The Express.
London, England, 1864-02-10 00:00:00

ZLICTION AT WINOHESTER.-(THIS DAY.)

(BY ILICIILIO TILIOILAPIII.)

WINCHESTER, TUESDAY.

This morning Thomas Willis Fleming, E.
(conservative), was proposed by Mr. C. Wooldridge, and me-
eroded by Mr. James Dear, as eacceuor to the late member,
Biz James East, and wee declared elected.
Mr. Pion* promised be would strictly follow his prede-
osseoes footsteps.

" Tag Rw.m."—This morning appeared the
/nit number of a sew weekly metropolitan journal called
The Realm. It is whited in large type, and though a
" high priced" paper," consists of only eight pages, ► little
larger than the pages of the Examiner. The opening article
commences thus:—" God save the Queen! Long live our
glorious constitution! Heaven defend the right sod prosper
the Realm /" The writers thick this prosperity is due on
aooount of the little they have to say. "We should not
have the heart to offer you more words for your money, and
threaten your eyes with closer print. That has been
worked to its uttermost, and we come to the rescue as
reactioniata against both these tendencies of modern Jour-
aslism." The new journal is consecrative in politics, but
says lass at present about that matter than about its typo-
praphical recommendations.
. . .

The imports into the port of Kingston, Canada,
hat year amounted to 4,517,448 dollars, and the amount of
duty collected was 83,863 dollars. The exports during the
same period emanated to 968,635 dollars.
All the fetes among the legitimists in the Fau-
bourg St. Germain h►ve been suspended in consequence of
the death of the Duchess of Parma.

DEATH OF THE HON. MR'. VESEY FITZGERALD,
Fosres.—The death of this aged lady, which is just an-
noutex 1 as having mowed at Bellevue, near Bray, Dublin,
brings to remembrance the exciting period of the Union—
the time of the grandest (lights of Irish oratory. Letitia
Poster was the daughter of Catherine, first Baroness Fitz.
and Vesci, by the Bight Hon. James Fitzgerald,
gad and
prime sergeant-at-law, the noble patriot who
sacrificed all his offices and retired into private life from
his indignation at the Union. She married in 1814 the
Right Hon. John Leslie Foster, M.P., Speaker of the Irish
Homes of Commons, afterwards a baron of the Court of
Exchequer. Baron Foster died in 1842-
SHROVII TUTSDAY AT WEITXINSTER SCHOOL.—
Yesterday morning • carious scene was &Acted in the grave
historical school-room at Westminster. According to an-
nual custom on Shrove Tuesday, the verger of the abbey
made his appearama, belated in his gown, and bearing
the silver mace (with which on his shoulder be escorts
dean and canons to church), at the door of the schooL
ushering in with • sonorous voice, " The cook, air.'
That penionsge (Mr. Tolfrey), attired in kitchen full drew,
white apron and cap, advanced into the room, bearing in
his hand what is popularly believed to be • pancake.
Thereupon all the boys, who had been up t that moment
engaged deeply in their studies, rushed from their testa,
and stood expectant under the her which divides the upper
from the lower part of the school. The cook poised the
pancake on • fork for a minute, and then deftly towed it
over the bar among the mob of boys. It was said to have
been caught whole by Mr. Benison, one of the senior
Q611111e• scholars ; but if he caught it, tie did not retain it
so as to entitle him to demand the sum of • guinea from the
dam, on presenting it entire to that functionary. Anyhow
it fell on the ground, and for some time aru fought for,
kicked for, hustled for, as if it had been the Koh-i-noon
itself. The due performance of this ceremony, which is
orders(' in the college statutes, entitles the cook to two
pines& It is • curious relic of the old Shrove Tuesday
games, cock fighting, public foot-ball playing, thrashing
the fat hen, he., which have nearly all fallen into disuse.
At Eton it was the custom on Shrove Tuesday for the
King's scholars to hang up Ion; scrolls of verses, called
••13.tochunsa," to the pegs oo the waiosooting of the college
hall, which pep remained till the recast restoration of the
ha. Readers of " Poppee Diary' will remember his ann.
aim to these asrolls. - -

