The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-08 00:00:00

PIIO,IIiOIAL BRAM MA&KITS.

I.l9talOoL, Frs. 7.-Bales to-dey t adamant. 7814 91 91
9149 81 &LW. 71 718 74 8-Greet Miters, 112 -14 4-
London, Chatham, and Dorm, 181-Lordsa sad North Was.
tern. 1101 11 Ipi 1 191st) 1 1 1111 I-Msachastse,
flold and Lino 'Madre, 47 41 xd.-iletropolitaa. 110 91
t-- 9:1
9 11tellesel, 1,,;i I 1 1-. oath British, 361-South Eastern, 71
I.o,tern CI. E. I par mot. 1862, 02-Laseaster •
C.olisle. 210-4.4.4 Weetcrl2 of Canada, 16 7-16-Cafted Nista*
6-20 '62) 1 May. 1 Nov., 711-Bank of Liverpool, 20-North.
Western Bank limited', 1 4.-Liverpool and London and Worm
Fire and Life, 61 p.-Royal lasuranoe. 2/ E..;lllactric and
internatiobal Te!ezraph, 167-Liverpool Lac ,
ttoutl Steam ship an
hip 7 13-16-Psci Steam at
)ILectintni. 11.6. 7.-Market opened good, and continued
so part of the day : but In the afteepoon all went lower, closing
a. the lowest point of the day. Aitood bugles= doing.
Caledonian, 79 81 44139611 i 8 71 8 7/ lii
I—District Bask, 114 p.- 47 treat Easton, 321
14-(heft Livo•mtowrV. to. -61<at Northern, 109,-Ditto A.
111 101 ill Ini I 171Innota,b71 I-lAncaahlre and York-
shire. 126 -London. Brianton, and Routh Coast, and
soil Cala. °Mau MarMe Insurance (Limited% 64 d.-London
awl North Western, 110 10/ 111 1 18/ 19 184 4 4 1-Manchester
ithilleld, and Lineelnehlre, 4.14 4-Ditto. Nem peel , 1-16 cum
dlr.-Metropolitan. Iney lit; 1 i-midtaab& 107 61 71 1-
lEtto New, *22 shares, 11 14 -North British, 204 G- South
Eastern, 711 1 Ip-1 ar 1 701-kl Thames and Mersey M
32arine lucurauce
, 7-1 S .li live per Cents., 1. '
FE11.7.-Rosiness done Birmingham Alliance
fire shafts at par. and 31untg's Metal at 3 7-16 db. Closing
prices: (treat Western Pollway, 491 to 6GI London and
North Western Railway, 1184 to 1191; miiaod Railway Kock,
W,4 to 1071: 111rmbmhasa • Canal, trams, at 901 Droltwich
Could, milers, at 154: /lin:Amhara Banking Company, at 11 to
pin.; and Patent Nut and Bolt shares, sellars, at 31 din.

It is said that the illness of Sir John Rolt hasnot
assumed a dangerous character; bat he was advised to
abstain for some time from all arduous work, and he felt
that under such circumatanoes he could not continue to

