The Express.
London, England, 1866-01-15 00:00:00

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FENIANISM IN THE METROPOLl3.—Considerable
excitement prevailed on Saturday at the Custom-house,
the rower, and other public establishments, in conse-
quence of • rumour that the Fenian/ were engaged in
a conspiracy to set fire to the Custom-home and other
buildings belonging to the government. It wee difficult to
obtain reliable information, in consequence of • natural
desire on the part of the authorities not to cause unneces-
sary alarm, as to whence the instructions were issued to
the authorities at the Custom-bonss, Sc., for strict watch
to be kept and additional night watchman to be employed ;
or as to the precise grounds for adopting such preventive
measures. It was, however, generally believed that in-
structions were that from Scotland yard by Sir Richard
Msyne to the Commisaionen of Customs. At the
Castom-bouse, immediately after four o'clock, when
the business of the iday was over. the strictest search
was made throughout the whole of the building, and
every care used ai ascertain that no strangers were
secreted in any of the offices. Ordinarily four night
watchmen are on duty, but 15 extra watchmen have been
employed to keep watch through the night. On Friday
night aod all Saturday the hose belonging to the fire fogies
was laid out along the quay to be in readioeu in case of a
fire breaking out • and the quay, which is usually open to
the public, was closed on Saturday, and no stranger was
allowed to pass on to it. There seems to be reason in
some quarter or another, but with what degree of founda-
tion we do not know,. for supposing a wide-spread conspi-
racy onionget the Femme is being hatched fox the purpose
of setting fire to the various government buildings, but
every precaution is apparently being taken to frustrate
their not very praiseworthy designs. We are also
informed that a large quantity of muskets were seized
on Saturday afternoon by the Customs officers at Red
Lion Wharf. They were concealed in old rags, which were
shipped from Holland, but to whom they were ranaligaitd
we are usable at present to thy.—Obseocier.
THE FENIAN PROSECUTIONS IN DCBLIN.—Chris.
topher Manus O'Keefe was found guilty on
and sentenced to panel servitude for ten years. The pri-
soner made a long and rather curious speech, stating that
he had sot been properly defended, thanninch as Mr. Butt,
who bad rewired his instruction; wee usable to attend, and
the ones was transferred to another camel who was al-
lmost entirely unacquainted with the view which he had
taken of it. He then proceeded to explain the nature
of tb• defence that ought to have been made—viz., that he
was a literary hack, writing for hire to obtain • living ; that
he had no connection with the Fenian Brotherhood, and
never saw O'Donovan (Roses), Pagan O'Leary,
and many oft other persons whom he was tinned of
ounspiriag with. The prisoner's &dames displayed a great
deal of ability, which canoed Judge Fitzgerald to axpeens
his regret that be was obliged to par sentence on a man
' who had shown himself pomemed of so many attainments.
—Baumitre Rem

Yr. Speaker, and Honourable Gentlemen of the House
of Assembly,—l thaak you for the supplies you have granted
to her Majesty. It will be the earnest endeavour of the
Executive to apply the means you have plaosd at its
disposal as economically and as usefully as possible.
Mr. President, and Honourable ,Gentlemen of the Legis-
lative Council, Mr. Speaker, and Honourable Gentlemen of
the House of Assembly,—The session which is now about to
terminate has been the most important that has ever taken
place since Jamaica became a dependency of the British
crown. It is impossible to help regretting the necessity
which has enforced the abandonment of institutions so de-
eervedly dear to every British heart, and which ever in this
colony have remained unchanged for a period of two huzi•
dyed years, but it is wiser and better, circumstanced
as we are, to give up institutions which were
valued rather for the associations which are con-
nected with theca than for any advantages which have re-
sulted to the colony from their existent* in Jamaica, and to
substitute in their place a perhaps less showy and less
timei.honoured form of government, but which is certainly
more practicable and better suited to the altered circum-
stances of our position. Well, I think it is that we have taken
warning by the terrible circumstances which have forced
upon us the conviction that a government, to be effective in
times of difficulty and danger, must be a strong and united
one, and well will it be if by a voluntary reconstruction
the community may receive some compennaticn in future
government for the dreadful calamity with which it has
good afflicted. Gentlemen, in dismissing you to your
es I am happy to think that the precautions taken
, for preserving the tranquillity and security of the country
districts are likely to be successful, and I fervently trust
that the feeling et disaffection and excitement which so
strongly pervaded a portion of ottepopulation, but which so
farce I am aware rests upon no just or valid grounds, may
shortly subside, and the entire colony be again speedily
restored-to that feeling of perfect confidence and security
whit& existed prior to the occurrence of the late unhappy
outbreak. In quitting cue ephereof usefulness, gentlemen,
you do but return to another, for it is at your own
and by your own example, influence, and teaching that
the rural population must be guided and directed, if they
are to heavens a useful, contested, and prosperous people. I
do now. in her Majesty's name, prorogue this General
Amicably to Tuesday.the 30th January next, and itis hereby
prorogued aceredisigly.

