The Express.
London, England, 1857-10-24 00:00:00

MINER-THIS DAY.

Two o'CLooK.
The home mining stock market to-day is quiet,
with little change in price. In the Stock Exchange
North Frances shares have been dealt in at l3t ;
Sortridv Consols at 21; and Tin Croft at 4. For
other descriptions the inquiries are upon a quiet
scale. _ _ .

In foreign and colonial descriptions scarcely any
business has been done.

Subjoined is the official list of transactions in
the Mining Exchange yesterday, viz.:
East Rosen, 364., 375, 385.; Gawton 250, 245.,
: Sorts Ass Consols, 2f, 5-16, 7-16.
Subjoined is our usual weekly report of the metal
market :

The metal market has in most ingenue shared in the stag-
nation canned by the tightness in the money market, but
prima generally have not given way much m consequence.
Copper is in an exceptional position; the demand, which re-
cently was almost caressive, is now very good indeed. Eng-
lish tin gave way 51. in price on the 201/1; but this had been
expected for some time past. Boeutees is dull both In Eng-
lish and foreign. Manufactured iron hsa been neglected, but
Scotch pig has found a few buyers. Spalter bat assumed
more firmness, and quotations are higher in the last day or
two, without actual tmoractiona, however. Tin plates
have experienced a decline, and ere offered freely at the
reduced raw

FRIDAY EvEruto.

Only a limited amount of business was done to-day
in Britiah mining stocke, and in a number of cases,
including Great Wheal Alfred and North Frances
ahares, prices were rather weaker. The following
may be given as the quotations of the day, viz.:—
North Wheal Crofty, 4; to t ; Alfred Consols, 14 ;
Wheal Uny, 7 to 71; Lady Bertha, 245. to 26e.;
Wheal Edward, 9 to 9}: sortiidge Consols, 21 to
; Wheal Mary Ann, 48 to 49 ; North Frances,
131 to 141; East Russell, 365.; and Kelly Bray, 2
to 21.

THE SOUTH-WESTERN RAILWAY TRAFFIc.-
I.7ader this head Berapath of this daytime .—" The following
explanation of the decline of the week's traffic on this line,
be, come to us from a trustworthy source. The South-
Western traffie of 1856 was upwards of 17,000!. in the week ;
this year it is 1,4001. less, whkh is thus explained. There
IMO upward. of 500/. received last year for troops, which is an
exceptional traffic, and the falling off at the Aldenshott sta-
tions still oontinues from the feet that there is a very small
number of troops in the camp. This Is to be immediately re-
filled, and we understand that hakes Christmas there will
be between 18,000 and 20,000 troops of all sorts again at the
Aldershott rain, which alone will make a weekly increase
of 6001. to 6001. There is also dill a smell felling off from
the item of tourists, who have gone in such large numbers
this year to the north instead of to the south of England.
This has affected the South Western traffic to the extant of
1,0001. per week, during many menthe, and is still felt to
the amount of 2001. to 3.001., but will °woe after this
month to influence the reoeipta."
RAILWAY RECEIIIB.—The traffic returns of rail-
ways in the United Kingdom, published
__ for the week ending
October 17, ermannted to 410,3201, and for the corn"-
' pending week of 1868 to 473,6201., showing an increase of
14,7001. The groom receipts of the eight railways having
their termini In the metropolis amounted, for the week end-
ing se shove, to 207,6861., and for the corresponding week
of last year to 207,0211., showing an increase of 651. The
femme on the Oreat Western amounted to 2,9041. ; on the
London and North Western to 7751.; OD the London,
Brighton, and South Coast. to 3181.; on tho South-Eastern
to 1,0131.; total, 6,0101. Bat from this most be deducted
786_ the decrease en the Eastern Counties Railway ,•
2,665/. on the Great Northern; 1061. on the Loudon and
' Blackwell ; and 1,4081. en the London and South Western ;
together 4,945/. ; leaving the increase as above, 651. The
receipts on the other lines in the United Kingdom
amounted to 280,614!.. and for the corresponding neriod of
1856 to 265.909/., glowing an inarnse of 14,6357. in the
receipts of those lines, which, added t. the increase on the
metropolitan lines, makes the total Mermen 11,7001., as
comared with the commending week of 1866.
'I'RE AOHICULTURAL STATISTICS 01 SCOTLAND,—
Mr. Hall Maxwell's roped to tha Board of Trade on the
suicultural Matiatin of Scotland, dated Oct. 21st, has been
puldirthed. It intimates a diminished acreage of wheat,
beau, peas, potatoes, maga, and fax; and en increase in
every other erns. The whole extent in cultivation is thio
year 3 u 556.572 suss; last year it was 3,545.191 acres. The
following flgur-s give the amen for the two yetis respectively
under some of the more important crops. Wheat, 223,13.2
and 265,728; beuhy. 188,387 and 165,738; hats, 938,613
and 918,614; beans, 39.183 and 40,470; potatoes, 139819
and 140,351; turnip, 476,691 and 460,131; bare fallow,
18,582 and 15,464; the tirsbueened figures being In every
ciao the acreage of 1867. The lergest inereare, it will be
seen, is in the b rley crop. The number of horses in Scot-
land has increased tide veer from 179,853 to 186,409; of
cattle from 19.1.701 to 195,198: of sheep the number has
diminished from 6.813.M0 en 5,683.168: of swine the num-
ber has increased from 126,224 to 146,354.
LORD KENYON'S EcoNowt.—Another e el-known
joke of Lord Elleabruaglis was that, when the Income Tax
was imposed, Lord Kenyon laid down his pocket handker-
chief. According to other authotities, he never had but one ;
his property in whith wins open to dispute, as be found it in
the pocket of a second-hand dyes waistcoat which he bought
of Lord Stormont'S valet the first time he hod occasion to
attend a levee. They add that, when this was were out, it
was never replaced, and that it was his wont to wipe his
fingers on his breeches, which may help to account for their
gradual charige of colour, awl the difficulty of deciding
whether the oninal :intuitl was leather or velvet. By an
analogous proem the primitive black of the coed was con-
vened into a weber gm n. The result of au economic system
thee rigidly ~ntyfroki woo, that he was enabled to leave too ro
' than 240,09 to his faitily, in addition to the none which
Lord Campbell has vainly endeavoured to depreciate.—
, EihobwryA !brier, new number.