The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-01 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHAJLI MAREEI2.

LiVIMPOOL, Joni 110.—Balea to-da,y —Lancashire and York-
shire, a new, 10i. 11 fil 111 I—London and North Western,
104 44—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, OS ed—Midland Stock,
1161 1, I,9—North British Stock, 6l}—South Eastern Stock,
i—Buffslo and Lake Huron, 4 1616-ditto Seven per Cant.
10f. shares, Bj--Grand Trunk of Canada 6 per Cent. Pf. veb.
1881, 60--Great Luxembourg, 13 0-16 1141 14 13 15-16 14—
Central, in d.—Alliance (limited;, 331 p.
ittliczawm, Jinni 30.—The market was rather active at
steady prices. Great Laseasbourg, 111511-16 L 14 : Great Northern
A, 1065 ; Great Ship, 7s. : Grand Trunk of Canada 201 flifT :
Great Westernof Canada, 111: Great Western, 701
,11
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 106 45 641 5/ London an
Western, 93) 4 Si 4 ; Manchester, Sheffield, and Llncohishire
MC Midland, IMI ; North Eastern (Berwick!, North
Staffordshire, 41 ; South Eastern, Qt 14 2 f 5 ; Thames and
Mersey Marine Insurance, 1 15-11 1 ; Furness 6 pet Cent. Pref.,
131 f ; Bombe', Bared% and C. India. 1001; Northern Counties
Bank, 11p.
Buinniommt, Jong 10.—There were sales to-day of South
Staffordshire hallways at 104, and of Britannia Mills at par.
Railway Shares were generally quoted lower. Local Stocks were
without change; Birmingham Canals being 9415—Birmingham
Banking Company, 261 e— ditto Town an District Bank, 151
—ditto Wagon, 131 senhers—Metangolltan Wagon, 1515 prem.

OPENING OF Nsw WRETNINSTER BRIDGE FOR
Paulin= TaA77IC.--71118 DAT.)--Tbin morning shortly
after seven o'clock the otway on the eastern side of the
new Westminster-bridge was thrown open to the public.
In order to do this in honour of the marriage of the
Princess Mice, a large body of men were at work through-
out the whole of the night, and about the time
above-mentioned, at a given signal, the unsightly
boarding was removed and displayed to view a handsome
footway 14 feet in width, sad laid down upon the most im-
proved method. In a few day, the lamps will be in their
*en, and judging from two or three now fixed, will have a
brilliant effect. The footway on the opposite side is being
rapidly proceeded with, and before long the old and ugly
tetupwary wooden bridge will be removed.
VOLUNTEER Eerzenvim.—The following cir-
cular has just been issued from the War-offlee : With
a view to the better rinderstandieg of the conditions
which constitute an effective volunteer according to the
provisions of the Volunteer Act, the Secretary of State for
War thinks it desirable to point out to offioers commanding
volunteer corps, that no member should be returned as
effective unless he has attended at the annual general in-
spection of the corps, or is accounted for as absent with the
leave of the officer commanding. Officers commanding
volunteer corps may rely that every are will be taken that
the general inspection ordered by the act should be held
each year at the time best salted to meet the convenience of
the volunteers.—Tnonss GEORGE !WINO."

