The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-03 00:00:00

PROT2NCIAL SHAM MLRZITS.

UW1020014 Dec. I—flides: Caledonian, 72 11 311 2 I 13} S
—Great Eastern, WI } I—Great Western, 441—lancaehlre and
Yorkshire, 1224 S}—London and North Weaken, 1134 1—
Metropolitan. 1184 171—Midland, 1111 11 101 11 } nth
Eastern, 661 17 i—Lancester and I...Swage, N6--Ormt astern
(f(1865) May 1 Canada, 1.3
and November 1, 70 6-16 s.l6—lllinois Central,utch 60-llnited States 5.10
1 Dutch M, p.—
British and Foreign Marine (Limited), 1 p—Thansesullah
and Mersey
Marine (Limited), II p.—Anglo-Americen Telegraph, let
MAiumnaria, Dim 2.—A fair amount of business doing ;
slicessia, lower. Anglo-American Telegraph (halted! 1131—Cale-
71i 211 }itll } 1} } }1 8 11—C. Cammell and Co.
(Limited), 40 d. —District Bank.lo p. —Erica. 471—Great
1 4—Great Luxembourg, 91—Great Northern A, 1001Eirtin
That Western, 44} I—Minois, 89 81 9—Lancashire and
Yorkshire, 12!}—London and North Western, 1131 1 } }—
Manchester, Sbßeld, and Lincolnshire. 474 4—Meboptan,
18—Midland, 111 1 }ll }—North British, 33--South
Eialeeo, 661 7 6} 7—Thames and Mersey Marine Ineurance
(Limited). 8 1-16 } p.—United Mates 6-20 Years' Bonds, 71 }—
Dover C. C. 6 per cent., 96.
lithuntonsig, Dec. I.—Business continues extremely doll in
this market. Birmingham Canal shares closed, sellers, at 881:
Birmingham Banking Company shares, at 1 to 1} prem. : Shrop-
shire Bank, sellers. at a}: Birmingham Financial shares, 1 to
11 die. ; Dudley Goa shares, sellers, at 46 ; Birmingham Old Union
Mills, at Slito 61 Birmingham Y. evn Six per Cent. Preference
shares, at flit.,
sellers
; Metropolitan Railway Carriage and Wagon
shares, at 1 , ers : Railway Carriage !Oldbury), at 1 prem.
buyers: 13irm ngham Waterworn New B shafts, buyers, at 2
prem.: and Thomas Adams and Co., as 1 pram, buyers.

