The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-14 00:00:00

[The meeting was pr.:winding When our report left.]

&town-roams.— (This Day.) The inclement
weather with which London has been visited, especially
during the past few days, has also been felt throughout the
country. The east wind has made itself felt with far more
than its customary severity, and yesterday the thermo-
meter, when exposed to its influence, marked several
degrees below freezing point. Snow began to fall in Loa.
don last night, and this morning the snow lay on the
ground to the depth of several inches. During the .lay we
have had min, hail, and snow—the latter continuing to
fall when we went to press.

THE TRIAL OF MR- Erse.—lt lIILE at length
been fixed that the case of Mr. Eyre is to come on at •
special meeting of the Market Drayton bench on Monday,
the 25th inst. If a committal should take place, the case
cannot come on at the Shropshire spring 411114/" as they
are held the previous week.

The Rev. Mr. Smith, Roman catholic priest, con-
victed at Monaghan anises of an assault upon Mr.
O'Beirne, manager of the National Bank at Kell% was
sentenced to six months' imprisonment last evening. There
was a counter indictment for assault ag:Linst Mr. O'Beirne,
who was acquitted.

The sister of Biranger still lives, a nun in the
Convent des Oilman:, at Paris. She is 101 years old, but
in good health.

Several of the Paris journals state that a resolu-
tion has been come to by the Trades' Council of London
to come to the aid of the Parisian workers in bronze, now
on strike. A letter of the ith, signed by G. Odger, the
secretary, to that effect, is published by sonic of our con-
temporaries. In France, also, an appx-al in their favour
has been addressed to the different working corporations
by nineteen delegates of as many societies.
A SINGULAR CAVALCAUN.—WhiIe we were at
Vsleggio our amusement was chiefly riding, but often our
work was so arduous that our horses were too tired fur us
to use them, consequently we often patronised donksysi,
which happened to be plentiful in the neighbourhood.
These we hired, and mounted in any absurd fashion which
occurred to us ; and then a number of us would meet at a
given spot, and set forth to have an excursion or tovisit the
offioers on distant outpost duty, where we were sure of a warm
welcome and jovial entertainment. On one of these occa-
sions we mustered about twenty, all mounted on donkeys,
and we agreed that we would give our general the favour
of a visit. We formed into a column four abreast, and a
captain, who was skilful in performing calls on the bugle,
was elected to command the squadron. Some of us wore
hunting-caps, and our whips and sticks were adorned with
flowers and greens, or with bunches of vegetables to he
used in the fashion of a flail ; one had a long pole with a
cloth attached to it—he was our standard-bearer—and we
carried our various weapons, as if they were our swords,
in our right hands, while in the left we held our reins is
military fashion. We first performed a few /114UtetIVIII
and evolutions not to be found in the regulation book, and
then proceeded gallantly on our road. We had not got
very far before we descried amid a cloud of duet a body of
horsemen, and the word was 'sassed, •• Der Benedek
kommt" (Benedek is • ), and this he was certainly
doing, at a swing gallop. There was a general sensation,
but our captain ordered " Attention, form in troop, right
wheel, halt, fours about, front !"—and there we stool, in
double lines, at the side of the road. He then got his noble
beast intosome kind of pace, and reported to the general and
his staff that a detachment, consisting of twenty officers en
donkeys, awaited his commands. Benedek entered into the
joke, aoceptedthe report, and request's' the captain to order
his detachment to defile before him in a gallop and in single
file, which order was promptly given and obeyed. Luckily
we most of us wore spurs but we meat have looked au&
ciently ridiculous ; and Benedek hailed tis with roars of
laughter as we defiled before him. especially when one
very long-legged subaltern came on, who. in his sal to
obey his instructions, literally both carried his donkey
and galloped for him. Meanwhile, our captain was on'
the left side of the general, sounding the bugle-call for
attack with all the strength of his lungs, in order. as he
said, to give spirit to the donkeys, and more effect to the
whole performance. Having defiled, we drew up a little
further on across the road, and awaited further com-
mands. Benedek then rode up to us, and after expressing
his admiration of the style in which we executed our evo-
lution, and thanking us for the am m useent we bad
afforded him, he maliciously requested us, as we were all
going the same way, to gallop along by his side as a guard
of honour. We set off with the best intentions, as hard-
as we could induce our long-eared steeds to go ; but the
pace was too severe, and we rapidly tailed off. Benedek
turned in his saddle, waved his hand, and ahouteil out to
us that he would announce our coming to the general, in
order that be might not be too much surprised at the ad-
vancing procession, and so saying disappeared.—Corata
ifogatiot for March.