The Express.
London, England, 1866-05-31 00:00:00

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PROVINCIAL SHARE MARKETS.

LITERPOOL, MAY 30.-Baies today:--!beat Eastern, :VI--
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 121/—London and North Western
llyi ,
I Ic 3- Metropolitan, 128—Midland. 124 34
-N. E. Berwick, 'York, 107 i sc —London nod North Western,
St. Helens A, pref., 105—Buffalo and Lake Boron, 4 7-10—Grand
Trunk 14 Canada, WI 3 —Erie, 451 c f 0 Central,
C. —Unitod States Eire-Twenty Bonds. 011ie 7 nl
Untch F.henlsh. 21,p.: ditto paid up. 22f--41reat DIX.,IIIIbOUrg
1•2 15-10 I—Ssmhre and Meuse, 7 7c 7 1-18—Bank of
Liverpool. 201- Eastern Exchange Batik (Limited . 3 d —Mer-
cantile and Exchange Bank (Limited,. hii il—National Bunk
of Liverpool 3 p—North Western Bank 'Llmitert,
A p—Album NI arine Ilc.d.—Enipire NI . Limited/.
d— liverp“.'l and.Lniadon and Olohe Fire and life, 7 01 p.—
Liverpool Exchange, 233—National Steam (Linilteil., 9SI S 3

d.
DUBLIN, MAT 29.—Than pet Cent. Conant'', 814—Nee
Al
Three
per C.ut. Stock, 11411 }—Ditto, for Account, 6th June, j—
Ililuirnian 'tanking Company :X.2.5 paid., lif,f —National Bank
ix:a) paid!. ,;7i 6S—Naliiinal of Liverpool Limited , raid)•
l3—i'roviruLd flank ,C 2.5 paid? 83f-Royal Bank 1110 paid . 321
—Union Bank (Limited', (L 22 paid?,
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TIIE BISHOP OF BATH AND WELL:4.—The health
of Lord Auckland, Bishop of Bath and Wells, has conaiikr-
ably improved, hut he was unable to conduct his own ordi-
nation on Sunday last. It wm taken for him by Dr.
Anderson, vicar of Clifton, formerly Bishop of Rupert's

Land.
CLERICAL AND LAY CONFERENCE.—iesteEdRy
clerical and lay conference, originated by the evangelical
party of the eastern counties, was held at Ipswich. The
conference, which will be continued to-day, was
over by the Rev. E. Holland, of Benhall-lodge, Sa%mend-
ham. The subjects set down for discussion were :—"Ori-
ginal Sin, and the effects of Adam's Fall on Man's Position
and Character." introduced by the Rev. J. Bardsley, rector
of St. Ann's,Manchester ; " The Evidences of Christianity,
how they may be best stated to the people, with reference
to the scepticism of the present day," introduced by
Rev. J. Richardson ; " The Lord's Day, its Divine Autho-
rity and Perpetual Obligation," introduced by the Rev.
W. Cadman ; "Foreign Missions," introduced by the Rev.
J. Venn; " The Sacrament of the Lord's Supper," intro-
duced by the Rev. J. C. Ityle ; " Aggressive Measures on
Irreligion at Home," introduced by Mr. R. Baxter. Ice.
Last evening the Rev. W. Cadman preached in t3t. Mar-
garet's Church, Ipswich.
PENNY NOVELS.—We know Miss Braddon, but
that lady is by no means a star of the first magnitude in
the world of the penny journals. The fact, however, that
sonic of her beet works have appeared first in the London
Journal Ls not uninteresting. She amused millions of
readers in that way before these stores were known to
West End readers through the circulating libraries. We
suspect that Miss Braddon does not moralise enough to
suit the taste of the penny people. For here it must bo
noted that a remarkable change has come over the spirit
of the penny journals since they were last under review.
About a dozen or fifteen years ago, when people began to
hear of their enormous melee, some inquiries were made
into their character. It was then discovered that our
lower classes were being entertained with tales of *educ-
tion, adultery, forgery, and murder. Since then the sub-
ject hu been allowed to drop, and an impression
still remains that the penny journals run riot
in pictures of debauchery and crime, many of
them showing what infamous lives the higher classes of
English society lead. To men of education—or, to speak
more generally, to all men of active mind—that aspect of
life soon becomes unutterably distasteful ; and having
once learned that the literary tastes of the lower Ousel
were beet cultivated 17 descriptions of the various ways
in which the commandments of the second table are or may
be broken, they dismissed the subject altogether as
worthy of no more notice. But these twelve or fifteen
years have wrought a change, and anyone who will look
at such a periodical as the London Journal will be much
struck, perhaps a little abashed, by the strong moral tone
that pervades the writing, There is no lack of crime
son 's and
dallying with things forbidden ; but, as in Richar
novels, the writers always profess to show a crime in ord
ve
er
that we may see what a hideous thing it is, and may ha
our moral principles strengthened.—Macmillan's Maga-
rine for June.
There are ten newspapers in the United States,
one daily and nine weeklies, conducted by coloured men.

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