The Express.
London, England, 1862-02-20 00:00:00

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/MAL SATURDAY.
N. Nrltda-41.11.1L to B.N. and W. to N. mod N.Z., drool.
W. N.M., • plc, with min.
&B.W. to N.W., a N.N. to N. and Z., stroag,
gade,ndlll.
Central-8. to W. and N.W., W.N.W. to N. and E., fresh
strong, with ralu to moderate.
L Cosst.—Ss
.W. to W.N.W., W. to N. and K., fresh to
strong, to fresh. moderate.
B. England —8.8. W. to W. and B.W. to N.N.N.. moderate.
N. W., strong to moderate.

EXPLANATION.
IS.—Barometer corrected and reduced to IS deg. et mean ma
level : each 10 feet, of vertical rise, causing about one-hundredth
of an inch diminution : and each 10 deg., above SS deg., catmint
nearly three-hundredths Increase. I.—Esposed thermometer
In shade, IL—Moistened bulb (for evaporstkas and dew
point). D.—Direction of wind ~true—two points kff of mat
netic). 7.—ronse (1 to IS—estimated). C.—Cloud (1 to 9).
Initiate b, blue sky : e, clouds (detached) : f, fog ; h, han ; 1.
lightning: m, misty (hazy) o, overcast (dull) : r, rain; a, snow:
t. thunder. 8., rain-fall, or snow, or ball, ISOM last report, ID
Inches and deMmals. 11.—nes disturbance (1 to 9). 7.--Calm.

It is reported that the Emperor Napoleon has
addressed an autograph letter to the King of Prussia, urging
him to recognise the kingdom of Italy.
Among the list of speakers who have put down
their names as intending to take pert in the discussion com-
mencing to-day in the French Senate upon the address, are
four cardinals, who, it is supposed, will confine themselves
to the paragraph relative to the Roman question. Prince
Napoleon, it is still supposed, will deliver a bold speech
against the temporal power of the Pope.
It is stated that a camp of 40,000 men is about
to be formed by the French government at the foot of the
Pyrenees.
A letter from Rome says :—" The business agent
of Prince Joseph Boosporte, his alter ego, M. Batumi, has
just been arrested by order of the pontifical government.
All that is known further is that the arrest ia due to political
Every day the Prince Imperial, accompanied by
his gouvernaote, M. Bachon, his equerry, and a boy of
about his own age, takes a riding lesson iu the mati4e of
the Louvre. The youth will enter his seventh year on the
16th of next month.
The Regeneracimt of Madrid mentions a report
that au English General, named Alexander, had arrived in
Spain on a protestant mission, to endeavour to obtain the
liberation of the persons sentenced to implasonrneot for
propagating copies of the Bible. The journal adds that the
government is not likely to allow the general to carry out
his design, and expresses the belief that the Spaniards are
not at all inclined to favour protestantism.
Tamberlik is expected in Paris next week from
St. Petersburg. He will first appear at the Italian Opera,
in Otello.
The production of Verdi's La Fora del Desalt*,
written for St. Petersburg, is adjourned till next season,
in consequence of delays caused by the illness of Mae. La
Grua.
Madame Ristori, the celebrated tea julienne, is
building a magnificent modest at Florence.
By a circular of the Danish Minister of the In_
tenor, all the chiefs of diatricte are requested to favour by
every means in their power the formation of private rife
clubs, as an effectual means of exercising young men in the
use of arms, and of strengthening the confidence of the
people in its form for the defence of the nation.

AWFUL COLLIERY EXPLOSION.

FORTY-SEVEN LIVES LOST.

INT ILLECrsic 'manArm.)

MERTHYR TYDVIL, TuunsnAy,

An awful explosion occurred yesterday, at
about twelve o'clock, at the (halm Coal Pit,
Merthyr Tydvi', by which forty-seven liven were
sacrificed. Two more are not expected t,) nut,

THE RAILWAY AND CANAL BILLS OF 142.

The report of the Board of Trade, issued to-day,
states that the number of bills relating to railways in treat
Britain and Ireland deposited for this session amounts to
229. Of this number 174 authorise new works. The pro-
posed new works to be authorised by these bills may be
clawed as follows :—By new companies in England, 70 bills
for 1,005 miles of railway ; in Scotland, 6 bills for 99 miles;
in England, 8 bills for 104 miles. By existing companies,
77 bills, for 492 miles, relate to England ; 8 bills, for 53
miles, to Scotland ; 5 bills, for 47 miles, to Ireland. The
I whole length of the new lines is, therefore, 1,800 miles,
and there aro in addition 89 milt* of dm iatiou lines.

