The Express.
London, England, 1862-05-23 00:00:00

MINISTERIAL TEMPERANCE CONFERENCE.

A conference of ministers of religion of all deno-
minations, convened by the National Temperance League,
was held yesterday at the London Coffee House, Ludgate-
hill. There were about eighty ministers present. The
chair was taken by the Rev. John Babington, MA., Bon.
Canon of Peterborough, and papers were read by the Rev.
Stopford J. Ram, incumbent of Payenham, and the Rev.
Charles Shovel, of Commercial-street Baptist Chapel. A
series of resolutions were adopted by the conference recom-
mending :-1. That teetotal ministers should give a written
statement of their experience of total abstinence ; 2. That
all teetotal ministers throughout the kingdom should
preach on temperance in October text ; 3. That
ministers should encourage the holding of meetings for
friendly conversation and discussion on temperance in their
respective localities. 4. That efforts should be made to
promote the establishment of suitable places of recreation
for the working classes apart from the public-haze ; and
5. That the National Temperance League should endeavour
totem temperance societies in connexion with the universi-
ties and colleges throughout the country. A public meeting
in 0,111141i011 with the conference was held in the evening in
Exeter-hall, when nearly a dozen clergymen related tha
personal and professional experience of total abstinence, and
stated the opinion which experience had led them to form of
the value of the temperance movement as a means of social,
moral, and religious advancement. The chair was occupied
by the Hon. and Rev. Leland Noel, M.A., vicar of Eaton,
and Hon. Canon of Peterborough ; and the principal
speakers were the Rev. W. Acworth, M.A., vicar of Plum.
dead ; Rev. R. Maguire, M.A., incumbent of Clerkeawell ;
Rev. H. F. Briny. 8.A., incumbent of St. Matthias, Birming-
ham ; the incumbent of St. John's, Kenilworth ; Rev. T.
B. Stephenson, 8.A., Weeleyan minister, Norwich • Rev.
Owen Thomas, Welsh Calvinistic methodist, Jewis-street,
London ; Rev. W. Rod, of St. Paul's Congregation Chapel,
Wigan ; Rev. A. C. Thomas, of Cross-street Baptist
Chapel, Isli ; Rev. J. H. Wilson, secretary to the
Congreptimal Rom Missionary Society.

FATAL ACCIDENT ON THE LONDON, CHATHA3L,
AID Dom RaLMAT.—Yeeterday morning an investigation
was held at fit. Thomas's Hospital, by Hr. Wm. Payne, the
Dormer for the City of London and Southwark into the
cdrenmetasom of the death of Wm. Pennell, aged 2.3, who
was killed at Hensford, in Kent, on the Loudon, Chatham,
sod Dover Railway, by being run over by several trucks
laden with ballast. It appeared from the evidence that the
deceased, with several other men, was eogaged in shunting
a number of heavy Ingram along an incline, whelk the
momentum became too great, and every effort was made to
stop their program, but without effect. In tiodesvouriog to
place a Mom of weed seder the wheel of the foremost trunk
deceased slipped is the mats* sod was instantly peeved
over by the whole et the waggons, neseiving frightful hp
Juries ; all hie limbs beteg merly severed from the body.
Mr. J. Decks, the hooseempenr mid thus dammed was
admitted with the beat of hie right thigh protruding thew
through the &eh, sad ell the boom et the hitlimb were
so completely samba that immediate amputation ha to
be resorted to. There were beldam ether extensive in-
juries, sad all treatment proved willed avail. ,The «wooer
having summed up, the jury zetersei • verrihe of " Aced.
deakddeath."