At St. George's, Hanover-square, the numbers
admitted into the casual wards during the fortnight
preceding the last report have been 385 men, 142
women, and 26 children, which, with 59 who were sent
to lodgings when the workhouse was full, makes a
total of 612. The wards here are unexceptionable,
and the workhouse is not unfrequently made a
resting place by the low prostitutes and idlers from
the parks. Neither the Houseless Poor Act nor the
Poor-law Board is viewed with much favour by the
local authorities of the two parishes last named.
The guardians of the East London Union com-
plain that their neighbours of the \Vest London and
themselves have to provide for the poor of the whole
City, as the guardians of the city of London have not
yet opened any vagrant wards. If, however, as we
are assured, .the authorities of the union last
named provide for vagrants by giving them tickets
for common lodging-houses, the law is observed, and
the hardship urged is more nominal than real. We
visited the West London Union casual wards un-
expectedly last Friday night, and found them so
comfortably appointed as to make it wonderful
that every bed was not occupied. These wards are
part of the old workhouse, which was destroyed by
the extension of metropolitan railways, and are not
gained by a stranger without difficulty and research.
A perfect labyrinth of temporary streets without
either houses or shops, or buildings of any kind,
and the ugly wooden walls of which are covered
with staring posters and advertisements, lead the
explorer through a vast region between Snow•bill
and Smithfield, which has been literally de►as-
tated by the destroying hands of railway and
other contractors. At night there is neither traffic
nor passers-by, and the knowledge of the trades-
people in the nearest inhabited streets seems to be
summed up in a statement that the workhouse is
" somewhere down that way." When found, the
door was promptly opened to our ring, and the lofty
well ventilated ward, its floor covered with barrack
beds, the majority filled with sleepers, at once
shown. Below this, a huge cauldron of hot cocoa,
with a range of clean and bright tin mugs at its side,
was in readiness, and we may say, after something
more than a mere dilettante sip, that the excep-
tionally luxurious drink supplied at these wards is
good, comforting, and nutritious. The only labour
task enforced is oakum-picking—a part of the
discipline which will probably need reconsidera-
tion.

On Saturday evening we were at Lambeth work-
house from 9.15 p.m. to 10.30 p.m. Mr. Farnall
had paid an official visit there earlier in the
day, and tee 'improvements he had suggested
in the mode of ministering relief were being carried
out at the time of our arrival.* The certified wards
here are so excellent, and the promptitude with
which the provisions of Mr. Villiera's circular letter
were complied with so well known, that Lambeth
has beau frequently quoted as a model for other
workhouses about to alter their casual aocommods-
tion. Before the passing of the House's= Poor Act
it had beds for from 12 to 16 male vagrants, and
this number war raised to 31 when the certificate
of the Poor•law Board was given. The men's
sleeping-room is fitted up with the ordinary barrack-
bed, with shelves above for the sleeper's clothes,
and a large fire is kept up in it. There are divi-
sions between each conch, so that it is impossible
for the vagrants to trespass on each other's domain.
Two pauper warden sleep in the room, both of
whom assured us on Saturday that neither bad lan-

On Saturday, at St. James's-hall, • large
audience assembled, in the face of very untoward weather,
to bear from Miss Emma Harding. a lecture, or rather an
oration, on the apparently inexhaustible subject of America,
Although English by birth, the credentials upon which
Miss Harding. appears before a British audience are derived
from America, where it memo she has bets residing for the
last ten years, and where, we are informed, she is " widely
known as one of the most eloquent advocates of spiritual
philosophy." While admitting that Mims Harding. pos-
sesses surprising fluency, and can pour forth "mellifluous
streams" of rhetoric hour by hour, there wail in her manner
and style that which forced on us the belief that she was
after all more of an artificial than an inspired orator. Her
voice is clear, sonorous, and distinct, and was well beard
throughout the large room in which she made her debut.
She is an ardent admirer of the United States and their
institutions, but so prudently avoided any clashing with
the opposite order of ideas that she raised so manifestation
of dissent. Her next leant* will be on the individual
States, their geography, and the peculiarities of their in-
habitants.
SUNDAY ETZLINOS FOR THE PEOPLE.—The second
of the series of these special Sunday evenings for the people
took place last evening at St. Martin's-hall, Long-acre, and
was attended by • large commurse of people. the large hall
being densely crowded, and many hundreds were unable to
obtain admittance. the doors being closed before the hour
for eommencing the proceedings, seven o'clock. The lee-
tem lest evening was Sir John Bowring. end the subject of
the discourse was "On Religious Program outside the
Christian Pale, among Buddhists, Brahmins, Pareses, Maho-
widen_ is &c."
A rinde OPERA-HOTEL AT LIVERPOOL.—ShortIy
before noon on Saturday, Mdlie. Iltiens laid the founda-
tion atoms of the New Alexandra Theatre and Opera-house
at Liverpool. The weetber.was very unpropitious and the
ceremony was necessarily very brief and shorn of more of
its anticipated attractions. The silver trowel was handed
to Mlle. 'lldens by Mr. B. H. Jones, the chairmen of the
directors, who expreneed the pleasure ke felt in seeing her
occupy the position she had so kindly assumed. The fair
prima donna then went through the ".performances" usual
on such cambia% and giving a final ' tap" to the stone,
declared it laid. At the conclusion of the ceremony Mdlis.
Title= and her friends were entertained at a sumptuous
dijeuism fa At Osorgeriall.

