The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-03 00:00:00

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It.—Barometer corrected liTaeriiieiZito 32 deg. at mean ma
level , each 10 feet, of vertical rise, causing about one-hundredth
of an Inch diminution and each 10 deg., above 32 deg., uniting
nearly three-hundredths increase. thtrinumeter
In shade. 11.—Molatened bulb (for evaporation and dew
point). D.—Direction of wind (true—two pinta kit of mag-
netic). I.—Force (1 to 13—estimated). C.—Cloud (1 to 9). L—
: b, blue sky : c, clouds (detached). f. fog : h,bad :
(hazy). o, overcast (dull;: r, rain: s, wow;
t, thunder. g., rain-fall, or snow, or hall, since last report, in
niches and decimals. 9.—)tea disturbance ato 9). Z.—Calm.

Mr. Smith O'Brien hoe challenged Sir Robert
Peel to meet him in hostile combat in France or Belgium
for his reflections on the "cabbage-garden traitors."

The Lord Mayor has consented to take the chair
at the annual unclog of the National Lifeboat hunt:ince,
to be held at the London Tavern on Tuesday, the 18th
Instant. . _

The late Rev. Thomas Hartwell Horne has left
au o~npied reminiscences behind hint which are being
pre or the press by his daughter, 'Mrs. darah Anne
Cheyee.
Mr. G. Lenox Coningharm formerly attached to
the late mission at Naples, has been appointed unpaid
attscht to her Majesty's legation at the Hague.
SACRED HARMOIVIC SOCIETY.—The Lubogsang and
Motet Muter will be repeated next Friday. The Handal
Festival ticket-odkes at the Crystal Palace and at Exeter-
ball will be smarted this morning for the issue of tickets for
the festival.

Tng Socusry or ANCIENT BRITONS. -- The
147th anniversary festival of the Most Honourable and
Loyal Society of Ancient Britons was celebrated on
Saturday night, at the Freemasons' Tavern. The cum
pony were more numerous than that of hut year, and it is
scarcely necessary to add that nearly all the gentlemen
present wore the emblem of their nationality—the leek.
The chair was filled by Sir John Harmer, M.P., and
amongst the nobleman and gentlemen by whom he was
supported we the Earl of Yowls, Earl N'ane, Sir W. W.
Wynn. M.P., David Pugh, M.P., William W. E. Wynn,
M.P., Major-General Wood, J. It. Kenyon, Rev. H. W.
P. Richards, Edward Edwards, Dr. E. Harcourt, Charles
Shaw, C. W. W. Wynn, Thomas Turner, Rue. Joseph
Brown, Rev. W. Plows, Robert R. A. Hawkins, John D.
Davies, ko. The society was established in the veer 1715,
and within the 147 years which have elapsed since its for-
mation it has given a shelter and a home to no lees than
2,268 boys and 702 girls, and qualified them to earn in the
world an honest and honourable livelihood. Those figmxs
in which we have summarised the operations of the society
are an °lament testimony not only to its usefulness, but of
the liberality with which it is supported by numbers of du
principality resident in London. Its receipts last Pia
wore 4,2401., and its expenditure 4,125/.
Fiturrs PRDIERVED IN SPIRITS. —The Lords of
the Treasury have approved, as an experimental measure
far six months, of the admission into this country of fruits
reuv in spirits, at the duty of 10a. sd. per pllom the
retg included in the assessment. The officers at the
various porta of the United Kingdom have been instructed
to report the effect of the measure at the end of the six
months to the Commissioners of Customs.