The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-11 00:00:00

PROMNIAL MARS MARRETS.

Ltritaroo4 MAWR 10.—Bala today:—Eastern Count"
n 9161 946 xd—Great Western, 73 3} xd—Lancaster and Car-
lisle, 1981 xd—lAncashire and Yorkehire, 108 74 8 7} xd—Landes
and North Western, 941 } id—Manchester, bheffiekl, sad Lin-
coln, 451—Midland Stock, 1291 1i } 9:d—North Eastern, Ber-
wick, 00—South Beaton, 26 5 1546 4—Eastern Counties 6 per
cent N 0.1,1081 xd—Lanesaterraad Carlisle el percent., 11 p. xl—.
Manchester, Sheffield, end Lincoln 6 per cent., 1234—Uventas
and Lancaster, 25} xd—Buffalo and Lae Huron, 6 7-rAtta
—Ditto 7 per oent. 101. shares, 81—Dutch Rhenish.
Trunk of Canada, 6 15-+l6—Gatr Western of Canada, 134—Saes
Paulo 7 per cent. Oho.), pk of Liverpool, sat —Limped
and London Fire and We, 6 15-16 p—Queen Insurance, gar.
ILAISCHISTIM, Mani 10.—The market wu active, the Du&
nets ext‘ndiug over a great variety of stocks. Prices steady.
Caledonian, 109{—Raetern Counties, 111—Great l Luxembourg.
11 946 I—Orsad Trunk of Canada, 41S-16—Great Western of
Canada, 13 1146—Great Western. 711 t 3—lllinois Central, 49}d.
—Lanesehirs and Yorkahlre, 70818 i 81—London and North
I Western, 94} 1--Midland, 129}—North British, 861—South
Eutern, 26 s
and6—Tham and Mersey Marine Insurance, 11 346
p—Preston Wyre, 644—Ditto Halves. 21—Utverston and
Lancaster, Wl—London and South Western, 1024—Gewestry sal
Newtown Prof., 104—Bank of Manchester, 746—Fleetwood,
—Carsten Eatension All paid), 91—Buffalo, 64-8•31 Paulo, 746 p.
BIRMINGHAM, ''MARCH 10.—The sales to-day were :—creel
Western ',firming/dun Guaranteed at 77—Birmingham Town and
District Bank at 15—and Railway Rolling Stock Preference a*
11. Se. 161, p—London and North Western stock cloud tellers a*
941-Botith Staffordshire at 11—and South Staffordshire Water-
works at 74. There were buyers,of London and Nort, Western.
Coventry and Nlllleatol3, at 115 xd—Wellington and Severn Junc-
tion at 10—Birmingham Gas 4147—and Birmingham ,Old Union
Mill at 101.

" BLACKWOOD " AID SIR A. ALISON.—IL would
ill become us to close our review of this last work
of Sir Archibald Alison, without • warm anti well-
earned tribute to the man who is now the List
survivor of the galaxy of writers who contributed
to the early numbers of the Magnum Wilco
Lockhart, Hamilton, Galt, Crowly, Hogg, Delta, 1)•
Quincey—tbose old familiar fans, who still look dotes
upon us from the Ohtani frames is Ebony's saloon—
have all passed to their rest. Sir Archibald alone is left
stillstroeg and vigorous, we are happy to say, and strong
sod vigorous may belong remain! Forty-three years have
passed since, whilst a youth, his literary talent Nuffieed
to enrol gum among the contributon to Mat's. Since
thou, Maga and he have grownold together—time mutual
friendship has stood the strain alike of time sod circum-
stances—and we rejoice to see the victor's tv,...ith en-
circling the brows of one who first won his spun in the
service of Mari. As we turn over the page!, of pad
volumes, we recognise the "Roman hand' of Sir
Archibald with a frequency second only to that of our
venerated "Christopher North" himself. The last of •
goodly moe, we greet him.—Bilicktoood's llcsoc::ine far
Aarch.