THE GETHIN COLLIERY RXPLORION.—Thia inquiry
was brought to • conclusion on Saturday. In the tonne of
the proceedings of the previous day or two it wu stated in
evidence that the lamp of a man named Beddoe had been
found unlocked tear where the explosion took plans, and
that that lamp in consequence would have Ignited the gas,
std so caused the explosion. In the clothes of the deceased,
itio the level, a false key, two tunes, a packet of loafer
matches, three hone nails, sews screws, pipes and tobacco-
boxes were found. The sails would open lamps. After a
deliberation of nearly two hours the jury returned the
following verdict;—" We find that Favasour Rees came
to his death by au explosion of firedamp in his stall, bat
bow ignited there is no evidence to show; and we find that
John Moody and Wm. Davis are guilty of culpable neglect
in not removing the men and clearing the gas." This being
equal to a verdict of manslaughter, the prisoners were
forthwith committed for trial at the assizes.
COLLIERY ACCIDENT AND Lou OF FIVE LIVLS.
—Felton colliery, neer Chester-le-street, in the county of
Durham, has been the scene of a frightful accident. It
appears that between five and six o'clock on Friday after.
noon, the rope of the underrated stationary eagles, need
for drawing the waggons to the bottom of the abaft,
suddenly gave way, and five boys who were near at thee
time were knocked down, receiving injurin so severe as to
cease almost immediate death. di: other lads who were in
a position of danger, were also seriously injured. Dr.
Downie. of Cheete;.lestreet, was sent for, and was
promptly in 'attendance upon the nofortenate sufferers.
The oolliery is the property of Messrs. Joicey and Co.—
Newcastle Chronicle.
CHRIST CHURCH SCHOOLN ST. GEORGE's E.
—The children in &Mesdames at diem schools, to the num-
ber of 700, were entertained with the usual Christmas treat
on Friday evening, the 12th inst. After a plentiful supply
of tea, breed and batter, and cake, dissolving views of a
very =Wresting character were exhibited by means of a
large ozy.calcium lantern to the elder children, and
marionettes to the infants. Daring the evening 170 prizes,
consisting of books and pictures, were distributed to the
mast deserving *cholera by the incumbent, the Rev. G. F.
M'Gill. Among the contributors to the enemas of the
treat were the Marquis of Westminster, Colonel elitism,
the incumbent, churchwardens, sad many local supporters
al the schools.
THE COMING REFORM BILL—We have good
ressoft (says the Sunday Ga:ette) for believing that the
reform bill to be introduced by the government was only
laid before the cabinet on Wednesday last, and an is the
shape of • project, of which Lord Russell and Mr. Gladstone
were the authors. We do not pretend to koow what the
details of the bill are, but that it is not likely to be of the
very sweeping character indicated is some quarters may be
inferred from the feet that Mr. Gregory, who spoke very
decidedly against aU. franchise last year, has been offered
office. The statistics compiled by the officials of the Pace
law Board have been completed, but we do not expect that
ministers will be prepared to introduce the bill very early
in the .onion.

THE PROPOSED REFORM MEETING IN LEEDS...—
We uadarstand that the requisition to Ls presented to the
Mayor of Leeds has already received swami hundred
"immature& It is proposed that the meeting shall be held
on Mosda_y, the 22nd instal&
THE BOMBAY AND MAI:MMUS MAIM—SOUTH.
AMMON, Jaw. 14.—The Pesiosular and Oriental Oompany'n
steams, Tanjore. with*" heavy portion of the above mails,
=ivied off the Needles at 4 p.m. today.
CITY or LONDON HOMPITAL FOR Dummy; or
TEI COW, VICTORIA PAILL—Tb. camber of patient"
relieved at this institution doily' last week was 973, of
whisk 247 won aro onus.