The Express.
London, England, 1867-11-05 00:00:00

THE POREIGR MAILS.

DESPATCH OF THE CALCUTTA AND CHINA MAILS.
—SourtisurioN, Nor. 4. —The Peninsular and Oriental
Company's steamship Ceylon, Captain Evans, sailed
hence this afternoon with mails for Gibraltar, the Mediter-
ranean, Egypt, Aden, Ceylon, Calcutta, and China. She
took out 117 first and 45 second-class passengers, and on
freight a general cargo, including sovereigns, AWOL ;
plate, 3001. ; dollars, 9,1001. 10s. ; gold coin, 2,7211. ;
rubies and watches, 7121. ; gold thread, jewellery, Sm.,
3,712/. ; and Insignia Star of ladle, 1,0001.

DISASTERS TO COAL Seas.—Three very serious
disasters were reported in Liverpool yesterday as having
occurred to three British coal-laden ships off the Bra-
zilian coast in September last. The Favourite, bound
from Cardiff to Maranham with a cargo of coals, went
ashore near the latter port on the 17th of September last,
and became a complete wreck. The very latest accounts
from the scene of the disaster state that there is no pro-
bability of anything being recovered from the wreck.
The Concord, bound from Liverpool to Para, with • cargo
of ooals, was also wrecked on the Island of Tobseoo. The
crew were saved, and the cargo as it lay was sold. The
barque Lallah itookh, bound from Leith to Monte Video,
with coals, took fire on the 111th September, while at
anchor in the outer roads, and though the fire was ex-
tinguisned the cargo was completely damaged. The Tem-
perance, bound from Shields to Plymouth, has foundered
off Beachey Head after baying been in collision with the
barque San Antonia, of Liverpool, which was bound from
Sunderland to Valparaiso. The latter vessel has been
compelled to put into Portsmouth for repairs, having had
her bows stove in.

THE OUTRAGE ON THE Two POLICEMEN IN DUB-
LlN.—Sergeant Kelly is yet in good spirits, and hopes are
entertained of such a substantial improvement in his con-
dition as will allow of the extraction of the ball. Police-
constable Kenna is, it is feared, dying rapidly. Two offi-
cers of the detective force "dragged" the Liffey opposite
Wellington-quay on Saturday night, in search of the
bundle which the assassin bad in his possession, and
which, it is conjectured, be threw into the river after
committing the outrage. The bundle, it is supposed, con-
tained either small arms, ammunition, or important docu-
ments. Various idle canards are in circulation, arising
out of the occurrences of Thursday morning. It has been
stated that Colonel Kelly is at present in Dublin, and that
the authorities are aware of the fact. The police say that
the assertion is entirely without foundation,—Frrroon's
Journal.

MORE WORKHOUSE MISIIANAGEMDANT. —An in-
quest was held yesterday at the Elephant and Castle,
King's-road, St. Pancras, on the body of Martha Brown,
who died from exhaustion soon after being received into
the St. Pancras Workhouse. The inquiry was instituted
on account of a "sensational" charge, thatalthough brandy
was ordered to be supplied immediately by the medical
officer (Mr. Bennet), none was forthcoming in the house
for half an hour, and that no matter bow urgent the case,
the medical officer had no brandy under his control. The
deceased, who had had a miscarriage, was conveyed to the
house as soon as she had in some degree rallied, by her
own request. She was seen by Mr. Bennet, who was the
medical officer of the house, who wrote an order (marking
it " urgent") directing the master of the house to supply
brandy immediately. Through circumstances not at all
satisfactorily explained no brandy was supplied from the
workhouse store for half an hour, and in the meantime
one of the nurses had been obliged to send to a public-
house and pay for some brandy out of her own pocket.
The deceased, however, sank and died from exhaustion.
In answer to questions, Mr. Bennet said that till within
the last six weeks he had had charge of the brandy, but it
had been removed from him by the present master of the
house, and now, no matter how urgent Chemise, he had always
to send a written order to the master, who countersigned
it, and sent it to the undermuter, who went to the store
and sent the brandy by a messenger. In the present case
the deceased did not get the brandy till it was paid for at
a public-house by a nurse. He went out directly after
ordering the brandy, and did not hear of the matter till
afterwards. Mr. Blake (the master of the house) was
called upon to explain why he removed the charge of the
brandy from the medical officer, and whether he did so on
his own responsibility or by the order of the board of
guardians. Mr. Blake replied that he had been in work-
bonne, before he came to St. Pancras, and he knew from
experience that it was not usual for medical officers to
have the charge of brandy. He removed the charge of it
from Mr. Bennet on his own responsibility, and not by the
order of the board. Brandy was generally obtainable in •
few minutes. The jury returned a verdict of " Death from
natural causes," but added their opinion that a better sys-
tem of supplying brandy in the house ought to be adopted.
DISTRESSING SHIPWREcK Or A SUNDERLAND
VissEL.—FRASIRSURGH, N. 8., Nov. 2.—Mr. W.Wallace,
Hon. Secretary of the Fraserburgh Branch of the Royal
National Lifeboat Institution, writes as follows concerning
the wreck of the Euphemie, of Sunderland : " Early this
morning the coast-guardsman discovered that a vessel was
trailing her anchors in Fraserburgh Bay, and in imminent
I denser of being driven upon the rocks. The lifeboat
Havelock was at once sent out, and found the vessel elan-
' doned by her crew. The vessel's name is the Eupbemis, of
' Sunderland, crew supposed to be drowned, as the ship's
I boat has been discovered on the beach, and several articles
of seamen's clothing."

