pipes,
and
saluting the Effendi on his appearance (tor we are '
All Effendia at the least), with a grave ealum.
I had provided English saddles for my dragomaa's
horse and my own ; as for Yakoob, he dispense
with that convenience altogether, and in o
it
would have been useless. He had packed all sorts
of things on his wretch of a horse, with my carpet
on the top, making a sort of platform, as though he
were going todo some feats of horsemanship. Howe •
earth he used to get up and down without upsetting
the whole affair puulas me even cow, for the horse I
rarely stood still, salmis he succeeded in getting him
with his side to the wall. When there was • piece of j
rock as a mounting block there wu no great diffi-
culty, but otherwise he had to commence with various
depreciatory remarks respecting the parents sad
relatives of the hone ; then be pouched him about
the head ; thee he kicked his shins, and then took a ,
little ran, and leaped up so as to hang across the
mountain of luggage, getting himself into a proper
position by various elaborate lumps and wriggles.
It was quite an ingeoious performance.
At lest we were fairly off, the muleteer having pre-
ceded se a goed hour. Our way lay across the Plus
des Oomme, • piece of open ground a foot deep in
sand, just outside the old walls of Beyront, and hue
my hens thought himself bound to show me how he
*saki gallop. He did it fast enough, but as the
amiss was very much like that of a cols, I was soon
nitieled with the sample, and reserved any further
parfonnanses in that line until it might be wanted,
es I band that the jolting threatened to loosen the
balls is my revolver, and wee almost bad enough to
do the same office for my teeth. Through the palm
minims of the suburb of the Nietawalie, op and ap,
over a road of loose stones like • dry course of 'a thr-
ust, but which was, nevertheless, the high road to
Itasaserus, along the beds of little strearnlets, end
over a patch of toad formed of splinters of teak
which nature had Suited with the points upper-
most, sad so to a solitary Khan, where we halted at
and-day to cool and rest ourselves. The furniture
cessisted of • large couch to serve as a bed for half
a demon people, made of great rounded stones,
covered with • piece of mat, and two little four-
legged stools, which had once possessed rush hot-
ter. The coach, or divan, as I ought to all
it, was the better resting-place, so there
I sat while toffee was made. Yakoob pee
dosed lunch, consisting of some bread, chore,
bard eggs, little miens, and oranges. We did fall
justice to them, the Khaogi serving us some capital
coffee and some deliciously briht and cold water, •
luxury you often meet with in the Lebanon, and
which regulates your halting places. Pipes and
gossip Ailed up the rest of the hour, and towards 4
o'clock we were in sight of the valley of Haman.
which runs from the ridge of the Lebanon to Bey-
rout—a deep seaters cleft, full of verdure at its
lower part, walled in by bars cliffs on the upper
portion of its aides. Nearly at the head of this
valley is the village of Kraye, the seat of the French
silk mills, which I was desirous of seeing, in profo-
rma* to going on to the great establishment at
'lanais*, which lay an hour or two out of my read,
and farther on.

Hid art of my muleteer, but a few
minnilni imp alined the mystery. 'rays VW
aossellsamdmids st feet below us, and there was a sort
of audesemeof rock to descend to get at it, tvviatieg
he all dhsedens. My dragoman informed me that
Mr. Fire had expended a geed deal of money and
labour in improving the road, me what it must hew
been before that 1 cannot tell. The mountain horses
we very sure fasted, and I had beer, up to Skinks
and down again, so I knew there was co danger, and
it was a good opportunity for teeing what my
sag could do in that line. We all arrived
nahly at the filature, and, two my dismay, found that
the house wee shut up, and Mr. Kova, the managing
partner, away at Rhodes. This wee awkward, for I
had reekosed on ray dinner and a bed here, and did
net asre to go on to Hama', believing that the
proprietor would also be almost. But hospitality I.
a inouotaia virtue which these French millowases
understand as well as the natives. Presently ems
one same out and invited as to enter the house, and
sit down w has coffee and liqueur were brought, with
many apologies; but our host was only a guest
himself, a travelling engineer who looked after the
machinery of the mills. I produced my letter of
introduction--a rather wide one, as it wee directed
to no one in particular, but to all the French fili•-
mum of the mountain—and raked him to whom I
might best address myself fora bed. as I had made ap
my mind to dispense with the dinner. Oh, he said, there
is no berry, we expect tbepadre home from Beyrout,
end though it will be rather a rough one, we will
And you • bed, and in the ZOOID tins., if you are not
tired, come and see the mill, and the chapel, a little
wonder that Mason. Five and Kora have created
in this wild spot. It was certainly & curiosity this
chapel, crammed with Maltese stone carvings,
statues, pictures, marble columns, and altar decora-
tions; gay and showy, if not is the best taste, bet
aamfraMy suited to attract the people, and all
broncit t er the roads I have
described this letter. I weld
of my eostrone, that
ad them from *jury
course damaged), and
the hands of the

piety.

broncid it smarming cost over ti
described in the early part of this
not wonder at the naive belief of m
Ood had mirandonely protected tl
(though many pieces were of cow*
that everything prospered under t
masters of Kreye, because of their pi