The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-13 00:00:00

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SHORT %TIGHTS ANT) MEA4)I7RES.

..-....,
Inspector Dart, for the Croydon and Wandsworth /Bei.
@ions, attended to support several summonses. The follow-
ing was the result in each CUP.
Martha Jones, a shopkeeper, of South-field.. Wands-
worth, fined 20s. and 2a. costs, for five weights which were
deficient.
James Monnteer, shopkeeper, Bretton, fined 3.18. for
seven weights.
William Holliday, belonging to a co.operative store in
Wandaworth, fined ss. for a defective weighir.g machine.
Joseph Odam, grocer, Wandsworth, fined ss. fora defec-
tive scale.
James Jenkins, beershop keeper, Wandsworth, fined
15e, for three measures which were deficient.
Henry Trigg, a butcher, of Wandsworth, fined 53. for •
defective weighing machine.
Henry Brazier, beerabop keeper, Wsndsworth, fined An
for 12 measures, which were all deficient.

REM,

There has been a general dilui
diy, exceeding throw-teethe of u
greatest. The region of highest
Temperature in the southwest
French coast it is low. Thu wind
southeast at the southern stati
from the same point. In the nt
light southwesterly winds are p
but foggy and misty at seteral

iiuutiOn of pressure since reta-
in inch in Staitland, where it is
st pressure Iles to the eastward.
of Ireland Is high, but on the
hat been fresh from the east and
.ions, where It Is now moderate
orth of Englend and Scotland
prevalent. Weather is still dry

Lord Dunboyne has been elected a representative
peer for Ireland. in the room of the late Lord Roue.

It is stated that the Earl of Mayo, Chief Secre-
tary for Ireland, is likely to be made • knight of St.
Patrick, in the room of the late Earl of Rome.

Mr. Gladstone has addressed the following cir-
cular to the members of the opposition :—" Hawarden,
Cheater, November 7, 1867.—Sir,—Her Majesty has been
pleased to fix the meeting of parliament for the 19th inst.,
with a view, as it is understood, to the despatch of im-
portant business; anti I venture to express the hope that
you may find it convenient to give your attendance on
that day.—l have the honour to be, sir, your faithful
serail*, W. E. GLADSTONE."

THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT.—By the opening
of parliament, on the 19th inst., the approaches through
New Palace-yard, though not entirely complete, will be
available for the use of members and the public. A
wide flight of steps leads from Westminster-bridge at the
foot of the Clock Tower into the /reined arcade, or
cloister, in New Palace-yard, which affords • covered
access to the house. It is intended eventually to prolong
this passage under Bridge-street to the Thames Embank-
meet and the railway station of the Metropolitan District
Railway, about to be built upon it. New entrances for
foot passengers have been formed at the angle of New
Palace-yard opposite to Parliament-street, and the carriage
entrance remains in its former position in the centre of the
west aide. The statue of Sir It. Peel is to be placed
between the two carriage gates, and a statue of Lord
Palmerston is to occupy the corner opposite to Parliament-
street.

Ma. GLAD£ITONE AND THE ELECTORS OF PLY-
Eorrs.—On the occasion of the Tempt address of Sir
R. I'. Collier to his constituents at Plymouth a resolution
wasunanimously teased expressive of confidence in the
Right Hon. W. Is. Gladstone as leader of the liberal
party. Mr. Henry Brown, chairman on that occasion,
has received from Mr. Gladstone an acknowledgment of
that tote. Mr. Gladstone, dating from Hawarden, Nov. 9,
writes :—" I beg you to accept my sincere thanks for your
letter and its enclosure, which came to my hands the day
before yesterday. I hate every reason to feel grateful to
my countrymen for the manner in which, under circum-
stances sufficiently calculated to promote delusion, they
have appreciated the humble but upright efforts of those
who have laboured under adverse circumstances to pro-
mote a real and efficient improvement of our parliamentary
system."

RESTORED TO LIFE.—The Havannah correspond-
ent of the Neic York Times says :-9 must not omit to men-
tion the fact that your correspondent has had the rare treat
of takings refresco and smoking a cigar with a dead man,
the defunct enjoying himself hugely. The gent from the
other world was no other than the famous Jose Maria
Lacunae, another ex-minister of Maximilian, perhaps
the most intelligent statesman among all, and who has
been here for some weeks, reading the newspapers from
the United States and Europe containing full and graphic
accounts of his pass life, his arrest, and trial by the
republicans and suequent execution, with exact descrip-
tions of bow he looked after be was extinct, and where
he was buried. If he really is dead, I most confess that
he mast have been very carefully and skilfully embalmed,
as not the slightest trace of decomposition was perceptible
in his rotund and benevolent-looking countenance, and,
owing to a bad cold, I could not detect whether there was
any peculiar odour about him. The corpse wishes to
return his thanks to the officious correspondent of a New
York paper for his elegant descriptions of the housings
of the horses and hearse which carried hint to his final
resting place."

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