The Express.
London, England, 1862-04-19 00:00:00

various reasons, been considered inelble. We
are now making up parties to start during the
summer for the following places, at the various
dates stated, but we are, of course, much crippled
from want of means :-10th of April, Melbourne •
12th ditto, Sydney ; Ist of May, Queensland ;10th
ditto, Canterbury ; 16th ditto, Natal ; sth of June,
Melbourne ; 12th ditto, Sydney ; lit of July,
Adelaide."

As information of this kind cannot be too de-
tailml,we give some particulate of the fortunes of
the seventeen emigrants :

lIIIORAIITS WHO RAVE ITARTID. AND THR RRSULTS.
NTLSIZT, June, 1861.
Miss aged 33. Situation within five weeks after
landing.
Min P., aged 20. Engaged to be married.
Min M., aged 24. Situation within five weeks, 701.
Miss S , aged 22. Situation within five weeks.
Mies 8., aged 19. Situation within five weeks.
Mir T., aged 20. Situation at 401.
NATAL, August.
Miss 11., aged 22. The elder sister, who had refused one
situation,. expecting to hear of another when the letter left,
which was about three weeks after lauding.
Min J. If.. aged 19. The younger, engaged as nursery
governess at 251. immediately.
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OTAGO, August..

Miss P., aged 35. Salary in Ea;land, 301. ;in Otago, 1001.
MEMBOURNE, July.

Miss M., aged 28. The elder, engaged as soon as shit
landed ; we do not know at what selary.
Misr B. M., aged 22. The younger sister, engaged at 50/.
mend day after landing.
MELBOURNE, ANTWERP, August.
Miss B. aged 22. Engaged within three weeks of land.
ing, at 451. a year ; had been out of a situation six months
before starting. .

August.

•
Mrs. 8., widow without family, aged 26. dons to the
Murray River ; situation in England 121. a year, in Aus-
t&ia WI. (A very superior woman.)

. . .
CANADA, August
Mir P., aged 40. Hes returned with the family she
went out with ; wiU start spin for Melbourne nett month.

CANTIRDURT.
F. P., miserable child Oaken off doorstep, was in training
as servant for two rare, aged 16. En aged as servant as
Lyttelton, at 251. a year, second week after landing.
Letters from some of these emigrants, with others
from persona in the colonies who take an interest
in the work, will be found in the April number of
the Englishwoman's Journal. So far, it will be
seen, Miss Rye has been very succeesfuL At the
same time it should be acknowledged that she has
undertaken a work of vast responsibility, one calling
for constant exercise of the soundest judgment, and
in which, moreover, the greatest and most uniform
wisdom cannot always avert difficulty and disap-
pointment. On these accounts she should be sus-
tained not only by the pecuniary aid, but by the
intelligent consideration of the public. Miss Rye
may be addressed at 12, Portugal-street, Lincoln's-
inn-fields.

TOTAL DESTRUCTION OP THE BATH
TEZATRR BY PIRA

This beautiful theatre, which was one of the

ornaments of the city of Bath, and which, sines its emotion
in 1805, has contributed so much to the reputation of the
city as a place of amusement, by the excellence of the
dramatic representations constantly presented, was yester.
day totally destroyed by fire. It was built at a cost of
about 25,0001., sad was regarded as one of the meet com-
pact and elegant of provincial theatres. The present lessee
is Mr. Chute, who is also the lessee of the Bristol theatre,
and the last performance was on Wednesday last, when the
sensation drama Peep o' Day was presented. No business
' had been subsequently transacted, but on Thursday
the chimneys were all swept, and • charwoman was in
the theatre cleaning up. When she left all appeared
wife, and it was not until 'shortly before eleven o'cleek
yestenlay morning that smoke was first seen by • woolen
living in the vicinity issuing through one of the windows,
which turned out to be the window of one of the drew*.
room. An alarm was given, and the police, with the city
hose, and the firemen of the West of England Insurance-
office, were speedily upon the spot. Five hoses were
attached to the city water plup, and • copious supply of
water obtained ; but so rapidly bad the flames spread
throughout the building that in • few minutes the whole
theatre was a cauldron of fire. The flames burst through
the windows with terrific fury, sad it seemed for a time OK-
taio that a large amount of property surrounding it must be
destroyed. The contents of the houses were removed, pd
the greatest consternation prevailed a meopt the inhabitants,
but by strenuous exertions the flames were confined to the
theatre itself, the strong walls of which resisted their further
pesetas. So rapid were the flames and intense the heat,
that everything within the theatre, even to the iron pillars
that rappelled the tiers of boxes and gallery, was con.
ems& ar salted in less than two hours, and the place was
•Itare ala—a well of burning embers which continued to
blase and flu under the copious streams of water poured
upon them. Had the fire occurred at night the confiagra.
lion most have been terrible, as the police and firemen
could not have cut off the communications with other
buildings. The building was insured iu the West of Eng-
land and Norwich Union aims for about 6,0001., but this
is wholly inadequate to its value. Besides, the wardrobe
and library are utterly consumed. Mr. Chute, the lases,
who is not insured, loses about 5001., and members of the
company and the °rebates are also sufferers. The origin of
the &.e is • mystery.

