The Express.
London, England, 1864-10-11 00:00:00

THE EXPREB3„ TUESDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 11, 1864.

found capable of explanation, and that it is due to
temporary and local causes, easy to be removed.
It not, the Board of Works will have to ask for
compulsory powers. Mr. Caßromi's suggestion
that it should be left to time and public opinion to
force the companies to use the subways seems mis-
placed. It is reasonable that the construction of
the subways should be a work of time, but not that
a public nuisance should be allowed to continue •
minute after the means of obviating it have been
provided at the public expense. The rights of the
public in this matter extend far beyond the ex-
preasion of opinion. The public is a party to the
question between the Board and the companies.
It is the constituent of the Board, aid the owner
of the streets, and can either moeify or wholly
resume, through Parliament, those rights in the
thoroughfares which it originally conceded. Should
the Board find it necessary to apply for a legisla-
tive enactment to put a stop to the obstruction of
the roadway where • subterranean passage has
been provided, they will have the hearty support
of the public in their resort to Parliament. 1

Cbt Court.

BALMOB.A.L. Ocr. 8.

The Queen drove to Alt-na-guithasack yesterday,
accompanied by the Princess Helena loud Princes' Beatri,
and attended by Mils Heuer.
The Octants= of Fife and Mr. Glwistone had the honors
of dining with her Majesty and the Royal Family.
Prince Alfred honoured Lieut.-Colonel Farquharson with
his company ate drive for deer in the Balloch Bide Walt
The Dean of Westminster and Lady Augusta firouley
arrived at the Cowls.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-office
from the Governors of Canada and the North American
Provinces. Carat°lun were sent to the Governors of Malta,
Ceylon, Hong Hoag, and Lnbone.

THE COrIT AT BALMOBAL.—Her Majesty, ao-
comanied by his Royal Highs= Prince Arthur, Prism
Helena, sad the Hoe. Min Lassllas, lady-ia.waiting, cm
Thursday last drove through Breams to Loch Callas.
Hem posies and ghillies were in waiting from Malacca,
and the royal party, having mounted, proceeded up the
wild jagged vale along the east side of the lake to Loth
Bander, which sands at a very considerable elevation above
the former loch. A sumptuous luncheon was here waken
of, followed by a delightful ramble through the grey
scraggy alpine grounds adjoining. after which her Majesty
and party, having mounted their ponies, returned to W-
ater Lodge, where the royal carriage was in roadie's, and
immedi►tely returned, vi► Breams, to Bilateral, which
was reached about 7 p.m. The day was fine, clear, and
sunshiny, and the royal excuraordets enjoyed the trip to
the "land of the mountain and flood " very much. Hun=
were changed at the Inveromild Arms Hotel, bah is grim
end returning.—Dundee Advertiser.

PRINCE ism). —We (Scotsman) understand that
his Royal Highness Prince Alfred is expected to arrive at
Floor, Castle, near Kelso, on the 17th hut, on a visit to
their Graces the Duke and Duchess of Roxburghe. It is as
yet uncertain whether hew all be p went at the Kelso races,
which take place on the 19th and 20th, although it is very
likely that he will be ; but the main object of his visit is to
enjoy the sport of salmon-angling fora day or two In the
Floor, wafer. From his meows last autumn on two dif-
ferent occasions in the same water, coupled with his prac-
tice along with the Duke of Roxburgh* in Norway during
this past rummer, the Prince may be regarded now as a
successful, as he is a keen, angler; and it is to be hoped
that the Tweed, which is at present, from the continued
drought, in a very low state, and ether unsuitable for
angling, will be by the time of his visit in such a condition 1,
as will encore his royal highness some satisfactory sport.
Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales are expected to arrive in Eng7-red from the Cow-
t nen% on or about the 28th inst.

Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Cambridge
arrived at Oembe:dge Cotta s, Hew, on Saturday but, from
visiting the Earl of Scarborough at Sandbank Park, near
Tickbill, Yorkshire, sod Lord and Lady Foley at Worksop
Manor, Notts.

The Earl and Countess de Grey arrived at
Wishaw Cr.tla Scotland, on Pridsy, on a visit to Lord
and Lady Belhaven.

