The Express.
London, England, 1864-03-07 00:00:00

LIVERPOOL.-MONDAY.

(BY visc-nuc reuGaara.)
The following horses had arrived up to last night :
Thomastown, O'Connell Earl of Douglas, Topey, &tante',
National Petition, and Brim ce Lyme.

LAND SLIP ON THE EDGWARE ♦ND HIGHGATE
I RAILWAY. —This morning owing to the recent heavy rains, •
large quantity dearth fell into the cutting in the High-
gate Archway-road, and completely blocked up one of the
entrances to the tunnel that is now in course of erec-
tion there. Fortunately DO one was injured, aid
the accident will came no material stoppage to
the works that are being prosecuted in a very rapid sad
satisfactory manner. Although the works are very heavy,
it is gratifying to state that only one accident bas conned
plosions to this. In that came, it appeared that on Sunday
last as some men were employed in forming the Unmet in
the Finchley-road, one of the chains used for bringing up
the skips broke, and the skip fell on ono of the workmen.
He was picked up and taken to the Royal Free Hospital,
whine it was (mind that he had sustained a fracture of the
skull, and also that his leg was broken. The injured man is
now cinch better, and is in a fair way of recovery.
THE MURDERER (:PAWS HALL—Yesterday even-
ing Mr. J. S. Wright and Mr. W. F. Morgan, of Bir-
usinghani, went up to Loudon for the purpose of pre-
senting to Sir George Grey e, memorial praying for
the commutation of the matinee of death pared
upon George Hall for warder of his wife, on
the ironed that there existed in his cam a
form of provocation for which the general rules of the law
did not make provision beforehand, but which was at least
as strew as the forme of provocation which by law re-
dueed murder to manslaughter. The memorial is acoorn-
peeled by a mass of evidence given on oath by dif-
ferent witnesses, which goes to show that the provoca-
this given to Hall was more than enough to unsettle a
much stronger mind than his. There are • number of
memorials now in course of signature among different classes
of people in Birmingham in favour of Hall, and one general
memorial. to which there is already affixed an extraordinary
somber of names. _ _ _

THE POPE AND HIS VISITORS.—SIY Geo. Bowyer
anxiously corrects some statements rethectiog the mode hi
which the Pope receive, his visitors. We are told by the
boo. baroeet :—" The Pops presents not his slipper, but
his hand, to be kissed at audiences in every case. The
ceremony of !rigging the foot (derived from the ceremonial
of the ancient Imperial Court! is only performed on certain
occasions. At audiences you kneel, or rather genuflect on
one knee, but you do not remain kneeling until the Pope
motions eon to rise. His Holiness never keeps any one kneel-
ing. and 1 believe no non ever knelt before her mufeemorezoing
is the confessional. Ladies, both Protestant and Catholics,
are received at audiences by the Pope as well as women of
humble condition. It is not true that "everything is prepared
to astonish and disconcert the visitor." O the ooriUszy,
everything is plain sod unpretending. There are the ball
dozen Swiss guard sod footmen in the ball, the chamberlain-
in-waiting, and one of the noble guard in the antechamber,
sod the Pope receives visitors without any attendant, as the
chamberlain retiree after announcing the visitor or visitors.
In fact, the Holy Father gives audiences more like • bishop
then like a sovereign, and no sovereign gives so many au-
diences to perinea of all classes, from the highest to the
lowest, as the Pope. It is absurd to suppose that M. J.
Herod° always speaks to the Pope kneeling. His Holiness
often gives iodinate in his private room, sitting at his
writing table."
The Great Eastern steamship, which,'after pass•
ing through so many phases of good and ill•fortune, was
purchased at public auction a few days since for the small
sum of 1%000/. has been chartered for the oreveyance of the
Atlantic cable, which it is oonfideotly expected will be
ready for submerging by the summer of next year—Observer.
ROYAL FREE HOSPITAL, GILAT4-11M-10AD.—The
number of patients relieved at this hospital during the week
ending siarch 5, was 3,036, of which 1,088 were new cam.