The Express.
London, England, 1863-06-23 00:00:00

Na 5,263.)
GaUTTA, Galling at the Cape of Good Hope
ilift xe4,..—srimx COMMUNICATION between LON-
DON and INDIA by the magnificent Fleet of Steamers belonging
In the DM India aid London Shipping Company
The weitkeowa clipper auxiliary steamship CALCUTTA. 2,161
tons, Mehorse power, R. H. WRIGHT, Commander, sow loading
1 In the Violorla (Lositio Docks, will leave on tab J lily. embarking
peasengem at and leaving Gravesend on Seth July, Lot Calcutta.
calling at the Caps df Good Hope end Manna mi. magnificent
ship. built expressly for the India trade. has been thoroughly
matted, has ant-rate accommodation for paseengen, and wifi
carry an erperienoell engem also a riewardess. Thkaverage
of the last eight saps of this Company was 71 days le
= and this ship last season mode the Guarani voyage in le
days and the homeward in 65 days, Wang the shortest pomades
on record.
The line will be continued on the Yeth of each succeeding
month, with the strictest punctually, by one of the Company's
megnitkent fleet of suabuy screw steam saps.
Tor freight or purge apply to GRINDLAY and Co., 65, Par-
liament-street. &W. ; the bratata, ALTRAID ItRIITT and Co.,
150. Leadeuhall-stmt. &C.* oral the Olhas of the Company,
i 9, Aitaciny.lane, London, E.C.; whet* also cations foe
appoiamenta a toiclAh pawn in this service should be made.
RICHARD DREW, Secretary.
East India and London Shipping company :Limited),
fl, Iffroleg-leas, LC.

7HZ IMNSINOroir OOZE 11111212701 C
BUILDINGS.

WNOLISH and SCOTTISH LAW LIFE
A/MUSA-NCI ASSOCIATION. U. Waterloo-Place. lode
dos. Jam ilk 180.—NOTICS l 3 BEBILBY GIVER that the
HALF-YY.LELY INTIMIST on the sham of the Amputation.
at the rate of Four Ithillings per shore per annum, will become
PAYABLZ to the proprietors ,free of Inc.me tart at the alum
the Amodatton on and after the 10th day of July, 1301—By
order of the Board.
J. HILL WILLIAMS. Actuary and Secretary.

The following is • report from the surveyor of
.tb• Moe of her Majeety'm Works and Public Buildings,
explanatory of the estimated the Gest d eempleting the
Exhibition buildings at Kensington/ere, sad rendering
them permanently substantial :
" THE INTIANATIONLI, EXHIBITION BUILDING,
KIIIen1OTON•OONC
" Offic• of Works. Jame 19, 1863.

"Sir,—ln obedienos to the direetioss of the First Com•
mksioner of her Majesty's Works, that I should give him •
general outline of the asters of the works comprised is
my estimate, sod speeidcatime for the repairs sad re-
instidemeate of this boildiog. I have the homes/ to submit
the following staismeot :

