The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-24 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY EVENING, JUNE 24, 1867.

do so. Had thrown to powder in any house,
:graft to
any outrage except the Hereford-stroet outrage.
Witness was .11 years of age. " For the paltry sum of a
sovereign he agreed to blow up whole house of people.
There was no one except Crookes who had ever been
engaged in any outrage that be knew of. Was not aware
who did the Acorn-street outrage. No one had ever told
him who did it. He knew of nothing else except the
Hereford-street affair.

*potting Intellignue.
STUCK BRIDGE DOINGS AND NEWCASTLE
PROBABILITIES.

George Peace was the next witness examined. After
much prevarication be admitted that he had at the insti-
gation of Broadhead employed a man named Hall to shoot
Elisha Parker; that be had paid him with money he had
got from Broadhead from 9t. to I U., and that other money,
amounting in tho whole to nearly JO!., was paid in getting
Hall to America after the affair. He said, however, that
it wan not inteaded that Parker should be killed, but only
to " frighten " *him. Witness added that at that time
he was a great deal better off than now. He was then a
saw-maker, a farmer, and a colliery proprietor. He ap-
peared ashamed to acknowledge the crime, but added, by
way of extenuation, " Hall was not much of a man of
mine. He only occasionally worked for me."
Mr. Overend—Well, I have seen many bad men, but
I have never seen any much worse than you. You can
go down, air.
The court was then adjourned till this morning.
On Friday evening a general meeting of the Saw-
grinders' Union was held at the house of Wm. Broad-
head, the secretary, Royal George, Carver-street. Broad-
head tendered his resignation, which was accepted.

THE LONDON TRADER AND THE SHEFFIELD
Ouritxues.—The committee appointed by the late Trades
Conference in March last, to watch over the interests of
the trades before the Royal Commission of Inquiry sitting
in London, have felt it their duty to call together the dele-
gates who reprt.ented the London trades (nearly 100 in
number) at that conference, to consider the necessary steps
to be taken by the trades of London with respect to the
atrocities just brought to light at Sheffield. The meeting
is to be held next Wednesday evening, at the Sussex-
hall, Bouverie-street, Fleet-street.
Funs GRAVELLY Som.—We have over and over
again called attention to the filthy custom pursued by
builders of raising the level of ground wherever they pro-
pose to build houses by putting in it all sorts of filth
mud, road scrapings, and other stinking rubbish. We
could point to pretentious squares and terraces at the
West-end built on just the kind of soil which generates fever
and ague. Now we may again point to the gradual deteriots-
tion of the London soil caused by the excavation of the good
natural graveL When any plot of gravelly ground is let for
building purposes the builder carefully carts away and
sells every atom of it, and fills up, so far as need be, with
any rubbish that comes to hand. Thus, a muddy soil,
giving out offensive exhalations under the sun's rays, is
substituted for porous gravel, which filters away all
moisture, and deodorises it as it goes. Slowly, but smell',
the same process is going on even in Hyde-park. M e
cannot in London afford to low one atom of anything that
conduces to purity of air ; and we ought to begrudge every
load of gravel that is removed from Hyde-wk.—Medical
Times and Gazette.

THE CANDIAN INSURRECTION.—ATHENS, JUNE
13.—The following document has been addressed by the
Cretancommittee of the province of Rethymnos to the con-
sular agents of the great powers in this city :—" To the
agents of the three great protecting powers, France, Eng-
land, and Russia, and their allies.—Gentlemen,—We, the
humble undersigned, representatives of the four districts
of the province of Rethymnoe herewith protest before you
against all the unheard of excesses, cruelties, wicked
attempts. and acts of profanation and barbarityperpetrated
by the troops of Omar Pasha on their passage through
this district from the 3rd to the Bth unit. When the
Turkish general received from us the reply that we would
not lay down our arms, and that our watchword
was " Liberty or death !^ he ordered his troops to
march through the villages and set them all in flames.
This they rigorously carried out, destroying and pro-
faning all the churches ; burning alive many old men
and women, some of them octogenarians; inhumanly out-
raging several young men and girls (among others a little
girl eight years old), putting out their eyes and finally burn-
mg them alive. They also cut down all the olive trees, and
reduced the entire district to a mere waste. The spec-
tator shudders at these barbarous atrocities. We there-
fore, gentlemen, protest against such acts, and request
you to bring them to the knowledge of your august govern-
inenta, in order that they may see to what a barbarous
government they allow the unfortunate people of Crete to
be subjected. District of Mylopotamas, 14th May, 1867."
(The signatures follow.)

