The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-15 00:00:00

ARRIVAL OF THE HAMMONIA.

SOUTHAMPTON, Ocr. 15.
The Hamburg and American Company's steam-
ship Hammonia, from New York, has arrived here
with 139 passengers for this port, Hamburg, and
Havre ; 36 sacks of mails, 2,000 dole. for London,
and 1,000 dole. for Hamburg. On the sth inst.
she spoke the steamer Erin ; 6th, the French
steamer Pereire ; 9th, an 'man steamer ; 10th, a
paddle steamer, schooner rigged—all bound west.

(BY ATLANTIC TELEGRAPH.)
NEW YORK, Ocr. 14, 6 P.Y.

The steamers City of Baltimore, New York, and
Moravian arrived out on Sunday, and the Man-
hattan to-day.

Closing Prices :—Gold, 1441. Sterling exchange
on London, 1091. 5-20 United States Bonds, 112 ;
Illinois, 1221; Erie, 74i. Cotton—Middling Up-
land, 18i.

PHILADELPHIA, Orr. 14.
Petroleum, standard white, 35k.

the Court.

BALMORAL, Ocr. 12.
The Queen drove to Loch Mulch, accompanied
by Prince and Princess Christian and Prince Leopold.
Princess Louise drove out, attended by Lady Bidduiph
and Miss Phipps.
Mr. Theodore Martin has arrived at the Castle, and had
the honour of dining with the Queen and the royal family.
The Queen honoured Mr. William Brodie, F.S.A., with
• sitting for his bust of her Majesty.

A Committee of the Lords of her Majesty's Mort
Honourable Privy Council sat yesterday at the Privy
Council-office, Whitehall, on matters relating to quaran-
tine. The Lord' present were Lord Stanley, Lord Robin t
Montagu, and the Right Ron. Gathorne Hardy.

Their Royal Highnesses the Prince and Princess
of Wales are expected to arrive at Antwerp to-day from
Wiesbaden. The Prince is expected to go on to Brussels
by himself and to dine with the Belgian royal family.
To-morrow their royal highnesses embark at Antwerp for
England on board the royal yacht Victoria and Albert.
The Duke and Duchess of Manchester are ex-
pected to arrive in town in a few days from Pails.

The Earl and Countess Russell and Lady Agatha
Russell ham arrived at Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park,
from Carlisle.

The Hon. Frederick Stanley, M.P., and Lady
Constance Stanley have arrived at The Grove, near Wat-
ford, on a visit to the Earl and Countess of Clarendon.

The Right Hon. C. P. Villiers, M.P., is expected
to return from the Continent this week.

Mr. Gladstone is at present on a visit at Cool-
lattin Park, county Carlow.

Preparations are being made at the British
Embassy, Faubourg St. Honore, for the reception of his
Excellency Lord Lyons.

The inauguration of a colossal copy in bronze of
Theed's statue of the late Prince Consort has been fixed to
take place within a short distance of Balmoral Castle
about the middle of this week.

The Queen of the Belgians visits the Princess
Charlotte almost every day at the Chateau of Luken.

The King of Naples is actively employed in re-
movieg all his poneniona to the fortress of Chita Vecchia.

King Louis I. of Bavaria intends to leave Munich
towards the end of the month for Paris, and thence go to
Nice, where his Majesty intends passing the winter.

The Dublin Free nu- to publiahea the official copy
of the resolutions arrived at by the Roman catholic bishops
at their late meeting. They entirely object to a state en-
dowment of Catholic clergy, highly disapprove of the
united system of national education, and express a hope
that the Catholic University will be supported, and con-
elude by censuring secret societies.

The King of Prussia, the King of Greece, and
the Prince of Wales were all at Wiesbaden the other day.
The King of Prussia was to go on to Paden.

His Imperial Highness the Duke of Leuchten-
berg and suite have arrived at the Hotel de los Principe',
Madrid, from a tour in Portugal. His impezial highness
will leave on Friday for Paris.
The Count Walewski and the Countess Walewsks
have left their estate at Saint-Germain-en-Lays, to pass the
winter in Paris.

" M. Rouher, Minister of State and of Finance,
has," says the Paine, " been detained at his residence of
Cereay, near Emmy, by a rather serious illness, which,
however, no longer causes any anxiety."
" The strong N.N.W. gale," says the Journal de
Rouen," had the effect of bringing into the port of Havre
two days back a great number of English fishing-boats.
The roadstead was literally covered with them, and had
much the same gay and animated appearance as during
the regattas. There could not be fewer than 150."

A German correspondent writes :—" It is signi-
ficant that the Harlem, who, a dozen years ago, were
sabamed to speak or write in Russian, have now become so
outrageously national that they employ their unknown
tongue even in diplomatic documents—in which there
would really be some excuse for replacing it by French.
The Emperor Alexander's ratification be in Russian, but as
it might just as well be in Chinese, a fly-leaf giving a
French translation has been tacked on to it. The King of
Italy employs the national language, and the Emperor of
Austria, in his ratification, still preserves the use of the
Latin, the traditional official language of the Holy Roman
Empire."

