The Express.
London, England, 1846-12-24 00:00:00

primary assessment, the sessions should adjourn for a limited
period; and that if any part of the money assessed upon the
ele total division be not applied for by a proprietor for repm-
glued's() works before the re assembling of the sessions, the
same shall ho applied in public works.—G. That the
money to be expended under the amended act, and alsa t'4o
money expended under Mr. Labouehere's letter, lho"l be
repayable in this same manner as weley advanc.tt nye ti„
Million Act, in 22 annual instalments, to he collect,4 by the
quit•rent collectors.-7. That power shell bo gi ‘en to the
Board of Works to advance money byway of I,a, to railway
enmp'eiies that have obtained their acts--..otb money be ho
laid out in making the earth-works of '`n.
railway, and to
expendcd ber t''e lot nrin-ser
"By order of the sub-e;3mmittee,
"W. Momell, Tervoe, 1)-.4eriek ; C. Stanley Nonek, 33,
Merrion-square ; R. Bourke, 8, Herbert-street;
C. M. O'Loghlr a, 20,1slerrion-square South, Honorary
&cretaries,
" Dublin, Dec. 21,1346."
Tut bilsourriuicv.—A letter was received by Ald. T.
Lyons from Alexander M'Carthy, Esq , M.P., intimating
that the Lord Chancellor hes appoints-1 the following liberal
members of the Town Council of Cerk to the caminnision of
the neve, for that city—Aid. T. Lyons, W. Fagan, E.
Hackett, C. Sugruc, and J. Gould, Esq., town councillor.

SCOTLAND.
MORE DISASTERS ON THE EDISTO:DOH AND GLASOOW
RAILWAT.—On Saturday night the passenger train which
laft Edinburgh for Glasgow at five o'clock was suddenly
&Lopped a few hundred yards before arrival at the Castlecary
station, in consequence, as it appeared, of the complete block-
ing up of the rails by the ruins of a previous train of luggage
waggons and cattle trucks. A gentleman who was a pas-
senger by the train has communicated a few of the particu-
lar,. He sham, that he never beheld such a scene of
devastation and horror. Numbers of oxen—some alive or
half alive, and some quite deal—were seen lying amongst
the wrecks of several of the trucks, and crowds of people
were busily employed in encleaveuring to extricate them.
The ruins of the engine, or at all events a fire of some kind,
was on the bark smoking and burning, and several of the
trucks lay directly aCTO,S the rails, perceptible only in the
glare of the fire, or by the faint light of the lanterns that were
carried hither and thither amid the crowd. It was not at
first known to the passengers whether any human lives were
lost in this calamity ; and while this uncertainty existed,
nothing could exceed the horror and confusion of the seem—
liest/de running about here and there giving contradictory
orders, and masters and servants seemingly quite ignorant
of what ought to be done. It afterwards turned out that
ne passengers by the trains had been injured, and no lives
lost, except those of the cattle. How the accident occurred
is not known. Railway servants are never very fond of
giving information in such cases as these, and no intelligence
whatever could he procured from them as to the cause of this
calamity. The greatest mystery wee made of it ; but amid
the many rumours that were afloat, the one that obtained
the most credence was, that it had been caused by an im-
proper signal at the Castlecary station, by which means an
engine had been driven into the cattle trucks. In consequence
of the discontinuance of the Sunday trains, we believe that
this train was more than usually heavy; and we need scarcely
point out the awful results that would have ensued had this
accident occurred to the passengers' train instead of to the
cattle trucks. On Monday, Thomas Young, n joiner, was
killed on the same line. The wheels of a tender passed over
his body and he died in a few minutes afterwards.
SALE OF THE BROOMIELANY LIOIITHOVSE, GLASOOW.
—The cast-iron lighthouse on the Bromielaw north quay,
the situation of which has been frequently shifted since its
erection, 21 years since, was sold on Friday, by order of the
Clyde trustees, and fetched 331. The purchaser was a
gentleman who, it is understood, intends to take it to South
America to be used for a similar purpose to that which it
served on tho quay. Its use had ,of late years been quite
superseded by the extension of the quays and the improve-
ments In lighting.
