The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-23 00:00:00

CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.

MALTA. Jail. 21

The Delhi leaves here at 7 p.m. to-day. She may
be expected at Disraeliles on the 24th ; letters in
London on the 26th.
The Nyanza, with the heavy portion of the above
mails, would probably leave Alexandria on the
19th ; she may be expected at Southampton about
Febttiary 1.
The Mooltan brought the mails to Suez, arriving
there on the morning of the 14th inst. (three days
early).
The Peninsular and Oriental Company's steam
ship Bengal, which went ashore during the Watts
cyclone, has been floated without damage.
GIBRALTAR, JAN, 21.

METROPOLITAN TYPOORAPNIOAL WIDOW esti
Darns Form.—Tbe 15th aboard meeting of the members
of this society was held on Saturday eight at Andertoe's
Hotel, Fleet-street ; Mr. John Nichols in the chair. Yr.
Thompson, the secretary, read the report, which con-
Fatulated the members upon the continued and
increasing MOWN of the institution, sod dwelt at
some length upon the large amount of benefit it had con-
ferred upon the trade at large, nearly 5,0001. having been
paid away to the families of deemed members since
ire commencement in 1850. The committee at the same
time regretted that a larger number a membered the trade
did not loin so rueful en isstitatios. The gross receipts for
the peat year bad been 5341. Ils. lid., and the expenditure,
inclodin the claims paid to the representatives of nineteen
deceived members, amounting to 3801., was 4141. Is. 5d.,
being only 341. se. sd. for secretary's salary and expenses of
management. The balance on the year in favour of the
society wee 1201. fes. Bid. The invested fund amounted to
2.1-Wi. 94. lid. The report was adopted, and the committee --- - -
and other e.- re for the seeming year having been elected, MEN AND WOMEN IN MmauclitarrEs.--Governor
the meeting eloped with a vote of thanks to the chairman. Andrew, in his anneal seemage, jug issued, sills attention
On Saturday last there Wan exhibited at Liver- to the excess of women is Mareachusiitte, and to the
pool the system of signalling at prosiest in vogue in the surplus of men in Oregon. California, and other remote
Winter of the Federal and Ooefederatm The system, which western communities. In Oregon, baring 52,160 ioliabi•
was at first brought into practice by Lieutenant Rails, of twits, according to the census of 1860, there were 19,961
the A Mellen army. is remarkable for its simplicity. The reales ever 15 ears old, and only 9,878 females shove that
%Wand= uthaista of along Pale, Glad upon a salad joint, age. Ita •n is estimated at over 100,000—this die-
which can be easily worked by a single operator. At the 1 proportion yet remaining. In Maseschusette there were
top of the pole in daytime there is attached • single die- 357,833 males between the ages of 15 and 40, and
tilwaiabing flag, and at night a plain distinguishing light 1 287;000 females, or a morel= of 29.166. The sumo, EMBUTE ON BOARD A Slntnitri. —At the Kings-
takes the place of the flag. The working of the spparatos thegovernor save, of women of all ages above 15 years, wee town polioeoffice, on Friday, fear mamas, forming pert Of
is strictly analogous to the indicating needle of the eleetrie $8,946. The absorption of men by the military and naval the WOW ot the steamer Max, a suspected blockads-numer,
telegraph, the dips or Inflections of the iadioating pole to the service during the intervening four years has aggregated were charged with cresting a riot arid mutiny on board. It
right or the left band of the operator signifying an agreed ' this disproportion. And it is a disastrous one ; it disorders appeared gals vidence that this camel has, slow her snivel
on letter of the alphabet. The system, which wth tried at : the market for labour ;it reduces women and men to an hi port. been the scene of alarming diaturbances. Four of
Aldershot, by order of the Commander-in-Chief, has shard/ unnatural competition for employment fitted for meal aloes, the crew bad been prosecuted, and sentenced to long terms
been favourably reported, on account of its simplicity and tends to forresee the 'ember both of men spuds to mall• of imprisonment for mutinous %induct, and the eaptele
'IAMBI ItTS ASTHMATIC BALSAM, Parubility," lied is at present ender the omisidenetka of tale families, and of women who most maintain them- had endeavoured to supply their Idiom by segue* th•
affecin7,,_ettatal ruiner, 'embolic °massing the bowel.. the Bomb government as to its efficiencyfor army or mad selves unaided. In civilised and refined society it is prisoner'. No sooner bad they Proceeded on boerd„ bon%
be ". kid truly efficacious and piemanC la admitted to ass. At present it Mass, 1,7 the Federal easy, and by the the office and duty of man to protect woman, to ever, then they caught the same spirit of disordeti;z6t
u, medicine for immediately relieving ocingh• colds blockade runners pad era off the Cloofmste poets. I furnish her a sphere, a support, a home. In return she arming thecriseires with halves sad other weapons,
ii,ezie__ of asthma, and Incipient consumption- It tre• AN ANNIIICAN BIOANIIRE,—A woman at Detroit, I comforts, news, and adonis domestic life, the family, and such an allanning disturbasee that blue light' hid to be
sascb:,`,l, Demons whom the faculty pronounce heemrsiels,
W.,e_nra the tick Una which provokes frequent Michigan, is in gaol, charged with bigamy. First she mar- the reinsert( social influences. This is oleo the *Mir pro- burped sad moistest* obtained from her Wady's ship
rerku—comumpuou ice effort. us witty heinlilla ried a area. bad six &Shea, sad lace left a widow. Thee ' videatial order. Where women are driven to the oompati. I Royal George.
for The magistrate eseteneed the eifeadmicto
tiomain red of sleep, or even Wag down for fear of seam- she married another man. He went away for work, and tams of the market with men, or where men are lett insi ins
grid
terms ol from six weeks to four
on relief In a few minute@ after takiog it vim ke flaw Wag found his wife with • new husband. I solaced sod unrefined by the co of women, society is socordieg to their arms
of
degrees of guilt.
zd sod sold by W. LAMBERT. chemist, a, Mei MI- Presently dm left bee third husband, and married • fourth , alike weakened and dem .He moomnends the Car 07 LONDON HMIPITAL ?ORS IILASES On 2113 e
141.11Zrtis%1ti:vai Iriudont,i,r.cicty.:72
Bep=, la one. Me left bin, and was on the point of marrybig the adoption ef some practical way by which young women may iCzner, Vicwoma-raix.—The number of natinnis malewM
ab1..........5r1e0t,..g. A,,,a...ikq Ea,.... minim me sums fifth Um whoa eke wag aspire Her three formates ;be wielded to emigrate to maul fields of employment in arab taittientioa daring laid week wee 923. al iddat $4
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The Syria, which left Southampton with the
Bombay mail on the 12th instant, reached Gib-
raltar on the 19th, at 10 a.m., and left at 7 p.m.
for Alexandria.
The leassilia, with the heavy portion of the
homeward Bombay mail, left Gibraltar at 3 a.m.
to-day. She may be expected at Southampton
about the 26th instant.
Both ships experienced bad weather.

