The Express.
London, England, 1866-09-17 00:00:00

REMARKS.

On Saturday night and on Sunday 1
creased over the British Isles, and on 41
coasts the weather was wry squall]
Mowers fell generally on our other coast
ing aremoderate to fresh, from Wisest
meters generally are rising.

barometric pressure dc-
air western and southern
r with heavy rain ; and
a. the winds this morn-
N.W. tow., sad baro-

Among the late surivala at New York are Sir
Henry Holland, the physician, and Mr. Junius L. Morgan,
of the banking-house of George Peabody and Co.
. .

Mr. Oliphant M.P., arrived at Boston, United
States, a fortnight ago, accompanied by two young
Japanese gentlemen of high rank, who were sent to Eng-
land to obtain an education. They propose to pass their
autumn vacation in a tour through America,

The Irish Attorney-General has consented to
grant a writ of error in the case of " The Queen against
Mulcahy," convicted of Fenianism. The proceedings on
the writ of error will take place in the November sittings.

The accounts from the various distant branches
of the Agra and Masterman's Bank as to the prospects of
liquidation had thus far been uniformly satisfactory, and
those of the New South Wales branch, just brought by the
Australian mail, are of a similar character.
. .

At Glasgow an interdict has been granted against
• printer and lithographer, for supplying labels resembling,
sufficiently to deceive the public, those used by Bass and
Co. for their East India pale ale. The defender was also
condemned in costs. .

During the last eleven years the quantity of
silver exported from Southampton amounted to 94,204,818/.
The revenue produced by the railways of the
United Kingdom is nearly 50,000,0001. a year. The
yearly revenue of the London General Omnibus Com_
pany is about 500,0001.
The American newspapers contain numerous
anecdotes of Mr. Dean Richmond, who is just dead. He
was an eccentric and distinguished citizen of New York,
was president of the New York Central Railroad, and chair.
man of the New York Democratic State Committee. His
handwriting, except that of his signature, was scarcely
ever legible. He once abruptly dismissed a railway official
who had offended him, by writing on a card, " Your ser-
vices can be dispensed with on receipt of this. Dean Rich-
mond." The dismissed official used the card as a family
free pass over the railway for 12 months afterwards, the
ticket collectors being satisfied with the sight of the well.
known signature without attempting to read the docu-
ment.

The operative cloth dressers of Leeds, number-
ing about 1,000, struck work on Saturday morning for an
advance of 15 per cent. on their present rate of wages.
Six of the employers have complied with the request, but
in four of the mills the men decline to enforce their de.
mend by leaving work.
A strike of colliers at the Thorncliffe collieries,
near Barnsley, has terminated, after lasting twelve
months. The demands of the men have been conceded in
every case. The strike is said to have cost the trades•

union 5,000/.
DEATH OF ALDERMAN DILLON, M.P.—Alder-
man Dillon, member for Tipperary, died on Saturday even-
ing from the etfecta of an attack of diarrhoea. Yesterday
week he took part at a public meeting, and on Monday
Le complained, but, it is stated, endeavoured to struggle
against the malady until Thursday, when be was confined
to his room. On Friday the symptoms assumed an alarm-
ing character, terminating fatally at half-past 7on Saturday
evening, at his country seat, Druid Lodge, Killiny.
In 1848 Mr. Dillon (then practising as a barrister in Dublin,
and for same time previous one of the proprietors of the
Nation newspaper) attached himself to the political for-
tunes of the late Smith O'Brien. He succeeded in escap-
ing to France, and from thence to the United States,
where he lived for many years. A few years ago he re-
turned to Ireland, and soon became distinguished as a
leader of what was called the National Party.
DEATH OF MR. CHARLES BALLIDAY.—We sin-
cerely regret, says the .Freessaa's Journal, to announce the
death of Mr. Charles Holiday. The melancholy event took
place rather suddenly on Friday, at his residence, Monks-
town-park. He was seized on Thursday evening with a
virulent attack of diarrhea, which, notwithstanding the
most skilful medical aid, we are sorry to say, terminated
fatally.
I THE BISHOP or LONDON.—The Bishop of London
was called from town at the clime of last week to attend
the funeral of his nephew, the late Sir Archibald J.
Campbell, near Glasgow. The bishop Is expecned to per-
form the funeral berries. The deceased baronet had been
' married by his lordship in St. George's Church, Hanover-
equare,.to the Lady Agnes Grosvenor, a daughter of the
pensentidmquis of Westminster, so recently as the let of
July, 1259, or a little more than sorsa_ years ago.
FEMALE MEDICAL SOCIETY.-241. C. J. B. Aldis,
M.D., A.M. Y.R.C.P., medical akar of health for St.
George's, Hanover-square, has been elected lectures on
hygiene and preventive medicine, to the Ladies' Medical
• Coe in Fiteroy-square. The third session of this new
I college' will commence with an introductory address by Dr.
Edratunle, at the Hanovinsequare Rooms, on Geiger 1, at
three o'clock.