The Express.
London, England, 1865-01-14 00:00:00

WEATHER REPORT.

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PROROGATION OP CONVOCATION.—(PRIS DAY.)-- 5
This awning the seemestion el the prelates and clergy of
the diocese of Cantsrbory was formally prorogued by royal
writ wadi Wedgies:My, the Bth of February.
DIAXII Or MR. (LATE ALDERMAN) CONDER. It
The death is announced of Mr. Edward Netter. who was M.
for use time alderman of the ward of Berwirehaw, hr the le
City of Loudon. Oa the death of Mr. Alberti= Farm at
oomb. Mr. Condor wee elected his sviecuesor, sad in due et.
cows, filled the office of sheriff. 111 health prevented him
from mooning his aldormanis duties, and he was cam- 1/0
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pelied.to resign before reaching the mayoralt7.
It IA said that arrangements are being made for et
buidleg a now theatre in the metropolis ; Mr. &Ahern and
ileadersea, of Liverpool, to be joint-managers.— Us
Ovvhedra.

A 'miry important question, affecting the Poly-
technic and similar hmtitutkos, is started by Mr. Tyrerhits's
decision oo its reosot arguments in re the Musk Halls. It
is simply this :—Are the Pepperint ghost spectacles. into
which tangible oantomimista are tatrodno4 an invasion of
the rights of licensed theatres Ws aedsubtedly think
they town to, if Mr. Tyrwkitee decision be right.—
Orearwro.

DRATH OP • adarday morning an old
man, 70 yeses of age, named John Fader, and who bad I;
followed the compatioe of bill-sticker in Woolwich, died
suddenly at the Oreenwiek Olden, whither he had been
conveyed sick and &Waite the night preriocrily. During 101
the less few years the dammed was apparently subject to
the peateut poverty, and the room he ocouplad presented • sk
wretched and dirty separates. On Mr. Wake, the re- to
liming Odom,
_removing some article* which had served the
old man am • bed he found • parcel tied up in a hacidker-
Oiled, sad weighty, and an • closer 'eyelid I
packets of sovereigns and half aorereiges, amounting to 651.,
were found sewed up In an old stocking. , to
Tss JAPANZBa PLARANTIL —I have seen the soil to
about Nagasaki, Hukeshids, 'dodo, and Haragewa, and it to
is all the same ; yieldiag bounteous returns wily to paler 10
taking tabour. And this labour the Japanese peanut to,
faithfully bestows till all the country Lochs with fatness. to
For him there are no ambilloos beyond homiest toll ; the to
conditions of his life are died irrevocably ; he is II
haunted by no dreams of power, permed by so restless
avarice, and so his human machine ruse on gently without 1
many frets or breaks. His wife is industrious IM
like himself, her spinning wheel slop by the door, and the ei
shuttle of ha daughter's loom dies by the window. In the
rise culture and the cotton picking they labour by his side.
His children have fell ran of the lamas for their earlier t;
years—the giri plays with dolls and dresses, the boy snares 14
birds. robs bird easel., dams up the little rills, sails hie
tiny boat, bakes his mud plea in the run, and tears his •
trousers—tlll such times u he is able to go to the woods for
fuel, orb the Was to hos and weed. Bat one thingle to
be remembered, to school be must go, and the mu is hardly
up before he I. off to school with skinksg brown face sad
the roil of paper which makes his oopy-book in hand.—
New York TriGune,
CIIAEOR AGAINST A SERVANT GIRL OF SETTING

