The Express.
London, England, 1855-08-16 00:00:00

DIVISION OF METNOPOI.I7'AN PARISHES

INTO WARDS.

Yesterday, at a numerous meeting of the represen-
tative vestry of St. Pancras, held in theCourt-houre,
road, Camden Town, Mr. Churchwarden SMITH in the
chair, Mr. Cook, the clerk, read the following comma, ica-
don from Bir B. 13211:

" Great Btanhope-street, August 14,1866.
" Bir,—lt affords me much pleasure to be able to inform
you that the royal anent was given this day to the bill for
the better local management of the metropolis. The first
duty to be performed under the provisions of the act will be
the appointment of manors to set out the wards in the
large parishes of the metropone. It is possible that these
penons will be named forthwith, and I should hope that the
local authorities will afford every fscility for the pi osecuttou
of the inquiry that must take plane, hy giving say informa-
tion that may be required, and by Minog the on of their
public rooms for the purpose of the inquiry.—l have the
honour to be, &e., B. BALL.
" To the Vestry Clerk, St. Passau."
Mr. Cook was directed to send a reply to this communica-
tion, which was ordered to be catered on the minutes.
Mr. Charakerordea FARRIS thee prepeeed rerelatieme,
declaring the etedineee of the vestry to aim* is ferrying wt
the measure.

Mr. WILLSY seconded the resolution', which were
adot ted, and

fhe followiog gentlemen were nominated se a committee:
Messrs. Cooper, Fiather, Eckett, ilowlett, Tamar, Stock-
too, and Wellby.
The vestry, after the transaction of a variety of tontine
butting's, adjourned for a weds.

ROYAL YACHT SQUADRON REGATTA.

VISIT OF HER MAJESTY AND THE ROYAL
FAMILY.

COWES, WEDNISDLY EVENING, AOOUBT 14.

•
Shortly after the departure of the boat with yester-
da)'s prootedinga up to that period, the latter part of them
became more interesting by a visit of her Majesty and the
Royal Family, who honoured the regatta with their pre
MCC Shortly after five o'clock the royal yacht Fairy, with
the Admiralty flag, and the royal standard fluted from the
main, wee seen making its way to the Roads, followed by
the Aldo, and it was immediately known that ber Majesty
was on board, with the Prince of Wales, the Princess Royal,
and other member, of the Royal Family. There were also
present in attendance several mei:pliers of her Majesty's
household. The Fairy was commaaded by the Hon. Joseph
Denman, and on the vessel coming abreast of the Squadron
House, a general cheer was raised, and the flogs of West
Cowes Castle and the Squadron House were dipped with
the usual formality. To the curious in such matters it may
be slated that her Majesty wore a large brown hat, with
long pink strings, with a stonecoloured cope, and appeared
in ezcelb nt health and spirits. Prince Albert was not pre-
sent, having in the morning gone to Portlend, for the pur-
pose of witnessing the works there in peewees for the
breakwater, and he did not return until nearly 8 o'clock in
the evening. The Reenter part of the sports bed termi-
nated before her Majesty's arrival, but nevertheless she
remained for an hour and • half, during which time al
rowing matches, duck hunts, and other amusements took
place,
which appeared greatly to interest the royal party.
lot the competitors, after the recta, were celled to
the side of the Fairy, and were, by direction of her Majesty,
most liberally rewarded. The junior members of the royal
family seemed highly delighted at the recce known as
"duck hunts," but which were followed by a literal meaning
of the words, for aver al live ducks were thrown into the
water and pursued in a mud determined manner by their
human—or perhaps inhuman—tormentrs. After remain-
ing until nearly seven o'clock, the Fairy and tender pro-
ceeded up the Solent for about ten miles, and then returned
to Osborne.

The Royal Yaeht Squadron dinner took place last night,
and was well attended.

This day was appointed for the race for tl.e Cup of the
Royal Yacht Squadron, the course tuing 'from C .wee to a
vessel moored off 16 or 20 miles from the Isi.h Light.
The following yachts stated at hall•past 10:
Yachts. Taos. Colour,.
Alarm 240 J. Weld, Peg White and lied di tgonaL
Gloriana 134 J. Gee, Erg Red nil What. stripes.
Wildfire.... 62 bit. Percy shellry White and lied.
As the race is nearly all to seaward, we must defer the
particulars to the next despatch.

