The Express.
London, England, 1862-01-21 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARI MARKETS.

anumoasx, Jaw. SO.—The sales to-day wen—Midland,
Bristol, and Birmingham Me per Cents., at 16OWellington
and Severn Junction, 106, and Birmingham Oae Ors A).
Buyers appeared of the following. via—Stour Valley, at 71—
Stour Valley Guaranteed, 67—BinaMitteas Guaranteed, Bi•
mikes, 76-South &affords. Pt buyees—Blrrotadheso Benign 81'
Company shares were quoted Yet to n Market Arm. BR

Tar Dear; or CARLIBLZ. —The Carlisle Ez-
Greiner states that • lecture was delivered by the dean gg,
on Three:lay evening, in the Athenaeum, to women ge
exclusively, not • male being present except the dean
himself and his chaplain. novelty of the meeting, Oa
or some other cause, had operated wonderfully on the .„14.
minds of the fair citizens, the doors of the lecture-hall
being besieged by an anxious crowd of arinolined girls and It
women as early as half.past 7 ; and by the time the lecture ge
began the place was crowded, forms having to be pleated on 17
the platform to aid in the accommodation of the seethes, of 141
whom there were many. The lecture was preceded by la
singing and prayer-the soft treble of such an immense II
feminine choristy making the first of these exercises aa,
inexpressibly sweet and touching. The dean delivered a N.
very animated lecture, in the course of which be gave some St.
good sensible advice. He spoke also II kindlier to paresis
as a necessary duty, and advised each of the young people 110
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--the daughters, to whom he spoke more especially-to try ;
and make herself useful to others in some humble way. The
dean concluded amid • good burst of feminine applause, but I et.
the usual compliment of a formal vote of thanks was die Bt.
penned with. Not having been able to finish his 'abject,
the dean will give the remainder to wives and mothers next
Thursday evening. EL
FATHER Dare.- On Saturday night the dead et,
THE COTTON reADI. walls of Galway were covered with a large placard, of which et.
SHORT TINS 111 LANCASHIRE. the following Is • copy :-" To the People of Ordway and at
the Parishioners of itaboon.-My dear Friends-Being about N.
Tho 3fanehexter Examiner of to-day publishes •• to nodertake a long and arduous journey for • ressou
variety of returns with regard to the present state of sus. which prudoooe has rendered me silent upon, I feel
ployment in the cotton manufacturing districts. The re. bound in gratitude to bid you farewell for a time. IL
If during my journey the Almighty should summon me a-
turns embrace almost the whole of the districts in to His tribunal, I hereb, declare my heartful gratitude se
which the cotton manufacture is carried on be for the favour, the affection, and the respe:t you hays to IS
the north of England, including Manchester. The ! the preseut moment exhibited to me. If I live to return
number of mills and factories of which we have gathered j to you it will be to devote the remaining short period of my
the statistics is 1.174...0„,jug 257.392 operative. There days to the most ardent sad melons efforts for your tem-
am in round nembere, above &ow working times w
intimate sote
4 eternal welfare. Nearly fifty ears of the most
intercourse ith you are the ony ly security I can i
161,000 working short time, and 27,000 entirely without offer of my sincerity. You are the witnesses I appeal to fla
employment. The average number of hours worked by as to its truth. May God protect the right, and give yogi at)
these on short time is 3i4, or fully 31 days every blessing, the parting wish and the tamp,
er of your friend
pray and pastor, Peres DALT, P.P. sad is
per week. The prop ration of operatives worths; full time VG. of St. Nicholas, and P.P. of itahoon.-Oelway, 134
is very mach greater in Meachester and Bohai than , ei Am., Jan. iv
is may other places, as may be seen by referring to the FAILURE AT BIRMINOHAIL-Yesterday it was I 10..
Iseledieg these two towns, the number of simonized in Birmingham that Mr. John Itubey, umbrella .1
ttab Is full onpinrienet in all the other districts would maker of that town, had suspended payment, his bills Fp
SilMi at 45,000 Wend eir 69,1100. Dividing the total
having bees returned a few days ago. The liabilities are NM- i
Dunker of kolas waked daring the week, by the total mated s° 30.0001" sad the " difficulty" has been hastened
by extensive ttauseetioas with America, and losses aimed If
number a bomily emplepad sad unemployed, the average thereby.
M
would le shall SI hems be it per wash. fit
Beim IN Aruci.-M. Malte-Brun has pub- le
The how* is as araysis of the details given by our Jibbed • letter in the Dtbatt. announcing an interesting Se
proviasiel assimespaingy geogrephical fact communicated to him by the traveller, It
so,* mius. ILL arm... Dr. Barth,
.of Berlin. It may be remembered that tb
Working fall time 1144
g goe•week gg kap mounteloons country of Jager' (eastern coast of a
44 i• --- 3.............Africe), is 1848, thought he saw in the distant 4
„ 4 „ .......- 332
„ =Au snow. The permanent mance of snow in that 14
• • • 170 efkgyg latitude was thought improbable, and the general 110
„ w • ...... 40 12,1A6 essitalioa in Europe was that the missionary bad
r, ..... i ism deceived by some optical illusion. The fact is now 2,
...-.—... 27,177 fully established, however, by a letter which Dr. Barth has
received front Baron de Backe°, who in compaay with Mr.
1,174 mpg ; Thornton, a geologist, has, after sannoneting hir
mesas difficulties, succeeded in reaching Kilunand-
jam one of the two mountains seen by the
Sacriv Kangwesow IffooUX.-During the week • . nary, and intends going to the other, called
eating Jan. 13 the Ashen lam dues as follows :-On ilea* in February next. Katmai:A*o is of vale ale
Monday, Twasday, sad fiehsoll4l., tam dam emu Irma and its height, recording to the baron's measurement,
110 he 10 p.m., 11,341 ;ea Wellassikb-Thusisy. aad is anne 23.000 English feet (6,500 metres), sad the upper
Prey, debate days WNW.. .0 the POW NA open B,oooere *owed with wow. Dr. Barth experts shortly'
hews 10 an. till 4 p.m. 1.420, ; total, 13,362. Prom the from Baron de Beckon a eomplste 'm ust of hie dia.
era* se the them; 2,446,494. wearies.