The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-02 00:00:00

THE CALXIMAR.

The calendar, notwithstanding the brief period that has
elapsed since the last sessions, is again heavy, and con-
tains the names of 94 prisoners in custody, and to these
must be added several others charged but admitted to bail.
Of the prisoners in custody, 79 are indicted for felony and
15 for misdemeanour.

THE BUNINESS OF THE COURT TOR THE ENSUING TEAR.

Mr. Pownall, the chairman of the court, took his place
on the bench, and made the following arrangements for the
sitting of the court for the ensuing year:
January.—Monday 6th, quarter sessions; oonnty day.
16th • adjourned quarter sessions, 20th; appeal day at
Westminster, Batorday,2sth.
February.—General sessions, 3rd ; adjourned general
session., 17th ; county day, 27th.
March.—General sessions, 2nd ; adjourned general
sessions, 16th.
April.—Quarter sessions, 6th ; county day, 9th ; ap•
peal day for public•house licenses, 10th ; adjourned
quarter sessions, 20th; general appeal day at West-
minster, 2641.
May.—General sessions, 11; adjourned general sessions,
25th ; county day, 28th.
Jane.—General sessions, Ist; adjourned sessions, 22nd.
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July.—General quarter meadow, 13th; county day,l6th ;
adjourned quarter sessions, 20th; appeal day at West-
minster, 25th.
August.—General sessions, 3rd ; county day, 13th ; ad-
journed general sessions, 24th.
September.—General sessions, 7th ; adjourned general
pensions, 28th.
October.—General quarter sessions, sth ; applications
for licenses for music and dancing, Bth ; county day, 15th ;
adjourned quarter sessions, 19th; appeal day at West-
minster, 31st.
November.—General sessions, 2nd ; adjourned general
sessions, 23rd ; county day, Nth.
December.—General sessions, 7th ; adjourned general
sessions, 21st.
The Chairman said in fixing the days of the sessions the
court had carefully avoided holding them upon any day
that might interfere with the customary holidays of the
people.
These arrangements were then ordered to be made
accordingly.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

GUILDHALL.
CITY POLICILIN AND 3IETKOroLITAN

Alderman James Clarke Lawrence on taking his scat on
the bench said • case had occurred at this court recently
and had been reported in which a statement was made
that was so opposed to fact that he felt it neat'.
sary to give it the most complete and unqualified
contradiction. The statement that was made was
that offenders in the City used to get over
the City boundary, and that the officers could not
follow them, and on the other head that the metropolitan
officers could not follow offenders into the City. A mis-
apprehension had gone abroad in consequence of that state-
ment, and he therefore wished to any the assertion was en-
thely opposed to law and practice. If a City policeman saw
• person committing an offence in the City be was
empowered, and in all easel did follow him not only over
the boundary, bat to any part that be might go. It was
then his duty to take him before the nearest magis-
trate, and have him transferred back to the place
where the offence was committed. The law and
practice went even further than that, for they did
not require an officer to see an offence committed
in order to follow a man over the boundary, for he could
do it if he had ground to suspect that the man had com-
mitted an offence. There were many instances in which
City officers had apprehended persons in the metropolis
and brought them before the magistrates of the
district in which they were taken ; and also where
metropolitan officers had apprehended persons within
the City and taken them either to the Mansion-
house or Guildhall. He had thought it his duty to way
this much in order to remove the mieappethension that
had gone abroad, and he trusted that the press, which
had given publicity to a statement that was contrary to
law and practice, would give as wide a circulation to his
unqualified contradiction of it.

GREENWICH.
BTILIZT OUTRAGr.

John Oonaor, aged 18, of Old King-street, Deptford,
wax charred with assaulting James Knight and his wife
Harriet Knight, under the following circumstances:
It appeared that about 11 o'clock on Saturday night the
complainants were in the High-street, Deptford,
and while standing at a tradesman's shop the
prisoner, who was with fee or six others inter=
with everybody they met, jumped up and
en umbrella the female oomplainant was bolding down
over her head, injuring one of her se. The husband
then interfered for his wife's proteetim, on which the

The southerly gale reported on Saturday increased is form,
and continued at many stations during yesterday Last Mato
the wind veered to the northwest and northeast, aid
blew with greater violence than on Saturday ; the wind is now
very strong from the northwards on ail our coasts. The oscilla-
tions in pressure have been most sudden, amounting to a tall if
eight-tenths of an inch in plama, this morning by •
rise of nearly equal =gutted°. wed have been accom-
panied by heavy rains generally. Snow and hail fell ye
in places. A very high ma is reported from our westerriterda
northern stations.

Mr. J. Stansfeld, M.P., Mr. W. E. Forster,
LP., and Mr. M. W. Thompson, M.P., are announced to
appear at the annual soirée of the Bradford Half•day Holi.
day Association and the Early Closing Association, ca
Thursday, the 12th inst.

