The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-21 00:00:00

COLONIAL AND FORKION MINES.

Anglo-Brazilian Gold (1.1 m.).
Chontalca Gold and Silver Mining (Limited), 2, a.
Don Pedro North dcl Rey, 21. :I-la pm.
Fruntino :.nd Bolivia Gold (Lirr ited),
Pest Arena Voiced Gold (Limited),
Roma Grande, $, 4 pm.
St. John del Rey (Limited), 18 4, 171.
Vancouver Coal (Limited), 4 3.
DOCKS.
London and St. Katharine, 454, G.
JOINT STOCK BANKS.
Agra (Limited), A, 103.
Australmlu, 54
Bank of :moth Australia, 2.-q.
Imperial Ottoman, 10,3, 3.
London and County, New, lemma at 20 prom.. 12/, pail,
London Joint Stook, :151.
London and Westminster, 714.
Do., Scrip (issued at 101. prem., none of which bum,
been paid), 49:,.
Oriental Bank Corporation, 42).
Provincial of Ireland, 92:,.
Cnion of Australia, 4fi!,.
Union of London, ).'lj.

City of Moscow Das (Limited), 5.).
Commerciel Union (Aasuranoe), 5.
Credit Fonder of Bugland (Limited), 2 15.16, j.
East India Irritietiou and Comfit 164, 17.
Ebbw Vale, 134.
Egyptian 9 per cent. Viceroy Lean, guaranteed by
Egyptian government, 91, 4.
Hudson's Bay, 17..
International Financial Society (Limited), 4.
Loudon ticuemlOninibus Company (Limited), 2.
Natel Lim] end Colonisation Company (Limited), 24.
National Discount Company (Limited). 11:„ 10f.
Rio de Janeiro Das (Limited), lit:.
Royal Mail Ste•im, ti.l,
Viceroy of Egypt (Mortgage) Loss, 724, 4.

The eminent services which Dr. Richardson,
physician and physiologist, has rendered to the medical
profession and the public generally, especially by
his successful invention of a method fai producing,
without danger, local insensibility to pain in sur-
gical operations, yesterday afternoon received fitting
recognition at Willis's Roma, St. James's, when a
testimonial valued at over 1,0001. was presented to him
by Paget, sergeant-surgeon extraordinary to the
Queen.
WIIAT ELM:TU.4e MEANS.—But if a diasolti-
tion be penal, and nothing more, let us just think what a
penalty it is. It in nothing more or less thin a national
calamity, touching et once many more interests; than any
average dis:istr-r CAll comprise in in bacon. More than a
thousand riti, s and towns, for we must include the
county politg places, are to be thrown into disorder,
filled with drunkenness, exposed to riot, and divided by
committns and leaders, saying the most vicious, in.
temperate, and unscrupulous Shinn they can think of
spa ... one :mother. Half the bad *rings which set neigh-
bours permanently against each other, and establish feuds
desoetoting to their children, and their children after
them, are said at election time. If a man feels a mean
jealousy of hie at ighbour's prosperity, or has to contrast
with prudence wad wealth his own indiscretion and poverty,
he blurts out the ho aria grudge under the cover a
election amenities, If there be anything which may
not usually be said or °twined under the social compact
of common life, it is said without reserve or compunction
in the %April:dui which are supposed to suspend compacts,
underitnodings, reserves, courtesies, and even the decen-
cies of a Christian land. The expenditure, even in this
exGx.agw.t country, notorious for its eat, engine. in
the aun.de of a thousand years. is beyond even
the national measure of extravagance. Funds
kid by with care, and designed for charity, for
pious purpo<es, Ern hospitality, for keeping up
the decent state of ancient families or advancing the pre.
tensions of new ones, for useful public improvements, for
building houses and cottages, for carrying out the many
works philanthropists tell us are necessary to health, life,
and goodness-all this sacred store is dissipated in a
week, sea squandered in bribing, corrupting, intoxi-
cating, demoralising, &hexing, and dn.-racing the people
whom we call the BIWA public, and the men that
create our parliament, our oonetitution, and our national
policy. Could we imagine the entire nation in the hew,
of a violent fever, thiown into agonies anti convulsions, to
be encended by prostration, tartly convalescence, and a
fined recovery not quite up to the previous level of health
and strength, that would be just what is indicted upon us
on the avenge every four yeast by a toner d citation. -
Tin a.