The Express.
London, England, 1852-10-22 00:00:00

THE REVIVAL OF CONVOCATION.

Our ministerial morning cotemporary, in the most
conspicuous part of its columns, and under the heading,
"The False Reports of the Revival of Convocation," ears :
" We are authorised to give the most unqualified contra-
diction, for the second time, to an assertion, which hu
been published by the Times, that it is the intention of het
Modesty's ministers to unction the revival of the active
powers of convocation. There is not, and never has been,
the slightest foundation for such a rumour. Iler Majesty's
government have not, we most distinctly declare, enter-
tained the question for one moment."

All that has as yet transpired relative to the terms
of the amalgamation to be proposed between the
North Western and Midland Railway Companies, is
that such terms are rather more favourable to the
Midland than those formerly offered by the North
Western.

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.—PROPOSED PUBLIC
IsaTlTUTtox.—Lot evening a preliminary meeting wes
held at the Freemasons' Tavern, for the purpose as en-'
premed in the advertisement, of taking into consideration
the propriety of erecting a permanent memorial of the na-
tion's gratitude in honour of the Duke of Wellington. Only
about halt a dozen persons, betides the repceters, were pre-
sent. S. F. Bilton, Esq. bar:rister,presibed. rod Mr. Teminty,
who acted as hon. secretary, read• peespeetes of • proposed
'institution for tho relief of not.eess— ed ease% sol-
diers, sailors, and marinas, and their widows and miens
and aat ries of resolutions expressive of the desirability of
such an institution were proposed and carried. It was also
resolved to hold a public meeting in promotion of this '
object.
THE CRYSTAL PALACE, HYDE PARE.—We under-
stand that the offers of large sums made by several parties
for a monopoly of the " pickings" to be found beneath the
boards of the Crystal Palace were all refused by the con-
tractor*, Maas. Fox and Henderson, who generously gavo
permission t 3 the labourers employed upon the spot to ap-
propriate to themselves any treasure trove" which they
might chance to light upon in remoniog tho planks of
which lie floor wan composed, and in turning up the turf
below. The findings have been quite a God-send to some
of the men upon the works. Coins of copper, silver, and
gold, crochet-purses, studs, rings, de., with silver and gold
headed canes, have turned up daily, and the other flay a
poor man was fortunate enough to stumble on a puree con-
mining as much as 71. or 81. It would seem from this that
all the treasures lost lost year in the (Irma Exhibition did
not fall into the hands of the light-fingered gentry, though
many of them, doubtless, made a harvest of the spoils, but
that a large portion of it slipped through those provoking
boards which, as our readers will doubtless remember, stood ,
just wide enough to swallow up any stray Arnim or six- '
pences wtich might drop from their hands, but were, un-
happily just too narrow to afford the loser a ohmse of re.

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Jews AND GENERAL LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC
TAIITITCTJON.—The session 1832-9 of this admirable insti-
tution was opened lest evening at Sussex Hall, Leadenhall-
street, by a coirsrsasione, at which was collected a very
brilliant company of ladies and gentlemen to the number
of oee thousand, which is about the present number of
members. The advantages of the institution consist of all
excellent library, a news-room, and of evening lectures;
and these characteristics, and the influence of such a society
upon the mental culture of the younger genera-
tion of the Jewish community dwelling in London
were fully en., interestingly expatiated upon by
the different g,n,10n,91 who delivered addresses—the Pre-
Nathauiel Monteflore, E'q., Sampson Samuel, Esq.,
Mr. Clarke, he. After the speaking there was a concert,
and apparently the music gave still greater satisf►ction I
than the ora.,,ry. It may be mentioned that the " Jaws
and ❑eneral Literary and Scientific Institution" has one
character peeteiar to itself, and which might be Imitated
with beneficial results by all 'image societies. Every Fri-
day evening (that is on the Jewish Sabbath, and when the
working classes are released from labour) there is a lecture,
literary, social, or wientifle, given at Sussex 1101, the ad-
mission to which is free ; and in consequence tho inhabi-
tants of the poorer Jewish quarters of East Lon4pn flack
into tho hall, einduct themselves well, anal return to their
homes, there can be little doubt, better and wiser people.