INCREASE OF INTOXICATION IN EDINBURGH. The
number of persons found in the public streets in a state of
intoxication, and unable to take charge of themselves, has of
late very much increased. About six months ago the num-
ber of persons of bath sexes brought to the police-offiee
in
that condition averaged weekly from 50 to 60 ; since then
the number has so rapidly augmented, that the average is
now about 100. The actual number last week was 108; that
of the previous one 128. These cases aro wholly hide
pendent of those which come before the magistrates for
trial, most of which, as was lately shown by Bailie Duncan,
and corroborated by the disclosures of each succeeding day,
either eras solely from, or are in some respect or other con-
nected with drunkenness. No explanation can be given of
the lamentable increase of this demoralising vice except the
present high rate of remuneration for labour.—Edinburgh
Advertiser.
SABBATH THSDE IN SPIRITS IS DUNDEE.--111 May last
the magistrates issued an order, the object of which was to
close the public-houses on the Sabbath, except during the
period from four to eleven o'clock in the evening ; and,
although they had no powers to punish the infraction of this
rule, yet it has been regularly complied with by a consider-
able number of publicans. An itnmediate and striking
change was experienced upon the business of the police
court. Tho average number of cases brought before the
court on Monday had previously been 28; when the new
regulations came into operation, the number sank at once to
12, at which it still remains. This eircumaame is a con-
vincing proof that a vast decrease of Sabbath drinking and
brawling would result from closing the shops on that day.
We are indebted for the particulars of tiperiment to
the superintendent of our police forche, who assures us
that the criminal calendar has been reduced already to
at least 500 cases by the regulations of the magis-
trates. We have no data by which to calculate accurately
the number of persons who resort to public-houses on the
Sabbath, but, guessing the average sum expended by each
at Is., and we are convinced we might with truth take a
smaller average, we may assume it to be 20,000 in Edin-
burgh, and 11,000 in Dundee. In these towns alone, there-
fore, this infamous traffic withdraws about 34,000 persons,
in greater or less measure, from the enjoyment of the Sab-
bath as a day of holy rest. It is a most anemulons circumstance,
that while the honourable trader in innocent or necessary
commoditits must suspend his trade during the hours set
apart for holy resting, the vender of a brutalising and poi-
sonous drink is under no such restriction. To our shame be it
spoken, the publicans arc a specially protected class.—
'--"term IVardcr.

the edventagre of climate which such an institution in the hills would
0013hT. On this point there can exist no doubt in the minds of those
who have witnessed the pallid, sickly counusvaness of the children of
Both European ...Masers and soldiers in the plains of India, where the
mortality hi great among both. The Improved morals of the children
are, however, the chief advantage which the major contemplates; and
there can be little doubt that these would attain a higher standard in
the hilts than in the barracks. But the parents of su,h children argue
that their return to a barrack would speedily efface all the adrantagas
of such an institution. This is, however, snore plausible than just;
for when the principles of religion and morality are engrafted oa the
young mind by precept and example, they are not liable to bir very
quickly effamd even In a barrack; and It ei well known the a reli-
gious and mord soldier is not an uncommon character among our
European troops in India. In all these respects the plan is worthy of
support; but there is one consideration connected with Major Law-
rence's ',hems which has :dreads raised ohjections' and that is
on the scare of religlou. instruction. In most European regiments in
India, the number of Roman Catholics is equal to that of the Protes-
tants, and in many theformer are in excise of the hitter ; and as the
scheme only contemplated the instructing of children accarilisg to
Protestant principles, the Catholics are neces,arily excluded [rem the
benellte oC the institution. To overcome each an obatacle is no easy
matter, and every suggestion tending towards such a r. salt must,
therefore, be acceptable. The exclusion fern the proposed invititutiou
of all children born of a native mother, is annhe r measure which ap-
pears to ilsVe caused considerable disappolement among the soldier..
Many of the men base children by native vs ~men, to wham they are
married. We are not sure that the prohibition does not exteiial to
the children by half-caste or Eurasian mothers.

MUSIC.
MEYETtBEER, who has been en conger since the be-
ginning of the year, and, though a journing all the time at
!amain, twit no share in the administration of the grand
opera of that city, before leaving Berlin fur Vienna, where
he has been called by the Emperor of Austria to superintend
the mise en scene of his opera, " The Camp in Silesia,"
generously distributed his whole year's amounting
to 4891., to the singers and orchestra of the opera.