EXTRAORDINARY PRODIICZ.—The following par-
ticulars of the produce of butter from the milk of one cow,
the property of Mr. Daniel Page, of Twitham Farm, in the
pariah of Ooodnestone, may interest mazy of our readers :
The cow calved on the Ist of February of this year, since
which time to theiZird November there have been 41
churnings giving • total of 5011 be. of butter, an average
of 121 b. dies. The greatest quantity produced was 171bs.
in six days, from a churning on the 15th of February.
There are no other cows kept upon the farm, and in
addition to the butter produced there has been milk and
cream taken for the use of the house. The sow has had
the run of the pasture and about one gallon of bran, and
no other artificial food of any kind. She is expected to
calve again about three weeks hence.—Scntish
THE BUTCHERS OP MAIDSTONZ.—A perfect panic
has been created amongst the butchers at Maidstone, con-
sequent on the arrival in the town of a Lesdenlisll galas-
' man, who has opened business for the sale of beef,rautton,
and pork at greatly reduced prices compared with those of
the Maidstone butchers. During the week the market has
been crowded, and the London speculators have been well
rewarded for their labours, ransomers expressing their de-
termination to continue their patronage so lon they can
obtain good meat at • fair marketable value. The effect of
this wholesome competition has been to compel • reduc-
tion on the part of their Maidstone butchers. The plea, of
course, of the Maidstone dealers is that the quality they
slaughter is much superior to that vended in the market,but
the best test is in the eating. To keep the competition in
force, the working classes have started a Contract Society,
to enable the poor during the inclement weather to obtain
bread, meat, and coals at • fair marketable value. Several
very influential tradesmen have patronised the London
butcher,, in order to encourage them in their enterpise.
So long as the working classes were in full employ they
were content to give the price asked, but now slackness of
work prevail/ they have been compelled to turn their at-
tention to the exorbitant prices they had hitherto been
paying,—Kentidi Gazette.
A NOOK IN IRELAND.—I am now in Ireland, in
• faraway and little-visited corner of it. I lie on • rocky
headland overlooking a wide lonely bay, whose two horns
are dark blue mountain-ranges ; on the ledge below, and
among the great atones shaggy with seaweed, rises and
sinks the great Atlantic water, peaceful to-day, with a
sighing mariner. The solitary floor of ocean is lighted
with a tempered cloudy radiancy of sunlight, changing to
ruddier glow with the decline of day, on these ranges of
cliff, and on the few sad remnants beside me of an ancient
castle. One grey wall, some twelve feet high tufted with
coarse grass and fern (Bl,chnum tamale), still resists the
western gales which blow heavily on this coast ; and near
it, partly in the trench on the landward side, lies • fallen
mass of masonry held together by its mortar. Other
fragments stand on the verge of the cliff, and foundations
are traceable among the grass of the little promontory,
nibbled by a few hardy sheep and swept by the seagull's
wing. Behind these rum is • stretch of bleak stony bine,
where the poor thatched cabins of the peasantry lurk
scarce distinguished, unless the Feat-smoke draws your
eye ; and in front, due west, is the ocean-line, and
America for next neighbour. The only human being
visible for hours 's a poor woman at the tide-edge picking
the lava (here called " sleek ") off the rooks uncovered by
the ebb. The district altogether has a wild, unsheltered,
lonely and somehow an ancient look. Geologically it
is "primary " (schistose and gneissose), broken with whin,
bespattered with dark heavy boulders of tram. The fences
are of loose gray stones ; a venerable stooping hawthorn
here and there (whose name in Irish is significant of
ancientness) almost the only tree. Flat stones lie on the
cottage roofs to keep the thatch from being blown away
bodily. Often you come to something that was • cottage
or cluster of cottages, now roofless walls, srookestained,
unsightly. The people have a sad and grave demeanour ;
if you address them, you are received with simple and re-
fined politeness, and an anxiety to please ; should you
enter one e their poor cabins, for shelter or inquiry, you
will find courteous and gentle manners, and • cheerfulness
which is considered due to the visitor. If you question
with tact, there I. generally but one story from all : the
increasing poverty of the country, the progress of depopu-
lation, their own hope of sooner or following their
brothers, sons, cousins, Ire., to America, or if no hope, an
earnest sighing wish that they too had this one resource
before them in an otherwise hopeless world. On polities
or religion you will receive no answers but such as are
entirely cautious and colourless.—Preser's Magazine for
December.
Ax Oniac-r or PrrY.—The wife of a professed
story-teller must be subject to many sorrows. It must be
wearisome for her, for instance, to hear the seine story
twenty times, as it is related to twenty different audiences.
However well and affectionately disposed she may be, she
must surely quail a little when she hears the preliminary
strains, the first few words, " / was once staying at •
little inn in North Wales ;" or " My little boy wee out
with his nurse the other day." How she must suffer, too,
when the story does not go well ; when the audience is not
sympathetic ; when the story-teller is not in one ; or when,
as will sometimes happen he omits some important ele-
ment in his narrative. i have seen a wife prompt her
i husband under such circumstances, " You have forgotten,

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fully, " You're left oat about the frying-pan."—but it
does not answer. If a man once begins to go wrong in
telling a dory, it is all up with him ; ha is bast let alone.
Magarisse for December.