The Express. — 1865-10-09 (London, England)

NINBII.-(11118 DAYJ  Two o'Clocc. There are fewer transactions in the mining market to-day, and the tendency is less favourable. Chiverton shares continue heavy, and have further receded, the present quotation being 91 to 1 On the other hand, Wentworth Consols have advanced to 44 to 54, on an improvement in the mine. Chivertoc laoor are quoted to 711; North Treskerby, 3to 4 ; and North Crotty, to i. Foreign and colonial mining shares exhibit ao alteration. Alamillos have been dealt in at lb and Frontino and Bolivia at 3, being steady.  On Saturday afternoon so attempt at suicide was committed st the Abbey Mere, Plymouth, an establiannest of Mies Seiton's Protestant Sisters of Mercy. At the bottom of the abbey grounds is an inlet of the harbour known as the Ifillbay-bridge Lake, whore • youog led&r:: inmate of the abbey, mounted the parties wall, and herself into the lake. She was happily observed by some persons in the neighbourhood, by whom she was promptly rescued. MOUNTAIN Norma. —The moat notable interpo in the Sonar:Tiara of to-day, as onnoared with that yam ago, is the seethimodasion afforded to travellen Gthst by anenerous hotels erected on lofty positkos. amid the mouotaia scenery, and renderiag rosily scomeible some a the wildest portions of the high Alps. There are pedestrians to whom three or four additional hours of ascent, and two or three of descent, are but coeousidered trifles when added to • day's work ; but eyes to roost young sea who affect the Alps it is so small gain to be able te ride comfoetably out of the zwelteriegthwer alleges to a ornafort:deb ine at the height of 6,000 or 7,000 test, where they can take up quarters, and from whence they can earth meths their pedestrian ascents in a cool and briecnitiac atmosphere. It is sot, however, mostatelsesto alone who are bnoing to discover that tome high bongs sr. pleasant ae:- of abode for days, and eves weeks. I have seen residing there auccierous invalid., and even old ladies, who would as soon think of displaying themselves th the ballet as of creasing tee yards of glacier. In Sale end August, when all Eames is steeped in hest and moistens, the pure dry air of the high mountain is 7:dreamt is the extreme ;so also is splendid scenery thus rendered accessible without fatigue ; the company is often of • superior sod genial kind. circumstances are favourable to familiar, easy ink:roman ; sod the knurl's of civiliatsation seed not be left behind, though all Buoys, is lying oar feet. Of course these high hotels abed great sweeties of acoommodatioa, from the splendid attain at Chamouni to the solid hut on the glacier of the St. Theodole Peak at the height of 10,900 feet, where simple food may be had, and where "it is possible to asap ;" but it very great heights one ma Gad taught, roses, and sit dove, at a moderate puce, to tables arta* that woad certainty sot disgrace any of the second-clues haste:irk • below. The famous hotel oa the Riffelberg, above Zermatt. is 8,400 feet high, io very keen dry air ;_ and it is possible to ride up from it surly to the top of the Gomm' Gist, 10,300 feet, round which there sweeps, with only • glacier linervenieg, the tremendous rasp of the Moots Roes from the snowy Cims di Sethi to the brows awful prrila the Matterhorn ; while, looking northward, the view is closed in the distance by mountains of the Berthas Oberlin:id. The hotels on the Aorischhorn sad the neighbouring Bel Alp lay themselves oat for visitors who desire to stay some time, in order to make excursions from their convenient height of about 7,000 feel. The former, emir Melly, Is justly celebrated for its cellar sod its cuiense ; hat Herr Wetlig bates a peculiar fancy for always filling the rooms In his highest storey first, though the stairs to thee stor might almost justify • nervous mum in being rope; end the latter has an advantage's its outlook, as ties in the vicinity of pleasant short walks. The ions ea the Weogern Alp aad the Little Schram • are glad to receive Imam en pension. On the ?Whom there it a pastliof not lower tau 8,403 feet. onamoulieg a n mei ime view of the soothsea skis of the Pants of the Obeiland sear by, at • somewhat lower elevation, the terhysigo Platt. ;overate nearly the same scene from • thee ichospitable wee. Oa the neighbouring Noma there are 24 beds at 7,765 leak At nearly 6,000 feet, on the Bapbo tismal,. there is • well-known hostelry, with the Schreckrn en one side sad the Titles on the other, to which ono mastunptive patents repair. la the Eopdiae, EP. Monta. at 6,000 feet, with its &afloat* water., has 'vastly been is great repute with English travellers; while in the Vateline, i.e Prise presents • milder climate. Othrmayeur is well-known to travellers among the Alpe Zermatt itself is 5,315 feet. Os the 00l dl Voce there is sow am inn, from which the Moss% GI Moat /31. ac cem easily be made ; for it is only about six houn' ascent from that Wu to a cabane on the Alpine de Gout*, and km hours from thence to the summit of the monarch of Rawpoen monetaies. People °canto:idly pay abort vii to • the monks of St. Bernard aid of the Simpler, while parties have been known to linger tithe the Force. Eves the hospice at the Crimea has announced itself as a ewerand pennon, and has its share al meg bent on high sioes, though it is difficult to see bow anyone else except a miaanthrope Gould think of boarding himself in that God.lossalimi region. I have emoted about 200 pieces in Switzerland recommended, for various reams, as Suva* or sanitariums, end of them at lest 30 are about or above