The Express.
London, England, 1865-07-26 00:00:00

DECISION OF THE HOME-OFFICE IN THE CASE

OF CONSTANCE KENT.-(THIS DAY.)

The case of Constance Emilie Kent was to-day
taken into the consideration of Sir George Grey, who
decided upon recommending to the Queen that the
sentence should be commuted into one of penal servitude
for life. Her Majesty boa been graciously pleased to act
upon the recommendation, and Constance Kent will there-
fore not be executed.

WEATHER REPORT.-(THIS DAY.)

WIDAT. JOLT 26, $ I.N.

B. T. W. F. 114 D. 1. M. zi.
NY= 30.3 1.53 W. I W. a 1
Abodes& 30.31,111 N.W. I N.N.W. be 2
LOB . . 30.3410 W.N.W. I W.N.W. 3 1
Ardrcm;el_ _.. 36.37 03 LB. W. 1 W. e 1
111.9606661.16 30.1664 &W. 1 N. co 1
Fellsits 53.4163 N. N.V. 1 N. W. 43 2
Cape Jlear SO 33 64 W. 1 N.& b 1
Liverpool 8.0.10 06 N.W. 1 N. W. co 1
Ha4vbead 30.37 62 W. 1 W.N.W. c 2
Femme.. WU U 3.8. 1 N.W. cb 2
Broil 50.366/ N. 6 W. co 4
L'OrMmt so 33 64 N. N. W. 3 N.N.W. co I
Reoltetcal 36.126/1 N.& I N.W. 3 2
rieth
ems:atts 30.33 66 Z. 0 W. bm 1
Fmtimosiat 30.37 64 &LW. I N. tt 0.17 1
tandem
TermosUi
Ilearboreeib. 3..36 66 N. 1 A. bt 1
Melds .
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THURSDAY. as Nominal! FRIDAY.
W.S.W. to N.N.W., 00.1■15. Variable, moderate to
moderato, fine. heat. floe generally.
As above, and In planes lINNMML Aa above.
to N.E.
N.L to N.W. and W., Ilaninnia.

moderato Is fresh.
N.L to 11.11. sod EL W., ZAIIIMIL
variable, moderate,
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N.W. to N X and B.L,
moderate to fmh.
Venable, moderate to
fresh, flue.

Wadden=lnland, Wain, and *Ms
Mena Boatbanscangllan Channel sad Bay of Amy.
Ineiseninistwatd Ininand and Nod It Bea.

TEE STRUM IN THE BUILDING TEA DE. —This
morning, in pursuance of the resolutions carried at the
meeting of the luster Builders itesociatiao in reference to
the movement on the part of the workmen to obtain an
advance of wages to 7fd. per hour, Donee was gives by the
different employers at their several works and shops,
that in consequence of the agitation and strikes that haws
taken place amen the building workmen of London
for an advance of wages, and in ceder to avoid the in-
festing and kw oosselooed to both muter, and men by the
question »maiming unsettled, and in order if possible to
prevent the evil of a general suspension of hominess by a
strike or lock-out, the muter* have come to the fieel
determination that U the strike at Mews. Cubitt's is with-
drawn by Saturday next, the 29th instant, they will on
and after the 28th of August next, instead of the let
of Jaws», 1886, edvance the workmen's wages
to 7gol. per hour. A meeting of the delegates from
the different whops and firms was held at the Black
Prince Tavern, Chat:alas-street, Covent-garden, to
smolder the above proposition. Several were in favour
of holding out for the entire dewed, whilst others consi-
dered the meet prudent course would be to accept the con-
cession offered by the masters. Ultimately it was deter-
mined to all an aggregate meeting of the trade to deter-
mine the qiustioe, and there is no doubt the men will act
sensibly sad meet their employers half way.
SUDDEN DEATH FROM THE EXCESSIVE HEAT.
(THIS morning Mr. Edward Relit, of Trevor-
square, wee walking along the Westminster-road, when he
was observed to Winger and fall ; several persons, including
police-coestable L 189, west to his assistasce. He was quite
i ible, end a esb having beau procured he was taken to
Westminster Hospital. On ex►mination by the surgeons of
that institution, he was found to be dead, death having
been caused by coogestion of the brain from exposure to Use
excessive heat.

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ThEORACEFOL Pm:nu/mu Eircorrirran. This
morniegi:iso Covent-garden porters named John Baker and
Hoary wall, mat for a regular pugilistic escouemr,
accompanied by seconds and bottlabolders, under the dark
arches of the Adelphi, leading from the Stroud to the
Tharnm In the course of the fight both combatants were
so injured that they had to be taken to Obaring.cross
Hospital, Baker with • broken leg, aid Dingwall with
dreadful cuts aid injuries about the heed.
A BARON AND • POLICEMAN. —The Gazette de
isrance La the following :—" A simple inspector of polioe
has just died in England in whose veins ran the purest
blood of the united islands—the noblest and the most
ancient ; and yet he was but • simple commoner. He had
no fortune and no position. He bore a title, the handle
to his name' (which the Gazette, quoting the English
words, mime to think is really the title itself), thanks
to his father, who had been Lieutenant-General of
the Indian Company and Platipoteotaary in China
ii 1840. He was • baron. The father was celled
Sir Henry Fottinger, and was desemsdad in • direct line
from Egbert the Great, King of Wessex, first King of all
England, descendant of the Saxon Cedric, and grandfather
of Alfred the Great. Them Pottiogers were remarked as
public fuoctionaries. More than once they allied themselves
with the illustrious families of England, the Montrose'.
the Doodonalds. sod many others. But they were poor,
aid their name did not acquire asi aristocratic accent. He
who has just died, Sir Frederick William, was the thirty-
locoed descendant of King Egbart, and in his quality as
inspector of polio" be caused the laws and taatitutious of
his anesetor, Alfred the Great, to he respected."
SUDDEN DEATH OF THE PRIEHDENT OF THE
Msscsirrus Masers Aseocurros.—Yesterday, • lam. e
Abele of pareces interested is the welfare of the insmantds
marine was thrown into gloom by the sononnoemeot of the
sodden death, from apoplexy, of Captain Benjamin Sproule,
President of the Mercantile Marine Service Association,
member of the Liverpool Local Marine Board, One of the
committee of the school frigate Conway, and aenior=
of the firm of Sproule and Pormonby, shipetore
The Lowed had been with the pilotage committee em their
emoreim ce ilimardey, sad oe Monday be was present at
• meeting of the sesonstiou all which be was t, sad
had been one of the principal promoters. latex ii the day
he notarised to his Luis, Rosamosust, Oztosi, sad mum
loin upstairs shoat 01111 o'clock in the miming, with the
retention of goiag to bed, he fell ins fit of apoplexy, and
after lingering about au boar be died. Mrs. Sproule sad
her daughter ware from home. The event will prom •
severe potation loss to the lastituiloas with which tape is
Sproule was ocassoted.