The Express.
London, England, 1862-12-13 00:00:00

WEATHER REPORT.

SATORDAT, DI3MINER

B.
Nan ... 20. SO -
&ammo l9.atin
tans 29.87145
911111011 !29.70142
ALDNINILIN t 19.0.145
9011‘11111 119.0242
GALWAY 19.8743
411.05111
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laisaroos • :
29.82 7
PZIONOIII.. ~29. 4'
P 104141101 130.00161
Pianos,— _ .0149
JIMMY .21/46
Wzym..crra 3C1.03,49
POWINNOOTB 30.0747
Doviz
Loom* .06 44
TAamooof . . 00.0642
ACA 91109009 i 29.7843
914112.99 .7146
HIM/GOLAND 90.21.42

LW.

SUNDAY.
W.N.W. to S.S,W. SCOTLAND.
strong to• gale, min%
W. to S., strong, rainy. LAILAND.

As next above. W. CWITILAL
S.W. to N.W., fresh, B.W.ENOLUM.
thowers. _ _ _

fresh. squalls.

B.F. EIIGLUID.

0.41
0.40
004
0.34

NONDAY.

8.8. W.

to W.N.W.

tog to
eramodtee.:
rate, showers.
W. to N., unsettled.
W. to N., moderate.

(OUt.

Al next above.
W. to N., groin.
equally.

The Council of the Art-Union of London offer a
premium of 6001., under conditions, for a statue or group
in LAW*. The competition is to be by plaster work•, sod
will be open to artists of all nations.

A special general meeting of the Geological So-
ciety will be held previous to the ordinary meeting on the
evening of January 7, 1863, to consider certain proposed
alterations in the constitution of the society relating to
foreign members.

The new hall of the Leeds Philosophical Society
is to be opened on Tuesday with a lecture by Protonic,
Owen. During hie stay be is also to deliver a course of
four lectures on "Natural History and Palsioutology.”
The programme for the session includes lectures by Sir R.
Aloock, her Majesty's consul at Japan ; J. Scott Russell,
Fey. ; Sir C. Nicholson, late Speaker of the House of As-
sembly at Sydney; Major-Genersl Chesney; G. Gilbert
Scott, Esq. ; Sir Meaty Perko ; and other persons of note.
Mr. Woolner is to execute the statues which are
to decorate the new Manchester Assize Courts, now in
course of erection from the designs of Mr. Waterhouse.
These comprise, externally, statues of Alfred the Great,
Edward the First, Henry the Second, Banulf de Glanville.
Gargeolgars, Sir Thomas More, Bacon, and Sir Matthew Hale.
These are to be life-tine. Above the gable of the mini
porch, which rises higher than the roof-lineof the building
itself, is a datal. of Moses giving the law, 10 feet high.
The interior decoration is to comprise at least two other
statues, besides large medallion pertain; of Lords
Brnugbam, Scarlett, and other worthies connected with the
Northers Oirmait. . . .

13alte ham nearly completed a grand opera, which,
it is said, will be the next novelty (after the paatuoime)
a the Royal English Opera.
Miss Anna Hike, whoee successful d6but at the
Royal English Opera in The Bohemian Girl we have
already recorded, is to appear this evening in Wallace's
Mari/ono.

The Messiah will be given on Monday at Exeter-
ball by the National Choral Society, with the following cast
—Ws Banks, Miss Palmer, Mr. Sims Reeves, Mr. Santry ;
conductor, Mr. G. W. Martin. The band and chorus, con-
rating of nearly 700 performers, will have an extra re-
hearsal this evening.
On Monday week Mr. Paul Bedford, of the
Adelphi Theatre, will take his annual benefit, which will
be under the direct patronage of Viscount itsnslagh and
the officers and gentlemen of the South Middlesex
Mr. Sothere, of the Haymarket, will, for this night only,
, present himself in a new character on the Adelphi boards.
Mir Marie Wilton, Mr. B. Webster, Mr. J. L Toole, Miss
Woolgar, and Miss Avonia Jones will also appear.
A new piece, Lea Diablea Noire, by M. Victorien
Ssrdou, the sucoreful author of Les Gaitacka, is in
rehearsal at the Paris Gymnase, and will be produced on
the 24th inst. _

A writer in the Times states that, crediting the
depositors with the interest that has accrued upon their
accounts between the Ist of September. 1861, and the Ist of
September, 1862—in spite of the excess of withdrawals, and
ignoring per form the full oounter.action of the Poet-office—
the capital in the old savings banks of the cotton manufac-
turing anima of Lancashire and Cheshire must have been
at the latter date three millions and three-quariers.
Sir Walter Crofton, writing on the ticket-of-
leave system, soy. :—" I am entirely favourable to a well-
developed system of deportation which eon be curled on
satisfactorily to the colonise., and I believe that our present
convict outlet, Western Awdralia, can by the exercise of
great care be nude capable of receiving as many convicts em
we may find it necessary to send—assuredly more than any
new penal settlement, if found, can absorb, after incurring
a very heavy expenditure, and presenting no immediate
relief. So far from despairing of our present power to
grapple with difficulties which I have repeatedly predicted
would sooner or later arise, I am prepared to maintain that
we can satisfactorily do so under present legislation. RIM
our practice must be more in accordance with our theories,
and the protection of the public be more considered than
the interests of the liberated convict."
An important event in connexion with the
completion of the Royal Sovereign shield-ship took place at
Portamonth yesterday—the bending to the required shape
of the first of the armonr-plates for that vessel.
The Army and Nary Gazette says that nothing
is yet officially decided respecting the Indian reliefs for
next year, excepting the return home of the Bth Mtwara,
92nd Highlanders, lit battalion 13th, 68th, 69th, 74th,
and 43rd. The last-named corps will be relieved not by a
regiment from home, but by the 91st from Madras, in
which presidency there is an 13201:411 of infantry above
the establishment as newly find upon. One cavalry and
five infantry regiments will go out in the course of the
year 1863, but no particular corps have been yet selected.
The Rev. James Shore attended and voted for
Mr. Pander on Tuesday. .

It in stated that negotiations have been opened
between the Swedish court and Prince Christian of Den-
mark, of the house of Sonderburg-Olneksbnrg, and future
father-in-law of the Prince of Wales, respecting a matrimonial
alliance between the eldest son of the prince, bora in 1843,
and • imptain in the Danish army, and the Princess Louisa-
Josephine, may daughter of Charles XV. of Sweden, born
IR 1881. Another throne to which will mead, on the death
of the reigning sormetga, • member of the family of
Olnekdrarg I
The Paris dioniteur says :—" By a decree of the
Bth inst., the Emperor, on the proposition of the Minister ef
War, has conferred the military medal on Corporal W.
of the fispenrs-pompien of Paris, who has &Wordlist
himself at soma fires, and recently got seemly burst fa
bath heads sad the left wrist in preserving tant solids
' 41116411 NB satin at the Opera."