"The brick building in Cromwell-reed, mid during the
ifshibition in 1862 u a gallery for pictures, is a subetan.
tial street:ire. The roof, however, rimidres to be repaired
sad the skylights replaced with others of • Amager char
rioter glared with sheet glom. It is proposed tato to lay
sew wrought door boards over these now exiling. and
to render the whole of the gallery fire-proof by the alloy
Neu of Fox and Barrett's principle, which has been found
efficient, or by the construction of brick arise
en iron girders nadir the present door. The re-
mainder of the buildings us partly permanent and
oily temporary is their emeterselites. The iris
NOW* and des, ,all .-tbs yes trams at
Se malls, will mama permanently with some adjustments
and modifications. The timbers of the mots, as wall as the
skylights, are, with the exception of the roofs over the
rive and traesepte, of a temporary characeer, and it is pro.
posed to remove them, substituting new timbers with •
covering of slate or marine metal. The skylights will be
entirely sew, and the glees in them will be of the quality
known as the 21 come sheet. The roofs over the
nave end transepts will be slated. All the gutters
throughout will be Heed with lead ; and the sky-
light, frames, ridges, and hips, will be covered with lead.
The joists and floor boards of the galleries will be removed.
and substantial new doors will be substituted. The whole
of the ground doors throughout the entire bedding will
be removed. A layer of commie 12 Weiss thick will then
be laid over she whole surface, and a new door constructed,
with new material,. The joists will be of the best fir tim-
ber ; the sleepers will be of oak, on proper brick wills,
built on the concrete platform before described, and the
floor boards will he 1t inch thick, planed, and pat together
with iron Memos- All the ceilings throughout, except
the nave and transept, will be plastered, se will also all
the brick walls within the building. A complete system '
of drainage was oonetracted whets the buildings were
erected. They will, however, require to be re-
paired, and in parts retold. With regard to the
domes, it is proposed to build piers of brick-
work upon solid concrete foundation, and to construct
brick arches, springing from these piers. The lower porticos
of the domes will then be filled in with brickwork, covered
extereally with lead, and the upper portion will be glazed
with thick glass. The ieterior parts of the brickwork, ia-
eluding the piers and arches, will be plastered. It is not
proposed to remove the irousork, but to build it in with
the brickwork. AA respects the completion architec-
turally of the exterior of the building on its three
Oise, I propose that the existing outlines should be pre.
served, with such an amount of decoration introduced as
may °mamma with the purposes to which the building
is to be applied. The matenal to be employed will be Port-
: Led cement, as it seemed to me to be an un
exposes to face the building with stone. wpm=
the surrounding maenad and buildings are of tie lees
explosive material. These are the more important works
contemplated by me ; but there are others of a minor
description, which ars fully set forth in the specificities and
estimate already presented to the first commissioner. The
•
estimateel have made of these several worksare the result of
aisanuemests in detail, and the value I have put upon
each pert will be amply sufficient to cover the cost. The
warming and ventilating apparatus is an approximate
estimate only but I have • confident belief that the sum
I have tasted will be sufficient for the purpose.
Pena/ " Hum A. Burr.
"'lye Secretary of the Moe oh Works."

MIITTA Direct (to sail early in July), Meagre.
bar and Co.'s mew Min taUIInAGH, • 1 IS rMA
1.137 tons rmemoc, WILLiAId MAIN DAM., Commumier .loading
In the bast India bead medadlocat l accommodation.
—For freight or pow opts to ZIL caAILY,m HAMMY. and
27, Leitistreet,

UTTA Direct, with immediate deepateb,
Ireeuspeet="Ncitsr.vgr=rlgif,...ii
Labe Ilan Wl* Doc Her matalinant cabin aceomoodalSon
—Yoe freight or preppply to GILLATLY, BANZIY, and
SiwILL, dr, Inadentarost.

T_IONGKONG wad WAhIiPOA (with immediate
deepateh: , the 999 feataaillng_cllpper barque CONFLICT,
♦ l 9 99921. 9n tons regbdar, J. 11. WAIT, Commander : loading
In the Vast India Dock& Apply to DEVITT and POOLE, 9,
Billiterutruet. IL a te GM.LATLY, HAWKEY, and !SEWELL

