The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-01 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.-(THIS DAY.)

Two .o'Cuww.
The Stock Exchange being closed today, we hare
no report to make under this bead,

PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKETS.

LrecagOOL, APRIL 30.—ealea to-day : Great Eastern, an
Great Luxembourg, 141—Great Weth.rn of Canada, 11;—Altifon
Insurance Company, 4 p.—Omsfednate Loan, 14 p.
Itiliounattan, Aram 20.—Birmingham Lhaala were mid st BM
and Butolugham Banks at 17. Britannia 21111 s marked 14 to 1
dia.—t-outh ma:fords, lug. les. 3a. to 111—Br4toi sad Bin=
ham 6 per cent., 139 to 140—birminaliam Joinhst,:
Limited;, 234 to 4 —Stafford hire Use, or.. 34 to ti—aletinpoll
,l-
tan Wagon, nom, j to 1116 p.—Blrminghazu Waterworks. ST,
buyers.

THE MMISOPOLITAN EXTENSION or THE LONDON,
CHATHAM, AND DOT= RAILWAY.—This roaming • new
station on the lletrepolitan Extension hoe of the London,
Chatham. and Dover Railway was (aimed at Camberwell.
gate for the conmeience of the numerous inhabitant. of that
locality. who bad memorialised the directors to take their
requirements iuto consideration. The Maim up and down
the hue for the first time began to-day to run every tea
minutes I...teed of every half-hour as heretofore.
RAILWAY BRRYANTS AND THE PRINcr uF
—At a numerously attended special meeting of the ii.embers
of The United Kingdom Railway Officers and Servants
Afflsociation, held at the Bridge-house Hotel. London-bridp,
os Wedmieday last, Mr. H. Dyne, station meter, South
PaNtero Railway, London-bridge station, moved a ecegrate-
latory address to the Priem of Wales no his royal high-
ness's marriage ; the motion was seconded by Mr. V. God-
frey, station master, Great Eastern Railway, Risi.,,,egate
station, and carried by acclamation.
CALU TO TRY BAIL—The nudenne'ntioncel gentle-
men were yesterday celled to the deem of barrister-at-law
by the Hoe. Society of Liaoohi's.iou. viz :—George :Amami
Wicksted, Eq.. R. A., Oxford; Richard Dickson Preston,
Esq.. B.A. Cambridge • Edward St. Anbyn, Pee. ;
Stephen Blount, '
Esq. ; Albert Minis Perna,. 3L A.,
Oxford ; Thomas Pitts :Amused, Eq. ; and Step en Ella
Rogers, Esq. At a pension of the Hon. Society of Gray's.
bolder yesterday, Nugent Charles Walsh, Req., was
caned to the degree of bewriater.allaw.
MR PROFUNDITY OF TER GIIIMARS.—That man
squall. on first taming into the turbulent and tearful world
is a fact which in all ages has seemed signifiraat to thought-
fal minds ; but it remained for Hegel to detect it. i.e.,
meaniog its deeper depth. He sew in those initiatoty
moons " the revelation of man's hither nature." Through
this " ideal activity" the babe manifests itself to be " peas-
tinted by the conviction of his right to claim the satisfactioa
of bas seeds from the *ow world—that the indepeadente
of the outer world vanishes In the presence ol man, sinks
into servile insignificance. Hence the impetuous, in;perioue
tope." The Germans ere certainly profounder than we.
CornAill Magazine for May.
DRAMATIC COMPOSITION IN ENGLAND.—With us
the circumstances of the time would divert an author,

whose natured bile might °Oberon., lead him toward;
dramatic conipositioo, from a career so discour.iged
sad as the largest emolurnenta and the loudest
reputation are at this time bestowed upon pros 6: two, so
he who would other win have been a dramatist moms a
neveliit. I speak here, iodeed, from some personal expe-
rience, foe I can remember well. that when Ir. M.i..reads
undertook the management of ooe of them twogreat national
theatres, which Sr. now lost to the uatioeal drama, many
literary men turned their thoughts towards writing for
the stags, sure that in Mr. Macriedy they would find ea
actor to embody their conceptions ; a critic who could
not oolv appreciate, but advise end guide • end a gentleman
with whom a man of letters could establish frank awl plea-
sant iroderetaniling. Rut when Mr. Ma.-ready withdrew
from no experiment which probably required more capital
than he deemed it prudent to risk is the mere rental of a
theatre, which in other countries would be defrayed by the
state, the literary low towards the drama again Ailed back,
and many a play. felicitously begun. remains to thin day •
fragment in the limbo of neglected pigeomholes.,—&r E. &
Lytton, in Blaekirootrit Maya:toe fee May.
LoN DUN RN ER AL 01111IBC14 Cotrearre(Ll)r
Trate receipts for the week ending April 26,11:7b41. 2e. 6d.