The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-16 00:00:00

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secretary, offered up a simple and elective proyer,
after which a hymn was given out. "William
Carter's Gospel Hymn Book," and a thick pam-
,flet on the results of theatre-preaching, had been
reely distributed in the room, and the
women stood up in orderly fashion, such of
them as were not able to read being especially
particular in having the plume found for them, and
in joining lustily in the chorus as announced from '
the platform. After about two verses had been
sung it became evident that some disturbance was ,
going on in the hall outside. There were sounds of
altercation and angry threats, and it seemed as if some
drunkeu women were seeking to force admission.
On several of the leaders proceeding to the
door, it was found that what for want of • fitter
word we must call the lover of one of the girls
within, was clamorously demanding bar immediate
production. This fellow was one of the unutterable
blackguards only to be seen in numbers when au
execution or a prise tight attracts London's scum.
A thick-set, muscular ruffian of two or three and
twenty, whose large and ugly ears stuck up on oath
aide his fur cap like those of pantomime sprite es
gnome, he looked as be leant sturdily against the
wall like the incarnation of all that is low and
bad in our common nature. Yet even he
had, in his dim way, some sort of respect
or fear for the Influence he supposed to be at work
within. In fatuous and stupid dread of be scarce
knew what he was determined to take his girl
away, and was so clear as to his right to do this
that be would not depart from the set formula he
had obviously learnt lest he should fall into his
usual oaths, and so weaken the jestice of his ease.
His chattel was in strange hands, his scares of in-
come was in jeopardy, and be came there to protect
his own. He kept roaring out, more like • bull
than • human being, " Let her cone out o' this !
Let her come out o' this !" And to every remon-
strance and expostulation he had but one answer,
repeated with monotonous savagery, " flask yea
a civil question, which it is, let her come out o'
this." This was yelled out defisiitly, as sort of battle
cry, and served all whether as insult on
being told to stand ou • e the door, or as • challenge
to every fresh person who came up. At length
the adman, became so intolerable, and the dis-
turbance so great, that it was endeavoured to eject
him by fore.. Three or four of the leaden
tried this in vain, and the perpetual "I bask yer •
civil question let her come out o' this," became
more than ever insolent iu tone. But the bible-
distributer who had figured in the prize-ring now
joined our little group, and remarked, in the gentle
and mellifluous accents appropriate to a sick
chamber, " Yer know me, don t yer I" to which
the blatant, roaring monster replied, " Yes ;"
" Well, you know if I ask you to go out you'll
have to go," came next ; and on an insolent retort
being given there was a momentary @baffle, and
the troublesome applicant stood on the psvement
with closed iron gates between him and us. There
bad been an instantaneous insertion of kquckles in
the asps of the neck, a dexterous twist, and the
bully flew outside, much as the cork springs from
a champagne bottle when string and wires are cut.
It reminded one of Brother Sockdoilliger'soonver-
sion of Colonel Quagg. He lest all self-control
now, and poured in a volley of blasphemy and
threats, if his girl were not sent out. Everitt:tally
she came; a poor creature, whose bandaged eye
bore testimony to his violence, and who, with true
woman-like inconsistency, complained bitterly,
not at being forced away, but that her
" friend" should have been pushed about, and
the hymn-singing was resumed by those bis unwel-
come presence had disturbed. Mr. Carter then
preached to the girls. He is • broad-chested,
sonorous-voiced, powerful man, of great fluency
and some eramatic power, and the whole tenour of
his discourse forcibly appealed to the sympathies
and instincts of his audience. They were assured
of welcome, spiritual and temporal, if they would
but accept it, and many an eye was wet and many
a faos troubled as he drew with powerful hand, and
in the strongest possible colours, the terrors of per-
dition and the imminent dangers of hell.

It would be easy to criticise both the taste and
doctrine of this preacher, but it accords more with
our present purpose to dwell upon the effect of his
denunciations and appeals. Surrounded by men of
his own class, who, in every variety of working
dress—shirt-sleeves, blue jersey, and fustian
jacket—knelt devoutly round him and hung upon
Ilia words, it was impossible to doubt the stirring
effect of his ministrations. It was a common nature
speaking earnestly to the common natures
around it, and in the faoes and demeanour
of the girls might be reed how strongly,
if transiently, some of them were moved.
Nose of them left the hall without a printed invita-
tion to call in Red Lion-square, and it may be
fairly concluded that the meeting of Thursday will
result in several young women being trained and
put out to domestic service. It would be impos-
sible to find men better calculated to speak fami-
liarly to and with such prostitutes as we low
assembled than Mr. Carter sod his adherents. The
sort of unctuous pride with which former trans-
gressions and present purity are compared cannot
fail to attract attention, while many of their remi-
niscences are of a character which, if they do no
more, are certainly calculated to put fallen women
at their ease. " Bin a burglar and everything *be
that's bad, and bin in every prison in London but
one" seams a curious form of recommendation for
a spiritual teacher, but it may be that it is encou-
raging to the lowest of harlots and the mistress of
thieves. Be this as it may, and whatever are the
practical results of the most recent midnight meet-
tag, there can be no question either as to its sin-
gularity, or to its having borne on the surface many
of the characteristics and effects to which supporters
of the movement lay claim.

