The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-22 00:00:00

LATEST INTELLIGENCE.

(a+uWl rasosans.)
TEE EMPEROR AND EMPRESS OF
ROMA.

NICE, Ocr. 21.
Their Majesties the Crar and Czarina of Russia
arrived here to-clay.
A RUBILII.II frigate has arrived at Villafranca.
It is asserted that she is on her way to Civita
Vecchia, to fetch the Czarewitch.

THE DUCHIES.
ALTONA, OCT. 22.

•
The Schleswig-Hoisteinische Zeitung of to-day
states that the Federal Diet has decided that a very
considerable portion of the expense incurred for the
Federal army of execution and the civil adminis-
tration of Holstein shall be defrayed by the revenue
of the Duchy.

SPAIN.

MADRID, Oar. 21, Eviirwa.

The Noticias, of to-day, say; :—" The Bank of
Spain has concluded a loan of 20 millions reels
with Senor Salamanca. The sub-governor of the
Bank will leave for Paris to-morrow to purchase
gold."
The Council of Ministers was occupied this
morning with Peruvian affairs.

GIRLS ATTENDING LOCAL EXAMINATIO.VS.

Among our university intelligence to-day will be
found • copy of • memorial which ham been presented to the
Vios-Chancellor, praying that girls may be included in the
system of the university local examination ; and the com-
mittee who have originated the movement which has re.
stilted in the memorial, have this week circulated in the
university • brief statement of their views and objects.
Their object in applying for girls to be admitted to the
university local examinations is chiefly that " teachers may
no longer be at • for for some definite aim and standard to
guide them in their work," and the following extract from
the statement gives some idea of what is intended :
" The committee are not unmindful of the paramount
importance of guarding spinet anything like undue pub-
licity. Recent experience has satisfied them that the adroit.
lion of girls to the local examinations can be so provided
for as to avoid any ricks of this sort. No scheme of
public or mixed instruction is proposed. The attendance
at the examination would take place only once in the year—.
Ctaly, format of the individual candidates, only once in
liven—and the sanction of their parents would always
be indispensable. The practical possibility of working the
scheme is no longer • matter of camjecture.. By the kind
permission of the Cambridge Syndicate, a.private examina-
tion of an experimental character was held in London, in
000nexioa with the Cambridge Local Examinations for
The committee were allowed to make use of the papers pre.
pared by the university examiners, who consented to look
over and report upon the answers. The examination of the
girls was held simultaneously with that of the boys, and the
university regmlations were strictly observed. Eighty-three
girls, chiefly the daughters of professional men, noderweLt
examination." _ _

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The Dean of Canterbury is the chairman of the COM.
mittee, and among those who have signed the memorial, or
support the {Toyer of it, we observe the Countess of (la.
rsodon, lira. W. E. Gladstone, Lady Page Wood, Lord
Brougham, G. Grote, Esq., the Bishop of St. and
Lord Lyttelton.
The university, we have no doubt, will be quite willing
that firls should be included in the local examiostiou, but
who se to pay the expense' We cannot reasonably expect
examiners to encounter so much additional labour without
a proportionate increase of salary, and that increase cert,il.ly
ought not to come out of the university cheat. The tmiver•
pity has already to bear the expense of a good duel of not-
university work, sod if an addition is to be made, where I,
it to stop !—Combridgc Independent.

EXTRAORDINARY ROBBERY AND DISCOVERY

OP £lOO.

Yesterday, at the Preston sessions, a man minted
Joshua Bond, who for years has occupied • respectable pow.
tion at Fleetwood, was charged with stealing two V.
Beek of England notes belonging to the New Fylde
Tim-
ber Oompany. The circumstances of the case were of a very
singular character. It • paired from the evidence that oa
the 6th of October, 1: , t, a man named John Wel klen, re.
siding at a place called Church, in East Lancashire, paid
two 50/. Bank of England notes to a young man earned
Richard Mayor, in the employ of the New Fylde lankr
Company at Fleetwood. Mayor received the money in tho
of the primmer Bond, who advised him to put it in
rirpoceret book. In the evening Mayor whilst makibg up
his accounts., for the purpose of handing over his cash to the
company, missed the two 50/. notes, and as he could give
no account of them, suspicion naturally fell upon his honesty.
He wadi apprehended, placed in the lock-up at Kirkhai.,,
and afterwards brought before the magistrates at Black.
pool. Bond was one of the witnesses who gave evi.
dame against him, but nothing very positive could be eli.
cited, and eventually Mayor was discharged. But be took
the matter deeply to heart. The public seemed to
point to him as being the guilty party • but be was con.
scions of his innocence, and the fact that others could net
feel the same so preyed upon his mind that his health
gradually gave way, and from • strong, stalwart young man
he become • paralysed, bed-ridden invalid. About two
months ago a new phase in the case transpired. A little
boy, whilst playing in • yard connected with the premises
of the New Fylde Timber Oompeny, at Fleetwood, found a
pocket-book. On examining it he shouted out " Notes 1'
Another boy then came up, and afterwards an offi•
ail of the company, who was passing, took charge of
the hook, opened it, and at once saw that its
contents were two 50/. Bank of England notes, and several
settled bills, dm, which had been made out to B and who
at that time was officiating as the company's salesman.
Suspicion then fell upon Bond, and be was apprehended.
On being charged with stealing the notes, be made a state.
meat to the effect tbat he lost his pocket-book a few
months before ; that the book which had been found was
his ; but that when he lost it there were no notes
in it. and that some one must have put those found is
it. Evidence was givers showing that the notes found in
the pocket-book were the um* as those paid over to Mayor
by Walkden ' • that after they were paid Mayor placed
them in • bag that he was then requested by Bond to
take some consignment note" to an office in Fleetwood;
that both he and flood went out of the company's office at
the same time ; that Mayor was absent about five minutes
and missed the notes, as previously named ; that Bood, as
well as Mayor, had a key which would open the office dose
and
.give awes, to the apartment where the cash hag eon-
'aims the notes was placed.
For the defence, it was contended by the prisoner's corra-
-1 eel that there was no evidence to show the robbery had been
committed by Rood ; that he was not seen to take the
money, and had never been suspected of doing so, and that
he had Sways borne • good character.
The prisoner was acquitted.
Mr. Kaye appeared for the prosecution, and Mr. Pope for
the prisoner. The trial occupied between eight and nine
hours in hearing, and was not finished until about G o'clock.

WEATHEI

REPORT.

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