The Express.
London, England, 1865-09-07 00:00:00

WANDSWORTH.

rattan/3D6 MUD IITO THL THLICS.—HLAYT MALTY.
Tbe Wed Middlesex Waterworks Company Wer• mop
maid by the names Board e Cooservaaey for dierbarg-
irg a lerse imuitity of mud from a reservoir at Bares into
Ile aver.
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A curious trial has just been concluded at
Buffa'o, New York. One Colchester, a spiritual medium, a
was required by a 7. internal revenue officer to pay the tax it
sneered upon jugglers. Colchester refused to pay, and
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appealed to a load murk to sustain his cause. The court, it
however, decided agate* him, and Mr. Colchester will be t
compelled to pay the tax, and also to take out a juggler's It
liCenae.
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THE POLICY OF THE 80IITH.—LETTEE FROM si
GENERAL JOSEPH E. JOHNOTON.--Tho Fredericksburg (Vs.)
Ledger, publishes the tenoning letter of General E. John-
sten :—" Buffalo Springs, Mecklenburg( County, Va.. :
August 17, 1865. You auk my views of the future course g
and future interests of us all. The case is so plain that very I
little can be said or written upon it. We, of the South. re- I
forted the question at isms between us and the United e
States to the arbitrament of the sword. The decision Ii
has been made, and it is against us. We must se- e,l
game in etbat daciater, ausat it as final, and
recognise the fact that Virginia is again one of the g
United States. Our duties and interests coincide. We I
shall consult the ow and perform the other by doing all e
we can to promote the welfare of our neighbours and to
resters prosperity to the eustry. We should at once com-
mimeo the duties of peaceful eitisens by entering upon some s
useful pursuit, qualifying ourselves to vote if possible, and
at the polls our votes should be out for conservative men I
—men who understand end will maintain the interests of
Virginia as one of the United States. This is tbe crane
which I have recommended to all those with. whom I have
conversed on the subject, and that which I have adopted j
for myself as far as practiesble.—Vert truly your+, J, E.
JOHNBTON."
THE PRISONERS AT FORTRESS MONEOE.—A letter
of the ult., from Fortress Monroe, in the New York
Herald, says :—" Jobe Mitchel wag allowed to-day to walk I
out of his summate for the find time since bin imprisonment.
Notwithstanding his vireo= constito tion,bis coati need doss
coed unmet elm beginoing to affect his general beelth. Here.
Baba his walk very much, which, like that of Jeff. Davis and
Me Clay, was on the parapet of the fort. In all the while
he has been here be has not bees half as affable in his bear-
iog and polite and considerate in speech as during this
hour of outdoor exercise. There was no end to his talk
and pleasantry. Byron was never more enthusiastic on
the Wenn than lie in his eulogies to-day of its
grandly surging waves—for the wind has been high--end
no invalid ever took in more delicious respirations of the
salty air. He is to be allowed to walk every day. The
arrangements will be such that neither Jeff. Davis, Clay,
nor Mitchel will take their walk at Rho same hour. The
first two are daily improving in health, and it is rrobrible
that Mitchel will sone be as well as ever. He is at present
reading • Macaulay's History of England.' All are greatly
gratified at the increased reading facilities now afforded
them."
NATIVE IDEAS OF ENGLISH WOMEN IN INDIA.
The men's minds seem perfectly saturated with contempt
for that sax, though these myseirvaista are much more fe.
minioe in character tban ourselves. Even in their genie of
chess, as I have already mentioned, the rules are altered,
so as to make the queers a piece of no power, rather than
admit the Idea of female importance, even in a piece of
wood. Of course the natives behaved civilly to English
ladies, because they knew it was not "ale to do otherwise,
while they bad husbands and brothers to protect them :
but they seemed always to do it under protest, as a sort of
unnatural submission, which they no doubt secretly
re-
seated, and which they would have thrown off at any mo-
ment if they dared. When I married, all my servants re.
signed their situations in a body, twine afraid of female
domination, and it was with some difilcalty that they were
coaxed to give a trial to the married man. Some time
after, my elephant driver rude an earnest remonstrance
r not my wifs's being permitted to rids upon the animal,
TEE
...,HCRCH CONORIO4B.—The time allowed for which was supposed to be degraded by weevil's such a
net "wrist at the approaching Church Congress at Nor- burden ; and this was tbe more absurd, because the ele-
wre is 23 minutes ; for each prepared address, 15 minutes ; phoot itself was a female. and was valn.d on that account.
led for every other speaker, 10 minutes. One essayist to But the strongest proof of this tailing was exhibited when
atilt lacking in connexion with the topic, " The Duty of the children were bora. The eldest happened to be a boy,
the Church Towards the Home Population." which is to be and there were unmeasured rejoicings on the oocssion.
h.
lulled by the Very Rev. the Dean of Chichester. The Everyone connected with us. from the trooper to the link-
three seetionsl mutton on the second day will he bald— boy, expeeted • new dress to be conferred upon him ; and
roe is St. Andrew's Hall, under the presidency of the Mayor dinners were given, and presents made, and congratulations
of Norwich (Mr. C. L Task) ; the wood in St. Felled proffered In abundance, for joy that a man was born into
=ad, under the presidency of dir J. P. &Aladin ; the third the world. But whim the girls appeared the subject was
at Mr. Novarre's Rooms. under the presidency of Mr. E. never mentioned. The men seemed to think it won be in-
-21°,1, M.P. The same arrangemente will be carried out decent to allude to such an event, and no more notice was
era' third day. A blank, occasioned by the retirement taken of it, oven by my oldest serves* than if the cat had
s
the Very Rev, the Deaa of Cork frem the topic of produced a litter of kittens. lam afraid that our ordinary
"Preaching," still remain. unfilled. habit' and diversions must have been a mutant sandal to
A Pious GIL BLAS.—" There exists," MVO the the natives. Gar social freedom, our unrestricted inter-
Madrid correspondent of the /isdependrinte, " a society in ' course, and most especially oar public dancing, shocked
Ipais called the ' Associotion of the Faithful,' which has their sense of croeehltY. We had a very Intelligent Mom-
for its object to oppose the progress of socialism. Don ; ghee, who used to read the native newspaners to us, and
lope: del Castillo, a rich proprietor of Fueoto Alamo, re- i he happened oae day to speak of the wife of the Governor-
s's* received an anonymousletter demanding in the nams I General. Of amuse they called bee, in oriental lesbian.
the society a sees of 80,000 reels. The letter the Light of the Earth, and the Glory of the Heavens, and
set forth in the darkest colour/ the evils with so forth ; but the last epithet applied to ber was ore haply-
which Spain was threatened by the efforts of the leaders of lag that she had always been "concealed behind •eartain."
the social Petty ; that in order to counteract them the co. ; I laughed at this, sad asked the man bow they could give
ffirerotion of all men of wealth was neowrpthat for this , that title to a lady who drove every evening. round the
Mixes the Association of the Faithful .ad decreed a , wane at Calcutta. He freshly admitted the incesernitri
famed loan which it was vain to endeavour to mope. ee,, bat be said the epithet was never omitted when speaking
the dagger would be used to execute sure and speedy true cd sable ladles of his owe waste, and it might have been
ties on the recuaants. This letter having bees broaght thought disrespectful to drop it, hewer Inappreeriate.
under the wake of the authorities, an Inquiry was jug.' when vacationing the highest lady of the land.— Victories
tilted, sad the writer was discovered to be a member of the Mva--ise foe September.
Association of the Faithful, sad secretary to an important. 'There has been such an abundance of fruit this is
Oklity. The eau will Aring to light some Minna
~yeer, that poem have hese sold at albs. for 2d., being cas
Ude Um potatoes.