CENSUS or SCOTLAND IN 1801.—A blue bool
containing the report and tables of population drawn up
presented to parliament by the Registrar-General for Scot-
land, and embodying the results of the census of Scotland
taken on the Bth April, 1861, has just been printed. The
document, which extends to 180 pages, shows that the total
number of persons in Scotland cc the Bth of April, 1861, in-
cluding such of the military, royal navy, and merchant
seamen as were in Scottish waters on that day, was 3,062,294
—from which it appears that the population of Scotland
between the years 1851 and 1861 only increased at the rate
of 6 per cent. ; while during the previous ten yearn it had
increased at the rate of 10.2ri per cent.
CHOPS IN Essex.-1 Dever saw my crops look
better, taken as a whole. Even the oats, which at one
time looked pale, are now green and branching. Taking
Essex generally, so far as I have bad an opportunity of
seeing it, the wheats promise to be abundant on the heavy
lands. Beans, peas, and barley luxuriant; oats the
weakest crop ; some of the light lands have lost pleat and
look thin. It is evidently • heavy land season. Cottage
gardens are luxuriant, and potatoes promise well. Mengel
plants well everywhere. Gram is abundant, and there will
be a heavy crop of grass hay. Clovers are various : my own
very good. There will be much straw, and thick sowers are
rather unfavourably placed, and will suffer some loss from
early laid crops.-4 J. Maki.
Sexual. Momewre.—Goldsmith was said by
Garrick to " write like au angel and talk like poor Poll."
But what does that prove? Nothing more then this—that
the player could not fathom the poet. A man who writes
like an angel cannot always talk like poor Poll. That Gold-
smith, in his peach-coloured coat, awed by a Johnson, bul-
lied by • Boswell, talked very foolishly, I can well under-
stand ; but let any gentle reader of human brains and human
hearts have got Goldsmith all to himself over • bottle of
madeira, in Goldsmith's own lodging—talked to Goldsmith
lovingly and reverentially about " The Traveller," and
" The Vicar of Wakefield, and sure lam that he would
have gone away with the conviction that there was some-
thing io the wellspring of so much genius more marvellous
than its diamond-like spray—eosethiug in poor Oliver
Goldsmith immeasurably greater than those faint and frag-
mentary expressions of the man which vet survive in the
exquisite poem, in the incomparable novel. I remember
being told by a personage who was both a very popular
writer and a very brilliant converser, that the post
Campbell reminded him of Goldsmith—his conversation
was so inferior to his fame. I could not deny it ; for I
bad often met Campbell in general society, and his talk
had disappointed me. Three day. afterwards, Campbell
asked me to come and sup with him tfie-d-tEre. I did so.
I went at 10 o'clock. I stayed till dawn; and all my recollec-
tions of the most sparkling talk I have ever heard in draw-
ing-rooms, afford nothing to equal the riotous affluence of
wit, of humour, of fancy, of genius, that the great lyrist
poured forth in his wondrous monologue. Monologue it
was—he had it all to himself.—Sir E.ll. Lytton in Black-
wood's if_c_kfrazine for July.
Ma. W. F. DIELANZ.—A year previously to 1829
e., in the summer of 1828—I knew for the first time the
late Mr. W. F. A. Details He was then serving his terms
at R 0 ion of court, and reporting law for the Times, in town
and on the circuits. It was in • circuit court in • cathedral
town I fret saw him, on the first circuit I ever travelled.
He sat at the further end of a seat two places removed from
me in the beck row of a criminal court. He was assidu-
ously taking notes of a trial for murder, and had sketched a
most accurate likeness of the murderer. Struck by his
cheerful look of ruddy health and pleasant, laughing man-
ner, 1 after • while entered into conversation with him, and
learned that he was reporting the circuit for the great jour-
nal—a most laborious office. " How do you manage," said
"with snob (content confinement in the close and noi-
some atmosphere of a crowded court, to wear en jocund and
healthful a look ! From your high health and green est.
away coat, with brass buttons, I should take you to bee
gentleman farmer or • sportsman who has come to while
away an hour in listening to the trial of • poacher murderer,
and not • law student working at law reporting for the
Times." " Appearances," said he, "are deceptive ; but as
you look delicate and suffering, I will give you my recipe for
what you call high health. I ram up every morning between
five and six, and ride the circuit from one town to another,
taking as much exercise in the open air as I can on horse-
back, in drags, and on foot Thus," he observed, "I am fit
for work ; as what with commission days and the distance
between circuit towns, I have only four days of confinement
in court, against which I set two days in the middle in the
open air. Then," said he, "I escape judges' and bar din-
ners, which you do not, and live as simply as I can." When
the circuit was over. the shattered state of my hadth obliged
me to go abroad to • more genial clime. On my return to
England, the place of Mr. Dahmer was occupied by Mr. God-
son, • barrister, subsequently M.P. for Kidderminster ; and
I learned that the excellent busineeshabita and high charac-
ter of my new acquaintance had secured to him the general
management and conduct of the Tines paper,--a position of
great trust, and, even though divided between two, of im-
mense responsibility. Some time afterwards it was my
fate to come again into contact with Mr. Delano, and I can
aver that • more intelligent. active, pleasant, and friendly
man it never has been my good fortune to meet Placed in
• most difficult and invidious position, he knew bow to ',os-
cillate the interests of the proprietors of the great journal
with those of the writers and contributors, and I believe be
fully satisfied both. I had myself experience of his tact,
honourable feeling, sod ability, and I am bound to render
justice. A great deal of the prestige and power of the
Times is due to has masterly organisation of a quarter of a
century ago, to his choice of agents and instruments, to his
judicious selection of writers and contributors.—Proacr's
Maga.-ine for July.
Agencies for the French West India and Mexican
line of mail pickets have been appointed at Fort de France
and St. POOlOl in Martinique, at l'oiote i Petro in Guade-
loupe, at St. Thomas, St. Jag° de Cube, Venn Cruz. Mexico.
and Tampico. The course of post by the French line is Sti
days.