A marriage has been arranged between the Hor.
Georp Mimilliam and Miss E. Anson, youngest daughter
of the late floe. General Anson.

Sir Coutta and Lady Lindsay }Ave left Farrance's
Hotel for their town residence inGroivenoroquare.

On Saturday last, the Bth inst., Sir Charles
Hoary Coots, premier berneet of tretaad, of Ballyfin
House, Quiet's County, expired at bit town reeideace,
5, Connaught•pLes. The deceased represented Quess's
County in partluneet for numy years. He is sneessied by
his wet, Charles Hoary, born at /3allrfia in 1815.

The banquet given by the Mayor of Liverpool in
honour of the visit of the Chancellor of the Exchequer will
take place at the Townhall on Wednesday evening. On
the following day (Thursday) the Chamber of Comma°e
will hold a special meeting to enrol Mr. Gladstone an hono-
rary member of that body, after which the members will
adjonro to the Town hall, when Mr. Gladstone will speak
in reply to an address from the chamber.

HEALTH Or LORD Caauna.—The Earl of Car-
lisle continues very prostrate at his mat, Castle Howard,
Mallon. His lordship's medical stkredants report, how.
ever, that there was throughout the whole of last week a
regular improvement in his lordship's condition, and they
are not without hopes that, with quiet and retirement, his
health may be much restored.

On Thursday last the Rev. Ralph Blakelock,
M.A., was collated lo an honorary canonry in the Cathedral
Church of Norwich, vacant by the death of the Rev. Chas.
Shorting. Os the tams day the Rev. Chas. Gaps, ILA..
was limed to the perpettril curacy of West Somerton, in
Norfolk, in the gift of the Lord Bishop of Norwich, by
rosined lapse.

The viaduct across Ludgate•hill will be highly
ornamental. Whereas the mere inner iron bridge itself
only cases 9001., ita decoration and extern► momenta in
iron will cost 2,500/. The space between toe permaneat
way and the door of this viaduct is to be carefully filled in
with a substance like tan, so as to silence to letes b....a%
and around all sound of the passing trains.
_ .

The Parisian world of letters has lost one of its
most distinguished members, Count Horace de Viel-Castel.
who died last week. He was a man of great artistic tests
and liberal views. Count Viel•Cestel wee the author of
the following works :—" Madame la Donbass," "Gerard
de Stolberg." "Cecile de Vareuil," " Archainbaud de Con-
born," "Albert de Saint Peonage," "Lea Statute du Saint
Fnprit," " Souvenirs Hietoriques stir Marie Asides***
1" Maris Antoinette et Is Revolution."

A SUCCeee has been achieved at the French
Opera, Paris, by a new work 31 M. Mermet's—Roland
Ronerraar. M. Mermet commenced bin career about 23
years ago, in a rather peculiar way. Mdlle. Stole. the well.
known cantatrioe, and Inas Pilled, then director of the
French Opera, were walking one evening in one of the
streets running oat of the Faubourg Montmartre, when
they were startled and charmed by hearing a fine baritone
voice" discoursing mast eloquent music* at an open ease-
meat. They determined to lee what it was, and knocked at
the door of the unsuspecting vocalist, who was no other
than M. Mermet, then utterly unknown. On explanation
it turned out that what had charmed !Adm.. Stolz was an
air from an opera of hie, Le Roi Darid. He was asked to
go through it then and there at the piano, and readily
complied. Leon Mkt liked it, and brought it out, bat
without any great anecess. Ever since M. Marmot has been
engaged on his Roland.

A new aociety in Peri% called the International
Racacotime Society, the object of which is to establish new
racecourses in France and elsewhere, and, by offering prizes,
encourage what is becoming in Fumes and Germsoy a
nnivenal favourite source of amassment, eommemaid busi-
ness on Saturday for the Bret time. They have rooted a
convenient and picturesque spot. known as PorchHoutaine,
soar Versailles. Here are erected handsome and solidly
built stands and stables, with all the requirement. of a
racecourse. The gains of the society are to arise from the
entrance fern to the ground.

Otters see multiplying fast in the River Itches,
in Hanle, and they destroy plat quantities of trout. Pre.
psrations are therefore making to add otter hunting to the
list of South Hampshire sports.

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AMERICA.

