The Express.
London, England, 1865-10-09 00:00:00

NINBII.-(11118 DAYJ

Two o'Clocc.
There are fewer transactions in the mining mar-
ket to-day, and the tendency is less favourable.
Chiverton shares continue heavy, and have further
receded, the present quotation being 91 to 1
On the other hand, Wentworth Consols have ad-
vanced to 44 to 54, on an improvement in the mine.
Chivertoc laoor are quoted to 711; North Tres-
kerby, 3to 4 ; and North Crotty, to
i.
Foreign and colonial mining shares exhibit ao
alteration. Alamillos have been dealt in at lb
and Frontino and Bolivia at 3, being steady.

On Saturday afternoon so attempt at suicide was
committed st the Abbey Mere, Plymouth, an establiannest
of Mies Seiton's Protestant Sisters of Mercy. At the
bottom of the abbey grounds is an inlet of the harbour
known as the Ifillbay-bridge Lake, whore • youog led&r::
inmate of the abbey, mounted the parties wall, and
herself into the lake. She was happily observed by some
persons in the neighbourhood, by whom she was promptly
rescued.
MOUNTAIN Norma. —The moat notable interpo in
the Sonar:Tiara of to-day, as onnoared with that
yam ago, is the seethimodasion afforded to travellen
Gthst by
anenerous hotels erected on lofty positkos. amid the
mouotaia scenery, and renderiag rosily scomeible some a
the wildest portions of the high Alps. There are pedes-
trians to whom three or four additional hours of ascent,
and two or three of descent, are but coeousidered trifles
when added to • day's work ; but eyes to roost young sea
who affect the Alps it is so small gain to be able te ride
comfoetably out of the zwelteriegthwer alleges to a orna-
fort:deb ine at the height of 6,000 or 7,000 test, where
they can take up quarters, and from whence they can earth
meths their pedestrian ascents in a cool and briecnitiac
atmosphere. It is sot, however, mostatelsesto alone who
are bnoing to discover that tome high bongs sr. plea-
sant ae:- of abode for days, and eves weeks. I have
seen residing there auccierous invalid., and even old ladies,
who would as soon think of displaying themselves th the
ballet as of creasing tee yards of glacier. In Sale end
August, when all Eames is steeped in hest and moistens,
the pure dry air of the high mountain is 7:dreamt is
the extreme ;so also is splendid scenery thus rendered
accessible without fatigue ; the company is often of •
superior sod genial kind. circumstances are favourable to
familiar, easy ink:roman ; sod the knurl's of civiliatsation
seed not be left behind, though all Buoys, is lying oar
feet. Of course these high hotels abed great sweeties of
acoommodatioa, from the splendid attain at Chamouni to
the solid hut on the glacier of the St. Theodole Peak at
the height of 10,900 feet, where simple food may be had,
and where "it is possible to asap ;" but it very great
heights one ma Gad taught, roses, and sit dove, at a
moderate puce, to tables arta* that woad certainty sot
disgrace any of the second-clues haste:irk • below. The
famous hotel oa the Riffelberg, above Zermatt. is 8,400
feet high, io very keen dry air ;_ and it is possible to ride
up from it surly to the top of the Gomm' Gist, 10,300
feet, round which there sweeps, with only • glacier liner-
venieg, the tremendous rasp of the Moots Roes
from the snowy Cims di Sethi to the brows awful prrila
the Matterhorn ; while, looking northward, the view is
closed in the distance by mountains of the Berthas Ober-
lin:id. The hotels on the Aorischhorn sad the neighbour-
ing Bel Alp lay themselves oat for visitors who desire to
stay some time, in order to make excursions from their
convenient height of about 7,000 feel. The former, emir
Melly, Is justly celebrated for its cellar sod its cuiense ; hat
Herr Wetlig bates a peculiar fancy for always filling the
rooms In his highest storey first, though the stairs to thee
stor might almost justify • nervous mum in being
rope; end the latter has an advantage's its outlook, as
ties in the vicinity of pleasant short walks. The ions ea
the Weogern Alp aad the Little Schram • are glad to re-
ceive Imam en pension. On the ?Whom there it a
pastliof not lower tau 8,403 feet. onamoulieg a n
mei
ime view
of the soothsea skis of the Pants of the Obeiland
sear by, at • somewhat lower elevation, the terhysigo
Platt. ;overate nearly the same scene from • thee ichospit-
able wee. Oa the neighbouring Noma there are 24 beds
at 7,765 leak At nearly 6,000 feet, on the Bapbo
tismal,.
there is • well-known hostelry, with the Schreckrn en
one side sad the Titles on the other, to which ono ma-
stunptive patents repair. la the Eopdiae, EP. Monta.
at 6,000 feet, with its &afloat* water., has 'vastly
been is great repute with English travellers; while
in the Vateline, i.e Prise presents • milder climate.
