The Express.
London, England, 1864-12-03 00:00:00

1410 i
10.36 1

SMITHFIELD CLUB CATTLE SHOW
ABEIVAL OP THE CATTLE.

Yesterday from an early hour in the morning
till late in the evening there was • constant arrival of
cattle, sheep, and other stook at the Agricultural Hall,
Islington, from the various metropolitan railway termini,
and whilst daylight lasted vast crowds assembled in the
Liverpool-road and Barford-street, where the oatmeal
gates to the show-yard are etude, to catch a glimpse of
the animas. Many of the Dawns and shorthorn and
superior specimens in the cattle classes reached the UZI in
the butchers' trolleys, or trucks, but most of those
arriving by the Great Northern and Londe, and North-
Western, from the aloes proximity of the railway termini,
walked to the show-yard.
Oa reaching the hall, sod producing the certificate of
entry showing the class to which each animal beloored, it
was at once conveyed to the position which its class is sp.
pointed to occupy, and its number appropriated to it. To-
wards evening, notwithstanding the rapidly continuous ar.
rival of the specimens, under the able direction of Mr. John
Douglas, the manager of the cattle department, each
animal was at once deposited in its class without any trouble
or confusion. Up to 8 o'clock it was computed that more than
half the stock intended for exhibition had arrived, and the
general and cursory glance afforded to those who proles' to
be judges indicates that this year's show will prove
one of more than ordinary excellence, as well as being
largely augmented in numbers. The implements are now
nearly all in their places in the galleries, and although not
quite so crowded as they have been seen on former occa-
sion, there are, it is stated, several improvements and
novelties produced. Another, and probably one of the
most important features on the occasion of such gatherings
as the Smithfield Cattle Show produce, is the alteratl
which has taken place this year in the refreshmeht depart.
went. In coosequenoe of the satisfactory manner in which
Mr. Thos. Rudkio, of the Salutation Tavern, Nestor,.
street, has carried out his contract for the pest year,
the directors of the Agricultural Hall have let him the con.
tract for three years; and Mr. Rodkin has, at an expense
to himself of 1,500/., bad erected • new and permanent
kitchen capable of supplying any number. The first-class
dining.room will be supplied upon the same principle and in
precisely the same manner as at Simpeou's in the Strand ;
and • second.class department has also been established,
where refreshments may be obtained at the cheapest rate,
io each instances printed tariff of prices being posted.
The judges will commence their duties as early as
o'clock on Monday morning, and expect to conclude by 2p.m.

LORD DERBY'S TRANSLATION OF oM LR. —A
review of this work &nears in this morning's rio,fs. Lord
Derby seems to have aimed at giving as simply as possible
a pellucid translation of the original. lie Las not
attempted to produce a rigidly accurate version, nor has he
assumed like Pope the privilege of a poet to recast Homer's
thoughts in the mould of a poetic imitation. He
proposes to be modestly content if " some Live re.
called to their minds a faint echo of the strains
which delighted their earlier days, and recognise some
slight trios of the original perfume." He describes his
plan of work in the following passage of his preface .—" It
has been my aim throughout to produce a translation, and
not a paraphrase ; not, indeed, such a translation as would
satisfy, with regard to each word, the rigid requirements
of accurate scholarship; but such as would fairly and
honestly give the sense and spirit of every passage mil of
every line; omitting nothing, and expanding nothing; aad
adhering, as closely as our language will allow, even to
every epithet which is capable of being translated, and
which has, in the particular pumas, anything of a special
and distinctive character."

Lord Stanley last night presented to the students
of the Manchester Mechanics' Institute the prizes
pined by them in the examination cf the Coven.
meat Science Department and the Society of Arts.
There was a loge attends nee at the saostia., at which Mr.
Oliver Heywood presided ; and Lord Stanley delivered ooe
of those instructive speeches which are chanateristic of
him.

