The Express.
London, England, 1863-05-30 00:00:00

AMP INDIA IRRIGATION AND CANAL

COMPANY.-(THIS DAY).

The fourth ordinary general meeting of the pro.
held at one o clock, at the London TITO=
Z4:4_37.1 was
128 THOMPLIOI in the chair.

The report stated that all the circumstances and opses,.
Moos connected with the undertaking since the meeting is
November last had been very favourable, and the confideace
of the directors in the success and high value of the under-
taking had received continued confirmation. There was now
about 17 miles of water communication opened, or about to
be opened, for traffic in the hands of the company.
Lirp quantities of materials and stores ware being collected
at Outtenk, near the site of the proposed Aniente, alio
along the intended canal from Midnapoor to Calcutta, and
on the line of the tidal canal from &lamer., and preps.
ration had been made to ensure vigorous and continuous
constructive operations alter the expiration of the present
rainy SWAM. Two vessels laden with tools and machinery
were despatched from England early last month. The
accounts showed that up to the 31st December last,
114.3401. had been received, and 17,926/. 14a. 9d. expended,
leaving a balance of 96,413/. se. 3d. in hand.
The report was adopted. It was stated, in reply to Mr.
Smith, that no more calls would be required this year.

The Council of the Society of Arta have issued
cards for an evening party at the South Kensington Museum,
on Friday, June 12.

The President of the Institution of Civil Engl.
neon will hold his annual conversazi4ne on Tuesday evening,
when the co operation of members and visiton is requested,
in order that a collection of models of engineering construe.
tion, and of specimens of works of art, worthy of the Mai.
tution, may be made. _ _

The annual general meeting of the Arundel
Society is to be held on Monday next at the rooms of the
society, Lord Echo in the chair. . - .

The flint-batchet difficulty (says the &atter) is at
last mottled. A popular curate in Hertfordshire, in a lecture
lately on the connexion between geology and the Bible,
mid that theee lint hatchets had been a difficulty to IMO
people, but for his part he had not the slightest difficulty in
the matter ; he had no doubt that they were made by the
Fallen Angels. .

Mr. Henry Fawcett is a candidate for the Poli-
tical Economy Chair at Cambridge, and we (Spectator)
should think no better candidate is at all likely to offer
himself. The manual which he has recently published
places him among the most comprehensive and lucid of
English economiste.

On Wednesday Mr. William Hawee will read a
paper, at the Society of Are.. "On the Results of the In.
tornational Exhibition." The Duke of Cambridge, who re.
presented her Majesty at the opening of the Exhibitica,
will preside. _ _ _

The Royal Colosseum, in the Regent's Park, has
been opened under a new management, with special enter•
tiinments for the Whitsun holidays, including many of the
old, and some new attractions. Among the former are the
two famous views of London and Paris—marvel, of pictorial
art ; and among the latter, a series of orchestral concerts,
nadir the direction of Mr. W. Howard, the musical glean-
Inge of Mr. George Bitekhuld, and Juvenile Christy
Ards.

