The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-22 00:00:00

THE TRIAL OF HULLER.

An extraordinary number of applications, some
of them by persona of rank, have been made to the sheriffs
and under-sheriffs for admission to the court during the
above trial, far, indeed, beyond the capacity of the place,
after the various persons who have legitimate business
there shall have been accommodated, so that there must be
necessarily many disappointmenta. The under-sheriffs, Mr.
Septimua Davidson and Mr. Deputy De Jersey, however,
will grant orders for admissioa to the comparatively few
places assigned for the accommodation of strangers to the ex-
, teat of their power, if they have not already done so. Quite
Irrespective of an extraordinary °manioc like the forthcoming
trial, the principal court-house at the Old Bailey is deplor-
ably small and inconveivent in many respect'. Having re-
gard to the fact that it iv the great criminal tribunal, not only
for the City of London and the rest of the metropolis, but
for four or five of the home counties besides, for some
fifty miles round, the place, outside and in, is strikingly
mean-looking and incommodious. The approaches to it are
awkward and intricate ; and inside, the members of the bar,
the jurymen and witnesses in waiting, the attorneys and
visitors, are alike cribbed, cabinet], and confined. The
main passage in the body of the court is so narrow that
two persons cannot walk abreast in it, anti it is besides on
so much of an incline as to render steps necessary. On
the door of the court the solicitors having business there
scramble round an unsightly deal table covered with baize,
and the counsel are huddled into three narrow benches be-
hind in a manner inconsistent with either dignity or com-
fort. In a dingy gallery over the clock, facing the bench,
and resembling the worst part of a theatre, about fifty
people can be accommodated, and this is all the provision
that ban been made for the public, with the exception of •
few seats in the body of the court at the disposal of the
sheriffs. To this day the court is almost entirely lighted
by oil lamps when the business is protracted until after
dark, and the interior fittings generally are utilitarian and
mean. Ontsids the walls of the sessions-house many of the
witnesses in waiting and the friends of prisoners sit in •
passage or lobby, under cover, it is true, but in winter
cold sod draughty ; and it is painful at times to see
poor anxious women with children in arms, policemen,
,and others herding together there for days, or
banging about the precincts of the court. There is •
room in the building set apart for women in attendance
as witnesses ; but so far away that comparatively few use
it, from a notion that they may sot be within call when
wanted. The whole building, to fact, is gloomy looking
and repulsive, and in many respects unsuited for its pur-
poses. What aggravates this state of things is the circum-
stance that • large piece of ground between it and the gaol
of N ewgate, and upon which, with the site of the existing
building, • very commodious courthouse might be erected,
is now entirely vacant, as it has been for years, and is now
only need as a side entrance to the court for the judger and
the lord mayor rod sheriffs. All the ioconvenieson of the
existing arrangements have long been experienced more or
less by everyone who had business at the sessions, and now,
when the new sheriffs are just entering upon office, and the
citizens are on the eve of a fresh mayoralty, this seems a
fitting season for commending the oubject to the coosider-
sties of the corporation of London in the public intereet

Mr. .11aplevon's Italian Opera Company, headed
by Mdlle. Tietjeo,, and with ignor Gardoni as tenor, vice
Signor (Auglini, announces • italloo of • fortnieht's per-
formsoces, to commence on Monday next, with Faust. On
the close of this, Mr. W. Harrison will enter on his new
career as managing English Opera in the Haymarket.
In the church at Ilraoksea lalaudt when the
latter was owned by Colonel Waugh, there was a pew fitted
up for the colonel's family. It with an large as a drawing-
room, and was magnificently furnished. It had a firepl►ce,
and also windows and blinds to secure the inmates from the
gaze of w,:rahippere in other parts of the church.

In Smnersetsliire apples are selling :t Gd. per
bushel, and they are given to the pigs. In America apples
form a considerable portion of swine fool.

•
TRE WORKING WOMEN'S COLLEGE.—Thin college
will open on the 26th inst. at 29, Queen's-square, Blooms-
bury. On that evening there will be a general meeting of
students and teachers, at which the presence of intending
students is particularly desired, and at which addresses will
be given by the teachers explanatory of the purpose and
aims of the college. Classes have already been formed in
English grammar, French, arithmetic, geography, Latin,
English history, geometry. drawing, social economy, English
literature, and botany. There will also be preparatory
classes every evening for writing, reading, and the first four
rules of arithmetic.

A NTH R OPOLOOIC AL SOCIETY OF LON PON. —The
society will meet on Tuesday, Nov. 1, at eight o'clock pre-
cisely, when the following papers will be read :—On the
Anthropological Papers reed at Bath—by C. Carter Blake,
; on a Visit to Dahomey —by Captain Richard F.
Burton, V.P. A.S.L.