The Express.
London, England, 1858-04-01 00:00:00

STABBING 048,E IT LIVIIPOOL.

(BT ILECTRIO TILIONAPH.)
ONION OM OWN CONIZSPONDINT4

The magistrates have this day committed William
Wareing, a Yankee sailor, for stabbing and killing a German
Misesnaker, named William &hammer, in a public-house
row. It is latandad to make application to hare the cue
hied at the Contra Criminal Court.

LONDO.Y JOINT STOCK 84111.-117[18 DAT)

This day, at noon, an extraordinary general
meting of the proprietors of the London Joint Stock Beak,
was held at the bank, Prince's-street Booth, Mansion House,
for the election of two directors, in the room of Thomas
Tihos, Esq., resigned, and of William Millar Christy, Esq.,
deceased. Mr. AIIRKOSE Moons, Chairman of the Board
of Directors, presided.
Them were only two candidates, namely, Charles Jame.
Heath, Esq., and Henry Lee, Esq., and they were duly
elected, after which both gentlemen rettuned thanks, and
prt.ised to give their best attention to the interests of the

Di; LANCANTIR, II director, in his character of • pro.
pekoe, handed In • requisition for • special meeting
to consider so mach of the 15th and 26th clauses of the deed
of settlement as relate to the election of directors. By
tile= dawns it is provided that the qualification of one
hundred shares shall be held six months before the election,
and that all mantles at the board shall be filled up
within three months after they arise. He proposedat the
spadel meeting to move that the qualification should be held
three months before the electim, and that the election shall
take place within six months, which he said would give
move time to the proprietors to select fitting candidates.
The Cu ties tx raid the directors would take the subject
into consideration, and no doubt c .11 • special meeting.
The proceedings then closed with the usual compliment to
the chairman.

The Lord Chancellor has directed the insertion of
the cones of Major Baker, Captain Evans, John Whitting-
ton Bush, John Samuel Gramm, Robert Nathaniel Stone,
sad Charles John Vigne, &qrs., in the eocaraissice of the
peace for the city of Beth. All than gentleman are con-
nived's& Mx conservatives have also been appointed to
the magisterial beech at Weymouth.

On Tuesday night, Professor David Masson de-
livered the first of four lectures on " British Novelists and
their Styles" in the Queen-street Hell, in connexion with
the Philosophical Institution. Edinburgh.

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The Senatua of the Edinburgh College have
xmanimoualy conferred the degree of LL.D. on Prof,m.
Ferrier, St. Andrew. , and the degree of D.D. on the Rev.
John Cairns, of Goltten-square, U.P. Church, Bara:ck-on-
Tweed.

Mr. M. D. Hill, Recorder of Birmingham, hu
bees compelled to leave England and visit Gibraliaz for the
beasat of hie health. At the Birmlnghem Borough Sone-
Masa this wee► hie place ham been occupied by Mr. Irmo
Bpooner•

The incumbency of St. Andrew's Church, Lam-
beth, ham become vacant by the death of the Rev. Alfred
Cooney. The bearers; is the Rift M [Mr Z. North Baotou,
Bert, M.P., Mr. Banbury, and other truism

It is andentood that Mr. Mowatt, the secretary
et the Great Northern Railway Company, was diamlasad
yesterday from ►is podtion fn that establishment. The cir-
cumstances 001101/0614 with this step are likely, it is said, to
be fully laid below the public by Mr. Mowatt, who was re-
cently heibpelsi by Mr. Desises, the chairman, as one of
the meet ebb dimes el the company, bat towards whom •
sedan ohmage d Ml* isms to haws occurred.-71ses.

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ACCIDENT AT WOOLvricrt.—An accident attended
with the moat lamentable results occurred yesterday morn-
ing to one of thecierke employed in the Laboratory Depart-
ment of Woolwich Arsenal during the process of some
Wriest* atowirimints, in which every person connected
with than is exposed to much risk and danger. It appears
the s shall charged with fulminating mercury and other
explain =mettle burst with sadden violence, and
altered its fragments in the midst of the operators, all
of when heasnately steeped injury. except a man named
Yormat, lees a sergeant of the Royal Artillery. Hay-
but shiabied It. discharge horn the corps, the unlor.
tenets arm had receistly armored the Royal Laboratory
Deperthmat of Woolwich, and, having evinced considera-
ble skill and much iursotin idea, Captain Boxer, superia-
piediat athis department, had on several ocoasions expressed
his high seems.a of his resistance. On the occasion of
the sad accilhat yesterday morning he accompanied Captain
Dew te Pheetsed-marsh, to carry out some experimen-
tal Irish with a newly-invented species of 12-inch shall.
One of the fragments struck him on the right fere
arm, and fearfully shattered the bone throughout.
Captain Boxer, who was on horseback, immediately pro-
ceeded with the gte•tell4 possible haste to the Royal Arend
laireary, and gave his home to Dr. Parrett, R.A., principal
msdical officer of the establishment, who hurried to the sane
tithe accident. An hospital cot haring been fonrarded the
sadism was conveyed to the institutioo, where be was exa-
mined by Dr. Pesten end Mr. Cohere, when it wee found
to amputate the arm limesdlidely, as adiewmation
webs be expend to sysevene hen the frightful
oaten of the wound, the flesh awe sensebe Was Wes and
melt Wended. A dose of chlordane was emardlegly ad •
seeielered, sad the painful upsides was most skilfully
pwilenned, daring which the patted was rendered totally
emetweeloas. According to a newly-established repletion
Wby Lord Panmoro with reference to guffaws by
m:ideate, the Mond man will continue in receipt
of Ye fell orb of pay, although incapacitated from farther
dudes. Ile had only returned to his employment yesterday
=rhem a few days' Ram ti absence, having bees
em ileawday last.
LONOSTITT.—The aged Hannah Hawkins whom
we have occasionally recommended to the benevolent ma.
ealosseoe of our readers, it no more. She expired on Tues-
day, the Dab instant, within a month of the oompletion of
her Melt year. With plight variations she remained to pe-
onies of her faculties to the last.—Bsit Chrongle.