The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-22 00:00:00

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late Mr. Richard Till. For this office Mr. Jolla
Goddard, the able actuary of the company, is a can-
didate. . _ _

All anxiety respecting the safety of the steamer
Rhone has been removed by the announcement
of her arrival at Lisbon, and her departure
thence, in contiuuatian of her voyage to Brazil.

SATURDAY
.En=.l,O.

Consols, which closed yesterday at 871 to for
the Bth February, opened and closed to-day at
87/, "buyers." For money the last price was
87 to W. The official business report is as fol-
lows ;—Three per Cent. Consols, for money,
87, 1 ; ditto, for account, 871 ; Three per
Cents. Reduced, 871, 61 ' • New Three per Cents.,
861, 71 ; Bank Stock, 246; India Five per Cent.
Stuck, 1021; ditto Five per Cent. "enlaced"
rupee paper, 101.
There was no movement worth mentioning in
Indian government securities. Exchequer Bills re-
main quoted ss. to Is. dia.
Foreign stocks showed dulness, and the tendency
of prices in several cases was downwards. Turkish
Bonds of 1863 were especially heavy, anddeclined
2 per cent. Sardinian also receded 1 ; Spanish
New Deferred, the Committee's Certificates, and
Passive, 1 to 1; and Mexican, Turkish of 1865, and
Brazilian Scrip, 1. Russian of 1862, and Greek
Bonds were exceptionally firm, and rose and
per cent. respectively.

The scrip of the New Egyptian Government
Railways Debenture Loan, the list for which is to
be closed on Monday at 12 o'clock for London and
the country, was quoted during part of the day lf
to 11 prem., awl closed at 1 3-16 to 1 5.16 prem.
Very few transactions were reported in financial
shares, and the tendency was dull, especially as
regards International Financial, General Credit,
and London Financial. The last prices were as
follows :—lnteruatioual Financial, to I prem.;
General Credit, 17., to '2 prem. ; London Financial,
ag to prem. ; Imperial Mercantile Credit, 2 3-16
to 5-16 prem. ; Credit Foncier and Mobilier, 3 to
.1 Prem.
National Discount shares were last quoted 11
to HI prem., showing a fall of 7s. Gd. ; Joint
Stock Discount, 21 to 21 dis., being likewise 7s. 6d.
lov:er ; Overend, Gurney, and Co., sg to prem.,
a decline of 2s. Gd. to ss. ; and Hudson's Bay,
161 to ft, a reaction of 2s. Gd. There was a demand
for Egyptian Commercial and Trading, Millwall
Iron Works, Union Marine, and Universal Marine,
which improved. Oriental Financial and Telegraph
Construction gave way. London and St. Katharine
Dock stock also receded about 21 per cent.
The shares of the English and American Bank
were nounivally quoted 1 to 11 prem. ; London
Steam Towing, 1%, to 2 prem. ; Charles Laflitte and
Co., 2/ to f prem. ; Hercules Insurance, f to 11
prem.; and Galatz Caudle, fto prem.
American securities were rather flat. 5.20 Bonds
declined 1 per cent., and Erie and Illinois Central.
Railway shares 1 and 1 respectively. The following
were the latest price., viz. :-5.20 Bonds, 65?, to
; Erie Railway shares, 56/ to 57} ; Illinois Cen-
tral, 751 to 761, ex div. ; Atlantic and Great
Western Railway Debentures, 84 to 85 ; ditto
small. 85 to 86 ; ditto Consolidated Sterling Mort-
gage Bonds, paid up, 781 to 79k, ex coupuu ; ditto
scrip, 71 to 1 prem.

MINES.-(THIS DAYJ

ONE O'CLOCK.

The mining market is quiet to-day, but there
is a demand for East Lovell and South Crotty
shares, at 1211 to 13, and 10 to 12, respec-
tively.: Illoga.o are also inquired for. Wheal
Buller are quoted 20. to 27i ; North Chivertou,
325. (id. to 375. tkl. ; South Darren, 2i tog ; and
Chiverton Moor, t;1 to tr.
Omutales Gold shares are firm at 2it ton prem. ;
and Frontiuo and Bolivia at 7 to prem.
A petition for the winding up of the Mentes
Aurcos Brazilian Gold Mining Company is to be
heard before the Master of the Rolls ou the 27th
instant.
A petition for the winding up of the Criddis
Copper Minim, Company is to be heard before
the Vice-Warden of the Stannaries ou Monday,
the 29th inst.
The Master of the Rolls has ordered the
petition of the Great Northern Copper Mining
Company of South Australia (Limited) to stand
over until after the annual general meeting now
due, and that the officers of the company should
not be entitled to any salary until the further order
of the court.

