The Express.
London, England, 1865-03-25 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARI NANXITIL

Lrvaroos. Maws 84.-110 today :—Ore at Resters, 47
i—Orsei Western, 73 rd.—loadeneind North Western, 117
17—Manchester, and Lincoln, 67} 7 8 I—Newry,1—Newry,
W. and Regina. 3—North Eastern, Berwick mplial stock, 107
Birkenhead, 88—Illinois Central, 56 —Dutrh Rhenish, 61 p.
Great Luxembourg shares, In ad- Spanish I' oar 11117
Btr and Exchange illlal=tedads)t.steltd.—Lean
Boyl 11.--EenrapirS
Marine (limited). 11.10.116—laacaMiro Insurance.; p —Queen
Insurance. alit 9-18 p.—Thames mad Mersey Marine (limited).
p.—Union Marine (limited), $ Is Steam Company,
I 7 15-16 8 d.—Pacific Steam, 104—Wed India and Esc Lc
Steam d.
BuuilmoiLta. VAS= IL —Birmingham Bank shares changed
hands at 33 ; Birmingham Wsgon, at 10111 x. ; and Patent
Nut and Bolt, at 11. 8s al. prem.. Binolughem,Wolvorhamplan
and Stour Valley closed at 101 101 . Birmingham Joint stock
Bank, at 86 304. Birmingham and Midland Bank, 169 161 ; Wol-
verhampton and Staffordshire Bank. 134 141 Birmingham Old
Union Mill, Isieminghssa New Union Mill, a 9s. to
11. 12a. Od.. mod fluntes Metal s& 11 1i din Markets dulL

Tics SUNDAY TRAIN QIINITION IN SCOTLAND,
A oorreapondence has been published hotness members of
the Sabbath Alliance and Kr. Hodpoo, chairman of the
North British Railway Company. The chairman closes the
oorrespoodeDoe with a letter in which be says :—" The
directors do not believe it to be their duty to tome that por-
tion of the public who from inclination or necessity desire
to leave their homes, or to regain their homes, on a Snobs',
to conform to the bidding of others who think it sinful to
do so. On the contrary, while they do not hold out extra
ladsconents to Sunday travelling by means of frrpent or
excorrion trains at low farm, they coneider that limited ger-
vies by morning sad evening trans Is doe to the public,
especially the humbler domes, who cannot, except by rail-
way, move at all. With regard to goods trains, the objec-
tions sod suggestions contained in the document you have
transmitted to me are founded in simple ignorance of the
matter under dismission. If every pods train which paws
by necessity (and there is sot one which, in a praotioal sense,
nom trots any other motive) on the North British Railway
were taken off the Use, the net profit of the *mow would
not be diminished ; bat the hoecnrity and iooonvesisses
d to the community would daring the week days be largely
increamd."
BANNON AND Me Blieneha.—On board the
river steamers is the States titer feed you for a moderate
outlay (75 orate. a meal) very waniptsoludy, but tie por-
ticos supplied are tonally of miarosoopio dimmable.
Barnum had taken poems by one of these stately Noah's
arks, say, from Albany to New York. He =lied, at tea-
" time, for a beefsteak. The negro brooght him the total
little. shrivelled mite of broiled limb, certainly not safileismt
for more than two mouthfuls. Barnum moiled the morsel
1 on hie fork, scanned it critically. as though it were a maniple
of steak submitted to him inspection, and then returned it to
the waiter. saying, "Yes; that's what I mean. Bring me
some of it."—/Userrered London Nam
Taarric }Lamm. The traffic reoeipta of
railways in the limited Kingdom smooched, for the
week ending the 18th of March, or. 11.841 miles, to
666,8691., and for the sowespoodiog week of last year, on
11,488 miles, to 570,3751., showing an bermes of 353
miles, and of 26,4941. in the reosipta. The grow receipts
ea the following 14 railways amounted in the
aggregate. on 8,334 miles, to 484,5321., and for the
eorrespondlog week of 1864, on 8,057 miles, to 462,4011.,
showing an increase of 277 miles, and 22.1311. is the Ittalia6l-
- increase on the Caledonian amounted to 1,3741. ; on
the Great Eastern to 1,705/. ; on the Great Northern to
3,8801. ; on the Great flogithern sod Womb= to 5571. ;
en the Great Western to 2.043/. ;on the Lancashire and
Yorkshire to WM ; om the Lodes and North Waders te
3,958/. ; on the Load= and Brighten to 3161. ; at the
Leaden and South Wester, to 1,6211. ; on the Kid-
land to 1,5811.; on the Worth British to 1.8721. ; en the
North Rotors to 3,9451. ; and on the South Easters to
1,1001. —total, 24,584/. ; but from this must be &dueled
2,4531., the decrease= the lbatheetsr, Sheffield, sad Ligroin-
shire, leaving the increase es above, 22.1311. The web
and mineral traffics on those lines amounted to 216.4171.,
and for the correspondin week of 1864 to 371,8281.. I
showing au increase of 24.3191. The reedpes for
Parcels, farr., amounted to 1111.685 L. mgaisetlT,lT.
showing a deersess of 11,18111. The Iris reeelpie es SI
other Uses amended, os 1,806 idles, to 112.3371.. sod
for the ommepoodiss week of last year. en 3,431 miles, 8!
1 171 9741., =owl= se teem= of 72 idles sad of 4,M I.
is I. onside. The told nesipm of the past week doer
wagof 9.4841. se GOISpBIIII with these dthe pre-
wish =ding the Utk met.