The Express.
London, England, 1867-09-02 00:00:00

STEALING SHANDY.

George Ransom, V, potman, was charged with robbery.
Mr. Robert Reid, landlord of the Robin Hood, Kensal
Newtown, said a few minutes before 12 yesterday (Sun-
day) he went up to dress. He heard prisoner leave
the yard and go into the bar. Not hearing him
return prosecutor went quietly down and saw prisoner
drawing brandy a quart pot. It was three pale full.
He called out, You thief, what are you doing Pri-
soner ran into the scullery, and threw the liquor amongst
sonie kitchen stuff. He gave him into custody.
Prisoner said he was guilty and very sorry.
Mr. Mansfield sentenced him to six weeks' hard labour.
WINTMINSTRIL
LAMINTABLi IlFterS OF INTZUPIRANCE.

William W MO, • man about 30 years of age, presenting
a most wretched and dirty appearance, was charged with
robbing Mr. William Sparrow, of 2, Itanelagh-terrace,
Pimlico, chemist, under the following circumstances.
Mr. Sparrow uid that on Monday fortnight, haring mi.
esaionto go out of town, he left the prisoner, who had
been recommended to him u a highly-respectable man,
in charge of his shop. He left him Gf. in gold and other
money for change, on Monday last. When he came
back he found the prisoner had absconded, and he could
bear nothing of him until yesterday, when he was
informed that he was sitting in Hyde-park. Besides the
money which had been left the prisoner had received the
whole of the takings for different articles sold in the shop.
A man who described himself as a billiard marker, out of
employment, said that he chanced to be sitting on the same
emit in the park with the prisoner, who told him that he
had got drunk and been drugged, and robbed of his em-
ployees money, and that he had then deserted his shop,
which he had left unprotected. He was now very sorry,
and did not care what became of him. He sent witness to
prosecutor.
Prisoner, in reply to the charge, said he bad left the
money in the shop.
He was remanded.

SUICIDE AT THE SURELY CANAL.—Yesterday
(Sunday) afternoon a female, name unknown, and appa-
rently about 3i years of age, committed suicide at the
Surrey Canal. The deceased was seen at the side of
the canal by two boys to take DB her bonnet
and place it on the bank, and then to throw
herself into the water. An alarm was given, and
Mr. Lewis, the keeper of one of the hatches, proceeded to
the spot pointed out by the boys, and after dragging the
water for some time succeeded in recovering the body. A
shell was procured, and the body was taken to Mr. Mar-
ling., the Britannia, near the canal, where it awaits an in.
quest. The deceased was stated to have been dreamed in a
dark skirt and violet garibaldi, and to have worn a dark
bonnet with violet ribbon.

THE MANCHESTER AND LIVERPOOL ACK/CUL-
TURAL 9OCIrIVE4 SHOW.—The receipts at the entrance to
the show yard at Old Trafford were made up on Saturday,
namely :—Monday, 35/. 7s. ; Tuesday, 8141. 3e. 9d. ; Wed-
nesday, 1,135/. le. 11d. ; Thursday, 865/. 4s. • total,
2,8491. 16e. Bd. This amount is 1,003/. more than the
largest sum ever before received by the society.
Some consternation has been caused by what
seems to be a resumption of stack-firing in the Wold dis-
trict. On Tuesday night, • " tramp," or " wold ra
called at • farmhouse at Dunnington, and was offereda
bread, which be rejected in • most impudent manner. A
few minutes afterwards • haystack was found on fire, and
only ten tons or so were saved.

The atmospherical premium has learesead over the Brithh Has
duos Saturday. especially as time moth and east comae. The
prevailing wind la north-mataris r the aortheset cast, where
the temperature has fallen; as the mouth coast the wind is
inuthwesterly. The weather is geserelly tine, bat overcast.
Rain has fallen since Saturday, ddsily In the southwest of Ire-
land. A thunderstorm occurred bat evening at Liverpool.

