The Express.
London, England, 1862-04-15 00:00:00

PROnNorAL 8841.1 MABZETS.

LiVIRFOOL. APRIL 14.-86186 today:—East Anglian, 424—
Western Counties Stock, 574 8 114—Great Western Stock, 734--
leneashlre and Yorkshire 107 f I 4—London and North Western,
et 44—Midland Stook, 1184 I—North Eastern, Berwick, W—
ilms& Isatern Stock. di 4—Birkenhe Stock, op—Ulverston and
lasseader, 26—Dutch Rheniah, ad;p.reat Western of Canada,
is 14 1616 I—lllinois Central, 464 d. —Bank of Liverpool, RO—
UT,
617
and Loudon Fire and Life, p.—Leeds and Liverpool
4 x d.
SEUUNORAII. ATElll4.—The market generally was steady to-
day, but with singularly Lttk business doing In railway stocks.
Local shun are firm at shout previous quotation Birmingham
Waterworks changed hands at $4 per share : Birmingham Bank
were inquired for at 46: and District Tim, at 64.
APRIL IL—There wu • moderate business.
Mors steady. Caledonian, 111—Eastern Counties, 574—Oreas
Western of Canada. 13 12 15.16 18-16—Minols Central, 46 d.—
Lasesiblr• and Yorkshire, 1074 4 4—London and North Wealmn,
94—Midland, 1284 I—New York and Erie, 824—North British,
644 }mouth Kasten& IQ 4 4.-I.llverston and Lancaster, 26—Fire
Assurance, par.

Commander Thomas Goes, RN. has been ap-
pointed naval agent on the Bombay station.
John Cleary, the soldier belonging to the 159th
Regiment recently tried, but acquitted by the jury, on a
charge of shooting Mr. Outen, a student of Bishop Gilbert's
College, near Chichester, is ordered by the military authori-
ties to be tried at Chichester by a court-martial, of which
Colonel Edwards, C. 8., of her Majeety's 49th Regiment,
will be president. The charges on which he will be tried are
desertion and the abstraction of au Enfield rifle and am-
munition.
An American statistician has been calculating the
chances of widowers of getting married as compared with
those of bachelors. It appears that according to marriage
registrations the chums are three times greater of
widowers between the ages of 25 and 30 getting married
than those of bachelors ; five times greater between the
age, of 30 and 45 ; and eleven times after the age of 60.
The chances, it would appmr, of bachelors getting married
rapidly diminish after the age of 30.
Tics EASTERN FISHERIEL—The spring herring
fiahery in amnesia' with the port of Yarmouth continues
to be prosecuted with only indifferent moms. Some of
the boats, however, have caught two or these lade each, or
from 25,C30 to 30,000 fish. Prices range from 2e. Id. to
2s. gel. per 100. The reports made with regard to the ope-
rations of the Lowestoft boats are rather more cheering,but
I it is stated that in menequence of the recent prevalence of
northeast winds there has not been so much doing as could
have been desired. Still several boats have come into
Lowestoft with catches of three or four lasts each.
MORE PLUNDER FROM THE EMPEROR OP CHINA'S
PLLACI.—Tbie Salut Public of Lyons says :—" A soldier
of the 16th Regiment of Artillery has brought back from
the expedition to China an object of the greatest rarity,
being the malaise gold seal of the Empress of the Celestial
Empire. Upon a square stand or pedestal of gold, of about
five inches long, and an inch and a quarter high,
reposes a kind of chimera or dragon, also in
geld, the body double, and 'covered with seales, and
with a head at each extremity. Each head is furnished
with long and slender horns, falling upon the back. The
monster has four feet, armed with claws, which lean upon
the stand, on the under side of which is engraved, in all its
length and breadth, the seal, in Chinese character,. The
two bodies of the chimeras united, and, as it were,
soldered together, canes it to resemble somewhat •
tortoise. For that reason it was at Ant designated the
golden tortoise' of the Celestial Empire."
MILITARY DISCIPLINE AT BERLIN.—A communi-
cation from Grandene to the People's Gamete at Berlin
says :—" A few mornings back the company of Captain B.
of the Bth regiment of infantry of Eastern Prussia, bad
assembled at parade. Captain B. appeared, when, with the
exception of the lieutenant, ensign and sergeant-major,
no one returned his regimental ;elute. The captain
called twenty men from the ranks, who obeyed, but an
order to the whole company was unattended to. The
commander, M. de Wollenheupt, was then summoned, and
Ito his salute every one replied. ' What is the matter, my
lads? he asked. To this there was no reply, but on his
asking if any of them had complaints to make, they replied
as with one voice, All!' The consequence has been that
Captain B. has been provisionally suspended from his func-
tions, and a sulrofficer and ten men arrested. An inquiry
is going on. The articles of war have since been read to the
other companies of the regiment."
BEHIND THE &Kum—There are many persons
who firmly believe that the theatre, and everything con.
meted with it, in very wicked, and that actors are all move
or less dissolute and irreligious. These persons do not
trouble themselves to reflect that theatrical affairs, like
everything else, have undergone reformation with the course
of time, and that managers and actors in the comduct of them.
se'ves and their business have been obliged to conform to the
improved habits and tastes of the age. There was a time
within the memory of those now living, when theatres were
conducted upon principles which justly brought scandal
upon the whole profession. Those were the days when
le and dissolute men, with • little money at their com-
mand, became managers just to indulge their passion for
dabbling in theatrical affairs, and for the sake of being on
intimate terms with actors and actresses. Managers of this
clam encouraged "bloods" and " swells" behind the scenes'
and instead of catering for the public at large, secured
titled visitors to their boxes and stalls by privately exhibit-
ing the mysteries of their coulisses. We all know what
scandals earns of this pernicious practice. But all this is
changed now. Theatres have become commercial specula-
tions in these days, and managers look for support only to
the public at large. If any one thinks that • behind the
sasses" of a theatre is still a wicked place, let bier God a
valid excuse—and nothing but " business" will avail him—
to go " behind "at the Adelphi or the Lyceum. If he be
unknown and unaccompanied by anyone helonging to the
theatre' he will probably be asked. as soon as he has set
foot on the stagy, what business he has there. If he be
allowed to remain, he will soon find himself in the way, for
the stage of • theatre during the performance is a sternly
bog place, and carpenters and scene-shifters setting
removing fiats" have no respect for persons. Printed
notices meet his eye on every hand. "Strict silence meet
be observed behind the soones." "No one is allowed to
stand in the wings." Let him visit the greenroom and he
will find all the proprieties of a private drawing-room ob-
served with jeskius punctiliousness. No one is admitted
here who has not business in the theatre. Actors and ac-
tresses sit side by side on the sofas, waiting to be called to
the stage, and in the meantime occupy themselves with
pleasant slat, is reeding, and the ladies, with their sewing
or embroidery.—London Socidy for April.