liappes red from the evidence of George Rough, the
inn keeper, that on Sunday night, the 13th ult., he baud
spared men working in the reservoir drawing the mud
dreg to the pips leading to the river, and that shortly
slier 3 o'clock oo the following morning, when the tide was
low, the sluice 11.,p wee raised, and he then saw large quan-
titated mud rushing ant into the Thames. He added that
he shore was covered with mud for a distance of 40 yank.
Richard Lord, the board's superintendent of works,
laid the reservoir mused an area of over two acres of
ground. He new the reservoir when the water was just
Moat, sad the whole of the bottom wu covered with mud,
missies between three and five lashes deep. He spoke to
the foremen of the works and cautioned him not to allow
tie wed to be discharged into the river.
The river keeper also proved that he served a notice
month Wore the ominous'.
Mr. W. B. Hack, the company's engineer, said the works
nutlet to a contractor, who rewired orders not to discharge
the rand into the river. He called _ .

William Aall, the oostraetoe's foreman, and be ilenied
that be ever pre orders for the mud to be in.:barged into
the river. Re said they were making a new filtering bed,
and the mud was sold to the Earl of Lortedsle for lc a
load. Re admitted that a saving of fid. a load would be
ebtaieed by getting rid of the mud into the river.
The magistrate west into figures, and said that 3.000
loads or toes of mud had not been amounted for, and he
bed no doubt they had been put into the Mama. is it
occamid after notice the penalty would be 201.