The Express.
London, England, 1864-08-17 00:00:00

INLAND PATTERN AND SAMPLE POST.

On and atter the let of September next the
fallowing will be the neulatioss of the Inland Patters and
Sample Past, viz. :—l. The rates of postage will be reduced
by one-third at each step in the scale of charge, and will
be—For • packet of patter= or samples sot miesedieg 4 os.
in weight, 2d. ; exceeding 4 oz., but not exceeding 8 oz. in
weight, 4d. ; exceeding 8 ea., but pot exceeding 16 oz. is
we4ht, 81; exceeding 16 ca, bat not exceeding 24 oz., la.
2. The postage must be prepaid by means of postage stamps.
3. No packet of patterns or sample§ must exceed 24 oz. in
weight. Any packet exceeding that weight will be charged
as a letter. 4. The patterns or samples most sot be of
intrinsic value. This rule sulfides all articles
of • Nimble nature, and, indeed, whatever may have
• value of its own, apart from its mere use as
• pattern or sample ; and the quantity of any material, sent
ostensibly as a pattern or sample, meat sot be so peat, that
it can fairly be considered aa having, on this ground, an
, bateau& value. Packets consisting of patterns or samples
I_ of isteiosis value will be clasped es letters. 5. There mast
be no writing or painting, in addition to the address of the
person for whom the packet is intended, except the same,
of the sender, a trade mark and numbers, sad the prime of
the articles ; otherwise the packet will be treated se •
letter. 6. There must be no enclosure other than the
samples themselves. The particulars, which ars allowed to
be furnished under the preceding rule, mud in all cases be
given, not on loose pieces of paper, but on small labels
attached to the samples or the bags containing them. Any
loose enclosure will be taken out and forwarded to the
address on the packet, charged with the full postage as an
unpaid letter, together with an additional rate of one
penny. 7. The pattern or samples must be sent in or.
vers open et the sods, so as to be easy of
examieatioo. Samples, however, of seeds, may be
enclosed in boxes made of cardboard, or in bags of lines or
other material, (Wooed is such • =toner that they may be
readily opened ; bags so closed that they moot be readily
opened, even although they be transparent, must not be
used for this purpose. If this role be infringed, the packet
will be treated ass letter. 8. If a packet of patterns or
samples be posted altogether unpaid. it will be charged with
double the postage which should have been prepaid. If a
portion of the postage be prepaid, even although only a
peony stamp be affixed, the packet will be charged with the
amount of the deficiency, together with an additional rate of
two peace. 9. 1n cutler to prevent say interruption
to the regular transmission of letters, a packet of
patterns or samples may, when it is necessary, be kept back
by any hand postmaster for 24 hones be and the time whoa
in the ordinary course, it would be forwarded. 10. The
rule, which forbids the transmission through the poet of
any article which might injure the ocritente of the mail begs
or the Maws of the pest-olties, is so far relaxed ma to per-
mit the transmiseion of scissors, knives, canon, forks, steel
peon, nails, keys, watch machinery, metal tubing, pieces of
metal or ore, and such like, as samples, provided that they
be peeked and guarded in so Decors a manage as to afford
complete protection to the contents of the mail bags and
the offioers 01l the post.otllee, while at the same time the
samples may be easily examined, and provided also that
such samples as might be in themselves of intrigue value,
are rendered unsaleable by being slightly damaged before
they are posted. If any packet containieg such
articles as these be posted, which is found sot to be so6l-
- guarded, it will be stopped, and a notice of its de-
Notion will be sent to the person to whom it is addressed
or to the wider, who may then obtain it upon pommel ap-
plication ; bat the packet will be charged with a floe equal
in amount to the postage to which the packet was liable as
• packet of patterns. It. Information as to the best mode,
of packing the articles named in the preceding clause may
be obtained at the secretary's office, Genteel Pcetmffice,
London, between the hours of 10 and 4 o'clock, or on
Saturdays between 10 and 1 o'clock, and specimens may be
seen. 12. The preceding regulations do sot affect the
transmission of patterns or samples beyond the United
Kingdom. The rides and rates of postage of the pattern
pod between this country sad various micelles and foreign
countries ,ffinain unaltere4.-13 command of the Post-
master-General—General August 16,1864.