Othrmayeur is well-known to travellers among the Alpe
Zermatt itself is 5,315 feet. Os the 00l dl Voce there is
sow am inn, from which the Moss% GI Moat /31. ac cem
easily be made ; for it is only about six houn' ascent from
that Wu to a cabane on the Alpine de Gout*, and km
hours from thence to the summit of the monarch of Raw-
poen monetaies. People °canto:idly pay abort vii to •
the monks of St. Bernard aid of the Simpler, while
parties have been known to linger tithe the Force. Eves
the hospice at the Crimea has announced itself as a
ewer-
and pennon, and has its share al meg bent on high
sioes, though it is difficult to see bow anyone else except
a miaanthrope Gould think of boarding himself in that
God.lossalimi region. I have emoted about 200 pieces in
Switzerland recommended, for various reams, as Suva*
or sanitariums, end of them at lest 30 are about or above
GARIBALDI AND THE ITALIA ELICTIONB.—The 5,000 feet high. —Blachrood's ltepasist for October.
Sole of Milan gives eke followins replyl as made
Garibaldi A STORY or GENERAL Lat.—General Lee Ms a
to an application for t intinethe of his same at the high place is the esteem of many person, and I am far
coming elections :—" I doe
not meddle, and have no wish to from wishing to detract from his jest reputation. But the
interfere, in the proceediegs. Tige What people are so fact I have to mention is of importance, es showing that
lonpr in their minority ; their Meioses is to Moose ireor the inupossible power which the slave system pee to ties
them the evil, and for us the regret, If they shall nu a slaveholder O'er hie slava, may be very perilous 61,011 lib
bad choice." men deemed booourable sod humor. As you cross the
Tea .N4TIOLTIC TRIIPZRAIIZII2 01 TR* CUT.— Potomac by the bridge at Washington, and emend the Are
will by no muss accornt fee everything ugly in lingtos Height., you come upon the large estate lately.th
Ireland. Rather do we maws to affirm that the fault ex- pamessim of the great.Coefedorste peers!. The mermen
teed. throseh all Irish works, and that the delusion lies in ode this estate ie • Gismo structure beautifully situated. It
exp
ecting displays of taste from • people somewhat dud overlooks a laodscaps richly undulated and wooded, with
cleat in the faculty, and too poor and sequestered to he in. the yellow Potomac ptlell4 tbroegh the midst, very mask
spired by the taste of ether nations We are as the Severn any be soon from some points overicomog the
quite aware that this is a great heresy, that vale of Gloucester. Washington chanced to halt for •
the Celt has been always affirmed to hue • night at this stately avails., thee oases be a Ms.
higher insthetio orpoisetthe tans the Saxon, and that N. Curtis, a widow, with two boys, her meth. XII. Cartis wes
Rerun, talking of
lii do la Race Celtique, eau men God a lady of mach personal attion, and was as rarely gifted
the final cause of en Irishmate drinking too much whisky is meted as is pence. Suffice it to say, that with little nth-
in as " anion sepiratioes after the In
Weiss tike, mooy or delay the became the wife of Washington ; and,
leas we persist in asking for proof of this seethe:tie tempos- on the death of her panders, the last Curtis. • little before
meat—some Irish work of poetry, erehiteeture, scolpture, the late war, the property the
ant tbe bends of Clonal
painting, which shall take its place among the drat or Len Bet it was a provokes in the will of Curtis that at
even second order of such sohievemeats of art. Vahan • his death the slaves on the estate should be free. i.e. sem
these masterpiece" we ask where in the humbler details of stoned that document no as to require the slaves to rennin
life is this taste displayed ? The beauty sad ph:terse:oe- fislinDAY Erleinffitt. is bondage Gee years longer. Hitherto Lee had been popular
ava
nem which other races manage to rive to thew den
we. Consols, which closed yesterday at sq to i, will' the d"":11"1 " firs Islir" threatened Pitrdag
and their ganneets are even more glaringly
;rag among the Irish than among ow Emwroat both for money and next Tuesday's adtlement, wmertijaaagres Thai:g...y. a ~,,..„ weemn who heel iris
The love of flowers which the Irish:male, poor es he ie, I opened and closed to-day at the same quotation. „saantraaa,fatg a sort of Lod?. mid ae Ag
ee. Thy
and bel
might indulge tf it existed, is nowhere tremble, and the For the Bth November . the last price bees MIA prized for her useful capabiles. The fugitive
handsome pans offered yearly by the Horticultural Society ' was 88 13-16 to 15-16, or 884. The official bug- WWI apprehended, brought back, and, by order of the pr-
ior cotter or window flowers of the COMCDOIIOI4 land have '
Weir till this year been own competed for. As Iriehreas's rep report is es follows -Three per Cent. sew,
Wes tikes 1W a bUildieg within sight ot hi. "std.".
