The Express.
London, England, 1865-12-30 00:00:00

of Mr. Than, • builder, was at work in the house
of Dr. Page. The primmer did not go to work
at the usual hour, but went while the men were at
breakfast, and was admitted by Lydia Pryor, the cook,
who left him working, or pretend* to do go, on the stair-
case. About two hours afterwards the clock was missed
from its stand, and the prisoner absrxescled. The matter
was placed in the hands of Dawson, 301 A, but nothing was
found of the 11611100 W till yesterday. when be was taken into
custody at the Victoria station by Watts, 253 B.
Mr. 'Kim remanded the primmer.

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FEARFUL SCENE DURING A PANTOMIME.
A COLUMBINE BURNT TO DEATH.

A fearful scene occurred at the Lyceum Theatre,
Sunderland, on Thursday night, daring the perform.
once of the pantomime " Robin Hoed." A Butte
percha tube consectieg the wing *lights became detached,
and the gsa escaping ignited sad a loud explosion took
pima, the flame shooting up, to the top of the
stage. A rush wee made to the door by the audience, who
thought the theatre was an but, they were stopped by
seeing Miss Louisa Ricardo, who wee engaged as Columbine
Watteau rush on to the stags enveloped in flames. She se.
had bees standing amongst a group collected at the wing, fa
waiting her turn to go on, when the flames caught at.
her muslin skirt. She shrieked and rushed on in 25
the middle of the some, where her father was playing es I°‘)
clown, bat was thrown down by mu of the stage carpenters.
Mr. Bell, the lessee, rushed from his private box, and his 'll.-
top coat was pulled off and wrapped ?cued the poor girl et.
and the amiss were bastes out. A number of the audience
clambered from the pit to the stage while the fearful scene
was going os, but they ultimately resumed their seats,
94
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and the performance proceeded. Miss Ricardo
wr
removed home and attended to by medical men, and yes- at.
terday morning ao dangerous remits were apprehended,
though she was sadly burst about the arms and chest. She et.
died, however, at 2 o'clock la the afternoon from her in- St.
juries and the shock to hersystem. Her father was so re.
much burned in encleavocuing to put out the fire that he 114.
will be unable to resume hie profession for some lime.— at.
Leeds Mercury.

1K 106

ANOTHER VESSEL LOST OPP THE IRISH 1 S
COAST. ss.

(BY RLICOMIC TRLIORAPIL) 190
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(now OUR OWN COaRDBYONDENT.) St
DUBLIN, SATURDAY MORNING. 9
A valise) which is supposed to be the Eugenie, of t
Dublin, west ashore yesterday morning at Ballyareaeon Bay,
sB4,
where the Ibis was wrecked. Fowles. lives ere test s.
.

The Art Union having completed the engraving it,
of the beautiful met of drawls(' by Kr. Idealise, ILA., 84.
illustrating the Norman Conquest, the volume ls now to be 11
seen at the office of the Society as the regular presentation St.
to subscribers in addition to their chance of obtaining a I:
prize in the annual distribution whioh takes place in April SA
each year. le
st.
A man named Mullen and his wife, who live on a at.
farm at Dunnavenny, *entity Derry, se caretakers, out of Sst:
which parties were some time ago evioted for non.payment et„
of rent,werei attacked on the night of the 22nd instant by 30 Si
men armed with gnu, and beaten in a dreadful manner, fit
after after being compelled to swear that they would leave the le
place. Every article they possessed was destroyed. Eleven ri
of the miscreants were captured next morning.
We understand that arrangements have been
made to hold a public meeting in Glasgow at an early date
for the promotion of parliamentary reform, at which the 1,
special interests of Scotland, in the measures of reform to at.
be introduced by the government, will also be considered. ZO
At this meeting, the mernbers for the city have agreed to 10i
be present, as aloe Messrs. Baxter, Dunlop, Ewing, Lamont, 10,1
Madmen, and others.
A new weekly review, to be entitled the English
Leader, is announced to appear the first week in January. St
It calls itself a "Journal of the Minority," and professes 100
to represent the opinions of " that clue of the people ;;.•
who seek to unite thought and action, and claim to have an 20
influence in public affairs." St.
Tax Waxon-flionr.—To-morrow (Sunday) night, leo
being the last of the year the watclznight service will be 1,.00..
celebrated, as it has been on twenty oceasione, without
Ipp
intermission, in the Spa-fields Chapel, Clerkenwell. The Loo
service will commence et 10 p.m.. and soon after 11 the toe
sermon will be concluded. The last minutes of the year toe
will be passed by the congregation in 'tact prayer, an IN
d Loa
then, when midnight hu put, the New Year's Hymn
Bt.
will be sung. SO
LITERARY AND SmErrinc MEZTINGS FOR THE 20
ENSULVG WYE& —Monday, Entomological, 7. Tuesday, st.
Royal Institutoo, 3—" Sound" (juvenile lectures), Dr. Le.
Tyndall; Anthropological, 4—anniversary. Thursday, °‘
Royal Institution, 3—" Sound" (juvenile lecture.), Dr.
Tyndall. Friday, Philological. Bi—" Dia as used of the op
Final Cause," Rev. E. H. Knowles. Saturday, Royal too
Institution, 3—" Sound" (juvenile lectures), Dr. Tyndall.
—Athena:gm. St.
SUNDAY TRADING IN THE EAST-END. —The rt:
clothiers assistants engaged in the large clothing establish. 20
=DU io the East•end have Waled au appeal to the public St.
complaioing of having to work all the seven days of the week. 60
They state that they are engaged in labour 94 hours in the St.
week, and they appeal to the workmen of London, St.
to give them one days feet out of seven by not shopping at
clothing establishments which continue to keep open on Sr,
Sundays. Several of the principil clothiers have consisted aft
to sloes their establishments on Suodays from January 7,
1886. consequently, to-morrow will be the last Sunday on /
which this form of Sunday trading will be carried on to any
great extent.
NAVAL PAY AND PENSIONS.—On Monday next
the new act to regulate the pay and pensions in the Royal
Navy and Marines will take effect. There is a provision
declaring that any assignment at all of a pension or pay,
after the commencement of the act. shall be " void."
DECORATIONS IN THE NAVY.—On Monday the
new set will come lido operation as to the property of
deceased officers and men in the Royal Navy and Marines.
Among the provisions is one to prevent medals and
decorations being claimed by creditors.
DOCKYARD PORTS.—On the lot proximo an act

