The Express.
London, England, 1864-01-16 00:00:00

20th JANUAIN INSTANT.

THE LONDON PAVILION.
PEOPRIFLTOESI FOURTH ANNUAL BENEFIT.

ALLSOPP'S ALE and GUUSNESS'S STOUT.
JOHN P. 81009 and Co. sole contracton toe Bottled
boor to ado International Agent. for Samuel Mimi
and Bole Lolls Pate and Burton Ales, and Oataana Son.
and Co.'. Into. !goat, Importers or Mina and Spirtia—Odicat
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and No
1101111na the HWY Haellann, LCL—Tho tracts selpilk4 es
11.104.4

Ben ow PATXIIT CASK STAND, a new
Invention, so admirably osetrlvod that a full
übiaao:
wellsmaller maks, imty ba raked or tilted en It r
tabour or trouble. Its adios Lae Impalpable that the sediment
at the most limpid Bold by us possibility can be disturbed.
Prim tis., 1%, 14e., be wit lie, I. mid lb gallon oasts.

BAHLOirS.SELP:ioTING SYPHON TAP.
No vent-pes required. No sere eat beer or sour yrlite.
Price 4 ed.: ditto, elesireplaled, ile—kpely &reel to JAMES
BARLOW, patentee. 14, Kin IrWhesetreet, Maratoo-hous&
be that Ids same sad saeles an as every article : all others are
spurious imitation& lagravlay yetis. Zeteldished

ILLIIMINATRD DRAWINGS. Three illuminated
subjecte—Faith, Hope, and Cbarity—from designs by the
late Mr. F. G. Delantotte, have just been published, for his
widow, by Messrs. Day and Son, chromo-lithographers to
the Queen, and an now oe view at the Polytechnic Insti-
tution. These drawings unite religious feeling and artistic
taste in a high degree, and, being striking and effective in
style, as well as delicate and elaborate, only seed to become
known to be highly popular with a large clue of the com-
munity.

ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. The first
meeting of this society this year was held yesterday is the
council room at South limisington • J. J. Mandy, Esq.,
Vice-President. in the chair, when several ladies aid grmatle
men. who had been proposed as fellows, were, upon a show
of hands being taken, declared duly elected.
DUDLEY H•LLZRY, EGYPTIAN HALL—Messrs.
Daffier' and Si.., the well-knows glass chandelier manu-
facturers, have taken the Dudley Gallery for the purpose
of exhibiting at the west-end some of their manufactures in
glass sad pottery, which attracted so much attention at the
lest Exhibition. The Dsdley Gallery, which is well adapted
for the purpose of the display, contains a collection of
the most recent illustrations of the progress of English orna-
mental art in the manufacture of glass sad porcelain.
(Ice of the most conspicuous articles in the collection is en
immense candelabrum in ant Osis,aecute!) by Maras.

Defiles for his Higher, the Rijah of
is • colossal piece of work, and was mule at an
oast. It rise■ to a height of 22 feet, and measures at its
base seven feet ia diameter, and is made to contain 145
candles. A beautiful vase in ornamental glass, on which is
engraved • group of Crimean heroes belonging to
the five nations, in appropriate uniforms, end
all excellent likenesses, is also exhibited. It is
a remarkable piece of engraving, and ruse of the choicest
things in this valuable collection. There is also a large
and circular altar piece, on which is the figure of oar
Saviour on the Cross ; the former is in porcelain and the
latter in glass. There are several large and varied patterns
of glass chandeliers, and a choke selection of table glass,
together with a rich display of ceramic wares, among which
are some flee examples of Sevres porcelain and vases of the
Renaissance. Messrs. Defries and Sons' exhibition is now
open to the public, and will no doubt attract considerable
•tteotion.

C.iiii

Citowii-orrice,N. 12.—The Queen Ina been
pleased by letters patent coder the great's.' of the United
Kingdom, to give end grant unto William BalLatino, see-
jeantet.law, place and precedence within the bar, seat
after John Joseph Powell, Esq., one of bet Majesty's
counsel learned in the law now being.—Garefte.
_ _

THE MEMBERS FOR MARYLEBONL—Lord Fermoy
and Mr. Harvey Lewis, the members for the borough of
Marylobate, will address their oonstitnents on the eveniap
of Monday, the 25th inst., at St. Pancras Vestry-hall, and
Wednesday, 27th, at the Marylobos* Literary lostitute,
Edward.strest, Portman-agnate.—Marykbrese Mercury.

