The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-06 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SMARR MARKETS.

Irriaroor, JBalt 5.--ftaka to-day: Great Nagano. ON—Lan-
esahlre and Yorkablre, 1101—Landon and North Western, 10.11—
Manchester, dbedteld. and Lincoln, 46 f-110009011W1.• "
Midland, IN3I-111thola Centrals, 31—ditto paid-up, 001-9arabre
and Meuse, 10 6-10—North and South Wales Bank, `Mr—Empire
Marine Insurance Company, 3-16—Queen Insurance Company,

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tAnarinitTa, Joni 5.—A moderate general business has been
done, but at lower priors. Caledonian, 1174—Great Eastern, '
53. 21, —Great Luxembourg, 14 1-16—Great Northern, A, 1281—
Great Ship, Sr. W.—Groat Western of Canada, 11 5-16—Illinois
Central, SI d.--ditto paid up, 60—Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, 461, 6—ditto W. Pref., p.—Metropolitan, 181.16
—North British, 52—South Eastern, Pti—Whitehaven and Fur-
ness, 181—Shropshire Union, 60f—Illinois Cancelled Bond Scrip,
46—Garston Extension, 10 I.l6—gonteos Aura, 21-oswestr7
and Newtown, 90—ditto Pref., 100—Confederate Loan, If d.
BIRMINGHAM, JUNI s.—Among the closing quotations of
to day were Stour Valley Guaranteed, trti, buyers—Groat
Western, on to 671—London and South Western, 102 i to 106
South Statfords, 10; to 11 —Birmingham !Wok, 07 to 27
Shropshire Bank, 41 to - Birmingham Gas, new ordinary, MI,
10 to i prem.—Staffordshire Gas, ISt. shares, I to Si peens—BM.
minghans Broadstreet Brewery, 11 to 114—BirmingMim New
Union Mill, 21 to 1-oenerat Steam, iSi, buyers. Business dull

TRAITIe RETVINS.—The traffic receipts of rail-
ways in the United Kingdom amounted, for the week
ending the 30th of May, on 10,684 miles, to 602,9921., and
for the corresponding week of last year, on 10,237 miler,
to 528,2661., showing an increase of 447 miles, and of
74,7261. io the receipts. The gross receipts on the follow.
ing 14 railways amounted in the aggregate, on 7,297 miles,
to 474,0471. ; and for the corresponding week of
1862, on 7,036 miles, to 411,7621., showing an in-
crease of 261 miles, sod of 62,2851. in the receipts. The
, increase on the Caledonian amounted to 1,265/4 on the
' Great Eastern to 5,001/.; on the Great Northern to 6971. ;
on the Great Western to 1.7601. ; on the Lancashire sad
Yorkshire to 14,1271. ; on the London and North-Western
to 12,142/. ; on the Loudon, Brighton. and South Coast
to 4,740/. ; on the London and South-Western t• 3,5784 ;
on the Manchester. Sheffield, and Lincolnshire to 4,5101.;
on the Midland to 6,02?/. ; on the North British to 1,4361.;
on the North Easters to 2,4601. ; and on the South.
Eastern to 4.7171. ; total, 62,5351. Bat from this must be
deducted 2501., the decrease on the Great Southern and
Western, leaving the increase as shove, 62,285/. The
goods and mineral traffic on those lines amounted to
218,2781., and for the corresponding week of 1862 to
203,354/., showing an increase of 14,924/. The receipts for
passen parcels, kr., amounted to 255,7691., against
206,40& gers,., showing an increase of 47,361/. The traffic re-
ceipts on 63 other lines amounted, on 3,386 miles, to
128.945/., and for the corresponding week of List year. on
3,201 miles, to 116,504/., showing an increase of 185 miles,
and of 12.4411. in the receipts. The total receipts of the
past week show an increase of 16,1771., am compared with
those of the preceding week, ending the '23rd of May.

THE LORD-LIEDTENANCY OF STAFFORDSHIRE.— JEWS AND JEWESSES ON THE FRENCH STAGE.
