The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-24 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE HAREEM

LIVRIPOOL, Ann 23.—Saiss today: Great Western, 41 4
id.—Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1211 I—London and North
4estern, 1141 14 1 1 f—Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire,
414 1 1 I—Metropolitan,1—Metropolitan, 1151—Souh Eastern, 64—Erie, 361
United States 620 Bonds, 1862, 694 1 84 / id --Great Luxem-
bourg shares, 81 7-16 1 id.
mANcesermt, Ann. 23.—The market was very dull, and
prices lower. Atlantic Telegraph Pi eierenee 8 per cent., 90—
District Bank, 16/ p.—Great Eastern, 871 4—Great Luxembourg,
8 7.16 j 5-16 4—Great Northern, A, 114 1 4—Great Western of
Canada, 134--Great Western, 401-1111nols, 74—Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 1211 4—London and North R esters, 114 4 f 1
Manchester, Shahid, and Uncolzishfre, 461 I—Metrupoll-
tan, 1161—North British, 334—North Eastern, " " 1001
South Eastern, 64—United States 620 Yean Bonda, 04 1 81
—Blackburn Purchase, 80—London and Brighton, 68 1.
BIPAUNGHAMI, Aran, iti—Buslnen done: Birmingham Wagon
'Limited), at 114: and Metropolitan Railway Carriage and
Weston (lirolted), second issue, at 1 db. Ming pekes: BB-
Wolverbamptoe, and Stour Valley Railway, 10 to 101
rotrtiaffordshire Beltway, 821, buyers; Birmingham Bank
(LimitscU, 11 to 11 prem. : Lloyd's Bank Limited .71 to 71 Prem.
Midland Financial Limited:, If to 11 di& ; South Staffordshire
Waterworks, 61 to 6; and Midland Contract (Limited), 54 to 5 dia.

The church at Pylle, near Shepton Mallett, in
Somereetshire, dedicated to St. Thomas I Becket, is about
to be pulled down and a new one built in its place at the
expense of Lord Portman.

Bees swarmed in some parts of Dorsetshire the
early part of this month. The cuckoo was beard in the
New Forest last week. The bloom on the fruit trees
throughout the New Forest is looking very promising.
FLOGGING IN THE ARMY AND NAVY.—The same
alterations as regards flogging have been made in both ser-
vices, and copond punishment is not be inflicted in time of
peace except for mutiny or insubordination, accompanied
with personal violence.
THE STRIKE ON THE NORTH-EASTERN RAILWAY
—The strike may now, so far as the company is concerned,
be said to have terminated. There may be more of the
old hands go in, there undoubtedly will every day, but
the company have now a sufficient staff to carry out their
arrangements. Yesterday morning five of the old hands,
having been accepted by Mr. Fletcher, the locomotive
superintendent, took out engines at Darlington. Eighteen
firemen were yesterday granted passes from Darlington to
Newcastle, to see Mr. Fletcher, with a view to being again
taken on. All these men are required to leave the
union before they are received, and the leaders of the
strike will not, it is plainly stated by the officials, be
received back under any_circumstances. The guards who

struck at Darlington, and have remained out, have mostly
applied to be taken back again, hut many of their places
have been filled up. The question, however, will come
before the directors at their meeting on Friday. The
Stockton and Darlington are now quite full. On Monday
several were taken on, but others who have applied have
been told that all the engines are full. On this line the
company's solicitor has drawn up a new form of contract,
the former one having been too undefined and difficult to
be applied. AU hands are required to sign this docu-
ment.

THE WHALE HUNT IN THE FIRTH OP FORTH.—
On Monday morning three more of the shoal of whales
driven inshore on Saturday were taken, one by a Ruchaven
boat and two by Newhaven boats. These fish had evi-
dently been shot or wounded in the pursuit of Saturday,
and were found floating dead on the surface on the water.
The herd had, however, disappeared, the fishermen be-
lieving they had gone up the 'Firth. One of those taken
at Newhaven on Monday was the largest that had been
landed, being about 27f$. long. Captain Angus, of the
steamship Queen, whose boats' mews were done out of any
share in the plunder by the Newhaven men, attempted to
make good his claim, but before be could get the sale in-
terdicted be found that the fish had been sold by auction.
For 11 fish the sum of 2W. :is. was obtained, the highest
price realised being 4L 13s. The fishermen describe the
species as the grampus or black fish, and state that they
are quite familiar with them at the mouth of the Firth,
and that they seldom come higher up than the Bass Rock.

ME& STOWE IN THE SOUTHERN STATES. —The
Moo)* Teltgraph announces the arrival in that city of Mrs.
Harriet Beecher Stowe, and hopes that her sojourn in the
south has been a pleasant one, and that she finds the
morals of southern people much improved Hine ahe wrote
" Uncle Tom's Cabin."
_ . . .

HULL CORN MARKET, APRIL 23.—At to-day's
market a moderate supply of English wheat, which moves
off steadily at last week's currency. Foreign meets more
inquiry, but without any quotable improvement in value.
Barley of all descriptions better to sell, especially grinding,
which is very scarce. Beans and peas sell more freely at fully
late rates. Oats in good request at prises in favour of *el-
len, and the market getting very low of stock. Indian
awn gets into narrow compass and prices advancing.
Arrivals for the week :—Wheat, 9,913 qrs. ; barley, 4,517;
oats, 2,638 ; beans, 1,3%; peas, 1,244 ; tares, 169; Indian
oorn, 686.
GOUGH, THE BLIND BOTANIST.—The perceptive
power which resided in that accomplished man's touch
was amazing and almost incredible. It is exquisitely ex-
pressed by his friend Wordsworth in a few lines of the
" Excursion :"

No floweret blooms
Throughout the lofty range of these rough hilts,
tir In the woods, that could from him conceal
Ha birthplace . none whose figure did not live
Upon his touch
Wordsworth once brought to Mr. Cough a cushion of
mesa-like leaves, spangled with bright purple flowers from
near Grisedale Tarn. When Gough touched it, he said at
once: "I have never examined this plant before, but it is
sikne wad is." We feel this to be one of the most charm-
ing of Westmoreland anecdotes, whether we consider the
beauty of the flower itself, or of the scene from which it
was brought. But it should be added that Gough's science
was not by any means limited to natural history. He was
eminent also in physics and in mathematics. Dalton and
Whewell were among his pupils.—Quarterly Review, new
number
CITSTAL PALACI. ONE SHILLING DAY.--
TVE.NDAT, APRIL 23.—Admiasions on payment, 6,015 ;
ditto by season tickets, 1,756 ; total visitors, 7,771.