The Express.
London, England, 1852-12-21 00:00:00

TuE Intsrt MAIL PACKET COURIER, which ought
to have left Southampton at midnight last Wednesday, was
detained until 3, a.m., on Thursday, owing to an accident
ea the South Western Railway, which prevented the Chan-
nel Islands mail from resetting Southampton in proper
time. As soon as the Courier got outside the Needles it
came on to blow tremendously, and the packet had the
greatest difficulty in reaching Guernsey. At Guernsey
she merle two attempts to leave for Jersey, but was obliged
to pet back. Nearly all the punsters for Jersey left the
Courier at Guernsey, and declined going on in her on
account of the weather. At length the packet reached
Jersey, and was obliged to keep up the steam all night on
Friday in case she should be blown adrift. Several ves-
sels were ashore at Jersey. The Channel Islaads
which ought to have reached Southampton last Friday
aft-rnoon, did not arrive before Saturday night.
PROPOSED DINNER TO THE AMERICAN MINISTEit
AT MANCHISTXX.—Yesterday morning a highly respect-
able and influential meeting of merchants was held in the
Mayor's Parlour, Town Hall, Manchester, to invite the
Hon. J. It. Ingersoll, the American minister who hes
succeeded Mr. Abbot Lawrence at the court of St. James's,
to a public dinner. Mr. H. Barnes, Mayor of Manchester,
presided. The following resolutions were adopted
I. That for the purpose of testifying the feelings
Id respect entertained for his Eacellency thei
Hon. J. It. Ingersoll, both as an individual and as the re-
presentative of the C aired States of America, his Excel-
koey be requested to dine at the Town Hall on such day
as may be convenient, with the mayor and such number of
gentlemen as can he conveniently accommodated. That
the number to be present on the occasion be limited to 200,
and that the pries of the tickets be Sued at 21. 2s. 2. That
a list be placed in the °Mee of the treasurer for the inser-
tion, by gentlemen desiring to be present at the dinner, of
their names, and after the number of tickets to be Mined,
already limited, is applied for, the list be withdrawn. 3.
That his Worship the Mayor, with Thomas Batley, Esq.,
and James A. Turner, Esq., be respectfully requested to
make all the necessary arrangements for' and to give such
directions in relation to, the proposed entertainment as may
to them appear desirable.—The resolutions were agreed to
unanimously, and a vote of thanks was given to the Mayor
before the meeting separated.
Fiast MEETING OP THE NEW BURIAL BOARD Ile
Sr. PANClLAl.—Yesterday, pursuant to a notice aigned l
two of its members, the urial Dosed, recently sppoin
under the New Metropolitan Interments Act, 13 and 18
Vie., cap. 83, met for the Ant time in the Vestry Hell,
King'sroad, Camden-tows, for the purpose of taking the
accessary steps to put in force the enactments of this salu-
tary snessure. The Bev. Thomas Dale, the vicar, in the
chair, and the other eight members of the board present,
noneely, J. P. Pierce and W. Melt, churchwardens;
Iffeary_Steck, Seq., J. P. W. D. Cooper, F. Healy, Morti-
, mire IL. Farrar and B. F. Brittingham. After
aim Business, and the Rev. T. Dale having
been nominated perpetual chairman, the board proceeded
to appoint a clerk, the choice falling unanimously upon Mr.
0. W. F. Cook, solicitor to the parish. It was also agreed
that meetings of the board should be held on the first
Monday of each month, and that an application should be
made to the vestry for the use of offices in the vestry build-
ing wherein to carry on the aura of the board. The board
then broke up.

POLITICAL REELIGEES.—Tho Cologne Gazette states
that the Turkish government had towed 300 Magyar sol-
d ens in its service, who entered Turkey with Kossuth, to
be suddenly disarmed and led to minium at &value in
Bosnia. The alleged reason of this proceeding is that the
men were about to leave a service of which they were tired,
and enter Hungary in a body. The same journal states
that Ledra Rollin has jut beer enriched by a legacy of
4,000,000 francs, bequeathed to his wife, an English lady of
good family.
BONIIAIION Mmis.—Most serious apprehensions
are now entertained as to the fate of the mines, and more
especially so as the weather still continues very wet; for
if the water from the north mice awl that from the @two
mine, on the sea side, meet (in fact the sea water is only
kept out by means of sods), the mine will bo rendered
useless, as it will be completely filled with water. The
tnorth mine engine has el working in consequence of
one of the lower valves in the chief pump being broken by
the upward pressure of the water. The others are wholly
choked up; so that it is found necessary to put down a
fresh set of pumps. Numbers of the poor miners are thrown
idle.— Wahl-fiord sail.
DEATII Or THREE PERSONS FROM TUE Fursta Or
CH•ItCOAL.-04 Sunday morning, Thomas Martin, aged
24, Harry Burton, aged 17, end William Sheen, aged 20,
assistants in the employ of Mr. Elliot, a ebeesemonger, of
l'ortman place, lost their lives by suffocation with carbonic
acid. They had retired to rest at an early hour on Sunday
morning, in a room where a tripod charged with candent
charcoal war standing under an opening in the skylight,
there being so chimney in the apartment. Their non-
appearance on Sunday, at breakfast time, led to a search,
when two of them were found dead in their beds, while the
third, Burton, was unconscious, and died in the evening.
RAILWAY AND CANAL BlLLS.—Yesterday the first
report from the select committee on railway and canal bills
was issued, stating " that it is the opinion of this com-
mittee that all railway bills introduced into the house, dur-
ing the present sautes, should, as a general rule, be made
integral in themselves, and that the greatest caution should
be exercised in admitting into them, otherwise than by
specific enactment, provisions which repeal, continue, or
intend the power of former sets, and that the attention of
committees on private hit!, should be directed to this point."
BOUM EASTERN itatt.wmt.—those traffic receipts
Webb week ending Dula, 1102, 12,3291. correspond-
lag week last year, 10,913 f. 12s. 7d. Increase in 1862,
1,4161.10 e. 7d.