The Wed ./y Register says that the Rev. Mr.
Sibthorp has again entered the Roman catholic church. It
may be remembered that some twenty-one years ago the
reverend gentleman became a convert to Roman catboli•
clam, and WAS in • abort time thereafter oeclained priest.
He was not long, however, in the catholic church when be
again left it sod became a proteateint. Now, it seems, he
bas once more gone round to Roman catholicism.

The Cardinal-AroLbishop of Toledo hes just ad-
dressed a circular to his clergy absolutely forbidding women
to sing in churches.
GRAND MILITARY BALL AT WlNDiOß.Yelitel,
day 'Tieing' grand ball was given by the officers of the
2nd Regiment of Life Guards, at the Cavalry Barracks,
Windsor, to a large number of the neighbouring residents
and the officers of the Wiodsur garrison. The officers' mess.
room was very tastefully decorated with military trophies
and choice exotics, and brilliantly lighted with elegant can.
delabra filled with wax tapers, while the ante and supper
rooms were similarly lighted and adorned. There were
about 200 guests. The company began to assemble about
10 o'clock, many of the punts having previously attended
an amateur performance at the Windsor Theatre, which
took Owe earlier in the evening, on behalf of the funds
of the Windsor Dispensary and Infirmary.
MR. WILLIAMS, M.P.—Auother old member is
hors dc cmbat. and never likely to enter the house again—
Mr. William Williams. the member for Lambeth. He fell
from his horse in a fit, and, though be has partially re.
covered, all hope of his perfect recovery is abandoned.
This is not the first nor the second attack of the kind. and,
of course, the force of such attacks is accumulative,—
Illustrotel
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THE NEW egracß OltaCLE..—ln a wori, what
we mean is that Mr. Diemen is not exactly the mu we
should suppose would naturally be selected as the guide and
oracle of a great church party. His coonations ina religion,
as far es we can judge of them by what be has punted, are
at least peculiar. We me not aware that they precisely fit
in with the traditional or accredited doctrine of the church
- staters, western, or even Gesevese. Mr. Disraeli thinks
that there was no crime, as far as the Jewish nation and
the peculiar people were cocooned, in putting the Saviour
to death; or, if then wan a wrong, the guilt rested only
with the few hundred persons who influenced Pontius
Pilate ; or—for he is not quite consistent—if the ex-
piation on Calvary was foreseen and foreordained
thousands of yeas before it took plats, nobody
did wrong IC helping min event which nobody could have
prevented. Whether this view is right or wrong, it is not
for us to say ; but it is open to us to point out that it it
Mr. Disraeli's view. and that it is not the doctrine of as
Christian body which exists, et ever did exist. First, it
is sheer fatalism ; it gets rid of the action of fres will, and
cute off responsibility at the roots. Next, it denies the re-
ceived teaching that the rejection of the Saviour at the
hoods of the Jewish priesthood was that final act of nation,'
and ecclesiastical apostasy which had been fawn* by PCP.
phecy. and was all but instantly visited by the Divine judge
meet in the dispersion of the Jews, the annihilatioa of the
theocratic system, and the revenslof the Devise adoption
And, lastly, Mr. Disraeli holds that the old Jewish pri-
vileges still remain. aad that in some nose the Jew, even
though he reviles the Saviour, still occupies the same rela-
tion towards Ood that Abraham and David did. As we
have mid. Mr. Disraeli doss not stand alone in holding these
yaws. They are identical with, sad most likely borrowed
from a continental and critical school, in which certain
Jews—Spina, Salvador, and Nicolas--ore the great lights.
It is not for as to say whether they an right or wrong. Bat
we do commend the simple fact to the earnest notice of
the babas and clergy who are disposed to make the inge-
nious author of " Cooingsby" their guide. The church has
fallen into this sort of error before. Lord Bolingbroke was s
very good tory aadagreat leader of thechurch party. Whether
the church really paned by such a party is written in the
annals of the ehmoh of England. The church of &gloat gave
itself over hand sad foot to tha friendship and patronage of
the tones for nearly half a notary, and then mine the storm
of ISZL As long as the English church was a political tool
in the hands of a parlay, it loth its influence over the country
—as soon as it found out that lee truest policy was to stand
apart from political factious, it began to regain its red
power. The The Oxford orator mks the church to go back to
1 The Freon church, too, identified itself with the
court and the nob/me—with what result may a bloody
page
eunoef ttthr:TagltishWrcrerrertie,ons It may
th:lt r ist,Tteht
' ita social statue is falling. Bat there is a moral decadence
which has at least equal dangers. Poor livings io the dio-
cese of Oxford are a great sandal; but Mr. Dismal' pre-
scribing the polity and dictating the doctrines of the chunk
of England are a grgathr.—Saiorday Revive.
THE AFRICAN TRAVELLER, MI. ANDER/HOE. --
The following are extracts from a privets letter, received
by the last Cape mail from the South Afnmin traveller, Mr.
Andersson. They give the particulars and extent of his
recent severe misfortune. " Damara Land, OtPmbiunno•
September 8, 1884—About six weeks ago I received
your letter of the 27th of Horeb. The reason of my
aof replying to it before is that I was at the time,
so to say, in a dying state, my right leg bnn
completely shattered by a gunshot wound, received
in a terrible engagement with the satins. !t was
a regular pitched battle, and lasted from 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m. We more about 4,000 Ines engaged—Damaras.
led by myself sad two or three other Europeans, against
Hottestota. But I am unequal to outer into details, being
still very weak, and suffering at times excruciating pain.
Fee three months I have laid flat on my back, sod indite
these lino in that position . . . . At no dimwit day I
had a very flouriebit.g preened ; but, in an unlucky moment
I befriended the Damaras, who suddenly threw off their
yoke of s'avery. I pitied them, and determisel to steal
by them. The upshot has beau, notwithstanding we have
baton the Hottentots (chiefly the Africanus) in three die•
tied enagernents, that my prospects in life hare
been utterly blighted. Loss upoo lose has followed in rapid
anoosesioa, and, to arowa my misfortunes, I have become •
stipple for life. But God is merciful, and lam not alto-
rwithout hops st bang able to tight myself, should
barrimlored to hoilth."—Basier.