for the regulation of Dockyard Porte will come into opera.
tion. New regulatioos are to be made and a harbour
master appointed for each port, by the Admiralty, to
enforce the new law.
THE Cerriz PLAGUE—Yesterday a meeting was
held in the County Hall. Derby, in reference to the tinder.
peat, and also for the purpose of reorganising and to devise
the best memos of carrying on an association for mutual
&sumacs against the cattle phigue. In the absence of
the Duke of Devonshire from indisposition, the chair was
taken by Lord Denman, who was supported by Lord
Watupark, Lord Scarsdale, the High Sheriff (Mr. Broad-
hurst), the Hon. A. H. Vernon, the Hon. E. W. K.
Coke, Mr. Thomas William Evans. M.P., Mr. W. T. Cox,
M.P., the Mayor of Derby (Mr. F. Lyndon), and many
others. The Hoe. A. H. Vernon addressed the meeting
at considerable
the
upon the serious aspect now
presented by cattle plague, and moved the
adoption of a number of rules for a mutual assurance
aseociatioo. The disci:session upon the rules lasted for
several hours. It was agreed that the association should
be formed for the mutual assurance of members against
lass of cattle by cattle plague or pleuro-poeumonia, to
commence on the Ist of January next, and continue until
the 31st of March next. Some thirty rules for the
guidaace of the association were adopted, and it was
agreed that every member entitled to compensation for
loess. should receive at the next meeting of the central
committee 50 per cent. on the declared Anhui of the animal
insured. The remaining 25 per cent., len the amount of
eels due up to the 31st March, 1866, to be paid on the
day of the person insuring. For purposes of insurance
cattle will be classified as follows :—Over three years old
to be insured within a minimum of 101. and a maximum
of 201. ; under three years old, within a minimum of 71.
and a maximum of 141. ; under two years and over three
months old, 31. and 71.
BURNING DISEASED MEAT AT MALToN. —A very
unusual sceoe took place at Halton on Wednesday in the
public burning in the cattle-market of the caresses of a cow
and a sheep, both of which ere supposed to have had the
rioderpest when slaughtered. The cow, it seems, had been
removed (by certificate) from a farm in the neighbourhood
on Saturday last, apparently healthy, but on being
slaughtered unmistakeable signs of disease were &operant,
arid the remit was that on Christmas-day the circesa wu
condemned its unfit fort C
and ordered by a magistrate
on Tuesday to be burnt on the following day. A sheep
which appeared somewhat stupid was sent in from the
Wolde at the same time, and being dressed was likewise
condemned. The two chromes were smeared with tar and
publicly buret on Wedoesday. From these uses it ap-
pears that disease may lurk in the flesh and cannot be de•
tooted during life.
SHELLING THE NATIVES—Her Majesty's ship
Curacao, Commodore Sir William Wiseman, has been
cruising among the islands of the South Pacific. Before
leaving one of the islands of the New Hebrides Group the
commodore conceived it to be his duty to shell the villages
in the vicinity of where hie ship bad been lying, on account
of some complaints of illtreatment offered (it is not stated
when or how) to sailors or missionaries. Twenty.six of the
natives are known to have been killed at one place. The
result of shelling at another island was not ascertained.
Bishop Pettesoo, in the missionary schooner Southern
Crow, was in company with Sir 'William Wiaeman at some
of the islands; and it may afford satidaation to the friends
of missions, both in Australia and England, to know that
his lordship fully concurs in the propriety of the course
adopted by Commodore WW•man. Some persons in Sydney,
however, are so unreasonable as to think that such whole.
sale measures are not only inoondetent with the faith of
which Bishop Rade= is a minister, but with the honour of
the country under whose flag they were perpetrated.—
Sydney /spire, Oot. 21.

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DECEMBER 30, 1865.

IJIERICA.

(111CCTEle9iTZLZOILUL)
ARRIVAL OF THZ HZCLA.
(VIA Liverpool.)
NEW YORK, Dec. 17, 6 A.Y.
The Mississippi Legislature has pained over the
governor's veto upon the bill superseding all the
State laws for the collection of debts until January
1, 1868, in consequence of the impoverished condi-
tion of the State.
The resolution of the Alabama Legislature rati-
fying the anti-slavery amendment declares that it
does not oonfer on the Federal Congress the power
to legislate on the political status of freedmen.
In consequence of the refusal of the Tennessee
Legislature to admit negro testimony in the courts,
the freedmen's agent has given orders for all cases
concerning negroes to be heard specially before the
Freedmen's Court.
The Hecht takes out 190,416 dots. in specie.