MISS LONGWORTH ON THE MARRIAGE LAWS.

The Cork Daily Reporter contains the following
letter from the respoedent on the lets appeal am before
the House of Lords :—" As great obscurity seems to exist
is Ireland as well as in England es to the nature and
workings of the law of Sootisied, will you allow me the
medium of your journal to thapef, so far as my own case is
ociacereed, a little of the Scotch mist which envelops the
sister kiagdoms In the first place, • Scotch marriage,
binding no the parties is Soetiand, is binding all ever the
world, and that on account of the English International
Marriage ley, which recognises.. valid all marriages valid
in the ocrantry where they take place. Not so with any
other law peculiar to Scotland. The putting to silence,'
for instance, could not be enforced either in England
or Ireland, say more than could be enforced a French
bylaw eakaown is this country. The House of Lords,
though sitting in London, sit mere as a Scotch Ap-
peal Court on this use. and can decide so question out
of Scotch jurbdictios. The next point I would notiee i.
that a Scotch court has so jurisdiction to cancel a foreign
marriage, as decided in the cases of De Pooty, Pitt, Sin-
clair, and others ; besce so dictum of a Scotch ooert °add
anal the verdict of as Irish jury. On the other heed mar-
riage valid in Ireland is valid all over the world on the
same international principle, and it would be an interesting
—a hair-splitting proposition for lawyers to &tennis*
whether • legal wife in Eogland and Ireland could be ' put
to 'dews' in Scotland for asserting her wifehood. Hems
the ' finality' in my °w—rejoiced over by the few, and
deplored by the many—is merely a ruse to Mies about
such a result So far from that being the cam, if depth were
to claim me before the 12th of November. the de-
cision of the Leeds meld timer be applied is this
world, and I ahould die by taw law of the three
kiegdome the wife of Major Yelvertos. Upon me
this attempt to mettle my claims is pottectly imperative.
Having studied the marriage law, to my cost, for the last
Sr. years, lam quite satisfied that the appellant (moot
ester his native country (Ireland), unless surreptitiously,
without bevies to pay for my ratieleatises as his wife—oe
living wider his roof, it he had ma, and I were so deposed.
Such also is his position in England at this moment
Neither is Frame a neutral ground—the laws under the
Code Napoleon being somewhat summary, sod instances are
sat unknown of parties travelling together having been
lodged in prison, pending further investigation as to the
injured party. In Scotland, the debateable land, the only
result yet obtained by the appellant is to add the moms of
Wensleydale, Chelmford, and Kiopdown to that of Ard-
sullen ; sad until the examination an oath has taken niece,
nothiog final can be decided, eves is that country. Trust-
ing that these facts may throw a gleam of light on the
matter, I beg to sign myself (I could wish a name more
hominoids), " Manna Yucvsares.
"29, Cambridge-tenses, Flydwpark."

