The Express.
London, England, 1862-03-22 00:00:00

9 to 1 apt Dock;ioee (t freely)

MORN?' ORDER OFIFICEIL—OD the let of April
the following &Horatian will be made, via.:—L Honey
Order Mon will be opened in Looden and the aubnzba at
Great Portland-street, W. Hillutreet, Woolwich, &E.; ,
Kinpland.crement. N. 8.; Park•road, Clapham, B.; Rusher.
green, EI.E.; Bt. James's-road, Holloway, N. 2. Honey
Ord Mom will be opened in the country at Abbotabury,
county Doreen, bead office Dowiester ; Ackworta, York,
Pontefract • Benson, Oxford, Wallingford ; Bletchingley,
Surrey, Hearn • Biisklo ,w Warwick, Coveotry ; Burton
Latimer, North;unptoe, WellinOorough ; Byfield, North.
samba, Daveutry ; Northumberland, Newcastle-mi.
Tyne; Oaltillel Lainarter, Ashby-do-L.7.mA; Ooxhoe,
Durham, Ferryhill ; Hite Barton, Northampton, North.
=pion ; at Rodham, Norfolk. Brandon; Gol Lan.l
mbar, Warrington ; Golftyn, Flint, Flint ; Healey
Woreester, Wotesater ; Hanalope, Bedford, Mosey Strut
-
ford ; Northampton, Northamptoo ; Holum
Nook, Cum Whit•haven ; Holey, Surrey Crawley •
Irtlallagboro' N Ferrero ; oomier",
Olsonseur, Toroltuy KaoSoSaul, Suffolk. Weasford ;
ortm, 4 66ggait
New-
Ceissrois, gooey ; Northeloyaos.
2firapseene ; Se. Brian* Coleford ; &WU.
Nertieseberlead, Onadlogles ; Soak Beek, Y
aluebassff ;:isonelouter,Wanlealla ; May, Gleasolier.
Doyley ; Bockilibunv.•7l4"l2lll7_l2r&te
ufflk,
cachitlaod, Oargarthen,
inflamer, Y Hull ; WINN% erlkompasa,
liegbere. & The easy Ordetallee °Seth Winer
fekreyekelp bee boa abolhtie• • ibedhe at nabob-
eadOreet (Worrier) wilt be ilesiveeed
"Hanley cantle. —BY eu=amor tbi reuememeer-
t Goers!, Roman) Sin, Seceelery. Soloal realoSso,
Muek

[TWOPENCE

THE TRADE IN PETROLEUM.