FATE OF THE CATHOLIC NATIONS.—Our ultra-
, montane contemporary the Westatinster Ga:ette, has the
following somewhat gloomy reflections on the condition
and prospects of Sae Roman catholic nations of the
world :—" All catholic nations are falling. As nations
they have deserted the public principles of catholicism,
and they perish by the revolution. What is this but to say
that revolutionary principle. are destnictiveof catholicism.
Catholic nationschanged their front in the face of an enemy,
and have been outflanked. They have abandoned the idea—
the principle—which constituted their highest unity, which
gave strength and purpose to national life to play with the
revolution, to act the part of a go-between in the conflict
of antagonistic and mutually destructive principle.. But
these nations have lost the strength of catholicism without
identifying themselves with the revolution, without
sharing its destructive force. Between two stools, to use
a common phrase, they fell to the ground. This is how
we account for the present state of the catholic nations ;
this is why we look with apprehension at their future.
There is • want of thoroughness about them—about Austria
in particular ; end therein lies her doom.
ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTY MEN IMPRISONED
IS A COAL PIT.—An alarming accident took place at the
Astley's Delf pit, Dukiafield, on Friday evening, which
resulted in 160 men and boys being imprisoned in the pit
until Saturday evening. The pit is worked by two relays
of men, the men working eight hours each. One set of
men commence work at three o'clock in the afternoon and
leave at eleven at night, and the second set commence at
eight o'clock at night, and leave at four o'clock in the
morning. About half-past nine o'clock on Friday evening,
as the engineer was winding up • cage with four tubs of
coal upon it, the rope suddenly snapped between the head
stocks and the engine-house, and the bottom of the shaft
we, blocked up. The pit ia 6864 yards in depth. The
men were released by what is called the Town-lace shaft,
but not without great exertions, and not until between
six and seven o'clock on Saturday evening. Food was for-
warded to the men by a wire down the Town-lane shaft.
Happily no one reoeived any injury.
THE OARS COLLIERY.—EXPLORATION OF THE
Mine.—The arrangements for fairly exploring the mine
and ascertaining the actual internal condition, are now
completed, and the experiment. to this end will be tried
this day about noon. On Saturday afternoon two of
M'Cullock's patent dresses, of London, arrived at the
colliery for the purpose, from • neighbouring pit, where
they were used at an explosion which occurred some years
ago. The dress covers the body down to the thighs,
Where it is secured by means of • gutta perch. strap ;
the dresses are also secured at the wrists by a similar 'trap.
At the pit of the stomach is • tap, to which is affixed-a
pipe, which supplies the atmospheric air to sustain life.
This pipe is several hundred yar,lB long, so that the ex-
plorers will be enabled to go a considerable distance into the
mine, if sufficient air can be supplied. The head-piece is
in the form of a dome, in which I. axed • valve, to be
opened at the will of the explorer, to allow the exhausted
air to escape. Two men will be employed t 3 pump the
atmospheric air into the pipe. To-day being the time fixed
for the holding of the annual mass meeting of South York-
shire miners, • large number will, no doubt, visit the
colliery, and the proceedings will be watched with the
greatest interest. Two of the workmen connected with
the Oaks pit, and who ere well acquainted with the work-
ings, have volunteered to undertake the task of first ex.
plonng the mine.
EARLY IMPORTATIONS OF PARTRIDGES.—AIthough
partridge shooting did not legally commence till !his
(Monday) morning, yet partridges were plentifully exhi-
bited in London for sale before 10 o'clock. These importa-
tions appear to be the result of very early sporting, com-
bined with an expeditious transit from the stubble@ and
turnip fields to the metropolis. Possibly they ere partly
the product of the poachers' nets at night, which clear off
coveys of partridges wholesale. Birds are full grown and
in good condition ; and plump partridges are sold to-day
at lie. to 7s. per brace, and small and late-hatohed birds at
4e. fid. to bun. CiaL per brace.
TROOPS PROM THE MAURITIUS. —On Friday
night the transport steamer Orontes arrived in the Mersey
from the Mauritius with the Second Bettalon of the ?2nd
Regiment (Lieutenant-Colonel David Anderson, and
Majors H. G. !hinter and G. F. Walker). The battalion
consisted of 800 men, the majority of whom looked
healthy ; though a few had • sickly appearance. The
were landed on Saturday morning, end numbed through
Liverpool to the railway station MI route for their destina-
tion, Newcastle-on-Tyne end Stockton-on-Tees.
DEATH OF Mx. PIERCE BUTLER.—Thu Nev. York
ihroid announces the death of this gentleman, who, it
will be remembered, was formerly the husband of Miss
Fenny Kemble, who obtained a divorce. In his political
sentiments the deceased was intensely pro-tiouthrrn. He
ia described as • men of large erudition, and an agreeable
and fluent conversationist.

