The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-25 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKETS.

EMI:RPM!, Yen. tt—eas« today : omit Eastern, 711—Ores
Western, 491—Lancashire and I'Mishire, 124 7 61 7 ei dir.—
London and North Western, IVI f 1 j—Manchester,
and Lincolnshire. 50—Midland, 124—Muth Eastern, Mt 4 t i I
/—Buffalo and Lake Huron, 41—Atlantic and Great Western
7 per cent. Cons. 13 obis. i 4 Erie, 371—Bank of Liverpo il, 57
MesantUe and Exchange Bank (Limited), (d.— National (Ream
Company, 17 d.
MANCHESTER, FIB. 13 —The market opened strong, but there
we, not much business effected Great Eastern, 311 I—Great
Western of Canada, 131—Lunsishireand Yorkshire. 1261—Lon-
don and North Wcsern, IVi 1-61anchester and County Bank
:Limited'. 31 p.—Manchester, illteMeld, and Lincolnshire, 601—
Metropolitan, 1241—Midland, 123/ 4—Ditto New 6 per cent.
Convertible, 14 6d. p. —South &Meru, 014 11 1 1 4 1—
Thames and Mersey Marine In. (Limited;, 37-16 p.—Whitekaven
and Furness, 311—North Union 11.,162,
HINMINOHAN, Fna. t7.—The tranasellorts to-day included
Midland Railway gi! Convertible Five Cent stock. at
Hs. prem. ; Birmingham Town and Dtateict Bank. at
Metropolitan Railway cWriage and Wagon shares, third bane,
at 1 dia. ; Railway Carriage shares (Oldbury:, at 11 pm.: Patent
Shaft and Axletiee shares :new', at 11 pron. , and eitsNordshire
Wheel and Axietree shares, ate die Closing prices:—Bfrneing-
ham
Banking Company Shares (Limited) at 2 prem. sellers ; Wol-
verhampton and Staffordshire Banks, at 9 to 14 ; Midland
Financial shares, at 11 to if dia. ; and BAUM and Foreign Rail-
way Plant shares, eta to 7 die.
Dumas, Fut. t3.—Three per Cent. Consols, 90e—Newl Three
per Cent. Stock, re3l-111hernian Banking ComParly (L 26 4.1 d),
PO—Munster Bank k Limited, (L 34 pald), 4—National of Liver-
pool (Waled) (415 paid,, 15—Royal Bank (LIP paid', 714—Dublin
and Belfast Junction 4.160 ON Wicklow, and
Wexford (LlOO paid, 33—Oreat louthern and Western Aloe
aid:, We—Belfast and Northern Counties, Your per omit. prep.
(LlOO paid), 84—DubUn, Mellow, and Wexford, Five per Cent.
redeemable 1468 (1.60 paid), 461—Midland Great Western,
11 year unexpired, 6 per cent, P 4.

THIS PARIS EXHIBITION BUILDING.-112 another
month the Great Exhibition, designed to eclipse all former
exhibitions, and to be a standard for all exhibitions to
come, will be presented to a curious, candid, and criticising
public. As it grows upon our senses, we can read the
' descriptions of the spectacle with increasing interest, and
some amount of consolation. The building itself is, of
course, the ugliest thing ever seen. The French
themselves admit that nothing could possibly be
uglier. It resembles an enormous gasometer, inclosing a
' series of smaller gasometers, with a circular garden in
the common centre. From this centre roads or avenues
' diverge to the circumference, like the spokes of a wheel or
' the cross threads of a spider's web. In each of the cir-
cular compartments thus formed and intersected certain
departments of industry will find their place, and this
principle of arrangement, excellent in its way, has deter-
mined the form of the building. The architect alleges
that it will answer its main purposes better than any other
structure could do, and with that success he is content.
But the peculiar characteristic,the great distinction of
the French Palace of Industry ies in Its surroundings, or
as we might say, its suburbs. It is situated in an arti-
ficial park such as in old times would have been termed
" •pleaaaunce," and this ground will he laid out with
extraordinary art. It will be studded too, with little
detached edifices for supplementary Exhibitions, erected
and decorated in all the styles of architecture known to
man. Temples, mosques, pagodas, wigwam.. iomhouseri,
villas, tombs, and huts will vie with each other in novelty,
picturesqueness, and beauty. Already, though the park
is half under water and everything in dreadful disarray,
the Parisians are satisfied with this part of the spectacle,
and are willing to believe that it will redeem the inerit-
able ugliness of the central fabric.—Tisses.
THE CLERGY AND THIS WORKING CLAs'Es.--
Yesterdday special sermons were preached throughout the
metropolis to the working classes. The movement was
entirely unsectarian. and included amongst its sup-
porters many of the clergy of the church of Englmsd and
the ministers of all denominational. Dean Stanley ad-
dressed a crowded assembly in Westminster Abbey in the
afternoon, and with great simplicity showed the claims of
Christianity upon the poor and industrial classes of the
community. Canon 31iller, at Greenwich, was also
among the preachers, and many clergymen who did not
preach special sermons alluded to the conference and
the grave questions it had started. Among Presby-
terian ministers. Dr. Janice Hamilton, of Regent-
square, entered into some of the reasons which
alienated not only skilled craftsmen, such as cabinetmakers
and organ-builders. engineers and watchmakers, hut
ploughmen and day labourers. He said it was only honest
to confess that many sermons were dull, that they cleared
no confusion, established no truth, impressed no lesson, or
the theme was remote from all actual use. They were
rendered still more remote and non-real by the use of tech-
nical terms and conventional phrases. Among the
Congregationalists, Dr. Raleigh, of Canonbury, ex-
pressed his hearty sympathy with working men upon
their oleic social and political questions. He went
thoroughly with them, and hoped they might win
reform, and obtain the political standing to which they
bad a right. He wanted to see them with better homes,
shorter hours of labour, and • larger remuneration for
their work. At Hollowaj, the Rev. Mark Willis preached
• sermon full of life nil vigour, to a crowded congregation.
In many instances the regular seat holders vacated their
pews in order to mike room for those for whom the service
was tntended.