The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-02 00:00:00

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WIDNISDAT. at Naarm INI7WIDAY.
W. to N., moderate to 001RIL N. to W., moderate to
freak generally lee. shwas, some showers
In Blame.
As above. WI/MC As above.
W. to N. and to N.E., 80t7THWIll. N.N.E. to WN. W.,
In places moderate fresh, floe generally.
to fresh, generally
floe.
As nest above. Thgena. As nest above.
Northern=Bootland. Warawn=lreland, Wale., and ad-
laceoclea Southern= hagfish Chanel and Nay of &way. Eastern
=Eastward Ingtsnd and North Bea

Govtit.,43tzwr AnNurnss.-1n the act passed on
the 14th ult., to grant additional facilities for the purchase
of small government annuities. and for =siring payments
of money cm death, it is recited that in the act 16th and
17th of Victoria, esp. 45, del erred annuities of small amounts
can only ns granted upon the =edition that the full amount
required to purchase such annuities be paid in one sum or
by annual payments during • course of years fixed at the
time of purchase. It also recites that under the same act
*Detracts for payment of a sum of money on death can-
not be entered into except on the 000dition that the patty
cootrecting for such payment on death at the time purchase
• deferred annuity on his life. The law is now altered.
and it is enacted that deferred annuities may be granted
on the condition to be fixed at the time of par-
chme, and that the sum required to purchase the annuity
be payable in 'mailer instalments and at shorter Norio&
than before. By the former act 30/. was the limit of the
annuities, but they may now extend to 501. The section re.
quilling a deferred annuity to be purchased of the National
Debt Commissioners is now repealed in pert. No contract
fora payment on death is to be entered into by or op be-
half of any person under the age of 16 or over 60. Fresh
tables are to be constructed, and until the tables made in
pursuance of this act can be legally acted on it is not to
come into force so far ea to enable any grant
to be made of an insurance or any grant of an annuity
the consideration money for which is paid by instal-
meets more frequent than mould instalments. By this act
it is provided that on • life policy, after the payments of the
premiums for five years, a person on surrendering the
same is not to receive lees than one-third of the payments
made, or may have granted to him a paid-up polity es such
an immediate or deferred life annuity. Jurisdiction is
given to the county courts on the Commiasioesra of the
National Debt refusing payment. Contracts may be
assigned. The National Debt Commissioners are to regu-
late the payments by instalments, and they are at no time
to be less in amount than le. The Postmaster-Cenral,

with the oonseet of the Treasury, may authorise his ofdcer;
to receive money nodes this act, and regulations may be
made by the Post-odios to carry out the provisions. The
accounts under this act are to be submitted to the Public
Audit Commissioners.

REFORMATORY AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL4.—Mr.
Sydney Turner's seventh anneal report states that at the
clogs of the year 1863 there were in the 64 reformatories io
Great Britain, nominally, 3,677 boys and 1,400 girls ; but in
fact 227 boys and 36 girls were out on license, 9 boys and 4
girls were in promo, and 85 boys and 14 girls had absconded
end were not yet recovered, leaving actually in the schools
3,356 boys and 946 girls, of whom 618 boys and 263 girls
were in catholic reformatories. The total is not very much
larger than in 1862, and there appeals no reason to appre-
head any material addition to the charges which the re-
formatory 'school system entails. The ads:dodoes in the
year fell from 1,338 in 1862 to 1,209 in 1863, • diminution
attributable chiefly to increased canticle and more careful
inquiry into the circomstsnose of each owe ou the pieta the
committing magistrates. There are no ..The any serious
mowers I. the amount of juvenile aims. committals
of juvenile °Reedere diminished in Soatland in the year
1863, and in England increased only at about the same rata
as the increase of population, and at less than half the rate
of increase of 'dolt eomiuittals. With regard le the sue.
oer of reformatory schools Mr. Turner is able to report, in
relation to England, that of the 1,423 protestant boys dis-
charged in the three years 1860-62, 916 sae known to be
doing well, 114 are of doubtful or indifferent character,
181 have been convicted of crime, 33 have died, the remain-
ing 179 are unknown, and probably half of them may be
added to the number convicted, making that number 270,
or one in every five discharged and still alive. Of the
catholic boys • much larger proportion are unknown ' • the
re-oonvictioos, on the same calculation as above, most have
been above 38 per met.
THE WOUNDED UARDOM AN. --ThOIDES Cooper,
the Guardsmen, who was wounded while acting as •
marker at Wimbledon, still remains in • precarious date.
He is visited daily by Surgeon-))ajar Wyatt, who still
entertains sanguine hopes of his recovery, provided his
eocistitutional powers are suffictieat to bear up against
what is still to be expected. me cue has beet compli-
cated somewhat by the bullet slipping beck into the cavity
of the chest, from the intercostal space where it was sup.
posed by the volunteer surgeons, at the time of the acci-
dent, to be firmly impacted.
ACCIDENT ON THE CORNWALL RAILWAY.—AD
accident occurred on Saturday Dimming epos the Cornwall
Railway, which narrowly escaped leading to very serious
results. The 4.45 a.m. trait from Falmouth was ruining
from Lastwithiel to Par, when the massive iron eaaneeting
rod between two of the engine wheels suddenly broke. The
earth was thrown up by the loose ends of the rod, and
there was great risk Viet the engine would be forced off
the line or overturned. Several persons jumped out of the
carriages, but no one was injured. Retaliated, the tilde
was earn brought to • stead, the broken portions of the rod
were unscrewed, and the train was enabled to proceed to
the next station. The alarm caused by the accident was
much increased by the fact that the train could not be
stopped until the engine sad one or two carriages were upon
one of the high viaducts with which the line abounds. A
woman would have flung herself over the viaduct in her
bliod endeavour to spnag from the train had not the guard
caught bold of her as she leaped from the carriage end ,
forced her back. The train was delayed for about • quarter
of au hour.— Waters Morning Neva.
STAMP Dorms —Under the new act (27 and 28
Vio., e. 56), probate and letters of administration are
exempted from stamp duty whore the effects do sot exceed I
1001. is value. An act has also been printed to amend en
act of the late session en stamp duties. No letter or power
of attorney for the sale, ko., of 'wormiest steak is to be
chargeable with • further stamp duty, by reason of it cos-
Waling an authority for the receipt of dividends. In order
to remove doubts it is declared that so letters or writings to
pay the interests or dividends on steak to • nominee are to
be eimuyeible with stamp duty as a power et attorney.