Mr. Moon, of Camberwell, argued that the decrease of
deaths from epidemic diseases since the adoption of moni-
tory measures in London spoke volumes for local manage.
ment by the vestries ; and that the population was too
large to he managed by a central board, or by one corpora-
tion on each aide of the river. Improvements were of
course necessary as matters of detail, but he urged the
vestrymen present to pause before they attempted to
change the existing
Mr. GLADDING, of Whitechapel,t defended his parish
from attacks made upon it, and said the bill introduced by
Mr. Mill was the heaviest blow ever struck against the
rights and liberties of the people of London. He accused
Mr. Stuart Mill of saying one thing in his work on local
self-government, and something directly contrary in the
measure be had introduced.
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Mr. WeerzaroN moved the adjournment of the meet-
ing, because the *allow of the hall had compelled hun-
dreds of gentlemen to go away without being able to take
part in the meeting, and because Mr. Beal and
others representing the " high-sounding Metropolitan
Municipal Association," bad an appointment with the
Home Secretary to-day. (" Oh, oh, and cheers.) The
speaker then proceeded meet warmly to denounce the,
movement in which Mr. Beal is associated, remarking that
it was too bad for • young man to stand up and profess to
teach those who were old enough to be his father.
(Uproar, cries of " personal," and a call to order by the
chairman.) He moved the adjournment of the meeting
for at least a fortnight, in order that the vestrymen of the
entire metropolis might conic and condemn in an unmis-
takable manner the bills under discussion.

After another noisy interval the adjournment was
effected, one energetic vestryman shouting a speech as the
meeting broke up.

THE CHRYSANTHEMUMS IN THE TEMPLE GAR-
DlNS.—Yesterday morning the gates of the Temple
gardens were thrown open to the public for the put.-
pose of exhibiting the beautiful collection of chrysanthe-
mums which Mr. Broome, the head gardener, has, accord-
ing to his annual custom, arranged and laid out for the in-
spection of the numerous visitors. Amongst the princip►l
flowers we noticed the " Prince of Wales," " Prince
Alfred," " Tha White Globe" (a magnificent flower),
" St. Patrick," " the White and fellow Beverley."
" Jardin de Plant," " The Hereward" and " Little,
Harry." Owing to the wet summer and the coldness of
the first week in October the pompons are in a very hack•
ward state. The flowers will remain on view fur three
weeks.

ESCAPE OF • PRISONER CHARGED WITH AT-
TEMPTED MORDEM—A man named Webb attempted to
murder his wife at Epworth, by fracturing her skull with
a hammer. Believing her to be dead he proceeded a
abort distant* on the Burnham-road, and attempted to
out his throat ; but failing to do so effectually, he gave
himself up to the police. One evening last week he cam-'
plained of feeling very cold. The policeman in whose
custody he was considerately allowed him to sit near the
Are, in the office adjoining the justice-room. After a
time he 'eked the policeman if be might retire to bed, as
he felt very ill. Again, with much consideration, he was
allowed to go to his oell, when, on leaving the office, he
adroitly locked the policeman in his own office and
effected his escape, and has not since been heard of. It
was three hours before the policeman was released.

