The Express.
London, England, 1866-02-27 00:00:00

RIPON.

The vacancy in the representation of Ripon, caused
by the elevation of Sir Charles Wood to the peerage, by the
title of Viscount Halifax, was filled up yesterday by the
election, without oppositioe, of Lord John Hay. His lord.
whip, who is the th.rd moo of the Marquis of Tweeddele,
formerly represented the Northern Bcrgha of Scotland is
the House of Commons. He stood for Belfast at the last
election, but was defeated. The nomination took place at
the hustings erected in the market-place. The proceedings
excited Ltd. interest, scarcely 100 persons being present.
Hie lordship was nominated by Mr. Alderman Carter, and
I seconded by Mr. la. D. Jackson. In returning thanks he
said he had so recently had an opportuoity of explain his
political views that he would not ',prolong the pmoeediogs
by again entering into the subject.

THE CATTLE PLAOIII AT DUIRUCH AND BRIXTON.
—The locality of Dulwich. which has hitherto partially
escaped the cattle plague, is now suffering severely from its
ravages. In two open cattle yards contiguous to Dulwich
College the disease has appeared in a virulent form. The
first animal attacked was a bull belonging to Mr. Brad-
street, and the contagion immediately 'reed through the
whole herd of °owe, and ten beasts were destroyed. The
adjoining cow-yard, in the occupation of Mr. Parsecs, took
the infection, end up to yesterday Dille fine milking cows
had died. A Dutch heifer, which had recently bleu added
to this shed, was the Ant to take the disease, and after dis-
nominating it has recovered. The °ow-houses of Mr. J.
Chester, in Water-lace, Brixton, have also been visited with
the disease during the last three days, and up to last night
seventeen valuable much cows bad been swept off or ace-
demned for slaughter. No reliable canes can be aasigeed
for the outbreak, as the stock bad not berm in contact with
other beasts.

AFFILIATION 07 ILLIOTTIMATN CNILDHAN. —A
meeting of the Jurisprudence department of the Social
Science Association was held last night, at their rooms in
the Adelphi, Mr. W. T. S. Daniel, Q.C., in the chair, to
consider a paper by Mr. John Guest on the state of the
present law with regard to the allied= of illegitimate
children. The paper urged that the interests of moiety
demanded a change is the existing law, which is at once
indecent, cruel, and dishonest, and one which 'objects the
victim of a gut fault to a public exposure, and breads her
with an epee slime, which in too many mire leaves her, if
not without the desire, without the hope of restoration to
virtue and respectability. The law was extremely harsh
toward" the female and not at all deterrent, but it bed to
a great extent destroyed all ingenuous holier of modesty
and self-respect, making it difficult or impossible to return
agile to the path of virtue. The cruelty of the law consisted
in the public exposure caused by an inquiry in open court.
After some observations by Mr. Moffatt, M.P., Mr. Biggs,
Mr. Hastings, Mr. F. Hill, Mr. B. White, sad the chair-
man, obit y directed to the necessity of private hearings in
court, the hardship of throwing the owns of proof on the
woman, and the expedieury of the intervention of parochial
authority, the meeting broke up.
THE CASUAL POOR or MILS-END OLD-TOWN. —The
system adopted in the Poplar Union, conferring upon the
police the sole power of riming orders for the admission of
casual paupers into the night wards of the union-bonse,
having been found to work sueoessfully, the 'midis" of
the hamlet of Mile-end Old-town have resolved to adopt the
same plan, and the cossets will be admitted only by tickets
to be issued at the station-house is Arbonrotreet East,
Arbour-equate, Stepney, adjoining and attached to the
Thames Police-court. The inspectors will iamb and sign
the orders for admission. Yesterday evening the business
0011310000X1 at the Arbour-street station, and Inspector
Griffin, so old and experienced officer, signed many orders
for admission to the casual wards in the course of the night.
The station-house and the workhouses are about three-
quarters of a mile apart. The inspectors are provided with
a book, is which the name, ago, last sleepier/ place, sod
other particulars of every person applying for relief is to
be mimed. It is expected them will be a coesiderable dimi-
nution in the number of casuals in Mileond Old-town
when the change becomes pnerally known, and that the
rosily destitute only will seek relief. In Poplar the comb
have been reduced from 600 to 160 weekly sines the police
have acted as assistant relieving officers. The hamlet
geeerally called Stepney contains 80,000 ishabitente.
ADI7LTISLATICD LUIIJUICL Yesterday evening,
Mr. O. J. Cartfar, imam for Kent, resumed sad eeesluded,
at the Bee Hive Tavern, Bridgeitreet, Greenwich, the
inquiry relative to the death from scurvy of Beery
Griffiths, one of the crew of the St. Andrew's Castle. The
sufferings of the crew of this ship on her voyage home from
Shanghai to London have 'beady been made public. The
vessel left China with a crew of 19--all told, end a lady
pemenger with two children, one of them beteg an infant.
Seven of the crew were speedily preetrated by scurvy, ens
died at the Gape, sad another expired in the raver; the rest
were taken on based the Dreadnought Hrispital ship. An
inquest was held on the body of the met that died in the
Thames, before Mr. Humphreys, and it was satisfactorily
shown that the ship's provision were good, and that the
captain, Mr. M`Baine, had doss his duty with greet bums-
nity, not only towards hie men, but in respect of his un-
fortunate lade pemerder, who test her reason during the
voyage. Samples of the limejnice wore handed round to
the jury, and practical men prearamoied It to be of good
wady. Several cif the mew were new meandned, and they
spoke well of the previsions ea heard, whisk were above
the average quality. The jury Merited a eerdies that the
decreased thee from nervy ; and the jury farther say that
the juice shipped ea board the St. Andrew's Comae wee a
aerobe deoceitioe, perfectly trader as a preventive of
scurvy. The Coroner said that the cooed this ship would
be brought under the notice of the Howe of Conon&