I, CHIEF JUSTICE CHASE'S FORTDNE.—Ina recent
letter to a friend in Philadelphia Mr. Ch lee says :—" I
don't want to be represented as particularly poor or par-
ticularly disinterested. I think I am worth now about
one hundred thousand dollars. I should at any rate
be quite willing to take that NUM in five-twenties, and
make a clear conveyance of all I have in the world
to anybody who will pay my debts. I would willingly
be worth a great deal more if I knew of an honest way to
get worth more. All that the people are interested in
knowing is, that I haven't a cent which of right belongs
to them. I didn't serve them to make money out of them,
but to save money for them ; and I really feel that the
rascals who are slandering me ought to be denounced, and
the mean attempt to injure me in the public esteem ex-
posed. It is much more important to the people than it is
to me that those who have served them faithfully shall be
fully and generally sustained, otherwise rascality will be at
a premium, and thole who are trying to make them suspect
me will run their arms to their shoulders in their money
bags."—Ness' York Herald.
QUEEN ELIZABETH AND NEB BUSHOrn.—It is at
all events certain that while Elizabeth only despised the
inferior clergy, she actually hated the bishops. She hated
them for their meddling inquisitorial spirit, for their sel-
fishness, for their contracted and bigoted minds. Indeed,
this feeling in her was so strong that it showed itself at •
moment when even the most violent of the passions are
usually lulled. Only • few hours before her death the
Archbishop of Canterbury, with some of the other bishops.
waited upon her with the view of obtruding that spiritual
advice which, from such men, she little cared to receive.
Concentrating into a single moment the indignation of an
entire life, she treated them, in the face of her court, with
marked and biting scorn. "Upon the sight of them,"
says an eyewitness M of this striking scene "she was
much offended, cholerically rating them, bidding them be
packing, saying she was no atheist, but knew full well that
they were hedge priests, and took it for an indignity that
they should speak to her."—Posthumous paper of Mr.
Buckle in Fraser's Maaazine for September.
" Rsruszna."—The end of the real " reftuser "
is as exceptional, generally, as her existence. I dare's,'
the Sacra Ozer holds one or two; I know they have
made wondrous good hospital nurses. I have seen one live
to he a worn-faced, melancholy-eyed rieille fine, with no ad-
diction to snuff or card-sharping, or false " fronts," or
llamas SL. And they disappear, too, somehow, no one
knows where, when there is no more refusing to be done ;
and their old lovers see them not again. But they never
go wrong." There is nothing of the Beatrix Esmond in
their ending. There is one type I have left to the last.
They are • good deal sneered at, these women of our day ;
but the simmers are sometimes at fault. Now and then a
woman is true to an old love, and • into false and un-
worthy. And now and then it happens that, for the sake
of the old love and the lover false and unworthy, a woman
will refuse the new love and the true lover ; and this not
once, but many times and always, till the end. She is a
" refuser," too, I know; but onset another sort altogether,
whom we will, if you please, salute respectfully, and so,
silently, pass by.—Tinsley's Magazine for September.

