The Express.
London, England, 1865-10-25 00:00:00

NXTRAOADINANY SUICIDI IN THZ TRAMS%

This morning information wee forwarded to Mr.
Payne, the City coroner, of the suicide in the Thames of •
monied man, whose identity Is linkage, Wreath a quarrel
with his wife.
It appears that yesterday morning, between 5 and
6 o'clock, a City polies when going his
whar
fs ia the asighboanstahle, engood of Lower
Thames-etrest, sew a man respectably amid mated
se the gone steps of Mews. Comic's warehouse. The
officer aged him what be was dung there at
snob an early hour. He replied. " I went kern last eight
and I bad • quarrel with my wife, beagle 1 did not bring
entities* rnene/. She kept on rowing Obi tar mere, and to
get rid of her I west cut to walk the games antil morniag.
I am waiting now till the warehouse here operas
to go to work." The constable was satisfied with
this exelenatica and west away. In two boors
after the body of the cleared warn tuna lying
in the mud al the Thames within • few hundred yards of the
spot whams the abovegegioned interview tog place. It
is believed that be &maid hi self by leaping into the
river, mid that he was left on the mud by the receding tide.
His body was removed to St. slagges deadlionse, 'bee it
was marehed, the sum of 6s. in silver and led. in copper
money was found in his posketa, but there was no docu-
meat or anything else which could lead to bis idgtificstion.
His appearance is that of a well-to-de meresag

Yesterday afternoon the certificates obtained at
the last Oxford local examiestione for the Manchester
centre, together with the prizes of books awarded by the
load committee of schoolmuters, were presented to the
youthful no:digests by the Bishop of Oxford, in the Free
Trade Hall. The grist room was well filled with ladies and
the pupils sod their frierida. The Mayor of
=Teem. = took the chair. Aumeg the easy p.mm
and other gendarme of local indolence who atte wore
the Rev. Mom Ammo, the Rev. Oases Birch (former)
bake to the Primo of Waft), Mr. P. W. Walker (high
meter of the Maeolteeter Grammar School), Mr. Kendall
(of Charlton High Baboon, Mr. Proctor (the secretary of
the local schoolmasters' coenmittes), end the Mayor of 1361-