ROYAL THAMES NATIONAL REGATTA. nig
regatta concluded yesterday. The email:duel of spectators
was much more numerous than on previous days. The
Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoras, with • select parry of
friends, arrived in the course of the day. The races decided
were—a four-oared race, open to the world, for 701. in
cash; a four-oared race, for tradesmen, for the challenge
cop and presentation tankard; a millers' race,
' for gentle-
men ; and a pair-oared race, open to the world (final heat).
The last•natned contest was looked forward to with muck
interest. Winship and Bruce of the Elswick crew, Wood
and Ault of the Manchester, with W. Pocock and R.
Clasper, and Day and Bain, Wandsworth men, being pitted
against each other, caused the betting to aisumc some inte-
rest. The Manchester wee in favour at the start ; the Els-
wick crew, however, gained favour. The curt wee splen-
did ; the Elswick crew took the lead, and maintained it up
to the Willows, closely pressed by the Manchester men, the
London men tailing off. The Bleerick crew came in first,
the Manchester men being beaten. In the evening the
various prizes were presented to the winners by the Lord
Mayor, at Cremorne-gardens.

Mr. H. Bell, one of the candidates selected for the
Civil Service of the Seat India Company, is not, as has been
atated,• member of Elder College, Oxford, but 'graduate
of Clare Holly Cambridge.

LONGEVITY.—Mrs. Murrell, residing at Yapton,
near Bognor, celebrated the anni y of her birthday on
the 10th inst., surrounded by her five ishildren—varte sons
and two daughters; their respective ages amounting to 433
years. This venerable lady is 99 year of age, once retains,
her faculties, of which she gave proof by singing the riper°.
prises soar of " Long have 1 rambled through the world."
—West Surrey Casette.
ACCIDENT TO DE. BEDFORD.—We regret to have
to relate a serious accident which has happened to the Rev.
Dr. Redford, the much respected sod t .lented pastor of the
Congregational Dissenters in Dis city. The rev. gentle-
men lut week went with his wife at d youngret dsugh:er
to North Wales, to recruit hie health, and on Friday last
took a car to drive round Snowdonia. At the turnpike
entering on the pan of Dtanhens, he stood up in the car to
pay the toll, and, before be had resumed his seat, the driver
est the vehicle in motion ; the consequence was that he was
jerked out of the door, whhb, in these 'elsh cars, is always
placed at the back, and his feet catching between the door
and the seat, he was draped along upon his face for some
distance before the car coulit be stopped. He had, however,
so supported himself upon his band that has head was not
much injured, hut, when he was raised up from his perilous
position, it was found that his wrist was both broken and
dislocated. The fracture having been rkilfully reduced, we
are glad to bear that the rev. reatleman is now guieg on
well.—Worcester Chronicle.
THE NEw BEEN ACT.—The new Beer Act (18
end 19 Viet. c. 118), which received the royal assent r.n
Tuesday, will take effect on Sunday neat. It is entitled
" An Act to repeal, alter, and amend the Act of the Seven-
teenth end Eighteenth Years of her present Majesty, for
further regulating the Sole of Beer and other liqu ,rs on tie
Lord'aday, and to substitute other provisions in lien
thereof." It contains five clauses, ~ud declares that the
recited act has been found to be atteeded with inconvenience
to the public, the said act is repealed, and the hours
for public-houses to be open are now pn Sunday,
Christmas-day, Good Friday, or any fast or thanks-
giving day, from 1 to 3 and from 6 to 11. The pouts
are DM to be opened before 4 o'clock on the miming fol-
lowing the days mentioned, except to a traveller or lodger
therein. Houses for public resort are prohibited in the
same manner from being opened for the sale of liquors.
Constables are empowered to enter public•houtee. A pe-
nalty not exixtediog 61. may be levied for every cdeuro
against the act, and every separate sale to he deemed an
offence. The ezpreuion "bona lido traveller " has bean
left out of the new law.
A MANOR LOST ET A GAME OF CARDS.—In the
year 1848 I was staying with a friend at Kennerleigh,
who, knowing I was fond of old places and old things,
took me to Dawrish House, belonging to Captain Clay-
Held, built in the time of King John, the centre only
remaining. It is iroproaehed through a gete.h,,nse. Mrs.
Clayfleld showed us some portraits of th-r Dowrish
and a marble table inlaid with e..eds and count-re, showing
the two hands of piquitt held by Mr. Dawrisb and an
ancestor of the present Sir Stallard Northoote, who were
playing together, when Mr. Dowrish, thinking he had woo
the game, betted the manor of Kennerleigh end lost it. The
Northootas hold it at the present time. The marble table
was made to commemorate this event —/Vogss and Querns.

