The Express.
London, England, 1862-07-29 00:00:00

LONDON, TUESDAY EP IN(*, JULY 29, 1882.

11 i IErrERNiiiONIL E

If* a short interval of comparative honesty,
the irregular " busses" recommenced yesterday
their impositions on the unwary foreigner. One-
and-sixpenoe, one shilling, and a minimum of nine-
pence, were demanded and obtained as fares from
Charing-croes and Piccadilly, and many parties of
three and four, evidently of the humbler classes,
weregrievously annoyed at finding on alighting at
the Bell and Horns, that the claim for travelling
was double what they had expected, and that their
means of purchasing the day's refreshment were
seriously diminished. The cab trade does not
flourish so well on Mondays, but stall a fair amount
of extortion is generally achieved ; and if any re-
monstrance is made, the driver states that his
isenor" insists on his paying 245. a day for the ,1
a statement which we believe to be true,
which certainly goes far to shift the blame
which the drivers have hitherto bad to bear on their I
awn persons. Twenty-four shillings is an eater-
tioaate sum, and to obtain it, and in addition do-
sing wages for the driver, the poor horses are
tenehed with the greatest eruelty, and are used up
is etnit numbers. We have not heard that the
Society-for the rrevention et Crosby to Animals,
albeit mintilicintly endowed and numerously
eecered, has as yet taken any notice of the
acenbs that are daily 'witnessed at the Bell and Horns
and its iseighbourbood.
.The majority of the company yesterday appeared
to be agricultural labourers and their families.
The men wore velveteen, and the women carried
babies, and all exhibited a freshness of colour
which was not iiidiCative of prolonged residence
is London. The money takers say that they oh-
awe S gradually ascending scale in the company
on earn succeeding day, the poorest class coming on
Mondays, and a better surf of working people every
day until Thursday inclusive, between which day
and the last two days of the week there is a vast
modal chasm, and labour disappears altogether until
Monday comes round again.
The music, which is daily on the increase, re-
sounded in all corners of the building, and even if it
preveuted the visitors from examining the sights,
it had the advantage of preventing them crowding
too much at one time in one place.
The highest temperature
? yesterday, taken by
Negretti and Zambre patent thermometers, was at
3.0 p.m. :—ln the nave, 69.3 ; in the galleries, 12.5.
The following are the total numbers admitted yes-
terday, compared with the corresponding day in
1861 :

YoMlay, hill ...

-rim Tom s= tickets
shilling, Sam
tickets
Phnom%

Todal 12,800

Maaiiip, J 017211

i Season tickets
• • • 1 Payment

Total , 17.170

NAVAL AND MALFTABY.

CHATHAM, JOLT 28.
TaOora FROM INDlAl.—Another large party of
'AO's, to the number of about 200 man of all ranks
he the various cavalry and infantry corps serving in the
Bengal presidency, arrived at the garrison this afternoon
from Gravesend, having disembarked from the troop-ship
Elleuborough, Captain Withers. The troops brought home
belong to the Ind Dragoon Guard*, Bth Dragoon Guards,
19th, 20th, and 21st Human, Royal Artillery, 6th, 13th,
18th, 2.3 rd. 29th, 34th, 35th, 38th, 52nd, 80th, 81st, 82nd,
•88th 900‘101a1,101144 and 1074 h Regiment+, with 24 women
and eh ildren, and the following offlows—v : Captain Knight,
48th Regiment ; Lieutenant Kirk, 77th Regiment ; Ensign
Clarkson, Indian army, and Awistant•Surgeon Ramsay.
The Ellenborough sailed from CLlcutta on the 29th March,
and reached St. Helene on the let June. The voyage to
Gravesend occupied, including detentions, 119 days. boring
the panne there were four deaths on beard. After the
troops bad been medically inspected 17 of the number,
including 10 insane soldiers, were removed into Fort Pitt
Hospital for medical treatment ; the convalescent troops
wen) forwarded to their respective depot.. Nine convicts,
under sentence of general court-martial, also arrived from
India in the Elleuborough.