The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-28 00:00:00

PROV)1101AL BRARE ILLRENTS.

L73IIIPOOT, JAI. 27.-Batirs to-day : Caledonian, 76} 7 611
1 1 1 I—Great Eastern, 304 1 1 I—Great Western, 161—Lan-
aaldre and Yorkshire. 1251—London and North Waters, 1171
LW—Manchester. Shefheld, and Lincolnshire, 441 1 431
f 1 I_l 1 2j 32j 31-31etropolltan. 1171 11 117 161 1
kllsod,lo6l 16 41 I—Birmingham1—Birmingham and Derby Et!
convertMlo, 1 p.—North British, 38 1 I—South Eastern, 651 18
—Blrkeahmil 914 1 id.—Grand Trunk of Canada, 16—Great
Western of Cinada, 161—Atlantic and Great Western 7 percent.
Consolidated Beads, TA—UMW Males 9-20 Bends 13821, Ist May
to Ist November, 711—Dutch Rbentsh,3 1.18 p.—Livermsd Fi-
nancial AranclaUon iUmited„ 21 d.—British and Yurehm
Marine ;Limited:, 1 p. --Liverpool and London and Globe Fire
and We, a 1 p.—Atlantic Telegratill a per cent, Elnli-
dom Telegraph Company, 10 put cent. Pref., 71—loath Esetern
el per cent. S and 3.85.
HASCILISTSI, r• 6. 27.—Market lower, a fair amount of
bushier going. Anglo-American Telegraph Limited), 1104—
Caledonian, 700 I—Coamlidated Bask. 7-16 p.—Mies.
1111111 MI—
Great 10,11, 300 I—Great Luxembourg, O}—Great Northern
A, IoM) 511—Grist -taken of Canada, l6l—Oreat Western. e 6/
561 I—Loadon, Brighton, and South Coast, 47 —Man-
cheater, Maki& and thitolaahlre. 441.1}143111M
0 1 • I—listopolitan. 1171 1 117j11 17 16j 1 1
land, 1034 1
Northfl 6—Ditto, era ,ca sham p —North
35 0— Staffordshire, 634-Beuth Eastern, OM /
Thames and Mersey Marina insurance !Limited,. 2 7-10 P.—
Dover Five per Cent. (1866', irll—lialtiah and Foreign Marina. I p.
Be 27..—Bustows continues on a mislerate
scale in this mutat. Itiriningliam Wagon Mix per Cent Prefer-
ence Shares were sold at 10 ; Metropolitan Railway Carriage
and Wagon Shares, 101 ; and Railway Carriage (Oldburyl, at
1 pm. Closing prices Birmingham Banking Company Shares, at
11 pm : Birmingham Joint Stock Bank. at 30 to 201:
ham tlas New Ordinary tihares, at 411 to ea: Meth ritITZ:
shire Waterworks' Shares. at 6 1. 6): and General Steam Nail-
. gallon Company Shares, 274, buyers.

The town of Ipswich will this week be given up
to gaiety, in celebration of the opening of the new Town•
ball, a very handsome building, which has oost the town,
exclusive of the value of the site, about 113,0001. The hall
stands upon the south side of the Cornhill, • large open
square in the centre of the town.
THE Drf RICK SHErHEEn. Hogg knew or
affected to know every ballad that was ever bung and every
story that was ever told on the Soottish border. He
was exceedingly adroit likewise in filling op blanks and
supplying sometimes a head and sometimes • tail-piece,
just as it was wanted. Scott did his best to serve him
also, but failed. Hogg could not manage his own affairs
yet was for ever urgent to be allowed to manage the affain
of others. He was to his employer—if we may so speak of
Scott—alternately obsequious, ridiculous' and insolent.
Take, for example, Lockhart's amount of the Shepherd's
Brat dinner with Scott :—" When Hogg altered the
drawing.romn, Mrs. Scott, being at the time in • delicate
state of health, was reclining on a sofa. The Shepherd,
after being presented and making his best bow, forthwith
took possession of another sofa placed opposite to hers, and
stretched himself thereupon at all him -length ; for, as be
said afterward., 'I thought I could never do wrong to copy
the lady of the house.' As his dress at this period was
precisely that in which any ordinary herdsman attends
cattle to the market, and as his hands, moreover, bore most
legible marks of a recent sheepemearing, the lady of the
house did not observe with perfect equanimity the novel
usage to which her chintz was exposed. Ttte Shepherd,
however, remarked nothing of all this—dine d heartily and
drank freely, and, by jest, anecdote, and song, afforded
plentiful merriment to the more civilised part of the com-
pany. As the liquor operated, him familiarity increased
and atrengtheeed ; from ' Mr. Scott,' he advanced to
Sberra,' and thence to ' Scott," Walter,' and ' Wattle,'
until at supper he fairly convulsed the whole party by ad-
dressing Mrs. Scott as ' Charlotte.' " Poor Howe had all
the elements of a poet about him, and " Kilmeny "
may compare with any story of the' kind in the language.
But how was it possible eeeentially to serve • man who
was always asking, always mimesdisg what be got, and
withal sr touchy as to address -to his beefeater, who hod
somehow offended him, a letter which began" D—d sir,"
and ended "Noun with diegust."!—Quarterlyßerier, new
number.
Live Oversits.—" Oysters," says old Fuller,
" are the only meat which men at alive and yet account
it no cruelty. The idea of eating any creature whilst
still alive does, it must be 0012100 ed, savour • little of
ferocity, and, as Bing James was watt to my, " he was •
very valiant man who first ventured on sating el oysters ;"
or as the pat Gay has sung of the first raw-oyster eater in
the well-known Tina :
The man had sure a palate covered o'er
With Areas or steel that es the rocky shore
First broke the oozy metes pearly coat.
And risked the thing morsel down„ throat.
The popular idea with regard to eating w eyelets is that
the animal is killed as soon as
The (tamers knife the gaping shall cowards.
And the melt liquor stream between ler %soda
But this is • mistake ; if the oyster is net dead before H is
opened, it is undoubtedly swallowed aliva—Bdissberpt
kr•-•., new number.
"SHIRKING" AT ETON.—The abolition of this
strange usage is, we believe, the only one al the numerous
recommendations of the commission, that has beau, yet,
egemtvely carried out. Although Most, it
Oho re-
oording, as a specimen of what Mon boys sad mast= no,
once thought " right and honourable." 'Mums; shiritmg
—if • boy was seen by • master out of bounds, or ifaiisto
any prohibited pines, or doing any prohibited sot, be,
geeing the masterdiug, avoided him, if only in the watifel-
fashiohi his bead behind•
bersrbush
or pot of
while his lags were all the• white viable
—he shirked" the master, and the latter by a
legal Action did net " see" the boy ; and what was per-
Ups, still more amusing (if it is anstatag at all) was
that if the boy honestly and went forward
to meet the master, he get dimmest I
The seater would my, " What yea Ira bY this
tisence in not shirking ese"l"tacift redo
is that you have • eight to de mom why dsn't yen moil
yourself of It?" One dthe waders gam it ae tits delta
rate testimony that this practise was "at the Wins if a
greet deal of evil at Eton," taammeh es " • bey mient
a 0
what wee wroog, bat halt Am waged In omele be
his being found ant."—BrillsQuarto* Mei" new
number. w

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