Shortly after the enteltellell of the regular till&
nese of the Mansion-house Police i
Gait yesterday, a depu.
Utley of gendanen connected with the different fire n-
surance offices of the City waited on the Lord Me.yor to ask
his advice upon a matter of public importation The gentle-
MN man were Mr. Lovell, of the Phoenix Tire-office ;
Mr. Johnstone, of the Royal Insure/so' Company ; Mr.
Themes B. Hallman, of the on Assurance Company ;
Mr. Fleisher, of the Sun ; and Mr. John Atkins, of the
Liverpool and Loudon Fire-office.
Mr. Lovell, of the Phoenix, acted as spokesman, and said
baths had waited upon his lordship with the other gentle-
um present ea a deputation from the fire offices of the City
of Lerabers, for the purpose of calling his attention to
thelopertegion of a new production, which was being very
largely inapatted into London, and as likely to be imported
in still pesga quantities. It was celled Petroleum, or, as
he shoendealgnate It, rock oil, and contained in itself els-
manta el a very dangerous character. It is of the highest
coniburdilblenatitre,and throws off an inflammable vapour at
the ordinery temperature of the atmosphere, and has the
peculiarity that it will not mix with water, and water will
not extinguish it. It is extremely limpid, and flows ra-
pidly over the aortae. of water. It is not necessary
that a flame should come into contact with the
oil to ignite it, for be had tried en experiment
on the previous day when the temperature of the atmo-
sphere was very low, and it ignited while the flame was
more than an inch from the liquid. He believed that there
was about half-a-million gallons of the oil on one of the
wharfs, and about 3,000 casks (containing from 36 to 10
.tims each)
had
just been larded from one ship in one of
naught a gmaleinie el* as if • Are
werairli4spircesh spd the aft Ince te ivies, it would flow
' Beteg the enifien of the Svc!, and such a quantity as he
had mentkmelleffffOrtrilingli to form a coating over a
large surface, sped would burn most fiercely and en-
danger the 'nipping. Urge quantities are being im.
rtfrom America and Canada, and the traffic
hd e article seemed likely to increase a hundred-
fold. The question they wished answered was whether his
latdahip, as a conservator of the Thames, could prevent the
Introduction of it into the wharves and docks
The Lord Mayor said, as a conservator of the Thames and
chersen el the Board of Conservancy he had no power to
interfere, hut as the chief magistrate of the City, if a ewe
were brought before him where a great quantity was kept
within the City, he would be competent to deal with it end
probably do something in the matter • because he had no
doubt, d what Mr. Lovell hed meartedwith regard to the
bfiammabifity of the oil were a feet, that the warehousing
of it in such gnat queen's would naturally excite terror
in the minds of the public if it 111111 iLDOW4 ; but if it were
without the City it would not be in his power to ge into
the queen; but it struck him that the legislature might
take the pen/ in nod, and proven the oil ban brought
in Maks in Nab gnat quantitate. As it would be • commer-
cial mead of gnat Take something should be don by
which Y might be received and kept in safety, and he
that if tanks were mods
iseach a money that it
=11:011 SOW over it would en be so dangerous. The
ItMld elfChseervancy of the Theme had no magisterial fuse.
gig had no power to mobs' the storing et ships. His
jusfnislfsu eneeled between Tenapbbar and the Tower,
sad 'fitness nom to him Usk within his jurisdiction •
large quantity of the petroleum wee gored, it would be his
duty to take tie abater iatemisideesiioe.
Yr. Lovett Sell be .that the large quantity of
AM* be hudriplohes • the limits of the (Sty.
Tbsloonie 1 /sans within the district of
Non keel *a importation of the
isrlNtaksll Itwas a new gift of
sal sad II etalsoalloo Ikon everyone ought gladly to
awl e/ sod he thought the
legislation ought to that it should not be kept so as
to excite terror in nage rain. He thought if the
gentlemen wan to an the Deseelary of State,: and get a bill
bindweed isle parliament, it would not take loos to bring
sleet a ansody.
116.0sedsna Olaf oink) said the legislature had pro-
en war* gunpowder being kart in any
m twit Wien being a new material no provision
Ibilewilligne The. read a portion of the judgment of
Lad Ounplieg in • cam "Reg v. I,istor and Big, ." from
1 Demersley Wed BslPs Orown Cases, 209, 21 J.P. 422, which
he thought would spill tens present case. It was as fol-
lees . " The law of try would certainly he defec-
tive it life
itaawdzepirid= dhe so exposed to danger by
Ile sat of tr. There is no pound for
mks that ameding brae doctrine contended for by the
seassot seam wise, bandy, nor et, nor say
amid be kept in the cellar or town
11.61111.1eritarautIsallaii nen of the hem being liable
to One as. Uspoistainsuk. The ' eialienonea non be
of snob a neliere, wed is snob quantities, and under such
local circeanisneos, am to create real danger to life and pro-
tertv. The neitheaded apprehension of danger which
would alarm mem at Bloody nerve and reasonable courage,
passing through the street in which the house stands, or re-
siding an adjoining houses, shows that something has been
don whack the law ought to prevent by pronouncing it •
misdemeanour. Aeingly, to manufacture, or keep in
large quantities in towns, or closely inhabited Awes,
.gun-
powder (which for this purpose cannot be distinguished
from naphtha) is. by the common law ot England, a nuisance
and indictable offence.
Mr. Lovell said the oil was capable of undergoing a treat-
ment which deprived it of its dangerous properties, but
when in its crude state it was highly inflammable.
The deputation then withdrew, thanking his lordship for
kb kind attention.
Tax

