The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, OCTOBER 24, 1867.

MtSCELLANEOUN TurlCs.

The Pot regrets that there is nothing in the modern
history of the London corporation to warrant the belief
that it will ever of its own free will display sufficient good
sense to give up its annual pageant, and we shall probably
have to wait for its extinction till time and ■ reformed
parliament have invaded the sacred precincts of the City
and imposed upon the corporation the necessity for setting
its house in order.

The Star approves of the redaction of the Lord Mayor's
proceesion as, at all events, a step in the right way of re-
form, and says it may be that a Lord Mayor will yet crop
up who is alive to a sense of ridicule.

The worthlessoess of Mrs. Janman's evidence in the
Bloomsbury murder suggests the danger of offering a
pecuniary recompense in such cases, but the Times is of
opinion that the fear of being denounced by a confederate
for the sake of the reward is a safeguard against criminal
enterprises with which society cannot afford to dispense
altogether. We have to choose between the risk of occa-
sional perjury and the risk of such crimes as these Fenian
outrages going unpunished; and of these two evils the
former is probably the less.
The Telegraph cannot praise the way in which the
Bloomsbury case has been conducted by the police. They
have carried on all their investigations on the basis that
the murder was connected in some way with Fenisnism,
but what their grounds of conviction are we bavo abso-
lutely no means of knowing. The result is that the
neat time they pronounce a fatal shot to have been fired
by Fenians, the public will be disposed to regard the
accusation as an imposing ramp de llWellre designed to
conceal the simple incapacity of its authors.
The ease with which an obscure and uneducated
woman turned the magnates of Scotland-yard round her
finger affords material to the Star for no very pleasant
reflections. They walked into the mare laid for them with
a simplicity which is marvellous, and would be highly
comical if the life of a fellow-being was not at stake, and
were the police really the dressed-up supers of a theatre
bound to provide amusement for the audience.

At the meeting of the Town Council of Edin-
burg on Tuesday a letter was reed from the secretary of
Mr. Disraeli, who expressed his appreciation of the honour
to be conferred on him by the presentation of the freedom
of the city.

The copper ore exported from the Cape in the
mouth of August Lot amounted to 731 tons.

HAYTI.—The mail which has arrived at South-
ampton brings news from Hayti of Sept. 23. The Cams
were in full retreat. The state of affairs was daily im-
proving, and General Salnave, the president elected by
popular suffrage, was fulfilling the expectations of the
country. The chambers had been opened. The harvest
promised well.

TFIr. PRISON% Acr, 1866.—Yesterday morning,
in accordance with the provisions of " The Prisons Act,
18AV a large painted board was affixed to the front of
Newgate gaol, upon which is inscribed, in large-sized white
letters upon a black ground, the whole of clauses 37, 38,
and 39, having reference to the penal enactments now in
force as to the aiding in the escape of prisoners, the sup-
plying of masks, &c., to assist prisoners or others in evading
justice, the introduction of any kind of spirituous liquors,
&c., clandestinely, into such prisons ; the sending of any
letters of communication surreptitiously, and otherwise
contributing to the liberation of parties convicted of any
crime, or acting in any way in contravention of the law
for the safe custody of such prisoners. The regulations
prohibitory of warders giving facilities for such purpose
are also affixed to the notice.

THE CHAUNTRY' Surroti.—This important
freehold residential estate, comprising the noble mansion
with beautiful gardens sad *rounds and six hundred acres
of pasture, arable, and wood lands, the property of the Lord
Chief Baron, has been i;licileet private contract by Mews.
Farebrother, Lye, and

Cite Court.

BALMORAL. OCT. ?I'.
'lle Queen and royal family ,liove .•lit a:
The Delo of Buckingham has the honour of dining with
her M.,jehty and tte royal family.

