The Express.
London, England, 1853-02-09 00:00:00

HIGH SHERIFFS FOR 1853.

At tho court at Windsor, held on Monday last,
present the Queen's Most Excellent Majeoty in Council, the
following gentlemen were appointed sheras fur the present
year:
ENGLAND.

BEDFORDSHIRE. Henry Littledale, of K empston-
Grange, E.g.
BERKBIIIRE.—Head Pottinger Best, of Donaington
Castle, Esq.
Butailtsuitamsntni.—Abraham Darby, of Stoke Couit,
E•q.
CAMBRIDGE AND HONTI XUDON.—WiIIi6III Whitting, of
Menea end Toone,. Abbey, E.iq.
Com ninwm.-I,rancis Baring Atkinson, of Rampsbeck
Lodge, Esq.
Curs w init.—John Hurleston Lecke, of Carden Park, Esq.
Daturrsulas.—Sir John Harpur Crewe, of Calks Abbey,
Bart.

llsvossuins.—Edmund Bastard Bien Gennys, of Whit-
leiah Hall, Esq.
Bragge, of Sadborow, Esq.
llvuuast.—Frederick Acklom Milbank, of Hart, &I.
ENskx.—John Gurdon Rebow, of Wivenhoc-park, Esq.
GLOUCESTRIUMLUE. —John Raymond Barker, of Fair.
ford-p.trk, Esq.
flettsrounsutaz.—William Money Kyrle, of Romani-
house, Esq.
Thomu Gage Saunders Sebrigbt,
of Lleechwo.id.oark, Bart.

limn. Fianci; Colville Hyde, of Syndale-honso,
Ospnnge, Esq.
LIIICIINTEUSIIIILL—Frederick Wollaston, of Sheraton,
Ese.
_ .

'Ascot.Nem 'tr.—Joseph Livesey, of Stourton-hall, Esq.
MON YoUTll3llllol.—lienry Bailey, of Nasty (Ito, E.
Nourot.n.—llauii I Gurney, of North Runeton,
NOUTIWUTUNBIIIItII.—Cary Charles Etyma, of Groat
Billing, Esq.
NOTILUMMERLAND.—WiIIter Selby, of Biddleston,
NOTTINOHAMsIIIIIII.—rhUnin Spragging Godfrey, of
B.ilderton,
therJunsit ann.—James Morrell, junior, of Oxford, E.g.
RUTLAN U,:it I nr.—John l'..rker, of Prison,
Algernon Charles Relit r Percy, of
Esq.

Z,OMElVsEr'Slillt.6.—Francis Henry Dickiubon, of King-
weaton,

STAPPORDSHINIT—Edward Huller, of Daum -ha:,
COUNTY OP SOUTHAIIPTON.—John Sudley, of .A.ntt..u-
honae, hear Winche ter, E.g.
SUFFOLK.—The Right Hon. John Lord Ilenthker, of
Thornharn-hall.

SURRIT.—Thomas Grine% of Norbury-park, Leather-
head, Esq.
Syssmx.—Francis Barchard, of Ildrstcd-place,
IVaawicmmuinr.—Sir William Edmund Crsdoer liar-
topp, of Four Oaks•hall, Sutton C.Ailtirkl. Dirt.
WasrismszLAND.—John Wakefield, of Ssdgwick-house,
Kmdal, Esq.
Wituntasa—Franeis Leybourme Popham, of Lictlecat,
Esq._
Woaciatinsisinm.—Chamles Noel, of Bell-hall, near
Belbroughton, Esq.
Yuxcaxt
easter, E►q,

Montagu, of Me:ton-oak, Dun-

WALES.

/M.:GOMM—Richard WllZams Prichard, of Erianell,
East
Bu cow.—Postponed.
CAUNARVUM.—Robert Vaughan Wynne Wii:iam4, of
Llandudno,
CAILMARTMM—The Hon. William Henry Yelverton, of
Whisland-abbey; . _

CAnnionN.Lewis Pugh, of Aherystwith, Esq.
DIINBIOH.—Prirce Wynne Yorke, of Drtfryn Aled, Esq.
I'r IN r.—Whitehall Dild, of Llinierch,
GLAMOUOAN.—Richard hill tidier., of Ynispenllweb,
Esq.
MONTGOIIRRT.—John Naylor, of Leighton-hall, FAT
Maxiux ant —Thomas Arthur Berne Musty; of la ylan,
YENIBROKR.—Adrian Nicholas John Stokes, St. Dotolphs,
Esq.
Itsortort.—Jonatlian Field, of Evairdraiullwyn,

COLONIAL AND LNTERNATIONAL POSTAGE

ASSOCIATION.