IN EGYPT. —A little refreshed from the day's ex-
cursion by dates and oranges, and delicious Nile water.
cooled in the eartbern " bardak," I got out to lie on a sofa
on the balcony which overhangs the glorious river. There
it lies, some sixty feet below, rolling on calmly and slowly,
and of enormous width even here, where I see but one branch
of it, while this other is hidden behind the Isle of Rhoda.
Beautifully green and rich is this same island orposite me,
and a fitting scene, with its palm-groves overhanging the
water, for the sweet legend which tells that here the daugh-
ter a Pharaoh, straying from her royal home in neigh-
bouring Memphis. found among three thick rushes the little
child who wan to become the greatest propbet of the world,
save OWL A mile further up the river, at the southern-
most point of the island, stands the tower of the 7.:ilorne-
ter ; and everywhere on the island and the shore., peeping
between the groves of acacia and palm, and gardens
of oranges are palaces with their fiat ovetlignging
roofs still recalling in their forms the propylon of the
temple. of Thebes and Phi's. The sou is going down be-
youd the palms of Rhodes ; beyond the line of giant
cypresses upon the further shore ; beyond the burning yel-
low desert where stand the two great Pyramids, clear and
sharp against the evening sky—even at this &atone the
grandest objects in the landscape. And as the sun is sink-
ing slowly, there comes from some unseen minaret in Baby-
lon the *wee of the muezzin:
Is Allah, illah Allah
The beautiful call, more solemn than any venrer
echoes over the water, and the poor fishermen, who-e beats
are moored for the night under my balcony, leave the Skit.
ple preparations for their evening meal, and spread their
7aAtT93Evutii and a golden silence, and the sun goes down in a sea
of
carpetareverentolny tfohreitrhdeeicrks,suadi
pbareniyetp.eirnfeeter., and kne
great el
hdual.own
glory—" a bed of daffodil sky'—and the pyramids and
Consols, which closed on &turtle° to ;for d out darker and darker
"Pananea'L, and PitenVerriens barges
and palace all down a
the 10th April, opened this morning at 94 to f, &me out one by one overhead, and the young eressat
and closed at 94 to I. Fer money the last price, moon with the earth•light filliug her born, lump near sad
sad
groat river, eavr°en where Memphis stood ; and the stars
brooding over
was 93k to
lows :—Three per Cent. Consols, for money, 94, the infinite depths o the heavens beyond :re dewendiagito earth from the
I f —is brooding The official business report is as fol. clear, andeeemine as if she we
; ditto for account (April 1111), ; hank mud,.
"beloved land of Egypt."—Fraser's Maga:ine toe

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IMPERIAL PARLIAMENT.

BOOS! OF LOILD&--MosDAY, MA U% 10.

Their limiehipt sid el 4 o'clock. when the mat_ brat
"OS gives to the Cletus kW Fund 197:1,747/.) Mt. The
bode 0010111i11110•11VS VIM the Lord C:mueellor, Lod Ca

wort►, sad Exrl St. Genstaot.
NEW FOREST.

The Earl of MALMESBURY gave notice that, on
Thumlay nest, he woul,l 4,11 atteutieu . irculur seat to
pawns bolding linesmen for thootiug iu the New Forest,
which w.e.id W have received the uppror..l el the Chief
Ooturuweioner of Wawa sad tweets,
PROSECUTIONS OF THE PREPS IN ITALY.

The Marquis of Notice
postponed his ineties, ai
which he had gives Notice for Friday, relatiog to gem-
s/met prosecutions of the peer duns; the last two yeas in
until Healey next
BLoCK ADE OF THE SOUTHERN PORTS.
Lord sTK ATUEDEN rose to call the attention ef the
Low*. to the blockade of the ports of the Os..
federate Stow. of America, mid to move as Mares
1.. the crown toe copy of any conespoodese es that
cab cot salsoret to the papers presented to the
hi ow. The both, loot sold the object of hie
Is..twes we. oat to prove that the basked, ought to has
bria raio..l IN fore now, or that some measure in that
wore ought to be taken, but to establish that towards one
el the 6ellµereota according to pretreat information, we
had assumed as attitude which ■uepsoelecl if it did not
entirely violate sr asetrality, sail that in order to restore
that Neutrality sane further setts was ~oriel as oar
part. The hothgeniet to which he referred was the Southern
or