DRAT= ST Prza—Os Saturday afternoon Mr.
Humphreys. Mille= matear, held inquests at the Loa-
ders Hospital epee Wee children who had been beret to
death. The tint ere woe that of Michael Gallegos, aged
eaves years, who nailed with his parents at No. 1, Bun-
smirk Tad Schithlidd. The mother of the child was rely
dissipated. Having bum inked rep oft Tuesday Lae, she
had to go to the palm end as Wedaseday mender.
Before lewd*g bone elm lit the fire and left the dis-
eased and two other ehikirea in bed. Two or three boors
afterwards a neighbour gamed Moore found the place to be
cm fire. He entered the mom, lied with great difilealty sae-
visited Is rescuing the baby and soother child. The de-
ceased was subsequently discovered lea corner, charred, and
tearfully beret. The jury returned the following verdicts r--
"Death from fire ; but how the Ire originated there was
so 'widow, to show • and the cry say that the oondact of
the mother of the deemed wee highly eensamble." The
seat ekes wee that of a child two years old, named Elisa-
beth Chaplin. The mother of the deceased left bar on the
Bth inst. alone in a room while she went to fetch some
water. In bar abeam» the deceased set herself on fire at the
grate, which was unprotected by a guard. She wee dread-
fully burnt, lied expired soon afterwards. The jury re
tinsel • verdict of " Aesidestal death by fire." The third
rens was that of $ AIM 13 meths old, aimed George
Webster. The deceased while playlet about the fireplace
caught bold of the handle of a teapot sad pulled the whole
of the scaldieg tea over his lased sod facia. He wee emir*
to the hospital, where be disci. A verdict of "Accidental
death" was Waived.

FATAL AOCIDILAT.—The melsookoly death of •
coital-spinner by drowelog took piece at Rhyddiees
sear Blackburn, roe Friday eight. The gentleman was Mr.
W. Watiou. of the firm of Messrs. Watson &Mims, Hoerr
bridge, sad Ethyddieg's mill., Oawaldtwiatle, It appears
that the two mils Women. to the firm are separated by a
stream, which is ormatitnted a dam for steam purposes. A
rood same the dam is formed by • plank bridge some-
what insecurely protected by two borisootal rails, letviag
a emeiderable maw unprotected. This road is •
privies oak sod it is protected by doers from geoid nes.
Os Mr. Waters leaving Hove-bridge-mill soon after 6
o'sksek at alekt, ko west with tie istastion of goieg booms
over the plash bridge, it beteg the merest route. He had
hi dog with him, mad it seems that after be bad goes a
few yards sortie the bridge be most have slipped off be-
times the railing into the stream. His cries for help were
answered, and es the cermet of the stream wee strong
owing to remit rains he was washed slag It. amuse for
early 90 yards. A rope throws to him by some ono ho
had to seise. when Ids seem trader. coming up with •
Wrier, *row it into tie water, sod, going dews it into the
stream, roused Mr. Waken, who was then exhaitatod cad
almost Mikes. Ho was oossoyed to tbs washbowls, whelp
efforts to restore anistatioe were unfortunately use
Tha diserand was 35 years old, and a very prospers=
skeet. The melsoeboly avast met a gloom over the in-
habitants of the township, sad a party of friends who were
'Offing hie hospitality sad shoes ha woo beetselng istide.
ROYAL NAVAL Ragtime. —tip to the 31st De.
ember 21,164 applications bad boa reosived, sad 16,*
wakeless' moiled to Ms soma

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nesday, id.

J. 17:

ZQUITY COURTS.—Jas. 14.
(Before the Lard Chancellor.)
BRWGU r. HICIENN.-JODOIO2IT.

This was an appeal from Viee•Ohaseidlor Wood, who had
..led an iejusation in a maws relating to a several
which the plaintiff claimed under a grist from
ITZgigdward VI. to Lord Chancellor Rich, of the saner
sad lordship of Lkstle bladleigh, sod " aU that the farm,
land, sad hareditaments, with the apportmanoas known,
amispard, or reputed by the soma of Mullet& Iles, in Hod.
Isiah eforoadd, and that Om several lishicry Hadleigh
aforesaid, &a" The plaintiff's cans was that he aad his
predeemeom in tills had asserted and en}o, from the data
of this grant the several fishery, whkh had misted (toss
Um time of awry UL sad maim, in what was called
" fladlsigh Ray, • torn of groat antiquity and wientsin
darimaloa, but apparently used to drama the toad of land
'abject to the overflow of the We used for oyster and
mural beds, as well as for Ms taking of floating flub.
The right of several fishery darned by the plain.
tire predseemers hail bass ohm disputed, sad been
the mibirict of mere than ass taiaL la Boykin.
ber, 1724, • "Ksiatish Armada,* omoolotiai of 100
mesas frogs Sheppey aad thri Kesel& mast, landed the
Ray, which is situated in Rees; with fief flying sad
fire of gum, sad carried off some tholamoa bushel' of
oysters, os which an solos was brought mid tried before
Lord Chief Boron Gilbert at the Eyries ageism far 1724.6,
held at Brentwood. A media wan found far the this plain.
WI, with 2,0001. damages, maims the Kantisk inmates
The sow &toadish; as Ski owners of al island,
oallod Leigh Musk" toclaim
be=third ho theses of the
esHia~
, marshes and audbanks &resod the island, and by
way e~ wiping this operatics' of Datum is marectiag the
marshes into dry lad had emarnomed sselesing • poetics of
the "saltinp " in Maki& Ray, the afflict of which, am
alleged b the MIL was to slink out the flow of tha this. and
time matey rially to injure the plaintiff's oyster and tamed
Founds. The Vies-Ohmosllor givated an lajeaclios to
Takata th•d•faiedsats in ilia work sad ibis pressot appeal
was aseordingly broashL
Mr, Hind* Palmer and Mr. J. N. Biggins appeared for
Um plaintiff. The dafscolant. the Rim. Mr. Hightail, ap-
peared la pr to argue his cam, which was heard is
Demobs.
The Lord Chancellor sow delivered jadmiriest, ad data
kin epleks that them mkt to be an Womack sad
sainied the daisies of the Virm-Ohamellor.

(Won

Wood.)