The Express.
London, England, 1865-08-01 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARI MARKETS.

LlVlagook, JOLT 6L-!ales beday:-Great Western. 64-
Lancashire andYorkshire,lll4 11-London and North Worms.
m a-Manchester, Shc6l4d, and Lincolnshire, 04 31 .7
d-Metrorlitan, 136-Midkand, 161--Sotith Lateen, ink
-Biaffalo and Lake Huron, 7-16 }-Great Western of
111-krte, 617-Illinois 4 antral. C4l 1 1 110 i 60 .11-11
Blair Five-Twenty Benda, 6081 rest Luxembourg arm,
141-Allianee Bank of London and verpool ,Untital 164 i d., p.
-Liverpool Financial Association (Limited), 1 1-16 d.-21esminirs
and Errange Bank (Limited). 611.161 d.-Part's Bankig_ Com-
sy (Limited). S p.-Liverpool and London and Globs rye awl
Vie, 0 13-16 p.-Maritime Insurance Grafted). 6 d.-Vales
Marine (Llano'), 1 7-16 p.-Atiantle Telegraph B Der ear,
6 7-16 17-16 1-lintialt and South American Steam ( l, 64
d.-Fllnt hire Oil. 21 d. - National Steam Limited 71
Pantile Steam new Shares, 22 p.-West India and Pad& Steam.
d.
JOLT 61.-Tee market was flat, and prior
lower. Alliance Bank 'Unified 31 p.-Consolidated Bark
(Waited), 6p.-Great linters, 471 - Great Northern A. 162 11 1-
Great R intern of Carr, 11-Oreat Western, 65 -18iooM Ca-
ittBoll 1 901 *SO 714 1 50-Lancashire and Yu 1101
-London and North Western. 1211-Manchester,
and Lincolnshire, 63i 2 1-listroPolllAn. 138 Mialandr 131
1136} -New York and leis, Si-South Eastern, 621 1
Staveley Coal and Iron Company (Limited). 171 p sat
Mersey Marine Insurance (Limited', 0111-16 p.-Gaped Stales
5 10 Years Bonds, 60-Railer Steel and Plant, New, Is i
..Llanidloes,' No. 2, 101.
litiuman en, JOLT 31.-Birmlnebam and Staffordshire Or
OS/ errea changed hands at M. Bs. 9d. prem. • and Metropolitan
Railway Carriage and Wagon, Second lune, at 1 dia. Wore/tree
sad Birmingham Canal quoted to 12: Nottingham Joist-
Bto k Bank, 11 to 2 prim. ; Birmingham Financial, li to If
prem . P 11 to and Patent shalt and Arie-
-1 tree, 51 to 51 prem. General market flak

A CAUTION TO SEA-SIDE BATHERS.—/i melan-
choly death by drowning occurred at Lowestoft os Saturday
last. A party of gentle melt f rem the office of the A'orwiehMer-
cury were there for a day ei pleasure, and moms of
them went to bathe, when Mr. W. Henry Dukes. who had
been swimming, was suddenly observed to go down, end
before essistance could reach him he died. Every possible
exertion was used to restore animation, and medical aid was
promptly gives, without avail. The demand was ap.
prenticed at the Norwich Mercury office. and was saber).
quently for several years engaged upon the Times.
COUNTY Comm.—The County Courts returns
for the year 1864 show that the decrease in the number of
plsiots entered in these courts cootioues. In the years
1859.63 the annual number averaged 800,501, bat is the
last of those years wee only 799,254 ; and in 1864 It fell to
738.481. The amount for which plaint.ints are entered is, ma
would be expected, also falling year by year ; thee:wont to
1864,1,760,3841., is pearly 19 per cent. leas then the amount
io 1861. The number of debtors imprisoned is 1864, 6,529,
wall 2,000 less than the average of the preceding years, but
the somber of executions almost the goods of the &liters
ineressed from an average of 119.755 to 124,804. 01 the,
402.172 judgmecits in the year 1864, 69 pa cent. related to
sums not exceeding 40a. The cuts and fees together give
ao average of 41e. Id. for every cruse determined. On the
whole 59 circuits of England and Wales the county courts
8.; 7,796 days *1864, giving en average of 51 cams heard
sad determieed at each day's sitting. The oonnty course
gave protesting orders is the yen to 590 wives deserted by
their husbands, and made 3,376 adjudications of bank.
ruing : only two matters were heard apes the Charitable
Trusts' Act, and only two probates were decreed. •
Game PROSPECTS IN PERTHKElRE.—Gamekeepers
have recently been over the moors and through the forests,
and their reports of the appearance and condition of the
grouse are very promisieg. The bird. are well grown and
more numerous oo nun yof the bills than for several years.
Generally then is considerable havoc smug them by d6oese,
but there hasbeen to loss this seasonthrough this cause,
and ea the weather ban all along bent favourable, they have
an excellent chance of inceeernog. All other kinds of game
are likewise abundant. Is the forest stalkers may antici-
pate superior sport. Several of the sportsmen have ;heady
arrived at their shooting lodges, and ere giving thole atten-
tion to angling, and others are expected is a day or two.
Those moors Mall unlst are eagerly inquired after, and will, no
doubt, beidismed at high rentals.— Edinburgh Courant.
