The Express.
London, England, 1860-07-06 00:00:00

SERIOUS CHARGE AGAINST A FARMER.

A few days ago, at the County Police-office, Lei-
cester, • farmer of Evington, named Tebbe Johnson, was
charged with a brutal assault on a boy, named George Scar-
It appeared that the lad had been working for the
defendant, whose wife entrusted him with some money to
carry to her husband. It was wrapped in paper, and he
opened it to look at what was indtle. He then wrapped the
money up again, but did not take it to defendant, because
be bad lost • sovereign on the road. He hid the re-
mainder, and afterwards denied that he had reoeived the
money. Thereupon the assault was committed. A man
named Glover stated that he saw defendant come to the
gate of the field in which he was, put a string round com-
plainant's neck, and carry him to the middle of the road
by the string, at the same time lifting him up and
down with it. Defendant also carried complainant
in this manner up and down the lane. The com-
plainant's tongue was out, and defendant earned
him 150 putts. He appeared senseless and unconscious,
and pointed to different pan aof tl:e field. After defendant
bad done with rmnplainant, he turned him over to an
Irishman who came up, handing him the string and • knife,
and telling him to do as he liked with him. The child was
carried backwards by the string in the lane for quite an
hour. He saw the Irishman holding the complainant with
the string and an open knife in the other hand, taking him
from one part of the road to the other. Defendant was
present. The Irishman let complainant fall upon the
ground, and then lifted him up by the string. and kept
dragging him by it. The lad became unconscious, and was
very seriously injured. The defendant was fined 10/.,
with If. 19a. costa—Manchester Examiner.

INTERNATIONAL EXHIDITION Or 1862.—The Se-
cretary reported to the Council of the Society of Arts at
their meeting on Wednesday last, that the amount of the
Guarantee Fund promised up to that date, was 32'9,600f.
FANCY BALL AT THE MANSION-BOW/E.—Agana
fancy dress ball took place last night at the Mansion.
house, by invitation of the Lady Mayoress, which was at.
tended by nearly five hundred persons of rank and feebler'.
Among the compeny present were the Persian ambassador
and suite, the Moorish ambaterador and suite, the Earl and
Countess of Cardigan, &c. The company lean to arrive
shortly after nine o'clock, and the Egyptian-Mall was very
tastefully decorated for the occasion, and was used as the
ball-room. W;isvpert's baud was retained, and the refresh-
manta were supplied by Messrs. Ring and 13rymcr, and con-
sisted of every elicacy. The greater portion of the visitor
were dressed in fancy costume, and the whole evening's
amusement passed off with the greatest Mat.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. —The annual
meeting of the Fellows of this college took place yesterday
afternoon, in the noble library of the institution, to elect
three fellows into the council of the college, in the room of
three members going out in rotation. The president, having
explained the objects of the meeting, called on the secretary
to read those portions of the bye-laws relating to elections,
which, having been doi.e, the electors proceeded to record
their votes for the candidates, via, Messrs. Francis Kiernan,
F.R.S., of Manchester-street, Manchestersquare, one of
the examiners, and a member of the senate of the Univer-
sity of London ; Joseph Hodgson, F.R.S., of Westboorne-
terrace, one of the examiners of the college ; and Richard
Partridge, FALK, surgeon to King's College. The poll
having closed, and other formalities gone through, the }},re-
sident declared that Messrs. Kiernan, Hodgeou, and Par-
tridge had been duly re-eleete.l. Perhaps the moat lute-
meting part of the day's proceedings was the re-anion
which took place at the Freemasons Tavern in the evening,
on which occasion Mr. James Luke, Ells., surgeon to the
London Hospital, presided, supported by the most distin-
guished medical celebrities of the day.
THE EDUCATION COMNIMION. —We shall have
no report from the education committee this year. The
commissioners' views upon the evidence before them are
widely at variance, and the Doke of Newcastle's visit to
Canada with the Prince of Wales renders the postpone-
mer.t unavoidable—Patriot.
THE Seinen WIDITERN BANE RELIEF FUND.
The committee who have the management of this fund
must be congratulated on the highly satisfactory amount
which they have given of their stewardship. They have
relieved 1:11 persons who were thrown into destitution by
• one of the greatest commercial cattedroplie, of modem times.
and have distributed in this most benevolent work no less
I than 12,0001. Four-fifths of this sum were railed in Gies-
gow. —Gismos Morning Journal.
LAUNCH OF TWO GUNBOAT% AT LIVERPOOL.
Mr. W. C. Miller, of Liverpool, yestmday (Thursday)
; launched from his shipbuilding yard two timber built gun-
, boats, named respectively the Heron and the DotterelL
Each boat is no feet long and 21 feet wide, end of an
actual tonnage of 96$ tons. They win be propelled by
r screw engines of 40-horse power, from the nianufactory of
Messrs. Ravenhill and Salkeld, of London.

_ .
" I Instead of • mime» convention eetablishing the spa
rifle duties to be paid by British merchandise imported into
Flame, three separate couventions shall be successively
concluded ; the test of which shall os:nprise bar and pig
iron, steel and worked metals machines, tools and mocha-
Meal instruments of an curt, : the second, yarns and manu-
factures in flax and hemp ; the third, all other articles of
British production and manufacture enumerated in Article
I. ssf tie. Treaty of the Ztrd of January.
2. The.. cmiventioes .hall lie negotiated, concluded,
:11i.1 ratified io such a manner a. to come into force with
respect to the Articles to which they apply, at each of the
penal► flied by Article XV. of the Trsity of which they
will form the complement. Nevertheless the last of these
conventions shall be concluded and ratified before the tat of
November next.

"The pelmet additional article •hall have the same force
awl validity as if it had been inserted in the Treaty of Com.
coerce et the '*del of January hut. It shall be ratified,
sail the ratifkations thereof shall he ezehaoged at Paris
within four days at latest from the date of its wigwam'''.
"lu 'muses ielwreef, the respectiv., plenipotentiaries
have signed the same, and have affiNeli thtu.etii the seal of
t►eir &RIP.

" Doan at Paris, t►is twenty-seventh day tt Jess, in the
year ei nu Lord eighteen hundred sal sixty,

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ratikatione own uselmegoel on the 14 of Wm
swath.