MEETING OP MIDDLESEX MAGISTRATES.
(TIIIS DAY.)

This days 'general meeting of the magistrates of
the county of Middlesex was held at the Session" House,
Clerkenwell, for the transaction of the county business.
HENRY POWNALL, Esq., presided, and the court was very
numerously attended.
FLOGGING PRUSONINUI BY THE CAT-0.-NINE-TAILS EN THE
.

HOUSE OF CORRECTION, COLDBATH FIELDS.
A report was brought up from the visiting justices of the
Howe of Correction, Coldbath.fields, which amongst other
topics contained the following plunge :—" Although the
general conduct of the prisoners as been good, the visiting
justiore have to report that since the last county day
they have been under the necessity of ordering the
infliction of corporal punishment on three prisoners for
distinct cases of assault, viz., ou two of the warders, and on
the instructor in the mat room ; and they have sentenced
those prisoners to receive respectively one dozen, two
dozen, and four dozen lashes with thin cat o' nine tails." The
report stated further that the number of prisoners in cus•
tody this day was 1,655.
The report was received and adopted.
ASSOCIATION OF A WARDER WITH THIEVES OUTSIDE THE

PRISON.
The report of the visiting justices of the House of Cor-
rection at Westminster contained the following remark-
able passage :—" The visiting justices have found it
necessary to suspend from further duty Chief Warder
Frances Pigram, an officer who has been upwards
of seventeen years in the service of the county.
For some time past the visiting justices have
suspected her of intercourse with prisoners and their
friends out of the prison ; and finding that articles were
privately introduced into the prison, but by whom the
keeper could not detect, they directed that vigilant mitten-
tine should be *et to the conduct of the officer when off
duty. They soon had reason to believe that Chief
Warder Pigram was in the heat of frequenting a
most notorious house, well known to the police as
being visited by thieves and other bad characters, which,
after much equivocation, the officer reluctantly admitted.
The visiting justices, therefore, deem it to be their duty to
recommend that she be dismissed from the prison."
The recommendation of the committee was adopted, and
she was accordingly dismissed from the service of the
county. The number of prisoners in custody this day in this
prison was fin

THE EASTER MONDAY REVIEW AT BRIONTON.-.•
We understand that it is the intention of the Secre-
tary of State for War to appoint Lori Clyde to take the
command at the great volunteer field•day, which it is in
contemplation to hold at Brighton on Easter Monday.
Mr. Alderman Copeland to-morrow will ask the
Secretary of State for the Rome Department, if it be the
intention of the government to appoint a select committee
to inquire into the state of the Bocleeisstical Comnd,sion,
and the management of the estates now vested in the nom•
=hake.
Mr. Haliburton will ask the Under Secretary of
State for Foreign Affairs, to-morrow, upon what terms, if
any, the Americans retain possession of a portion of the
Island of St. Juan ; whether there is any negotiation pend-
ing on the subject, and the nature thereof ; sod, whether
there be any objection to produce the papers and correspond-