pub-
lish to-dailTitheWressildieeelL BAAViarpereed°l4at siW"meeittiDn'TWe of a c.
mitts, of the tenantry of the Crawford estates, by whom
the erection of a suitable memorial monument to .their be-
loved landlortCand "The rather of Irish Tenant.right"
has been undertaken. It we. originally intended that the
monument to be raised should be the tribute of the tenan-
try exclusively ; but when the project was set on foot many
friends and public admirers of the late Mr.
=ift expressed a desire to contribute to the erection
of the monument. It was exerilingly resolved by the
committee to open the subscription lists, without Folicita-
lUD°, to all whose respect and regard for the private worth
sad high public character of Sharman Crawford would dim-
ples them to join his tenants in railing a !monument to per-
his memory in future time ; and John Cleland,
hire of Oresegar, county Down, has consented to be the
ampleet of theme contributions. The form and site of the
meassmat lave sot been decided on ; and it is stated by
the eaviatittee that on these points the wishes of the Craw-
ford family will be fsitihdly observed. It is probable that
It ma be a tower or obelisk erected at Crawfordsburn, the
ia ul marine residence, on the shore of Belfast Lough,
is which the venerable Sharman Crawford drew his last
Meth.—Belfatt Northern Whig.
An Unix ezeran RITURN. —A circumstance of a
mintewhat romantic character has been related to ue as
eawarred to a person formerly resident in this
who filled the situation of schoolmistress
ta ass of the c urch schools in this locality some few years
back cad was very highly respected. The individual in
question heed been married, and had some three or four
children, but whether she had a husband living, or ought
to don the weeds of widowhood, it was diflieult to say,
though time and the circumstances might somewhat have
justified the latter. Her husband had sailed some
thirteen years Mono fur the gold diggings ; hut the
vessel is which be sailed was said to be wrecked, and
an Made were supposed to have been lost. Some
few days since, however, the husband visited this
Ittrhood, and called at the Louse in which his wife
family bad formerly resided, with the view of
esseeleieing some particulars of them and their present
abode. He had been successful, it would some, in amassing
matfisrable wealth in Australia, and be had returned
to speed the remainder of his days with his family.
AYa! is wife, supposing herself a widow, had (after seeing
her Andrea well ducted and provided for) married age=
as two years Warm The mooed marriage will, of course,
balavald, and though it will Ise dil&slt to attach any
positive blame to the wife, it may well be feared it will
rather embitter the joy that should arise from the restore.
lice of a long-last hosband.—Dover Chronicle.
TAB INCUBATING PYTHON AT TUZ ZOOLOGIPAL
GAIDZIGL —The python still continues her attentive duties
to her egp ; whether they will be bitched or not remains
to be seem. One egg bunt on Sunday last, and another
amass now much distended, but whether from the gaseous
emanations of decomposition, or from a more desirable
muse, teapot certainly be told, though the rapidity by
which, after indentation by the finger, its skin recovers its
rotundity, seems to indicate the former condition. The
time, however, cannot yet be thought to have elapsed which
may be nesessery for the completion of incubation. The
perrod of thii:epaitabon's incubation is sow ten weeks, so
that three may be fairly given before the
lope in to a eneeLein longer
should be at all regarded
is ca turfavourable light, notwithstauding that a period
of eight weeks has been given by the French authorities .or
the hatehieg of the Paris python s eggs in 1841. Whether
the *sedition' of her habitation and the differences between
the temperature and atmosphere of her deo, ate exerting
say retarding Influence, it is not at present possible to ray,
although they must be very different from the humid jun-
gle conditions of Western Atrium, of which one may get a
hint ratios in the Palm-house at Kew. However, the pre-
see; ammlitioss of the Reptile-house at the Zoological Gar-
dens are so essential for the eleanlioese sod the exhibition
of the saimaL, as well as for their health, that it is not
easy to see how any advantageous change could be made,
eves temporarily, for this intessetlisg =Asia'. That which
is exciting most of the popular curiosity is the length of
time which the python las goes without taking food, which
Seely esseents to thirty wren, sr more teen half a year.
ehealthy, sad sines our last notice of her has
=Thin. She was some six or seven hours in the
operettas, and her sip got comparatively cold; but this
mould not prebably injure them, as a counmes kees eggs
have been cold for twelve hours, and when opened the con-
tests found alive—London &vim

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