The Express.
London, England, 1863-03-04 00:00:00

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THE CIVIL SERVICE Eirriusrza.—This morning
the civil service estimates, dtc., for the year ending
March 31, 1864, were issued. They amount in all
to 1,490,887 E, which is an increase of 17,2621. as
compared with the previous year. The chief in-
crease is in the votes for the Foreign-offices, the
Houses of Parliament, and the " Postage of Public
Departments."
The Bishop of Hereford writes to the Times :
" I am sorry to Had that my name is not inserted in the
list of archbishops and bishops signing the addres to
Bishop Coleus° in your impression of this morning, and
would request the favour of you to have it added, though
the address is not as condemnatory as I could have wished
it to have been."

Mr. Collier will move on Friday, ae an amend-
ment to the resolution of Mr. Braley-Moore, "That
this house, while it expremee its regret at the late tempo.
racy interruption of our amicable relations with Brazil, 4
the same time recognises the duty of her Majesty's govern.
meat to exteod its protection to British subject. in all parte
of the world."

It was rumoured yesterday at Woolwich that the
superintendence of the rayal gun factories, rendered smut
by the resignation of Sir William Armstrong, has been con.
(erred on Mr. Anderson, the assistant superintendent, who
is promoted to the chief grade, but without any increase;
emolument. His pay is to remain at I,ooo'. as heretofore.

The West London Extension Railway was opened
for public traffic yesterday. This line is a cootimuitiao of
the old West London Railway from Kensington across the
Thames to the point on the South-Western end Brighton
lines at Battersea known se Falcon-lane Junction (where
the Richmood Branch joins the South• Western main line,
and the West-End Mach of the Brighton Railway runs
akeomide the latter), haring communications with both
systems. It is of considerable importance am forming the
first metropolitan junction between the great lines north
and smith of the Thames on the west side of London, and
was 000atructed under peculiar circumstances—then being
no shareholders, and the capital being found in certain pro.
portions by the Loodoo and North Western, the Great
Western, the Brighton, and the South-Western Companies,
who use the line to common.

Rl2/1181NTATION OF COLCHZIFIXIL—IIe liberals
of Colchester have had a meeting to consider the premed
state of parties in the borough, and the prospect of an early
dissolution of parliament. Mr. J. Gordon Itshow has beat
cordially accepted as a liberal candidate. Mr. /Lebow, who
possesses considerable local property and influence, at fa
Colchester from 1857 to 1859 and, is a brother of Mr
Brampton Gordo% Y.P. for West Norfolk.
Bistros. COLMBO.—The committee of the Atha
same Club bare, it is well known, the power of Meeting
mutually a certain Dumber ^f distinguished persons as
members, without subjecting them to a ballot, and we
understand that Bishop Colons° has just been elected a
member of the club in that way.

