The Express.
London, England, 1867-06-11 00:00:00

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CHATHAM, Jon: 10.
The Duncan, 81, 800-horse power, Captain R.
Gibson, ttagship of Vice-Admiral Sir J. Hope, G.C.8.,
Oonunander-in-C'hief of the North American squadron, boa
arrived at the Noce, from Halifax, on the completion or
her period of communion, to be dismantled and put out
of commission. On coining to anchor she saluted the flag
of Vice-Admiral Sir Baldwin W. Walker, Bart., K.C.8.,
naval commander-in-chief, which was returned by the
Formidable, M. After being inspected the Duncan will
be placed in the steam basin, where she will be dismantled'
and put out of commission. The Duncan has carried the'
pennant for shoat three years and a half, but it is not
expected that she will again be placed in commission. She
is relieved on the north-won coast of America by the iron-
clad ship Royal Alfred, IS, 800-horse power, dagahip of
Vice Admiral Sir G. B. Munday, K.C.B.

ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY'S GARDENS, Rsc ENT'S-
PARK —Whit-Mooday is always • great day of resod to
the Zoological Society's Gardens, end when the weather
proves tine the number of persons who spend their holiday'
amongst the beasts and bade is usually very large. Yes.
today nothing could be more perfect than the state of the;
atmosphere, and shortly after 9 o'clock, at which hour thei
gates were opened to visitors, the gardens began to ha
thickly peopled with sightseers. The applicants for ad..
mission increased in numbers as the day advanced, and
shortly after midday every available space in the garden'
seemed to be occupied by a deism crowd of spectators. At
the close of the gates at sunset the total number of
entrances during the day was ascertained to have been
213,646. The behaviour of this vast crowd wee uniformly.
good, and no injury whatever was sustained by the society's
valuable collectroa.
CRYSTAL PALACIL —The holiday visitors at the
Palace yesterday numbered upwards of 33,000. Th:=
psi feature in theprogramme of amusements was • .
of trained ponies, monkeys, dogs, and goats, which proved
a source of boisterous mirth to the visitors yesterday, and
more particularly to the juvenile polder' of them. The
amusements will be continued daily up to Fridsy.
MANCHESTER SUNDAY SCHOOL FESTIVITIES.
Manchester is famed for its Sunday school processions and
festivities during the Whitsuntide holidays, and them
commenced yesterday by a great procession of 14,000 to
15,000 children of the Sunday schools in connection with
the established church. The first school assembled In
Ann's-square about 9 o'clock. headed by the cle
churchwardens, and sideatuen connected with the church
represented. The other schools rapidly took their places
in the rear, in similar order, the girls and their toadies*
taking the laid, and the boys and their teachers succeed.
ing. Each school had its banners with appropriate
mottoes and devices, and several of them were headed by
bands of music. About 31 schools mnateind in all, =-
chiding that of Chatham's Hospital and the
School. The began to move about 10 Ola Mil,
and proceeded through some of the principal streets to the
cathedral church. An immense coucourse of people bad
assembled in the streets as usual to witness the great
annual spectacle, and almost e. cry window on either side
the route was tilled with gaily dressed spectators. This
weather was of a delightful character. and people appeared
to enjoy the sight, notwithstanding the crush and 'noon-

