The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-07 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARI HAREEM

LIVEEPOOL, JAN. 5.-bales to-day: Caledonian, 124 31-Great
Eastern, 303 t, 1 1-Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1303-London
and North Western, 123,t 1 1 1 31-Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincoloshkre, 541 15 51 1 19proetropolitan, 184 83 IS--
Midland, 125 41-North Midi, 39 uth Fasten], 10 101 1 1
e 3-Buffalo and Lake Huron, 47-1 3-Grand Trunk of Canada,
201-1111nois, 823-31 re-twenties. 733 3-National Bank, 13 p.--
Liverpool and Landon and Globe, 51p -Maritime Insurance,
11-16 d.-atiantic Telegraph 8 per cent., 3 11.10-National Steam
Company. 141 d.
MASICHIIITZR, JAN. 5.-The market opened with lower prime,
but improved a little at the clone. Bolekow, Vaughan, and Co.
((Limped', 14 d.-Consoildated Lank, 1 p. -Ebbw Tale Company
(Limited', 121 d.-Eries, 46-Great Eastern, 301-Great Northern
A,131-Grand Trunk of Canada, 703-Great Western, 551-Lan-
Madre and Yorkshire, 13031-Ditto, 41 per cent, 1865, pref.,
p.-London and North Western, 121 1 3-Manchester, Mei-
Oeld, and Lincoln, 541 3 51 1 3 3-Ditto. 31 per cent. pref., 083-
Ditto 5 per cent, redm. 1005. 8-Metropolitan, 128 71 8-Mid-
land, 1243 f-North British. $3l 1 /-North Staffordshire pref.
No. 2, 98-South Pastern. 703 1 4-Thames and Benny Marine
Insurance Limited,. 31 p.-Atlantic and Great Western Con-
solidated Mortgage Bonds, 413.
BIAXINGEIAN, JAN. b.-Loudon and North Western stock
closed at sellers South Staffonleldre stock, buyers, at SS ;
Britidi and Foreign Railway Plant shares closed at 10 toil dia. :
Birmingham Joint Stock Bank shares, at 331 to 341; Lloyd's
Bank shares, at 8 to 9 prem.

Sr. Anten's, HOLBORN.—Yesterday at midday
service at the district church of St. Alban the Martyr.
Holborn, the censing of persons and things and the eleva-
tion of the elements were discontinued. The incumbent
informed the co tion, by circulars distributed in the
church. that he had n moved, " after consultation with
other parish priests," to make such alterations in conside-
ration of the legal opinion procured by the English Church
Union, but " especially of the wish of the bishop and the
opinion of convocation." However, before the consecra-
tion prayer the censer we, brought in and incense burnt
before the altar—" a mode of using incense allowed by
ecclesiastical, and not disallowed by legal, opinion."
WHAT is A NOVEL i—To say of OHO that he is a
novelist, is to say little more of him than it is to say of
one that he is a man, Whether the man is a tatterde-
malion or a bishop, a pickpocket or a judge, a buffoon or a
prophet, whether the novelist is an artist or a bungler, a
genius or a fool, are questions remaining for further con-
sideration. Practically, the single condition to which even
the successful novelist must conform is, that he shall in-
terest his reader ; and the limitless freedom thus enjoyed
commends the novel in an especial manner to literary
genius in a time characterised and circumstanced as ours.
Just such a formless form of composition, restricted to
nothing, capable of adaptation to everything, was required
to be the literary magician's-bottle of this restless, change-
ful. vehemently active, and most desultory age, into which
and from which our miscellaneous wealth of knowledge
and experience, our historical reminiscences, our stray
scientific gatherings, our capricious, fitful imaginings, our
philosophical notions, the &lois of a hundred systems, our
theologic il beliefs, the dibris of a bundled creeds, our reli-
gious feelings, our snatches of old songs, and attempts at
new ones, oar political preferences, our social views, fancies,
prejudices, our literary opinions, our personal crotchets,
theories, oddities, peculiarities, and those of our friends
and enemies, can be poured. That a book is a novel means
anything or nothing ; the practical question relates to its
character and conteuta—Brit telt Qum lid!, Review, January
number.