The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-17 00:00:00

[The inquest was proceeding when our report left.]

Dr. Marsden, general superintendent of the Royal Free
Hospital, reports of the four cases now there :—" Arthur
Abbott, improving, but likely to lose the sight of both
eyes ; Hannah Roberts, doing well ; Hannah Maria
Thompson, doing well ; Humphrey Evans, progressing, but
very slowly."

Dr. Jenner visited the patients yesterday, by command of
the Queen, and stated to them that her Majesty would
have done so in person had circumstances not prevented it.

Yesterday Sir Robert Phillimore took his seat,
for the first time since his appointment, as one of the
members of the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.

St. Paul's Church, Clifton, has been totally de-
stroyed by fire, from the overheating of a fine.

" Argus," of the Post, referring to the question
of the payment of gamekeepers by gentlemen who come to
shoot with the gamekeepers' masters, says;—" A noble-
man—a thorough sportsman, who may be said to have
shot from China to Peru'—left London to shoot with a
friend in the south-western district, and returned in the
afternoon of the same day he started from Waterloo-
station. Having shot for three or four hours, on leaving
he put a couple of sovereigns in the head-keeper's
hands. It might be generally supposed such a gratuity
would have been ample for any man in that sphere
of life, and he would have been grateful for it ; but,
to the astonishment of the donor, the keeper, touching
his hat, returned the douceur to him, saying, That
he begged his pardon, but he never took anything less than
paper money.' On hearing this cool avowal, his lordship
was determined he should not be disappointed, and there.
fore handed the sovereigns over to the under keeper, by
whom they were thankfully received, as I suppose he had
studied Lord &semitone's letter on the Currency QM:*
bon,' and knew the value of ' metallic reserves.' The
look the bead keeper gave when he saw how he had been
sold, I am assured, could only have been described by Herr
Schultz at the Egyptian Hall."

The lad American accounts give an unfavourable
picture of the condition of the manufacturing states. The
majority of the factories are not working more than three-
quarters time ; and the shipbuilding interests are particu-
larly depressed. In Newburyport, Massachusette, it is
said the shipbuilding trade, which formerly constituted
the chief business of that nourishing town, is now almost
entirely stopped.
Tim REPRESENTATION OF WESTMORELAND. —The
funeral of the late Colonel Lowther took place on Friday,
the deceased's remains having been brought from Barley-
thorpe on the previous day. The funeral, though formally
private, was largely attended by the neighbouring gentry,
tenantry, &o. The ooffin was deposited in the Lowther
vault. The deceased's second son, the Hon. W. Lowther,
has issued his address to the electors.: It is dated from
Lowther Castle. He solicits the suffrages of the electors
on the ground that the name he bears has long been asso-
ciated with Westmoreland. He confesses, however, that
he is to a great extent unknown to the electors ; and states
that after the settlement of some private affairs he hopes
to meet the electors. There is little doubt that he will be
returned.

A public meeting to devise means for remedying