The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-12 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKETS.

Ltradurad.., DEC. HE—Furness new 144, 21 p.—Great Northern
A, 137—Gress Western, 781 9 b}—Lsocesture sad Yorkshire,
1151—Loadou and North Western, 114 1.1 i 1 in—Manchester,
Shedleld and Lincoln. 669 —Midland, 1371-Intto, Birmingham
and herb>, 105—North Eastern, York, 104—South Eastern,
Midland, Eyewash Valley, 140—Port Phillip and Colonial Gold,
d p --Great Western of Canada, 9:--Great Lneembourg shares,
119—Spanish Passives, 311—Conteilerate Loan, 59 9—Eastern Ex-
change Bank ;Limited). 1 9-16 d.—Liverpool Finance Limited ,
11-16 J.—North Western Bank ~Limited, die. P.—British and
Foreign Marine 11.1mited). 29 12.16 p.—Maritime insurance
.Luntsed', 3.16 d.--Queen Insurance, 9-16 p.—Union Manna
Lindted . 311-16 p British and Irish Magnetic Telegraph A,
6t}—Liverpool Exchange. 191—Mersey Steel and Iron (Limited),
f p.—National Stearn ,Limited„ 19 4L—West India and Pacific
3tesni. I p.
atmicaramsa, Du. 10 —A quiet market, and prices steady.
Great Northern A.l2o—Great Western, Central,
paid Western, Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1159—London and
North lll I—Manchostdr, Sheffield, and Lincoln.
shire. f 69 -New ditto 5 percent. pod, all paid, 9 13.16
Midland, 1379—South Eastern. esl—United States 2.20, 431—
I Oxford, rod pref.. 13.1—District Bank. 201 P.
10.—The sales of to-day included Stour
Valley shares, 10 c new; London and North Western New
Stock, 1141: Gloucestershire Bank, Si ; and Birmingham Water-
works, li shams, 4 prem. Patent Nut and Bolt shares were dose
yesterday rat 24 prem. Midland lisGway stock rimed to-day
130. to la74—south Staffords, 101 to 101 Birmingham Joint
stock Bank, 39 to 39; lletropotiteu Wagon. 134 to 1.: Mantis
Metal, Ito 3 dls ; and Patent Shalt end A xletree, 69 to 5 prem.

JOHN Mircnel. AGAIN.— In the Police Court,
at, Richmond, oo the 23rd nit, the Hon. S. Foote, mew-
-1 bey of the House of Commas from Tennessee, and Mr. John
Mitchel, were charged in a warrant sworn out upon the
I oath of one William H. Fowls, with being about to break
the peace of the oommouwealth by garaging in a duel with
deadly weapons, and the Hoo. Win. G. Swan. member of
the house from TO0011•11410, was charged with being the
hearer of a challenge from Mr. Mitchel to Mr. Foote to
fight a duel with deadly weapons, contrary to the laws of
the °mown wealth. All the parties were bound over in
heavy bail to keep the pesos for 19 mouths.—Richmond
I Enquirer, Nov. 213.
NOVEL 111PORTATION.—Mr. Thompson, wholesale
fish and fowl dealer, Nottingham. has bad caesigeed to him
front Quebec a large number of geese. They came to hand
in capital preservation after the long voyage ; many of them
wei/bed from 121bs. to tithe. ~b.—Norris/ham 01,ardian.
FROORFee or Hrm..—The port of Hull has
received about 40,000 tons more shipping tilt. year an corn.
pared with the corresponding period of 1863. For some
years pant about 1.000 hones have been built annually in
Hull, and the inhabitants are estimated to increase at the
rate of 2,000 per swam. It is understood that the Humber
Iron Works Company intends to add several acres to its
yards ea the Humber side. The company is at present in
treaty with the Woods sad Forests for :and adjoisiog their
yard. The company, among other largo contracts. has un-
dertaken to supply a quantity of iron girders for an Indian
railway company.
PritcHASE OF LAND DY THE A btfIRALT'T.—The
Admiralty has purchased a rather valuable site on the
South Deese, Great Yarmouth, lying between the southern
portion of the Marine Drive and the Naval Lunatic Asylum.
The town council of Yarmouth required 11,3001., and the
relinquishment by the goveromeot of the site of a pro.
posed battery to the north of the Britausia-pier. The Ad-
miralty offered 10,0001. and the sue of the battery, and
failing to obtain the assent of the council, gave notice of an
intention to apply to parliament for compulsory powers to
acquire the lead. The town wood then acceded to the
terms offered.

ST. STEPHEN'S GETS—There is on toes left-band
side of our great national hall,—on the left-band side at
oo• esters it, and opposite to the doors laid* to the law
courts, —a pair of gilded lamps, with • door between them,
neer to which • privileged old dame sells her apples and her
oranges solely, as I presume for the recoramothitioo of she
members of the house and of the great policeman who guards
the pass. Between those lamps is the entrance to the
Howe of Commons, and DODe but members may go that
wey ! It is the only gate before which I have ever stood
filled with envy.—sorrowiag to think that my steps might
never pass under it. There are many portals forbidden to
me, as there are many forbidden to all men ; end forbidden
fruit, they say, is sweet ; but my bpi have watered
after no other fruit but that which grows Kt high,
within the sweep of that great policeman's trim-
chews. Ah, my male friend cud reader, who earnest
thy bread, perhaps, as • country vicar; or pitted,
may be, at some weary desk in Somerset Howe ;
or who, perhaps, rulest the yard behind the Cheapside
coaster, heat thou never stood there and longed.—bast thou
never confessed, when standing there, that Fate has been
unkind to thee io denying thee the one thing that thou but
wanted? I have doe* so; and umy slow steps have led
me up that more than royal atairoue. to those passages and
balk which require the bellowing breath of °votaries to
give them the glory in British eyes which then shall one
day possess, I have told myself, in anger and in grief, that
to die and not to have DOD that right of way, though but
for • session,—not to have passed by the narrow opobsoos
through those lanipe—is to die and not to bare dose that
which it most becomes an Englishman to have achieved.
Theis are, doubtless, some who come out by that road, the
lees of whose society is not to be regretted. England does
not choose her eis hundred and fifty four beet men. One
comfort* owe's self, sometimes, with remembering that.
The George Vavesces, the Calder Joiners, and the Botts are
admitted. Dishonesty, igooranoa, and vulgarity do not
close the gate of that heaves against aspirants ; sad it is •
coosolatioe to the ambition of the poor to know that the
ambition of the rich sae attain that glary by the strength
of its riches aloes. Bat though England does not
send thither noes but her beet men, the beet
of her Composers do fled their way there. It I. the
highest and most legitimate pride of an Englishmen to
have the letters M.P. written after his name. No selection
from the alphabet, no doctorship, no fellowship, be it of
ever so learned or royal • society, no knightehip,—not
though it be of the Garter,--coufers so fair an honour.
Mr. Butt was right when he declared that this noon
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governed from between the walls of that bourne, tb
the truth was almost defiled by the lips which uttered it.
He might bare added that from thence flow the waters of
the world's progress—the fullest fountain of advancing
eivilirtiae.—Can You Porpirt Her! By Anthony Trot
' op*. December number.