THE CONSOLIDATED Disc OUNT COMPANY.—(THIN
DA T. )—Thit afternoon, at the third ordinary meeting of the
shareholders of this company, Mr. Richardson in the
chair, the report of the directors was sulinaitted for
censideration, and an active discussion thereon was proceed-
log when our account left.
THE LONDON FINANCIAL ASSOCIATIvN.--(Tlild
LAT.)—This afternoon, at the half•yearly meeting of this
association, Mr. liackblock io the chair, the report of the
directors recommending a dividend and bonus at the
rate of 10 per cent. per annum was *greed to.
THE FRF.NciI CHANIEERS.— The Moniterri of
yesterday announces that the legislative session of the
French Chambers will be opened to-day (Monday) at oars
o'clock precisely, by the Emperor Napoleon in person.
Salvos of artillery will announce the commencement and
ter.dination of the ceremony.
THE FLOoDs. —During Saturday night and yes-
terday morning the waters on the inundated land around
Windsor, Eton, Eton College, and Shaine' bad subsided
considerably, and a few days of dry weather will, no doubt,
clear the flooded country to a great extent. There is yet,
however, much water upon the Home-park and on the
meadows and arable land near Detchet, Wrayebury, and
Old Windsor. The latest accounts from the surrounding
districts all speak of the floods as haviog been tie highest
known niece 1852. At Maidenhead during the inundation
the water rose very high and inundated the main street, bat
did not stop the traffic. The lower roads to I:ty. Bray, and
Cookham were, however, impassable. At Colebrook in the
early part of the week all foot passengers bad to be mo-
seyed io carts through the water to Foyle, at so much per
head, • good business being carried on, while it was with
great difficulty that some of the stock could be removed to
places of safety. The roadway between Sunbury and
Hampton had at one time from two to three feet of water
over it, while from Sunbury to Manifold the road was quite
impassable. The vicinity of Chertsey was extremely
flooded, the Abbey-mead and low-lying lands above the
bridge being covered, and some of there rendered im-
passable. The water is now decreasing along the flooded
land on the banks of the Thames.
Ma. TENNYSON'S POETRY.—Mr. Ten nyson's
poetry is then the work of a highly seasitive and fastidious
artist, keenly alive t., the criticism of his own cultivated
mind, and choosing rather to limit the range of his imagine-
tion than to run any risk of its breakieg a wing ; but we
are obliged, at the same time, to admit that a want of this
freedom of inspirstion is, even within these limits, some
drawback upon its charm. With the power of presenting
ideas, before unknown to men, comes also a magic skill of
weaving in the unseen with the seen, even in the most
familiar things ; and a strange lustre is thereby given to the
work, •Instre often overlooked. but precious as the fru-
graoce of the choicest wines to those who know how to price
it, In many ways the Laureate's work reminds us of that
of our very best modern Gothic architects. The edifice is
faultless, every detail shows a delicate taste, and a love and
understanding of the best works of the past, while the
structure as a whole shown, if not grandeur, at least beauty
in its proportions, sad simplicity in its effects ; yet there
lacks after all the indescribable freshness and vigour which
are more often indeed attributes of times and peoples then
of individuals. In one particular, however, Mr. Tennyson
may claim an equality with any other poet, namely, in the
singular charm and propriety of his similes ; and this merit
is one of a very high order. It is not right to look upon
these as mere embellishments set upon the text as gems
upon a chalice. Even a single word dropped into an atten-
tive mind, like a stone into still water, propagates an im-
pulse in all direction., causing infinite radiations of thought,
and stirring up diverse ideas along the many ways of asso-
ciation. Hence the more sensitive the mind, the more
complete will be the resulting circles of thought, and re-
sponsive chords will be awakened in them by delicate vibrs-
tioes which in coarser minds are lost. Thus it is with Mr.
Tennyson : impressions upon his mind and senses call up
amended ideas and memories in an infinite number of di-
rections, and those are chosen which, by fitness or contrast,
may arouse in the reader the required combinations of
thought, and assimilate his state of [oohs( to that of the
poet. Similes of the best kind then are net mere illustration&
but are, as it were, beentifel views oriened up in the paths
of our thought, intensifying oar moods by oontrast, or
enlarging them by spopetby.—Quorterly Revine, sew
number.
CRYSTAL PALACIL HALT-A-CROWIC DAT. •
, SATURDAY, JAN. 20.—Admiericaa on Payment, 1,315;
ditto by maim ticket, 3,141; total, 4,456.
GREAT NORTHIIIR/C HORPITAL, CALIDONIAN-BOAD.
—Number of palest' for the week eadiag Jae. SO, 1,072.
et which 153 were new cam.