ones referring thereto.
Mr. Baxter will bring in a bill on Monday to
prevent women and children being employed at machinery
during the night at bleschfielda.
Mr. Locke King has given notice of a bill to
provide for an alphabetical index to the register of voters
in counties and boroughs in England and Wales.
A breakfast will be given at the Freemasons'
Tavern on Saturday, in honour of the anniversary of
Washiogton's birthday ; the Bishop of Ohio in the chair.
On Monday evening, the Raw. Canon Stowell
lectured at Sunderland, under the auspices of the Church
Defence Association, on " Reasons for love and loyalty to
the National Church." "The rev. canon," rays the New-
castle aroma*. "wee seated during his lecture, as it ap'
peered he had injured his knee-cep very seriously by a fall
down some stairs in the rectory mansion of the Its,. Mr.
Eden. He had to be helped on to the platform, but net-
withstanding his bodily affliction, the lecture was learned,
brilliant, and in the rev. gentleman's best style." In come-
quenee of this accident the rev. gentleman was unable to
preach at Jesmood on Tuesday morning, or to attend the
soiree of the Newcastle Church Institute, on Tuesday
evening.
The half-yearly meeting of the Lancashire and
Yorkshire Railway Company was hold yesterday, when the
report of the directors was adopted, and a dividend of 21
per cent. on the ordinary stock declared. The chairman
said the stagnant condition of trade bore with particular
hardship on the company, and there was a decrease in the
massager and goods traffic of no less than 48,0001. &scam-
pered with the same period of last year.
The guard of the goods train which was run
into by the express, near Hadley, a night or two since,
wa
taken Wore the magistrates yesterday, charged with neglect
of duty. The railway rules provide that guards should pat
fog-signals on the line on the stoppage of auy train, and that
they should be placed 800 yards from the rear of a train.
This the defendant neglected to do, and the magistrates.
therefore, sent him to prison for a month.
ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY. —At the meeting
on Monday, the 24th iota., at 81 p.m., at Burlington-bone,
the papers to be read are-1. Report en the Brazilian Pro-
vince of the Parana, by the Hon. H. P. Vereker, her
Britannic Majesty's consul at Rio Geode do Sul. 2. The
Republic of Nicaragua, by O. R. Perm , Esq., her Majesty's
vice-consul for that state. 3. Proposed transit route through
Central America, by way of Nicaragua, by Captain Bedford
Pim, R.N., F.R.G.S.,
ETHNOLOGICAL Socirrr.—At the meeting of this
society on the 18th inst. one of the papers read was 00
The idol human head of the Jiver° Indians of Ecnator."
by Win. Bolleert, F.R.G.S. The bead and a Spanish do-
cument relative to it were exhibited bv Doe R. de Silva
Ferro, Chiliso consul in London, at the. last meeting. The
Jivers decapitated their prisoners, and after abstracting
I the skull, reduced the skin of the head by heat, to a third.
or km, of its size ; the features and hair being retained.
This horrible object is, after a strange ceremony, hung up
by two strings, and adored as an idol. The new fellows
elected were : his Grace the Duke of Devonshire. Lord \'-
count Strangford, Sir Erskioe Perry, Mar Showers, J. G.
Chambers, Fey., C. A. Atkins, Dig., Spencer St. John,
Esq., her Majesty's Consul-General and Charge d'Affturs
at Hayti.
OV ERN M ENT EMIGRATION. The Pere* of
1,684 tons, belonging to Mr. George Seymour, of lA
and comnunided by Captain John H. Smith, whichTdairA
from Plymouth on the 6th of August lest, arrived at Port
Curtis on the 16th of November, end et Brisbane, Queen,-
land, on the 3rd of December last, with the following ono
grants, some of whom were landed at the former port—‘iLt
67 married couple*, 119 single men, 10'2 single women. 34
boys, and 31 girls between one and 12 years of age, 418118
infanta making a total of 438 souls, equal to :6471 statute
adults, under the care of Mr. Clarence Chapnao, sum,een
ouperintentleut. Four births took place, and eight adults
cud 13 children died during the voyage.
THE GREAT Ex H I BITION BUILDING.--3010M01.
Lucas Brothers and Mesas. Kelk, the contractors for the
International Exhibition building, bare insured the IM-
manse structure in the Norwich Union Fire•ollice. The pre-
mium has this week been paid to the Norwich Unice, sod
amounts' to no lass than 3,3001., the amount of the iIIStIVIDO
being 400,0001. The Norwich Union will, it is understeo d.
divide the risk with several other offices, as it is not in-
clined to take the entire responsibility on itself. The agent
who brought the business to the office nets 330 f., the com-
mission allowed being 10 per cent.
DEATH OP • CENTENARIAN.—AIin Dunning,
widow, of Upper Highetrest, Taunton. has recently diedt
at the patriarchal age of 108. Up to the time of her death
the old lady was in full possession of her faculties, and was
frequently accustomed, until within a short time si miles.
ta
take active bodily exe reise, mmetimes walking many mile'
in the course of a day.— Western Couches Herald.

LAW INTELLIGENCE.
(THIS DAY.)