The professional attendants of the late Mr.
Mervyn Prover, of Brazenose College, Oxford, agree in
considering that the blow received during the bread riots
on the 9th of November was not the primary canoe of death.
So little did he regard the blow on his head, that he dined
the following day with friends some distance out of town.
The symptoms remarked through the entire illness to Its
melancholy termination at 9 p.m. on Thursday, the Mb,
were those of a severe attack of typhoid fever.
EXTRAORDINARY ESCAPE OP FOUR PERSONS FROM
DROWNING.—Last night, about a quarter peat 11 o'clock, a
cab containing three passengers met with an accident
which very nearly proved fatal to four persons. The cab
was proceeding to High-mreet, Peckhsm, up the \Villo►
Brook-road, from the direction of the Old Nent-mad,
but in the darkness of Vie night the cabman
missed the Boat-house-be over the Peckham
branch of the Surrey oana and pasted over the
riming ground at the foot of it, it the bridge. The
gentleman who was inside with two ies called to the
driver to go over the bridge, and he at once turned his
horse to do so, but being close to the side of tho canal the
horse stepped over the bank, where the canal has been
deepened for a coal wharf, and precipitated cab-driver and
passengers into the water. Their cries fur help roused
Mr. Nevill and his people, who by the means of boats sad
ropes succeeded in rescuing the unfortunate persons from
a watery grave, but not before two of them were nearly
drowned. It was with great difficulty the horse and cab
were got out. The ladies are at present dear erously
and the cabman, who was perfectly sober, Is far frm
_ _ _

ICOBBERY OP 3501. WORTH OF JEWELLERY AT
WlOAN.—Early on Saturday mominjmit was discovered
that the premises of Mr. Elijah Sw • watchmaker and
jeweller, Mitigate, Wigan, had been burglarionsly
entered during the previous night, and articles
of very considerable value carried off. The shop
was a lock-up one. The burglar bad apparently
climbed the water-spout in front of the shop, and the
window of the upper room was then forced by a lever, end
afterwards the passage to the shop beneath wee easy. The
watches had been placed in • safe. The thieves swept off
nearly every article of value which lay within their reach.
The property consisted of gold chains, rings, brooches
pins, lockets, &-c. A small' jemuly," a file, and a dari
lantern were found on the premises, from which egress had
been obtained by taking out the fan-light over the door.
Tits FOOTBALL MATCH AT ETON. —On Saturday
St. Andrew's Day was celebrated at Eton Coll re with
grand football tournament between the " Collegers" sad
" Oppidans." From the end of the college buildings to
the ornamental water a rope was stretched, by which the
spectators ranged themselves, facing the wall, between
which and the rope the game was played. At half-past 12
o'clock the competing elevens made their appearance upon
the ground, and play was at once commenced. The
"Oppidans" won the toes, and chose to kick ::way from
the school, while the "Collegera" kicked towards it. The
elevens changed places at 1 o'clock, the Collegers kicking
from, and the Oppidans towards, the school. With this
change the good fortune which bad befriended the forme
deserted them. The Oppidans were declared the victors
by a couple of " shies to one. The match between Old
Eta:miens and Cambridge is deferred till the 14th Decem-
ber, when it will take place at Oxford. The aucient cus-
tom of presenting the ledge to the Head Master by the
nobleman with the highest title in the echo d on St.
Andrew's Day was, it is understood, disponsNl with oa
Saturday for the first time, and the ceremony will DOW
become obsolete. _ _ _

THE COUNTRY DINNER PARTY.—But the country
dinner party still survives in all its ancient dignity, and
has certainly now become one of the moat incomprehensible
modes of giving and rsceiviug pleasure which mankind
have yet invented. A man comes in tired from hunting
or shooting, or from working in his pariah, at 5 o'clock ;
and instead of refreshing himself with all those comforts
which no man can find out of his own house, ho is hen
rie-1 upstairs to dress, is dragged down shivering to the
hall door, and bundled into a damp carriage, to Ise jo.tled
some eight or ten miles maces a country, there to swallow
salt soup, clammy cutlets, and cheap claret at a aeigh-
hour's house, in deference to conventions from which the
whole spirit has departed. In former days, when the
dinner was at half-past 5 or 6, when the men did really
and seriounly drink port wine together foe a couple of
hours, and when • round game and a rubber were per.
milted to carry on the evening till II or 12 o'clock, the
arrival of the carriages being preceded by " a tray"—then,
indeed, there was some meaning in a country dinner peril.
People met together to do something which they could
not do so well in any other way. The conversation mirk*
not be metaphysical, the scandal might not be metreesh•
tan ; but the port wine, the whist, and the Pepe Jana
were sound realities on which people looked back with
satisfaction, as on so many more good thing', got oat of
life, and stored away beyond the reach of foot use. Bet
the dinner at 7, the coffee after two glows,tes
and photographs at half-put 9, and the carriages
at the door at 10—these things are an mob.
dantial pageant. . . . Country people ougut to meet
together for what seems natural in the country—real coa-
viviality, and fun and merriment of all aorta. The mud
dinner party, consisting of two squires, four parsons, •
local barrister, and an officer from the nearest barracks,
with ladies young and old to =deb, may make • vet/
jolly evening. But the painful gentility of country bOO'
quote as practised at the present day is a total mist4a.
It is out of place, and suited to conditions of life which
prevail only in cities. Probably the farmer's "dined
party" is, in spirit at least, nearer to what a country'
ought to be than the respectable assemblage which looks
down upon it from the neighbouring halL—Corakill Nap"
sine for December.
DIBPRNSAIY TOR BLIIT IkszAsza, 56, (Rear
MARLBMinUOR-RTRISIT, ROGETIMITTENT.W.--000 haadld
and seventy-eight patient. were relieved at this its'
pessary clarify the week ending November 30.