led (Mr. W. Town).
MATH Or THE ENV. WILLIAM HAMILTON
Dsmnolq D.D.—This eminent scholar, post, and divine
died as his hew. in Lower Clarffinernewit, Dublin, oe the
monies d Monday, the 16th, and was named ors Friday.
the 20th inst. He was born at Lane in August. 1778 ; end
had coownestly attained the advanced age of eighty-
seven yew. His gostioal talents wend a order, end
wen assiduously cultivated, his pew ea the "Beth of
Trafalgar " that on the "Manta ' Causeway," hi "Transla-
tion 01, L'esretkes,* hi poems on religious sublimate (" Who
are the happy'"" lee.), arid kie "Pleasures of evelencis "
sufficiently attest. In the year 1815 be removed to the am-
peptic, of Strand-street, in Dublin, and in that city he
spent the remainder of his life. While there he published a
number of works on cootroversial theology, which sheen&
a large share of attention. Among his many theological
opponents, ha had sot a single personal enemy ; end it is
so disperageneeet of any living mu tory that is the WA-
haln body to which he we, attached he has not left his
equal es • scholar, an orator, a poet, or a theologian. He
was One of the wheal members of the Belfast Literary
Society, sod for the last forty yens of his We a member of
the Royal Irish Academy, to whose transactions lee comma-
sinew& sow k able sad nishes papers. The degree of
Doctor of Divinity was conferred epos him by the Univer-
sity el Glasgow in the year 1808, on the recommendation
of the eelsiested Dr. Percy, Bishop of Dromors, and ether
admirers of hie geoins.—Northers Whip.
CoNORMOATIONAL UNION OT ENGLAND AND
WALlB.—The antenna session of the Oungregstional
Vein of Begbad sad Wales commend on Monday, at
Bristol, and will be Goshen daring the week. There is •
eery lsrp satire-in of ministers and deacons commend with
the wins independent chapels throughout the kingdom.
As way or 800 bad arrived on Illaskey, and it is Wind
that yesterday the number had been 'amnesia& to new
where about 700. Among the divines are many of the
highest eminence in connexion with the engesgatinal
body. The first meeting, which was of a &Wined cha-
ncier, was held in Camels-grew Chapel, a captious build-
ing, the pulpit el which was occupied in hi life-time by
the famous William Thorp, whose wow cm the prophe-
cies ate:sated in his lifetime so man attention. Oir Mon-
day evening the Rev. Theophilus Loney, of Bernsbury,
&Bested en admen The first meeting of ministers and
delegates took place yesterday. at Benswisk Chapel, when
thiesident, the Rev. David Thome", 8.A., mishit of
R bury Chapel, Bristol. delivered the Wagered address.
INTONATION AND FRAIL OPINING OF ST. MART'S
Caved", No'rrimotter.—The noble es.ample which Dr.
Vaughan h.a set at Dowestee ia throwing open the beau-
tiful perish awn 111 that tows, the example set in
Nottingham a* St. John's and mei* at St. Nicholas'.
1., we an glad to say, about to be f 'Bowed at St.
Mary'.. The Rev. Fronds Morse, vicar, has just beued
• choler, in which intimate that the ohne* is
to be made free, and be appeals to the publie to tad
the eneisary funds to restore and beautify the sacred
edifice, and to make it what it ought to be, the church of
the county. Mr. Gilbert Scott, the well-how architect,
has been °welted, and the oast of these long required im-
provements is pat draws at 13,0001. Earl Monsen, the
el the hum, has geseronsly voluenered to head
e ir:beeription with the noble sum el 1,0001.. and we are
certain that the example he has thus sat will be followed
by equal liberality, net oily by our hisses, but by the
nobility atfentay of the county and
A
tam Jou
Eooinowterr IDta.—Allied to this is another
zoological idea, whole has long We is the rude el both
amateur sad misetific naturalists. It may startle some
wens folks at the first contemplation d the project,
which is nothing more en he the to "sable envy ebitor
to stead fees to face with hoes and tigers en the same
level sod in the open air, at pistol-shot distance, sod that
within say bare or brkts or chains intervening, sod yet
with the most perfect safety. Everybody will adroit that
it would be a grand and novel sight to we the monarchs of
the African forest and the terror of the India )ungle, in
he on mane from a et to of mature. playing their
agile gambols in the open air amid mini native
10111“17, sod with room enough to give practical illustra-
tions of their nth and deadly spring spa their prey, at
feeding time, There would be, however, so difficulty or
risk be mensgiag all this by tee simple adaptation of wide,
deep ba-hes sad a specially contemned chevaux-delnw to
the ponce" eneireing a raised mend, in illairSaiolll of
lodine, Airless, or tropical wassery. Weed, SOON *MO
since, Mr. C. ILiesdeser submitted well designed and executed
pins salwalated to effect this object to the committee of
the Zoologiced Society. No dash thane plass, if pablicly
seaweed, would be improved by the adoption of sone of
the euserees semeetheas that weal& be made. But we
have set head that the committee bad taken the subject
into consideration. Yet it stands to maw that the fresh
air. exercise. sod recreation thus proposed to be afforded
these great earsieera would condone to their health, thew
keignity, and to the likelihood of their bendier is the
mseagerie.—Tiers.
Tics Won? AT/11CAN MAlLL—YeNterday the
Royal Mail eissaeship Athenian. Chwinewlse Griffith,
sailed from the Money with the main fee Madeira. Tees-
riffs, sod the West Dort of Atria. The Athenian takes
out about 70 pessengses (a Urge member of whom go to
winter at Madeira), and a full canc..
New ORLEANS. —The British and American
Steam Navigation Company's screw steamer Florida, Cap.
ha Biker, smiled wishorday frees Liverpool fee New Or-
leans with a large cargo and 73 pamengen, of whet 18
were cabin. The ern warner of the line will be the Boli-
vian. so sieS oe Tiewiday. 7th Nov.; to be succeeded by
the Caroller, to sell MA ov.
OSTINAL PALIADJI.NONII o HAT.
eebel'. 111.—Achnieriens es limner, 1,109: by
Wan Admen, bib. Tend elites; 1.474.