JENNY LIND, who bad been singing at Heidelberg,
has left that town for Vienna, where she will appear as
Vielka, in " The Camp in Silesia," a part which was written
expressly far her. This celebrated opera will not be repre-
sented at Vienna as it was at Berlin and in other places, as
the libretto has been greatly mutilated by Austrian censor-
ship. Meyerbeer returned to Berlin on the 20th inst., and
Jenny Lind is expected there in February.
SIGNOR GARI:ONI.—The following account is given
by Gu:ignoni of the dt;but of this celebrated tenor, at the
Italian Opera at Paris, in the Elisird'Amore. The English
public are the 011ie interested in his merits, as ho will he a
priaeipal star next season at her Majestyla Theatre n
M. Gardoni made his first appearance at the Acarlimue
Royale two years ago, we recallect see stated that he had
gone to the wrong side of the Boulevard., and that his
place was at the Italian Opera. His brilliant debut
at this theatre on Thursday proves the carmine:is
of that opinion. His tiac pare tenor, cramp:al and dis-
euisad by his singing in French, came out is his native
ranguage with a fulness and beauty of tone which seemed to
take the public here entirely by surprise, and, aided by his
gallant youthful fie are and handsome features, at once esta-
blished him a favourite, a judgment which, we must re-
mark, the fairer part of the auditory assisted is ratifying with
unusual zeal and animation. The ereera selected fur the
occasion was L'Elisir d'_lnsore, which had the merit also of
introducing another novelty, namely, Konconi, in the part of
Daleamara, and in which, though succeeding the inimitable
Lublache, he was brilliantly successful, keeping the public
in continued roars throughout the whole part. Ilea great
predecessor is more vents' mous in his humour, bat it is dif-
ficult to imagine a more perfect picture of an Italian charlatan
th in Ronconi in this character. Ho was immensely ap-
plauded. Mme. Persiani sang with all her usual exuberance
of ornament, and was encored in the duo with Itoncuni, whose
imitations of some of her fiorifurc cra.vulsed the house with
laughter. Tagliafico's Sf.,:jeant is by mmy degrees his best
character, but, with Coletti is the theatre, why was such a
part confided to a secondary artiste? The opera went off
admirably, and we have to congratulate the director on the
possession of a tenor who relieves us from all apprehensions of
disappointment in future. Gardoni's first air drew down
vast applause, and, in the duo with Taglia.fleo, he was even
more successful, for he was compelled to repeat the princilal
passage, by an irresistible demand front the entire assemblage.
At the close of the piece the calls for the (land 4/1i were loud
and general, and he appeared to bow his thaulta, accompanied
by the principal perferimirs.
GENERAL Tom TiICMIt'S PIANOFORTE.—This illus-
trious personage, it seems, is a musical amateur; and a
pianoforte has just becu manufactured by the eminent makers,
Messrs. Kirkman, to his order and for his especial use. It
has attracted much attention, and Messrs. Kirkman's rooms
have been thronged, during last week, by fashionable visitors
who came to see and hear it. It is really a callosity, not
only from the singular beauty of the workmanship, lint irom
its power and quality of tune. It is a miniature gavel piano-
forte, embracing all the meat recent improvements an the in
strument. Its extreme length from front to hack is 4 ft. ; its
breadth, including the key-board of Gl octaves, is 2G in., and
its height is 18 inches from the floor. The case is of ebony,
richly ornamented with gold mouldings, and the interior
workmanship is as beautiful and highly-finished as that of the
finest chronometer. In appearance, iu short, it is a perfect
btu; but its musical qualities are still mare singular. From
the one end to the other of its key-board—from the solid
and resonant bass to the clear and hquid notes in altissimo—
the tone is full, equal, aid mellow, and so loud that the
instrument may be used w ith effect in the largest concert-
room in I. mdon. It ',maid th it the" ganeral" intends to
male
- • on it a feature of his future exhibitions.

IJNIVERSITY AND CLERICAL NEWS.
THE I.lllolor OP BANOOR'A ORDINATION Was IN. in the cathedral of
his diocese on Sunday last, when the following were admitted into
bey order& .—Unsoone -Oxiord: P. C. Ellis, M.A., Jesus; C. C'harn-
breo, 8.A., Jeans. IPriests—Rev. T. J. flu:rheas, 11. A., That. 0111.,
Camb.; Rev. 11.0. Edwards, St. Davial'sColl., WHIR UT.