A special meeting of the Society of Arts, nume-
rously at ended by the public, was held at the rooms of the
society, John-street, Adelplii,last evening, " to receive and
take into consideration the proposals of Postage 11.1 emt,
put forth by the Colonial and International Postage Asso-
ciation,"

Sir Jotter BOILEAU occupied the chair, who, in °peeing
the proceedings, stated that letters favourable to the views
of the Postage Association had been received from Mr.
Walter, M.P.; Mr. W. Brown, M.P.; Sir J. Duke, M.P.;
Mr. E Bu•ritt ; Mr. Peto, M.P. ; and Sir J. Pukington, M.P.
The late Colonial Secretary said in his letter :—" I greatly
desire to see a system of cheap postage established between
this country and our colonies. AVhen I was at the colonial
department, I pressed on the Postmaster-General
my opiaions of the great importance of conceding
this boon ; I 'maid his marked attention to
the point; snd, if I had continued is office, it was my in-
tention to have used every exertion to effect it. I shall be
happy to co-operate w.th your committee in any manner
in my power; and I trust the present government may be
induced to attach as much importance to the subject as I
did. I consider it a great national subject, the interest of
which is daily increasing."
These preliminaries having been concluded, Mr. G.Yara
(secretary to the Postage Society) was called upon by the
chairman, and proceeded to read a well-compiled and in-
teresting paper, which is to tie regarded, in some sense, as
a" report " of the society with which he is connected, illus-
trating the results of reduced rates and uniform systems of
postage first in England, and then in the countries where
her example in this :aspect had been followed—Russia,
the United States, and India—the lesson of these
statistics being, that " ocean peony postage' would, even
in the financial point of view, "pay" better than the pre-
sent system.
Mr. MOFFATT, M.P., and Captain OWEN followed Mr.
Yapp, in addressing the meeting, and moved awl seconded
the following resolution, which was carried :—" That it
would be sound national policy to abandon, if necessary,
even the whole of the present postal revenue derived from
the colonies and possessions, which is about 200.0001. a year,
in order to promote in no eminent a degree the commerce,
education, freedom of communication, and friendly relations
between the colonies and po”essions 4'14 the uso,her
country." •
Mr. SIDE ry succeeded, and called special attention to the
circumstauces of Australia, which imperatively required a
cheap system of postal connexion with the mother country,
and this argument was further illustrated by Mr. Leak.
Forster (member of the Legislative Council of Port l'hillip),
who assured the association that, although their proposals
would be regarded as a novelty in the colony, they would be
very warmly received and heartily responded to.
A second resolution was then proposed—moved by Mr.
Fowles and seconded by Mr. Dillon (both of the City)—to
the effect " That this meeting is of opinion that the system
of unitorm penny postage already in operation betwei n the
United Kingdom and the Channel Islands should he ex-
tended to the whole of the British colonies and posses-
, sions." _ _ .

In support of this resolution, Mrs. Cittsuotx, who was
warmly received., addressed the meeting at some length,
speaking to what may be called the domestic avp,,t of the
question, and contending that the subject was far more
moral sad social than financial. The resolution was cor-
ned, and after thanks to Mr. Yspp the meeting broke up.

MIDDLESEX FREEHOLD LAND ASSOCIA-

TION.

Last night a public meeting of this association
was held se the Vs hits Lion Tavern, Edgewarc-road. Mr.
H. N. Boothly in the chair.
The SECRETARY (Mr. G. Lcwis,) briefly stated the ob-
ject of the association, and added that it was a hmentable
fact that the humble and industrious millions knew little or
nothing of the practical power of the term " freehold," and
its political relationship to the suffri.ge. The society,
however, presented a plan for obtaining land for the people
and for qualifying working m. nas county voters. (Hear.)
An estate of :56 acres of land had been purchased at Finch-
ley, within a short distance of the Colney Hatch Railway
Station, and nearly 3,000 shares had been taken. (Cheers.)
In conclusion, he stated that the purchases of estates were
notconflned to Middlesex.

Mr. lisivagn wished to know whether the gentlemen
whose lames appeared in connexion with the iis.aciation
gave their responsibility as well as their names I
The CHatuMA\ Said the presidents of the society were
not working members, but the trustees mid committee men
were, and not only gave their names but any weight of
responsibility they caned. (Hear.)
Several gentlemen addressed the meeting, a number
of shares were subscribed fur, and the usual vote of
thanks to the chairman having been passed, the meeting
separated.

SIX DATE IN A GRAVE.—An account was given
a short time ago of two men and a boy having been buried
sic days end six nights in a marl pit at Ecretteville, in the
department of the Seine Inferieure, and then rescued. A
relation of the affair, derived from the sufferers, is now
given in a Rouen paper. During the whole of that time
they were withoat food, without water, without light, and
almost without clothes ; and they were in such • confined
place the, with the exception of the boy, they could not
stand upright. Boitard, the eldest man, declares that
during the whole time he did not sleep snore than two
hours ; but his two companions, and especially the young-
est, slept more. They sat back to back. Tbey felt no hun-
ger, and Boitard says that even if they had had provisions,
they would not have touched them; but they experienced
great thirst. On the fourth day they found a little water
thick with marl, by digging into the bottom of the pit.
It was this water probably which preserved their strength.
At first they heard the noise`of the pickaxes and spades
above them ; but during the last three days their breathing
was so loud as to prevent it from reaching them, and this
circumstance naturally increased their agony of mind ; they
also feared the miners were digging in a wrong direction.
One of them had about SO chemical matches, and • small
piece of candle; but though they often tried, they could
not, from want of air, cause the candle to burn. During
the latter part of the time they became so exhausted as to
be unconscious of their position ; but they remember that
the boy once cried, as if in a dream, "There is the rope,
Boitard! Let us ascend!" Only one of them, Retard,
was able to shed tears; and when he did so, the boy con-
soled him by telling him that they were sure to be rescued.
The moment • breath of air reached them they fainted, bet
after a while recovered. The first thing Boitard said on
being rescued was, "Give me a pinch of snuff!" and be took
it with intense delight.—Galignani.
. _

