The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-21 00:00:00

CROATIA.

AGRAM, Dw. 20.

The result of the elections to the Croatian Diet
shows a majority of two-thirds in favour of union
with Hungary.

INDIA.

CALCUTTA, Nov. 23.

The reports relative to the cyclone continued to
represent the damages as extensive and wide-
spread. The subscriptions for the sufferers amount
at present, including the government grant, to
13,00 W. Ships arriving at Calcutta report severe
weather in the Bay of Bengal, and are all more or
less damaged. The Blenheim arrived totally dis-
masted. The China steamer Thunder, due at
Saugor on the night of the cyclone, is supposed to
have been lost, with a large amount of specie on
board.

The Botanical Gardens, on the banks of the
Hooghly, have suffered severely, numerous trees
and shrubs being totally destroyed.
All the shipping arrangements for the departure
of the Bengal Brigade for Abyssinia are completed,
and the force is ready to embark on the let
December. The steamer Oriental, with 1,150
Coolies, leaves directly, and the pioneers follow.
The Viceroy arrived at Calcutta on the 19th.
The durbar at Lucknow was a groat success, 300
Talookdars having attended.
Colonel Fytche, the commissioner for Burmah,
arrived on the 19th, bringing the new treaty with
the Bing of Burmah for confirmation by the
Viceroy.
The export trade is very quiet. Owing to the
high prices ruling, the import trade continues very

BOMBAY. Nov. 29.

Preparations for the despatch of the rest of the
Abyssinian field force are being actively continued.
The Scinde brigade, consisting of her Majesty's
33rd Regiment, the lit Beleoches, and Battery CI
14 of the Royal Artillery, under Colonel Col-
lings, is now en route to Abyssinia. The
3rd Scinde Horse follow in due course,
and the Poonah Horse are now on their
way to Jacobabad to relieve than. The 2nd
brigade, consisting of the 3rd and sth batteries of
the 21st brigade Royal Artillery, the 4th King's I
Own Royal Regiment, and the 3rd and 25th Native
Infantry, was to have sailed on the 29th November I
and Ist December, but ita departure was postponed
in consequence, it is believed, of advices from
Colonel_ Phayre.

The Commissariat and Quartermaster-General's
Departments are despatching almost daily trans-
ports with coals, stores, and coolies. Some 2,000
coolies are on their way to Zulla from Bengal, and
upon their arrival thecoolie force will number over
3,000. It has been determined to organise a coolie
brigade or Army Works Corps, under Major
Nuttall. General Stavely left Bombay for Abys-
sinia on the 26th inst.

The latest accounts from Zulla still report water
to be very scarce, and the forces using condensers.
The Rohillas have been giving trouble lately,
and Britah troops have been sent after them from
Hyderabad and the Deccan.
I It is proposed to wind up the Bombay and
Bengal Steamship Company.
The Jumow (1) government agrees to limit the
duties on imports from Central Asia to 5 per cent.

ADIMUALTY, Dr.c. 20.—Arrourrmaiers. —Chief-
Engineer Henry W. Eiger, to the Buzzard ; Engineers
Charles Ware and Thomas Clark, to the Buzzard ; John
Boswell, to the Indus for Seagull ; First-Chas Assistant-
Engineer James J. Nibbs, to the Buzzard; and Naval
Cadet (nominated) Algernon H. Anson.

THE HEAD MASTER OF ETON.

(From the Daily Nom)
Tin Provost and Fellows of Eton College have
now, for the fifth time daring the present century,
to elect a Head Master. Somewhere about the

commencement of 1800, when Latin and Greek
, were the sole education of the upper classes, Dr.
I /IRATE was unanimously elected to fill that im-
portant post. No better choice could have been
made, and as the man for the time he left his mark
on Eton scholarship through many generations.
About 1836, on the retirement, after more than
thirty years' service, of Dr. Kvers, the choice of
the electors fell on Dr. HAwTRET—an elegant
scholar, a linguist of a high order. and a gentleman
in every sense of the word. Under him Eton
continued to prosper and to send forth elegant
and accomplished scholars. Towards the latter
pert of his reign, however, popluar feel-
ing and popular opinion began to be
turned towards the system of our public schools.
Although by no means bigoted, for he bad
developed mathematics and foreign languages to a
considerable degree, Dr. HAWIILZY was not the
man to stand at the helm and direct radical
changes. At this crisis the then, provost, Dr.
Ronosox, died, and amidst universal approbation
Dr. HAWTHRY stepped into his place. The con-
test for the head mastership then lay between the
Rev. EDWARD COLERIDOL, the then lower master,
and Dr. GOODFORD. For some unexplained cause
the former was passed over, and by a narrow
majority of one the latter was elected. A few
years afterwards Dr. Ilawraitv died, and, after a
short reign as head master, Dr. GOODPORD became
provost. Strange to say, at this time there was
no one amongst the assistant masters who was con-
sidered fit to be placed at the head of the school.