Of 74110 acres of additional land, unequalled in the dia-
,_.rti is regards soil and poidtion, and acquiring a rapidly
glut rata
ahuiarant supplies of tea seed of the best quality, free
fleet_

▪ 01 Cearanteed rob:haws dividends, et six, 'even, and
„.7.lsr cent. for three years, with the prospect of realising a
Nit tentage of wont, some of the established tea corn-
/"l.,eLtling divident4 of from twenty to twenty-flee per cent.
".Of the prat tical management of the affairs of the Com-
=Loth In &stand and India, by pertons who have already
a knowledge of the subjed.
• uncles of association and plans of the estates may be in-
Waled at the temporary atom of the Company, where prosper.
lane and hams of application may be had.

APPLICATION TON MARIN.
Fro be retained by the Rankest
To the Directors o the Darjeeling Company ;Limited).
paid to your bankers the sum of L .
1 a depoilt of LI per sham on Mares In the above
tall. I hereby ruttiest that you will allot me that number,
agree to accept 110142 abates, or any less number you may
t°me rahieet to the onnditions of the articles of ammonia-
_• • agree to pay the further deposit (If any; payable on
—..aeat, and to sign the articles of assudation of the Company
when
--••••an and I authorise yon to Insert my name on the
re‘t al tlr shareholders for the number of shares allotted to me.
Usual signature
Name In fall
Profession or Dodos's
Address ..
Date