The Express.
London, England, 1862-11-29 00:00:00

THE LATE CASE OF SHEEP-STEALING.

TO THI ZDITOB. OF Till EXPRFSB.
Sir,—Several of my customers have drawn my
attention to a report in your paper, iu the matter of " Sheep
Stealing" by a drover and butcher of the name of Smith,
of Holloway. My name is James Smith, and I am •
butcher, of St. James's-road, Holloway ; but I beg to say I
am not the man.—l am, &c., JAMES SMITH.
St. James's-road, Holloway, Nov. 28.

THE INNS OF COURT VOLUNTEERS.—(THIS DAT.)
—This morning the Inns of Court Volunteers paraded in the
large open space of the Temple, opposite King's Bench-walk.
Nearly 400 men mustered. At half-prat it they marched
out by the gate leading to Whitefriars, for Richmood•park,
to be inspected by Colonel M'Murdo.
THE HEALTH OF THE EARL GIFFORD M.P.—
We are extremely glad to be enabled to state on good
authority that the latest accounts received respecting the
health of our respected member. Lord Gifford, state that
his health is improving, and that the doctors think there is
now some probability of his ultimate recovery.— Wester*
Times.
WORKING MEN'S Cottle:F., 45, GREAT ORMOND-
trrßeer.—M.r. Raskin will deliver an address to the stn.

dents this (Saturday) evening, at 8.30.
Tim CHAMPIONSHIP.—BeIrs Life of to-day nays: per ithar-ec and to issue —__ig
public, a preference to be given to shareholders in
—" Mace, the very day of the battle, forwarded to us 201.
to make a fresh match, to come off as soon as King chooses, helading Indian railways. The chairman, Sir
but within six months. If King meansto make this match, Macdonald Stephenson, lucidly explained the piv-
ot course he will receive the belt, but if he declines, the belt sent position of the undertaking.
will have to be restored to Mace on the usual conditions, but The half-yearly meeting of the London-bridge
he will hereto saint his time from Wednesday last instead
of from January last. Of Mace little is required to be Railway Terminus Hotel Company was held yester-
day The chairman, Dr. Challice, in the course of his
said. No one who saw the mill will doubt that he lost it by •
• fluke. He had the game almost entirely in his own hands speech, dwelt upon the present satisfactory position
until the 19th round, and had he not been so overconfident, of the undertaking, and, in referring to the de-
we believe, must have won. That he is dissatisfied with donation of a dividend at the rate of 10 per cent.
the result of the fight may be gathered from the fact that
he has called on us to state that if King will not make • per annum, expressed a belief that the next
ear's dividend will be equally good. The
fresh match for a stake, his backers are willing to give King t ,
rag y
_
a present of 501. to fight Jem in a fortnight offhand, so rigritow Railway Company have agreed to
that the public may judge whether that battle was • mis- purchase the surplus Laud. of
been compaerredny,
take or no." and the question
The directors have made a tender
of price will fto
A REMARKABLE LEAE—On Tuesday week last, an arbitrator.
• numerous party of ladies and gentlemen assembled at
to the Brighton Railway Company for the !service
Hinclainbrook House, the resident* of the Right Hon. the of the refreshment-room at the London-bridge ter-
Earl of Sandwich, for the purpose of joining in a fox-hunt.
The aeon commenced shortly after 10 o'clock, when two minus. The report was unanimously adopted.
foxes were started, one of which, after a smart dime, was The proceedings at the meeting yesterday of the
run down. The other, however, took "home," and proprietors of the Globe Insurance Company were
reached the wall of kliachiobrook House without being confined to adjourning to the 12th of December;
captured. The wall, at this poiut, is about 10 feet high,
end Reimer& being pressed by the honed., and sorely the meeting of the proprietors of the Liverpool
puzzled how to make his escape, took • leap, and actually and London Insurance Company being fixed for the
succeeded in reaching the top of the wall, whence he fell 10th of December.
exhausted on the other side, having received some savers It appear,' that Sir R. W. Carden has withdrawn
injuries in the performance of this extraordinary feat.— from the direction as well as from the chairman-
Peterborough Advertiser, _ s ship, of the City limit.
THE BULLET FOUND AT LAST.-80 long a period The Caledonian Railway traffic return shows this
has elapsed since the carpenter named Bourn discharged •
pistol at his forehead in the " Cause is Altered," Dower, week an increase of 1,170 L
that the circumstance was well.nigh forgotten. At the At a special meeting of the directors of the Pen-
time Bourn was removed in a state of insensibility to insular and Oriental Company, held yesterday, Mr.
the Dover Hospital, where opinion was divided as to the
presence of the bullet in the wound ; and in due course Arthur Anderson was unanimously elected chair-
men of the company, in the place of the late Mr.
the man recovered sufficiently to be placed on his trial ,„.„ as P.
for attempted self-destruction, and be was acquitted. rr we", zn"-
Subsequently, while sojourniog in Canterbury, ha The London agents of the Illinois Central Rail-
casually drew the attention of Mr. W. Wall (of Dover) , road Company have received the following infor-
to the wound, complaining that •
...,
pressure ef mine 1 oration from the treasurer, dated New York, Nov.
weighty substance near the eye incapacitated him from to 1862 :
work. Mr. Wall ear mined the wound, and detected the 1
t presence of a dark substance, which Board believed to be „ThLaler :ital.
road. Mr.
the mysterious bullet, and begged his friend to cut it out. 1 the
Osborne entertains
enftertavotiiirambthlee
ex-
peetathe that we shall be able to make a two per cent. di-
Instead of complying with this request, Mr. Wall suggested
the employment of a surgeon, in which Bonin acqiusecei. , vidend about the close of the present year ou the scrip
and Mr. Holttum was called in. The item was the extrael ' s,_.tock, and hopes
lion of the bullet ; but it was so embedded and Rationed ; pets. forth& contlinutice thereof. Appears:Kai
Thneydirector7of thme nicl;l' n 'Bank of England and 1
against the skull as to afford considerable resistance to its I
removal, and when cleansed . as found to be about the size . France are inviting applications for the poet of Lou- ,
and substance of a shilling. We understand the bullet is to ' don manager.
be forwarded to the museum of the Royal College of Sur- I A transaction has taken place in the shares of the
polka—Dover Chrosstcle. Baltic Coffee House at 136 per cent, inclusive of
THE BURGLAR AND THE LADY.—MIL Norman,
The Kelso has arrived from China with
. . .end of 51. just declared.
who.e gallant chock to the burglar we have shwa re
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has since received two singular letters which have
through the metropolitan post-office. They ate either the , 766,6721b5. of tea.
Foductiou of • maniac or are intended to operate anon the I FRIDAy Emmy.
lady's
wry".
Mrs. Norman
is
a lady
of
good
ladSlaiii.r ! Consols, which closed yesterday at 921 to lex
2S years old, end is, of nuns, *Pungens sad cool edi
pews ale dm iniesupsing she cass.-4ArobliA ire cpsyter•
dis. for the 4th Dee., opened and closed to-day at