The government press of Rome has just pub-
lished the census of the population of the city for the
year 1867. The city and suburbs are divided into 59
parishes, containing • population of 215,373 souls, being
an increase since 1866 of 4,872. Of these 30 are cardinals,
35 bishops, 1,469 priests and ecclesiastics, and 828 semi-
narists. The occupants of religious houses are 5,047,
2,832 being monks and 2,215 nuns. These belong to 61
different congregations or orders. There are also 23 semi-
naries or colleges, among which are the French Seminary,
tenanted by 88 pupils, that of South America by 60, that
of North America by 33 ; the German Seminary has .it
pupils, the English 21, the Pie Anglais 14, the Scotch
12, and the Irish 52.

The elections for the Canadian parliament are
said to be completed, excepting for two constituencies. and
the mutts are a ministerial majority of Xi. The opposition
are understood in .dl cases to be anti•eonfederationists.

The high price of bread has brought down the
price of meat in the south of England. Poor people have
now to pay so much for bread that they are obliged to eat
less meat, hence the reduction in the price of the latter.
In Dorsetabire prime legs of mutton are selling at 1,10. per
lb., and shoulders at 70. per lb. Farmers can only get 7d.
per lb. for the carcase from the butchers. Pigs are unsale-
able on socount of the high price of barleymeal. It does
not pay to fatten them. Good size pigs can be got for 7e.
each. White wheat sold for 201. a load in Newport
market in the Isle of Wight ten days ago, and the price
has been going up sines.
It was estimated in 18Gt that seven hundred mil-
lions of ()Mere were consumed annually in London, and
considerably more than that number in the provinces.

EXECUTION OF JOHN WIGGINS FOR THE
LIBIEHOUSE lIURDER.-(THIS DAY.)

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Let, and on Monday he wrote a letter to the mother

; • • oodeied expressing his sorrow for what
.I done, and imploring her forgirenese. Ho also wrote
• •-,t to etch of hie three children, in which he urged
to live lovingly together; and upon the oldest he
Ily enjoined that she should do all in her power to
• her younger sister. and expressed a hope that they
Al meet again in another world, where crime did
t. These letters were handed to Mr. Keene, the
of the prison, with a request that he should give
some of the relatives of the children, to be de-

culprit was visited by Dr. Doyle this morn.
• o'clock, and he and the Rev. Mr. Faure !e-
-1 xith him to the last moment. The prisoner ap•

, f u, have entertained very little religious faith, but
ticanour and conduct and the opinions be expressed
• I:ev. Mr. Jessopp, the chaplain of the prison,
that gentleman with the opinion that he was en.
: changed.
III• was engaged until nearly 4 o'clock this morning
writing the letters above referred to, and he

en hid down and slept for a short time. At 7 o'clock
e w.e4 visited by the Homan catholic priest, who stopped
tth him until the time appointed for the execution.
The t.ecution, as above stated, did not take place
.ctil 10 o'clock, and shortly before that hour the
under-sheriff. Mr. Abbott, attended with loins of his
Acids. The culprit conducted himself in a most lie-
conking manner, and exhibited great firmness without any-
thin.: approaching to bravado. He appears to have been
.1 sad physical sufferer, and was, no doubt, in an advanced
st..ge of consumption, one lung, it was believed, being
entirely d.stroyed, and in addition to this he was suffering
fr,.l a painful surgical complaint. He walked up the steps
leading to the scaffold with a firm step. When he
arr.ved at the top he bowed twice to the crowd, and a good
n..ay of the persons assembled cheered and clapped
th, it hands. When the drop fell he seemed only to give
one or two convulsive struggles, and then life was extinct.
The crowd that assembled was very great, the number
,1 persons present being estimated at twenty thrxt-
,nd. A large force of police, under the orders of Sup. r.
rteudent Dunlop, of the M division, were in attendance,
ad contributed greatly to the preservation of order.
A. in the other case, the body was cut down after hang-
i.; an hoar, and was buried in the course of the day within
tie ;ml.

SCENE IN THE OLD BAILEY.
(ANOTHER ACCOUNT.)

The crowd in the Old Bailey did not begin to
thicken till between 7 and 8 o'clock ; towards the latter
buss the mob poured in from all directions. Immediately
ii. front of the gallows the excitement was intense,
ul at the last moment the hoarding erected to
ps,tect the works in connexion with the Holborn
usiduct near St. Sepulchre's Church was attacked by a
hrge body of workmen, whose endeavours to scale the
op and thus obtain a " sight " in most instances
set the police at defiance. While the bell at
St. Sepulchre's was still tolling the procession
vAs seen approaching the scaffold ; and the

pninful scene between the culprit and the hangman
~ve rise t 3 • strong expression of feeling. Groans
were heard in every direction, with cries of
"murder." "innocent," and "shame." These pro-
ceedings continued till the noose was adjusted.
The members of tho open•air mission and other religions
bodies were as active as usual, and the sixth commandment
au made the subjcat of a notice posted in various parts,
.ccompanied by the solicitation to "pray for a sinner."