COURT or ALDERMEN.—A special court was held
yesterday at the Guildhall, to receive a report from the
general purposes committee, in reference to the police regu-
lations for the 7th instant, on the 000uios of the entry of
her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra of Deumark
into London. The Right Hon. the Lord Mayor presided.
The report was read and agreed to, and it was ordered
therein that the chief commissioner of polies of the City
should take effectual care that the several public strode
through which the procession will pass on Saturday next,
the 7th instant, being the day appointed forthe public entry
of her Royal Highness the Princess Alexandra of Den.
mark into London, should be kept free from all °beim-
tions and hindrance', and that he should not allow acy
coach, cart, or other vehicle to stand therein ; and that
if any driver of any vehicle should refuse to move
out he should be removed to the police station
and the vehicle to the greenyard, and that no ve-
hicles be allowed to pass through any of the streets through
which the procession will pass after ten o'clock in the fore-
Won. The report was agreed M.
THE CITY COURT or Simms. —At the weekly
meeting of the Commissioner, of Sewers, held yesterday, at
Guildhall. Mr. De Jersey prodding, Dr. Letbeby, the me-
dical officer, reported on the state of 213 houses that had
been inspected during the week, and he submitted a list of
74 places for sanitary improvement., and also a fiat of visor
requiring further proceedings on account of ordersalrrody
issued, but not complied with. The markets and slaughter-
houses had bean duly inspected, and the alone had seized
and condemned 3,480113 a. of meat as unfit for human food.
It coemisted or 25 sheep, 4 pigs, 22 quartets of beef, and
25 joints of meat-2,4581b.. were diseased, 124165. pis
and 8981bs. were from animals that had died from
causes. Seventy-five births and 58 deaths were registered
during the week. The mortality returns for
the week are below the average for the corresponding
period of the last seven years. 21 of the deaths were
among children of less than five years of age, and 21 were
among old persons of 60 and upwards. The chief causes of
death were as follows :—Phthisis, 9 ; pneumonia, 4 • Iron.
chide, 9 ; continued fever, 1 • scarlet fever, 1 ; meadea 2 ;
and diphtheria, 1 ; making togetherll diseases from tuber-
cular diseases, 13 from inflammatory affections of the lump,
and 8 from diseases of a aymotic character. Mr. Dew, the
chief clerk, read an application from the Society for the Pro-
tection of Life from Fire, asking permission from the corn-
mission to allow a body of their men to stand round each of
the obelisks at the bottom of Bridge-street and Farringdon.
street on the evasion of the entry of her Royal Highness
the Princess Alexandra of Denmark into London. The sp.
plication was at once granted.
A ROMAN-Ct-THOLIC BISHOP ON CRINOLINE.—•
Dr. Cullen has issued one of his long, rambling, and
illogical letters called pastorals. After a denunciation of
model schools and the seductions of protestant orphanages,
be descants as follows on crinoline :—•• There is another
matter which deserves notice —I mean that excessive
vanity which now prevails in female attire. Though the
country is poor, sod distress meets us on every side, yet
the expenditure on dross has been daily increasing, and it is
now carried to unjustifiable stomas not only by the rich,
but by many who are not affluent—by the families of
and by servants, and by teachers in the national
schools, who often give very had examples to their pupils.
Even children are now trained in a love for vanity, and their
tender minds filled with a love for the foolish and excessive
pampa and &Amos of the world. To support iclle pomp
and mere vanity, as much is expended as would relieve vast
multitudes of the poor suffering members of Jeans Christ."
INCORPORATED SOCIETY OF Lit:Morn VIiTUALe
ERRic—ELECTION OF GOVERNOR. Yesterday a general
meeting of the committee was held at the school.houee,
Kennington-lace, for the purpose of electing the governor
for the ensuing year. The gentlemen eligible for that im-
port.tot office were the three trustees who had served for
the two years immediately preceding. namely, Mr. Henry
Janaway, of Drummond-street. Easton-square; Mr. John
Resat, of the City-road, and Mr. W. S. Richardson, St.
John-street, ClerkeiewelL Previous to the election, Mr.
Read declined being a candidate, therefore the contest
wee limited to Mr. Janaway and Mr. W. S. Richardson.
A ballot was taken, as required by the 10th section of the
bye-laws ; the result of which wee that the votes for
Mr. Janaway and Mr. Richardson were equal, and con-
win.* the governor, Mr. Copus, wee called upon
for the casting vote. Mr. Copus addressed the member+,
raying how reluctant he felt in having to give the casting
vote on the present occasion. but his pommel friendship
for Mr, Janaway,extendieg over many years, was of greater
duration than that with Mr. itichaelson ; he therefore felt
bound to ive his suffrage is favour of Mr. Janaway. Not
th.t Mr. • wee lees qualified than Mr. Janaway,
but his vote was iufluenced by the reason be had just
&rived. Mr. Jasaway was then declared Governor of-the
Incorporated Soilety for the mum* year, and wee warmly
oongratulakd by his colleagues and the members of the
society on his election. The year el office epos which Mr.
Janaway is about to enter, will, it is fully aaticipatedt
prove mod prosperous for the society, as a firm sod liberal
Maud of the institution is about to make a donationd
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