The Express.
London, England, 1865-09-05 00:00:00

of Sir Walter Currie. The Natal govern-
ment were acting promptly for the defence
of the frontier, and had resolved to grant an annual
aubaidy of 7,0001. to extend telegraphic communi-
cation via the Free State to Cape Colony.
_ ..

The Albany bring, 46 passengers anda full cargo
of WOW. 30 pamengers landed at Dartmouth.
H.M.S. Euryalua left Simon'. Bay July 16, for
England.

CHINA.
(By °intim& Tidagraph hes 13•11 A)
CANTON, Avocet 12.

Orly shirtinp and twist advancing. Total ex-
port of tea to data. 36.000.0001ba. Exchange on
London,

SHANGHAI, Avovin 5.

Ten, nothing doing. Bilk advancing ;1 export
to dant, 25,375 bake. linhange on London, 6e. 3d.

The Mowing telegram bra been received by
Reste's Telegram Company (Limited), from the
Peninsular and Oriental Steam Navigation Com-
pany, 4th September.
BOMBAY AND KAIIRITIIIS MAILS.
MAISIIIALIS, Sam= 4.
The Manilla indeed hese at 11.10 an. today.
The malls will levee ter London Ibis o.4lldali•
Slip and gasesugen in quarantine tor SO hours.

BARNET FAIR.

(STAMP DD ld; AnDrnoNAL.]

not more frequently met with than at Ascot or
Epsom ; and ir was only in the unutterable Wag-
guardian of the •swearing, jostling, shouting crew
patrooising them that the speciality of Barnet fair
could be recognised. There was, so far as we saw,
nothing organised in their conduct. It was amply
a saturnalia of the lowest kind : and though is
were got up every few minable, there was no col-
lective raid upon the decenaly-dremed. Pockets
were of opines picked ; and there was one unsuo-
oessful attempt to mob • member of the A division.
The latter, however, being • strong man of
some six feet two inches high, simply shook
the ringleader and sent him sprawling
among his fellows by a dexterous insertion
of bin knuckle, into the nape of the neck.
The tone of the gathering will be readily estimated,
when it is known that a challenge to fight, with the
proviso, " If I lick yer, mind, I'm not to be taken
up !" followed. But another policeman was now
seen to be within hail, and the backers and col-
leagues of the spokesman yelled out the warning,
" Ridge, hedge," and the challenger rapidly dis-
appeared, his retreat being effectually covered by
his sympathising friends.
One of the scoundrels captured by the police was
sent off to London at owe, instead of being lodged
—the rule observed with others—in the Barnet
station-house. He was a powerfully built MID, of
about 36, with a ferociously determined cast of
etantenanee, wiry muscular figure, and that palatal
" at bay" expression about the eye and mouth,
which brands man or woman as effectually as if the
word " dangerous" were suspended on a label from
their necks. Promptly handcuffed and guarded on
each side by a policeman--a by to maths unneces-
sary precaution, for in such an assemblage an
attempt at rescue was not the most improbable thing
in the world—this fellow was marched down to the
station, shouting out farewell instructions to a man
who might have been his double, so strikingly did
they resemble each other in demeanour, bearing, and
attire. The fides Achates was mounted, and turned
hastily, when be had heard all, as if to do his
friend's bidding before legal interruption made it
impoesible. Next came • poor woman upon the
scene. Following at the culprit's heels—he is •
horse-staler, for whom the police were on the look
out—she caught such words as be was able to jerk
to her over his shoulder, and now running, now
accelerating her rapid walk into a trot, contrived to
keep with the party until they reached the railway.
So far the episode was touching, and not without a
sparkle of romszce. The detected criminal was
clung to by his faithful mistress in his hoar of
direst need, and the whole affair looked like a testi-
mony to the devoted affection of woman. But the
demeanour of the couple when at the station
effectually dispelled this theory. She turned what
money she had—it was but copper—in her pocket
into her ringless hands, and showed him upbraid-
ingly how small the total was. He jeeringly coun-
selled her to go to some one for aid ; to which,
" Why, he's a worse man than you are, and I'll
never go near him," was given for answer, with a
subdued but energetic bitterness that told its own
sad story. The desperate, broken-down, beaten
look of the woman, suddenly deprived of the only
protector, bad as she declared him to be, she
knew ; and the callous, dare-devil indifference
of the man as he sat picking the nails of
his fettered hands, made a picture for an artist.
Half an hour was spent thus. Muttered whispers
from one to the other, she standing in front of him,
and be seated with • policeman on either side, when
the train came up, and, with a hasty, sullen fare-
' well, the man entered a carriage, duly guarde bd,ble
to
emerge from it to • gaol, a trial, and proa
penal servitude ; and the woman turned again
towards the fair to ponder—or ter expression
played her false—upon the hard fate which threw
her destitute once more upon the world.
Ep to the time of our leaving Barnet the horse
galloping, the revels, and the noise proceeded
with unabated vigour ; and after making every
allowance for the possible good derived from
such assemblages as this, the questions still assert
themselves :—Oould not the same beneficial end be
gained in a less objectionable way I And what can
compensate peace-loving, respectable suburban
householders for the nuisance and the danger of
having the oitsoourings of oar slums and alleys
brought together so many times a year, and carted
to their very doors ?