The Express.
London, England, 1863-01-12 00:00:00

THE OTTOMAN NATIONAL EXHIBITION.

The improvement in the weather having permit-
ted the works to be resumed, ornsiderable further progress
has been made with the shell of the building during the
week. Nearly the whole of the framework of the roof has
been laid, and if the present fine weather shonkl continue,
another eight or ten days will suffice to cover it in. Aeoom•
modation is being simultaneously prepared in the mar neigh-
bourhood of the building for the temporary receipt of
goods sent for exhibition. Of these, further considerable
promises have been received by the commission during the
week. Applications have been made from French and
German agricultural implement makers for space, but,
though the invitation was similarly addressed through the
London papers to our home manufacturers, none of these
last have as yet shown any sign of an intention to compete.
Surely Messrs. Ransoms, Garrett, Howard, and others who
have done so much to make English agricultural machinery
the first in the world, might not unprofitably have sent
some specimens of their implements—if only to show their
unapproachable superiority over anything that Paris fie
Vienna can turn out. On the lowest ground of paying, we
are confident that the experiment would be remunerative,
and as there is yet time we earnestly hope that our British

preeminence in thin—u in every other—department of
mechanical engineering will not be left unasserted.
An intimation has been boned by the commission that
jewellery will be received for exhibition, and that a govern-
ment guarantee will be given for its safe custody and re.
delivery. Specimens of native caligraphy and painting will
also be forthcoming ; and, altogether, as the time for the
completion of the collection approaches, the prospect of •
varied and most interesting show increases. The " jury"
has already been named, and the formation of an intelligent
staff of subordinate employes is also considerably advanced.
—Levant Herald, Dec. 31, 1862.