THE DEAN OF Exrru,—The Rev. Lord Midle-
ton, whom we regret to speak of as our "late don,"
unlike some ecclesiastics that could be named, when ha
found circumstances prevented him from fulfilling the
duties of the office, at once resigned his place and his pay.
The pay, which we stated the other day in error to Ile
1,1)001., we beg may be corrected to 2,0001. a-year. The
canons it is who have 1,0001. a year. The Rev. Canon
Boyd, " honorary canon" of Gloucester, and incumbent of
Paddington, hits been promoted to the dignity, and by all
accounts the chapter will find in him a head, and the
cathedral a dean, worthy to stand in the shoes of the
departed peer. lie is said to be a good Christian, a good
Protestant, a good scholar, a good preacher, a good
writer, and a good-looking man. The living be quits is
worth 1,2001. a year, so that he is not doing the thing—
so depressing to the spirits—as going from twelve hundred
to ten ; he rises, it is seen from twelve to twenty, or to
something like rd. 10e. a-day all the year round, besides
the uncounted value of the dignity.— Westera Times.
FATAL ACCIDENT AT THE GREENWICH RAILWAY
STATION.—Last evening Mr. C. J. Carttar, coroner for
West Kent, held au adjourned inquiry at the White Hart
Tavern, Greenwich, into the circumstances attending the
death of Mr. George Locke Byrnes, aged 57, who lost his
life from injuries sustained in stepping from a train at the
Greenwich railway station. The deceased carried on the
business of a draper, at Greenwich, in partnership with
his brother, and left Locdon in a train which arrived at
Greenwich shortly after 6 o'clock in the evening. The
train was composed of two descriptions of carriages, the
greater portion consisting of those of a new construction,
the footards of which are perfectly level with the several
station platforms, and three carriages of an old
construction, the footboard.' of which are about 15 inches
below the platforms, and between which and each com-
partment of the carriage is a small iron footstep. In
leaving one of these compartments the deceased lost
his footing and fell on to the footboard, being
carried along about a carriage length, and crushed fright-
fully against the brickwork of the platform. When rescued
a severe wouud was observable on the forehead, and the
deceased, who breathed heavily, remarked that it was a
mercy be had not been killed on the spot, but that he
thought the train had stopped. lie was then removed in
a cab to his residence, and on being surgically examined it
was found that five of his ribs were brokents also his breast-
bone, and from these injuries he expired. In answer to
questions put by the jury it was denied that after the
train was brought to a standstill it was moved again by the
engine, but it was admitted to be an impossibility for any
person to fall between the platform and the new descrip-
tion of carriage now almost entirely adopted on this line
of railway, the footboards of which only presenting • very
slight aperture from the platform, while from the old
description of carriage and the platform there. is a wide
space. The jury, who had made a special examination. of
the carr—arnaant dthtehedplatformeceased aiVufrnmedm tihnejuftoilmlowinig.
dentally received," appending thereto a suggestion that
the footboards of the old carmen should be altered.
ANOTHER FATAL GUN ACCIDENT. —On Satur-
day an inquest was held by Mr. John Carlyon, coroner,
at Skinner's Bottom, in the parish of St. Agnes, on the
body of William Hodge, a miner, aged 15 years, who died
on Friday morning from injuries he had received on the
previous Wednesday afterneon when out shooting. It
appeared that on that afternoon the deceased and five
others, having between them three guns and • dog, went
out shooting small birds. In the course of the afternoon
, one of the party named Pascoe' who had a double barrelled
gun. attempted to fire at some binds, but the cap missed.
As Pascoe was putting on a fresh cap, the deceased and
Martin Northy—Northy being foremost—went on a-head
of him, and just as they had passed him they heard the
report of a gun, and the cap which deceased bad been
wearing was blown over Northy's shoulder and dropped
into a bush close by. Looking around he saw the de-
ceased on the ground, and on going to him found he was
quite insensible, and Plume was on his knees in a state of
great alarm. As soon as possible the wounded youth was
conveyed to his lodgings, and was attended by Mr. Whit-
, worth, surgeon, but he survived only about thirty-three
'hours ;he had received a mcharge in the side of his
head. The only account that Pascoe could give of the
affair was that whilst he was putting on the fresh cap the
hammer or the lock of the gun got entangled in a hole in
the sleeve of his coat, and that this was the cause of the
explosion. From the testimony of all the witnesses it was
clear that the explosion was quite accidental, and the jury
returned a verdict of " Homicide by misadventure."
THE LIVERPOOL FREIGHT MARKET. —The busi-
ness has been brisker during October in outward freights
for India and China, and rates have been well maintained.
Messrs,. Platt, of Liverpool, report that Brazilian and
West Indian freights are still depressed and freights low.
For the Mediterranean the rates are nominal, with little
prospect of immediate improvement. In freights to the
United States there is no improvement to notice. The
steamers continue to fill pretty well, but at low rates.
SOUTH KENSINGTON Museum.—Visitors during
the week ending Nov. 2, 1307 :—On Monday, Tuesday,
and Saturday (tree), from 10 a.m. till 10 p.m., 9,8Z3 ; on
Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (admission lid.), from
10 a.m. till 4 p.m., 1,328 total, 11,151; average of cor-
responding week in former years, 10,488 ; total from the
opening of the museum, 7,049,570.