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ARRIVAL OF THE HIH
(ViA Grasocealls.)

NEW YORK, BUT. 90.
Heavy firing was heard on Grant's left during
last night, and the Federal; evacuated Pilot Knob,
Missouri, after exploding the fort magazine.
It is believed that Farragut will be transferred to
the North Atlantic fleet, when it is expected he will
attack Wilmington. Admiral Lee will command in
Mobile Bay.

THE REGISTRATIONS.--(THIS DAT.)

OTTY OF LONDON.

The Revising Barrister (Alfred Hanson, Req.),
held his sixth coati this mornins, in the Oonrt of Oonisson
Plena at Oadhsll.

Mr. Sidney Faith and Mr. George Ledger represented the
fibers] interest, and Mr. Nokes (firm of Nokes,
and Francis) appeared for the City of London Conservative
Assoeistion.
_ _

President Davis, ins speech made at Salisbury,
North Carolina, referred to the recent reverses of
she Confederate arms, and stated that though
there was a temporary gloom, yet the spirit of the
Confederacy was unbroken, and peace and inde-
pendence would be wrung from the hated foe. He
urged all absent soldiers to return to the army.
General Hooker has been appointed to command
in the West.

The lists set down for the day's revision were thine of the
!alias@ ow:prising the wards of Gude Sward, Cheap,
OordwaiDera, Dcwpte, Cornhill. and Cripplegste Within.
Before the nylons berrister took his seat,
Mr. Sidney Smith Mak 3 that is wiferenee to the objection
which had been taken by the conservatives on the previous
day to the name of Mr. W. S. Lindrty, IL P., on the ground
of nos-residence at 29, Grosvenor-street West, he had
received - note from - the

a that gentleman to effect
that he had raided on the premises in question from
somewhere about the end of Jemmy to the 3rd of August.
The Revising &mister—l think that is sufficient proof of
residence, mid I mast not allow the objection.
The name was accordingly retained.

EXTRAORDINARY AND MELANCHOLY DEATH,
BY DROWNING* OP AN OLD CITY MERCHANT.

It is rumoured that the Georgia State authorities
referred the question of a peaceable settlement to
the Confederate governor.

Last night Mr. W. Carter, the ooroner for Surrey,
held a lengthened inquiry at the Wheatsheaf Tavern, Upper
Tooting, on the body of Richard Gibbs, E.q., aged 74, for
upwards of half a century wee of the largest tea brokers and
merchants in the city of London, who met with his death
under the following melancholy circumstances :
Mr. Bonner appeared to watch the proceedings for the re
latices of the deceased.

INTELLIGENCE.
NEW YORK, Sin. 30.

Money easy. Gold, 94 premium. Stocks de-
pressed. New York Centrals, 115 f. 111:nois, 1181.
Erie, 93f. 5-20 Bonds, 107 f.

The deceseed gentlemen was highly catenaed, sod both
in the City and in the neighbourhood of his residence, Elm-
wood, Tooting, he wee most charitable to the poor. The
jury, which was composed of the gentry of the district,
having viewed the body of the lamented gentleman, which
lay at the mansion, sod the damn into which he had fallen
and perished, the following evidence was trken.

Sarah Barton rid—l was in the service of the late Mr.
Gibbs, at Elmwood. It was my usual custom every
morning to wte water into hie bedroom for him to one. I
did so oa Friday morning, at hellion 7 o'clock. I
expected to have seen him in the room. He wee not there,
and I thought be had gone to the closet. Mn. Gibbs was
in the bed. and she asked ms what I was going to
give Mr. Gibbs for his bevakfut. I put the jug
of water down and left the room. I came up again at a
quarter-pant 8 with his tea to the bedroom, as it was my
custom to do so. I found that he had not returned to the
room. My mistress berme alarmed, and flew out of bed,
and we commenced to search for him. We tried all the
doors and found them right A felloweervant celled my
attention to • sliding doer of a small apartment which con-
tains a tank, on the second flight of stairs in the house. I
was surprised to see the door open, and on looking up I
caw my master's feet on the edge of the cistern. I knew it
warn bis feet by his stockings. I screamed oat that my
master warn in the cistern, sad the footman sod other WiAl.
trice came, and he wu got out. He was lying with his
face downwards in the tank. He only had on his night
shirt, flannel drawers, and dressing-gown, and his clothes
were wet. He was quite dead.
yon account for his being found in the

d~Mzn!

