The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-23 00:00:00

TRAPTIO RETURNS.

Miles Pas- Mee- Total, TIMM,
ZAMWATS open. wingers duals*. 1881 1868.
Week ending August 13. A A A A
Northern of Buenos Ayres 19 483 438
Ditto August 20 — 378 44!
Ditto August 47 — 453 BM
Ditto Sept. 3
Week ending Sept 30.
Smyrna and Cassaba ...
Ditto Oct. 7
Week ending Oct. 4.
Detroit and Milwaukee.

1,056
1,102

9,005 9,036

- - -
Week ending Oct. 5.
Great Western of Canada . 245
Week ending Oct. 16.
Brecon and Merthyr ..
Week ending Oct. 20.
London,Brtgbton,tfal Coast 3081 16,062 1,991 2
0066 71,647
South lantern l3O 19,1219 7,416 26,796 26,497

16,460 18,011

68 353 910 1,363 1.000

Imes ow Conwr.—The examination of candidates
for admission as students to any of the inns of court will
take place in the Beechers' room, Middle Temple Library,
on the undermentioned days, at 10 a.m.: Saturday, Octo-
ber 27 • Wednesday, October 31; Saturday, November 3
Saturday, November 10 ; Saturday, November 17 Satur-
day, November 24.
A LADY BURNT TO DEATH.—The coroner for
the borough of Reading has just held an inquest at the
Royal Berkshire Hospital in that town on the body of a
lady named Sarah Jones, aged 59 years,whose death re-
sulted from severe bums. The deceased, who was a
spinster, resided at Henley-on-Thames with an elderly
female relative who was an invalid. One evening last
week the invalid was seated by the fire in her sitting-room
when the deceased stood near ber and entered into conver-
sation, during which her dress, extended by crinoline,
touched the bars of the grate and became ignited. She
rut lied from the room into the street and back again in •
dreadful state of fright and excitement, the flames having
rapidly ascended, and burnt the upper portion of her body
very severely. A man observed ber rash from the bonne,
and following her in enveloped her body in a rug, and ulti-
mately succeeded in extinguishing the flames. She was
attended bT a medical man and then removed to the
Berke Hospital, where she lingered for a abort time and
then expired from the injury caused by the burns. A ver-
dict of " Accidental death " was returned. Min Jones
resided in that part of Henley known as Fair Mile.
FIRES AT LONDON THEATREL —The returns of
the Fire Brigade show that during the last 28 years there
have been eight of the metropolitan theatres burned down,
viz.:-June it, 1841, Aatley's, belonging to Messrs. Ducrow
and West ; November 4, 1846, Garrick Theatre, belonging
to Messrs. Conquest and Gommersall, in Leman-street ;
March 29,1849, Olympic Theatre, belonging to Mr. David-
son and Captain Spicer; July 27, 1853, the Islington
Circus, when 7 horses and 11 dogs were burned to death ;
February 13, 1856, the Pavilion Theatre, Whitechapel ;
March 5 (same year), Covent-garden Theatre ; January 30,
1865, Surrey Theatre ; and last Sunday morning the
Standard Theatre. The canoes of each fire to this day

remain unknown.
TOLLS AT 1110110.1 TE ARCH WAY. —Yesterday a
decision was given at Highgate Police-court on the awn
reported in the Express of the 9th, on • question as to
the right to take toll at Highgate archway for evbreak
in the road. Mr. Potter, clerk to the Hornsey Highway
Board, summoned one of the collectors, William nott,
for illegally demanding and taking of him 6d. for his hone
and chaise. On the present occasion Mr. Michael, bar-
rister, attended in support of the summons ; and Mr. Pat-
tison, solicitor, appeared for the Archway Company. A
question was raised as to the jurisdiction of the bench to
hear the case. Under the 56 Geo. 3rd the company had
obtained a local act, and a clause as to tolls of nearly the
same words as in 'the local act appeared in the General
Turnpike Act of Geo. 4th, and Mr. Michael submitted that
the bench had jurisdiction. Mr. Pattison maintained that
as the road was private property, the bench bad no juris-
diction. It appeared that the question turned on the
words, "each snclievery end," and the question was there-
fore of public importance from the improvements decidedbeing
made in the neighbourhood. The bench eventually
that they bad no jurisdiction to hear the case. Mr. Potter
said an application would be made to the Court of Queen's
Bench fora mandamus. The magistrates, Mr. Bodkin, Mr.
Faulconer, Mr. Crell, and Colonel Jeakea, thought it de-
sirable that the question should be settled. The summons
was dismissed.
Tug IRISH Cormier SYS/TH.—Many suggestions
have been thrown out during the last three weeks as to
the future management of the Irish convict system,
amongst which is the formation of a board consisting of a
chairman and two sub-directors. Such an arrangement
would, no doubt, have been suitable at one time when our
convict class wan numerous, but when we bear in mind
that our convict population has so diminished es to render
necessary the closing of several convict gaols, leaving
the few existing one, almost empty, It appears to
us an injustice to saddle the public treasury with the pay-
ment of prison officials for whom there is no employment
now. At no time, perhaps, in the history of Ireland did
our adult criminals rate so low as at the present time; and
when we consider the vast amount of money the country
is called upon to pay for directors, inspectors, governors,
superintendents, chaplains, doctors, schoolmasters, and
warders employed in the Irish convict service, it is only
common justice to appeal against any further appointments
which can only be made for party purposes.—Preetnan's
Journal.
Du BAIIeY'S DELICIOUS REVALENT.S ARASICA
IMOD cures deorht, Indigestion, cos, asthma, cousambroca
debility, tionettpetion, diarrhea, palpitation, Darvous,
liver, and stomach complaint'. Cure No. eims.—" Rome, July
51,1806.—The health of the Holy father is excellent,
since, abandoning all other remedies, he has conenedel=ig
entirely to Du Barry's Feed, and his Holiness cannot probe
this excellent food too hinhly."—Ossette du }Da Borg and
Co., No. 77, Begest-etrost. Laudon, W. In tins, at la. AL;
ilk >r ed lfk rA. Lha, 40a.—advartInesent.