Talc Itionor ov ConcialiiTtileS Oninsariora took place un Sunday last,
when the following were ordained :—Dearearts.--Oxford : W. Clarke,
WA., Queon'o.—ttnibridge : C. E. Douglas, Pb,,.. Trinity; W. 11.
Pr:tehett, 8.A., Oorpue await ; It. F. Tompkino, 8.A., it. Jiggle>, ;
11. L. Watsan, tloay. and CRIIO I J.B. Yale, WA., Emanuel ; C. It.
Drury, 8.A., St. John's.—SL lets: C. P. Longla.o.l. seals.-41x-
ford: T. W. Perry anal C. B. Teesdale, CL. Ch.—Cambridge: C. U.
Crofts, 8.A., St. John's ; T. Coombe, M.A.TrinityFoster, M.A.,
and A. Cogan, Corp. Chr. —Dublin : 11. F.U.. Mali, 8.A., Trinity.
Waxen israw. -In addition to the sum of 2001. already nubscribral
by the Dean and Chapter, at their last chapter meeting, toward; the
Winchester School Building Fund, the following rams have been
voted in aid of their respective oblecto :—Towards the rebuildino of
the parish church of ILvaglairst, .41.; in adlition to a former Out.
Towards erecting and completing the tower and spiry of St. Thom ,teR
Church, in addition to a t miner vote of the Me sum for rebuilding
the church, luul. Towar.Li the endowment of a prolessiniiip of the
Chinese language in King:College, London, 10f. Towards the Neu -
found Land and Colonial Church school Society, 10!.
Wicro.—Reoaiersasu or ?Muni se •we Curiae u.—The parish church
of SI Addington was on Wednesday re-opened for Divine service, after
un lergoing an extensive re pair and restoration, accomplished by the
I iberal exertions of the parnahionere, in the form of a church-rate,
aided by the willing contributions of the landed proprietors, and the
help of charitable associations for the increase of church accommoda-
tion. The un-ightly and aiilapidat,l pewing has been removed, the
repeced, the decayed 4me-work made good, unnecessary opaee
made available for Merman, I amoinnuadation, and a large number of
additional oittings obtained, without trenching on the comfort of the
congregation, or in any me...sure lessening the architectural ettect of
the mere urrangement. The pews are without thaws, made of
beautiful and wed...weaned oak, owl finished in plain isaneling. A
stone pulpit, nut highly ornament d, but divided into compartmente,
and having an embattled moulding at the top, has been prevented us a
monumental record of a deceased proprietor of an estate within the
parish.
PIRTTEIVOINT,.—The Rev. W. M. Dudley to Laverstoke 8., Hants,
din. Winch., came hit.; patron, W. Portal, Eoq. This is in adlition
to the vicarage of Whitchurch, *Amity held by the saute kentlelll:lD.
Rev. C. Allen to Smalley P.C., Mu. Worcee., value, 5.if.; Intranet,
D. and C. of Woreest. Iter. J. Barnes to be dean ruralof Leek. Rev.
G. N. Barrow to be dean rural of Bristol. Rev. C. Griffin tat 'lambic
V., Waricicksh. alio., Worceet„ value, 427.; patron. 14. Chancellor.
Rea. H. P. Guillemard to Barton-on-the-Heath R., Warwieksho,
Wore:eat., value, 2t41., with residence; patrons, Trinity Coll., Ox.
Rev. B. Irwin ta C istle-iliekard, Ireland. Row. T. Jones to Warier,
P.C., Warwick.sh., din. WorecaL, value, 021.; patron. King's (coll,
Cam. Rev. T. Knox, to be (TOllolllitlt to the D. and C. of Limerick.
Rev. C. Las-fora to Stone C , Worcestershire. Ike. C. C. Molloy to
Itatlignapp, near Castlepollurd C. do. Meath. Rev. C. K. O'Grady to
Particles, alto. Limerick. lieu. J. Poole to Lhandysilio IL, Mont-
gomeryshire. Rev. P. M. Stedman, to Bronvarove C., War-
oestet.d.iire. Rev. It Yonge to Wruckwanline-wood P.C., Salop; MI/.