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The petition prtwented for the witoltng lip of this Nom
vans eanir on for at-somata yesterday sod this morning.
Ile Honour .041 the petition MUst stand over as p.irt
F-..rd. until Match :Ai, iu order that there might
the Ineantirue be a ot,neral meeting of *hare-
bidders. and that the shareholders should themselves doter-
...inn what coarse should in pur•lic.l. I-ut with au intimation
ticAt in.ase they determined the association should go on he
should capon they would hod outfit:toot capital for
ti..it purpose. and that the costa of the iwtition should
1111491 any circumstances be provided for. Ills boovar
alas stated that to one they sheath! he .4 opining, that the
serwtation should not go oa, then it would, to his judgment.
be better that Hai ohoidd be wound up out of
mirk nal that he would give facilities foe that purpose.
Mr. FuMatt, Mr. Hagallsy, awl Mr. Ittrabstet ware for
the petition ; and stir Hugh Cairns, 311.r.thisyNt. Mattis,
.1.1 Mr. l'nerkeril spur it.
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CUL'RT OF PROBATE AND DIVORCE.
(Bit , the Judge Onhasty.)

inure r. WHITS! %VD f tio.—rirrelAl; JOLT.
Mr aerpoat show. lit. Phillimore. sad Dr. Tristram
for the Walnut! ; Mr. Maceulay,l,LC., Dr.tbrabey,
and Mr. F. for the delendaists.
Ti.•. w snit to drtyrrnioe the validity of • will lOW
rated on the 94h el deanery, lehi, by Mr. Edward Whir,
s, ltiriesderrees, Margate. It was recorded by
the pLintiff. Mrs. Frances White, the widow. sad
was resisteil i.e the del...dear the daughter of Cbdr-
er ail,in the ground of want of capacity, gad also ca
a .4 undue influence alleged to have pees erecter
rev the testator he the plaintiff Bed others. Mr. While
bid on the tub of April lest, at the age of At.
,se oe the sale of the plaintiff wee brieffy es fol.
The twetator hail been a carpenter and builder for '
mans years at Margate, of which be wee • native. end
at re time he hal amassed • property in bores
whets. were all let, produced en iacome of 1,7,01 V . per
satsuma Latterly it bail diminished, and the estate to be
.I.strilsited eater the will was estimated to be worth only
l eery 101.4•. Iff, had been twice married. By too first
had I. &reveal children, but there only
so▪
rvised the two defewbots. llw eldest me had,
left • widow. who was still Livia%
Sit, .4 Li. &lighters had heee married to Mr.
so insamisecr, in Holbert and Hamel=
eh. droll some yearsago, leaving her well
I. The other defewiant wee unmarried. In the
..,r 14\ leis.: thee about feel years of age, the tee.
taw mewled the *Ord!. who wee • lady of repaid&
Lads, and we. thee of the age elf 30. Prom that time to
the 41.6 y 14 los ilesth be bid lived with her
on trims of the etniret affection; hut is Dee he
wet Cr his rhoughters also to Her with him. May
one sal metal of him the apple part of hie hoer
St era this arraerreet •ppeared to be perfectly
tom I.ot Marra Cobh, the rakers, who had
...h. him • leesporary adverse of 6,0001. is war
p. lur utt a wriggle, rpm to rem him for the
.riev. Mrs. rel.. hearing of this, banderol him to
her stloreire. wheee onterventioe soother tor wee re.•
aired. awl the mortgage wee trasferred to the bider. The
newer thus Maimed was insefficient. and Mm. Cato armed
tam him 10.. • farther era of 1,0001.. for which she Seek
s "re. lel modest, ; bet she sere actually sibursed hits
11.1 thus War. After Ibis she bops to 00.
• n.• the tutor, rewiaerlielMit of her haw%
affairs awl a leaner. IAOO, abe opened
wouint at her honkers to her ewe rale M ossoest of
Elea nl %low'. estate. This Mi nal plow the Esasesmi.
ad in rimer iimen, of a deenend map urea Wm by Mr.
Ads..., a painter. for the payment of 70f.. arch he sushi
not manta he was so awry, that be pee Ids fbateMen is
norob, will..nd to quit. le lafed he bad erented • will
arra entirely I. lamer of the defendant, fee he bad est.
tied spa his wife whew be married her a tavern at
Lops., called the Elepheat sod Castle, which produced •
yearly saes of 1601.. sad he had charged a farther
sem roe his wear so se to make up her income to 2001.
Mr. Whet.. diseatidaetine with hie daughters is.
erring. be directed hie solicitor, Mr. Brook, the
Bowe dirk of Margate, to make a new will.
lb. Break thinking that he had merely done so
in •it el peeing anger did not take say steps to Gerry
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his wire.; bat at length Mr. Coors, • eirgenter.
soh ra4her claim snout him fee work done
to the merit of :salt. More ineeneed than ever.
be directed Mr. Brook to demand sa aroma from lira
rato, but be was eventually obliged to sell some
share which he had in the pier. This greatly
aimoval him, for he hail ren employed in bedding it, sad
he hail been a director of the coo-tray, mid on the 24th of
November he mare hi. solicitor instruction' to make a sew
will. At first be proposal. after bequeathing some persorl
property to hie daughters, to divide hi estate between
riaughtevielaw and hie wit.; tat he ultimately
resolved to rive Mrs. White. jam, UM, and to leave the
residue to tin plaintiff. The will wee drawn up in this
form, wee executed by the deceased, sad wee attested by
Mr. Poyetoo. the niaaasies clerk to Mr. Brook, and by Mr.
Willy, a medikoi pnictitioser et Margate.
rills ease was proceeding when we west to ppm.)