Flan TO • &MAW t3TACIL —Os Thursday • respectably-
dressed young woman, named Anne Maria Baker, was
DIOUct up in custody at Cranbrook before F. Tooth, Esq., 't
and charged with setting STe to a qyuantity of straw, the
property of Mr. Judge, at en Farm. Craill;rook.
The prisoner bas been living in the mein of Mr. Judge up
te the time of this charge being made against her as maid
of all work. A sister of the prosecutor's, who keeps the
house, went out on the afternoon of the god of January
to whit her friends and relatives at the Folly Farm,
which is in close contiguity to Chittendeo. and
left the primmer in charge of the place. Shortly
after her mistress left, the girl wept to the cottage
where the waggoner resides, and which is but • few rods
from the farmhouse, and had some auvernation with the
daughter of the waggoner, • girl 12 years of age, about • fire
which recently unwed at Mr. Becklend's at Bounden.
The prisoner subsequently said, " Suppose this outhouse
was to catch Sr., it would burn your house down and no
mistake." The girl replied, " Sure it would ; I'd rather
the bare catch alight than the oast." The prisoner sou
after this left the mune, and her master mug her out of
the house, told her she had no business out there while her
mistress was away, and ordered her to go in and es* about
getting the tea ready. Soon after this • stack
of sum near to the out was discovered to be
on Sr., but being observed in time Mr. Judge, with the
assistance of his brother, soon succeeded in extinguishing it,
not however before the maw bad been ounklembly buret.
Only • little while after this occurrence • brother of the
prosecutor was in the yard adjoining tbe barn, when he saw
the prisoner phi towards the building, and knowing she
had no business there, he ordered her back again. A few
minutes more elapsed and the waggoner saw the prisoner
gunning away from a softer of the barn, where • quantity
ei bop hose wire placed as • too to the yard where the
dock is kept. The man then went to the place and found
that the hop blues had been art fire to by • Inciter match,
and were just biasing. The meta put Um fir* out and then
west sad told his master. Superintendent Oveudeo, on
subsequently examining the rut, found a Inciter match
lying near. which was partly bent oat. The prisonersaid,
in her Moue, " She knew nothing about the Sr.." She
, was committed for trial at the ensuing Mired, but hail was
76for her appearanes--Surrry Standard.
1f irY FALL OF SNOW IN THI SOUTH-W=llN
Drrnuer.—Early yesterday morning an exceedingly heavy
fella snow took place in the south-western suburb. of the
metropolis. The storm extended over the country around
Windsor, Brestford, Staines. and Richmond, the fields,
trees, and tops of the houses being oovered with snow an
is& or two is thickens. On the evubtg previous, and
bat • few bows before the fall, It relived heavily in the
above district.
ACCIDCNT ON THE GREAT MARTINS RAILWAY.—
ON Thursday inning • serious aceident occurred at the
Norwich (Thorpe) station to • porter named Daniel Berke%
A pardoner train bad arrived in the station, and the ear-
Awes were being detached to form another train. Barker
bad unoospled two of the carriages, and most have been in
the act of springing from the buffers on to the platform,
when several carriages which bed been shunted were forced
frost the sheeting table Leto the station, jerking the other,
nod thus catching the man between the buffers. Be sus-
tained injuries in the abdomen, whieh will it is feared result
Melly. The poor fellow was removed to the Norfolk and
Norwich Hospital.
ICITILAOTIDINARILY THIN 111,0/IL—The iron letter
met from Pennsylvania (says the Birmingham Post) eel
"the thinnest sheet of iron yet rolled is the world," has
elicited numerous competitors is this country. sad has at
last been signally beaten. The sheet in Question was the
1,000 part of as inch is thickness. Messrs. Jamie, ef
130etee, have rolled some considerably thinner, and ewe
rolled by Mews. R. Williams and Co., of Swaa VOL..
Westkenswich, in 1,015 th part of an inch the, and is
very tough. Bat that which at present bears away the
paha is some rolled by Messrs- Nevill, Everitt, and Clo.. of
the Mershfisid Iron Works. Llaully, and is the 1,400 th
post of an ha in thickness.
In $ garden near Church Baton, belonging to
Mr. Brae ague, might be seen the other day an apple-tree,
hakes of souse. bat holding at leant lee dram of halt of
met you's growth.—Staffordshire Advertiser.