The Express.
London, England, 1865-05-26 00:00:00

TRAFFIC RETI7RNS.

Mies Pos. Ma. TWA Tees%
AMWAY'S. ern, asairers. eltesdles. Me.
Week sorting March 11. a t I 4
Great Soothers of Isdls.. 2. 963 996 642 614

Week ending April 29.
Northern of Canada .... 94 423 1,823 2,261 3,269
week ending 1143 6.
Grand Trtnk of Csnajda ..11127 8,997 17,401 26.598 22,905
- - - - - -

Week ending Malik.
Dublin and Meath

Week ending gay IS.
Great Central of Belgium 1,641 6,64 S 0.181

Week ending May 19.
Brlla•1 and N. Counties.. WI 978 878 1.836 1,762
Londonderry &Coleraine 1124 176 116 291 944

Week ending May le.
Bele= Meters Junction Ai 1111 telt SU EU
North Eastern lllO 18,1122 48,060 04672 64164

Week ending May 21.
Bolnuit and County Down 49 679 240 819 796
Bristol and tutor
Kant Coast
lon., Chat, and Dover 71i kill 1,082 8,737 24312
Metro. EL of LC. ID. 111 2,290 210 0 1,640

MEETING OF MIDDLESEX MAGISYEASEL —A spe-
cial meeting of the magistrates of the amity of Middlesex
was held yesterday at the Serious-house, Clerkenwell-
green, Mr. Henry Pownsll in the chair. Mr. Turner read a
report from the eommittee appointed on the 73rd of Febru-
ary last to consider the Prisons Bill now before parliament,
with authority to communicate with the Secretary of State
for the Home Department thereon. The report generally
approved of the bill with the alterations made in it at the
suggestions of the Middlesex magistrates. It was agreed
that the committee should be re-appointed, and to obtain
such alterations in the bill as were required. Mr. Glossop
moved, in refined* to a report of the committee of visitors
of the Industrial School at Feltham, laid before the court
in November, 1864, that the report be adopted, and that
they be directed to use means to carry the amended Middle-
sex ladastrial Schools Bill through the houses of parlia-
ment. He referred briefly to the alterations originated by
the committee on mount of the defects in the set of par-
liament under which they had been acting. Mr. Turner
having seconded the motion, Mr. N. Laurie said he felt it
to be his duty to move an amendment, "That the select
committee of the House of Commons having struck out of
the bill the provision which would have entitled the county
to the same allowance from the Consolidated Fund which is
made to other reformatories, and having also prescribed coa-
ditione with reference to the religious instruction of certain
of the inmates of the Feltham establishment which are not
imposed on other reformatories, it was not expedient to pre.
owed further with the bill this aeseioo-" After some disco,.
Bien the amendment was carried by a majority of 21 to 3,
and the court adjourned.
A CHILD DROWNED IN Bow CREEL —A scene of
a most painful character was wintered os Wednesday
afternoon on the banks of a piece of water known as Bow
Creek. A little fellow named Stotts, aged about nine veers,
went down to a bank at which the barges moor to Mood
just about the time that the tide was coming rapidly in, and
he is supposed to have played upon the beak natal his
retreat was out off* the appreeehing water. Alan, rata the
child was seen struggling in the water, and the banks of the
creek were speedily lined by hundreds of plums. Mrs.
Stone, the mother of the boy, attracted by the commotion,
ran to the side of the water, and beheld her child struggling
within a few yards of the beak, and it required strong
efforts to prevent her rushing into the water. A young
fellow jumped into the creek, but his limbs beams
cramped, and be was obliged to return to the shore. After
about twenty minutes the body was recovered, and Mr.
Knowles, sergeoe, did all is his power to restore animation,
bet without effect. It is stated that this is the locoed
And that Mrs. Stone has lost In the water, and that when-
ever a mother misses her child in Candag's-town, she in-
variably flies to the Bow Creek, so notoriously dangerous is
the slam
IRISH RAILWAY REFORM.--Suers' Flews. Letter
directs the athletics of its readers to a requisition to the
Lord Mayor for a public meeting upon the queens:la of rail-
way reform. The requisition, which is meet amorously
signed, calls upon the Lord Mayor to summon a subtle
meeting at the Mantios•lioase on the Ist of Jose, in order
to take this question tato ooneideration, sad, amongst other
things, to hear the views of the railway Wormer, Mr. Oen,
spat the sables& The movement bivalves the application
to railways of ggeevvrnmeat supervision and cootrol. so as to
lead to a eosedidatios of exist* eampanies, a pest mine.
dins of fame sad °barges, aid uniformity of adios through
the instrunwetality of a officially appointed board, the
want of whiek bas lasi bass frit.
CRYSTAL PALACE. —ONE SHELLING DAT.
TUUSIDAY, RAT 25.—Adistimiews ea mimosa, 2,836-
ditto by mass Meisel% ; total visitor,. 4,204.
Du Berry's delicious Isselth restoring Reralents
Awake reed woes, wiliest awlirdse or Isecoveedesee. Dye.
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LA w INTELLIGENCE.

EQUITY COURT/I.—MAY 25.
(Before the Lord Ohm*nor.)
The Lord ChancreUor, accompanied by Irice-Ohenosiligs
'Ogden*, Stuart. end Wood opeoed his court shortly
after two o'clock with the natal' formalities.
DASGILIFIOLD O. JONI&
in this ease. which was pan heard, Uwe the bet ba
the appellant had bees adjedicated a bankrupt, arid it=
over, to order to saurian whether the assigner would
revive the appeal.
AUSTIN r. LUIITHI.—CUbTODT OF • 11011 AN CATHOLIC CHILD.
This is an appeal from an order of the Muter of the Rolls
appoiatiog guardlaus to a ferule child under three yews
old. It appeared that the father of the child in 1849
adopted the Roman catholic faith, and in 1861 he married a
protestant wife, by. whom be had the algid in
question. He died intestate, although be bad prepared
a will, in whiob he gave directions that the child should be
brought up in the Roman catholic faith. In which it had
been baptised. The mother had married main to a pro-
testant, and og 'pollution to the court the "'mar of the
Rolla appointed the mother and a maternal node of the
child her guardians, declining to give say direction as to
her religious instruction, only stipulating that the guar-
dians should apply for the direction of the court io a few
years. It was against this order that the appeal was
brought.
The Atteroey-General, Mr. Baggallay, and Mr. Bagshawe
were for the appellant ; Sir ff. Cairn, Mr. Selwyn, and Mr.
Kaye for the respondents.
The Lord Chancellor asked whether be could interfere to
take an infant of three years old from its mother.
The Lilo/my-General said it was not intended to ask
that.
Sir H. Cairns said that was asked at the Rolls.
The Attorney-General said that the paternal friends of
the child thought it reasonable that the end should asso-
nate with the mother members of the father's family, arid
nuke a. declaration that the child should be brought up in
the re ice of the father.
The Lord Chancellor said this might lead to difference.
If the court thought the mother the proper person to hike
this tender child in her arms no one ought to be useelend
with her who might interfere with her. The mother's hus-
band might be a proper person, and the court would pre-
sume that the child would be brought up in the religion of
the father. The cue must stood over to Saturday.