We understand that the Right Hilo. the Earl of Lichfield In speaking of the stage I ought to say that among the
has been appointed to the office of Lord-Lieutenant of this actors and actresses at all the theatres from the Theatre
county, vacant by the death of the late Lord Hathertoo. Francais and Grand Opera down to the Funambules Hippo-
The appoietment will give geueral satisfaction throughout demos and Cirque de l'lmperatrice, I have been struck with
the county. —Stoffordshire Advertiser. the number of Jews and Jewesses employed. In the five-a ad-
The views of the Wigan council with respect to tweuty theatree, great and small, with which Paris is f unskilled,
on an average one-fourth of the company is composed of the
borrowing public money for the employment of the die- Hebrew sem These are Jewish aragedi.
' i comedians, and
tressed cotton workmen, are said to have been favourably boa.' ; Jewish singers, dancers, and figtrantes ; Jewish
received by the government. According to a report paten, scene-shifter, and candle-snuffers; ; and last,
reoeived in Wigan. they will be embodied in an act of par- lsh rope-dancers. In feet, circuses, bull baiting, ',gni-
!lament, intended to enable corporations to borrow money
tation, and rope dancing are now the rage. and the classic
from tLe public exchequer. drama, as in the days of Terence, is neither relished nor
A very painful case happened at Barnsley yea- underitood•
terday morning. A young mother, with an infant of tea Nov, m Intervenit loin et calamitas,
days old, leaped into the river, ad both were drowned. neque speetart neque cognosel potnerit :
It was supposed the mother was labouring under mental Its impel a studio stupidus In funambulo
alienation. Animism occupant,
Through the breaking of the driving-wheel at Nor is it only the theatre that is invaded with Jews. There
the Green Slate Colliery, Wigan, on Tuesday, 100 men and are now multitudes of Jewish littirateurs, news-writers,
boys were imprisoned in the pit for some hours. The editors, and contributors, as well as Jewish advocates and
colliers were shut up from morning till night, when the physicians. The beet stalls at the opera, the Francais, and
last of them was extricated by means of a crane winding the Vaudeville, are nightly rented by Jews, who spend their
apparatus. mornings at the Boone or the Credit Mobilise. —Praeer's
A MAN Low/. FOR FOUR DAYS IN A COAL MINE.— Magazine for June.
An extraordinary circumstance occurred last week at the THE USE OP DRAWEIL9.—TIIO business habits of
Mount Moor colliery, in the Black Fell, io Derbyshire. The men may be guessed from their furniture. The great oh-
works of the colliery bad been suspended for a short time, ject is to keep things at once separate from each other,
hat with a view to preserve the ventilation a furnace was and easily accessible to their owner. Disorder and con-
kept burning below. One of the men engaged at this fusion are always the punishment of people who will not
furnace, named Thomas Brown, went down the pit on be at the pains to understand this theory. No amount of
Thursday morning to attend to it, and was left there disorder ever conquered me, and T know by practical ex-
by the man he relieved ; when this man returned to perience in affairs that I am able to cope with any
relieve Brown, be was not there, but on the seat amount of details, but not single-hooded. I require the
ere ir the furnace he found his watch and knife, and part of assistance of the cabinet-maker, and he is the first man I
his victual', be haring evidently consumed part of the latter call in when there is a difficulty. Some time since, being
before leaving. The furnace was still burning, but the dre with a country gentleman of moderate estate, who had a
was very low. This man went in search of the missing fancy for managing his own property,. and who, cense-
furnaceman, but failed in finding any trace of him, when queotly, bad got into a state of awful confusion, I helped
he gave the alarm to the persona in charge. A perry of him out of it in a fortnight in this way. I got him to
men and officers descended and commenced the search, but assign me a particular little room in hie house to do what
this proved unavailing, although great exertions were I liked with. I sent for the joiner. I bad the room lined
made by relays of men, until Mooday morning, at all Tonal from top to bottom, with small drawers varying
seven o'clock, when he was found in a remote part in depth, made of common deal, and so arranged that four
of the workings, near the old shaft, he having been locks locked them all. (Quite possible by means of a
then 91 hours in the mine, and 93 hours without food simple arrangement of hinged slips, vertical and
or drink. The sustenance he had daring this time was the horizontal.) When this was finished I had the front
oil from his lamp, which he had sacked up. Although of the drawers, that is, the whole wall of the room.
