The Express.
London, England, 1864-05-06 00:00:00

MINES.-(THIS DA YJ

Two o'CLoot.
The mining market is very quiet to-day, and
prices generally exhibit no change, compared witk
those last current yesterday. East Condon shares
are quoted 29 to 39 • East Lovell, 21 to ; Great
Vor, 31 to 32; and Halleobeagh, 3) to 4. No
transactions are officially reported m the Stock
Exchange.
The dealings io the foreign and colonial mining
shares continue upon a very limited scale, and
prioes are without variation.
The third annual meeting of the Wheal Ellea
Mining Company of South Australia is convened
for the 18th mat. _ _ _ _ _

At the Vancouver Coal Mining and Land Com-
pany's special meeting yesterday, a dividend at the
rate of 5 per cent, for the fifteen months eliding
with December was declared. It was agreed that
a meeting should be called for the purpose of de-
ciding upon the issue of 3,500 additional shares, to
be odered to the present shareholders at par.

THE LATE 311 t. FRANK SMEDLEY. —The deceased
was, perhaps, one of the most remarkable instances of the
iof mortal vigour over bodily isfirmity that the hie•
troiryaat literature reads. From his infancy, the late Mr.
Siedley was afflicted with the most distremieg deformity—
annual malformation toss& an extent that be could neither
walk, nor ride, sae indulge is any maim menus what-
soever. In ordinary cams such grievemeaMictioo would
have deterred the mutterer from any athmpt at making
either a name or a position in the world or io society
but by an exercise of the will which only those whet
have seen the anther of " Freak Faishieh " aas
adequately appreciate. Mr. Smedley triumphed over the
trammels which Nature bad pot on him from hie birth,
acquired • liberal edscation, theme a pesetened awl
forcible writer, and was hi way to • good plate is
Utilises. By a curious &oilier, to his normal iambi
coaditioa, the whole bent of his taste wee is the direeties
ef mealy power, feats of physical peewees, bold arise.
and daring enterprise. Mr. Smedley net any sever was
on a home's back is his life, bat never eves me • nee or
• racecourse ; yet from reading, convershig, end the powat
of a vivid imagination sad a weenier skill in reproof dad
the descriptive facts he gathered hate more physially
favoured people, be wrote the beet roma of the Darby
that hoe ever appeared—% "Derby Day" is literature
equal to what Mr. Frith's pieties is in pointless. His
books shooed with graphic sad vigorous deseriptioss of
basin, " town sad gown rows." rowing
mat lies, muscular teals el all kisda—ta fact, they
are quite of the '• Guy Livingstone" style in companies.
Although a life-lose cripple, draws Moat to a little chair,
Frank Smedley wrote ecothatly mil well, sad bad made •
same sad a deemed for his works Ware a liberal bossily
placed him in effluence fee the rest of his life. Ho ass
extremely food of society, and a keels, clever, mate
talker. His knowledge at cement meats, from
almost all of which he was hopelessly excluded, was
very remarkable. No reader ot "Hamy Goserdele."
' Lewis Arundel," or " Freak Feirleigh would have
coscsived that the author wee a Whims cripple who child
not even sit at a desk and hold a pee without' the aid of
mama appliances : who bad sever participated in an el
themanly and vigorous sae which he loved so much tie
depict in powerful and animated las/ease : who seemed
Mat out by Nature from his birth from all hope of ever
takieg any part in the world or its ways; and who yet. by
an effort of the strung will and semi heart that wale given
him, made himself • same in literature and a place is
society, and lived an abject of tender reused end elhatiss.
ate esteem siaceskall his friends.—iforikeres Whip.A
FILM= BletHOP OH THE STATE OF AFFAIRS
AT ROES—A Paris letter is the heilycadence of Brun. •
eels. speaking of Mgr. Depaslosp, empress= itself se
follow.:—"Gee of the most Meet of the bishops if
Frame, who has taken an satire part I. the movement is
favour et the temporal ppm et the Papacy, has just
arrived here from thrne, where he bee bees Maras Dearly
three mouths. He preached there to beetles andirons.
and had an opportusity of farming as serest. opinion d
the religious situatioe is the Sisal (Sty . He Me some
beck oomplehily disenchanted. He easels from as
me that, sotwathemading a retention sash se is net
often given even to ondiath, he is. all his illusions
disappear one by one. He deelmw that ` Remo Is a Babel;
that no cies knows who «ara& ; Hat Oudimal Asteatilh
and Mgr. de Miro& is tires seesaw power, whisk sees
paths into other heads ; that rim IS., sane dad by the
, petty prelates who loth hie priests mart, is entirely at
their mercy, and acts tinder their Witham, became* they
know how to please aad muses hm ; that the cardinals
make no meet of their justifiable diarist, .em they.
the legitimate amosellers of the Pepacy,are never couselled, •
and are only Wormed, at the same tithes the public, of the
most impatient deterothatiam, nerdy always suggested by
the petty prelates who In the Pope. Scab is the
picture if Mame giver by the Mem pememme."
ROYAL TILMORAMII MOM DOWEL—The new
berg Genie poMikes ewes details ce the rather ie while
Use taking of Dapped woe telegraphed to Berko. Belied
the first parallel was a reible tannin • telegraphic
and in which were wires is cammenieation with
Broacher, Chissiadria, sad Bork.. To gash &Seaside, as.
Ism aid M ark desmiressi d temps el saisilery wen
attached as akar el the alsk_whe taimassel tbs fasts
es they took *es, either blood& or by orderlies seed to
the Gommimis•Ctilief. Extract hem their
were imaginarily um& seediest and fereended to the =
the mieseashi bethees. The latter=these direst
the K ing, who thennoesived Mast 300 phic despatches
is the course of the day.