Witw•F-No, I cannot, ezo•pt that if he went to the
water-skeet and found that w►ter would not flow through
the valve, he might have goo* to the cistern end endeavoured
to remedy the defeot, and by doing so overbalanced himself
and fallen in. I known him do that some short time
ago. He Gould easily have got up from the slain to the
framework which •upporte the tank. The top of the tank
is about 2i feet from the stairs, and the depth inside is 5 feet.
I don't think anyone put him there, and I think it very
improbable that he intended to throw himself in. I last saw
him alive at balf•past 10 on the previous evening, and he
was cheerful and ippy. He had been to the City on the day
previous, and he brmght a little medicine tram Jowl).
He said he thought he was not so wall.

By the Coroiier--He had left a mentorandlutt, written in
peoml, is
Brown, go at
troom.
forltthweaa
e to the following
wu red :
muter
that did not wish to give much trouble to his servants, and
if he found the valve wrong in the closet he was very
likely to attempt to remedy it at ono* without calling for
the servants.

Alfred Prior, the footman, spoke to having got the de-
oesaed out of the cistern. Saw the deceased oo the previous
evening, and did not notice any change or peculiarity in his
mind. He lived on very happy terms with his wife, and he
was a very good master. If be could not have got any water
in the closet, witness thought it very lately that he might
have gone to the tank and have endeavoured to reach the
valve or the plaos out of order.
Mr. William Weston mid the doomed gentleman was his
meteor portlier. and they carried on the business of tea
brokers at No. 24, Rood-lane, Fenchorch-strest. He wits
74 years of age.
Coroner—Do you think it likely that he was put in the
cistern by anyone ?
Witness -No, Ido not. He we a very powerful man,
and no Iwo men could have put him in the well against
hie will.

Coric—ier—You know of nothing that could have operated
on his mind—no pecuniary difficulties !
Witness—Most certainly not. He was in very affluent
circumstances, and I know of nothing in busker matters
that could in any way affect his mind. I saw him in the
City on the previous day (Thursday). He complained of •
palpitation of the heart when be awoke, and he had con--
suited Dr. Sewell._

--iioroie;-7How do you I,XOlllt for hie body being found
in the tank._

believe, as stated, that he had attempted to
adjust something in the cistern to make the water flow,
when he overWanosd himself and fell in. He was an
active energetic person, and if he found anythindwroug he
was just likely to go at once with a view of putting it
right without troubling the servants. He has dose so at
air late place of busiome in White Hart-court. He is the
last man, I should think, who would take his own life.
Mr. W. Green said be had been in the service of the de-
ceased is the City for 29 years, and he spoke of the general
active habits of his late master, and of his &sin to remedy
at owe anything that might get out of order. He was the
last person whom be should think would commit suicide.
He bad ample means at his command, and he delighted in
going about end doing good.
The jury, after • brief deliberation, returned a verdict to
the effect "That the deceased had accidentally fallen into
the cistern and was suffocated and drowned."

The iovestigetioo did not ter;Tfitet;tiota a late hoar.

EXTRAORDINARY SELF-STARVATION OP A
LUNATIC GENTLRMAN.

ftOOAILM.
WRDIZSDAY. Os Noaram THURSDAY.
N.W. to N. H. and back Mang N. to W. and 8 W.,
to V.. variable. mo- moderate to strong.
dente, line gene-
ralN.N.E. to W.N.W., Wilmot As above, with some
variable, to rain.
froah, decimally doe.
N.L to N.W.. fresh, Aciornsix N. to W., fresh.
reasrally Ana
N. N.& to W.N.W., Sums. As nett above.
trash to moderate.
Northers=!Method. Wealsrawlrelsad, Wales, sad ad-
mgarielisstwsed lastaall gel Southern.
and Nara Seinane It Channela. sad lay of Mass:. Latent