Dmmaticrivs FlRES.—Yesterday morning, be-
tween three and four o'clock. a fire broke out on the pro-
misee of Mr. G. Bowes, rag merchant, N'ewingtoo-cause-
way. The result was that the premises were destroyed and
the adjoining houses damaged. The cause is unknown.
The loss will fall on several fire-oftices. Another fire broke
out on the premises of Miss Braishir, confectioner, Bethnal-
green-road, which was not extinguished until the premises
were destroyed, and the adjacent houses damaged. The
sufferer was insured. A fire also took place on the pre-
mises of Mr. J. Nelson, No. 20, Devonshire-street, Corn'
merciabroad Fast, caused by a spark flying out of the grate.
Several of the neighbours rushed into the building and ex-
tinguished the flames, but not before a little girl named
Emma Nelson was frightfully burned over the whole of her
body. She wee taken to the hospital, but little hopes are
entertained of her recovery.
AR.SON BY a CHILD.—The Court of Asaizes of the
Orne has just tried a boy named Louse!, only eleven years
of age, on two charges of setting fire to a dwelling house,
part of which wee occupied by his father. The first tire oc-
coned in June, 1860, and a grocer mimed Lamy, the prin-
cipal tenant of the premises, wee arrested on suspicion, and,
after seven months' preventive impri,onment, was tried and
acquitted, but the accusation had caused his failure and ruin.
In September, 1861, another fire occurred on the same
premises, and circumstances having come to light which
threw suspicion on the boy, he was arrested. He then con-
fessed that he was the author of both the fires, and pretended
that Le had acted at the rusticatiou of his own father.
However, as there was reason to believe, from the
perverse character of the prisoner, that be had committed
both crimes to be revenged ou his father for having chas-
tised him, his statement was not credited, and in court the
prisoner admitted that it was mane. Several witnesses
proved that the prisoner was Neu running down stain from
the loft, where the fin broke out, an natant before it com-
menced, cud that no person who had any right to enter the
loft had been near it during the day. The jury brht in
a verdict of guilty, with extenuating circumstances ; bat as
the prisoner had not attained the age at which legal memo-
sibility commences, the court acquitted him, and ordered
that he should be confined in a house of correction until his
twentieth year.
CORPORAL PUNISHMENT. A return to par-
liament, consisting of 100 pages, was recently issued, of
"all cases in which corporal punishment by whipping has
been inflicted under the authority of the acts of the 10th
and 11th years of Vietorit, chapter 82 ; and the 13th
and 14th years of Victoria, chapter 37, or either of
them, and the age of each person punished, from the
Ist day of January, 1858, to the Ist day of January,
1861 ; specifying the particular OffBooo4 for which, and the
names of the justices by or before whom, each of them had
been summarily convicted and sentemed, the date of each
conviction and punishment, the number of lashes given in
each case, sod by what instrument. and the names of the per-
sons present when the punishment was inflicted." The total
number of cases in which this punishment was inflicted
during the term mentioned was 1,746. They were divided
amongst the different counties, as follows :—Eagland :
Bedford, 7 ; Berke, 6 ; Bucks, 2; (Ambridge, 11; Isle of
Ely, 3; Chester, 26 ; Cornwall, 8; Derby, 18 ; Devon, 52 ;
Dorset, 1 ; Durham, 29 ; E.sx 90 ; Gloucester. 20 ;
Hereford. 2 ; Hertford, 4 ; Liberty of St. Alban's, 2 ;
Huntingdon, 4; Kent, 56; Uneasier, 393; Leicester,
13 ; Lincoln, 25 ; Middlesex, 309; Monmouth, 21;
Norfolk, 14; Northampton, 4; liberty of Peterbo-
rough, 3 ; Northumberland, 77 ; Nottingham, 81 ;
Oxford, 9 ; Salw, 7 ; Somerset, 30; Southampton, 63 ;
Stalked, 61 ; Suffolk, 2 ; Surrey, 160 ; Sussex, 26 ;
Warwick, 44 ; Watinoreland, 2 ; Wilts, 8 ; Worcester, 10 ;
York, Kt—total, 1,712. Wales :—Breson, 1 ; Cardigan, 1;
01101111-VOM. 1 ; DenbrO, 8 ;
_Gleaserpe, 19; Pembroke, 2
—total, 32. Total, Englaad and Wales, Vail.
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