Tux Aacurrucrtfail, Mrsuum. —The usual
mune of lectures will commence is March next, and will
include the following subjects :—" The Art-Workman's
Position," by the Preacksot, Mr. Beredord Hope, who will
also distribute the prizes for wood carving and coloured
decoration ; "The Prospects for good Architecture in Lou'
doo, judging from the rat and preseat," by his Eraser
Cardinal Wiaeman ; "The Influence of Local armory on
Local Architecture." by the Rev. J. Y. Neale; " The
Monuments) Architecture and Sculpture of this country
during the Middle Ages." by Mr. IL H. Ificaam ; " Early
Brickwork in England," by the Rev. E. L Cutts ; " The
Interior of a Gothic Minster," the Rey. Mackenzie
Walcott ; " The Medieval Houses tithe City of Well'," by
Mr. J. H. Parker ; sod " Painted Glass, in its ernexion
with architecture," by the Rev. r. Ayliffe Poole.
CLERICAL SUROCRIPTION.—Lost night's Gatette
publishes the names of Ike Co is appointed by her
Majesty to consider and revise the various forms of sub-
' scriptioa and declaration require 1 to be made by the clergy
of the established church on ordination, or on appointment,
admission, or induction, to any eorlesiasticel dignity.
benefice, curacy, lectureship, or °floe, and to report their
opinion how far they may be altered and simplified cos.
sistently with doe security for the decisred agreement of
the clergy with the doctrines of the church and their or-
(*roily to it. ritual : —The Archbishops of Canterbury,
York, Armagh, and Dublin ; Earls Stanhope and Harrowby ;
the Bishops of Loden, Winchester, St. David', an,
Oxford ; Lords Lyttellos, Cranworth, and Erry ; the
Right Hon. E. P. !louvre, the Right Hos. Stephen
Lashirtoo,H D.C.L., the Right Hon. Spacer H. Walpole,
the RiAt oe. Joseph Napier, Sr J. T. Coleridge, Sir W.
Heather*, Mr. 0. Buxton, the Very Rev. Hoary Hart
D.D., Der of her Majesty's Cathedral Church of
St. Paul in London ; the Very Rev. Harvey Cloodw,e,
D.D., Dean of her Majesty's Cathedral Church of Ely ; the
Yes. John Sandford, 8.D., Archdeacon of Coventry ; the
Rev. Wm. Jacobson, D.D., Resins Professor of Divinity in
the University of Oxford ; the Rev. Jas. Amine: J
D.D., Aria" Professor of Divinity in the tiniverai7t
Cambridge ; the Rev. Hoary Veen, B.D. ; sad the Rev.
Wiliam °Urn Hunaphry, B.D.
CHIRP OCCUPATIONS or rag PROPLL.—The re-
cent crew of Engird shows this list of ocourations fol-
lowed by more than 100,000 persons :—Agriculturol la-
bourers and farm sensate (without including members of
the farmer's family), 1,188,789; domestic servants,
1,106,974 ; engaged on the cotton and calico manufacture,
456,646 persons ; ea the woollen cloth malefactor*, 130,034 ;
en the tree manufacture, 125,771 ; an the satin and silk
marfacture, 101,670; coal mires, 246,613 ; dressmakers
milliners, 287,101 ; laundry people, 167,607 ; shoe-
makers, 250,581 ; tailors, 136.390 ; osrpeaters and joiners,
177.969 ; blacksmiths, 108,165. The.. are 300,883 permits
daseribedgesierelly es "labourers."
ILLEGITIMACY.—The fifth detailed annual rural
of the Registrar-Geoseol for Borland, which has just
issued, shows that is the year 1859, to which the report
balcony, 9.715 of the children born, 9'l per ere. of the
births in Scotland, were illegitimate. The orris enables
Dr. Stark to calculate that in that year there were 460,763
unmarried women in Scotland between the ages of lb sad
45 pan, and taking those limits of age to include all the
mothers, we fief gat or unmarried worse in every 41
of those ages bore a child is that year. But further, nom-
tieg births with marriages, it is estimated that is Soot-
-308 married wanes born 100 children in the year ; and
swamis, erg prolllissew moot nu wooer,
and meltiplyteg the rusher of du 111 who brume soothers
by 308 (the proportion is which the married bore
one child), we have the humbling cordial= that about one
unmarried woman in 13 between 15 and 45 years of sr
put bend( ia the way of becoming a mother. To this
most be added that UYgitimaay appears to be on the in-
crease ; bet it should be stated also that in surnames
indances the pareete remain ter to each other. la
Reglad the propene= of registered illegitimate births is
considerably lower than in Scotland, but the Registrar-
Cheers' stated before a parliamentary committee is 1861
that above 3 per mot. of the births in England annually
escape regiebratko—a defect that does sot occur I. Soot-
land, the law being 'rektor ; sod as these onside= are
acknowledged to be chiefly, if not altogether, illegitimate
births, the proportion et illegitimacy appears to be, in fact,
MI seedy the same is England r ie Soothed.
EXTRAORDINARY SCIENI •PTIR • MARRIAOE.—
Yerterday the marriage of Mr. Thomas S Deese., of
Tapir Lodge, Middleton+, the read re of Mr. Dawson,
the celebrated trainer for Lord Glasgow, to Miss Elisabeth
Flictoft I'Ansoe, the fourth daughter of Mr. William
l'Anson, of Spring Cotter, Norton, Mahon, ma ode-
bested in the pariah church of St. Nicholas. Norton. The
eoessios was made one of the most extreme rejoicing. The
bride was attended by four bridesmaids. and the bridal
party included the Flirt of the neighbourhood. The town
was decked in banners from end to sod, merry pods were
nag oe the bells of the Yahoo churches, and the splendid
band of the lad Battalion of the North Biding Volun-
teers did borer to the eecasioo. The church during the
orresery was rammed to repletion, ad at a moderate es-
timate fully 3,000 parser assembled in the church and out-
side it. No sooner had the carriages conveying the bridal
party bees driven off, than the people in the street cow-
mewed a emow.balling Mirk upon those in the church-
yard, the plea being made a grand focus for the missiles.
This Aware proceeding as the part of probably 1.500 to
2,000 people entirely put a stop to the egress of those in
the churobyard, whose number were being constantly in-
eremed by the ladies who were leaving the church. At
length probably 800 prams, in the churchyard set about
ramming the fire of the people in the street, and then coin-
raced • quarter of as hour's fight probably never equalled.
The compare of the churchyard laving the dearer in
position, and bowleg the lodise to defend, eveetwilly
the day, sad fairly esariered the attar* party, tC
fully three VON winder Is somber. The soowbelhng
mania bed, however, set in, and became the object of
several pitched battles I. the afternoon, when the annual
sports at Orocalty Fair were being bald. Upon the meters of
the bridal party, nearly It 3 rests partook of breakfast,
and last wresing nearly 150 guests reembled at the ainsm-
bly-reetes, mad theatre of the Kelton Literary Institution,
where the father of the bride gave a grand ball and banquet
is bravo( the happy event. Mingled with the decora-
tion were the well-bees gelatin off army of the English
Wf esieieltles.