An inquiry was held by Mr. John Humphreys,
Middlesex coroner, at the Dolphin Toyer', Hackney, last'
night, seventies the death from sallutarvatMn of Mr.
Jacob Paterson, aged 40 years.
It appeared from the strides°, that the deceased gentle-
man was the son of a magistrate of the county of Essex, and
that during the present year he bad exhibited a strong
suicidal tendency. Is April last he was arrested for going
upon a railway sod lying down at length with his head upon
the rails just as the Mein was approaching. While in the
Home ef Detention he made inch frequent attempts upon
his life that he was prononeced to he insane, and woe
removed to Me Pembroke House Lunatic Asylum, in Hack.
my. For the last five weeks he resolutely refused to take
food, and though he was compelled to swallow some by
means of the stomach.putop, be speedily became so reduced
that fora mouth past he wee unable to get ant of bed. He
died on Monday night from atrophy from starvation, and '
so extreme was the stake of emaciation to which he bad
brought himself, that hie body, when viewed by the jury,
presented the appearance of a skeleton covered with skin.
Mr. Appleton, surgeon said that the deceased, when
premed to take food, used to decline on the ground that
it wes too expensive for him. He did not say that his object
was to Kamm death. Turtle soup, and wine, t&c. were
given to him, by force at times, but be speedily became so
weak that it was almost impossible to administer the food
without danger.

It was stated that there vu a anieidal tendency in the
deceased's family, a dater of hie having effected self -de -
atm ct ion sometime since.

The Coroner having summed up.
The jury returned a verdict. That the deo/geed being
confined as a kinetic of suicidal tendency, died from atrophy,
resulting from his ratted to take food ; but whether the
said refusal was resorted to as a means of committing
suicide the evidence was not sufficient to show."
The inquiry then terminated.

Tan Recairr FAILTION IN LIND& —Ba./Tints'
Ccaretu—Yesterday term eases came before the Leeds
Bankruptcy Court in which houses which have recently
faded in consequence of the Leeds Banking Company's stop-
page were shown to be large debtors, not only to that aem-
peoy, but to other banks. In the case of John Clapham,
hosiery mannfacterer. Leeds, the Leeds Lae=
According to the Hamburg News, the marriage Company
proved for 3534, the National Bank of for NU,
and the Leeds Meteeatile Bank (limes. Jolts Holmes
of the hereditary Grand Duke Nichols' and the Princess sad Ca) for 43d4 In the ems of Terser end Jeheson.
Deemer of Denmark will not be celebrated till after the cloth manufacturer,, Leeds, the Lends Mereantile Bank
lapse of a rear and a half. The prince will pass the winter proved for 5351.. the Natinial Bank of Scotland for 3484,
at Copenhagen, bat go to Russia next summer. The Greed the Bank of &hoe for 1691., the Leeds Banking Compaeyf 5421.. and the Old Leeds Beak (Misers. Bed:* t and
Due will remain another fortnight at Copeubegec, and will Co.),w far 1194 In the case of the soMrioes JobsWood-
probably visit that capital again about Christmas. I heed Marsden, Mr. W. Selland, cut-nail wasecaotursr,
The Indian telegraphs, which connect together and a member d ti" canneittel d ineeetkatico isle the
__, attain of the Leads &Vries Company, was appointed Calcutta. Bombay, Madras. and all the principal trade mignon The total ashes primed spinet the mist* loom in India, are sow advanced eastwards as far as were 34,7601.. al whisk 82,4151. is owing to the Leeds Beek-
Rangooo, and the routes thence to China and to Australia, Mg Company, and 5861. to Overload. Gamey, and Co„
by way of Singapore, Java, and Timor, are almost entirely lood••• OA the foraMing lama dae to Mahn sae to respect
sisoly
shallow
water
so far as the sobssesiss of sesemmedatica paper which ham bees dishonours& It
is well understood, however, that the large item swift be pars of the Ilse is concersed. "sad do .04 otitsrvirs• • the Leeds Soaking Ocespany, on estionst of J. Woedhead
writes Biz Charles Bright, "offer any diflicolty white Marsden's bills. will be meek ineressedie mess of Now
should prevent our having daily telegrams from Roos KOOS. arrsuai PaLkon. Own DRILLING DAG.
Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide, and Brisbane within three Mornay, OCT. 10.—Admissions on payment, 3,588; We
Tem from this day." 1 by mom tickets, 849; tend. 4,382.