Dr. BALSTON, who for many years had been
successful assistant master, but who had shortly be-
fore been elected to a fellowship in the College,
was induced to resign that sinecure, and again
buckle on his harness and relieve the College from
their difficulty in finding a head master. It is by
his resignation that the College are now once more
called upon to exercise their choice. Up to this
period every head master for many hundred years
has been educated on the foundation at Eton, and
also at King's College, Cambridge, and it may
have been the absence of the latter qualification
that militated against the Rev. E. COLSAIDOE when
Dr. GOODFOILD was put over his head. Tempera
niugantur, however, now, and as fares we have been
able to learn the only applicants at the present
time are Messrs. Warms and Ssow, both very
junior assistant masters, and Mr. Holum., at
present second master at Winchester. Not only
were all these gentlemen not at King's, but they
were not one of them on the foundation at Eton.
It may seem strange that all the senior assistants
at Eton should hold themselves aloof ; but when
the present aspect of affairs, and the generally re-
ceived suggestion as to Dr. Biurrozes reason for
tendering his resignation are considered, public
opinion, we think, will say that they are only act-
;ng with prudence and discretion. It is no meant
that Dr. Bxxerox was, as his evidence proves,
greatly opposed to many parts of the scheme of
the Public Schools Commissioners. The Bill has

already been laid on the table of the House of
Lords this session, and will doubtless pass into law.
Dr. BAUSTON evidently shrunk from the responsi-
bility of carrying out radical and fundamental
changes of which in his heart he disapproved, and
in resigning he has behaved both honourably and
with a due regard to the real interests of the
school. Dr. RALSTON was of an eminently conser-
vative turn of mind, and in his love fur the dead
languages quite a disciple of Dr. Ksava. The
Commissioners have suggested such a modification

in the classical studies of the school as, together
with the substitution of physical sciences, could
not but be distasteful to a man of his opinions. The
favourite candidates at present certainly are Messrs.
WARRS and Hoaxer. The former has much to
recommend him. He was an Oppidan, and there-
fore better acquainted than any Colleger could be
with their feelings and predilections, and as they
number as 800 to 70, that is no mean advantage.
This remark applies with equal force to Mr.
Hoaxer. Mr. WARRZ was Newcastle scholar, got
a first class at Oxford, and, what has more effect
on the mind of boys than those two great honours,
was Captain of the Eight. He has been a suc-
cessful assistant and a great supporter of all manli-
ness and manly sports in the school. His age is
about 32—rather young, doubtless, for such a
position ; but where a great and novel work is to
be undertaken it is better to err on the side
of youth than on that of age. Mr.
I HORNE; however, seems to combine the
same requisite of physical and intellectual
excellence, and to have this advantage
' over Mr. WARRE, viz., that he has been removed
from all the petty squabbles and jealousies which
have from time to time of late caused an uncom-
fortable feeling amongst the assistant masters at
Eton. He is about 40 years of age, obtained
high honours at Eton, a first class and Drasenose
fellowship at Oxford, was many years a successful
tutor at that College, then vice-principal at
r Durham University, and was last year elected to
the place of second master at Winchester. He
I also combines with great intellectual attainments
all the manliness derived from having played in
the eleven at Eton, rowed in the Balliol eight,
and at all times taken an active part in promoting
'the physical as well as the moral and intellectual
welfare of these placed under him.
In electing either of these gentlemen the College
cannot be blamed ; but taking their respective
qualifications we cannot help thinking that the fact
of Mr. HORNLY having had a far wider range of
experience and never having served at Eton under
many of those whom he would be called upon to
command renders his at this critical time the
most prudent and promising appointment that the
Provost and Fellows could make.

