The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-06 00:00:00

RAILWAYS.-(THIS DAY.)

On o'CLooi.
In the railway market to-day the principal
feature is a recovery of 20 per cent. in London,
Brighton, and South Coast stock. Great Northern
(original) has also improved 1 ; London, Chatham,
and Dover, 0 ; London and North Western, ;
and Great Eastern, On the other hand, South
Eastern exhibits a fresh fall of per cent.
Metropolitan stook is now quoted 115 to t ;
Great Western, 40/ to 0 ; London and North
Western, 112 to 1 ; Midlaul, 1081 to 109 ; Lan.
=Mire and Yorkshire, 1211 to 1 ; Caledonian,
106 to 107 ' • South Eastern, 60/ to 611 ; Great
Eastern, 271 to 1 • Great Northern, 1101 to
1111 ; ditto A, 1081 to 109 ; London, Chatham,
and Dover, 16 to ; North British, 33 to
34 ; and Brighton, 571 to 581.
[For to-day's Blare List sea page 4.1

A STRUGGLE IN THE DUBLIN STRIETS.—OR
Saturday night a determined attack was made by • young
man of American appsaranee on two constables in Grafton-
street with a revolver. When arrested for disorderly con-
duct be pulled out • loaded revolver of seven chambers, and
several times attempted to shoot. Police-constable
64 B closed with him, and endeavoured to take the
revolver, but the crowd broke in and rescued the
man, who made towards Clarendon-street, but fell on his
way, and a dagger dropped from his hand. Seeing
• person running with a revolver, Police-constable
89 B, in Clarendon-street, followed, and came up with
him. A desperate struggle ensued, and the policeman was
nearly overpowered, but at length be took the revolver,
after it had been several times pointed at him. Seeing
the man getting the better of him the constable struck
him with the end of the revolver slid broke his nose. The
fellow struggled for • long time after, and nearly got
away from the two constables until additional force came
up, and then he fainted and was taken to the hospital.
Thirty-eight rounds of ball cartridge were found upon him.
He refused his name or address. . .

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WHAT WE ARE TO EXPECT. —And now it seems
to us that if legislation is undertaken at all, it might ad-
vantageously be carriod somewhat further than is proposed
in the Home Secretary's bill. It is not only in the Lou.
don parks that mass meetings in the open air are becoming
• nuisance. They have ban a muse of complaint to the
inhabitants in sot a few of our great towns. It is
time, perhaps, to look a little more closely at this
right of meeting. So isgarded, it will be found
to become more and more unsubstantial, and to fade at
last into the right of petition, a very different matter.
The whole idea of petitioning is opposed to the presence
of anything approaching intimidation, and the voice of a
vast assemblage is always intended to convey more or less
of menace. The right of meeting too, is limited by
various considerations, and especielly by the right to the
place of meeting. Now we conceive that many of the oh.
ecitions taken to Hyde park as a place for such sasem-
hes apply with equal force to open spaces in most large
town.—Manehater Guardian.

RICKNT W/LITINOM OP EMBILSON.—The impres-
sion has been gaining among his countrymen that Emerson
bas been receiving something from the larger crowds that
have been listening to him in the last years whilst he has
been communicating his thoughts to them. He has caught,
as it were, some clear eyes in the companies before him
which he had not suspected were there, and speak' more
as if he felt that something can be practically accom-
plished in the present, and less as if he were depositing
the ore of thoughts for another generation to quicken. In
a word he has become more visibly in earnest, and conse-
quently more eloquent, whilst never for a moment lower-
ing his standard of thought. He may be regarded as the
founder of the American Lyceum, and in the last twenty
Jelin it has been a medium of perpetual communication
between him and the people throughout the Northern
States. Much of hie " English Traits," and all of his
" Conduct of Life," has been given in the Lyceums not
only of the cultivated Eastern States, but of the rough
backwood settlements in the West. In none of these
regions have there been any complaints of not understand-
ing him, such as were frequent in Boston and in England
when he first appeared as a lecturer. This is not alone
due to the greater degree in which the people have ap-
proached his standard ; he also has doubtless been some-
what educated by a greater familiarity with his country-
men. Nor have the great events that have occurred in
America in the latter years pissed over without leaving
important traces upon him. In his time he has seen the
people of America steadily advancing the cause of justice,
not only without great leaders but over the fallen forms of
their strongest but faithless captains, and a confidence in
them rarely expressed in his earlier, is a main feature in
his later works. Ilia catholic intelligence has aaaimiLated
the genuine peculiarities of his country, and he has found
in it and its people a quarry from which he can derive the
material for the statues and pillars he would raise. His
method too has become somewhat more practical ; and
indeed it night be expected that any philosophic mind
would after a full theoretic utterance gradually incline to
criticism and the application of abstract principles to men
and institutions. This hes given his later style • more
popular and, so to speak, iconographic character; and it
has also developed his humour—witty he always was.—
Fraser's Mafenine for May.