The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-05 00:00:00

RAILWAYs.—(THIS DAY.)

OWN 0.01.00 i.
In the railway market to-day the transactions
consist mostly of sales, and prices show a fresh fall.
London, Brighton, and South Coast stock is ex-
tremely heavy, and is 5 per cent. lower. Metro-
politan has declined / ; Midlendl ; Great Western,
South Eastern, and Great Northern (A) ; London,
Chatham, and Dover, ; London and North
Western 1 ; and Lancashire and Yorkshire and
Great Eastern, 1.
Metropolitan :took is now quoted 1151 to
Great Western, 401 to 4 ; London and Ninth-
Western, 116 to j; Midland, 112 to 1;
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1231 to / ; Caledonian
108 to 109 ; South Eastern, 66! to 67 ; Gres!
Eastern, 271 to it ; Great Northern, 113 to
114 ; ditto A, 1201 to ; London, Chatham,
and Dover, 14 to d ; North British, 33 to 34 ;
and Brighton, 6il to 671.
[For to-day's &are List see page 4.]

The mental condition of the Empreee Charlotte
appears to give very little hope of recovery. From her
features all intellectual expression is more and morn
vanishing. But her physical health ii all that can be
desired.

Thu PRI/scrim or WALES.—The progress of her
royal highness continues satisfactory, though it is fleece-
sarily slow. She still require and receives the meet
careful attention on the part of the surgeons in charge at
her. Mr. Prescott Hewett has been associated with Mr_
James Paget in attendance upon the Princess, and a visit
L paid twice daily by these gentlemen. The prevalent
rumour that Sir William Ferguson has seen the royal
patient is not correct.—Latsoft.
THE Goof, Dame or Acrits.—The bill-literature
of the drama shows how often the stage contributed to the
stock of good works for the benefit of others. For years it
vied with the church in raising money " for the redemp-
tion of Christian slaves from captivity in Algiers." That
the old good feeling exists still, was proved by the brilliant
combination of actors at Drury-lane, in February, for the
benefit of the destitute family of an actor named Webb,
recently deceased. The moat pleasant feature on that oc-
casion was not bo seen in the front of the curtain, crowded
as was the moat splendid of our London theatres ; it was
in the eagerness of the players behind the curtain to share
in the good work ; it was in the earnestness of their in-
quiries as to the numbers of the audience, and it was in
the goad-natured interest with which many, from the
wings, watched and applauded the performances of their
fellows who belonged to other companies than their own ;
and this interred culminated when Miss Kate Terry sit her
foot, for the first time, on Drury-lane stage, and enacted
Pauline. In the comae of her excellent interpretation of
that character, the applause of the house was small ems-
pared with the approbation of her play-fellows at the
as
now the heart she shook.
And now, with wellurged sense, th' enlightened judgment took.
The whole occasion. where there was that perfect cm.
passion for the dead which exhibits itself in active=
pathy for the living, and where genius looked on
and was stirred by none but noble impanel, renders sppll-
cable to English actors of the present time the judgment
passed by the " Tattler " on those of 1710. " Yon see,"
said Mr. Hickerstaffe, " • wonderful benevolence amongst
them to the interests and necessities of each other." As Hi
was in 1608 and 1710, so is it now, and long may the spirit
be alive and active !—Cornhifl Mega ice for April.