DiIIINIT RR STOCK. —lt is interesting to observe
the sassy, or otharree, of the efforts made by railway com-
pares to oadert their debenture debt tato debenture Mock.
The accounted debenture stock outstaodiog at the does of
1860 was 7.576,8711.; at the close of 1861, 7,806,5681;5t the
close of 1862. 10,665,0961. • and at the aloe* of 1662,
12,480.7891. The amosnt of detente,. load outskodine at
the alma of 1860 was 81.888,546 E ; at the rime of 1861,
87,141,4434; at the close of 1862, 89,683,3734; and at the
Blow of 1863, 89.641,5251. It was not then until last year
that tho slightest iatpreasion was made ea the aggregate de-
bailers debts outstanding, and even at the does of last
year 77,160,7961. remained to he converted lobo debenture
stock, while at the dose of 1860 the oorresPoodiog total wee
74,311.6721. Snoozed were dm amounts of debeuture stock
eroded at the close of last year by the various cnmpaniee
who bad Mated this dear dion of stock :—Belfart and
Northern Catania, 1104 at 4 per cent ; Coledesias,
113,066/. at 4 par amt. ; Cork sod Mode°, 8,3104 at 4 per
cent ; Dublin and Drogheda, 43,6721. at 4 percent. ; Enp-
lane; Ned Glasgow. 82.340/. at 4 par met. ; Glasgow and
Booth Western, 50,8934. at 4 par met. ; Great Easters,
832,673/. at 4 per cent. ; Great Norther; 2,598,513!.
at 4 per cent. ; Great North of Scotland, 11,915!.
at 4 per cent. ; Great Waders, 8,6004 at 4 per
amt., and 1.480,4:341. at 4/ per mot ; Iguana=
and Abadan Jucction, 150/. at 4 per coot. ; Lan-
cashire sod Yorkshire. 477.2741. at 4 per cent., sad 1,6004,
at 3/ per emit ; Leaden and North Wasters, 1,875,1364.
at 4 per coot, and 310.8301. at 33 per cent. ; Loudon and
South Waders, 786,4481. sr 4 per mot ; Loodos, Brighten,
and South Coast, 1,254,05111. at 4 per cent ; loadoa-
deny and Enotakilleo. 21007. at 4/ per cent., 27.4001. at
4i per cant, and 5.6101. at 5/ per omit. ; Mattehes.
ter. Sheadd, end Llecolnahire, 79,676!. as 4 par met.;
lilidload, 1/24,9074 at 4 per mat.; Illooklaud, 1,0201. at
4 par coot. ; North British. 18,2871. at 4/ per cent, and
332,5441. at 4 per cent.; North &stare, 55,8701.
at 4* sat., and 164.0,7!. at 4 par east.; North Loa-
dos, 01751. at 4 per cent.; Port Carlisle Deck sod Bad-
way, 73,5371. ; Scottish Cram,. 307.6054 at 4 per cent. ;
&olds% North E.stiern, 76,8844 at 4 percent ; Shresrshony
and Hayford, 35,5454 at 4 pat edit ;South Bevan. 80,8787.
at 4 per cent, and 48,6151. at 4/ per omit. ; South Eastern,
6ht,810/. at 4 par mat.; Taff Vale. 38,8174 at 4 per cad. ;
Ulster, 41,6351. at 4 per dot. ; Yob of Neat!, 40,0544 at
4/ per cent.; Waterford and Hilltapay, 54,6494 at 6 per
cat; and Waterford sod Limedek, WV at 4 per cent..
and 5,0004 at 41 per coot., 10,0004 at 4/ per cent, sod
6004 at 4/ per old.