THE HARVEST OF 1•61

a hater to the Time written from Richmond,
ou Friday last, Mr. IL J. Turner thus describes
ie-t tour rapidly performed last week, his observe-
, .•• :Ming from Corusall to East Anglia, anal thence
• 7• Ith Riding :—" I remained in Cornwall until
Lae : when I again returned into Berkshire, but
;..y route at Exeter, 1 went by Bristol and Rath
and thence to Reading. I thus pissed
het was to me a new and very beautiful district.
•:n crops varied a good deal, but that
:eqr obviously arose either from difference in
..ity of the soil, or (row better or worse
~,t a. The crops of swedes generally were very pr0..,1..1
..,1..1 the pastures very good. Tuesday I spent very
in riding or driving through some of the best
• t.. 1 parts of Berkshire.. I now and then found
a. I poor grain crops, but that certainly is not the
..;:aracter of those crops over the whole county.
I iiiefulay I went over portions of Buckinghamshire
tha deses, and then went forward into Esees, where
at... 1 that night. Next morning I had the privilege
over the crops of my host, whose farina in
ed set/ acres. I found considerable difference in
there and in other parts of Essex ; one field of
a I ,timated at fully sic quarters per acre, while
::ad not very distant field had little over half that
Immediately adjoining those fields was a crop
,•Lielt was calculated to have 12 quarters per acre.
r.e.: crops look well and pastures are good. Lucerne
:tie ate.' in most of those southern counties and is
Itobe a most valuable plant for green food. I saw
ehl which was being cut for the third time this year,
,he present crop is a great one. Much of the grain
1 the stack. Where tares or early peas bad been
a. the head after the removal of those crops had been
, ate.' and sown with stubble turnips, anal I was in-
..l that from tumble so grown they get valuable food
vit in the spring. I went to Tilbury Fort, and, cross-
die Thames to Gravesend, I had a pleasant drive into
t. Most of the corn there is in stack and manystacks are
dash The grain crops varied like the land, for Kent
.ins some of the test soil in the kingdom, but it
has in it a good deal of strong and poor clay.
quality of the wheat disappointed me—it is perfectly
.1 and a fair sample, but the grain is not so very fine
had found it when passing through the same district a
rears ago. I then went into Middlesex, and thence
gh Cambridgeshire into Suffolk and Norfolk. This is
... grain district, and the mope generally are good, but
tore than half the grain is in the fields, and the oorn in
vany fields is yet to cut. The crop of swedes is very pro.
Using. The pastures are not nearly so good as in
event other counties I have visited. From
Thetford I went by Ely to Peterborough, where I
einained until this morning, when, peering through Not-
In4ll.onshire and Lincolnshire, I cause into Yorkshire. As
lir north as York there is a great deal of corn carried, hut
her, is in the counties last named a considerable breadth
f land where the grain, though ripe, is still uncut. The
em crops generally are heavy, and turnips very good.
trim York to Northallerton there is a deal of corn cut,
tot more ready; very little carried. Thence, northward,
ere is a striking change—very little corn has been out,
the general crop will take several fine days to make it
. The pastures from Nottinghamshire to Durham
e gone off much within the last three weeks. In a few
with your permission, I will, after carefully weigh-
over my notes, state the opinion I have formed on the
Is over the whole of England."

