The Express.
London, England, 1866-12-03 00:00:00

PROVINCIAL SHARE MAREATIL

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LITIMPOOL, Dkc. 1.---Sales to-day: London and North Wad-
em, 1101 - Manchester, slivflleld. and Lincolnshire, 4144 --Metro.
polttati, 1231 3—Sonth —l.micaster and l'arlisle. 007
—ltutlalo and Lake Huron, 4—Great Indian Penin,ulu, 107—
!..3.0 Bonds, 704 4—Mv,vautile Exchange Bank. ti}} u.—Royal
Insurance, p.-- I Ilion Marine, 11 p —Atlantic Telegraph b per
cent., 3 11-16 a —3lct.,cy otod and iron Company. 4 11-1 u d.
84.. i.—Mai.ket4 gat. Anglo-Ali:Mean TOG-
graph .41.41111 ed-, 11:-4 reat 11'e4tern of Canada, 11;—Groh
521—Illinois, 77—London and North Western. 114- -
Manchester, nliellield, and Lincolnshire. 414 ; ditto, £6 Pre-
Icreue,, par- letr,.politall, 133—Midland, 12!—Nortli British,
- south Last,rn, t. -•Thaniel and Mersey Marine In -
Furauce ,I.imited., ;1; p,—l'loctwoils, 7—London, l'ltatlialu, and
Dover, 174.
tlinniN,;ll.ty, Pr,. I .—Tho sales to day Pr.-1ii.1431 South
shares. at 33. Closing
Birmingham and Lailway,
Canal, b 7 to t< —l;ir mit Banking Company , dia„
ti pat—Birmingham Joint Stock Baulk (Limited., '42t to 311—
Birmingham 'lon o ai,-; D;-trio ILok, 9.1 to lo—Lloyd's Bunk
Limited , 74 to 7 too —lll4:llinglinni linancl,l It
to It '!ls.-111,11:1ml 11 to It dis.-114Itials
and Vlaot Liudted„ 10 to b din , and 3liinta's
Metal I; to It

THE FARMERS AND THE 111Anturs.—A movement
is being mule in Lucks and the adjacent counties to
procure the re-opening of the markets and Lin for horned
stoet, which have been so long closed in consequence of the
past prevalence of the cattle plague. The promoters urge
in favour of the re-opening that, as thecattle plague has not
been prevalent in Lucks for nine or ten weeks past, and
Way be nearly said to be extinct throught the whole
county, that cour-e would not be attended with any
danger.
IN NEW POWTH WALM—The Now
South Wales legi.la,ure (says the Palriot) is trying to
substitute a national for a denominational system of edu-
cation. To meet the reit; ious difficulty the govercuient
pi oposes to devote one hour a day to religious teaching.
and to arrange to, the visits of clergymea at that hour.
The Homan catholic clergy are the great ooponents of the
sagge,ition ; though the ministers of other denoraim- pons
:,re, of COW oe, altooßt all in favour of Peeping up se,:tarim
schools. The catholic priests, of course, declare they will
never lie satisfied c.cert with separate schools of their
own, to which tlik,y will h ive government all on their own
terms. The col,:rrotionalists refuse to take government
money for their Kchools, hut all other denominations share
it ; and the following table shows the annual cat per
head of the educatbin of children of each denordma
and the proportion paid by government and by parents
and guardians:
Denominstiou

