The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-01 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARI imurrrs.

LIVERPOOL. OCT. 31.—Sales: Caledonian, 88 C 4 7 }-Greek
Eastern, 331 I—Great Western, 451 I—Lancashlre and Yorkshire.
1461 11—London and North Western, 1131 1 111—Metropo-
litan, 1201—Midland, 1174 11--South Eastern, 6717 64—Erle,
—Dutch Rhenish, 3# p.—Great Luxembourg shares, 8 6-18 "
North and South Wales, 21—British and Foreign Marina
(Limited), 1348 p.—Liverpool and London and Globe Fire and
Life, 54 p.—Queen insurance, 1 4.—Royal Insurance, 21 p.-
1' nion Marine (Limited), 3/ p.—Liverpool Exchange, 12—Nis-
Misal Steam Ship Company (Limited), 7—National 8 per cent.
min. pref., 6.16 p.
Masenforria, 00?. 31. —Market flat, and prices a shade lower.
C. Cammell and Co (Limited;, 36 d.—ffstes. 471 1 I—Great
Eastern, 32 I—Great Limembe ,83 5161—Great Northern
1124 13—Great Western of Canada, 101—Great Western, 46 51A,
shi—John Brown and Co. (Limited), 30 d.—Lancashire and York-
re, 1203 3—Your and-A.ll*U per Cent. ditto, 1870, pref., 1031—
London. Brighton, and South Coast, 521—London and North
Western. 113} I.—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 48
7} i B—Metropolltan, 121 2011} 1 1 I—Midland, 11711 I—South
Eastern, la —U Wiwi States 5-20 Years' hoods, 701 70--Cal' odonlaa,
S 7 1 4 1 1 1--Glasgow and South Western, 1024—Itallan, 441—
Great Western Six per Cents., 93.
lORKINGIIAN, O(T. 81.—Business done: Birmingham, Wol-
verhampton, and Stour Valley Railway shares, at O1—Lloyd's
Bank shares, at 7 pm. Staffordshire Joint-stock Banks, at 201 :
Birmingham and stalfindalthe Gas, .C. 23 sha', &V 49. Closing
prices : Stour' Canals, oilers, at 220: Birmingham Finan-
cial shares, at 11 to 14 Ma 111rmInghaan Gas 'New Ordinary)
shares, 18CA. at 44 pm., buyers : Birmingham New Union Mills,
at 3to M ; Midland Wagon shares, sellers, at tici aunt Stafford-
shire Wheel and Axletree shares, sellers, at 3 dii.

On Wednesday last the Rev. George Smith,
clerk, was instituted to the rectory of, Hotterafield with
Saint Croas, Southelinhara, in Suffolk, on the presentation
of Sir Robert Shaft* Adair, of Flaton Hall, in Suffolk,
Baronet. _ _

A VISIT TO VTR Qualm' OF MADAGASCAR. —Her
Majesty's ship Vigilant, Captain H. A. Brown, R.N., being
lately at Madagescar, Captain Brown received an official
letter from our consul, Mr. Pakenham, who had gone to
Andevranto, a port or place 70 miles to the southward of
Tamatave, requesting him to come up, as the Queen had
expressed an especial wish to see an English naval officer,
never having seen one. The captain acrorlingly deter-
mined to make the journey, which is rather fatiguing sad
long--about seven nays there and back—and with one of
his lieutenants, Mr. Bainbridge, and his worthy coxswain,
to make as favourable an impression as he could. They
had guard of honour and the Queen's own band to march
them into her presence, and about 5,000 soldiers were
under arms expressly to do they honour. The Queen
received them mast cordially. Afterwards Captain Brown
went in plain clothes, by the wish of some of the high
officers and paid them a friendly visit ; everywhere they
were treated with great civility and kindness.
Mona SHIPPING, DISASTERS. —Tito Liverpool
underwriters yesterday received intelligences to the effect
that the ship Ardenlee, Captain Lowe, bound from
London to Quebec and Montreal, with a cargo of dry
voila, military atom, .tc. went ashore off Fox river, St.
Lawrence, on the 13th October.: The crew were saved,
and it WAS expected that should the weather clear up
most of the cargo would be saved. The French steamers
Cayenne and Paris were disabled during a storm in
the Gulf of Mexico on the 7th October. The Liverpool
ship, Mountaineer, from Harbor Grace to Liverpool, wish
a cargo of fish and oil, has goes ashore at Ithasueigr (on
I the Anglesca coma), one mile north-west of the spot where
the ship Earl of Cheater was wrecked during the frightful
gale in the Channel, on Sunday last. Crew all saved. The
screw steamer Amsterdam, of Leith, from Malaga to New
York, is reported to have been lost on Long Island. The
Huasco, Captain Waaan, was the barque with which the
Jeannette Routine, from Buenos Ayres to Antwerp, was
in collision. The Huasco put into Stanley, Falkland
Islands. The crew of tho Zone, which was lost off Cape
St. Mary's, bad also arrived at Stanley. Several casks of
palm oil have been washed ashore at Guernsey, but no
other wreckage.
EARLY JEWISII SCHOOLS.—Eighty years before
Christ. schools flourished throughout the length and
breadth of the land ; education hail been made compulsory.
While there is cot a sir;le term for "school" to be found
before the captivity, cud there was by that time about a
dozen in common usage. Here are afew of the innumerable
popular sayings of the period, betokening the paramount
importance which public instruction had assumed in
the life of the nation: "Jerusalem was destroyed be-
cause the instruction of the young was neglected."
" The world is only saved by the breath of the school-
children." " Even for the rebuilding of the Temple the
schools must not be interrupted." ' Study is more meri-
torious than sacrifice." "A scholar is greater than a
prophet." " You should revere the teacher even more
than your father. The latter only brought you into this
world, the former indicates the way into the next. But
blessed is the son who has learnt from his father; he shall
revere him both as his father and his master ; and blessed
is the father who has instructed his eon."—Quarterly
&rim, new number.
WILD FOWL SHOOTINO.—It is no light matter
fora man to crawl miles over the mud, shoving his band-
punt before him, load keeping himself alive in frost and
wet, as Colonel Hawker used to do. only by milk. It is
no light matter for a man to leave his warm bed and go
down, when the tide serves, to the Wash by Lynn, amid
the ice-pack roaring in the tide-way, and out to sea in his
paddle-punt, not knowing whether, before the morning,
the ice-pack may not have frozen him in. and carried him
—as it carried one man, at least, of whom we know—
jammed helpless in the floe, ice-pole as useless as naddle,
out and out through the long horrible hour,, past Wolfer-
ton, past Sandringham. past all the world, out into the
northern darkness, till Hunstanton light faded on the
southern horizon, and the Northern Ocean howled amend;
and kind sleep, the child of frost, came down to dull the
agony of the soul, and let the shooter, who was sever seen
again by man, rest quietly in God. Yes, it is a brave
sport, that wild-fowl shooting, for those who have healt'r
and nerve ; and at least they bring home, at morning, good
and wholesome food for rich and poor. —Fraar's Moya:iss
ice November.
SHOOTING-STARS. —A careful observer directing
his attention towards any quarter of the sky on a clear
night will see on an average six shooting-stars per hour.
We may assume,therefore, that about fifteen appear above
the horizon of any place during each hour. More appear
after than before midnight, the most favourable time for
observation being from 1 o'clock to 3.—Corneal Magazitie
for November.