" Dr. Norton Shaw, so long," observes the
Ithescrum, " the active and successful officer of the Royal
Geographical Society, has resigned his commission—mainly,
it would seem, on the ground of health. The society, for
which he has done so much, have testified their sense of
his services by • vote of 500/. towards • testimonial. Is
consequence of Dr. Shaw's retirement several changes ell
be made in the secretary's office : in place of three honorary
secretaries, there will be in future two secretaries, who by
virtue of their office will be members of the council, also a
foreign secretary, sod • paid assistant secretary, who will
reside at the society's apartments, and edit the society's
publications."
MEETINGS OF SCIENTIFIC SOCIETIES NEXT WEEK.
—Monday, June 1, Royal Institution, at 2, Albemarle.
street, General Monthly Meeting. Tuesday, Jane 2, Royal
Institution, at 3, Albemarle-street, "Oa Sound," Professor
Tyndsll; Institution of Civil Engineers, at 9, 25, Great
George-street, Westminster, the President's Annual Cos.
versazione ; Ethnological Society, at 8,4, St. Martin's-place,
Trafalgar-square, • discourse "Oa the Institution and
Formation of the Caste System in India, Aryan Polity,"
Professor Tagore. Wednesday, June 3, Geological Society,
evening. Somerset House, 1, "On the Relations of the
Sandstones of Cromarty with Reptilian Footprints," Rev.
George Gordon, LLD., and the Rev. J. M. Joan, with au
Introduction by Sir R. L Murchison, K.C.8., F.R.S.,
F.G.S., communicated by Sir R. I. Murchison, K.C.8., Le.;
2, "On the Section at Moulin-Quignoti, and on the peculiar
character of some of the Flint Implements; found there," J.
Prestwich, Eaq., E. IL S , F. 0.8. ; 3, "Oa some Tertiary Shells
from Jamaica,' J. Carrick Moore. Faq., F.R.S., I.G.S. ;
with • Note on the Corals, by P. Martin Duncan, M.B.
Load., F.G.S.; 4. "Description of a new Fossil Thecidium
from the Miocene Beds of Malta," J. Denis Macdonald,
Ear., F.R.S., communicated by the President. Thursday,
June 4, Royal Institution, at 3, Albemarle-street, "Os
Geology," Professor Amsted ; Lipman Society, at 8, Bur.
liegton House, Piccadilly, papers to be read :-1. "On •
Sexual Monstrosity in the Genus humidors," S. J. A.
Salter, M. 8., F.L.S. ; 2. "Oo the Fertilisation of Dia
era, L." B. Trimmed. Esq., and Charles Darwin,
and L.S. ; Chemical Society, at 8, Burlington
House, " Synthetic Methods in Organic Chemistry, M.
Marcellin Berthelot, Friday, June 5, Royal Institution,
at 8, Albemarle-street, "On the Alps of Savoy," John
Ruskin, Esq. Saturday, June 6, Royal Institution, at 3,
Albemarlestreet, "On Electric Telegraphy," Prof, W.
Thomson, F.R.S.
THE REPRESENTATION OF THE ClTY.—Last even-
ing Mr. Giischen met the electors of Castle Renard Ward,
at the Lecture-hall, Sermon-lane, Doctore'-comroons ; Mr.
Howell in the chair. Mr. Giiechen, on entering the roomi
was loudly cheered. The chairman having briefly opened
the meeting, Mr. Gimbel) addressed the electors present at
considerable length, recapitulating the principal points
alluded to in his published address. He amid although there
war at present no outward sign of opposition, it wee not
yet certain that he would be unopposed, and he therefore
felt it his duty to make himself personally acquaioted with
the electors by attending meetings in the various wards.
A resolution, pledging the meeting to support Mr. Goads%
was adopted.
THE REPRESENTATION OF RINSALE.--CORK, MAY
30.—The address of Sir George Conway Colthunt, Bart.,
of Ardrum, !Discern, to the electors of Kinsale, appears in
this morning's papers. He states that, while reserving to
himself the right of deciding irrespective of parry or all
questions relating to Ireland, be shall be prepared to give •
general support to her Majesty's premed goverement
ihiblin Erening Maa.
FOREIGN-OFFICZ, MAY 21.—The Queen has
been graciously pleased to appoint Frank Ringler Dram-
mood Hay, now her Majesty's consul at Cairo, to be her
Majesty's consul in the island of Crete. The Queen has
also beeniously pleased to appoint Alexander Graham
Dunlop, . now her Majesty's consul in the island d
Crete, to be her Majesty's camel at Cairo.—Gaatte.
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.— At au oriv•
nary general meeting of this society held yesterday (Friday)
in the Council-room at South Kensington, S. Holmes
Godson, Esq., in the chair, nearly 30 ladies and geodesic
were elected fellows. Among them we noticed the follow.
lag mama :—Duchees of Somerset, Countess of Dalkeith,
Countess of Beauchamp, Lady Walter Scott, Lady Neel&
Lord Harries, Hoe. G. C. Morgan, General Angerstem, to.
We understand that on the occasion of the uncovering of the
memorial of the Exhibition of 1851, on the 10th June. the
following bands will perform :—Greaadier thumb, Cold-
stream Guards, Scots Fusilier Guards, 2nd Life Guards,
Royal Engineers, and Royal Mariool. Most
Guards'robably the
arrangement will be as follows. The Bands mil
play in the Exhibition Building, the Royal Marines in the
ante-garden and centre garden, the Royal Engineers in the
Western Band-house, the 2nd Life Guards in the Eastern
Barid.houire.
The International Dog Show was visited vesier-
day, the fifth day, by nearly 30,000 persons. The notve-
able feature was an absence of that noise arising from Sr
violent barking of the animals which they have uidulged
during the earlier days of the show. The reduction of the
price of admission from we shilling to sixpence after 1 p.m.
this day will probably attract an additional number of
visitors.
THE Amor Curs.—The Queen's Gold Cup for
the present year is an Elizabethan tankard, surmowited by
• group from the legend of " Herne the Hunter ; " end
Ascot Cup is a large flagon in renaissance style, vote bale
relief, representing Henry V. at Agincourt, on one stile;
and a scene from Shakespeare's Henry IV'. on the other :
0 monstrous I but tow halfpenny worth of bread
To this intolerable deal of sack'—Act LI., Welke 4.