The bankrupts WON deafen and ailkmereers, of Regent's-
eines. Oxford Aron. This was the sitting for examination
and .11wharge. Them:emote have already appeared in detail.
The bnokrupts owe about 42,i5t01., no which a dividend of
M. has been mod, atvl there will be some farther die!.
deed.

Mr. Sanwa opposed for the assignees; Mr. Lewis ap-
c:sure.Lfor the Islokrupt Sow erby, sod Mr. Lioklater for

Mr. Served stated that the amounts were voluminous,
orrupl.•ieg upwards of 170 rips. The mote:nese hod disco-
trend 'eery ',mono inseeuraeses; and the ideo of the Isink-
rupts now passing was nut of qtseetion. It was contended
tliot they ousiLt to le adjourned sine die.
Mr. Liaklister admitted that the amounts had only been
filed just is time, ha• the assignees had tendered no requi-
sitions nmos them. If this were done, the Inakrurea would
do the lest in their power to answer them. Under these
eirisimstanom he roubl not moist an adjournment ; the
*soirees were entitled to one adjournment after the ac-
counts were 61.1. . .

Mr. Sargonil .eel the 4.r...return required inve.tigatioa aad
exposure ; awl he, tli.ntore, wished to examine the book.
tuft sinverhy.
Ilia Miami said that as it wan admitted that the
meat Iw afternik,l, t%i. had better be &De
Wore the bankrupt. were examined.
Mr. marg..l.l it appeared ft...fit the arcounta that the
bankrupt. had. in the lard eight minting, sold 211,1100/, worth
of gouda at a NM of 12,00 V. and the trade expenws
incurred in those sake were *,4(10/. There were also falai.
&dim. of the civil' hi.nk.

Ili. Honour e.e l it wont.] be for the bankrupts to explain
those natters; and the case would be best dealt with by
the mimes,. tre•leri rennisitions, and rallies es the
teenkrupts to anawyr them. This waa a fax latter course
then a mere &his•q• examinatioa.
Mr Sort:o•al ~sl it was DO mere Ilehing examinatioo that
posased. Ile was prepared to substantiate certain
then:es.
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Ilia !toner thnitzht it noir fair that thehankruptsaboukt
ha‘r entire of ter I.lbil OS which the wipes* required
auf.rnuit . . . _

Mr samivival iweetimad that the adjouremeot would be
Mn aiel without evecivtiee.
n••t think it would lir right t withleiht the
teethiu at that 4.lee. lie Ilhaell Zlee pe,frre,lee for
prfloa to en:oot.. the lankrupte to give the inforn.o•
tele regairviL It was o.d won in refuse prole tin outil
Het iltwatiou of the lookrupf* conduct CAMP, before the
town.

Mr. Liektiter maid the hankrupta had se *telt to avoid
it miry ; they rather ...e.rte,t u.
Mr.51ar,;...1 It I. their ...lily cheat:lifer geltireig rid of the
elr"Rer • :Mint them. . .

n,..sotons wan then 11.1y-runlet' aloe olio, mark protrretirs
r .. toroth.
(Hofer,. Mr.

Th. lweltenit, a tailor. at Newport, in the Isle of Wight,
•eplual rertil,ste. Debt., :1,.11e.M. ; aa..ets abut
The hankropt eat opposed by Mr. Lewis, anil sup.
In Mr. A. Turner.
It appearien that be bad tebrnitted to bit crolitors
1.1..-oolot of hi. position, his Honour suspend.' the err.
",,le lammed a...) for twelve months, but granted peke
t,. teal.
Mellows Mr. Cosavaissiower Faroe.)
Is ne iIIAILLIA V.1.1/T.—cAws or THE MANAGES Or A