The Express.
London, England, 1851-06-18 00:00:00

CRICKET.

M.tRTLEBONE C. SCSSIEX.—This grand match WU
hmught too close yesterday. Marylcbono woo by five
wickets. The following is the score —Sumer : First
innings, 76; second innings,B9. Marylebone : First innings,
; second innings. t 32.

THE WEST INDIA MMES.—GENERAL POST OFFICE,
JONC—In future, whenever the 2nd of the month falls on
a Sunday, the mails for tho West Indies, &e., will be made
up in London on the following morning, instead of, as here-
tofore. on the evening of the Ist of the month.

STATUE OF THE LATE SIR ROBERT PEEL IN THE
ClTY.—Yesterday, at the City Court of Sewers, Sir Peter
Laurie attended with Mr. B. S. Phillips and Mr. Richard
Williams as a deputation from the committee with reference
to the Peel statue, appeared in court for tho purpose of ea-
r laining to the commissioners that the committee had
named two places as eligible for the bronze statue of the
late illustrious senator Sir Robert Peel—one site was the
vcstern end of Chesp'.ide, and the other the eastern end of
the Royal Exchange. The deputation wished to know
whether there would be any objection to their placing the
statue upon the tint-named site, so that appeared to be the
most eligible to the members of the committee. Further
information as to the size of the statue at the base and
other technical details being required, the matter was
dropped until the necessary information can be supplied to
the commissioners.
THE DUKE OF MONMOUTH'S POCKET-BOOK.—The
British Museum has recently become possessed of the memo-
randum-book which was found in the pocket of the unfor-
tunate Duke of Monmouth at the time he was taken prisoner
by the troops of James 11. It is about six inches long by four
broad, and the cover is black leather. It contains some
forty or fifty pages, mast of which are written upon by the
duke, but what gives it peculiar authenticity is an inscrip-
tion on a fiy-leaf, in the hand-writing of the king himself,
I stating that it was taken front the person of the Duke of
Monmouth after the battle of Sedgentoor. After his abdi-
cation, James 11. seems to have presented the little volume
to a monastery in Paris, where it was preserved with reli-
gious care until subsequent to the late revolution. 'lhe con-
tents are of a very varied description, and singularly illus-
trative of the character of the noble and misguided writer ,•
prayers, songs, medical receipts, and accounts of journeys and
personal expenses are mixed up together confusedly, some-
times carefully written, and at others hastily scribbled. One
or more of the tongs are accompanied by the music belong-
ing to them, and it is conjectured that the words, at least,
were the authorship of the duke. Other songs are known to
have been the productions of poetical contemporiries. The
relic has only been in this country a few weeks.
ABANDONMENT OF Tug TRCCR SYSTEM IN SOUTH
WALL.—lnformations were filed a few weeks since by the
Anti-Truck Society against the Aberdare Iron Company,
for paying the workmen employed by them at Aberdare, in
Olamorranshire, by means of the track system. Several
hearings took place before the magistrates, when it was
fully proved that the workmen employed by the company
had been paid otherwise than in the coin of the realm, a
number of shops being kept for the purpose. At the ast
aitting of the magistrates at Aberdare, Mr. Edwards,
solicitor, of Pontypool, on behalf of the company, stated
that they had determined to give up the truck practice,
and that in future the men should be paid in cash, with
liberty to spend their earnings wherever they pleased, the
company to pay all the costs incurred. The solicitor to the
society, on hearing this statement, withdrew the informa-
tions which had been brought forward for hearing, but,
however, retained forty haformations, previously filed, as
a guarantee of good faith. This abandonment of the truck
system has given great satisfaction at Aberdare, and will,
doubtless, keep in check the adoption of the system in other
parts of the country.
THE ROYAL AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY OF ENG-
LAND have issued a programme of their proceedings at the
forthcoming meeting, in Windsor Home Park. By this we
kern, that on Friday the 11th, and Saturday the 12th of
July, cattle will be received in the show yard, in the
Home Park ; on Monday, July 14, the judges will com-
mence their examination of the stock. In the afternoon, or
evening, when the judges have delivered in all their awards,
members of conned and governors of the society will be
admitted into the show yard on the payment of 2a. 6d.
easels. and the public at lOs. sash; on T y, Wednesday,
and Tharaday, the show yard is to be open to Use public;
the great dinner of the society will take place on Wednes-
day, in the pavilion. The show yard and pavilion will be
in the Home Park, immediately below the slopes and ter-
races of the north front of Windier Castle.

EMIGRATION FROM THE UNITED KINGDOM.—
According te • parliameatery=r Inst_p•blisked, as many
as 680,347par:see lie United Kingdom in
the years 1849 als="Tike swiaber that went hems
Great Britain, insheßag tram Liverpool, was
449,017, and 121,3301 km behall.
Tim GOLD DOW 111012811 L—The reward offered
for the &nevem of the who committed the gold
dust robbery se the Wawa Railway, • few weeks
&a, bee bees binned Ilia UK is lON.