The Express.
London, England, 1860-05-08 00:00:00

the sth of June.

The third ordinary general meeting of the Cal-
cutta and South Eastern Railway Company is
called for the 15th Mot, and the half-yearly meet-
ing of the Imperial Continental Gee Association
for the 30th inst., when a dividend will be de-
clared.

A general meeting of shareholders in the Grand
Russian Railroad Company is convened for the
14th of June, at St. Petersburg, to receive the
directors' report, with the accounts for the year
1859. The meeting will be made special, to con-
Bider proposed modifications in the statutes.
A call of 101. is to be paid on the shares in the
Danube and Black Sea Railway and Kustendjie
Harbour Company by the 9th of June. The half-
yearly meeting is called for the 31st instant.
The promoters of the Great Northern Palace
Company (Limited) have adopted a very proper
course, in intimating that, "sufficient capital not
having been subscribed to carry out the under-
taking as set forth in the prospectus," there will be
no allotment. of shares at present, and that all
applications are considered as cancelled. They add
that, " in the meantime, arrangements are in pro-
gress for ensuring the construction of the building,
on such terms as will leave no doubt as to the pro-
fitable results of the undertaking, and due notice
will be given so soon as these arrangements are
completed."
The New Victoria Six per Cent. Debentures,
after being marked 1071, closed at 107 to 1, being
nearly the same as on Saturday.
The Chryseis and Leonidas have arrived from
China with 1,948,900115. of tea.

MONDAY Emma.

Console, which closed on Saturday at 961 fur
Wednesday's settlement, opened this morning at
964, " buyers," and closed at 96 to f. For
money the last price was likewise 95 to A, and
for the 6th of June, 94 to 4. The official business
report is as follows :—Three
per Cent. Consols, for
money, 964, 4,4, 96 ; ditto for aucount (May 9),
964, f, 96 ; Three per Cents. Reduced, 9:12, ;
New Three per Cents., 931, 4,3, ; Bank Stock,
226, 2274 ; India Stock, 219, 221; Indian Five per
Cent. Stock, 1859, 1064,94 it I;Five per Cent.
“eufacedn rupee paper, , ; ditto Five-and-s-
Half per Cent., 1044, 1,8 ; Indian Four per Cent.
Deheatareadsoft, 961, 97 ; ditto, 1859, 961; India
Bonds, 55., 105. die.
The " oontinuation "on Consols was per cent.,
or equal to 31 per cent pee annum, the June ac-
count being a short one.
The Indian rupee paper was less inquired fur.
The Five per Cent was last quoted 984 to 4, and
the Five-and-a-Half per Cent., 106 to 4. The
Indian Five per Cent. stock of 1869 remains firni,
at 1064 to 4. India Bonds were quoted 10s. to" se.
die., and Exchequer Bills, ss. to Bs. prem., showing
a fresh redaction of L.

Foreign stocks in 'several instances were weaker.
The Turkish Loan of 1858, after being marked 621,
closed at 61i to 62, being 1 per cent. lower than on
Saturday. The Loan of 1854 fell I per cent., leaving
off at 731 to 77k. 8 • h Deferred Three par
Cents were last gnolsd XII to and Mexican 2lk
to 221. Rnasian Three per Cents. were rather more
offamd. Brazilian scrip was marked 1- prem.
London and Westminster Bank shares present a
fresh advance. There were also inquiries to-day
for Ottoman and London and County. Bank of
Australasia were flat. Unity Bank were marked.
l OK paid). Other bank shares, including Union,
were steady. In the miscellaneous share market
there wax no alteration, with the exception of a
partial relapse in Madras Irrigation.

Mr. Mason Jones, who last 'mason obtained
celebrity for his dm:outer on semi-literary, seini•poli-
tr-al, subject/, last night inaugurated his return to London,
after a succeedul provincial tour, by an oration on " Lord
Macaulay, the essayist, historian, orator, and poet." The
large room was filled to overdowiag by an audience who,
though occasionally mildly announcing their dissect from
the opinions advanced, were tolerably entbusiastic, and
always respectful and attentive.
A. retards Mr. Jones himself, he hes neither advanced
air retrograded since his former appearance among us.
His utterance use clear, vehement, sad rapid, his speaking
as spentaueous, bit tropes and mdapbere as readily at coin
nand as ever ; on the other head, las brogue is not
can whit modulated ur refined, his actions are ae wasp:We,
and his power of dramatic inprermion as constrained as
when be in sought the approbation of a London audience.
He matter was to his hand in the already published pages
of fifty man, and he bas not added one atom to the
icem-ral stock of information on the subject. He commenced
with some turgid commonplaces, about a peat man's fune-
ral, sod the totem° effect of the paring bell. Then he
Two ceded to sketch in outline the birth, parentage. and
cares rof Lord Macaulay ; and in mentioning his death,
nu :irked that "the hand was cold, the tongue mute," and
other minute, novel, and turbots pi:Dialogical fade. Mr. Jones
is n. the Emmy on "Milton, remarked that it showed
the early teaching received by the writer in his pious horns,
-awl deemed that Macaulay had vindicated the character of
the puritans from the slur had been cast upon them
by previous writers ; lie warmly vindicated the theories of
Kato, Zeno, and other 1 'mien philosophers as opposed to
those inculcate' by Heron. and be vehemently urged that
eery writing was IlAwaulay's firer, and that it was greatly
to be regrets' that be gave up that branch of literature to
twosome an historian His great merit was that he pops.
lensed literature—his great defect, that he merely treated of
surface matters, in the spirt of a WAD of the world—in
thi • respect totally differing from Mr. Carlyle, who is always
a prophet and a moutteir. is a brief aigression, Mr. Junes
cauttentned the stage for pitying burlesque and fans in.
Mend d Shiusipeare's tragedies, and drew down thunders
d spiders by a demanustion of the recent prize-fight.
NV Joust tombed but .lightly am Lord Macaulay se an
orator, sad even n Lu practical merits; but, en
fergimAe, he quoted at len4sh speeches of O'Connell aml
Mibcd, and repe•ital of the " Virginia," and the
whole of the " ler. "
While giving every credit to lb. Mason Jones for his
fn.• peaking, anil while wink* at a certain egotism
with which all hi. opinious are daveamel, it is impartible to
deny that his Elio omolsty strode meat seriously in his way.
'fir public who p.ty their it may at the dears go to hear of
Lord Macaulay. and bins al•nn lSay airs nothing for
bow Mr. O'Cuenell folded bit arm^ eel leaked with lurid
brow, or bow Mr tih-11 &terminal te "May" LOW Lyle&
bus 4, sad the manner awl language la why be flayed him.
Las. still does inch an audience as that assembled last
night within Walis'srooms care to bear ea poetry dis-
banded, tortured, sod barlonraly en as were Mr.
JOINS% quotations —poetry with whist dealidem three.
fourths of them wens thoroughly feadlier, bat which they
mast have had some dialculty is reengeibeg order its un•
emit! gales.