The Express.
London, England, 1860-12-07 00:00:00

SW Iji TIC CENTRAL CITIONAILL COURT.
Mr. Deputy Fey brought up • report from the Officers
and Clerks' sftmmittee, to whom the 'subject of the payment
by the public for the admkmion to the galleries of the
Central Criminal Court bad been referred, in which they
stated that they found that the sum reoefired during a
period of six years amounted to 9301., and the expenses to
2461. The balance was divided every year between the
Lord Mayer, the Sheriffs, and the sword beam ; and Mr.
Hoard, the housekeeper, also received a per °vitae. The
committee expressed their opinion that the practice of re.
ailing money for admission to a court of *tam was most
objectionable in every respect, and contrary to every prin-
ciple of justice, and they recommended that it should at
moo be discontinued. They also recommended that tickets
ot ecligjeoion to the gallerita should be issued by the sheriffs,
to the extent they thought proper, and that any vacant
seat Amulet be occupied by the public. The report also
mated :hat the Lord Mayor and Sheriffs readily gave up
any 'skim they had in the matter, and recommended that if
any 11l ea -rouse should be incurred in carrying out the
•
e• Lew s ft -slid be defrayed by this court out of
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the s funds. ',nacos of the report.
Mr. ty Fey moved the Km, . ^ office
Mr. anima Been said that whale he 611+4 _N
Of skint!' he saw a great deal of the w,'rkiog of the Syinon,.
::,ii he Wit ashamed to see the proceed.'ssirs of the Central'
Criminal Court made • public exhibition t.v money. There
used to be a sort of sliding scale of payment for admission,
according to the interest created by the trial ; and when
Palmer's ease was going on, he heard that very large
sums were given for admission to the galleries of the
court.

An amendment was subsequently moved, " That the re-
port be weed to, with the exception of that portion of it
empowering the sheriffs to Issue ticket, of admission,"
which was put and negatived, and the originel motion was
then agreed to.
Mr. JOHN RICHARDSON then rose to move, "That upon
the occasion of the presentation of the freedom of the City
to Baron Clyde and Sir James Outram, the same should take
place in the Guildhall, and not in this court," but there
was a cry of " Adjourn," and the court broke up without
the motion being brought forward.
The presentation of the freedom, which is fixed for the
20th inst., will consequently not take place in the Guild-
hall, as has been stated, unless some special notice is given
upon the subject.

A memorial window, in stained glaa of remark-
able beauty (says the Blackburn Patrsol), has just been
erected in Christ Church, Grimahaw.park, Blackburn, to the
memory of the late Robert Hopwood, Esq., of that town,
sod a magnificent donor to that and other churches'. The
window is 16 feet high by 8 feet wide. Style, decorated
Gothic. The subject, extending over all the lower lights,
is "The Last Supper" (from designs furnished and
executed by Hestia. Bailliet d Wardour-street, London).
On the sloping sill of the window is a brass plate, beauti-
fully engraved and illuminated, deeoratintthe above, "To
the Glory of God, in memory of Robert Hopwood, &c., by
his affectionate wife, Elisabeth Hopwood."
SaILI01:18 DAMAGI BY LIGHTNI24I3.—RxmAREABLE
Ewan or Two Limms.—On the 29th ult., between heli-
um* 8 and 9, serious damage was done to Shenvell House,
the random:woe Caleb 'Fretter, Esq., by lightning. The electric
fluid has stripped the bark from a portion of amble tree, which
stands immediately in front of the house, and with its
branches nearly touching one owner of the not and parapet ;
this corner is entirely demolished. From this the fluid
must have found a cooductor, which carried it to a mom
Immediately over the hall dour; it entered this apartment
and made a small bole in the ading, travelling along
the inside of the paper, and leaving • black stroke to
mark its route it traversed the length of a wall acid was
stayed by a maasive beam, one the supports of the
haw, which it fired. A peat portion of the
laths immediately caught, and the limme would have soon
been enveloped in flames had it not been for the courage of
the °oak, who succeeded, HMO efforts, in extinguish-
ing the dames. All the picture frames ere blackened and
spoiled, as are also several valuable od paintings. Bra.
Trotter sad her daughter were seated in a lower apartment
in front of the fire, when the lightning entered the room
by the chimney, pawed between them, fortunately without
injuring either, went oat at the open door end lodged itself
in the beck premises. In the apartment where the light-
ning entered, a large mirror has sustained considerable in.
jury. Although the damage done is certainly serious, the
family may talate themselves on a narrow escape
from the entire demditivaof the premiere and loss of life.
Plymouth Journal.
CuunTiL PaLaci. —Ong SUILLINII DAY.
THURADAT, DIOD. 6.—Admissions on payment, 374 ; ditto
by season ticketa, 289.—Total visitors, 663.
Errs's HostaorAwc Cocoa. Its delicious
gratetal nonothuses, and larkiorstlas power have pro-
cured its general adoption es a breakfast beterage.
anti lib. packets, at ad. per lb.. by the print fps' grocers
Labelled -Jame* kppe., liouietoitatkic chemist, Loudun.'—lAd
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