The Express.
London, England, 1850-07-17 00:00:00

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- s Drams.
In foreign manias se tarpteam anseent tree sere
Rated for this moil; sad with the of bills
en &mien having been sold a shad. better for
dealers, the ruse ropesally were the mine as last
dayl s g.
pit
ratifying to refer to the meathly statement
of the Royal British Beak which, is pabWihed in the
&matte of this mole& The ststemeet embraose the
period from the 19da November 1849, to 29th Jane
1860, both Isalasive, and is the Ant which has yet
sshowing an aammat at the credit of profit
ante Ica. When we °guider the short period that
ha elapsed .inn this beak first commenced badness,
the enapetitior, the difficulty of finding safe employ-
ment foe capital, ard the low rate of uttered which
has ruled during the interval, the result reflects credit
ea the massgemmat. The Wanes sheet referred to
`Da the follown
Lumens..

TiTCtipissi stork ------
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£lOO 000 0 0
Deposits sad °this liabilities
&Isnot after moo It of ulsriss. tests,
saw, ma, sad huddles*, carried to
vat sad loss wow 4,663 6 U

£348.435 9 8

Ca. Assam.
By Securities for kans ; 'deuces ea mak
credit sineunts, &v. ; bills of riskier ;
Waal; duo by other beaks, as. ; pee-
linsioery a:penal, sad property etas
Dank in buildings sad faraituro at bead
race sad three branches, dte. ; un-
eslied-'or stork ; sad cob I. task and
is the Bank of &Woad £348,435 9

£348,433 9 6

By Wino. carried to profit and los, 4,5331.6 x. Ild.

A dividend for the past half year at the rate of 4
per cent. per annum, was declared to-day, at the
Meeting est the St. Lambs* Dock Company, and a
netlefaotory report from the directors was received
qi
adopted. A long discussion ensued on the sub-
jest of the Custom-house authorities having opal-
Mewed legal proceedings against the company,
similar to those easiest the London Dock Company.
A vete of thank, and confidence in the directors was
manimoasly passed, and the course they had deemed
it requisite to take in this matter highly approved.
It has already been announced in the Express
that the trade convention entered into on the Ist
September, 1844, between Belgium and the Zollve-
rein, will, is scoordance with a notice from the Prus-
sia* government, expire en the 31st of December
next. Without this MX months' notice from one of
the contracting parties the treaty would have con-
dosed in force during the whole of 1851. Under
these circumstances it may not be uninteresting to
inquire as to what has been its operation on the inter-
national trade of the contracting states. The most
in4ortant reduction of duty effected by its provis-
ions has been in iron. Belgian unmanufactured
iron has paid an import duty to the Zoll-
verein of 5 s. gr. per Dentate, and har-
ken and rail iron of Belgian origin, 1 dollar 71 s. gr.;
whilst the general tariff of the Zollverein for these
two articles respectivelyis 10 s. gr. and 1 doL 15 s. gr.
The average import of Belgian uumanufactured iron
into the Zollverein for the five year., 1840 to 1844
(i.e. previous to this convention), was 13,500 tons;
whilst in the five years subsequent to the convention,
from 1845 t 01849, it was exactly double that amount,
being 27,000 tons. It must, however, at the same
time be observed, that the Belgian export of these
articles to other parts not isAuded in the Zollverein,
for the corresponding periods had increased from
16,000,000 to 37,000,000 kilog. For bar-iron
and rail iron the reduction in the duty kiss had
no favourable result, the exports from Belgium to the
Zollverein, which in 1844 amounted to 9,000 toes,
being in 1848 only 64 tons, and in 1849 488 tons.
The other reductions in the tariff in favour of Bel-
gium are too unimportant to be noticed, u affecting
only the retail trade. Belgium, on her part, reduced
the import duty on exports from the Zollveeein as
follows : on silk goods, from 5 fr. to 4 fr. per klieg.;
on Nuremberg manufactures (toys), from 10 per cent.
to 3 per cent. ad valorem ; on millinery, from 20 to
10 per cent. ad ralorein ; on printed and dyed cot-
tons, from 313 to 212 ft. per 100 kilog.; on wine in
casks, from 2 fr. to 50 c. per heotol. ; on wine in bottles
froml2 fr. perloo bottles, to 2 fr. per 112 bottles ; and
the excise, moreover, upon wine from the Zollverein
was reduced from 23 fr. 850. to 17 fr. 890. per hootoL
The duty on mineral waters was entirely taken oft
Further, the export of barks at 6 per cent. was per '
witted a oonceesion of considerable importance to the
tanners in Malmedy. In consequence also of the
'reciprocity stipulated for in the treaty, the number of
Prussian ships arriving in Belgium ports dicing the
five years following the conclusion of the treaty had
increased by 50 per cent. Bat the transit trade in
Belgium was more especially increased by the facili-
ties afforded. In the five years from 1840 to
1844, the value of the goods which passed
in frowsiest through Belgium into the Zoll-
verein was 51 million of dollars, and the value of
goods passing from the Zollverein through Belgium
was lf million of dollars. On the other hand the
amount of goods white passed in transita during the
period when the convention was in force, is as
follows:

Export% from th• Z9ll•orMa. Imports into the Zoliven'
1843-19.160.000
1846-15.200,000
1847-17,100,000
1843-14,900,000

A statement clearly showing the vast increase that
has taken place in this branch of commerce.
Archangel advice; of the 29th June, state that
more animation was observable in the export market;
the Russians having concluded the sortiog,dm.. of the
goods brought with them from the Interior, their at-
tention was turned to the market, and a fair amount
of business had been done. In flax and flax tow
several transactions had taken place at advanced prices;
the stock free and in first hands was inconsiderable,
and the holders expect to obtain for It still higher
rates, and will not recede in their pretensions if the
accounts from abroad continue anything like favour
I able for the article. Grain and seed were neg-
lected, bat a few sates of the latter bad
been made at 61 r. A considerable advance had
taken place in the price of seal oil, sales having been
made at 2.15 r., under which it could not be obtained,
and consequently many orders in the place with
liberal limits cannot be executed. Tar was in request
at 2.90 r. to 2.95 r., and pitch could not be Wander
5941 n. to 60 a, which is 50 per cent above the ordi-
nary price.
Advices from Riga of the Bth mention an improve-
ment in the general tone of the market for most of
the leading articles of export, accompanied by a rise
in prices, buyers having at length submitted to the
higher demands of the dealers; the trausadloos,