The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-13 00:00:00

IRELAND.

" A PROCLAMATION.
" ABERCORN.—Whereas it has been publicly announced
that a meeting is to assemble in the city of Kilkenny, and
that a procession is to take place there on Sunday, thelfith
day of December instant ; and whereas placards of the
said intended meeting and procession have been printed
and circulated, stating that the said intended procession
is to take place in honour of certain men lately executed
at Manchester for the crime of murder, and
calling upon Irishmen to assemble in thousands for the
said procession ; and whereas meetings and processions of
large numbers of persons have been already held and have
taken place in different parte of the United Kingdom of
Great Britain and Ireland under the like pretence, at some
of which, and particularly at a meetin,g and procession in
the city of Dublin, language of a seditious and inflamma-
tory character has been used, calculated to excite discon-
tent and disaffection in the minds of her Majesty's sub-
jects, and to create and animosity amongst them,
and to bring into hatred and contempt the government
and constitution of the country as by law established ;
and whereas the said intended meeting and procession,
and the objects of the persons to be assembled and take
part therein, are not legal or constitutional, but are cal-
culated to bring into hatred and contempt the government
of the United Kingdom as by law established, and to
impede the administration of justice by intimidation and
the demonstration of physical force. Now we, the Lord
Lieutenant and General Governor of Ireland, by and with
the advice of her Majesty's Privy Council in Ireland,
being satisfied that such meetings and processions as
aforesaid can only tend to serve the ends of factious,
seditious, and traitorous persons, and to the violation
of the public peace, do hereby caution and forewarn all
persons whomsoever that they do abstain from assembling
at any such meeting and from joining or taking part in any
such procession. And we do hereby order and enjoin all
magistrates and officers entrusted with the preservation of
the public peace, and others whom it may concern, to aid
and assist the execution of the law, in preventing the said
intended meeting and procession, and in the effectual sup-
pression of the same.
" Given at the Council Chamber in Dublin, the 12th day
of December, NW.
"RICHARD C. Dusiur. " R. KEATINGE.
"A. BREWSTER, C. " WILLIAM KEOGH.
"MAYO. "JOHN E. WALRH.
" STRATHNAIRN. " HEDGESETRECHATTERTON.
"Fun. SHAW. "Roar R. Weimar."
A second proclamation, couched in similar terms, pro-
hibits the contemplated procession at Killarney.

The O'Donoghue presided at a meeting to arrange for
the Killarney demonstration. Processions were also pro-
posed to be held in Mallow, Fern.oy, Queenstown,
Youghal, Ennis, Clonmel, and Belfast.
Prosecution, will be instituted against Mr. Johnblantin,
the chairman, and Mews. Waters, Scanlan, and Lalor, the
honorary secretaries, of the committee which organised the
Dublin procession. They are summoned for Monday
next.

Mr. Alexander Redgrave, the factory inspector,
yesterday attended • special meeting of the Halifax
Chamber of Commerce, which had been called to allow him
an opportunity of conferring with them on the legislative
changes affecting the employment of women and young
persons in factories. Mr. Redgnive explained the manner
n which the new act would affect various manufactories,
and the gentlemen present passed a vote of thanks to him
for the information he had given them.

The annual soirSe of the Bradford Closing Asso-
ciation was held last night, and amongst the gentlemen
present, and who took part in the proceedings, were Mr.
Forster and Mr. Thompson, the members for the borough,
Mr. Stansfeld, M.P., and others. The society has been
*0 far successful that the members can be congratulated
on the fact that the shops and warehouses in the town now
close at an earlier hour than they did before its establish-
ment, and it was urged that the shopkeepers in the town
generally might wisely follow the example.

Mr. Joseph Pease, who, though afflicted with
blindness, is one of the most active public men of the
town, was (says the Leeds Mercury) yesterday elected the
first Mayor of the borough of Darlington, and was allowed
until Saturday to decide whether he would accept the
office or decline it.

A correspondent of the Post, who has just re-
turned from a tour through the central districts of Italy,
writes :—" I was surprised to find that the ex-Pontifical
provinces of Marco, Umbrio, and Romagna should have
furnished so large a proportion of volunteers ; but on being
informed at Loreto that 200 young men had set nut from
that city, famous for its sanctuary of the ' holy house,'
to wage war on the Pontiff, I remembered the Scriptural
sentence, ' A man's enemies are those of his own house-
hold."

While the winter was commencing with such
severity in London, and on the day on which the first mow
fell, the Munitrur de rAlgirie published the following :
" The phenomena of vegetation are more abundaot this
year in the environs of Algeria than ever. On the lit
December we saw, in a vineyard at Sahel, bunches of
young grapes, which had blossomed a fortnight before.
We also remarked young pears as large as nuts. If the
mild weather continues, we shall have new fruit fit for
eating in January."

The Vienna journals state that a solemn funeral
service for the Emperor Maximilian will take place on the
arrival at Trieste of the body, now being brought home by
Vice-Admiral Tegethoff. Orders have been already given
for the manufacture of a large number of mourning ban-
ners and drapery.

