The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-01 00:00:00

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FORESTRY. —The anniversary dinner of Court
New Adelphi, No. 3,336, took place at the One Tuu,
Chandos-street, on Wednesday. After the usual twists,
Br. John Cox, secretary, stated that since the court was
established seven years ago the members in the order had
increased from 168,1000 to 325,000, and it was established all
over the globe, and had now started in America, where
from the go-ahead character of Brother Jonathan it would
rapidly increase. The London United District (of which
this court formed a rut) had increased in the same period
tram 23,000 to 54,000 in numbers, and from 14,000/. to
48,000/. in funds. During the last twelve months 546
members, and 3:15 members' wives bad died, and the dis-
trict paid nearly 9,000/. for funeral claims, and 5,000/. for
widows' and orphans' pensions yet in the face of these
large payments the funds had increased nearly 6,0001.
During the late visitation of cholera, which was very fatal
in the east of London, where the district had a great
number of courts and thousands of members, there had
been but 41 members and 25 wives die from the terrible
disease, which spoke well for the general good health
of the members. The district had given upwards of 300/.
to petitions of distressed members, and in some cases
allowed them to circulate through the 500 courts belong-
ing to it ; and the result was that from 30/. to 401. was
collected in each case, which would seta good many up in
a small way of business. . _

PHARMACEUTICAL LEGISLATION.—The president
of the Pharmaceutical Society, Mr. Sandford, announced
on Wednesday evening, to a very numerous auditory as.
aembled to celebrate an anniversary of the Benevolent
Fund, that the prospects of unity have greatly improved
among the body of chemists and druggists. Satisfactory
terms have been arranged by which the general body of
chemists may be allied with the Pharmaceutical Society ;
and it is hoped, and anticipated, that this will greatly
facilitate the desired registration of chemists under parlia-
mentary authority and their state organisation. It will,
at least, withdraw that source of difficulty which arose
from in.ernal discord.—British Medial Journal.
AN UNMANLY OC/TRAOE.—The conduct of tho
students who lately interrupted, in the most unseemly
manner, an address by Miss Mary Walker at St. James's-
' hall, has already met with the stern reproof for which it
calls from the gener►l press. It is necessary that we
should add the expression of indignant reprobation on
behalf of the profession and the school which they dis-
graced. Neither argument nor dissertation is needed to
point out or to describe the offence. It is self-condemned.
The offenders have injured others as well as themselves ;
misconduct of the kind inflicts a public humiliation on
the body to which they belong. For every reason we hope
that we shall never again hear of a similar outrage.—
Brifiwl Journal.

DEATH PROM LOCKJAW. —Mr. H. Browne, deputy
coroner, held an inquest ac the Hospital on Wednesday,
respecting the death of William Simpson' who lived
in Gregory-street, Radford. The deceased wee em-
ployed by Mr. Aston, Raleigh-street, and a fortnight
last Saturday be was engaged there in raising a
metal casting, weighing four cwt. Through his not
properly fastening the chain connected with the windlass
round the metal, the Latter fell, and crushed one of his
fingers off, and injured another. He had his hand dressed
at the Infirmary, and all seemed to be go on well until
Saturday, when he complained of stiffness about the jaws,
And he was removed to the hospital. He died on Saturday
morning. A verdict of "Death from lockjaw "was re-
turned.

EMBEZZLEMENT BY THE CHIEF CLERK OF THE
NOTTINGHAM WATEBWOBIts ComPANT. —At the Town
Police-court yesterday, Thomas Palethorpe was charged
with embezzling 32.. 12s. 9d., the property of the Not-
tingham Waterworks Company. Detective Langford
stated that he apprehended the prisoner yesterday upon
the warrant now produced. The warrant was read over
'to the prisoner at the police-station by Inspector
Remington. Prisoner on hearing the amount he
was charged with embezzling, said, Is that all?" Mr.
Samuel Robinson deposed that un the 28th of September,
184;6, the prisoner was chief clerk and accountant to
the Waterworks Company. Re produced a receipt in the
prieoner's handwriting. He had seen Mr. Brock, to whom
the receipt was given, and the money was paid to the pri-
soner. The money had not been accounted for to the
company. The prisoner was then remanded until Satur-
day. Mr. M. Gibson, jun., the solicitor for the prosecu-
tionoras not present,owing to his being abruptly called out
of town. It is stated that the prisoner's defalcations'
amount to between 7trol. to 8001.—leottinghom Journal.
AN ANNUAL FESTIVAL IN OUDE.—For a fort-
night before, the roads are crowded with families singing
religious hymns ws they travel along joyously towards the
holy city. On foot, on the backs of elephants, camels,
bullocks, buffaloes, horses, ponies, and donkeys, they
wander on, sleeping and cooking in a grove, by the side of
a well, near the road ; and usually travelling either by
moonlight, or in the early morning, or in the evening. No
one who has read of the Jews going up annually to their
temple at Jerusalem can fail to be struck with the re-
semblance ; and often and often may the observer see
little parties exactly like those figured by the old painters,
when they wished to represent the flight of Joseph and
his family from Judea to Rgypt—the mother and the little
one on an ass, and the father trudging, along, stick in
hand, by their tide, the costume of all three precisely
similar to that represented in the old paintings. To judge
by the numbers visible on the raid, one would suppose
the whole population was migrating ; but this is by no
means the case. From four to eight hundred thousand
may assemble at Ajuilhya, not more. Arrived there, the
scene is as that of a gigantic fair. Tents and booths of
every description ; animals of all kinds in immense num-
ber.
, from the lordly elephant to the humble donkey ;
men, women, and children • thousands of monkeys, for
the trees in the neighbourhood swarm with them ; sellers
of cloth of every hue, displaying their wares ; jugglers,
mountebanks, and gnome; dirty-looking fakirs with
matted hair, mud-daubed, and feces hideous with streaks
of paint ; palanquins, and native conveyances of every
size and colour—black, red, yellow, blue, green, and white
—drawn by buffaloes, or bullocks, or ponies, or donkeys,
or horses, or men ; women with red or blue bead-dresses
and sheets worn like shawls, and others enveloped in
white drapery from heed to foot; men with turbans and
head-dressw- of every material, of every size, of every
colour; children covered with cloth of gold, or glittering
spangles, or party-coloured coats, or else altogether naked ;
all these made up a scene of the strangest effect and cha-
racter, such as, out of India, cannot be seen anywhere.
Religion has nominally brought this immense assembly
together ; but to judge by the hearty yelling and scream-
ing,
the wrangling, and trafficking, and chaffering that ;
goes on, the wordy disputes and shrill clamour, and soft ,
ogling, and softer interchange of amorous dalliance amidst
the crowd, there is very little religion in the assembly, or I
the people who compose it ; far more of worldly thoughts I
, and ways of enjoyment and pursuit of pleasure. It is, in
' fact, a sort of saturnalia- Men that have been under re-
straint all the year here unburthen themselves of all re- I
straint ; women that have been shut up, or strictly
watched for many long months, listen to the tender
praises of strangers, and, with fluttering hearts, jostle
lingeringly through the erowl—fraler's Mopoziae for
March.