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Yesterday an official Poor-law investigation took
Sam in the board-room of Mary!shore Workhouse before
Mr. 8. B. Oane, Assistant Poor•law Commissioner, as to
certain Merges preferred by Viscount Royalism, M.P.,
Mr. G. E. Douglas, the master, and the porter of
Irttiteblishmesit. and as to the administration of relief to
the casual poor. Visoonot Itaynham and nearly the whole
of the Board of Directors and Guardians were present, whilst
Mr. Lewis attended professionally on behalf of the master.
The inquiry wee a protracted one, and at the close the in-
= said hr would report the evidence to the Poor.law
CHURCH RATER AT WALTHADISTOW.—The oppo-
nents of the rate in this suburban village have just obtained
a great emcees which practically puts an end to the contest.
At the vestry meeting on Thursday last the rate was refused
by a considerable majority. whereupon the acting church-
warden is a very conciliatory manner =premed hie great
unwillingeens to put the pariah to the trouble and annoyance
of a poll. and pledged himself that if the °ppm:mote of the
rate would refrain from further opposition, no one objecting
to the rate should be compelled to pay it. This appeal was
cordially supported by the vicar, and eventually it was
agreed, on the understanding that the rate, if 111111 k, should
be optimal, and that nest }ear an eodeavour should be
Maas to raise the necessary funds without having recourse
to a rote at all. that po further opposition should be offered.
A. pro forma poll was then opened for the purpose of revolt-
ing Ike decision of the vestry, the opponents of the rate
with a few exceptions refraining from voting, is order to
allow of the silting of what in all probability will be the
last of the church rates at Walthamstow. It re only fair to
add that the success of the opposition is mainly due to the
able leadership of Ebenezer Clarke, Esq., who at one time
stood almost alooe in his resistance to tharete.
Crisman RAILWAYS. Wharncliffe meetings
were held yesterday afternoon in the board-room of the
Manchester, Sheffield. and Lincolnshire Railway Company,
at Mancheeter.of the Cheshire, Midland, and West Cheshire
Railway Companies, for the purpose of oossiderier the fol-
lowing bills now pending in parliament :-1. A Bill to grant
to the Greet Northern Railway Company certain powers
with respect to the Stockport and Woodley Junction,
Cheshire, Midland, Stockport, Timperley, end Altrinchsm,
West Cheshire sod Manchester South &maim and
' Altrincham Railways ; and for other purposes. 2. A Bill
' to empower the Lnedon and North Western Railway Com.
pony to make new ;mach railways, and to abandon part of
the CheUord and Kautalord line of their railway ; and for
other purposes. Both bills were approved of and ease-
-1 timed. Meetings were also held of the Stockport, Tim-
perley, and Alt' meham Junction Railway Company, and
of the Stockport and Woodley Junction Railway Company,
for the purpose of considering the first-named bill, which
was accordingly sanctioned by both companies.
WATER SPOUT IN SCOTLAND. —On Thursday after-
noon a very heavy shower of rain fell from a waterspout
which 'woke over Balloch and neighbourhood. doing im-
menee damage to the crops. On the road leading to Laos
dense volume fell, completely cutting up the road, and
almost reoderiog it impassable. Strange to say that at Lusa,
about six miles detect, only a few slight showers fell,
scarcely discolouring the streams in the neighbourhood.
Edi Margit Courant.
INHUMAN CONDUCT OP A FATHER. shocking
Instance of creel parental treatment has just been brought
before the Buxton bench of magistrates. A blacksmith
named Samuel Vanes. residing at Doveholes, three miles
from Buxton, was charged with ill-treating his daughter, a
young woman, 22 years of age. Inspector Shaw stated
that from information received he went to priaooer's house
last Thursday. in the front room of which, upstairs (which
was is a most filthy state), he found the young woman in
a pitiable condition. She was fastened to the bed by a
rope, baying her hands also tied together. Rer only attire
was a man's shirt, and she presented a very wretched se-
ller father coming tn. the superintendent ordered
gina:r immediately release her, and having procured a cart,
the officer took her to the union workhouse of Chapel-en-
le Frith. From subsequent information it appears that the
poor girl was confined only about a fortnight ego; that she
had no medical attendant on the occasion, and since then
scarcely the bare necessaries of life, and that her mind had
become partly affected. Several witnesses corroborated the
fact of her being ill-Seated, and stated that they had fre-
quently seen Vanes whip his daughter, and that he, in fad,
purposely kept a whip to dose ; that on several occasions
(the defendant limier locked the outside door) screams were
heard by the neighbours, who, on looking through the
window, saw him throw several cans of water on the girl,
which ran ie a stream outside from under the door. la
defence, she prisoner pleaded that his wife was very ill,
that he had a large family, and that when he went to his
work too was forced to tie Ms daughter up, to keep her out
of Meth's! ; that what he dad was for the best, the water
having been thrown upon her by the dodoes order. The
bench commented severely upon the prisoner's harsh and
cruel treatment, and sentenced him to two months'
imprisonment
OPEL& GLASSIR.—T. Haunts and Sow's Girls=
still retain the celebrity long awarded to them by the habitues
of ths Omni they 'woos INSh MignitrEic Power. with a
large and perfectly distinct Held of view, tar acme of pedee-
Woo. T. Bork anti Son make or alter Opera Moats so aa to ac-
cost'', salt mar-sighted eyes. A variety of the newest form
and fashion for this season. Moderate prices. Thos. Harris
and Son, Wiclass, opposite the British Museum gates, London.
sedffiabodirgo.--tfolvartimment)