The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-21 00:00:00

MINES.-THIS DAY.

Two o'CLocw.
Business in the mining market to-day is almost
suspended, in the absence of demand. In the Stock
Exchange no transactions are officially reported.
Prices in many cues are little more than nominal.
Foreign and colonial descriptions are steady at
former prices, with little business. English and
Australian Copper shares have been dealt in at 11.

THE RUSSIAN ESTABLISHMENT AT VILLAFRANCA.
—The Morelia,' Popt, which has hitherto expressed some
alarm upon this subject, now publishes, In its letter from
' Ter* • version of the affair quite in accordance with the
authentic =formation of oar own Turin correspoadent,whose
lOW appeared on Saturday:—" People here are wonder-
ment& at the piece of information which they have received
through moms legliati jaunts's, that &valet. lase
Wired Into a ekes alliance with Russia, sad to far
pledged herself as to allow one of her ports. that
et Villshenes, to become a Russian possession. I have
aseeneined from an unmasstionable source that the osse
le se follows :—The Russian government was In need of some
depot ibr awls and victualling in the Mediterranetui, and
nude applicetton to this government for that purpose. In
the Bey of Villa Preece. user Nice, there is a galley-slave
alike (Gagne), which la now unoccupied, as the oonvicta
hem been removed to Genoa. The building is well
selsgited to that purpose, and the Russian govern-
ment =as a proposal to purchase It. To this the
11•11,11 r of the Sardinian government was in the nega-
tive. It thought proper, however to allow the gratuitous,
end et enures temporary, me of the building for the object
ahem alluded to. Thus stands the asked fact, red out of
ads tits SWUM Issegleation of some writers has no doubt
bdt up hirdlimdiens, redoubts, and all the aspect of a
Idellnernmsm fiellseteyol. It would be quite preposterous
ama away with the idea that, by this simple favour,
laafii Y baamd in a strict alliance with Russia;
bat Mbar I &add be viewed as en indication of the present
Oahe big fa Sardinia, and, I may add, in
• My. ;kr esseast of the resentment menifeted by
Rai immeds Austria h the Conferences of Paris, sad
mew doer the emehnks cif the peace, a oord is touched
width vibrato as the sympathy of Dinka patriots. Russia
Uias hin
Dof aste* and thampon acquires some degree of
PS=7DERSTORM Ix Pauta.—On Sunday MOM-
tel. about half-past nine, Ihe sky widassly Demme over-
cast la Paris, and oceillimed to get son and more
=I, until et Let to read ea ardiary book became
a Meek raarate. • theologian then buret
ever the It =miai by heavy Ma sad most vivid
bid fall in the Rue Nears St.
et ties mew of the Rue Montmartre; it
beebe wend mass al glass in the shop front of •
odd, end, by sae of those Murder freaks which
se ktiMulinf sossnmany sittuderstcwins, tore away
the Iselme lef ties Ina .• mid" over the front, leaving an
the allbur Libre malafasad, he about the same thee the
Hilashig mama a sietalei siwo mit door, ran dam ille
new_fitir %skid atainsi et do bawl, and gam Ono
of eassakikelytv h user ware sit Ire to. Fadaaabik _
pampa adablasaa was ot bait, and do ire ma falbarabial
wawa Mos say tadieba Wary. Tie tlmilar dips bard
about helfumelmer, when the rein ceesed, sad the rest of the
day was ens sad bright-21mm