The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-04 00:00:00

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RAILWAYS.-(THIS .DAY.)

Ows o'CLooa.
The railway market is flat to-day. Metropolitan
and South Eastern stocks are pressed for sale, and
have declined 1 and per cent. respectively.
Lancashire and Yorkshire and Greet Northern A
have also receded 1, and Midland, and London,
Chatham. and Dover, 1.
Metropolitan stock is now quoted 1271 to 1
Great Western, 54 to ; London and North
Western, 123"; to R ; Midland, 123;. to g • Lan-
cashire and Yorkshire, 128 i to Caledonian,
1181 to 1191, ; South Eastern, 721 to 4` : Great
Eastern, 34 to 1 ; Great Northern, 1191 to 12102;
ditto A, 1301 to 1' • London, Chatham, and
Dover, 181 to 19 ; and North ritish, 381 to 1.
Grand trunk of Canada Railway stock ham
declined per cent., viz., to 211 to 22, but other
colonial, as well as foreign lines, are quiet.

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SHOEMAKER,: VILLAtiE. —But the great exeito
ment for the village was when the distinguished Professor
Wyndham, 7.1.C.1 'sit.. as his bill said, paid the inhabitants
• a visit, and delivered one of his thrilling lectures on
Electro-Biology. The youth of the village managed to
turn these occasions into carnivals of courting. In the
, first place the re was crowding ; and whatever inay be the
feelings of obi folks who have lost some of their sena-
, hility, a couple of sweethearts in the village never object
to being " jammed in." In the second place, it was some-
times necessary, for the Professor's purposes, to turn off
the gas for a short period. Now it is a well-known fact that
when lovers have to go through a long railway tunnel,
they have MI much time to think about it, that they very
often don't kiss ; hut when the time is short, and the cue
is now or never, they pluck up couture. awl the ancient,
ever fresh astute is transacted like a flash of lightning. I
have seen it done, in spite of the toweling of the gas,
at one of Professor Wyndham's highly scientific lectures
on Electrolliolegy. But it wax not merely, or chiefly,
little opportunities like there that made the of the
professor so attractive to the sweethearting youth of the
village. It was the fearful joy of seeing Jane'x young
man mesmerised, and wondering what he would du. and
what answers lie would make to question I. turning en his
sentiments a. a man and a lover ; such as " What do you
like best in all the world Jane, sitting in a lc:served
seat, currying her elbows genteelly, blushes from the points
of her toes to the tips of her ears, fully expecting to beer
bee lover asp—something tender ; but be makes answer
--Pea-soup ! Yet Jane's fearful joy is not long post-
poned, for the professor, defying gramile'r, next puts the
question, " \rho do you love heat in all the world r —and
thus adjured, the unblushing youth my'', lane Mill..
Now, probably not snore than twenty or a diven of the
people present know Jane ; but this imswer is greeted
with irrepressible volleys of l►ughter, awl shouts of
" Stand up, Jane !" and by to-morrow morning almost
everybody in the neighbourhood will know lane, and
Jane's loveatory, AO far as it has been brought out by
Professor Wyndham.—The A row,/ for February.
" LET' N."--We are told that there was
a paper in Cincinnati which was very much given to "high-
falutin" on the subject of " this great country," until
rival paper somewhat nicelified its continual bounce with
the following burleseue " This is a glorious country !It
has longer risers end more of them, and they are muddier
and deeper, and run faster, and rise higher, and make
more noise, and &II lower, and do more damage than any-
body else's rivers. It has more lakes, and they are bigger
awl deeper. and clearer, and wetter than those of any
other country. Our rail-cars are bigger, and run faster,
and pitch off the track oftener, and kill more people than
all other rail-cars in this and every other country. Our
steamboats carry bigger loads, are longer and broader, burst
their boilers oftener, and send up their Fsssemters
higher, and the captains swear harder than steamboat
captains in any other country. Our men are bigger, and
longer, and thicker; can fight harder and faster. drink
more mean whisky, chew more bad tobacco, and spit
more, and spit further than in any other country.
Our ladies are richer, prettier, dress finer, spend
more money, break more hearts, wear bigger
hoops, shorter dresses, and kick up the devil
generally to a greater extent than all other
ladle" in all other countries. Our childr. n squall louder.
grow faster, get too expansive for their pantaloons, and
become twenty years old sooner by some months than any
other children of any other country on the earth."
Q tarter', Reatir.x, new nunuter.