The Express.
London, England, 1855-12-14 00:00:00

;'AN BOARD OF WORKS.

Mr. Jobb has addressed the Metropolitan Board of
Works, offering himself u a candidate for the chairmanship
of that Board. A movement is also making in some quarters
to effect the election of Lord Ebrington to the same post.

The Miming electioneer member of the board are gives
as supplemental to yesterday's list:
Sr. Joint, HAMPSTEAD—Thomas Turner, Esq., J.P.

Sr. flArtoun's, SOUTRIIMIL—Mr. J. Tbwaitee.
Bnastoxnany— Mr. B. Drew, late member of the Senn
and Kest Commission of Sewers, and Dr. Cholitre were
premed ; bat after a short oonversation the nomination of
Dr. ChaUios was withdrawn, and Mr. B. Drew was declared
to be duly elected.
NZWINGTON, 8111117—Kr. Bolan.

Br. LsosARD,
WANDSWORTII

.Mr. Irvin*.

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MARY, len:xorow—T►e names of Mr. John flange,
Miff obsrobwardso, Mr. William Dennis, Mr. Jamie
Waptaff, and Mr. W. COX were proposed. Mr. J. Savage,
who obtained n votes, and Mr. W. Dennis, who obtained
66, woes declared daly sleets&

THE HPRATHES AND IRE PARKS YESTERDAY.

Owing to the intense frost of the hut few dye, the

ornuneatat4aten intheßoyal puts were covered yesterday
with ice, azd, in spier el the parkskeepers cautioning the
coablio from venturing et present %igen the hewn waters,
several thousaiad permr insist*, upon risking their lives
by either sllangor skightg. The therracenvter at the

Royal Human* -50aiety'n r;esivisg.Lintse in Hyde-park
&wing Hadar*** night Need at 19, bag 13 &pees below
I foresiag point. During yesterday morning tbr mercury
rose to 21, end at noon it readied 30, azd during the after-
noon it inclosed ak in the shade, but towards Om evening
it began to fell rapidly, shelving that the. frost was likely
to eo■tinue. The barometer at the sass institution stood
at 30.01, with a south waver', wind and One weather, and
a light fall of =ow en the growled. Early yesterday morn-
ing the wall precautionary measures were neentensed in
the different parks. mnumber of additiornitoemen were
also put on duty. . . .

•
ST. J•kze's•rank.--The fee en the ors- =instal water
of this park was exceedingly demgerove, in some places
being (wily three quarters or am inch is thickness, and
scarcely in any part did it to an inch and a half thick.
In spite of the exertions of. the peek-keepers and Humane
Society's men, by 2 o'clock then were from 2,000 to 3,000
persons on the ice. At the end of the water facing Buck-
Ingham Palace, • body of the Beets Fusilier Gine& com-
menced sliding and attracted a groat number of bore All
of a sudden one part of the ice gave way, and a gantletuan
fell into 7 feet of water. His was rescued in an exhausted
state. This caused the military and others to leave the ice
at that part of the park. On the WOO water, nearly facing
the Horse Guards, several hundred persons, chief, boys,
were sliding and skating, when • young gentleman
attempted to ones the ies. Some of the, boys
commenced pelting him with snowballs, and he began
to run away. Not having time to see the week points of
the ice, he fell through into deep water, and eleven or
twelve others also became immersed. Several immediately
disappeared under the foe. Iceman Knapp succeeded in
getting five persons out of the river, and they were taken
to the society's marquee in the park, placed in a hot bath.
and afterwards put to bad. Another of the icemen, named
Kelly, in endeavouring to get some of the other auffleren
out, also fell through, when he was clasped by omelet boys,
and was under eater several minutes and could not be got
out until be was almost exhausted. lie was also obliged to
be placed in a hot bath, and after some time recovered. A
man named Edward Smith, of 16, Stafford-plate, took off
his coat, and taking a child's comforter ofi its neck, tied it
to the coat, which he threw over the ice, and dragged two
men out just as they were sinking for the third time. Two
other parties were next got out in such an exhausted state
that they were removed to the Westminster Hospital.
Everything was done for them, but unfortunately one
was found to be past recovery, but the other happily was
restored. Some medic.' gentlemen connected with the
Westminster Hospital hastened to the park, and the follow-
ing persons were placed under medical attendance :—Mr.
Haines, 18, New Peter-street, Westminster; Joseph M.
Gillingham, 9, Robert,street, Commercial-road, Pimlient
Wes. Beswick, 106, Vauxhall-walk; Edward Over, Lock's-
fields; Alfred baker, 8, Crown- eeeeee , Westminster; and
Frauds Cole, 40, Hyde place, Westminster. Mr. Brown
and also several other medical men tried for nearly half an
hour to restore the last named lad, but without avail. The
other sufferers recovered, end were during the evening able
to be removed to their homes. At dusk last evening Mr.
Charlier was informed that two other persona were still
under the top, and he gave orders for the river to be further
dragged by the icemen ; bat it is hoped that the rumour of
' two others being drowned may turn out unfounded.
Tan SZRIPINTINL HYDN-PAUL.—Up to yesterday
morning a greet pert of this river was not frozen over,
but during the day every part became covered with ice, but
exceedingly dangerous, and ant fit to bear. Mr. Williams,
' the superintendent, placed • number of men along the
" banks, to keep resole ofi, but in spite of which a number of
lade ventured on the edges, and several immersions took
place, bat not of • serious nature.
Tun Lose W•Tss, KiNBINOTON GARDINII.—The ice
, here was much eater than on the Serpentine, end during the
day about 2.000 or 3,000 gentlemen amused themselves by
skating. Several persons were hurt by befog tripped, and
, some slight isamersious took place.
Tun Bowen POND.—A very large number of skaters
disported themselves oa the ice.

