The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-16 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL MARI ramars.

LIVERPOOL. OCT. 15 : Caledonian, 1;1} 1 1001 }1—
Great Eastern. sr; A 6 } }—Great Western, 47} Londom
Brighton, and tout). cows, 56—London and North Western,
111isit ,!I.27imstanietie;tear. Vieatield, and Lin
orth British, zolt;ishireorth. 49E1.9 91
stern.
Berwick capital at. ck. 172i,—South Eastern. 69 71 f—lireea
VCsatern 6 per can , 931—Erie, 461—Cteat Luzon-
Isourg shares. b} —Maritime Insurance Intuited , d.—Natiocal
Strom Ship Company Limited , 7} } 3-16—Ditto, 8 per cent.
min. poet., p.
MANCRESTRR. I'.—Market lower. with a fair animal
of business doizz. ale ,Limited., 1:4 d—):Elea,
toi—ureat Easte.n. i—Great Luxembourg. ts/ 13-141
11.161 13.16 --treat Northern, A, 115} / 4—arand Trunk
Canada. I..—;rest Western of Canada, Di 1.16 (I —Greet
Western. 47/ ; Brown and Co. Limited 3U .6—Lan-
cashire Insurance : —London, Brighton, and South Coast, bet
—London end North Western, 113 f f 14 IM--Manchester,
Sheffield, and Lin .sh.dtite. 4141 k 9 9 } 9—Ditto. Redeem.
Pref. }c. p.—Metropolitan. 1231 6; 3 }—Midland. WS—North
British, 3.1 3}—,mth f I I—Themes an.) Mersey
Maine Insurance • Limited , 6 i 1.16 p.—United States 6-°0 rears°
Bonds. 711, coin o.lv.—tiroat Western Ms per Cents., 93}-4.4lM-
donhii. lei 100} 100:—Unbon Bank. Sp.—ltalia., 44
1333113011A11, lo.i done Loudon NA NOrUi
Western Railway. at 113; : Birmingham Banking Company
(Limited, shares, at 1! pm.: DllinfughaM Joint Stock Bee
.Limited . at SC ; and Mattordshire Joint Stock Bonk LimitelL
at 3' per share. prices: North British Railway dayers;,
at 3:4-4ourbeidle call.ll !sellers:. at 110—M0itand Financial
(Limited,, 111.1 s to It —l4lrmlegtuon Warms ;Limited , 11}
to 11 /—Rallway t arrhige Limited) (Oldbury. I to 11 pi:l.—and
Ilea..klulSlate end nm.s shares ;Limited), n to 1 dls.

An order in Council appears in last night's
'-car
an waking provision for the disposition of the Irmo=
remaining on board the West India packet ship Tasmanisa
recently arrived, with yellow fever on board.
Mr. John Oxenford, who has just returned from
America quite rostored in health, is engaged to write •
aerie. of " American Social Sketches" in the new weekly
paper, the Lea/. p.
H.. 441. IN C PN VERSATIOH. —The new discoveries
and inventions—of which there were many about this
epoch—also furnished him with themes of continual Lodi.
. The opiuion, seriously maintained some forty years
ago by a continental chemist, that as diamonds were •
species of carbon, coals might be turned into diamonds,
afforded him much amussement ; and merrily did he specu.
bee on the strang•J effects that might follow, if wale
bee one dear :and diamonds cheap. The Horticultural So-
ciety, too, had 'oat offered prizes for the cultivation of
new fruits and vegetables, and solemnly be would predict,
that as there was a bread-fruit tree, ere long there would
bee bread and butter tree, and perhaps by successful
grafting, even a plum pudding tree ! We believe he made
a slight sketch of the last, with merry children dancing,
as well they might, around it. Bat the moat constant
subject of his merriment was the railway, as yet
scarcely known. How he used to " quiz " Mrs.
Hood's mother, a very clever old lady, who enjoyed
the fun as much as he did, with an specry
picture of the " woes and pleasures" of railway travel ;
how the steam inizbt land them upon the dome of St.
Paula, instead of conveying them to Camberwell ; how
seme spiteful ostler, enraged that, like Othello, his occu-
pation was gone. might till the tender with slates, and
the train for want of fuel come to a standstill, just when
the passengers, watch in hand, were anticipating their
dinners ! But then the pleasures—surely with so much
boiling water, the obl ladies might obtain a cup of tea,
and by a little arrangement of the fire-place. perhaps the
stoker, with a clear lire. might provide toast also. More-
over, barrel-organs could be played by steam ; and with
most laughable whimsicality, he would suggest appropriate
tunes for the "solace" a the passengers. N. ver was
there a companion so delightfully amusing as Thorium
Hood, when enjoying himself among his friends.—British
epareerly If•ricar. new number.
N raw ZLA LA N SCHOLARSHIPS. —A very im-

portant movement has been initiated by the Rev. F. C.
Simmons, M.A., rector of the High School of Otago, who
petitioned the House of Representatives to take steps to
institute scholarships, " to he open to all young men re-
sident within the colony of New Zeeland, to be obtained
by public competition, and tenable during good conduct,
at one of the universities of the United kingdom." The
movement has bmn very warmly taken up in Dunedin.
and a public meeting was held, at which it was proposed
to take steps to found a college in New Zealand, the pee-
posed &tholepin:4 to be regarded only as an interim mea-
sure ; and from the increasing interest taken in the sub-
ject by all classes. there is every probability of this come
bebeing adopted.-0:avo Tints, Aug. 20.