The Rev. 11. WriiSit, 8.A., curate of Darluston, Staffard., to the
incumbency of the new district of Wellington, in the parish uf I lan-
ley. The Rev. R. C. Weston, St. Bees Call., to ths curacy of the
perWh church of Darlaston, Stafford The Rev. T.D. Young,o M.A a
~
bentf vi. Matthewe, button-loidge, near bto be
in the diocese of Lincoln.

MEDICAL.
Paacneurso MI as AP,MIt.CM•V wirstoer LIOAL leis,
aV
INUiCrABI.II Orias-seF..-Tne Society of Apothecaries have inswal a
circular, stating that, entertaining an opinion that a penal check
upon Me practice of medicine by ummalifled persons to indispensubly
necessary for the protection of the public, and that the pecuniary
penalty unposed by the Apothecaries' Act is but W adap.ed fur check-
ing such practice, they:Move long desired a more memory :nude of
proceeding against illegal practitioner.. A recent decision of the
Court of Queen's Bench, in aeriminal prosecution instituted against
an attorney for practising without qaalitication, eeemed to lest to the
conclusion that notwithstanding the specific pecuniary penalty im-
posed upon unqalified persona practising as apotheeariee, such persons
might he indicted erilaimdly as for a misdemeanor. Thischec decision
appeared to the society to suggest a mode of proceeding for king
the illegal practice of medicine, which might be attended with such
important result.), that they determined to lase nu time in obt eining
the highest legal opinions upon the subject ; they, therefore, laid a
ease tenure the law officers of the Crown, and from the answers ;racer'
to the questions submitted, it is the opinion of those learned gentle-
men that an indictment will lie against a pereon who haa practised
as an apothecary without legal qualification.
The following is the opinion :—a. We think that an indictment
will be egotist a person vino has practised m an apothecary without
legal qualilisation, notwithstanding the particular penalty imposed
by the 20th
section of the Act, and the disability imposed by the 31 at
section. 2. The indictment may be preferred in any of the ordinary
criminal courts having cognizance of misdemeanors committed in the
county, or place, in which the party has so illegally practised, and it
may be preferred at the instance of a private prosecutor. 3. We
think it is competent for the Society of Apolurcaries to prefer the
indictment. 4. The punishment, as In ease of other miculemeanors,
would be fiLe or imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the court.
5. We are not aware that any more summary proceeding than an in-
dictment can tic lOCAOIIOII to for the punishment of pen
practicing
as apothecaries without legal qiicalification.—Joss hams, DA, Its
DCNIMO, ParucmC Itouissis, Tempe, Nov. 23.
It is, perhaps, hardly necessary for the society to point out the in-
It
facilities which this mode of proceeding affords for putting the
law in force against unqualified practitioners. In
pro-
ceeding fur the recovery of penalties by a civil action, ich
in the case of a country practitioner could only action,, w
tried at
the linring and Summer Assizes, an indictment may be pre-
ferred at the Quarter essions and at
thete AoSiZOO
pr also; also; and
instead of the power of preceding against qued titioners
being reetrieted, as in the case of the specific penalty imposed by the
statute, to the society of apothecaries, it will be con d
vetent for any
person to prefer an indictment who may be ulisposcal to o eo.
which is
other distinction between the two modes of proceeding,
likely to opei ate still more powerfully as a check upon illegal prac-
tice, is this, tilt whereas an individual against whom a judgment for
a penalty is obtained, under the presseat form of proceeding, can re-
lieve himself from the Celloetilleooo6 of his offence by obtAning his
discharge under the bankrupt or insolvent acts, an individual found
guilty um indictment of baying practised as an apothecary wllhout
legal qualification, wid be punishable by fine and imprisonmmot, and
will have to undergo whatever measure of punishment the Criminal
Court may in its discretion award.
ne authorities of .tpothecarics• Hall express a hope " that a public
Intimation, that the penalties of the law c in now be enforced against
illegal practitioners of medicine inore summarily than heietofore, will
dctvr all persons from practi siag as apothecaries who have not given
such evidence of their competency to practise as the law demands.
But if indiviltral who have not possessed themselves of a level quali-
fication will persist in practising in the sixpence of such qealimhaiaa,