to be flogged, as a warning to the desereetel. The yams
clothes, whether new or old, are pretty sure to be ugly if Cons'abir for money, 884. ii it Li' ditto fog V• 111•0 r trod to strip itereelf. She refused to do se►
eqn
not ma Of the Paso sad dignity which makes the amount, 884, 4,4, 4 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, Les tseidased ens the removal of her clothes. She was tied th
rap of as or Spanish hoops look noble, or the taste 864, 4 ; New Thies per Cecina, 961, 4 ; India •a poet, sad her owner looked on while she moire&
hrsa
with which a Preach peasant girl pathos her asp and robe, Five per Cent.
there is absolutely nothing is based. The towns, often 19g.. 24a, Stock, 1041, i; ditto Bonds, I some sty,
.marly . 200
eirbe:, esirtainly_s meek .
prem. ; and Exchequer Bills, Va., k
wertee 'm
essed it" int.3red ".....•... men SeirSvmr. AA
spleodidly situand and largely designed, if there were any A. 'di.
real artistic feeling in the Dation, might sorely to show some ''"' •, ._,. this I learnt from her sister. • Mu. C".eey, nano, as
__Ea
- alisraeteristice of heanty or oieturesousams, mob as Chester, I Indian government securities were rather nne. : slave ekes led thew heueekOsPer ta tbe 1 Mn. ~.rcid 1!"
or Rheims, or Nthemberg, or Smiths. Bet there is actually India Bonds were dealt in at 19a. to 24e. prem. 1 nudes is •co tags Dear the _, /A tr _ iiss
not a oolitic' of mob asUonel test, from Oarb to Belfast. Exchequer Bills remain quoted 9a. to 4s. die. well-spokes mulatto woman% with • hothead end a fani „
The good staidness are all unit
her Tie streets— 1 e • gad a threes who mandastly felt so *saute I. Path
old and new--are betook* and i
bex
ti to the last de- ' Such foreign stocks as are well placed amoupt • idomatioe. It same bit by bit, la sewer to quotient-
grail. Who the:seethe. in so, may it not be 11•111iNaed 8. permanent investors have scarcely been affected to Googol Lee may br *chivalrous and eatissable MR. M.
proven that the taste for the 'beautiful vents wry rat. prime to-day, but nearly all the more speculative so mach the woes for the slave systems if this be less 4
anotaly in the Irish be were otherwise, with all descriptions have given way. Egyptian Bonds of him, and I tom ac, doubt of Its truth. —Dr. VeNtkembillit.
his poverty and his ambles, woad sorely have loaraed 1864 and• the Britiet Quarter/Jr lterino, Oetobsic number.
to drape himself gmeefidly, it it was bet in frieze. sad to certiticates,TWilits;llNclewlB6sorajtada,fBll }peridc"vteuez• ; StleParb,j . Om or Lapeer Hearty
rossumbirDraza two
ansce ler
baud the street of one town pietheselosiy. even if It WWI , „,e„,s'. true Onner, Yoram Parm.-11ss
bat a house as poor as thooe of the Pighey of Bristol.-- sum, ii;,albiolioali and Greek, 4 ;end Portuguese num.* ig di, teethe lea 6,derg yee ea* en. mod
Fraas's Alagarine for October. and 'doh Passive, about 4 per cent Turkish whisk 2ge Imo me 4.11.1.

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