much exhausted when found, he soon revived, and after a painted dark green. When the paint was dry I admitted
little food, Inc., had been administered, be walked home the owner of the house. " What are all these drawers
with little assistance. It appears that he had left hie poet, for?" said he. "To get your papers in order ; fetch me
which was very improper, to look for a slope drift, which he all your papers." Well, he brought thousands of different
bad been told passed up from the Maudlin seam, in which papers, all ia great tin boxes. Now a box, especially a
the furnace was, into the Higher seam through the main deep one, is a barbarous piece of furniture for purposes of
onal, and his light having been extinguished, he was soon order ; you may pack it in a very orderly manner. but how
entirely lost and bewildered, and wee at length found, as are you to get at the things afterwards? A box lacks the
deacribed, after a search of nearly four days.—DertysAire necessary quality of accessibility. You have to torn oat
Courier. twenty things to get at one ; hearse inevitable disorder.
THE CLERGYMAN AND THE PARROT'.—A singular IMy friend's tin boxes were all in that state ; there were
incident occurred in St. Bartholomew's chapel-of-ease, Papers in them that ought to have been kept quite acme-
Rochester, on Whit-Sunday morning, which, apart from it Bible, that nobody could have found without a week's
occurring in • sacred edifice, was of a highly amusing labour. He and I emptied all the boxes. and arranged
character. The clergyman, the Rev. Mr. Bond, had given the papers in the drawers according to a definite plan of
out his text, and had just commenced an edifying discourse mine, estate by estate, with subdivisions of farm by farm.
in connexion with the day, when a parrot, which was in a I chalked the contents of every drawer on the outside of
age outside • house clam to the chapel, set up a loud it ; then I locked all the drawers, arid sent for a painter
whistle, followed by a prolonged scream, to the horror of who painted the words in great white, legible capitol
the preacher, and the delectation of the younger members letters. After that I left the house ; but • year afterwards
of the congregation. The rev. gentleman, however, pro- my friend told me that he managed his business with suc-
ceeded with his sermon, when the congregation were in a prising facility, and could at any time get at any little fact
few moments startled by another loud scream from the he wanted—thanks to the drawers. —Macmillon's Magazine
parrot, followed by a few incoherent expressions. The for June.
Pressler. who was evidently much annoyed at this unseemly The Standard, Nov. 15th, speaking of Benson's
interruption to his eloquence, stopped his sermon, and tnti. watches In the Exhibition, says :—" It has evidently been Mr.
meted that it would be impossible for him to propped unless Benson's object to render them rivals In point of beauty of deco-
the parrot were either silenced or removed ; but as no one ration to the elegant Swiss knickoncks. and at the same time to
preserve the characteristics of an English watch—streturth,
left his seat to do so, the discourse was continued. Sad durabceirlitlninsaccuracy. In point ofe dect7aMon his watches
denly, however, another defiant scream and whistle, louder, are
if possible, than the preceding ones, was given by the parrot. centr:secopd.. ouPlitliecolevneS;„ banwid"
This was Sao much for the rev. gentleman, who, in the every description of watch. adapted to all climates. Benernis
greatest apparent chagrin, abruptly closed his sermon, and Illustrated Pamphlet on Watches tree by post for two stamps)
hadozbezruAlnaphlilae tocpx.reircrhie tzhesiar
dismissed the copgregation, who, in spite of every effort, cogitates a short history of watchmaking, with descriptions and
IgraLLIviI:Oy.DAY.—FIUDAT, India, or any part of the world, Ireland,selects watch, tahnedetveteli
prime. Maas as a guide in the purchase of a watch, and en-
ables those who live in Scotland, Wales,
Joss —Admission. on payment, 1,307 ; ditto by SILKSI seat tree and safe by poet.-3. W. Benson, Prize Medallist, RI
Make* 710 ; total, 2,017. and Si, Ludgate-hill, Loudon. Establi•hed 1749. Advertisement ]