The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-25 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SNARE MARKETS.

LTVIIPOOL. JAN. 21.-6alss to-day : —Great Eastern, 39
Ismeashire and Yorkshire, 1221 / I—London and North
Western, 1261 6--Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincoln, 621—
Metropolitan, 35 61—Midland (181. sham), 2 6-16 p. —South
Fasten, 70—Buffalo and L Huro6 9-16—Grand Trunk
of Canada, 3411 I—kkie, 50 ike
reTwenties, 66 61—Dutch
Rhenish, 6 1516 p.—Alliance Bank, 0 p.—Queen Insurance
Company, 1 Dion Marine. 11 1 7-1611 p.—Mersey Steel and
Iron Company, 11 I—National Steam Narig.tion Company,
0 1 7-16 le 1 7-16 11.
11A/1011111r111, Jail. 24.—There was a moderate badness, but
at rather lower rates. Alliance Bank (Limited), 21 p.—Confe-
derate Loan, 6—Consolidated Bank (Limited). ti I).—Erice. 66
—Gnat Eastern, 391 1 0 el—Great Northern, A, 1451—Grand
Tnmk of Canada, 361 14 I—Great Western of Canada, 16 6-16
—Great Western, 69-111inois, TS 4i s—Lancashire and York-
ebbe. 1221 I—London and North Western, 120—Manchester,
eliefeeld, and Lincolnshire, 621 4—ditto, Perp. 6 per Cent.,
101 16—New ditto (all paid;, 9 - Metropolitaa,l3s 111 If
—Stanley Coal and Iron Company (Limited),lB p.—Thames and
Mersey Marine Insurance (Limited„ 54 p.—United States 6-90
years' Bonds, 661—Virginia 6 per Ceuta., 401—Overecd, Gurney,
sad Co., 0 p.
&amnions*, Jan. 24.—Business was done In this market to-
day as follows : Birmingham Joint Stock Bank, at 40—Birming-
ham Financial, at IL les. ed. prem.—Gloucester Wagon, at 12—
British and Foreign Railway Plant, at 6 and 6 db., closing 6 to 41
dia—Patent Nut an • Bolt, at 11 prem. and Steam Cooperage
and Cut, at 34. 9d. db. Nottingham Banks were offered at I
Metropolitan Wagon, second issue, at dia.—and
prom.
Adams and Company, at 11. Ils. 3d. prem.

Warm° sr THE HosTrrais.—The secretary of
the London Hospital writes to the Times to say that the
committee have fully inquired into the delay at this institn-
doe in the first treatment of accident cases as alleged by Mr.
and bees severely reprimanded the nurse and
porter, with an intimation that further misconduct will in-
toredismissal ; and that the delay complained of was chiefly
owing to the faid that the house surgeon was engaged ia attend-
iog to a avers and difficult cue of hemorrhage in the wards.
The ooaimittee deeply regret the inconvenience to which
individual patients have been subjected, resulting from a
circumstance already too well known at the hospital,
viz., an influx of accident cases, which now, at
VAIN, exceeds the powers of the existing staff, and
for this evil thiaconunittee (upon the urgent recommend-
ation of the surgeons) had already endeavoured to devise a
remedy by a resolution to appoint a third resident house-
surgeon, who will shortly enter on his duties. This reso-
lution is on the minutes of Tuesday, the 28th of November
Let.
A Loss ro ARCHAOLOGY.—During the severe gales
that have prevailed a loss has been sustained which can
urer be replaced. It is well known that the oldest house
in England is the one at the bottom of Blue Anchor-lane,
West Quay, formerly the residence of King John. The
remains of this building have long been need u a store
and cart abed, and we regret to announce that the force
of the wind has blown down one of the walls, thereby de-
stroying a secret court that existed within the wall, and
which led to a subterranean passage, planned for the
escape of its beleaguered ccenpants. In one of the walls
of the house is a mess, the size and form of • human
being, tradition asserting that a poor wretch was built into
the wall alive, and there left by his barbarous jailors to
Perish by the slow and torturing pangs of hunger. Within
a few months our great local antiquary, the Rev. E. Kell,
had photographs taken of the remain' of this celebrated
historical residence.—Hants Independent.
LONDON SOCITTY.—From the multitudinous shape
which London society is now asvuming, two consequences
we imminent ; the rarity of these huge reunions from
the mitoses or inability of our houses to contain them, and
the retirement within a very limited circle of relatives and
Privtte friends of those persons who would have bun
willing, in the old time, to have contributed a proper share
to the social enjoyment of others. With the excuse of
raidiuomfort abroad, joined to an Englishman's natural
inclination to stay at borne ; with the difficulty of meeting
the few he likes, added to the certainty of encounter
led a crowd be abhors ; with the increasittc severity of
the duties and responsibilities of public life, and
the diminution of the external respect sod import-
une it imparts, there is every inducement to oar
wealthier, and nobler, and more fastidious countrymen
to retain an exclusiveness of habits and an isolations ef
lift, which can be indulged in with impunity by legiti-
mists in Paris or men of letters in Boston, but which, if
rlstunatically persisted in, will seriously impair the rein-
hone of classes, and the political structure of our civil
cadence. The great can no longer remain in an empyrean
tf their own, even if that atmosphere be purer, triter. *ad
latter than the world below; but, as unfortacately it is
the tandem of all exclusiveness of this kind to generate
Tar! different kind of atmosphere, there is the double
k,od of the injury to the order and the damage to the in-
Sividuals. It is, therefore, no exaggeration to say that
wash a moiety es the Misses Berry established and main-
filmed for nearly half a oentury—bringing together on a
teenoon ground of friendly istereouree. not only men U.
stations in different walks of life, bat what might WIT
to called the men of the day—mu who had won and men
who were winning, mina who wished to learn and men ready
to tench, restrained and softened by a womanly inflow*
?at sever degenerated hate that social polio* which •
ton skilful hostess often finds neoeseary to impose—had its
and political bearings, besides its personal and
Noselioial laflassese.—Quarieriy &vim, now number.