Tun Hanyzarof ic Emits. —The operations of the
harvest commenced last week, and are now general in most
parts of Essex. A considerable breadth of wheat is already
down, the reaping machine having been brought into much
more general actinic than in former years ; and we are
happy Lobar°, though of cones there are some exceptions.
that the crop is likely to realise the expectations firmed
of
it. Peas, rye, and some winter oats in this district have
already been carted.—Eire Herald.
Jour QUINUT ADAM& —Without forming part of
the group of the actual founders of the republic, John
Quincy Adams, of Massachusetts (born 1769, died 1848),
belongs yet to that of the 'ninepin oonterepenries et
Washington. The son of John Adams, he scoornprisied his
father to Europa as a boy. then returned to Americo, grade-
ated brilliantly at Harvard, studied and pea-.tied law (naps.
really with little asecesa), had the credit of being the fink
who strenuously advocated the absolute neutrality of the
United States I. European quarrels (in Urine signed
" Manaus, to the Boob" Sentinel, 17%). He waa soon
distinguished by Washington, and was seat by him—the
youngest man ever selected to repressed the United Staten
abroad—at tweetyaeves, as minister to Hodes& thou to
Portugal. When John Adams wooded to officio. be con.
salted Washington as to whether be 'bread main** his son
at his post. • I give it as my decided opinion," said
Washington, "that Mr. Adams lithe most valuable public.
character we have abroad. end that there remains no doubt
in my mind that he will prove himself to be the ablest of all
our diplomatic corps." Ity Jobe Adams be was sent to
Peoria, but recalled by him on leaving office, sot to em-
barren Jeffereos, Mr.S.eward tells us; so act quite out
of
keeping with the epitolul appointments to office h:Min et-
' feriae charged on his predeoessor. After a period ot urc's,
Gratin the genets of he own state, thee in that of the
Unite
States (during pert of which time he was also pro-
fewer of rieetroio and belles lathes at Cambridge Univer-
sity), John Quincy Adams resumed office, being seat an ea-
sister to Russia by Mediu, and filially to England, from
whence he was needled by Munn. to become hie Sanatory
of State, a poet he only quitted for the Presidency. Like
Jefferson at his drat election. he owed his Presidency to
the Hones of Represeniatives—Andrew Jackson, who had
the largest mamboed votes. not having obtained the requi-
site majority. A man, it will be seen. of the most varied
experience abroad, and of the highest at boots ; of remark.
able eloquence, overflowing with keowledge • hog* and
lofty in mind, strong of body ; teed of atbles'ac exerziars,
an untiring walker till very late In life, a first-mt. swimmer
(while Presidect he might of tee be eeen at sunrise breasting
the waters of the Potomac); freuktemperate, so se to be
'tensed of at*gioese ; ea ear* riser, who, daring his
Presidency, was probably the rat man up in
Washington, lighted his own fire, and was herd
at work in hie library," whait every us else
was asleep ; a Unitarian is creed. but a devout reader of
the Bible. Most warm-hearted in fact, hot" with
an exterior, we are told by a friendly writer, of at
times almost repulsive col itten.," be was sot popular
enough and probably too cultivated far his time.
Like all northern Presidents, John Quincy Adams wan
may allowed to fulfil a single term of office (182.5•2914 But.
unlike both hie prideesseore and successors. he reall filled
a larger apses is his country's history after leaving the
Prieridesey than before. no man who had been the chief
of the state accepted and retained for seventeen years, till
hie death (1831.48), a met. sot even in the Solute, hie
natural home, bat in the Howe of Representatives of the
United Slates. His eloquence seemed to riae, hie moral
character P. stand out purer and loftier, with the increase
of years. He became the champion of the anti.sleyery
party, the streenoss defender of the right of petitios„
which was nasally denied is reforests to slavery; brought
forward in 1842 a motion for en amisedrunt to the condi-
tutiou sitiormahior hereditary slavery after the 4th July
of that year • was threatened with expalaioa, indictment,
the peciteat;ary, assamiastion, mob•law ; menaced ; sew
the first streaks of a tannin dawn is the reseasion, is 1845,
of the "gag rule." and the aomensont eAmierioo of peti-
tions os the subject of slavery ; et seventy-four renriseed
the Baremse Conet, after thirty years' shunts from the
bar. to &sled the moss of the Andstad, who, being
_taloa
be Oats. bid den es their se& having mashed the
United States wan sow sisismid two Spaniards ; and
led the howlers el their decreed. Ills
death ibm taro. Os the 21st Februaly.
1848, bawls( shows that mernireg ea ussessl alacrity, art
boo* esaspread wren slew atoms el poetry, be was struck
with peealyds is the Hones ; lay sasosecioss is the
=
es teas till the 23ed (hie lest weeds ea Wag moved
• beim " 111 s is the bat id Oath ; I am oostent") ;
and died is the wising of that day, pat& besieges brie(
easpradird is trees of reaped to ka pd the public afire
bail( grgpg is iscausies after his aro*. Altogether se
sable a ftsr• as aim an Americas hinny ; *tumour,
satique. "The aid man siectsoot" was his ammo* dews-
Wits la kW yono,—ifroobiliat's Zsgssise for Jags&