-.........10.110.11atj power.
Lard ABINGER samemed his approbation of the
*Winona MAWS is whisk her Majeetv'e government had
eandected their nom. with the United States
relative to the Treat Yipity. Those migotiations had
Mien eveducted with perlanes, dignity, sad consklaration.
When once we wen reidided with the determination of the
austiorta Mate. to isminkis their indepeedeoce, it was in-
pus
Membeet e us, re re sans( of bloodshed, that their
inscopitim thong take pie&
Earl Kt mew. AAA tbst there could be no doubt of
the right d the MOM= Sirs to establish the blockade ;
and rent ddiet theme= used seas not have been quite
fab ilest, Pao row adequate rid effective. Mere were,
Me duets. kwbe this bierade, but they wen only
aieh es stew mss her the nature of the operatios.
if the bras& woo set rally affirm that queries' could
M trod in the rim genits. 'There was great exsageratios
is the arlarenta d the arra of reser which
bed rue the blaskire. The goveruart el Fresco was
mosrlawee with that of England ea this rib-
pr. berrying that she blockade be/Seer WS:SWF
BIM it sight be to the rearsewe of the two err
=woo lewd and elsolimaL Males gorraaret
aurally watch the OWN of eurfre with raid
hernirity to all reties. The noir aid ratinued
thrk it was the olper el eery sister el the pressed
her the very lealort be watch the arms oreal• with
Garry, re the daterisiaatra M sr It on
spirik wed te perm the strict kroboollby al al=
(Haar.) Sookitkoas ear course, r when we whom-
the Orr as s bolalaproat Pow, may bare her COW
id SO bass as Wormsaes ups the North, and
aeorriare, se rim we kola& she privatise gstog with
their into Kafir pels. OM erre ray bre been
as sahereatie kr the Sorb. We did net cog-
siderthis torrecy al Woo ado— ersiderd rely whethcr
they pun - I. themelvea, rid lierderg to Wm .eta
of lir easeirry. Set Ywe bad been Advil to take • ppaacrtt in
the trend. there ens ether seidorteroe and otter eafirNtw
to the world and to the pawls of Amorist specially, whir
right have ansea frees sr elilsebig bastilitha I bow.
owe Mt* a iskaeotiog assesat. I lobo* as 'Goal
tba Aimless 'Wm, 61•• •
=6was ant to otporiaked the
soma at PM
The puma lobe mks the teoport looaribao Übe amliika
than mainos. art bra ready they orb he week, was*,
istboomosto boa held opt to thor poring sore eD
wager if they ceetteuel Orr work ; sad be soda by larks&
" Although I have done eventing I meld to dissipate the
esierrUons„ which are calenmems sad free, against the
pewronseet of Presider Lissols, I bare cautiously ab-
shred frees those wry exestenmete to the slaves to rise
against them imellers.“ But if by some misfortune, if
owing to the seemly to medicate our honour, if owing
to parratene that this blockade could oat be legally ac-
Inenwliedged, ere had entered into this war, soy thought of
'rag Ur pent question by peaceable means would, I em
have vanished with the first cry which the
Millwik word have rued, ad which would have been
a proelamation of general emancipation and Inure-
tioa of thi slam. I am sate we all wish that
the eta and stain of slavery may came ; but there is nothing
I should look at with greater borne than* sudden immerse- '
tics of 4,00U,0110 of people, the derastatioca they would
rose and the horror. murders, and pilings which, in the
mined liberty, might ban been perpetrated. Ifni*
thee, that when this melba sleds it will end in soch• way
that, 'debauch the muse of the emancipation of the secrete
will have mooed, it will be en emancipation conducted era'
dually tied by peaceable means, sod that the slaves of
America will is time take their place me free labourers
without lees of life or the destruction of the property of
their masters. (Hear, hear.) It is noe owing to their
raster tint slavery sow wrier in the Southern States of
America. It is as krerrince which they have derived
frees their cottony. (Rear, hear.) But it we had taken
Pp this question of blockade, if we bad said that the weasels
condemned in the various prise courts of America had born
unjustly and unlawfully condemned, and the Federal
goserinneet bad maintained that they were justly con-
demned, I kern uu course which would have been
open but ear with the totted States Having
taken a different course, I do trust that within three
nmatbs—perhaps, even sooner—we may see the ekes of
this civil war to America. (Hear, hear.) I have not, is
any language I have used, inteuiled to bare taken the part
of either the one aide or the other in this conflict. I trust
that that oolit,t may end., allowlog each of them a course
of happiness and freedom. (Hear, hear.) It would, per.
haps lc inipowible—l believe it w"uld be impissible—to
renew the old feeling between the North and South; sod,
if that be ao, I trust that whatever may be their military
successes. whatever may be their sand victories, whatever
positine they may capture, that the North will at hist con-
sist to the priceable seventies of two states which might both
be mighty of two states inhabited by persona of very dif-
fermi education and of very different nature perhaps, but
respecting each other--ad each cone on in a 0010.1.11 a peace
sad prwperity, which will, Out oral benefit that great
cuuatry an the present day, but will eric.:re its politica
for centuries to 00108. If thin may be the car,
I should heartily rejoice : and I should rejoice
above all it, during the eionteet, we should have
done nothing to operant* the quarrel, while wo bad
pursued a course of oneiliation, showing that the respect
which we eotarmised for both parties when they were
firnierly great is union was uodimmiahed when they were
Mr-sled. (Hear, hear.)
The motive was thee withdrawn.
The Transfer of Keel Estates Hill and the Exchequer Bills
Hill pea-ed a second reeding.
Theo lordship. adjourned at half .peat
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SOUSE OF COMMON& ..-SIONDAY, ..lAlt.'o 10.
The Sreasra took the chair at Ave minutes to four