The Lord Chancellor will take appeals in Bank-
ruptcy on Wednesdays during the ensuing term.
MIL BARON WILDL—h will be seen by our
law reports that this learned ,jadge has resumed his seat on
the bench of the Court of Exchequer. It will be recol-
lected that his lordship was seized with illness at the last
summer wires at Liverpool, and !ram that time until now
be has been unable to discharge his judicial functions. The
learned baron appears to have entirely recovered from his
long indisposition.
THE ST. PAUL'S SPECIAL SERVlCES.—Yesterday
evening the second of the special services in the cathedral
was performed under the dome, there being an immense
concourse of persons present. Prayers were intoned by
the Rev. B. Morgan Cowie, 8.D., rector of St. Lawrence
Jewry, who was senior wrangler in lleel The lessons of
the day were read by the Very Rev. Dr. H. H. Milman,
Dean of St. Paul's. The sermon was preached by the
Rev. Dr. Alford, Dean of Canterbury, who selected for his
text the words addressed by St. Paul to Timothy :—" From
a child thou bast known the Holy Scriptures." He pointed
out that in all classes of English society there was a lamen-
table ignorance of the Holy :Scriptures, particularly in the
higher and middle classes. Amongst the humbler dame
he believed that the knowledge was greeter, and that the
children who went forth from our national schools knew
more of Scriptures than those who went out of our grammar
schools, and even from our universities. He expressed his
opinion that • higher range of knowledge should be exacted
from the candidates for admission to the ministry of the
church, and that no one should be permitted to minister
to even the humblest congregation who had not a perfect
knowledge of the New Testament in its original lan-
guage. He next dwelt upon supposed discrepancies in
the Scriptures, which had been of late made much of by
those who, from their position, should have been ranked
as defenders of the faith rather than as objectors. He
counselled an earnest, prayerful, and reverent study of
the Scriptures, before which all difficulties would vanish,
and which would render the humblest student a match
for the shallow objector,' of the present day, who were
generally igoorant of the subjects which they criticised.
The dean referred in strong terms to the objections recently
raised against the Pentateuch by a bishop of the church of
England, and contended that, because we might have lost
the clue to the solution of some of the facts, we were not
hastily to deny the historical accuracy of those books or to
reject, as some had done, all faith in the divinity of Christ.
The sermon was listened to throughout with marked at-
tention. The Rev. John Lawrell, M.A., of Merton College,
Oxford, incumbent of St. Matthew's Church, City-road,
will be the preacher next Sunday evening.
THE CONFERENCE IN THE BOOT AND SHOE
TRADE.—THE MACHINE AND MITZTTING ETATEM.—The
conference of dates from the various trade societies of
boot and shoe iers throughout the kingdom, which has
been sitting for the last nine days at the Bell Inn, Old
Bailey, was brought to a conclusion on Saturday evening
last. There were 28 of the must important societies repre-
sented by delegates, and about 100 by letters. The main
object of the conference was to consider the complete revo-
lution taking place in the manufacture of boots
and shoes consequent on the introduction of machinery and
the pegging and rivetting systems. and the most desirable
mode of meeting those systems. The whole subject under-
went long and careful discussion, and the general fecliallf
the delegates speaking on behalf of their societies
no opposition should be offered by the men to thesswilered
modes of working, but that the attention of the societies
should be directed as to how best they could secure • share
of the advantages resulting from the new manufacturing
well as the employers. Various resolutionsMeriagleias
this object in view were adopted with more or lees of
unanimity, but it was agreed on all sides that the system
itself now in operation must be cordially accepted. It wan
also resolved that the whole of the societies of the United
Kingdom should form themselves into one body, to be called
"The Amalgamated Society of Cmdwainers," and that the
new workmen introduced into the trade, such as
join the
society. An improved system of tramp relief,with a sick and
funeral fund, was also agreed upon. The trade generally
are looking to the results of the conference with interest.
THE YELVERTON CANE.—WO understand that
notice of petition to appeal to the House of Lords has been
served upon the pursuer by the defender's agents in this
case. The petition to the House of Lords can only be
lodged when the house is little( ; but the ease, involving •
question of status, will no doubt be taken up early in the
session.—Edinburgh Courant.
FATAL ACCIDENT TO AN ACROBAT.—Ina recent
impression we gave an account of an accident to a travelling
performer during • tight-rope performance near Gravesen
by which a man of colour named Beujamin Prewett, and •
female imitator of Blondin, received severe injuries. Preset*
was taken to the Gravesend Infirmary, having sustained •
fractured arm, together with injuries to the right hip, back,
and lunge, arising from the fall, from the effects of which he
died on Thursday last. An inquest on the deceased was held
on Saturday by Mr. Haider, the borough coroner, when
Robt. Abbott, a travelling °quests :an, residing at Canterbury,
stated that he and deceased were attached to Mace's circus,
and, having been discharged about eight weeks since,
resolved on giving street performances. They fixed •
rope, supported by six poles, across the green at North-
fleet. His daughter was one of the performers, and had
' performed on the tight rope for the last two years. She
was attired in a Ganbaldisn dress, and went along the
rope the first time safely. The second time she at-
tempted to walk along the rope she had a handkerchief
tied over her eves and • sack placed over her head. She
had reached about the middle of the rope when the de-
oeased climbed up the poles to stand on the rope, so as to
receive the performer when she had got to the mad of the
rope. The deceased called to her to go back, and imme-
diately there was a crash, occasioned by one of the lodes
breaking, and his daughter and the deceased fell from the
rope. He caught his daughter by the waist as she was
falling, but she was was hurt. The deceased fell to the
ground and sustained severe injuries. He was known as
Ben Asters, the African champion. The &ceded was oc.
easioned by the deceased climbing up the poles, which
were not sufficiently strong to bear him. They were
twenty-six feet long, and the rope twenty-four feet from
the ground. Medical evidence was given as to the nature
of the injuries received by the deceased. The coroner
having summed up, and remarked upon each exhibitioos,
the jury returned a verdict of " Axidental death," and
strongly condemned the practice of allowing females to
ascend ropes placed at so great an altitude, especially is
the public streets.
RESPITE OF MARY Cox.—On SatUrilay morning
Mr. Gram, the governor of Durham gaol, received a nom-
' municatioo from Sir George Grey, the Home Secretary,
li ordering that Mary COM should be reepited until further
signification of her Majesty's pleasure. The prisoner. it
will be remembered, was convicted along with her hue-
bald. John Cox, at the last Durham Assizes, of the murder
of an old woman named Ann Halliday. at a place
called Broadniires, near the city of Durham. John
Cox was executed on the 23rd ult. ; but the sentence on
Mary Cox was ordered to be deferred until after her eon-
Homed, • jury of =trees having declared her to be
pregnant. The decision of the Home Secret..ry was made
known to the prisoner by the Rev. Provost Platt, catholic
priest, who bad been in attendance upon her siuce her con.
deumation. The prisoner, who had at times been in=
excited condition, has become numb eslmer since she I
that there was a strong probability that her life would be
spared ; and the two female warders. who have been in ate
tetehmee epee her day and eight since her coudeaswatias,
have been withdrawn from her mill.
THE FATAL BUNNINo DOWN CASE IN THE
SOLENT.—The coroner's lamed on the pilots who met their
deaths through the collision between the Peninsular ad
Oriental Company's mail steamer Ceylon and the brig Rides-
dale, in the Soleut, on Friday monde,: terminated late cm
Saturday night, when • verdict of -'ACcidental death" was
rani ned.

