The Express.
London, England, 1863-12-22 00:00:00

WANDSWORTH.

HI OF

Three young men, named &mud Smith, Hear, Bork-
land, and William Cooper. were placed in the dock before
Mr. logharn, charged with being cnicensed in stealing •
quantity of holly and ivy from gentlemen's gardens at Wim-
bledon.
The prisoners were stopped in the morning in Red Lice-
street, Wandsworth, by Quartermein, a constable, as Cooper
was (tarrying a law bundle of holly and ivy. In answer to
the const•We's inquiries, Rockland said they had picked up
the holly sod ivy at Tibbet'a-oorner, but not being
satisfied with the explanation, he took them to the
station, and on searching them be found two
sharp knives upon them. The officer mule inquiries, and
fazed where the holly and ivy bad been stolen, as the pieces
corresponded with the stumps that were left on the trees.
In the premises of one gentleman the footmsrks of three
persons were distinctly traced.
Mr. Williams aid he had • house in Park Bide, under
repair. Hs found the centre of an ornamental holly tree
on the lawn cat completely away, no doubt the growth of
30 years.
The rarchnuin to Mr. Wilson, of Heathfield, Wimbledon-
park, proved that their premises had been entered and the
ivy cut.
The constable said the trees at the White Howies had
also been stripped and
Is answer to the charge, and Cooper said they
picked op the holly. They were innocent of knowing that
it was stolen. They also said that the other prisoner knew
nothing shout the holly.
Sergeant Dudley, who took the charge, was Galled, and be
maid that Smith admitted assisting the others to pick it up.
Xe. laghant believed them all to be guilty. He fined
0110111 21. and U. the damage, or two months' imprisonment.
He said it was high time to atop the destruction of holly
tress.
The prisoners were locked up in default.

The South Australian Register states that Mr.
Hargraves has been mimed to prospect for gold is that
colooy. His impinges are to be paid to and from Sydney.
His salary Is to be 1,0001. a year, and he is to have s
reward of 5,0001. on dimovering a payable gold field. A
party of men will also be provided to accompany him.
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. .
The reports of the supersession of General Meade
by General Pleasanton sod the capture of General Meather
at Mine Run bare both been contradicted.—Times tele-
gram. Des 11.

•
THE Cli• PLAIN or THE AMERICAN HOCSE or RA-
INIZRENTATIVEB.-012 the 10th the Rev. W. H. Chancing,
of the Uoitariao Church at Washington, was elected chap-
lain of the House of Representatives by 86 votes against 55
cast for the Right Rev. Episcopid Bishop Hopkins, of Ver.
most. The Rev. Mr. Channiag is the nephewand biographer
of the celebrated Dr. Chaasing. He was for some years
minister of a Unitarian congregation at Liverpool. and has
always been a prornineot and zealous member of the abo-
litionist party.

Ax Ilxixricrsv FlNlML—Speaking of the ten-
deeey of temperance motors to set forward themselves as
previous examples of the blighting effects of drink. •
correspondent of the Inverness Adoertierr says :—" This
predilectiou wet smartly satirised the other *ruin at •
temperance meeting. A person in the ball got up and
said, 'My friends, three months ago I signed the pledge.
(Clapping of hands end approving chain) In a mouth
afterwania, my friends, I bad a sovereign in my pocket, •
thing I 6ad before. (Clapping and loud cheers.) In
soother month, my friends, I bad a good coat on my back,
• thing I never had before. (Cheers and clapping much
loader.) A fortnight after that, my friends, I bought a
mein? The audience was going to Muer here, but stopped
and looked serious. You wonder.' continued the lecturer,
' why I bought a coffin—well, my friends, I bought the
coffin because I felt pretty certain that if I kept the pledge
another fortnight I should want one.'"
Luke Charles, the Bury policeman, was put on
his trial at Liverpool yesterday for the murder of his wife.
The case was of a peculiar character. In the beginning of
this year the prisoner and his wife west on a visit to her
friends in Nodleton. She was never seen again, but he
invariably stated, on being asked where she was,
that she was in Ireland. A woman's body was, however,
found ie the canal at Pendleton in February last, and, after
an 'Karat was held, in which so open verdict was returned.
it was interred. On being *thorned in September, it was
forted to be the body of Charles's late wife. The trial wee
sot diddled yesterday.
A bill for legaliatug the marriage of a man with
the sister of his dec sad wife has been read a third time sad
passed in the Legislative Council of South Australia.

MARE L18771-(THIS DAY.)

Two o'OLooi.

The railway market is firm to-day, and prices
generally exhibit an upward tendency. Midland
and Caledonian stocks have risen per cent ;
London and North Western, Lancashire
and Yorkshire, and South Eastern, ;
and Great Western and Great Eastern, 4.
London and North Western stock is now quoted
1011 to ; Great Western, 64 to I ; Midland,
129 to 4 ; Lancashire and Yorkshire, 1104 to
; Great Northern, 126 to 127 ' • Caledonian,
119 to 120 ; South Eastern, 96 to 1 ; Great
Eastern, 491 to ; London and South Western,
1014 to 102 ; and Metropolitan, 1114 to 1124.
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Great Luxembourg shares have advanced, while
Lombardo-Venetian and Pernambuco are dull.
Indian and Canadian lines are unchanged. East
Indian stock, however, is inquired for.

ORDINARY SHARER AND STOCK&

Pd. I RAILWAYS.

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