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

PROVINCIAL BEARE MARKETS.

IMAPOote tlle. 3l.—Malta to-day : Caledonian, 72 14
laabaldre sad urkslilre, 123411 c. Brigtatom MI&
11.sath roast, 4.4 London and North Western, 113,i 14 11;
Motro 1 1
14-31/411414.44er, shenielal. aad Lincolnshire, 4.51 4—iscs
Man, 11,14 —Midland( I°3 iiittll
•11 I--lilts
eli convent 13.11: p., North Y.astern,
neM43 capital stoat,
04--Sonth Eastern, tali and Yorkshire. Mots
barn purehaw, 44 per bat., t.,.—latto, ditto, Ore per emit., Ild
Central, an—luit States 5-W Booths. Mat, Ist 1I •Y
an- d
let November, 71 1-10tto, 1S0:1, 711 -tavern. d asd
London Mid Glebe Fire sal We, 414-11 p.—Atbuitic 1 eleennils
Eight per Cent., 4:—8r141.1i and Irish Magnetic le:e;.(1
Imitod 1401—Etectric and International Telegraph. 15,
National Staab Ship Company (Limited., 7 bid.
13.411C1M111. line. M.—Market drab prices generally 'letter.
Atlantic Telvirrapb prat. s per cent., iin -Cardona:oh 711 la I
11$ I—Cnslhistel Hank (Limited`, I p—Great Eastern. 303 1
—Great Northern (A , 1(4) 44 1 1 I—Lancashire and Yorkshire.
11.?1 4 3 3 London, Brighton, and Month Coast, 441 Lau-
don and Cal. Marine Insurance Lindtai , 61 d.—Laudos
and North Western, 114 I 14 I—Manchester, Sheffield, and
Lincoinsalre, 431—Notropolltan, 116 1 1 10 1:.7
Midland, 103 I 434 't 4 jr--North British, :04 4—N, It/
Fsters, berm( ie.," Steel and Masa .Lhuiteal', 1:( IL
—Visited Mater L.-20 leas Bonds, 731-1: aloe lank, 21 p.—
talon Hate Glass. 43.
BIRI4II4OIIIAX. ST—The In thls market to-
day included ratith Staffordshire Railway Stork, at sa ; Britannia
Allianee lite insurance shares, MI dia. Closing price*: Stow-
brl..is'4dge Railway shares, buyers, at 1 allaßh e 74
". Birmingham Town and Markt Looks, at 10, to II
Midland Financial shares, at 111.16 to 1; dl.. ; Britan
and
nia
1I ,If., , layers; Midland Wagon shares, sailers, at n 1
Frembird Slate and Slab shares, I db., az die., sellers This Stock
Exchange will be closed to.morrow.

In the wheat market, where a rise of 11 s. was
established in 18.1', followed by • further rise of Vs. fel.
in 1866, another advance of shout 9s. has been upheld,
the price, which on the Ist of January was Ws., being
now 755.
MODERN CY MICA.- -The cynics had no audience •
for their ill nature in the daye either of Cromwell or of
Robespierre, though they found listeners enough or
Charles 11. and Louts.XlV. The present time it one tit which
men work exceedingly hard for money, when they n
act a
in.rdinate value upon it, and when to be poor, or t seem
to be poor, is to he worse considered than to be dishonest
and not poor. It is an in France and Ragland— it is the
tome, though perhaps in a minor degree, in America. ha
consequence of the very hard work that men go through,
day after day, in the struggle to be OT to seem to he rich,
there is a tendency to undervalue everything but gold and
that which gold will boy, and to look uony
tbe the me"
be anceesisful
man as the best of men, however great p
ma cri
which he has committed In his life•anddcath struggle for
the wealth which all oovet—
To steal for poser is dastardly and mean ;
Tn rob for millions with a vial
serene
Soils not the Miners. All success is clean.
There is also less taste for instruction, and more taste for
amusement and for anything that will excite a laugh, than
exists in times of greater contentedness and simplicity.
Hence, as ill-natured wit is always laughed at, the wits
cultivate ill-nature ; and cynicism, sometimes real,
ibut
most commonly affected, flourishes in 'octet?, where
awl blasé
it s as
mesh esteemed by the diseased appetite of jaded
people as game that is over-gamy or caviare, that pleases
the miseducated palate which has lost its relish for whole-
'some food. But modern cynicism does not assume the
gross and vulgar shape which it WOre in that olden timowheni
dirty Diogenes told Alexander the Great to get outtleinen
of his
.wahine. The cynics of our day are very fine g n
in their own conceit ; or very fine ladies who have out-
lived their passion'. They dress in purple and fine linen,
and fare luxuriously every day. They think the elegant
club, or the more elegant drawing.rooni, in
in which that
itely prefer-
able to the tub of Diogenes, or the sty
human hog grunted out his contempt for his 'opener
fellow-creatures. The modern cynic his nothing of the
dog about him but the snarl, .nd lacks the fidelity and
affection of the worthy animal which has given ita name
to his philosophy. His cynicism is the systematic depre- •
elation of human nature ;the systematic *love of himself,
tics
and the pampering of his own appetites ; the systema
disregard of ell that does not minister to his personal
ease and enjoyment i the systematic denial of all great
virtue, heroism, genius, or noblenees of character (except
in dead men and women) ; and the systematic attribution
of mean and selfish motives to the good deeds that are
daily committed in the world. He may have the educe- •
tion, the position, and the polished manners of a gentle-
man, hot he lacks the great essentials of goodness of heart
and Christian charity, without which zoos can be truly a
gentleman, though he may trace bask his pedigref for • ,
thousand years, and be called " Your lordship," pedigree
Your •
Grace," or 'Year Majesty."—Blacibotwers llagazine for
.
January.
Tan TALKER'S OivoiernirviT.—lt will have been
observed by most persons who aro in the habit of dining
gregariously. that there is always a certain dish handed
rased of which no one can be induced to partake. It is
ordinarily the third end*, and very often consiste of
stewed pigeons. Whatever it consiste of, however, its
fate is always the same. It is refused by the honotaable
lady on the right of the hod, and then everybody says,
" No, thank you "oe shakes his head as the unapprecialad.
dainty is offered' to each. It is • very curious phenomenon
co connectke with
of parties this ustrotion, by common.
consist on manyof guests, of some one particular dish
--curious In ways, sad la none more than ia Ira
Wee dose ia the midst of speedo:mad enema The ohm-
littion oi the stewermws, er whatever else it may te„
is bavanialliptiss Mr a passe ; sad it is of than
pow that the Lase will take advantage, ea
giving him a Asa essestealty foe tie Itemshise of his
eve hark. —Time is no time like it.— OursikAll
%vans. he Masan%