'Proportion Proportion paid
pail by by parents T.
plecnonent, unardians. t
church of Ewlat.l T.! 4} .. LU It 111 ...I:2 4
Preslotcrisn 1 17 U 15 111 .. 9 13 71
We,lcyan
E.anati Catholic
THE AT VIENNA.—An orchestra,
conauceed by the ymnger Strauss, occupies the pavilion of
the lursaal, and a i• rd from one of the i-giniente in
garrison plays in miter rotunda. The labia are crowded
with military' and civilians, lounging, ounokihg cigars and
cigarettes, sipping conee or swinieg beer ; with gaily-
iirtssed ladies, staneg, chatting, nibbling ices, and munch-
re° cakes; while between the orchestras a curnt of
walkers sways to and fru. The aristocracy aie seldom
present, partly because at the Reason when outdoor
bLeUelle 1.:,..a.ant the grand world begins to quit
Vienna: partly Lecau.e in the narrow limits of the
Volkegarten they cannot well escape deirnoling contact
e :at that nii.lule-elass element of which the company
chiefly consis.s. plomacy musters in force, ;uld a group
of Fetials usually clusters near the entry of the Kureaal.
They talk languidly, but they seem to be settlirg the fate
of Europe, fur round about them. with earn Nicked up.,
hover the representativi•e of the Vienna press, ready to
torture every frown or smile into some grave fret in the
destinies of mani.ih.l. Nw.t. sits the countess !tutu Con-
etentinople, who, :,ccompanie.l by a wrinkled harridan,
to :eked out in tl. • most !taunting toilette that c^n be de-
vised by the mautua-makers of the Kohlmarkt, and ens-
nielled with chalk and roue, casts from time to time de-
mure glances at the dielomatic detachment. Hari by some
amateur Jezebel parades her conquests before Rone of
all the world, and emboss the scandal of prefeal
Another table has a military garrison. The otticers have
welbbuilt, well-a .soned figure.. end exprc•seive, manly
faces. They wear the white \\affen-f ockn of the line.
facet with crimson, cherry, mauve, orange, blue. in all
shiules and species. so as to afford dietirctive in..iks to each
of eighty regiuee.te. Tae pre lominating pile•eley is
briehtened by the cobalt tunics of the general.. the green
coats and plumeß of the imperial Riees-de-camp. the grey
baits and cocks' feathers of the Jager', the brown frocks
and gilt Greek hel wets of the cui.assiers.These.end a dozen
other vaiieties of a uniform comfortable and useful for
wear, never fail to rice eelner, glitter, and movement to
the festive scene.— ro•nliill MaTi:ine for December.
Sociat Hvetraert.E.—Nobody cares to listen a.
they used to do to ,:ood talk ; so, what people say must be
condensed. An impression must be conveyed by some
rapid means. and hyperbole in the readiest means. As a
fact, few wouli exaggerate if they could my et} e thing
exactly RI it really is, so thrilling a pleasure is it to hit
the mark. Wide-'lnoting is the common refuge of the
tongue, which cannot measure or (liam:minate. Timid
unobeervant minds resort to it an mere hopelessness of
successful plain speaking. They would not willingly shoot
short of their aim, and therefore send their arrow any-
where so it is beyond the target. Our language is full of
the superlatives of impotent exaggeration; and the mind
that indulges in therm must live in a muddle. Accurate
speaking as much (hien to accurate thinking as clear
thought leads to clear speech. Tongue and thought play
into each other's hands. Practice in words clean up ideas.
People who have never sought into the causes of what
pleases or repels can have nothing to my to the pur-
pose ; but, by realisin;the charm of expreseingthemselves
correctly, as far as their light goes, they are driven to
thought, and thus nourish dormant discrimination lute
life. The uniform appeal to the vast and vague, the hy-
perbolical vein applied to common things, is irreconcilable
with anything else but a dull, untrained perception, a
blindness inbarrt—or the result if laciness—to the nice
varieties and subtle characteristics which distinguish
things seemingly alke. end give to each its identity.
Hence the weeriness which we feel when long subject to
this large, burly lavish style of talk • whether vaguely in-
definite, or (a kindred though advanced temptation)
ing from the abetrect to tee concrete, giving a bony to
exaggeration, shooting • :th the long bow in circumstan-
tial narrative, and fixle onality and conditions with a
view rather to effect than to truth. We wealitiot be-
cause our mural sense is wounded by hearing t that
are vaguely or positively untrue, but of some into edged
deficiency in the speaker. Hyperbole, to please, needs a
fine active fancy ; eeitilvel in, for the most part
through the want of this faculty, and in a desperate effort
to conceal the void alike from speaker and listener.—
Bluckwoces Magazine for December.