CRYSTAL PAIACR:—SIIILINO DA T.—AUG UST 15.
11A•iodoss oa paymeat, 9,734; ditto by woos went,
762.—Totat. 10.496.
CRYSTAL PAL/XL—Return of admissions for 111
days ending August 11.—Nuiaber ithnictad, iucluding
sea-
son ticket holders, 5.1,963. Amount linefeed for admih
sites, 2,7911. 12 I.

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mot be at dro Ofts, 1., Swaveriaslzeit. b Two <Moak on as
do palglasdes.

HIGH WATER AT LONDON BRIDGE.
T■n My—moraine. 4b. 17be Aftersoon, 4h. 174 a.
Tobasbow—blorsiag, 4h. 42a ..... Attaboos, 40. 3Sa.

LONDON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 16.

THE most important reinit to be looked for from
tie bombardment of Sweaborg is the reatorstion of

good humane and confident hope to our crews in the
Baltie. it cannot be denied that in consequence of
the prolonged inaction of the early part of the season,
they had turned rather rusty, and were beginning to
move s,owiy and jarringly, as doors turning on rusty
hinges are apt to do. But it is obvious, even from the
meagre reports that have asyet come to hand, thattbeir
success at Sweaborg has inspired them with new life
—flushed with triumph, they are ready for anything.
On the other hand, the Russians must be correspond-
ingly depressed by the bold enterprise of our
navy. They looked upon the place as impreg-
nable ; they expected that our war vessels would
only dish on the granite islands that form the har•
bour, crowned u they were with fortifications of
solid masonry, to meet assured destruction. They
have now been better teudht ; and by the light of
the confhgration of the arsenal and other govern-
ment buildings at Sweaborg may see a hand pointing
zo defensive structures in which they have hitherto
placed more unlimited contid"ace—to the granite
buckler that covers the heart of their empire. In
short, the devastation wrought at Sweaborg derives
its value from the demonstration it affords of what

the Allies can do, and what the Russians cannot
prevent. .Were it not for this, the harm
done to Russia would be limited to the loss
entailed upon her by the destruction of stores and
buildings. Sweaborg, even if it were in our posses-
sion—which it does not appear to be—commands no
extensive di.trict, is the key to no important line of
communication. It is difficult to figure to oneself that
the attack upon it makes part of any great combined
scheme of action—is the prelude to any enterprise of
greater moment. A short time will show whether
this successful achievement is to be fol'owed up, or
whether it is to remain an Isolated and fruitless act
of gallantry like the destruction of Bomarsund last
year. The lingering of our unnavigable floating
batteries in our own harbours is but an indifferent
omen of what is to ensue.