THE BastiF-Glas.—The procession of the Bawl-
Gras, says Geligrwni, took place on Sunday, in the order
of the programme. It was got up with more than the
usual display, and was oa the whole an interesting sight.
At the head of the procession were two men, dressed in
the costume of the Middle Ages. They were followed by
20 drummers and two drum-majors, in the uniform of the
Volunteers of the Republic, and thirty-four musicians in
the uniform of the Llama Next came a number of
wen on horseback in various uniforms, and tome in the
costume of the old nobility. These were followed by six
Druids, dressed in white, and immediately preceding the
Ihruf-Gras, who was escorted by men bearing banuers.
The car, which came next, was richly gilt, and was drawn
by six horses splendidly harnessed. Old Time, Cupid, Sc.,
tilled the car, as usual, and it was escorted by men on horse-
back. The procession attracted large crowds, the day being
dry, although cold. The Boulevards were rath;:r dull,
very few masks were wen, and there were not, as in some
former years, any very dishing equipages. The cu,tom of
promenading on the Dimanrhe-Gras appear,' to be wear-
ing out. tinder the Restoration this was one of the gayest
days of the year, and the Paris lions displayed themselves
in all their splendour.
STRANGE, IF TREE.—We kilted in our last num-
ber that a considerable quantity of wreck had been re ently
cast ashore on the Galloway coast, including a quantity of
tallow, which had evidently bt en a long time in the water,
as the s.rives which had encircled it were nearly all
decayed. We learn from a ship ca;•tain who had just come
from the Isle of Man that shout fifty yeah ago a veto. I
partly laden with tallow was wrecked near the island, and
at a short distance from the spat where the fearful catas-
trophe lately occarrtd, by which an explosion of gunpowder
tad: place on board the ship L;ly. when the vessel was
blown to pieces and thirty lives destroyed. It is supposed
that the force of the explosion had been felt for some &s-
-tifler along the shore, and that the tallow casks, which had
lain for half a century at the bottom of the sea, started
from their re•ting-plate, had risen to the suffice, and been
co frit(' by wind, and waves to the coast where they have
at last been recovered.—Dumfries Courier.

tiOVERNMENT DECISION ON
rN VOCATION.

It it now understood that the Government has as-
„red hatti the Archbishop of Canterbury and the e'er-
*pawn anxious tor the revival of Convocation, of its
4terwinatial to interfere if Convocation attempts to
rare into business beyond that which has been
iltesav transacted in framing an address to the
("4,—0: it any factious attempt be made to resist
tkv, pr.,eltation by the Archbishop. This announce-
pent may tend to allay the eagerness of the Bishop
et olfoal to enter into a contest with the Arch.
Ni,h,". The address will be presented on the Itith,
ssd the prorogation will immediately follow.
Anxious that the Uucernment should take an
voile wise coursein the matter of the Colonial
Cnurclies Bill, and of the Court of Appeal (which
eatiin bi-liops arc. about to recommend), we un-
derstand that theynnt committee appointed by the
t,, tSnvocation will repurt—that certain
Mg undertaken to introduce a Clergy
Bill their labours have ceased.
twoJeation has been called tugether by the Crown
in order, w. tke writ runs, to consider certain matters
to be placed before it by the Crown. It can be called
t :ether in no other way, and for no other purpose.
/I, crown having nothing for it to do, very properly
diners the .%relibishop to dismiss the reverend gen-
temen to their own houits.

6()I'ERNNIENT OF
OFFICES.I HE SCHOOLS
DESIG .

We understand that the necessity of completing
viitliout further delay the new buildings at Senerset
lIJW erecting (or the Inland Revenue Offices,
sad of consolidating the public offices on that site,
has induced the government to determine on the
immediate removal of the School of Design from
&Menet Iluuse. The opportunity, we believe, will
cow be seised of effecting a public improvement
which will greatly increase the usefulness of the
Instead of having but one central school of
art for the whole of the metropolis, arrangements in
concert with local authorities wail bo made to carry
out the wishes often expressed of establishing dim
tract se:icois in several parts of London. Tho im-
provement will trot stop here, as facilities will thus
be created of teeching elementary drawing in any
parochial schools 'diem such instruction may be de-
a:A. 'Mc few students in the higher stages of
instruction at Somerset Rouse will be removed to
Marlborough liutese, where they will be enabled to
participate more largely than at present In the
Wane of education afforded by the museum, library,
and otiwr features of the Department of Practical
Art.