hold office.
JEFFESSON DAVIS IN LOCINIANA.—At the early
part of last month sores artier's. of Louisiana presented en
address to Jefferson Davis, who is at present in that State.
Mr. Davis returned the following reply:—" WestFeliciaoa,
La , Saturday, Jan. le. 186$ :—Gentlemen—l am deeply
Ratified for your vety kind letter of this date ; and assure
you that it would give ins great pleasure to accept your
invitation. My engagements require me to leave for
Mississippi so soon that it will not be in my power
to visit you, and again look upon 'place associated with
many happy memories. Your sufferings and losses have
been to me ever present through all the trials to which
you so feelingly refer. The desolation which everywhere
re pvents itself in that once prosperous country fills my
Le.rt with sorrow ; but I hope and trust a better time
will soon corns to us. The patient fortitude, the cheerful
energy and manlyvirtuewhiohonrpeopledisplay in the depth
of their misfortune, cannot fail to bring the due reward.
Accept for yourselves and these whom you represent, the
expremion of my life-long devotion, and earnemt prayer,
which has so loog been daily offered, that the Father will
restore our stricken land in the way in which his wisdom
seems the best.— I am most cordially your friend, JEITLII-
SIDN DAVIS."
GM:NT iiISIIARVIC AND TUN PAINCES.—M. Bis-
marck has begun to treat the small princes of Germany
pretty much es certain landlords in a country we know
of are accustomed to deal with tenants who are noreire.
proving. He has said, "Either you have no capital or
you will not spend it. In either case, you must go.
take the farm into my own hands, and see if I can't do
better with it." This is a great shock to ICrahwinekel.
What is to become of court chamberlains and small privy
coancillors and steelier commendenein-ebief ? What is to
be done with grand•ducal *sanitising, and upper grooms
and bead japer, and the master of the mint that seined the
little copper money lackerodwith bismuth. Whois to do the
honour of court ceremonial', end present Noodle to Doodle?
Who 11 to carry the order*, the Bpr and Bagpipes to the
friendly sovereign, who responds by the decoration of the
Goose with Three Heade Valet is the world to do for all
those little unmesaine intrigues and small rogueries in
which these small princes poem! their lives—pleying as it
were /a ;ens immense of politics, and hawing as good fun
as their neighbours who were gambling for high stakes
11. Bismarck, it is deer, will have none of them. He le all
for " high farroing " in statecraft, and will beer of nothing
but sesenr.nrowing and bone-erusking.—Bleotwoorce Mugs-

;;;;A lOC February.
FANNY KENIELL ON LADY MAC/UMW—ID a MO-
mentary absence of evecaory. a friend of mine once cog-
rested to me the idea that Lady Maebeth's exclamation in
the sleeping scene—" The Thane of Fife had a wife ; where
is she now ':"--was a ooneciame-stricken reference to herself
and bee own lava condition. Of course the hypothetic was
Immediately abandoned on the recollection that Macbeth
never had been Thane of Fife, and that it is *Ware
slaughtered mate Lady Macbeth is dreaming of,—the poor
' dame who. with all her pretty chickens, was destroyed at
one fell swoop by Lady Macbeth's marderons amity. TIN
ocaversetion that ensued led me to reflect on this mistaken
suggestion of my Mend, as involving a much deeper mils-
taki—an impoostaiegisal error. Not only the feet
was not as suggested, t a fact of that nature—via, an
accusing return upon herself by Lady Macbeth—email net
be. Lady Macbeth, even in bar sleep. has no gashes of
ooseneste ; her remorse takes none the tenderer foam
akin to repentance, no
the weaker saes allied to heir.
from the pursuit of which the tortured
the
seeking when
Collide itself, not seldom escapes into the boendlns wil-
derness of roveinem. Avery able sickle, pablished some
years ago in the NINEPIN, Iteeder, on the obernof
sa al Lay
Macbeth, insists much upon an opinion that she died el
remorse, as some pelltatien of her erbleat and NOWNI6/1
of our detestation of them. That the died of wiebahais
would be, I think, a jester verdict. Removes is esseskan-
mess of gnilt,—ghee, Weed. se mere akin to saving 06:.e-
-titles than the faith et dad* who tremble sad
I. to saving faith,—lint still seavoloiumena of gnil7—aa
that, I think, lady Meese* sever thee& tie
eareecosisoal primers el her rest &If killed bee. I think
her life wee destroyed by in. so by • disease of width
the Ina uneonecions, and that Ea died of a broke=
while the impenetrable revelation of her will
unbowed. The spirit wee willing. het the Irk wee
weak ; the body can nu bet es fee, end sarrive ; end
ether thirdly periose besides thus el vioissee sad son'
tea weer away its due *sass, sad sudoumpls
won▪
derful fibrin. The wernaa's 100!•11 frame
te the antedate
sweight ei is end aellerieg
immortal sold had martie terhin I mi. Wat =I
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ts F
m7wirikedners,
gamble, went forth bile lb sow &baba Oar
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