On Saturday evening the Right Hon. Robert
Lowe, LLD., M.P., who is at present on a visit to Scot-
land, and who lectured on . 'Education, Primary and
Classical, in the Music-hell, Edinburgh, on Friday night,
in connexion with the Philosophical Institution, was en-
tertained at a banquet in the Douglas Hotel by the direc-
tors of the institution and other friends, to the number of
150. Mr. WILLIAM SMITH, vice-president of the institu-
tion, occupied the chair. Amongst those present were
Lunt Dunfermline, Lord Neaves, Sir James Lomita, Mr.
James lloncreitf, M.P.' Rev. Dr. Hanna, &c.
Lord and Lady Amberley paid a visit of three
days' duration to Toronto early in the present week, and
on Wednesday left by boat for Ottawa, Montreal, and
Quebec. They visited almost all the educational and ZIII.
ritable institutions of the city, in which they manifested
a deep interest. —Toronto Globe, Oct. it.
A deputation from the General Steam Navigation
Company, consisting of Messrs. Wilkin, Attwood, Brooke'.
bank, andßoota, directors, and Mr. M. Pratt, secretary, bad
an interview with the Lord President and the Vim-Prod-
dent of the Council at the Privy Council office yesterday,
upon the subject of the importation of cattle into the
port of London.
ROYAL INSTITETE OF BRITISH ARCHITECT/I.—The
first ordinary general meeting of the institute was
held yesterday evening at the society's rooms, Contlidt-
street. The chair was taken by Mr. C. Barry, in the
absence of the president, who was suffering from indispo-
sition. Amongst the deaths of uacciatee which had taken
place during the past year was that of Professor Faraday,
respecting whom a short memoir was read by Mr. Sed-
don, one of the honorary secretaries. The next business
was the prop sal of new members, of whom three, pro-
posed by Professor Donaldson, were distinguished archi-
tects of Vienna—namely, the Chevaliers Ferstel and
Schmidt and M. Carl Hsesnanr. The mover stated that
he had seen the drawings of those gentlemen at the Paris
Exhibition, and had been struck with their science, tho-
rough acquaintance with the subject, and artistic execu-
tion. Especially had he admired the design of M. Carl
Heeenaur for the restoration of the Cathedral at Florence.
Mr. Godwin seconded the motion, and the gentlemen
above-named were elected by acclamation. Mr Donaldson
neat announced an intended expansion of the library, and
read a letter from Mr. Beresford Hope, dated Cannes, in
which that gentleman expressed • hope that he should be
shortly restored to health and offered a donation to the
libnuy of 100/. Mr. Godwin announced that Sir John
Lawrence, the Governor-General of India, had taken steps
for the preservation of the architectural remains of that
country, and Mr. Donaldson expressed a hope that
some one would take a swindler step with regard to the
are. itectural antiquities of England. He had recently
visited the castles of Conway, Beanmaria, and Harlech,
and had found them all Ma perfectly ruinous couditiom
Struck with the circumstance, he (Mr. Donaldson) bad cor-
responded with the government, and had been informed
that Conway and Beaumaris were in private hands, but
that Harlech was still government property, and should
be looked after. Inconsequence of the information he had
thus obtained it was his intention to get Mr. B. Hope and
Mr. Tile to move in the House of Commons for returns
respecting those three ancient historical castles, so as that
the public might know how it was that they wereallowed
to hilt° rain. Mr. Godwin then read a memoir of the
late associate, Mr. Fowler, which had been compiled by
Professor Donaldson, and shortly afterwards the proceed-
ings terminated.
SYMPATHY FOR THE POPE IN BIELAND.—The
Freeman's Journal of yestenlay devotes five columns to a
report of a meeting held in the Roman Catholic Cathedral
at Waterford on Sunday, to express eympathy with the
Pope. Amongst the speakers were the bishop of the dio-
cese. Sir H. W. Barren, M.P., • Mr. Blake, M.P., and Mr.
Esmonde, M.P. Resolutions' in accordance with the object
of the meeting were adopted, a liberal subscription was
entered into at its close, and areangerneuts were made for
a general collection.
ROYAL INSTITUTION OF OF.EAT BRITAIN. —At
the general monthly meeting, yesterday, Sir Henry Hol-
land. Bart., M.D. D.C.L, F.H.8., president, in the chair,
Mr. Thomas Anthony Denny, the Hon. John C. Erskine,
Captain Alexander McNeil,, and the Hon. Thomas J.
Wynn were elected member of the Royal Institution.
THE ROYAL IRISH CONSTABULARY.—The mounted
constabulary are being supplied with breech-loading re-
volvers, needle-action, of the beet pattern. We under-
derstand that, in connexion with the recent honours con-
ferred upon the force the uniform will shortly be altered,
the tunics to be bound with blue and red. —PeUin Express.
ADMIRALTY, Nov. 4. —A PPOINTDIRNTS.—Iitaff-
Commander William B. Sheltabear, additional, to the
Asia, for navies in the Valiant ; Sub-Lieutenant J. D.
Nicholls, to the Zealous ; Navigating Sub•Lieutenturt Wil-
liam Hewlett, to the Himalaya ; Paymaster Thomas See-
combe, to the Mutine ; Assistant Paymaster John T. Octet,
to the Impregnable.

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