Bishop Twella preached a sermon the other day
St. John's, Hammersmith, in which he said he must
trebly but firmly declare his conviction that if the masses
home are ever to be won back to the church, it must be
coniumaities of both men and women living by rule
r that was the meaning of a canon, very different
the degenerate custom of modern chapters), and
`dog in their midst. Since he had been absent further
lineation of our ancient universities had taken place,
the real idea of the collegiate system was almost lost.
trusted the subject would not be overlooked at the
caching Pan-Anglican Synod. While they should be
Mut to the church of England, and never forsake her
mg as she held to the truth, they must bear in mind
they expressed their belief in the Creed, not in the
of England, but in the church catholic ; and that
most ever act on the principle which had inspired
ts, confessors, and martyrs, and not be ashamed of
ing at all east those distinctive dogmatic truths, the
of every branch of the catholic church, which it
fashion in the present day to ridicule.
PRRSONS SUFFOCATED AT FLINT.—A most
accident, by which five persons lost their
,rend on Thursday evening at Flint. At the
.pun the bodies, which was held on Friday after-
Adore Hr. Peter Parry, the following particulars of
ielaneholy catastrophe were adduced: —On the chemical
if Muspratt and Co. there was a drain used for the
ow of running off waste matter from the works.
Loy named Michael Greene; was playing at the top
a shaft 15 feet deep, which had been sunk for
purpose of ventilating the drain, and amused
self with hoisting end lowering a bucket at-
vi to • rope which depended from a wind-
above the shaft. By some means the bucket caught
in the side of the shaft, and the boy descended
dude for the purpose of loosening it, when, overcome
le poisonous vapour which ascended, he fell into the
which contained a quantity of water that had
there from the influx of the tide (the works being
sy the River Dee). A carpenter, named Enoch
its, immediately descended to extricate the boy, but
himself overpowered and likewise felL A smith,
red Thomas Ames, also endeavoured to save the others
fell n victim to the gases ; as did also two other men,
red Owens and Joyneon. A sixth was lowered by a
bet had to be hoisted up again without being able to
any. help. The whole of the bodies were raised by
* boat-hooks and grapnels, but life was extinct in
at. The medical evidence was to the purport that
was caused by drowning, doubtless owing to the
eing first suffocated by font air, most probably
gas. A verdict of "Accidental death" was re-
Roberta and Joynson were both married men, and
large families. The occurrence has cast quite a
.ca over the neighbourhood of the accident.
A QUESTIONABLR BARGAIN. —A young English-
Mr. Hoare, stopping at the Hotel du Louvre, per.
d, some months ago, in • shop in the Rue de Rivoli,
rr the arcades of the hotel, two magnificent porcelain
which was • paper stating that they had cost
... but were then to be had for 2.1,000 fr. They had
>aged,, it was said to the family of Louis Philippe, and
afterwards become the property of Count F—.
'er, each vase bore a well-known mark, dear to the
af old china—the blue mark with the two L's inter-
t—the mark of the genuine Seems. At sight of this
Mr. Hoare hesitated no longer ; he bought the vases
aid down 2,000 fr. on amount He had not had them
when it was discovered that they were not S.',vres RS
He hail gone to London, hut lie returned to Paris on
to obtain from the tribunals the cancelling of his
Confiding in French justice, he went into the
s with all that tenacity peculiar to the Engl eh cha-
, which know' not bow to retreat and yield when
it blur begun to advance. The dealer brought a cross
ion for the 2:i,0001V. that still remained to be paid. He
stained that Mr. Hoare had appreciated the objects as
'lightened amateur, anal that there had been free con-
iven as regards both the vases and the price. The
' took • different view, considered that Mr. Hoare
never have given the price had he not been deceived
false mark, nonsnited the dealer, and condemned
a return the 2,000 fr. and to pay the costs.—Grizetle
fribe no ex.
A STARTLING SURPRISE FOR A BURGLAR.—The
'lrs constabulary have entrapped • burglar under rather
dar circumstances. In the regulations of the county
force there are certain meeting points where, at a
vi hour, the constables on the adjacent beats have
able sad report themselves and their doings to the
.ntendent or to the inspector or sergeant who may
them. At 2 o'clock on Friday morning one of
a meeting points of th- Buck. constabulary was at the
sae of Mr. Thomas Goddard, fanner, at Hedgerley
Police-constable Chambers was the first to arrive
i rendezvous, and he was surprised to find a
burning in a room neon the ground floor of
Goddard's house. Looking through the window
Policemen saw a stranger ransacking the place, very
ly sorting a large number of articles, and packing them
se most convenient form fur removal. The next to
ve was Police-constable sfanealy, and be posted him.
in the rear of she premises, while Chambers continued
observation in front It was fully an hour before the
had got the thins,* packed to his satisfaction,
then he gently dropped a large bundle out of the win-
The man proceeded to make his exit in the same
ler. and when he reached the ground he found him-
In the powerful grasp of Chambers. So astonished
the hnezlar at his unexpected position that he howled
Melvr" over sad over again, and appe.ireal terrified
;51i sits. The noise brought the other polkeinau
6_ itlisris assistance, and the burglar was conveyed to
6,Ooffli police.station airl handed over to the care of
',filanntmilent Dunham. He gave his name as
;e Taylor, and described himself as a shoemaker from
"Zen. The burglar wax taken before the Blacks
itruto at Beaconsfield on Saturday and committed for

WIIMAT IMPORTATIONS TN JOLT.—It &p.
that of the wheat importations during the past
t. amounting to 3,297.,,C2cwt., 40 per cent, was
31 by Russia, and 19 per cent. by Prussia. The
•tel states stand next, their proportion being 10 per
't., thus indicating • enriimenceusent of the promised
'al of this branch of their trade. Last year, in July,
Let ur only A,oooewt., and on the present occasion
tare received :137,221ewt. Egypt and Turkey have
rue contributed increased quantities, the amount
been 5 per cent. from the former end 5i per cent.
the la"er. France, which, in July, 1866, furnished
'.crge<t total next to Prised's, has sent only 2.r, per
and Denmark only 1 per cent. The new fe iture
Presented of considerable importations from ma.
MU, and hitherto untried sources, the quantity
~ the bead of " other countries" having been
..2c 5t., or 17 per cent, of the whole, against only
• vakist. in the corresponding month of last year.
The -V,•irea.tte Jourrint says that a brass cannon,
' to be of Spanish origin, has been brought up by
:r at work on Hartlepool bar.

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Bishop Twel
St. John's, 11
umbly but firm'
home are ever
coilkuounties
or that was
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boy named I
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the pdsonou.
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wed Owens al
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re any help.
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longed, it was
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Mr. Hoare
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