METROPOLITAN RAILWAY SCRIMS& —The fol-
lowing is a list, as complete as it can be made up to the
time of our going to press, of the Metropolitan Railway bills
is remise' of which the ssomaary deposits were made with
the Court of Chancery up to Thursday evening :—Charing-
cross Northern Railway ; Charing-cram Wasters Railway ;
North and South Western Junction Railway • Tooting,
Merton, and Wimbledon Extension Railway ; Tottenham
and Hampstead Junction Railway (Alexandrs-park Exten-
sions) ; Tottenham and Hampstead Junction Railway (ex-
t 4111113041 to Chasing-crom) ; North ad South London
Railways (Junction Railway) ; Metropolitan District Rail-
ways ; Metropolitan Grand Union Railway ; Hammer-
smith and City Railway Extender; Ead Loodon
(Thames Tunnel line) Railway ; Great Eastern Railway
(Metropolitan station and railways) ; Great Eastern Rail-
way (junetions) ; Hampstead, Midland, North W sonars and
Charing-cross Junction Railway ; Kew Turnham-groso,
and Hammersmith Railway ; Great Northern and Victoria
Station Railway ; London Main Trunk Underground Rail-
way ; Metropolitan Railway (extension to Trinity:square,
Tower-hill) ; Metropolitan Railway (Notting-hill and
Brotopton axteosion) ; Metropolitan ad St. John's-wood
Railway ; Tottenham and Farringdon-strest Railway ;
Oxford-street mad City Railway ; Victoria Stades
Embankment) Railway; North Leedom' Railway (K=
and Tottenham Yews.

LASOURRRS' di:MUGU lif BUCKINGSAIISHIRI
The Builder of this week gives, in illustastioe of its descrip-
tive articles on the subject, al. engraving of some cottages
at Mateo, in Buckinghamshire. The sketch should he
seen by all who take an interest in the cooditiou of the
sgricultural labourer. We doubt whether any slaves in
Alabama are worse housed than the tenants of these
dreary and peetilestial mud hovels, which it seems
let at a Teal) rental of front 31. to 3/. 10s.
The Builder says:—" Here. and in other parts, where the
homes of the Mounts ere of a similar description, we find
is the faces of the children pale and cadaverous tints,
instead of the rosy hue of health, and frames weak and
attenuated, which in better circumstaaces would be robust
and active. We noticed also many cases of skin disease ;
but much as the childree seem to have suffered, the mo-
thers of families appear to have fared wenn In one house
here a man of much intelligence raid. ' How can we expect
to be better, pent up in this box? There site my wife, air ;
what ego would you take her to be?' Being naturally
anxious to evade a delicautastion of this kind we did sot
express a clear opinion, or vs a direct answer to the quay
• how much older do you think Ike is than fifty!' It sp.
pearal, however, that this woman was only thirty-three
veers of age, although if we had gives a candid *Moo
it would have been that she had lived for upwards of half •
century. We found many similar instames."
FRIGHTFUL DEATH BY FIRE.—At a late hour on
Thursday night Conductor Topsail of the Load= Fire-
escape Brigade, and who is stationed near St. Clement's
Church, Stroud, received information that his services were
required at a house in Hemlock-court, nest Lioooln's-ion-
fields. On arriving at the premises Topsail found that •
fire was smouldering in • room MI the third floor, which was
occupied by a widow earned Hannah Smith. In come-
queues of the confined nature of the locality it was loots-
able to use the filesscaps, and as the door of the room
was fastened, Tappet! mounted a table in a room uoder-
neath, and proceeded with his exit to out away the flooring of
the room, which was evidently on fire. A portico of this
flooring was burning, and an opening was soon made, when
to the horror of Upset], who ma still using his axe, the
dead body of the woman Smith, frightfully burned and
blackened, fell through the orifice on to his shoulders. The
room which the unfortunate woman occupied wag wholly
destitute of farniture, and it is presumed that the de-
mised, who had been drinking during the day, after the
fuoenl of her oely child, by some means set her clothing
on fire, end was incapable of giving an alarm.
The loss occasioned by the fire at Messrs. Pike.
Spicer, and Co.'s Brewery at Portsmouth, on Wednesday
antes, is vartinsly entissated at from 10,0001. to 15,0004
The whole of the brewing plant was destroyed, together
with about 300 quarters of malt. The proton=
eared is the Caudal' Fire-office, to which the
had bees only recently transferred.
Ostirtai PALL= Oxs Benzine DAL •
, Farrar, JAL 15. —Admissions ea paynaak 1,681; MX;
'ti 11.111011 whets, 701; tetel, 7,362.