THE AFFAIIIN OF MR. STOr LET THE LIVERPOOL
SOLICWoR.—Since the adjudication of bankruptcy against
Mr. Stockley, the Liverpool solicitor, who recently ab-
sconded, after having made felonious use of upwards of
40,00 W., the property of his clients, one of his late part-
, nen—Mr. Wrigley, In order to rid h;ulself from the debts
to which be was liable in consequence of Mr. Stockley's
defalcations, has petitioned the Liverpool Court of Bank-
' ruptcy, and the two bankruptcies have been consolidated.
A meeting was appointed for yesterday morning for the
creditors to elect a manager. Those present, after some
discussion, unanimously elected Mr. Hammed W. Banner,
and directed that he should be paid a commission of 24
per cent on the amount realize&
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out medicine or expense, dyspepsia find loos, coastipatioa,
diarrhoea, acidity, headache, neuralgia, hysteria, palpitation,
sleeplewiess, debility, wasting, cough, asthma, ~even, consnmp-
Eon, low spirits. 60,000 annual cures which had resisted all
medicines, including that of his Hotinese the Pope. Is awes
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Pious

SACRED HARIIONIC SOCIETY.

The usual Christmas performance of the Messiah
by this society took place less night, being the thirty-sixth
year of its performance at the same semen by this institn.
tion. There Is little or nothing now left to be said on the
merits of Handel's sublime oratorio, and its peculiar
identification with the solemn rejoicings that belong to
this period of the Christian year. It would seem like the
most trite of truisms now to enlarge on the well•kaown
fact that the Messiah has, more than any other effort of
musical genius, suborned the purposes of high and pare
religious belief and Christian bew►olence and charity.
This has been often reoceded, together with
statistical statements of the enormous sums realised
for charitable purposes by performances of the Alessi:lk
from Handel's own time to the present day. This sublime
*raker; therefore, transcendent in intrinsic merit, rinks
in this, as in every other respect, an the one great Christian
musical epic.

The performance of last night was in moat respects •
very fine one. The soprano solos were gives by lladAnie

Lemmens-Sherringtonwith much refinement •
and vocal
finish—the bravura air, " Rejoice greatly," being an ex.
ample of fiord exertion, and the solemn " I know that
my Redeemer," a specimen of earnest if not very intense
&volition. Madame Sainton•Deibp, evidently still under
the influence of her nowt indisposition, gave wit► much
feeling ,if not with her usual force, the contralto air,
" Bat who may abide," " 0 thou that teller," " He shall
feed his Bock," and " Ile was despised." Mr. (I.
Porn rng the tenor solos, Ids best efforts bang
in the pathetic air, " Behold and re," and the
declamatory song, " Thou shalt break them." Signor Foli,
in the bean sore, confirmed the good isprerke which he •
bad already made in his several previous oratorio per-
, formanoes. In each of tho important airs which fell to
this artist's share he slag with an impressive style and
vocal refinement that are rarely combined by bees singers.
In the grand declamatory song, " Why do the nations,"
and in the air, "The trumpet shall sound" (with Mr. T.
Harper's excellent obbligato trumpet accompaniment),
Signor Foli produced a marked effect. The noble choruses
of this sublime oratorio, especially the well-known " For
unto us," and "Hallelujah," created the usual profound
impression.

The performance of the MersiaA is to be repeated by the
Sacred Harmonic Society on Friday next.

Saban an, fittittarp.

CHATHAM, DliC. 20.
In accordance with orders to that effect received
from the government, the metropolitan police doing dnty
at this dockyard commenced, this morning, the charge of
the government powder magazine' at Upnor Castle, in
conjunction with the troops from the garrison, who have
hitherto had the entire care of the magazinea uring
the day Major-General F. Money D accompanied by the
°Mears of his staff, paid a visit to Upnor Cuffs, and in-
vestigated the arrangements made for the security of that
establishment.

Tits CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS.—Most of the whole-
sale houses of the City, and a large number of the lead-
ing retail firms in the principal thoroughfares, including
the west-end, the City, the month and cast of Landon,
have already arranged to keep their premises closed on the
2fith instant—Boxing-day ; and the mine arrangement, it
appears, is gaining timers' meepteace throughout the
provinces. A oonsiderable number of the tradesmen of
Deptford, Sydenham, Richmond, and other suburbs, are
amongst those who have announced the same inteution.
A lecture on the subject of 00-operative societies,
but in the course of which the education question wan
touched on, was delivered on Thursday evening last by
Professor Fawcett in the Working If en's Hall, in Cam.
hedge. The hall, • large and convenient one built for
ouch measiona, was densely crowded, and numbest' were
unable to obtain a.'mlasion. The whole of the audience
was composed literally of working men. The Rev. C. W.
Weldon, incumbent of St. Andrew-the-Less, in which pa.
Hob the hall is situate, presided, and introduced the
lecturer.

