The Express.
London, England, 1866-10-20 00:00:00

DEATH OP THE BISHOP OF TUAM.

The death is announced at Tourrnakeady, of
Lord Plunket, Bishop of Tuam. His lordship, who gra-
duated at St. John's College, Cambridge, was in 1849
appointed bishop of the united dioceses of Team,
and Achonry, and bad at Dia death reached the age of
74. His father, the first Baron Plunket, was for 11 years
the very distinguished Lord Chancellor of Ireland.
, The bishopric, of course,falls to the gift of the government ;
sad the deceased prelate, who has been for some time in
delicate health, is succeeded in his lay barony by his
brother, the Hon. John Plunket, who was called to the bar
in 1817, took silk in 1837, and it now assistant-barrister or
chairman of the county Meath. Another brother, the
Hon. and Very Rev. Robert Plunket, is Dean of Team.
The annual value of the bishopric is 4,8001.

THE CATASTROPHE ON moNr BLANC.
FURTHER PARTICULARS.

Twenty-six guides left the Grande Mules at 6
an. on the 15th for the Grand Plateau ; their progress
was watched with great interest, by mesas of powerful
gluere, until at last they were observed to divide into
parties of twos and threes, sad for some time to wander
to and fro, when they were observed to collect together on
one spot—" to the right of the Bother Rouge," and from
the many anxious glances that were given through all the
available glasses in Chamounix the conclusion come to was
that they had discovered some trace of the deceased. This
surmise turned oat to be tree, for at 2.30 eight guides were
despatched to Chamounix with the sad news that they had
recovered the bodies of the two porters (Joseph and Fran-
cois Tournier), and that they had. left 18 guides, with the
indefatigable Raven Couttet, diligently searching for some
traces of poor Captain Arkwright and his guide. ffiniond
Michel. After toiling away until nearly dusk they had
to return to the Grande Mutate unsuccessful in finding
the least trace of Captain Arkwright or his guide. At
midday the weather had taken a sudden change, and a
very heavy snowstorm began to fall, which very much in-
creased the dangers and difficulties the guides had to en-
counter, but towards evening the heavens cleared again,
and a fine, frosty evening set in. The following morning
the remaining caravan of guides (19) left the Grands
Mulete, at 7 o'clock, to return to Chamounix with the bodies
of the two porters, and did so without having met with
the least trace of Captain Arkwright or his guide, Simond
Michel. Two elder brothers of the late Captain Ark-
'night were expected hourly to arrive in Chamounix, from
England, and it was thought that they would wish an-
other search to be made for their unfortunate brother.

The next meeting of the Royal Horticultural
Society will take place on the Gth of November.
The recruiting commission has been sitting
every day since Monday, all the commissioners, we be
limn, except Lord Longford, being present. It is likely
(says the Army and Nary Gazette) that the repm will be
completed and be placed in the hands of the gore' Ament
in the course of next week.
Dr. Lynch, President of the Irish College in
Paris (Rue des Mandela), will be consecrated Coadjutor
Bishop of Glasgow on Sunday, the 4th of November. The
consecrating prelate is Dr. Keane, of Moyne (county of
Cork), and the ceremony, which will take place in the
college, will be strictly private.
The London rehearsal of the new music to be
given at the Norwich festival e:11 be held, it is said, on
Wednesday next.
The rehearsals of Mr. Martin's National Choral
Society have commenced, at Exeter Hall.
In addition to the promises made by Mr. A.
Chappell for the popular °once!:s, it should be mentioned
that Madame Schumann is announced to play there early
in the new year.
Mdlle. Patti has quite recovered her voice, and
is once more charming the habifids of the Hellenist Paris.
A correspondent writes :—" All persons of the
names of Jones, Johns, Williams, Evans, Wallis, Richards,
Thomas, Edwards, Powell, from Ap-Howell, Price from Ap.
Rice, arAp-Rees, are of Welsh dement. The late Lord Chan.
ogler, whose surname is Bethell, from Ap-Ithil, is of
Welsh extraction. Vyvian, Trevelyan, Trevannion, Pen-
dennis, Penanedden, Pennington, Penrose, Polkinghorne,
are names of persona descended from Cornish Celts. One
million of the inhabitants of Great Britain were born in
Ireland. The Irish in London are more numerous than
the whole population of the city of Naples."
A ship is now in Portland roadstead in which
Caaely, the Cornhill burglar, and other convicts are to be
deported to Western Australia.
The Noble' Gazett.! of Moscow contains this
curious phrase :—" L'atil now, thanks to the visible pro.
section of Providence, the cholera had only attacked the
lower classes ; but at present the terrible scourge attacks
the middle classes and eren the nobility."
WESTMINSTER ABBEY.—The public has now an
oportunity of partaking in a new thing. The daily after-
neon services of Westminster Abbey are for the present
held in Henry the Seventh's Chapel, the entrance to which
is attained through the south ambulatory ; hence the
eheret may be inspected without difficulty. This tem
shifting of the place of worship is due to the woe or
warming the abbey. A monument to Lord Clyde—a bust
—will shortly be placed over against the denii-figure of
Outran, which was recently noticed by as.—Atheneum.
EAST Karr REGISTRATION.—The East Kent
Liberal Registration Association announces that the result
otthe late revision of the lista for East Kent has been a gain
to the liberals of 129 rotes, vir..--Canterbury, 3 Dover,
3; Faversham, 17 ; Margate, 27 ; Ramsgate. 12 ; New
Romney, 7 ; Sheernme.lo ; Sittingbourne, 30 ; Whitstable,
25; Wingharn, 5. The conservatives gained at Ashford,
; Hythe, I ; and Sandwich, 1
THE REFORM DEMONSTRATION AT LEICESTER.-

In consequence of an engagement to attend the Reform
Banquet at Dublin, on the 30th inst., lir. Bright will be
unable to be present at the demonstration onced to take
place in this town on the 29th. Weanno are happy to say,
however, that Mr. P. A. Taylor,' M.P., and other well-
known reformer., have announced their intention of being
present, and that the arrangements for the evening
meeting will be such as to enable reformers of all sections
to be present. Resolutions sufficiently broad to meet the
views of all thorough-going liberals will doubtless be sub-
mitted to the meeting, without calling upon those of the
middle-class to approve of what they are no*spared to
concede. The result will, we hope, be a unit, enthusias-
tic and unprecedented demonstration.—Leicester Chronicle.
THE LIMITED Man ix Pa/tn.—On Monday
'fright the " Limited Mail " from the north met with a
remarkable accident near Plrunpton, on the Lancaster
and Carlisle Railway. Two cart horses having strayed
upon the line the train ran literally into th.m. One of
them was cut to pieces, and the other had its legs cut off
by the train, which dashed along, without the driver or
passengers being aware that any danger had been
encountered, or any risk run.