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Their lordships, after hearing someirnimportant motions,
rose early, their atteodanoe being required in the Exchequer
Chamber. The other judges of the court were also engaged
elsewhere—Mr. Baron Martin at the nisi prim sittings in
the cit Mr. Baron Channell in the Divorce Court, and Mr.
Baron Wilds at chambers.

COURT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Before the Judge Ordinary.)
STONE V. STONE ♦ND APPLITON.-APPIAL.

Mr. Kerslake, Q.C., Dr. Spinks, and Mr. Searle, for
the appellant (Mrs. Stone) ; the Queen's Advocate and
Mr. Lopez on the other side.
This case, which occupied the court some days
the end of March last, was • petition by Captain Ston
an officer in India, for a divoroe on account of his wife's
alleged adultery with Mr. Appleton, a medical mac, in the
village of Budleigh &newton, Devonshire. The principal
evidence against the wife was the birth of • mature
child (as it was evened) some iii weeks before
the usual period of gestation after the return of
Captain Stone to England. There was also an alleged ad-
mission of Mrs. Stone (which, however, she denied having
made), to the effect that Mr. Appleton, her medical at-
tendant, might have taken advantage of her while she was
in • swoon. Appleton, having got into pecuniary difficul-
ties, had disappeared, and the niation had been served on
him by advertisement. The evidence was very copiously
reported at the time of the trial, which had resulted
in a verdict of 2,0001. spinet the co-respoodeot. A new
trial bad been moved for at the instance of Mn. Stone,
and had been refused by the Judge-Ordinary. Mr. Kan-
lake now appealed spinet the decision.
The Judge-Ordinery was reading his notes of the evidence
when we went to prem.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

WESTMINSTER.
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agrilalei BMW*: Thiiiiiirkett,ita; Edward Saville,
John Hobart Meseroce, Charier Mott, sad Charles
Bean ICDoewal were charged ea reamed severally with
=gemmed is a riot at Cremona, on '•The Oaks' eight,
glares, escalating the police and waiters, sad
other sots of disturbance sad disorder.

