The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-06 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARI HAREEM
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LIVERPOOL, Die. 6.—Caledonian, 118 118e—Flreat East-
ern, 5443* 44—Great Western, 651 to 651—Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 10E4 109}—London and North Western, 98/ 961--
London and South Western, 1014 102—Manchester, Sheffield,
and Lincolnihire, 39 40—Midland Stock, 128} 1214—North
British, An 54I—North Ataffordshire, 4 3,1 d.—North Eastern,
Berwick. 904 100—ditto York and North Midland, 881 10—
MM Leeds Capital Stock, ao fB}--ditto Carlisle, 1281 It 7}—
South ?miens and Dover, 881 881—Antwerp and Rotterdam n
—Buffalo and Lake Huron, 6; 7-18—Dutch Rhenish, 1 1-18 lip.
—Grand Trunk of Canada, 2111 218—Great Luxembourg, 14}
141—Great Western of Canada, 13,14-1111nols Central, 40e 40d.
—Erie, 42 43—Sombre and Menge, 9 9-18 911-18—Alliance Bank,
77; p.—Great Ship, 4s. 3d. 4s. 9d.—Thames and Mersey Insu-
rance, 2 9-18 24 p.

name Racmers.—The traffic receipts of rail-
ways in the United Kingdom amounted for the week ending
the 29th Nov., on 10,499 miles, to 514,9701., and for the
corresponding week of last year, on 10,186 miles, to
500,8801., showing au increase of 313 miles, and of
14,0901. in the receipts. The gross receipts on the fol-
lowing 14 railways amounted in the aggregate, on 7,t11
miles, to 403,285/. • ' and for the corresponding week '
of 1861, on 7,006 miles, to 394.318/. • showing an in-
crease of 215 miles, and of 8,967/. in the receipts. The
increase on the Caledonian amounted to 6031.; on the
Great Eastern to 111 ; on the Great Northern to 2631. ;
on the Great Southern and Western to 2671.; on the Great
Western to 1,236/. ; on the London and North-Western
to 2,4821. ; on the Louden, Brighton, and South Coast,
to 2,0911.; on the London and South-Western to 293/. ;
on the orth British to 3961 ; on the North-Eastern
to 1,0371. ; and on the South-Eastern to 803/.—total,
9,4831. But from this most be deducted 2451., the de-
crease on the Lancashire and Yorkshire; 1841. on the
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire ; and 871. on the
Midland ' • together, 5161., leaving the increase, as above,
8,9671. The goods and mineral traffic cm those lines
amounted to W 7,2511., and for the corresponding week of
1861 to 732,2501., showing an increase of 5,001/. The
receipts for passengers, parcels, amounted to 166,034/.,
spinet 162,0691., showing au increase of 3,966/. The
traffic receipt. on 64 other lines amounted, on 3,279 miles,
to 111.685/., and for the corresponding week of last year.
I on 3,180 miles, to 106,562/., showing an increase of 99
miles, and of 5,123/. in the receipts. The total receipt.
of the past week show a decrease of 3,0971. as compared
with those of the preceding week, ending the 22nd of Nov.
IMPERIAL FASHIONS AT COMPIZONE.—The coup
criell which the hemicycle of the theatre at Compiegne pre-
sents when occupied by the imperial family and their guests
is brilliant in the extreme. The Emprere when at Compiegne
makes it • rule to dress as expensively as she can, and of
1 course all the ladies do their beet to follow the example
which she thus sets them. She is also very fond of cur-
t-cording herself with handsome women, arid the livelier
they are the better. It is now the fashion at the palace to
cast aside flowers as much as possible and to substitute pre-
cious stones in their stead. The latter are so profusely
displayed as to remind one of the treasures which
the genie of the lamp brought to Aladdin when he was going
to be married to the Sultan's daughter.. Dresses are looped
up and spangled with them. They are interwoven with the
hair ; and necklaces, earring., brooches, and bracelets are
worn so large that their effect is almost too dazzling. All
kinds of eccentric ornaments in precious stones are also worn
at Compiegne, such as huge butterflies and locusts ; and one
Austrian princess, rather under the influence of caprice
than good taste, made her appearance in the theatre
wearing on the side of her head a little sentinel
in sapphire, ruby, diamonds, and enamelled gold.
On another occasion the Empress had quite • col-
lection of tropical humming-birds about her person.
But they were, however. arranged with good effect. She I
had a dress of some very flimsy pink material, which looked I
so light that one would be in no way surprised to see it ;
Hosting in the air like a pipe-blown bubble. The skirt
would have been perhaps as long ea the train of a court ,
dress, were it not what is technically called "looped up"
with bunches of roses, so fresh, so fair, and so like those
which grow in a well cultivated garden, that the t/
humming-birds which fluttered on them seemed amitl
at-
tracted there by their beauty. Fireflies also gleamed out
from beneath the green leaven, and on the side of • wreath I
of roses and rosebuds a very long-tailed bird of paradise bad
the Privilege of being perched the whole evening.—Letter ,
frt. Paris.

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