Thu Prince of Wats, attended by Lieutenant-Colonel
Kennel, visited the Guards' Industrial H. me and Guards'
In.titute yesterday.
A Comuittee of ch.. Locda of her Majesty's Most Hon.
Priiy Council >at oa Tuesday at the l'ris y
on the subject of the cattle plaque. Thu lords present
were the Lord President and Lord Robert Montagu.
A Committee of the Lords of her blajesty's Most
Honourable Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy
Coutail-ottice, Whitehall, on matters relating to quaran•
tine and the eattle plague. The lords present were
the Lord President, Lord Robert Montagu, Sir StalLird
Nortlicote, and the Right Hon. Gatliorne Hardy.
A deputation of working men from Klitibur,;ll, intiv-
iluced by Mr. Charles ScAt, advocate, and consisting of
Mr. Thomas Young, cabinet-maker ; Mr. William Jack-
son, secretary of the Operative Loot and Shoemakers'
A•,,ociation of Scotland ; Mr. George Scott, glasscutter ;
and Mr. James C. Fleming, skinner, had an interview with
the Chancellor of the Exchequer, in Downing-street, on
Tuesday.

Despatches were received yesterday at the Colonial-
°thee from the Governors of the Cape of Good Hope,
Saud. and St. Helena. Despatches were sent to the
l:overnors of the settlements on the West Coast of Africa.

The Lord Chancellor will receive the Judge+. Queens
Counsel, Lc., at hie lordship's residence, No. 7, L.' iton.
square, on Saturday, the 2nd of November (the fult day
of Michaelmas Term), at 12 o'clock.

CA IaNKT CouNei Summonses have been
issued for a Cabinet Council on Tuesday, the 3th
proximo, at the First Lord of the Treasury's official
residence, in Downing-street.
l't.vssourn, (kr. i3.—To-day his Royal High-
ness the Duke of Cambridge paid his annual visit of in-
spection to this port. This morning the troops in the
garrison here were reviewsl by his royal hi;hness in
Devonport Park, and in the afternoon the Duke inspected
the progress of the forts forming the western defences. In
the evening he dined at Mount Wise with the local heads
of departments. He concludes his inspection to-morrow,
and takes his departure in the afternoon.

31INI-yrr.RrAr, Movr.mvers.—The Earl of Derby,
accompanied by the countess, will leave Knowsley on the
tth of the ensuing month for their residence in St.
James's-square ; his lordship is e .pected to remain in town
six weeks. The Lord Chancellor and Lady Chelmsfonl and
family return to their residence in Eaton-square towards
the latter end of next week. The whole of the members
of the cabinet will assemble in town the week after next.

The Prince and Princess of Prussia are expected
in Belgium to-day on their way to England. They are to
embark at Ostend on board the royal yacht Osborne.

The thirty-sixth birthday of the Prince Royal
of Prussia was celcbrat•,l four days back at Baden, where
the ursud Duke and Duchess, Prince Louis of Rude,
and Princou Alice of Englaud, bad arrived to join the
King and Queen of Prussia. The festivities were quite
private.

The Countess of Gainaborough died on Tuesday
at 12.30 p.m. at Exton-park, near Oakham. Her ladyship,
who was in her forty-sixth year, was the eldest daughter
of the late Earl of Erroll, and was married in 1841 to the
Earl cf Gainsborough, then Viscount Camilalen. As Lady
Ida Hay, her ladyship was one of the bridesmaids on the
occasion of her Majesty's marriage.
The Duke of Norfolk has left Paris on a tour in
Germany.

The Marchioness (Dowager) Townahend and
Lady Audley Townshend have arrived in Paris from a tour
of the German Spsa.

The Earl and Counteea of Dudley have arrived
in Paris from the noble earl's shooting•box at Black
Mount, N.B.

Viscountess Palmerston, accompanied by Via-
countess Jocelyn and Hon. Miss Jocelyn aid Viscount and
Viscountess Sudley, arrived at her residence in Park-lane
yesterday, from Brockett Hall, Herta.

The Right Hon. Edward Herman, M.P., and
Mrs. Honman left Gleufrahie, Kinsman, on Saturday, for
Lochinch, near Stranraer, on a visit to the Earl of Stair.

Sir Edwin Landseer is at present in Ross-shire,
the guest of Mr. J. E. Coleman, at Lochluichard Lodge.
The veteran artist is still well sod active, and is enjoying
his favourite sport of deerstalking with considerable
gnome's.