Mr. Boneleanit says that there are at present em-
ployed behind the soenes of a theatre 40 carpenters, 6 gas-
men, 6 property men, 30 supernumeraries, 30 bandsmen,
20actors,20servants, employes, and others--say 150 persons
in all.

On tho Ist of nest month large amounts of gold
will have to be disbursed from the United States' Trea-
sury, a portion of which will be remitted to Europe. On
that day a six percent. keno( about 1,900,000/. contracted
in 1847, and of which a considerable amount is believed to
be held on this aide, will become due, and about a similar
total will be payable in general dividends.

On the jut occasion Weston, the American pe-
destrian, made 86 miles in 21 hours 15 minutes. The
stakes were 10,000 dollars a side for the feat, but Weston
loses six-tenths for not having walked the 100 miles, and,
therefore, gets but 4,000 dollars. His achievement, as it
is, however, is regarded as one of the most extraordinary
on record.

ETON COLLLOE.—THE OPPIDAN PRIZES.—(THIS
DAT.)—At Eton College, to-day, the Oppidan prizes were
distributed as follows :—Young, M.A., Shute, Mowbray,
Arbuthnot, M.A.. Earl of Elgin, Elliot, Finch Hatton,
Benson, Lord Clifton, Greenwood.

WILLS AND BEQUESTS.—'Phu will of the Right
Hon. Horatio Waddington, P.C., late Under-Secretary of
State for the Home Department, waa proved in her
Majesty's Court of Probate by his brother, the Very Rev.
George Waddingbco, D.D., Dean of Durham, and the Hon.
Sir John Mellor, Q.C., the joint acting executors. The
personalty was sworn under 30,0001. The will is dated
April 12, 1850, and a codicil February 4, 1865 ; they
are both in the testator's own handwriting, sad are con-
tained in two sheets of note-paper. He died October 3,18b7,
at the age of sixty-three, a bachelor. There are but few be-
quests ; he hes left to the daughter of his late clerk •
legacy of 500/. ; to his housekeeper and butler, each 1,0001.;
to his late laundress an annuity of 101.; to his friend
Richard Welbank, Esq., LOON., all free of duty. He
directs his executors to make suitable gifts to his servauta
according to 'meth of servitude ; and, after bequeathing the
interest of 5,0001. during certain lives, he leaves the residue
of his pmperty between his brother and two sisters equally.
The will of Mary Sutcliffe, of Rhodes-street, Halifax,
Yorkshire, was proved in the court at Wakefield, by her
sister, Rachel Sutcliffe, James Ramekin, and Joshua
Blakey. The will is dated Aug. 27, 184;7 ; and the testa-
trix died Oct. 14. She has bequeathed to her sister
Rachel a life interest in her property, after the payment
of a few legacies to her executors and servants ;
and, upon the decease of her sister, she directs
legacies of 1001, each to be paid to her twelve nephews
and nieces, and has made bequests to several institutions
in town and country and to local charities. Amongst
them are the following:—To the Hull Ragged School,
2001.; and a like sum to the Religious Tract Society, the
British end Foreign Bible Society, and legacies to several
institutions belonging to the Society of Friends and to the
wesleyaos ; to Muller's Orphanage, Bristol, 1001.; Refuge
at Bradford for Fallen Women, 1001.; and a like sum to
the London Missionary Society, the Baptist, Wesleyan,
seri other missionary societies, and legacies to various
institutions in Halifax and Bradford. Whatever residue
may remain she leaves to the Society for the
Relief of the Widows and Orphans of Shipwrecked Sailors.
The wills of the undermentioned have been recently
proved :—Sir John Rae Reid, Bart., formerly Governor of
the Bank of Zeeland, 3,0004 personalty ; David James
Simpson. Esq., C. 8., 5,0001.; Robert Fletcher, Eisq., of
Fontainebleau, Devoe. 100,0001. : Nathaniel Gould,Req.,
80.0001. ; Richard Walker, Esq., Stockton-ow-Tau,
60,0001. ; John Webb Gilbert, Prq., The Close, Salisbury,
35,0001. ; Arthur Henry Davenport, Esq.. 30.00 W. ;
John Haney, Igo.. Clapham-common, 25,0001. ; William
(Ma:ooaq, 50,000/.—/llestreted London News.

LAW INTBILLIGENCE.

(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF PROBATE.
(Before Sir J. P. Wilde and a Special Jury.)
YOUNG V. DZNDT AND OTHER&
The plaintiff's cue having ooncluded, Mr. Montage
Chambers, Q.C., addressed the jury on behalf of the de.
fendants, who desire to upset Bliss Dendy's will, on the
ground that she was insane. The other aide having ad.
mitted that at one time of her lifo she must have been in-
sane, or she would not have written the extraordinary
things she did, be contended that the jury could not
but assume that in 1859, when the will was executed, she
was suffering from a disordered intellect, which, if true,
would render her incapable of making a legal will. At
the conclusion of the address of Mr. Chambers, witnenes
were called, and the eau will not conclude until Saturday,