This morning another change has taken platy in the
temperature, and a fell of rain has put a summary stop to
1 sliding or skating operations.

THE WEATHER IN FRANCE.

On Wednesday snow continued falling slightly all
day in Paris, and towards t►e evening the streets were white.
In all the country round the fall of snow has been much
greater than in Paris, and on the railways it has been found
necessary to employ men to keep the lines clear. The in.
was Won enough, in the basins in the Tuileries gardens,
to bear skaters. At 6 o'clock in the morning the thermo-
meter of Id. Chivebier stood at 7 7 10th, below zeto Centi-
grade (184 Fahrenheit) ; and at noon at 2 6.loths C.
(27 1 3rd ).
On Thursday there was a partial thaw. but in the somata(
there was again every prospect of a bard frost.
The Marseilles ;onrush' state that, on the right of the
9th, a severe frost commenced in the seiithbonehood of that
tows, and that previously a considerable quantity of snow
had fallen. The sold appears to be even sharper in the
south of France them in the vicinty of Paris.

EASTERN COUNTIES RAILWAY.—MEMORIAL TO
TUS BOARD or TRADT.—At a meeting of the Norwich
town council, on Wednesday, a memorial to the Board of
Trade was unanimously adopted with respect to the condi-
tion of the Norfolk and Eastern Counties Railway, between
the city of Norwich and London,. The memorialists state
that they have found, from inquiry and evidence. that the
permsnent way of the lines is in a very bad condition; that
the timbers and sleepers on the road are greatly decayed;
that many of the bridges are defective and in want of repair;
that travelling upon the lines is disagreeable and hazardous;
that, from fear of personal danger, parties avoid travelling
on the lines, while persons not io robust heal h end females
cannot bear the shaking and lotting which tt • .tate of the
rails oecalinne, and are tn, sell Cr' rile it a met ieoe ,1 and
that Mr. S topeoe. ni • of the dirt @tons at on. Es•tettl
Counties Rulwao C', racy, ro wet,
referred to essesine into and r«twer 00 •A. 14.4. of the
permutes, wey. et • iromire of the at are h01d...0% held on
Friday last, declared that thugs are in such a .tve that
not an hour roust be lost for tnev.ke of g in
supplying defects the nature of which it wou:d he it conve-
nient at a public meeting like this to explain." The
memorialist", fearing that toms accident may occur, pray
the interference of the Board for the protection of the
PROSELYTISM AT IgRUSALEY.—Lettere have been
received in Pavia, from Jerusalem. to the 11th November.
The building of the Roman catholic Onrch of Belt Diana
was being actively proceeded with. Two vi het, recopied
by a Greek population, Ram-Allah and 0011 6, having
evinced tendencies towards the Roman catholic creed, tba
bishop, in returning from Nes asth to Jeresalem, visited
these places. and received, it is said, a wilt enthusiastic
reception. Scarcely bad he arrived at Jerusalem, on his
return, when deputations were sent from the two villages,
and the eousequesee was, that an ecclesiastic was appointed
to visit the Greek populations every Saturday and give them
epititual inatenetiow. At Nazareth, the school opened by
French alma is February lost, reams 80 pupils.
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LONDON, FRIDAY,

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lb.asoknow—amstig. M. 340.

