The Express.
London, England, 1867-08-13 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARI MARIE=

Lrvlnto.roL. ACOCST It —lsles today: Great Eastern, Ig{
11:17-11172or, We.l44l7.4mliortfal&ntaahliiim.l44mr.
—Landon °Mb Western, 1141 3 31{ 31_3_ 316
Manchester, Sheffield, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire. 471 1-111
titan, 1M 71 1 8.1 —ditto &tendon, 11 Midland,
1 / Iligg; ditto gM convertible, 3 p.—North &SW
31}-Bou . 663 7 6{ 7—Budalo sod lake
Heron, if—United States 5-70 Bonds, 1962, 74 111 414-Dutch
Rhenish, 0{ p.—ditto. paid-up, tS {—ditto saw, 3 p —Ores{
Luxembourg shares, 101 13-161—Maritime insurance iLlmital),
/ el— A eglo-American Telegraph, Is—Runcorn Soap and Alkali
I{ d.-4lreat Indian Peninsular, new. 13 p.
Mananform. Avoca', It—There was a good besineas,sad the
market continued to Improve. Angio-Anserimn Teter aph
(Limited', 194—Buffalo and Lake Huron, 31--Credit Fost- r
England Limited % 511.16 d.—Mies. 45{ 111—Oreat Baste=
9 1 1 { 3 3) 3 30—Great Luxembourg,lo 111-16
Northern, A, 1111 14 114 { 3 1514{—Grand Trunk of
171 —Great Western, 441 -I—lanenaltire and Yortitire,ltit
3 (30—Bast Lancashire fib per Cent Prefermon LA ad—Low
den and North Western, 114 141 1 3—Manchester, Sheffield,
and Locolnahlre 471 1 1 1 { 1 {—Dlttn. g 6 Pref., 61—Metropol3-
tan ITT{ 1 * 1 8 { I—Ditto Extension, 113—Midland.
118i1 1{ 19 I—. orth MUM, 313—South Eastern, Gowen
1--Staveley Coal and Iron Company ,Limitedl, 14 p.—
and Mersey Marine Inaorance inited). 31 p —United
States telOyesne Benda, 731 4—London and Brighton, 521 81 13
f—Ditto. New, 33 p.—Blackburn Purchase. 95—Virginia
Mx per Cent., 33.
BialtllOnalt, ACOOST It—Business dose: Birmingham
Wagon (Limited`, at 111—Ditto, Preference 6 per rent., at M—
end Railway Carriage iLmitedl (Oldbury), et 1 prem. Closher
prices: Great Western Railway, Stour Valley, guaranteed, 70,
sellers—Worcester and Birmingham Canal. 12, sellers . Loyd's
Bank tUmlte.l . e mem, sellers Midland Financial (Limited).
13 to 1{ dis—iiirmingham /Mance Fire Insurance i Limited). 3
to la die. Metropolitan Railway Carriage and Waggon
d,ll4lfiniteto lO3 to 111—and Heeddol Mate and Slab (Limited).
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Fem.u.s Love or FliGlitY.—The Countess of
Waldegrave was present last week at • school examine-
tion at Wigton, and delivered a short address, in the
muse of which she said :—" I wish to speak to the
females present, especially mother. There is a subject
which I believe • great many will join with nil in thinking
important in these times in which we live, and that is the
subject of female dress in all ranks of life, but especially
among those who attend our schools. I regret to say that
there is a great deal of what may be celled melees finery
among the young girls of the present day, and I should
think that probably mothers are • little to blame in that
particular. I have ohserveil this pinion to be on the in-
crease during all my life ; and as God's mercy has spared
me through eighty years re I think I mey speak free expe-
rience on the subject. I must ray I think it a great
mistake on the part of mothers to dress their chil-
dren to the utmost extent of their inmate, instead of in-
ducing them to lay by their pence for what is called •
rainy day, or to collect clothing for winter ; in Owe
of which they allow their girls to spend all their tittle
money, and what they can add of their own as well, on
what I should call unnecessary and useless finery. I ant
very glad to find that you educate the children well here,
and I am delighted to see that needlework is made a very
ler point of exaodnation in many of the schools;
because, in seeking for female servants, we all want those
who can be useful in those particulars, ex well as in knit-
ting and darning, far which I have had pleasure in giving
prizes in my own country on various occasions. Now,
while children are taught to spend all the money that
they an get together on little bits of finery, the first
thing • mistress has to teach her young servant is to
dress neatly, and properly, and respectably, and them
correct the great mistake of mothers who help their
children forward in unnecessary outside clothing, while
very often, I regret to spy, the inside is exceedingly de-
ficient. (Laughter and applause.) I therefore hope that
mothers who have much opportunities of having their
daughters educated—and you have many compared to
those enjoyed in my part of the country—will earnestly
strive to give them that degree of propriety and Death's
in their dress which is always respectable, useful, and
efficient. I trust you will excuse me, coming such a dis-
tance as I do, for making mention of what many, if they
would speak out, really feel in their hearts. (Applause.)
I am often told by mothers, ' Well, ma'am, I can't help
it. My girl will go to the seoond-hand shop and get these
bits of things, where they are cheap. And it is only •
penny dower, and • flower does not wear out so soon as •
ribbon.' (Laughter.) Well, but that is not neat, nor is
it desirable ; and when they get into service, most mis-
tresses will object to that kind of finery which is not
suitable to the station in which it has pleased God to
place them. (Hear, hear.) I hope my female friends
will excuse me for giving them these hints, for they are
the result of long experience."
CAUTION TO MUSHROOM-EATERY.—Another in-
taw* of the danger to be apprehended from the incautious
eating of mushrooms has recently occurred in this neigh-
bourhood. It appears that on Thursday Mrs. Warwick. of
Monleham, had 'been spending the day at Bishops Hall, and
while walking in the meadows there in the evening. some
of Mr. Durrant'a children, who were with her, found some
"button" mushrooms, which were given to her to take
home. Next morning she broiled the mushrooms for
breakfast, and Mr. Warwick and herself partook
heartily of them, and in about half-an-hour after-
wards both were taken suddenly ill with vomit-
ing and violent trembling, and the idea at once
occurred to them that they had been poisoned by eating
" bad " mushrooms, and Mrs. Warwick remembered
having particuly noticed one mushroom which bad •
peculiar • ce, and did not " peel" so well as the
others. course both Mr. and Mrs. Warwick were not
• little alarmed, and by the advice of their neighbour
brandy and other remedies were applied, and fortunately
both were soon so far recovered as to render medical
aid unnecessary. We understand that the attack is pro-
bably to be attributed to the fact that one or more of
the mushrooms of which they partook belonged to •
poisonous variety known as the " horse" zuusbrooin.—
Essex Ifrnalci.
AGRICULTURAL Gawas. —This bill, which pro-
vides for the regulation of gangmasters in respect of the
employment of children, young persons, awl women,
enacts that no child under the age of eight years shall be
employed in any agricultural gang, that no females
shall be employed in the same agricultural gang
with males, and that no female shall be employed
in say gang under any male gasometer, unless a
female licensed to act as gengmaater is also pre-
sent with that gang. It also provides for the
licensing of gangmasters, and enjoine that no person acting
as • gangmaster shall also bola a license to sell beer,
spirits, or any other exciseable liquor. These licenses are
to be in force for six months only, and all penalties under
the Act may be recovered summarily before two or moue
justices of the peace. The act does not relate to duo/Lei
or Ireland.