The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-31 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SNARE MARKETS.

LISIVRPoOfs JAN. 30.-Bales to-day:-Great Eastern, 331 3-
Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1204-London and North Western,
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12.51 -Metropolitan, 1361-South Eastern Stock, 74 74-Buffalo 8
and take Huron, 6)--Grand Trunk of Canada, 3311 1 4 11— 8
Great Western, 161 631 (111.-united Steal 14
Eire Twenty Bonds. fffirreat Luxembourg, 16i-EasternEz-
change Bank (Limited), d.-Albion Marine (Limited) 1 5-16 11 ;
1 7-16 d.-British and oreign, 24 p.-Lancashlre insurance. ;
11-16 p.-Mercantile Marine, 1 11.16 d.-Queen Insurance, p. 7,
-Thames and Mersey, 6 11-16 p.-Union Marine, 14 1 5.16 p. ez
div.-Atlantle Telegraph 8 per cent., t 13-16 4-National Steam,
313 d.-West India and Pacific Steam, p. 1
MANCHMSTMR, Jax.'3o.-A moderate business wan done, but
at prices generally lower. Bolckow, Vaughan and Co. (Limited).
4 p.-Buffalo and Lake Huron. 6 1116-Consolidated Bank ,
Limited), 6 3-16 p. cure dir.-pries, 631 4 a d., 56 cam dlr.- .
Great Eastern, 384 4--Great Northern A, 1454-Grand Trunk of 1,
Canada, 391 1 1 1 1-Greet Western, 694 1-Illinois, 75 4
Lancashire Insurance, Lancashire and Yorkshire, I'OQ 3- ",
London and North Western, 1263-Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincolnshire, 60 59 x d.-Ditto 6 per cent- preference. 121 z ti.-
Metropolitan, 1 464 4- Stu eV Coal and Iron Company ;
(Limited!, 19 p - awes and Mersey Marine Insurance (Limited), ;
54 p. - United States 5-20 Years' Bonds, 664-Overend Gurney.
541 p.-District Bank, 191 p.-Boller Insurance and Steam
Power, I p.
!IMMINGHAM, JAN. 60.-The sales to-day were-South Stafford-
shire Railway stock, at ; Birmingham Town and District •
Bank shares, at 15 ; Lloyd's Bank (Limited) shares, at 101 prem. ;
Birmingham Gas, new ordinary shares, at 56 : Birmingham ;
Waterworks. new 11 shares, at 31 prem.. Patent Shaft and ;
Azletree shares, at SI prem. Mantis Metal shires closed at 14
to 1 dis. _ 9

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DUBLIN, Jax. 29.—New Three per Cent. &o*, 8571 j 86—Ditto,
for account, Bth February. 851 86—Bank of Ireland (100 L paid), tl
223—Nat10n..1 Bank ':o& paid), 77I—National of Liverpool 11
(Limited), (101. paid), 16j —Bellsst and Northern Counties (all s
paidl, 431—Dublin and Drogheda (1001. paid 1, 81—Dublin, Wick- s
low, and Wexford JOOL paid), 70—Cork and itallldOlA, 5i per s
cent. perpetual all paid), 61.

A great reform meeting was held last night
at Manchsster, in the Free Trade Hall, which was
dourly crowded. Mr. Geo. Wilson, the Chairman
of the National Reform Union, by whioh the meeting
hied been cilled, presided, and speeches were delivered
by Mr. Haley, M.P., Mr. Potter, M.P., Mr. Hibbert, M.P.,
Mr. Cheatham, M.P., Mr. Whitworth, Mr. Philips,
M.P., Mr. Allen, M.P., Mr. Fa L. Leathern, and others. The
resolutions declared that no measure would be satisfactory
which did not embraced liberal an extension of the franchise
as the bill introduced by Earl Russell in 1860. It was also re-
solved that the Execrative Committee of the National Reform
Union, under whose auspices the meeting was held, should be
sequested to appoint a deputation to wait upon Lord Russell,
and press upon his lordship the necessity for • reduction of
the franchise and • more equal distribution of political
power, as wall as "the policy" of voting by ballot.
The dfoniteur des Arts states that M. Vital-
Dubray, sculpthr, has just completed a full-sized status of
the Empress Josephine, in white marble, which is shortly
to be erected in the open space in front of the bridge of
the Alms. The Empress is represented io • court dress,
stsndi sg. She bolds • medallion of the Emperor in her
left hand, on which her eyes are fixed. Her right hand
is resting on a shaft of the marble.
The New York Tribune has caused unspeakable
unaternstion in the Fenian camp in New York by making
the following announcement concerning the whereabouts
of Head-Centre Stephens :—" We are at liberty to state
that the reports of his being in France, or in any other
country than Ireland, are entirely without foundation.
President Stephens is, and has been ever since his escape
from British shackles, within less than one mils front the
place at which his arrest was effected. This we learn from
good authority."
The great reaping machine manufacturer, M'Cor-
mick, of Chicago, has given 10,000 dole, to Washington
College. Vireo's, of which General Lee is president, to
establish the M'Clormick professorship of mechanics.
THE CASUAL POOR THEN, AND NOW.—The door
was opened and the master and a couple of his officials
made rapid selections from a dreadfully eager crowd of cold
and hungry men, women, and children, who surged and
struggled around the doorway, their pinched cheeks and
awfully anxious eyes bearing unfailing testimony to
their dire necessity. Cris& of "Do for God's
sake take me in, sir —" Tee never been hers
before, sir ; Tve not, indeed"—" Pray let me
in, my deer, kind master !" made up a pitiful
chorus, until "Quite full—abut up !" was metho-
dically shouted from within, when the harsh, cracked
voices subsided into a despairing wail of *ohs and groans,
which, penetrating the closed doors aad curtained windows,
was head with horrible distinctness where we sat. In
those days a workhouse was to the casual pauper a I,tterv,
in which there wets fewer prizes than blanks, for the
Homeless Paw Act was in its infancy. and the necessity
of obeying its provisions had not been brought home to the
gnudians. I devoted that wet sod bitter night to ascer-
taining what became of the poor creatures I bad seen
rejected at the workhouse door, and while some suoceeded
in begging a few puce from passers-by wherewith to
purchase shelter, the moraieg dawned upon thirteen
outcasts who were still lying upon the slimy pavement,
honeelew, helpless, and forlorn. lem proud to kilos that
the arc suet I wrote of this sad experieue attracted the
attention of the authorities, that an official visit was paid
to the workhouse referred to within a few boars of the pub-
lication of my narrative, end thou concerned were effec-
tually warnell of the risk they ram of openly defying the
law. Let it be borne in mind that such • mate es I haws
deseribed wse of common oceurrence shadow months ego,
and is now impossible, and the task of remedying
lug evils will appear an easy one.—.T. C. Parkinson, in the
Fortnightly Review.