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LIW INTELLIGENCE.

(THIS DAY.)

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BAY i1:1P AND turns v. soinisim
,erieest Salentine rend Dr. Spinka few the plain-
Mr: Edward James, Q.C., and Dr. Tristram for the
Indent
piejetitfe, who were the executors, propounded the
MwMary Ann Robinson, late of Isliagtoo, dated
tar l t 6 of February last ; and the defendant, her cousin,
removed and only next of kin, who took all the pro-
ceder a will made in 1862, opposed probate on tbe
endue execution. want of capacity, and undue
L.ocecee.
ed died ten days after executing the in-
,tilEr
-ect is dispute, and she was 70 years of
she left property to the amount of about
she had no relations whatever, except the
7,,„last. For the plaintiffs it was contended that
the former will she And taken umbrage
,cterfereoce of Dr. Collins Roffman (who was a
ii-rim at Cheltenham), and had made the instrument in
Br it she made the following bequests-4001. to
I: ,hmeen ; to Mary Bartlett, her nurse ; 300/. to
311 Rorke, her medical attendant (which was, however,
,;•-;:ade his bill); 303/. to an old friend named Peter
116?. to Mrs. Bolton, another friend, and the
iestl4e. after defraying all charges against the estate, to
Lirtoti, the attorney who bad been called in to draw
locument. Evidence of the perfect capacity of the
WI after the execution of the will was given by
witnesses.
the defence, Dr. Robinson stated that he bad always
.• ..11 the most friendly terms with his cousin ; that she
,:ways spoken of him as the only person there was to
mosey ; and that there was no pretence for saying
• 7 he h.. 1 pleaded her or given her reason to alter the
her property..
f was proceeding when our report left.)