The Express.
London, England, 1864-11-04 00:00:00

THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAUS.

The Peninsular and Oriental Company'sisteam.
ship Ripon, Captain Culing, with the above mails, arrived
►t Southampton yesterday evening. She briny 53 parent
gen, 9 packages of specie amounting to 4.896 f., and • gear
ral cargo, including 2,700 bales of raw silk, of the value of
240,0001. The Ripon experienced westerly gales from Cope
Carbon to Gibraltar. Across the Bey of Biscay she met
with a squall from the south, accompanied by rain and a
heavy head sea Up the Channel strong north-eaeterly
winds and thick weather prevailed. On the 30th ult. the
Ripon spoke • Turki►h vessel to the north of Cape St.
Vincent, and on the following day, south of Burlieg..., the
steamer ILassilim bound east. The Ceylon left Gibraltar
for Alexandria on the 27th ult. The Egyptian screw
steamer Ibrahim arrived at Gibraltar on the 27th. and
saluted the garrison with 21 guns. The acre. troopship
Tamar, from Portsmouth, anieed at Cibraltar on the 26th.
She eneounterid heavy gales throughout the voyage.
The British schooner Mermaid, from Cardiff, bound to
Ancona, eras bred into from a Spanish battery at Ceuta, and
sank forty•6ve minutes afterwards. The Mermaid will
beating to windward, and about a mile from the African
shore, when she was bred on from the battery, the slot
knocking a bole in her port bow. The =Aar and crew
saved themselves by taking to their boats. The Spanish
authorities require all vowels to show their colours when
paring within range of the fortress. It is supposed that
neglect of this rule was the cause of the Spaniards firing into
the Mermaid.

At GawaUse, Exchange on London, 90 days, was quoted
49j to 50; Peri, 5.2'J ; Genoa, 5.31 ; sLdrid, 8 days'sight
Pat.

NEWSPAPER PRESS FUND.—A special general
meeting of the members of thta fond is to be held at the
Freemasons' Tavern on Satin/Jay afternoon, at 4 o'clock, to
consider the revision of the bye laws, and to elect °dicers
for the ensuing year.
VisiT OF TUE METROZOLITAN BoARD OF WoRES
TO EU040.710:13.-00 Monday forenoon, the Metropolitan
Board of Works, including Mr. J. Thwarts., chairman ; Mr.
Creasy, his secretary ; Mr. Freemen, chairman of the Main
Droinage Committee ; Mr. Bertlgette, chief engineer to the
board, and abLut twenty-five members of the board, paid a
visit to the Craigentiony Meadows to inspect the at stem of
irrigation by town sewage. which has for esteem' years past
been carried on there. The members of the board were
accompouied by Mr. !'Pherson, superintendent of
streets and buildings. The party first visited Restalng
Meadows, along with Mr. Scott, the tenant, who
explained the process by which the meadows were
irrigated with the sewage that flows down from the
city. The inspection of this port of the graw-fields coo-
chided, the members of the board were next conducted to
Figgate Whirls by Mr. Bryce, manager to Mr. Miller, the
proprietor of Craigeotiony Meaduwa. The gentlemen coat-
, posing the party were there shown about twenty acres of
ground, which was originally sand, and worth only about
6d. per acre, but which, by the application of the sewage•
manure, had at a small outlay been converted into rich sod
f-rills soil, which had during the lost thirty-five years
yielded rentals varying from 201. to :RV. en acre. Several
members of the board expressed their satisfaction at this
gratifying result. We understand that the board has at pre-
wit under its consideration a proposal to apply the sewage
of the north side of London to about 30,000 acres of sandy
ground in Essex somewhat on the principle pursued at
Craigeotinny.—Scotamon.
SUDDEN DEATH OF Ma. DEPUTY HOUGHTON.—
The death of Mr. Lures Houghton, the deputy of Cheep
Ward, occurred suddeely yesterday morning at his residence
at Holloway. The deceased, who was a member of the Gold-
smiths' Company, was sleeted to represent the ward of Cheap
in the Court of Common Council in the year 1850, and was
only • few weeks ago appointed deputy of that ward, in the
mole of the late Deputy, Mr. Flamm.