venienCe attending it. Proud mothers, sisters, and brothers
were in the crush, looking intently to see the children
they had dressed so emetully to join in the procession
, pass them, and the recognition, frequently uttered aloud, d
• There's Sarah," or, . See, there's Tow," testified the
deep interest that had brought them to witness the spec-
tacle. On the procession reaching the church a portion of
• the elder people of each school entered, and a sermon wail
preached to them by the ileac. The remaining portiou of
each school proceeded to the ached room or appointed
rendezvous to be regaled on currant buns and milk. The
children of the above and other church and dissenting
schools will devote the remainder of the week to excur-
sions by van or rail into the country. Each school has
usually about three days' excursion, and some of them go
to astonishing distances by rail, as Llangollen (in Wales),
Matlock, Rowaley, Dove Dale Alton Towers, Bolton
Abbey, and Fleetwood. Places noted for quiet rural
beauty, romantic scenery, or historic associations are much
patronised, et: will be gathered by a perusal of the
• ing list of places selected to he visited by various schools
this week :—Houghton Towers. Whalley Abbey, Beeston
Castle, Boggart-Hole-Clough, Northern Dunham-park,
Lymm. Holcombe hill, Pendle-hill, Mamie, Hinting, Did..
bury, Buxton, lilobberiey, Witheruhaw-park, Atherton-
park, Lytham, Southport, Blackpool, Fleetwood, Clitlisroo,
Smiley Abbey, Alderley-ede, Disley, and Hebdrn-bridge.
RAILWAY AND OTHER BiLLS BEFORE PARLIAMENT.
—ln the House of Lords, in Lord Redesdale's committee',
the Isle of Wight Railway.the Loodem and North Western
. (Ashby and Nuneaton lines), the Enfield Gas, the Ply-
mouth Corporation Water, Ar., the Barker Mills Eatate,
the London and North Western Railway (new lines) Bilk
raedthrough, and were ordered to be reported. The
eof Cleveland's Estate. the ;Teat Northern Railway,
and the Farquharson's (of Invercauld) Estate Bills were
adjourned until the Nth inst. The standing orders were
dispensed with in the cases of the Midland and Eastern.
Norwich and Spalding, Sc., Railway, and the Lon-
don and South Western Railway BULL The standing
orders committee pawed the Galway Harbour (coin-
petition of debt) and the London and North Western
Railway (new works, Ac.) Bills. The examiners declared the
standing orders to have been complied with iu the sub-
joined cases : Widnes. Gas, Water, and Improvement;
Drayton Junction Railway. Great North of Scotland
Railway, Devon and Cornwall Railway, Central Cornwall
Railway (No. 2), North British Railway (Carlisle Devia-
tions). Towns Drainage and Si- wage Utilinition, and the
North Staffordshire Railway Bills. In the House of Com-
mons, in Group 12, the committee baveproceeded withthe
further consideration of the four Leaden, Chatham, and
Dover Railway Bills, and adjourned until the 17th inst.
In Mr. Doilson'• committee the Furness Railway and the
Sidmouth Railway and Harbour Bills passed through.
DESPATCH OF TEIBBILIZIL MAILS. —SOUTHAMPTON,
vit'NE la—The Royal Mail Company's steamship Oneida,
Captain Leeds, sailed hence today with the mails far
Limbo°, St. Vincent, Pernaribuco, Bahia. Rio de Janeiro,
Monte Video, Buenos Ayres. Ac. She took out in
passengers and a general cargo, including her oils er, 7,0001.;
jewellery, 2001. ; French jewellery, 4,148:11. ; and 20 bottles
quicksilver, value 1:•01.
SOUTHAMPTDN, csp, 10.—The North Germ=
Lloyd's steamer Hansa. from New York, has arrived. She
brings 14$ passengers for this, Havre, and Bremen ; 24
socks mails for England, 710.039du1a. for London, and
3,000 for Bremen. The Hansa left New York on the 10th;
on the following day she spoke a Hamburg steamer bound
west ; June 4, the Bremen steamer Bremen, all well ; and
on the 7th the British barque Crystaline, bound west
MANCHESTER SHEFFIELD, AND LINVOLNSHIEM
I RAILWAY.— The total expenses of this company's railways
and canal., including rents, tolls, duty km, from Jan.
Ist to June 2nd, DV, anointed to 223,T47/., as against
216,9024. for the corresponding period of 18fai. Th 2 pro-
portion of the Swab Junction receipts accruing to this
company from Jan. Ist to June :had amounted to 15,11.31.„
as ...quint nort.t. for the corresponding period of 186 G,
and the expenses to 14,6771. ea agsinst 9.8061.
PATIENT OFFIEW MUISZEM, SOUTH KINSINCTON.—
Number of visitors for the week ending June ?4, 1,714 ;
total number since the opening of the Museum, fi ce daily
(May 12, 18411).1.144.806.

QILIAT NORTIIIIItIe HOSPITAL, CALEDONIAN-ROAD,
Inumorox. Number of patients for the week ending
June 8, 1,1116, of which 63 were new comes.
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