The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-28 00:00:00

COAL MARKETTEIJS DAY.)

\Val,. End lit:Leon, 22a. 6d. ; Walls End Larnbion. 225. ;
Walla E nl II isn,ll, 225. 41; Walls End Original Rattle.
pool, :12e. Gai.; Walla End Hartlepool, 21a. 9d.; Walla Lod
I:ruddy:s fiction, 215.; Walla End Caradoe,2lc9d.: Walls
End liefloe. 9.95. ; Walla End Eden Main, 206..4;
Walls End 4:cadorth, 20‘. ; Brancepeth Cannel, 18a. 6d. ;
Aberdare Steam, 17s. nt market, 64 ; at sea. SO.

Groves, who was accused of the Bloomsbury
funnier, is now at liberty, two persons of unfleuiable respec-
tability having become responsible for him appearance at
the iec.ions to affect the charge of assaulting a inan ;famed
Buzzer.
Ju.irtres' .TuArics IN 11.% MPS!! I lIE. —At the
Alreffford petty sessions, on Thunelay, George Budd. of
Ropley, near Alresford, was charged before the Rev.
J. T. Maine, and Messrs. 11..1. Mukock aid W. Beaton,
county inagistrotts, with sleeping in an outhouse belong-
ing to Mr. 3luicoek ; and the dire offence having beta
proved by Coust.iide Saunders, the justices sentenced the
delinquent to three mouths' hard Lthour in Winchester
Gaol.

THE FAILS:LAM UNION Womcnouss.—As no
meeting of gamilians of the Farnlestu Union was called f.'
Sal•tragy, the day the District Poor Law Inspector Inel
fixed to ~nquire into his own alleged negligence. the in-
' quiry could not be held : but it was stated in the town
un Saturday that lie bad been there, it is supposed with
view of holding the inquiry. There is very ,rest excite•
ment in Farnham on the subject, and nearly all classes are
calhng for a flit and open inquiry.
As lee CA e.— It is nut generally known, per-
haps, that nearly all the ice used on this coast is obtained
from a never-feiline ice cave in the northern part of Oregon.
This learkalile subterranean cavern, where the ice reinaii.s
in It perfect state the year round, is situated on a street,.
known as the White Salnion, which empties into the
Columbia /fiver, on the Wiehingtoa territory side, about
thirty below the Dalles. The entrance to this icy
chamber i. near the base of Mount Adams, which stands
twenty mile* front the Columbia, and whose melting snows
enneitute the waters of the White Salmon. The dimensions
of this cave are vast, extending many miles under the
snowy mountain, and the scenery inside is supremely
grand. The ice is found in columns formed by water falling
from above and congealing as it falls. These columns are
;at out in ',lecke, and conveyed on pack anima's to the
Colombia River, and from tbonro arc shipptd to aU the
markets on the coast.—Calif unieu pryer.
Tue CONFUSION OF ENGLISH LAW.—The form in
which our law is expmssed remains just what it was, aid
is probably worse than that of any body of jurisprudence
now extant in Enrope or America. It may be as well ta
state at once what is meant by so sweeping a condemnation.
The case is simply this: while almost every other civilised
country has arranged its laws upon some sort of connected
system, our hos. is identical with our legal history. The
rules regulating, for instance. the relation of landlord and
tenant, or of husband and wife, are to he found scattered
at irregular intervals Omer the whole !TACe which separates
the days of the Saxon dominion from the present time.
The records of our parliament, stretching from the
reign of Henry 111. to that of Victoria ; the
swords which from day to day have fallen from the
lips of judges in courts of justice during the list six or
seven centuries; the published opinions of such sages of the
profession as have been, as it were, canonised by an admir-
ing posterity—these am, not the raw material out of
which our law has been constiucted, but our very law
itself ; and we bare none other. The statutes of the reshu
fill about fifty volumes ; many of then have been repealed,
but it is didicolt to say which. The reported caeca fill
about 1,200 volumes ; many of them have been overruled.
but none of them bear any outward sign of their Callen
estate. Statutes and reports alike have accumulated,
layer above layer, in a merely chronological order ; so that
a given legal topic resembles, not the plan of a well-de-
fined field, but rather the vertical section of a geological
formation. The most skilful jurisoonsult, when asked to
exhibit any particular rule of law, can do so only after
first laboriously examining all the legal strata in which
any truces of it are to be found, and then piecing together
from the fragments thus collected what after all he an
only present as a probable reconstruction of the required
entity.—Edinburgh Ber:ew.now number.