EstIDItATIDN PROSPECTS IN THE UNITED STATES.
—The emigration returns from the lit of January up to
the latest date fully bear out the anticipations formed as
to • large increase in the arrivals forthecurrent year. .For
the first 22 weeks of 1866 the number of emigrants regis-
tered at this port was 90,864 ; for the same period of the
present year the number was 92,070. As the season ad-
vances the proportion promises to become larger. One
Liverpool steamer, the Minnesota, brought nearly • thou-
sand passengers on Friday. The vast capacity
of the Hamburg and Bremen steamships a only
sufficient to accommodate a small portion of
the North German emigration. A Rotterdam sail-
ing ship brought 492 passengers two day. ago, com-
ing in along with another Bremen craft with 289 pas-
sengers. All the reports as to the German exodus are
likely to be fully confirmed. And the class of emigrants
that we get from Central and Western Europe are, as a
rule, the most industrious, and therefore the most valuable
that come to us. They belong in • very considerable pro-
portion to the agricultural population, and are more or
leas skilled in that branch of industry. They know, at
least, the importance of thorough cultivation, from •
hard home-training. They are familiar in • majority of
cases with vine growing. They make the best market-
gardeners—next to that fraction of our native population
that take to horticulture in the proper sense of the
word. From England and Scotland and the North
of Ireland we ought to get a larger proportion of the agri-
cultural class of emigrants than we have ever had.
Scotsmen especially have always taken kindly to such
Southern States as Virginia and Georgia. In the higher
districts of Virginia, the Borderer from the Tweed, with •
little capital, in addition to his home experience as •
shepherd, ought to find an uncommon attraction. And
there are millions of acres of half-cultivated grazing farms
in Kentucky Tennessee, Eastern Virginia, and other parts
,of the South, where English tenant-farmers, working in
their native country, on the fickle tenure of yearly leases,
and paying exorbitant rents at that, might make a certain
competence and secure permanent and undisturbed posses-
sion, with half the labour and anxiety that they expend in
making both ends meet under the rack-rentsystern of the
English counties.—Ner York Timm, June 9.
THE AUSTRALIAN Passe.—lf large, handsome,
and well-edited newspapers, crowded with advertisements,
are any indication of advanced and liberal civilization
and of material prosperity, the colonies of Australia and
New Zealand cannot be very far behind the parent country
in these respects. Of course the very first thing which an
English or American colony does, after getting fairly
settled, is to publish a newspaper, be it on ever
so small a pattern. Even the little settlement
of New Englanders at Jaffa has • weekly paper,
though there are not fifty persons to read it, and its
entire coutents would scarcely fill a single column of the
7'iests. But the Australian pier is almost metropolitan
in importance. The daily papers of Melbourne and Syd-
ney nval those of London and New York in size and
appearance, and are not wanting in editorial ability ; and
though the topics generally discussed in their coffinurs
possess local interest only, yet it is the interest of • country
that is rapidly increasing in wealth, population, and
international importnnos.—New York Tiuses,June 9.
DISCOVERY OF AN ISLAND IN THE PACIFIC. —A
San Francisco despatch of June 2nd says it is repated
that a new island has been discovered in the North Pacific
Ocean, between 50 degrees west longitude and 40
30 minutes north latitude, twenty miles long, easterin
the track of vessels bound from China and Japan to San
Francisco. On the late return voyage of the steamship
Colorado she passed near the locality of the new island.
Fop and. misty weather prevail in that section of the
Pacific. It is supposed that many
.missing vessels have
been wrecked there. The discovery is considered of suffi-
cient importance to justify the government in despatching
a vessel to locate the exact position of the island. A com-
pany has been organised to survey the island, and they will
send • vessel this week to examine and take possession of
it.—Bostoa Acityriiaer, June 8.
IRISH Cnicuuurv.—lt is impossible for any one
who knows anything of Irish character not to feel the
greatest respect for many of its traits; but it is equally
impossible not to feel some degree of contempt, and a much
higher degree of pity, for its exhaustless credulity. It is
inexpressibly sad to see with what systematic and unvary-
ing simplicity the great mass of the Irish people permit
I themselves to be duped out of their earnings, their
sympathy, their liberty and their lives, by a small clique of
unprincipled knaves, long after the real character of their
schemes has been made perfectly apparent to every man of
common sense. The Fenian swindle offers the latest
and most giaring illustration of this weakness. After rob-
bing the Irish of millions of their hard earnings, plunging
boom of them into dungeons and their families into
misery, bringing disaster and disgrace upon hundreds and
thousands of their dupes, the leaders of this movement
' continue with shameless impudence to levy contributions
in the name of Irish freedom upon the great body of their
countrymen for their own selfish indulgence. One of the
head centres, Stephens, has been living for some months
in Fujian indolence and luxury, and now it is an-
nounced by the leading political organ of the movement
that the other head centre, " President Roberts," has
gone abroad, as the ambassador of the brotherhood, to
" organise alliances" with Mauini and the other helpless
red republicans of the continent. Funds are, of course
forthcoming from the exhaustless treasury of Irish Lb.:
ratite, being drawn with remorseless cruelty from the
earnings of Irish servant girls and day labourers, to sup-
port this mythical and ridiculous mission. This is proba-
bly the last we shall hear of "President Roberts" as an
active agent of Irish freedom. He will settle down in
Paris by the side of his illustrious predecessor, Vother
head centre.—Per York Timer, June 10.
ADIIIIRALTT, JUNE 22.—APPOInTMENTEL—Com-
mender H. WC. Alexander to the Cumberland (addi-
tional), for service at Naval Barracks • Master W. T.
Rowe to the Indus, for servioe in the Rattlesnake ; Second
Muter B. E. W. Gwynn, to the Jumna ; Midshipmen
R. J. V. Pritchard to We Viper.