The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-26 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARI MARKET&

IJYUPOOL. JAN. to-day: Furness. 11.0—Great East-
ern, &4 5-4;4,ut Western, s.:—Larnaahlre and Yorkshire, new
ordinary, I:l—Loudon and North Western, 124 4 41 1; 4-11sia.
cheerer, Sheffield. and Lincolnshire. 1141—Thdland, 1161
North British. 391—Soath Eastern. 7ia 1 4 NI 4—Birkenhead.
20844 zA—Oreat Western. Cheater preference a per cent., in—
board° and Lake Huron. 4 irlo 1 5-16—orand Trunk of Canada.
21—Lireat Western of Canada. 141 1416—Grent Luacaboorg
shares, 121—Consolidated Bank Limited', 1 lid p.—Royal in-
surance, 31 p.—AfricanMerchant% p.—Atlantic Telegraph. •
per Lent., :A—National Steam Limital . 14.1.—Wert hells and
Mine Ateani. T. A_ _ .

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MANCHA:NM, JAN. NI-A fair business has been dose A
better prima Lonsolkiated Batik ,Lheited , I p.- Ebbw Vats
Company .Lbaltod 13' d. -ti rest Eastern, 361 111 6 42 5-Gruali
Northern A, 1.:3 II 2 f I 1 2-/land Trunk of Cana•la, 21--Ore.
Western of Canada, 14i 4.16 13d0-Brest Western, Int a 1 1-
Istnesehire and Yorkshire, IJI-Ditto, Fnarwntl a-Halt per
Cent. preference, 1.370, 1 p-London and North Western, 12A- -
11anehester, nhettleld, and lAnishishire, 641:!; 111 Z-Metrd-
µAtm, 1211 11 2-11idland,1251 4 k-North Mitch, NI 1--
South Eastern. 74 ~ 4 3111 1-Sheephridge, ±..1.-1: Anglian.
No. 2,7! 1-At lartfe and Great Wodern Cons"lklateti Mortgage
Bonds. 321 -African Merchants, I p.-Mancheqer commercial
Bolklinno, I I.
BIANINGHAN. JAN 23.-The sales today wen in Birmingham
canal sharesat Se , Mention:bent JuintStock Bank shares, at 35;
Dudley and What Bromwich Bank, at 101: Birmingham Wagon
Shares. at I pm : Metropolitan Railway Carriage and Wagon
'ares, at ti; South stalTordshire Waterworks, nt 6: and
Mantis Metal Shams at II dia. Closing price,-fireat Wes.
tern Birmingham thinranteed. Al per yenta, at 701 to 7t;
Finutsultans Town and nutria Rinks, nit Pi buyers ; WWI NW-
tordshlre JoistSnioek Banks, at 2 to:tps+.
1.14:111J14, JAS. 24.-Three per Cent. Console, 001-New
Three per teat. Mork, 25/ I-Ditto for aceount. Feb.?, EMI I I
-Ditto for New Amount. 551 I-ludis Fite per Cent
107-Bank id Ireland ell* paid', gill-Katsina, Hanlrat
paid, stumint. 571-Royal Bank ;LlO paid'. it.i,l-Uldlainl
Urest Western islet) paid ,1101-Cork raid till 11414.11 4 per mai.
perpetual 5,..; paid, 6-Great Southern and Western 4 per
teut pp. 4.100 gi.dd ,1414.

SW,WER METEORS AND AEROLITEE.—Out of the
large number of authentic aerolites preserved in minera-
logical collections, two only—one on the 10th of
August, and one on the 13th of November—are recorded
to have fallen on star shower data. On the other hand
five or six meteorites, on the epoch 13th-lith of October.
belong to a date when star-showers, so far as is at present
known, do not make their appearance. Meteorites, more-
over, with very rare exceptions, fall in the afternoon but
the time of the greatest frequency of alsooti-g stars Is is
the morning hours of the day, before dawn. On these
grounds a distinction is drawn between showermeteore
and aerolites, and the former are termed by Professor
Newton " Illeteoroids • while Professor Erayley includes
both, or rather the bodies which become shower-meteors
and acrolites, under his designation of " Meteoritic
masses." Meteoroids, Professor Newton suggests, cannot
be regarded as the fragments of former worlds, but may
rather be described as the material from which new worlds
are forming. Mr. Brayley inclines, in the same manner,
to suppose that " the earth was originally produced by
the aggregation and coalescence of meteorites, or of greater
masers into which these had previously co:deiced.'
Ruth abowermeteors, and aerolites, it my be, are
gradually consolidating into larger bodie, by collition, yet
nothing, it is thought, will cause the meteursof the fah
of November to precipitate themselves in the form of
stones mum the earth. Either from their inflammable
nature, their micelle lightness, or loose texture, their
power of peuetristing the atmosphere appears to be ex-
tremely small, notwithstanding their unusually large sine
and brightness. Upwards of seventy meteors of the
November shower observed at Newhaven, and at other
places, in the United States of America in Ishl, were
found to be fifteen miles higher than the level of ordi-
nary sbootaug,tars, the result suggesting to Professor
Newton that the shooting-stars of the 14th November
consist of more inflammable materials than those of other
meteoric showers. No apprehension need aeounlingly be
entertained, that the atuissiihem would Lot prove a per
feet shield, in the event of a return of the 'bower. to
check their penetration, and keep them at a ...fe distance
from the sphere of Munan habitationa—Edirac. ,rot I:tc.taa,
new number.
THE AVTHHE or THE " CHI:IstIAN VLAI."
De. Pr sea.-Our readers way be prsausiled to 11.110 W
something of the controversy which has arisen in COSMO-.
quenee of the alteration made in a well-known verse of
the "Christian Year "—by desire, it is said, of the
author on his death-bed. To us the wee painful part
of the affair the defence which Dr. Purley sets up us
behalf of his deceased friend for not having made the
alteration earlier, on the ground that the expression
" present in the heart, not in the hands," might be in-
terpreted ma-circling to the parallel of " I will have mercy
and not sacrifice," as meaning " that the objective pre-
sence was of no avail, unless our Lord was niceived
within the cleansed abode of the heart." "'This,"
says Dr. Pusey, "is plainly not the obvious meaning
of the wonls ; but it satisfied him." (Timm Dec,
1:0, iuflt Thus it would seem that, according to
his woe intimate friend!, Mr. Kehl° was, for
perhaps thirty years, in the habit of explaining his
own words to himself in an unnatural Wine,
while he allowed them to go forth in hundreds of thou-
NIU:KiI of copies with the knowledge that to all readers they
would carry that "obvious meaning," which he had origi-
nally taken from Hooker, and which is alone consistent
with the general drift of the poem. It is sad nuked to
read such a statement, on such authority, as to one who
has long been revered, not only throughout the English
church, but far beyond its limits. -{porn rig Recd q,
new number.
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