The Express.
London, England, 1852-07-29 00:00:00

WICK. DISTRICT ELECTION.

CLOSI Or TII3 POLL.

king 233
Lodi

BUILDERS' BENEVOLENT INSTITUTION.
Tan DAY.

The fifth annual general meeting of the friends
and substribers to this claarity, which was founded for the
purpuee .4 giving relief to aged and decayed members of
the bidding trade, was held this day at the London-tavern,
Mr Th nuns Orient!, president, in the chair.
The report stated that, during the past year, the society
had made very satisfactory progress, and that, owing to
the iacres.....l support, the directors had been enabled mate-
rially to iu, ruse both the number of the pensioners and the
moonlit of 3 per cent stock. The total number of pens
signior. us& upon the funds is 15, but there are still a large
number waiting for admission. The ball held at Willis's
Booms hal been successful, there being an inane upon
last yesi's receipts of 171. ITs. Bd. Since the last annual
meeting a new bye-law had been passed, extending the
bends of the institution to the province, and a egro-
neatens. tat had been made at Brighton, where a keg saw
nunee had been formed, which was working very esthetic-
torily. The report having announced that &mud Morton
Pete, E.g., M.P., hail consented to act as president for the
fatalism year, concluded by calling upon the supporter& sad
well withers of the charity to continue their supprte trod
to sae their best endeavours to extend the beneftst the
imitation. The balane, sheet showed the total smut
The ived to have been 1,3211. ss. Id., end after all the new-
sari el uses bad been defrayed, there was left a balance
in toad of 211.12.. did.
The report having been adopted, votes of thanks were
itista to the committee, to Mr. Bird, and to the chair-
msa, alter which the proceedings terminated.

BALLooN ACCIDEST.—Lut evening an accident
took OKI, connected with a balloon ticent, in the New
Caulk: I'li•asure•grounds, Milemid-road. The proprietor
had ►nuounced fur several weeks " A grand aerostatic
gala," tor which purpose he made arrangements with Mr.
Henry C •aw-ll to make an ascent on Wednesday evening
from thi lift, hill in the gardens, which arc satiated on the
side of toe Itedent'ecanal. The balloon was 60 feet
in beigia, end capable of containing 30,000 feet of gas. Some
~roe i■ controlling it, as it swayed ■ great deal,
is eons. quart of the high wind which prevailed du.ing
the ate:teem. The aria machine having been well sup-
plied with Res, prepwatinne were made for starting, as sere-
rak fer.u, had engaged seats to accompany Mr. li. Col-
well in bir trip, but, three minutes before their depar-
ture, the lidluon suddenly buret with a loud noise, and was
so much turn and injured, by the rupture of the silk, that
it was utterly impeeible fur the ascent to take place that
ereninit.
ML MACAULAY, who was to hove addressed the
electors of Bdinbugh on Friday evening, for the lest
time since his election, has become so ill from a chest IMP
that he has been obliged, at the impress corm' of
bn atwlinl adllkers, to relinquish all idea of snide( Idle•
harsh at the present time. Ile was stopping fur the WI
week or two, for the benefit of his health, near Bristol, and
bed returned to London, before proceeding to EdinburO,
when his medical advisers issued the flat which has
rived the inhabitants of Edinburgh and the country at
Ws, of the views of the eminent historian on the various
lutetium which now agitate the public mind.
BUSTZEISNEAN TLLEGRAPII BETWEEN NAPLES
mars fiseve.—The Giornale di Rome of the 20th gives
loss turnout of the constructios of a subterranesa electric
telegraph which has just been opened between Naples and
Game. The wires are covered with gutty perch*, and the
writer *eye it is the longest line ever conotructed on the
Wage principle.
Tnr. COUNTESS DE BOURNE is now reading, aye
the bits tle la Frontier*, in the hoses of her unfortunate
brother Gustave, et Beenernus, seer Pernwels, in the
church of which place an anniversary ter was performed
for the repose of the seal of her husband, at whack she and
her inmate were present. On the previous evening she
was ails riding in the neighboubeed of the pate, attended
by a grown.