We speak in no spirit of despondency es to the
ultimate n sults of the struggle in which we are
engaged. We know from sources upon which we can
rely that the protracted war is weukeniog and im-
poverishing Russia to an extent far beyond what is
generally imagined. The roads available for traffic
in that country are limited in number and of very
imperfect construction. The manufactures that have
been called into existence by Russia's protec-
tive system are almost all the property of
nobles, who carry them on by the labour
of their serfs (or of serfs hired from other
nobles), upon capital advanced by Government
on the security of mortgages of their landed
property. The drain of men to till the ranks
of the array has stopped most of the great factories,
and the interest on the borrowed capital thus ren-
dered useless is rapidly accumulatiog. We are pool
tively assured that the constant transport of ordnance
and other heavy stores has broken up the great lines
of road, sod rendered them in many places aloes
solutely impassable. In ordinary times—with the
aboodaece of material and serf labour at the com-
mand of the Government—this latter evil could
have been promptly repaired ; but at present,
owing to the withdrawal of the greater part
of the athletic adults to serve in the army,
it is impossible. The paucity of available la-
bour has also told upon the cultivation of the soil,
and upon the important pursuits of forest industry
and the fisheries. The internal trade of Russia—
that commerce of detail upon the activity of which
depends the supply of the population with the indis-
pensable necessaries of existence—is in a state bor-
dering on paralysis. Privation is universal, and
poverty is making gigantic strides among all classes.
The enormous efforts that the Russian Government
has been oblig.d to make for the defence of
Sebastopol, and to maintain armies on its
southern and northern frontiers, are exhaust-
ing the Imperial Treasury, and the growing
poverty of the whole community precludes all hope
of replenishing it, even by new sad exorbitant taxes
—et best *dangerous resource. A financial crisis
is imminent in Russia. Beggared and bankrupt,
what foreign capitalists will venture *to advance
money to het? And without money how can she con-
tinue to put her armies in motion ? Though the war
his been carried on upon our part sluggishly, and
apparently without plan, the Russian Government
already sees destruction impending over it from its
presumption in dashing itself even upon the via Mor-
tice of the Western Powers. It would
not surprise us to see these facts laid hold of
by the indiscriminate apologists of Government
and tortured into evidence of its wisdom. " Our
English statesmen," we can fancy we hear them
say, "knowing that Russia must inevitably wear
herself out in any prolonged struggle, have wisely
abstained from any enterprises which might have
exposed us to serious though partial and temporary
checks and reverses." This cannot be said with even
the appearance of troth of the Aberdeenite seceders
from the Ministry. These worthies have been unable
to keep their own secret; they h►ve confessed
that the purpose of their inaction was to avert
humiliation and weakness from Russia. As for
Lord PALMERSTON, he has not held the reins of
Government long enough to enable us to conjecture
what his policy is, or whether he has any definite
policy. But whatever it may be, the Fabian tactics'
which we have assumed may be attributed to his
lordship by his partisans, though they may serve to
ripen events for a final blow at Russia, will not suffice
to strike that blow. In order to turn the exhaustion
of Russia to account, some decided plan of action
must be adopted and vigorously can ied out. On this
soon we confess we are not without our apprehen-
sions. There is mach meaning in the protest of an
official Austrian journal, published yesterday (exclu-
sively) in the Daily News, against the statement
made by Sir Geoace GREY, that Austria had
declined to give "an explicit assurance in writing,
that if her proposal were acceded to by England and
France, and rejected by Russia, its rejection would
immediately have placed Austria by the side of the
belligerent powers." The deliberate affirmation of
the journal to which we have alluded, that "the pleni-
potentiaries of France and England had telegraphed
to their Governments, that upon the non-acceptance
of Austria's intended ultimatum by Russia, the cams
belli would immediately arise, and Austria would
sign a military convention with the Western Po "
has very much the appearance of an attempt to pave
the way to the re-opening of negotiations. And

it ought not to be overlooked—in connexion with
this Austrian protest—that reports have of late been
indutriously circulated, in what are called " good
quarters," of a treaty having been concluded by
England, France, and Austria, binding tbesogiewttv•
not to make any treaty separately with Rustic Yes
these circumstances it behoves the public to be witt h.
fel and prepared (or action I for renewedi saegotia-
time with Austria can mean nuttiness bat Serante-
men ts for letting Russia escape, and betrayal of the
liberties of Europe.

Oar trust for such a termination of the war u will
extend the liberties of Europe and confirm the inde-
pendence of its nationalities is in the people of Eng-
land, and we know that they will not disappoint it.
It is cheering to reflect that along with the prospect
of the emancipation of countries now subject to Mus-
covite rule, the present condition of Russia affords
fair hopes that the return of pesos will be attended
with material benefits to her own people. In order to
repair the derangement of its finances, and restore
material prosperity to its subjects, the Russian
Government will be compelled, to open its gates for
the admission of foreign commerce to an unprece-
dented extent. And with the products and manufac-
tures of Europe, its ideas will rush in like the overflow
of the Nile, submerging to fertilise the " holy soil."