The court was ;gamely WOWdad, ••71 the bench was crowded
with legal gentians" amongst whom was Mr. Sleigh, bar-
rister, who attended to prosecute.
After some eoanrma on as to how the case should be
proceeded with,
Mr. Sleigh stated that the prosecution was taken up by
the solicitor to Mr. E. T. Smith, the proprietor of Cremorse,
who had felt it his duty both to himself and the public to
bring this maw. Annually on the occasion of the Derby
sad Oaks being run at Epsom, there was an unusually
large attendance at Cremorne, and he might say that in-
variably there was • peat riot there on that occasion,
although it was a well known fact that for propriety, regu-
larity, and decorum, Cremorne was second to no place of
amusement in the country. This riot occurred on the
night of the Oaks, and was of • most disgraceful descrip-
tion, and the breaking of glasses, assault, upon the po:ice and
unoffending parsons, even the taking up arid &mixing dome of
pots containing most valuablearoties, shouting and whistling,
were among the least of the things that occurred. The
riot took place in the circular ter ; and at a given signal
conveyed by a loud whistle, Birkstt shouted
oat " Now for a jolly lark." Saville did the same, and the
defendants and numberless others who had camped com-
me wed a general attack upon the waiters, the police,
and others, committing outrages such as would have dis-
graced the lowest of the low, but which committed by gen-
tlemen respectably connected were as such as to bring
a blush upon the face of everyone bearing the
name of gentleman. It was not necessary to
elaborate the facie of the case, but he would show beyond
• shadow of doubt, by numerous wit-manes, that the whole
of the defendant, ware engaged in the riot.
that, excited by cries from Mott, M`Dougd, and
others of "Now to the rescue," charge after
charge was made upon every one surrounding them,
sticks and other weapons were used, and the damage done
was incalculable. The riot lasted over an hour, till at
length the defendants were overpowered, and con-
veyed to the station. The learned counsel concluded by
observing that Mr. Smith had ever conducted every
place of amusement he had been the proprietor of with the
strictest regularity, and ware such scenes as this to be per-
mitted, all orter at such place as Cremona would cease to
exist, and, instead of being what they were intended for—
=laof amusement—they would become perfect
gardens. If it were found that any of these gentlemen
before the magistrate had not committed the act' imputed
to them, then no one would be more pleased than Mr.
Smith ; but if, as he anticipated, all the acts imputed to
them could be distinctly proved, then it was for the magis-
trate to say what should be the punishment these persons
deserved, and he hoped it would be such a punishment as
should be a warning to all others similarly dispelled.
Several witnesses were then called, and the case was
proceeding when our report left, and seemed likely to last
some home.

MARLBOROUGH-STREET.
CITINSP/i lOBBIRT AT AN HOT=

Julius Lew% described es a Prussian clerk, and attired
in a suit of light clothes, wa• charged before Mr. Knox by
Sergeant Joy, 9 C, with stealing at the Hotel Conte, 21,
Goldenequars, a leather pocket-book, containing notes and
railway passes, a gold watch and chain, a puree, and other
articles, the notes being for the stun of 900 i. and the other
property of the value of about 601. or 701., belonging to •
gentleman named Victor Dettini, at present in France.
Sergeant Henry Joy, 9C, mid that from information be
received he apprehended the prisoner at Gravesend just as
he was discharged from custody by the authorities there,
having been peen into custody cm the charge of robbing an
hotel in Park., and the authorities not being able to detain
him. He told the prieoner that he was &police officer, and that
be should take him into custody for a robbery at the Hotel
Conte, 21, Golden-square, on the Btliof April last. Thepri-
soner replied, "Oh, yea I'll tell youall about it." He cautioned
the prisoner in the venal way, end he then said, "I did
rob • gentleman at the time, and I let myself out of the
house-between 2 and 3 o'clock in the morning. I took the
gentleman's luggage into my own room from his, and I
then stole the three railway games." The prisoner then
said, "That duplicate is that of the gold chain
I stole. The gold watch I sold in France for
31. 15e. The eyeglass is the one I took, also
the gentleman's psesport and his pocket book. lam very
awry for it as it is the first time I hare done anything
earndreette" ItTilw e pteoelgeor:ndenabil ete'l:afi'dneaPeree
reign and a ehraelebut no notes." The gentlemanii robbed (Mr.
Dettini), however, said he bad been robbed of 2001. in notes.
In answer to Mr. Knox, Sergeant Joy said that the pro-
secutor had been telegraphed for, but be wished fce •
remand.
The prisoner was remanded for • week.

CRYSTAL Pecs—Morton's popular farce of
Box sad Cox, the clammier, bJ Ur. Backstage, Mr. Camp-
ton, and Mrs. Griffiths, of the Royal, Haymarket,
will be performed for the trot time at the Crystal Maas
this day. A oreaplete dam with lamer? and all necessary
appliances, 6 fitted up in the coexist roam.
ISIIICIDI or • FRICNCH NAVAL Orricia.—A sad
erect occurred at the island of Domisice some weeks duos.
A French gunboat grounded au • rock. The commasider,
whose fault it clearly was, landed on the island, walked
some three miles, filled a towel with stones, harm it rimed
hie neck, and droved himself. He bad ran his vessel
aground ones befog,. The gunboat was got of, aid carried
her dead commander to Martinique.