MISTAKL—ORWeaIIeAdAy even..
inn last a strange mistake occurred with the train leaving
Selkirk at 7.45 p.m. The driver, thinking all right.. started
as weal at the hour for Galashiela On arriving at lindens
station, however, be was rather surprised by the statics-.
master asking him where the train was; and no looking
back. saw to his amazement that be lout onl► the engine end
tender and a eingle truck attached, the paseenger carriages
having been left behind. Of arum ho immediately started
back to Selkirk for the admirer train. —Bunt, r Adrertiacr.

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LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF QUEEN'S BENCH.

Sitting in Banco.—(Before Lord Chief Justice Cockburn.
and Justices Wightman, Crompton, and Blackburn.)

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This was the first day of Hilary Term. Their lordship
took their sesta on the bench at belt put 10 o'clock.

THE QUEEN r• CREEL

Mr. Manisty. Q.C., moved for • rule calling upon Mr.
Creek to show cause why • criminal information in the
nature of • quo warrant° should not be filed against him to
show cause why he claimed to exercise the office of
town councillor for the borough of Burnley. Mr.
('reek was elected in November last one of the councillors
for that borough, and one of the grounds upon which the
ruled was moved was that Mr. Creek was not an occupier
under the 9th section of the Municipal Corporations Act of
" any house, warehouse, countinghouse, or shop," within the
borough. Mr. ('reek was an attorney, in partnership with
his brother, but did not reside within the borough.
They, however, occupied an entire building within the
borough as their offices, and the question was whether the
occupying the building as offices was a compliance with the
act of parliament, or whether it should be a dwelling-
home. If the occupying a building as an office was occupy-
ing • house within the meaning of the act, then Mr. Creek
was qualified. .

Mr: Justice Crompton said what was really meant was,
any place of business or residence.
kr. Manisty said probably that was so, but the act made
no such provision.
The Lord Chief Justice said it was true the word building
did not occur in the set.
Mr. Justice Mellor said it did in the Reform Act.
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The Lord Chief Justice said 'Atomism had been councfllon
ever since the passing of the Municipal Corporations Act.
Mr. Justice Crompton said that Mr. Webby, in his book,
states " building" to be a stable or a slaughter-lhonee.
Attendee might probably be said to slaughter, in one sense.
(Laughter.)

' Tii; Lord Chief Justice said that an attomey's office
might be said to be a countinghouse, from the character of
a portion of the business transacted by him. He thought
the court ought not to throw any doubt upon the point.
Rule refused.