The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-05 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARI MAEK3

LIVERPOOL, DEC. 4.—Sales to day: ftledmM; 74 fU 5 4.1
51—Ortet Eastern, 1101 ; I—lanadafre and Yre, 124 3
London and Noeth Weten, 1131 6 14 Metropolitan, 1181
171 1.8 171 18 17}—Midland, 1111 f f 12—butch Rhenish, New,
I—Oreat laxesobourg, 9 6-18—Brill& and loreispi Marine
(Limp.ited), 9-10 p.—MariUme Insurance illnalted), 1 d.—Electric
and International Telegraph, 156—Leeds and Liverpool Canal,
4821—National Steam Ship Company (Limited), 6/.
1141,0=371a. DEC. 4.—Market lower ; good loudness doing.
Bolckow, Vaughan, and Co. (Limited), d.—Caledonian, 74 111
5111 5 141 f fillui—Oreat 'Warn, It Lt—Oreat Luzern-
b°9- ;II 0nc612 and North 80
emtrm 1133 141.—yaL",=g1:2
field, and Lincolnshire, 471 1 }—Ditto £6 Prof., 6 3-16—Metro-
politan, 1181 18 1 18 1 18 171 18 17} 1 ; 11 11—:Midland, 1111 12
South1—North British, 33I—North 'sigma 'Berwick," 991—
Eastern, 671—Thames and Mersey Marine Insurance
Irted), S 2 16-16 IL—United States 620 Years' Bonds, 711
Ditto 10.40 ditto, 68 —Rochdale Canal, 831—Preston and Wyre
Ives, 221-11 New 6 per Cent, 1
_p.
BlRiummall, DEC. 4.—Business is very dull in this market
to-day. Birmingham Carnal shares were sold at 874
prices :—Serern Valley Railway shares, sellers, at 131--C-ri:
staffordshire Railway Five per Cent. Preference, buyers, at 211—
Birmingham and Midland Banks. sellers, at 134—Nottingham
Joint-Stock Bank, at 41 to 31 dia.—Midland Financial shares, at
1 11-16 to 11 di.—Birmingham Wagon shares, huyen, at 16—
Railway Carriage ;Oldbury:, at 1 to 11 pm.—South StOtordalthe
Waterworks shares, buyers, at 51—and Leeswood Cannel and
Gas Coal Shares, at at toga. Cd. per share.
timius, Die. 3.—Three per Cent. Consols, 931 I—New Three
per Cont. Stock, 921 1 f I—Ditto, for account, 64h Dec., 921 1
—Ditto, for new account, 7th Jan., 921—India Four per Cent.,
Oct. letiO Stock (transferable at the Bank of Ireland , 1001
Hibernian Banking Company (125 paid), 381—Munster Bank
(Limited. ($.31 WC 41—Nadonal Bank (130 Paid), 891 f 1 i 60—
fill Provincial Bank (OS 1, 90—Royal Bank (110 pain), 325
Union Bank (Lad , (122 paid), 17—Great Southern and
Western (floe paid,, Midland Great Western (1100 paid), 661
—Dublin. Wicklow, Wexford, 6 per cent. (18bo, redeemable
Itlbs oil paid!, 473 47—Great Southern and Western. 4 per cent.
perpetual (1100 paid), Mt—Midland Great Western, div. from date
of rurchose, 100.

A deputation representing the body of Congrega-
tional dissenters, consisting of Rev. John Houghton, Rev.
W. Tyler, Mr. Joseph Craven, and others, had an interview
yesterday with Lord R. Montagu, M.P. at the Privy
Council-offiee. The deputation was introduced by Mr.
Edward Baines, ALP., Mr. Charles Gilpin, M.P., and Mr.
S. Morley.
SON STRING TO DRINK."—We will say this much,
indeed, of the better specimens of the peasantry, that they
are beginning to see the folly and wickedness of gems
intoxication. But the old tradition, according to which
" something to drink" expresses the highest conception of
pleasure to which the rustic imagination is capable of
soaring, is still in full force. " Whet should you do,
James, if you suddenly had a large sum of money left
you 1" said a lady of our acquaintance to her gardener, a
most respectable married man, • labourer in the village.
" I dun no, miss," was the answer ; " but I think I should
have summut to drink." In a very different part of Eng-
land we know another moat respectable character,
who is sometimes engaged to go out with shooting
parties, and who, exhibiting on his return from one such
expedition a woody and dissatisfied cast of countenance,
was questioned as to the reason of it. " When I goes out
• shootin' I likes a skillful," was the forcible and ingenu-
ous answer. Now this man was no drunkard ; he had no
extra work to do on such occasions. His chief occupation
was lying down under a hedge and pretending to mark.
But an enormous quantity of beer was in his eyes the
eoping.stoae of all human undertakings, and therefore the
legitimate object of a man who wished to see everything
done as well as possible. and who conceived that shooting
without much malt was a crude and imperfect form of
art. We were visiting the other day—in rather a retired
neighbourhood, it must be conftsued—where it is still re-
corded with pride that a farmer, lately dead, used to
drink 26 glasses of gin and water every Saturday night, in
this wise—he wore a long single-bresated waistcoat with
thirteen buttons, and for every glass that he drank, he
undid one ; when ha got to the bottom he buttoned it up
again upon the same principle, after which process he welt,
doubtless, as a London jester, when be heard the story,
observed " tight in both senses of the word."—Cornhili
I Magazine for December.