The townie in a very disturbed state: The mob
wrecked the Balboni] School and other houses io Brown.
street. A large number of navvies are in town. They came
in contact with the Orange party about an hour ago. and
had a regular battle. and ware with difficulty separated
by the polka. Every portion of the disturbed dirtricta is
lined by the police with fixed bayonets. The military has
been called out, mad an at prosiest, under the commend
of Mr. Lyons, J.P., parading the Orange districts.
Great rioting is expected. The disturbed districts are
literally crowded by men, women, girls, mad boys—all
ferrying large bludgeons, pitchforks, hatchets, fro. At
eve deka the riots continuo with increased fury ; in
fast, at the present moment t►ey marque io viidence any.
thing of the like that hu occurred in this tinfortusatotowu for
many years. On Saturday sight they resumed their old work
of Mese throwing sad house breaking with fresh zeal. They
made a Rally on St. Malachi's church about 12 o'clock, and
but for the primenoe of • formidable foree of policemen
would inevitably have laid it in ruins. On Sunday everting
they wreaked their vengeance on all the unfortunate °Mho-
, lice who fell inter their heads. Many. iodised ail of them,
were poor inoffeoeive men and lyceum, proceeding quietly to
their homes, or taking unsuspectingly an sweeties walk through
districts oensidand comparatively quiet end free from tk
presence of rioters. During the cannot lam night, Shodyrew
was the sone of women t disturbance. The howilag and
cheering and reports of fire-arms were audible all over the
entire town. At the first dawn the tumult increased, and
the savage scenes which took plain ore Friday mining were
repeated. The anfortuoate mill girls were set upon sad
beaten. Their clothes were torn from their back., and easy
of them were dragged by the hair along the ground.
Strange to say the "aatlaorities," although rumour
alleges they were perfectly aware that such outrages
were in contemplation, took so measures to guard against
them. Maddened by these unmanly attacks on their wives
and daughters the catholic party mustered about eleven
o'clock this day to the number of some hundreds. The♦
were joined by a large body of navvies. They and the
orange party met at Durham-street, and ► tierce fight ea-
sued. Several homes, in fact, whole streets, have been laid
almost in ruins. The military have been called out, and
two troops of hussars are at present patrolliog the streets.
Fighting Is going on io several districts, and the
wildest rumours are afloat, The evening threatens
to be the bloodiest we have yet 'err. The
magistrates are, or at least seem, powerless. They
seem wholly unable to meet the crisis. Of course the
catholic' are the principal sufferers. The local polio", who
are ruder the 000trol of the town council, most of whom are
of the orange party, would be most useful it entirely
absent from the scene. The town is in a most fearful state
of riot and alarm. A telegram at 7 o'clock says the rioting
eoutioues with unabated fury. The military are under
arms and patrolling the town. The oral:mem/on made
another attempt to wreck Rt. Malaches Church.
They were repelled by the seeker and about forty
men. Shots were exchanged, and considerable damage
is done to the church. In other parts of the town the
orangemen wreaked their fury on the residences of catho-
lic, leaving the houses literally in ruins. Several collisions
have taken place between the ocangemen and catholic'.
The latter are at • disadvantage having no firearms. The
former are abundantly supplied with guns and pistols.
Potties lute° been brought to the hospital severely wounded.
The conduct of the magistrates le 'most incomprehensible.
The orangemen act am if they were allowed perfect
impunity. The party who attempted to wreck St. Ma-
le/hes were met by Captain Verner, who war is advance
of the military. They gathered round him and cheered
him lustily, sod went on their way without interruption.
The town is in a fearful state. The shops are all closed,
the people most excited, and every are trembling far what
the next hour may prodoon.—Preessaa's Journal.
A spesiel dine, of the Northers Whip Nays :—" The
riots this day were totally unparalleled in the dreadful ex-
cesses to which they reached. The whole town was almost in a
state of siege during the day. The houses of business were
closed ; in many cases the workers did not go to their
employment. Riots west on all day. The military were
called oat. About twenty people have received gunshot
wounds from the mobs ; but as yet the military have not
taken extreme measures. The whole riots of this day
were canoed by the marching of navvies through the streets
about 12 o'clock and wrecking Brown-street school. The
town is in a state of unexampled ocenrootion.“

(11011 OUR OWN

DUBLIN, TUZDAT NIGHT.

Belfast is in a fearful state of escitement. The
Roman catholic navvies, to the number of 500,
challenged the Orange ship-carpenters to fight
them to-day, when the carpenters broke into a gun-
maker's, took away all the weapons there, and, in
addition, armed themselves with hatchets,
bludgeons, pitchforks, and knives. They then
marched through the town, but no intelligenos of a
conflict has been received. A nlau shot some days
since died this morning ; and an unconfirmed
report mentions that five others, shot early to-day,
have likewise died. The police, it is also stated,
fired or, the Orangemen to-day and killed three.
The Roman catholic' have held a meeting, and sent
a deputation to the Castle, requiring the removal of
the local magistrates, as they have no confidence in
them. They threaten to arm in their own defence
if this demand is not complied with, and money has
been raised for the purpose.

THE EXTRAORDINARY ACCIDEIfT ON THE
NORTH LONDON RAILWAY.