METROPOLITAN MITNICIPALMES.—If is under-
stood that Mr. Ayrton, M.P., has beer at work upon a bill
for the municipal government of Loudon, based upon the
report of his select committee of last session, and it is said
that the bill is now ready. The Metropolitan Board of
Works is proposed as the chief central authority, under
the title of " The Municipal Council of London." An im-
provement-rate is to be levied on the metropolis, including
the City, and the fund. raised are to be applied by the
"Metropolitan Council"—City Press.
METROPOLITAN BOARD OF WORKS. —The weekly
meeting of the board took place yesterday, at their offices,
in Spring-gardens, Sir John Thwaites in the chair. At the
usual hour for the admission of the public and the ro
porter the board-room was found to be closed grant
them, and it was not until half-past twelve that the publics
were admitted ; some important discussion of a secret na-
ture was taking place. After some small matters bad been
disposed of, the Chairman said he bad an importaut com-
munication to make to the members of the hoard, where-
upon Mr. Roche moved that all strangers should retire,
which was carried, and the reporters and others were com-
pelled to mire, and the board sat for nearly an hour with
closed doom, but the subject of the discussion did not
transpire. Subsequently a report was brought up frets
the Fire Brigade Committee in reference to the late explo-
sion at the House of Detention. Mr. Newtot said in all
the newspapers recording the terrible event which killed
and maimed so many inurment persons, the services of
Captain Shaw and the metropolitan fire brigade hail been
spoken of in the highest terms, and he thought they were
deserving of the thanks of the board. He moved that the
thanks of the board be given to Captain Shaw and
the officers of the fire brigade under his command for
their services on that occasion. Mr. H. L. Taylor seconded
the motion, which was put and agreed to unanimously.
A report was brought up from the Fire Brigade Committee,
stating that in order to facilitate the transmission to the
brigade by the police of information as to fires, they had
given information to the Loudon District Telegraph Com-
pany to lay down • line of telegraph between the chief
police office and the Watling-street Fire Brigade station.
It appears that the communication between the polies,
stations is maintained by • different company, and Sir
Richard Mayne bad expressed the opinion that inconvenience
would arise if the line of telegraph between his office and
Watling-street were constructed and maintained by a dif-
ferent company from that which has constructed the lines
between the police stations. The committee were of
opinion that the same inconvenience that was apen handed
by the police would result to the firm brigade if the pro-
posed line of telegraph were constructed between the
various fire brigade stations. Under thea• circumstances
they had given directions fur the line of telegraph between
Whitehall-place and Watling-street not to be pi °coded
with at present. The other business transacted does tasti
call for a report.
ROYAL MILITARY ACADEMY, Wootwum.—His
Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge arrived at Wool-
wich yesterday morning, to carry out the Christmas exami-
nation of the gentlemen cadets of the Royal Military
Academy, and award commissions and prizes in accordance
with the recommendation of the Council of Military Edu-
cation. The cadets, having been inspected by the duke,
went through various exercises. A report from the Councilof
Military Education was then read by Maj.: neral Napier,
vicopresident of the institution. The whole of the
first class of ;Ni cadets are considered qualified for
00111111iM/0011, and 12 are recommended fur the Royal
Engineers and 24 for the Royal Artillery.
FEARFUL COLLISION IN THE CHANNF.L. —Early
yesterday morning • dreadful collaion happened in the
Channel. a few miles off Hastings, between the homeward
bound ship Startled Fawn, commanded by Captain King,
109 days from Calcutta, and the ship II ushing Waters, front
Sunderland for Madras, and so terrible was the force with
which they met that both of them immediately foun-
dered, the crews having barely time to take to the boats.
All were happily saved, and landed in the course of the
day at Hastings. The Startled Fawn was an iron built
ship, 71.13 tons, and was classed for 1:4 year. She was
laden with a most valuable cargo. The Reeling Waters
was • timber built ship, 4'22 tons register, belonging to
Meseta. Newman and Co., of London. She was from Sun-
derland, laden with iron mid machinery for the Kist India
Itail limy Company. Roth ships and cargo were hammed.
We understand that previous to the meeting of
parliament the council of the Liverpool Chniber of Coss.
meroe will give a banquet, to which they will invite the
Right Hon. W. E. Gladstone, Lord Stanley, the members
for the borough and county, and a number of gentlemen
connected with trade and commerce.
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