Ox Wedneaday hat the metropolis of Engbad was
renhatioaleed. The Corporation of London-with'
the Lord Mayor at its head—was deposed from "its
high estate." The Corporation of London is no Inger
the paramount sovereign of the metropoile, but ealy
the biggest vestry is it. lienaforth the Corporation
at London will have only three votes in the Metro-
politan Board of Works, is which various vestries
have, respectively, two votes, an vote, or a buena
of a vow Th. Lord Mayor bee found a master, or
at the heat a municipal officer of supine **charity.
is the Mahican of the Board. As a matter of
souse there has been weeping and wailing over this
" world turned lipoid. down" in the Cosmos Canna
The elana of the three rope...natives at the
Matrepolitaa Board of Works wee set about with
wry hers and much grumbling. Mr. Deputy
Placoar, upon whom the painful duty of
proposing them devolved, mid that the Ms.
tropolis Load Maasieement Act is " a first
step tends the invading of the City."
The Boons captured Veii, by enteriag it through a
sabternain tunnel Mr BENJAMIN HALL is pre-
paring to follow their example by entering the City
of Leedom through its sewers. Mr. Deputy PLOOCIC
complained that the Corporation's three members
wen mot "to Waldo forty;" he ezdaimed. "Three
giants would hardly be enough for the purpose." It
is a weeder the worthy Deputy did sot nominate
Ogg sad Magog—they would have bees two of the
Wee giants be wished for. If Mr. Deputy PL-
cotes speech is to be remind as • fair specimen of
the temper in which the representatives of the
City will take their mats at the Metropolitan
Board of Works, it augurs ill for their utility
there. They will in that cams look up=
themselves as seat to oppose every proposal
submitted to the Board—" to tackle with' the other
forty members on all coossions. We hope better
things of them. Mr. Deputy PLC= beasts that
the Corporation, in the matter of sewerage, " have
dove their duty, and don it well.' Let them
bring the fruits of their expenses to the aid of
their new colleagues ; let them cooperate heartily
sad amicably to benefit the whole metropolis, instead
of reserving all their sympathies foe the little spies
ineladed within the City and the Liberties; let them
Mese the light of their Goshen over the whole dour
benighted Egypt. Mr. Deputy PIACOCI spoke bat
half the truth when he announced that the City is about
to be invaded. The City has bees landed—invaded
. by that Reform against the irruptive of which the
Corporation has made as stout a defence as the garri-
son O'Hare did 'pint the Ronan army. The Bate
ordination of Mayor, Aldermen, and Common Council-
men to the Metropolitan Board of Works is but the
first step towards entire municipal velem within the
domains of the Corporation. The advantages of
municipal government will no longer be moaned
within a small nook of the metropolis, but made am-
mon to the whole mammoth city; and the municipal
government of the City will have to be assimilated
to the greater system of which it forms a part. The
institutions which suited the little Lauden of the age
of Erra-Atwrit are inadequate to the wants of the
mammoth London of the cgs of flummox'. The
existence of an Alderman, Deputy, and Commis
Councilmen for on short and narrow street in a
incompatible with the existeato of analogous fen-
donne. foe the large divisions of the metropolis se
the exists... of a feudal Bane, lord of some petty
Ibrtalico, and all its vassals, would be with the niec-
es.. of Esteemed% as we now find them in the Rouse
of Lords. It is natural for dignitaries who are pass.
lag away from the some of their labours to mourn
their doom; the sternest reformer en sympathise
with them; but the Fats that impends over them ii
se irresistible as that of the old Greek .tragedim.
They have nothing for it but to prepare themselves to
"make a good end." Let them devote the time whisk ie
yet left them to the study of the Roman Instory.
In the narrative of the senators who calmly smoked
in their curate chairs the irruption of the harbareas
Gauls, or in Cases arranging his robe to fall do
Coro sly at the foot of POMPIT'II statue, thopmill
find noble examples of civic dignity—modds Amen
to frame the fashion of their final exit. Las ego
whoa kings and nobles have been omapelled le ridge
themselves to new positions is a revolatisabed
society, even Lord Msyors and Aldermen cannot her
to escape the common doom. They may still robin
thole corporate property; "the forty' whom ask
espemeatatives are sent "to tackle with" sa.
sot "the forty " recorded in the veritable Inter, of
Ali Baba. The Mansion-hone and the halls of the
greet Companies may still be sense of civic keep&
tality, though it might be well if they could pat
by the example of one of the heroes of Pawnee
di Hermit," of whom it is said—
" &ill bs welcomes. but wit\ lam of sem."

Bat when the star of the Chairman of the Metro-
politan Board of Works rises over Landes, that of
the Lad Mayor must of necessity "'gin to pale its
ineffectual ken" Like other stare, of whisk astro-
nomers tell us., the Lord Mayor most change from
ease of the first magnitude to one of the mood mag-
nitude.