The Express.
London, England, 1850-08-22 00:00:00

nominupossura u (gassy, essuarus new
amount of the ousts and liabilities, and goo of

capital and profits, of the four undermentioned banks
of the coloay of New South Wales, for the quarter
ending March 31. From these it •ppean that
the total liabilities of the Bank of New South
Wales were 262,1481. 12s. ld„ and the assets
405,9341. 16s. 4d., with a paid up capital of 125,2861.,
upon which a dividend at the rate of 10
per cent. ►per annum was last declared, leaving
13,9781. 14s. 3d. reserved profits. The other colonial
bank, the Commercial, had 208,3991. 11s. ld. liabili-
ties, and 308,3901.95. 2d. total &mete, with a paid-up
capital of 92,8601.; the rate of dividend last decker d
was 10 per cent. p. r annum, which left 3,3521. 3s. 3d.
reserved profits. The Bank of Australasia (an English
company) had 622,6651. 18e. 85. total liabilities, and
836,2751. 12'. 24. total assets; the paid-up capital
amounts to 900,0001., upon which the last dividend
declared was at the rate of 3 per cent. per annum,
leaving as reserve profits the sum of 68,6181. 15s. 7d.
The Union Bank of Australia (another English com-
pany) shows 650,5111.135. 9d. total liabilities, whilst
the assets amounted to 758,2281. 12s. 3d.; the paid-up
capital is 820,0001., aad the last dividend paid being at
the rate of 6 per cent. per annum (with a bonus of
6s. per share, and 7d. in the pound added thereto),
left the reserved profits at 85,6171. 7s. 2d. On taking
the aggregate of these four banks, we have the follow-
ing dirribution of affairs:

TOTAL LLIBTLIIIIIL
Notes in circulation
Bills in circulation
Balances due to other banks
Deposits

Total

TOTAL ASSITS.

.... --- --.
Coln . L 593 020 12 4
Landed property
Notes and bills of other bank, 2,096 8 11
Baldness due from other tanks .
Notes and bills db counted, and ell other
1 debts due to the banks 1,604,637 4 1

Total
had occasion to notice the

We have already ha.— great
increase of activity in the construction of steam-
vessels in the dock-yards at New York. The advices
recently received state that the Arctic and the Baltic,
the third and fourth of the large steam-ships of the
Collies' line, are approaching completion very rapidly,
and will be ready to take their places in the line on
or about the Ist of October next. They are rated to
lie similar in construction and decoration to the
Atlantic and Pacific, the performance of which vessels
appears to be regarded with much interest and setts-
faction on the other side. The fine steamship Pro-
metheus was also launched on the 3rd. This
wool is the pioneer of the Pacific Ship
Canal Company's line of steamers, and is described
in a very beautifully modelled, three•decked craft,
with very extensive accommodation for both freight
and passengers. An opinion appears to be entertained
among experienced men at New York that the next
few yens wall show a vast falling off in the number
of sailing vessels built in this and other ports of the
United States, and that this class of vessels will soon
come to be quite superseded by steam. The statement
'that the British and North American Steam-ship
Company—commonly known as the Cunard line—is
about building a line of reamers propelled by the
screw to run betwee:i America and England had
excited much attention, and as these vessels
are to be of large dimensions and great
power, it was thought that the custom
at present monopolised by the sailing packets, in the
shape of second cabin and steerage passengers, as also
freight, would be speedily drawn away to the new
line. Should this prove to be the case, there is a
g eat probability that the Americans, in their anxiety
to be outdone, and to preserve their portion of the
carrying trade in their ow■ hands, will enter upon •
similar course. Should it be attended with sucoeu,
this means of communication will doubtless be ex-
tended indefinitely, and thus it is by to means impos-
sible that in course of time packet sailing vessels be-
tween the ports of the old and new worlds may come
to be regarded u an obsolete idea.
The following is en abstract for the first six months
of 1830 of the quantity and value of lead ores pro-
duced and sold by public tender or ticketings in the
three counties of Cornwall, Frintshire, and Cardigan-
shire, and other ?laces, the latter including parts of
Wales, Ireland, Scotland, and Isle of Man. Public
ticketing being the general mode of sale in the three
first-named counties, the return as regards the pro•
duce of lead ore from them arty be considered nenrly
complete. The northern counties of England are not
included :

Cornwall
Flintebire
Cardigenehlre
Other place.

18,434 246,673 10 2
From South Australia papers have been received
up to the 27th April, and the following are given as
prices of some of the shares in mines at Adelaide :
Burnt Burrs, 1601 to 1614; Princess Royal, 364 •
Port Lincoln, 41; Belvidere', 2 ; North Kapunda:
225.; Mount Remarkable', 104; Wbeal Mane, 21.;
Wheal Barton, 101; Mount Liverpool, 61.
The following report is given of Wheal Barton
The appearances at the mine are greatly improved
since the last report; the lode in Evans's shaft is in-
creasing in size, and improving in quality as it
deepens. The ten fathom level from Smith's shaft is
being driven north lon the course of the lode, and is
3 ielding good ore. Considerable quantities of red
oxyde of copper, of rich quality, have been raised
during the plat week, and we are informed that one
hundred tons of ore will be despatched from the mine
during the first week in the next month.