The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-28 00:00:00

MUNIFICENT DONATION.—The friends and sup-
porters of the British Horne for lacurables will be gratified
to learn that the Marquis of Westminster has presented to
that institution the sour of 1,0001.
A Nova. young gentleman going to
the continent tc dr • through ticket from Glasgow to Lon-
don on Monday erasing. He had with him a coosidetable
deal of levies*. a'l peeked is • Bonk and labelled with
his come and destination. He saw it put in the VA II along
with the rest of the Impage. but was not a little
astosiebed on arriving in London to lied it had disappeared.
He made liquify of the guard, and was informed that a
telegram had bees sent to an pitetinediate staion, he
understood by the railway company. to seed the truck
back to Glasgow. and it was accordingly taken out and left
at the station without the consent or knowledge of the pas-
, ganger. At a loss to uoderstaod this proceeding.
telegraphed to his friends is Glasgow who on
inquiry found thug the telegram had been seat
by •• tall Irishwoman. rather gel lookiog, and
about 30 years of me. db • bad probably noted the address
oa the train before it had bees put ism the van, sad bad
taken this bold proceeding to obtain it. She waited for the
return of the trunk and then employed • porter, but, find-
ing tt toe heavy for him to carry. she bared • cab, and,
along with • nate who had joined her, toccatas] to lodgiop
at tie south side, where they bad to get moire! from the
landlady to pay for the cab. Next morning the man ap-
peared redressed from head to foot in what he lied ap-
propriated from the trunk, and the women and he west
out and no doubt proceeded to a pawn-otlice, as they re-
turned shortly afterwards sod paid off the landlady fee the
time they bed been with ber—shout • fortnight—and then
procured a cab and made off.—Nurti P•tily
SUICIDE IN READIND GAOL—A y....ung man
named Joseph liaises., whose friends occupy a very respect-
obis position D•af Newbury, committed suicide is the
County House of Correction at Reading, on Monday, by
hounds' a hammock-strap round his neck. The deceased
bad pleaded '• Guilty" toe charge of violent assault and
robbery at the Berko winter maims, held last week, when
Mr. Justice Ryles sentenced him to live yews' penal servi-
tude. and there is on doubt that the prospect of the long
puoisbnnot preyed upon his mind and lad him to commit
the rash act. As inquest will be held on the body before
the county coroner.
THE WRECKED STEAMER .Tr-RA. —The Quebec
Mere, ry says that • shipment of 310 Morels of oilcake by
a merebant of that city eni board the ill-fated steamer
Jun. hoe been taken front the wreck of the veered all is
good order. Strange to say, the Micah* happened to be us.
neared, which, of course, is a thing that seldom occurs.
Ceder them circumstances the sating of the whole lot, in
prime condition, out of • wrecked simmer, may be con.
sidered one of the most rarely leaky events is the whole
chatter of accidents.
Ter. AUTHOR of " Oatort."—" Perhaps one of
the most, if not the most, melanehospectacle in the
Blue Mountains is that of Richard HenryH Horse, the
author of 'Orion,' one of the beet poems in the Kentish
language, passing his life away amid the dreary solitudes of
Newbury. ' Marled alive' is sloedlity whom only popula-
tion ia about six souls, mid half that number of dogs. To
see a true poet cutting wood, cooking his own food, and
wasting his energies on • barren soil. in the service of an
unappreciative government, is a sight which le harrowing
alike to the mental and outward viaioa."—ifelboarne
Herald, Sept. 23.