The Express.
London, England, 1867-02-15 00:00:00

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Moderate easterly and south-easterly winds prevail on °tar
western and southern coasts this 'naming, and Bain southerly
winds on our northern and eastern coasts. Barometrical pres-
sure has decreased considerably over the British Lira, and
more In the west than in the east. On the Continent yesterday
was high over the whole of (gonna Europe, decreasing
pre
sure
atL7thwasterly and a south-westerly direction to about 291
Inches in the north of Busda,and to about 2919 Inches over Spain.

The Lancet, commenting on the death from dogging
of a private in the 74th Regiment, says :—" Fifty lashes
are just double the proper number to be given at one time,
and to confine a man to prison subsequently is to accele-
rate the development of threatening mischief. Flogging
should be inflicted on the buttock, and not on the back
over important vital organs, and no man after punishment
should be subjected to close confinement or low diet."
A curious circumstance was noticed at the recent
opening of the Diet of the Grand Duchy of Finland. After
the governor had read the opening speech in the Russian
language, the Senator Peterson gave it in Swedish and
Finnish. The Marshal of the country replied in the name
of the nobility, and the archbishop in that of the clergy, in
French, the speaker of the citizen elan in Swedish, and
that of the peasants in Finnish.

The Bergisch-Markische Railway Company have
received permission to construct a railway bridge over the
Rhine, at Hamm, near Dusseldorf.
TEACHING THE YOUNG IDEA.—The commercial
administration of Ghent have introduced the system of
saving banks into the primary schools of that town. The
teacher receives the centimesof the scholars, and, as soon ns
they amount to lfr., it is invested in the savings bank
of the state. The teacher at the same time informs the
pupils what a savings bank is and gives them easy sums
on interest and the capitalisation of interest. This system
was introduced only in November last and at the end of
December last there were 118 savings bank books in the
hands of the boys and 600 in the hands of the girls.
DEATH OF • YORKSHIRE BARONET.—SirW. M. E.
Milner, Bart. of Nun Appleton, Yorkshire, expired at his
seat on Tuesday last. He was born in 1820, and succeeded
to the title in 1855. His son will not be of age till 1869.
The deceased baronet represented York in the liberal in-
terest from 1848 till 1857. For several years past he has
been suffering from paralysis.
REPRESENTATION OF THE NORTH RIDINO,—Yes.
tenlay the chairmen of the conservative committees issued
circulars to their supporters, soliciting their votes in favour
of the Hon. Octavius Dunoombe, who formerly represented
the riding, and retired in favour of his nephew, the present
Lord Faversham, " or in favour of some other conservative
candidate to be brought forward." In some quarters Lord
Downes is named as a likely candidate. The liberals have
not yet moved publicly, but the names of Major Stapvlton
and Mr. Harcourt Johnstone (son of the member for Scar-
borough) are mentioned. The last election cost nearly 2/.
per vote (16,000 voters) in what are called legitimate ex-
penses ; and it is. supposed the liberals may allow the con-
servatives to return one member unopposed.
REPRESENTATION or SOUTH will have
been seen by the official list we last week published that
It. B. Wingfield Baker, Esq., of °nett Hall, has been
appointed high sheriff of the county for the current
year. This is an event which will have the political
effect of
.preventing the hon. gentleman offering himself
as a candidate for South Essex, should an election take
place during his year of office, as there is every probability
will be the use, if the coining reform bill be rejected or
passed. As returning officer for both divisions of the
county, he is disqualified from offering himself for either ;
and as he has been looked on as the man to fight the battle
again, should the party determine to contest the South,
they will of course have to seek another candidate.—
Chet/tufted Chronicle.
THE GOVERNMENT TENANT Ricer BILL.—The
Irish Tines says :—" The Landlord and Tenant Bill (Ire-
land), prepared by the government, provides that in case
of disagreement between landlord and tenant as to the
necessity of improvements, and in certain other specified
caries, the Board of Works may appoint an official arbi-
trator. The Boanl of Works is also empowered to lend, for
tenants' improvements, the sum of one million sterling.
The tenants' improvements must be made in accordance
with specifications and plans, to be lodged in the county
surveyor's office.
hßistrent is to be made in 24 years,
and the interest c is to be 4 per cent."
Dasusens or " 1110NONIEL"—We should be sorry
to my anything that would unnecessarily disturb the
peace of ladies in their compliance with the present
remarkable fashion of wearing damsons. This custom
may seem very irrational to the male half of mankind,
but this objection would apply to many of the
fashions by which ladies consider that they
adorn themselves, and so must not count for
much. A more serious objection, and one snore calcu-
lated to have weight with English ladies has been started,
according to a correspondent of our own, by a Russian
professor, IL Lindemann. According to this autho—
rity, 7' per cent. of the false hair used for ehigsents
and similar purposes in Russia is infected with
a parasite to which he bas given the name of
Gregarine. The gregarinous hair, it is said, is very like
other hair in appearance ; but on close inspection little
dark-brown knots are seen at the free end of
the hair, and may even be distinguished by the
naked eye. These are gregarines. These parasites have
a most ignoble ancestry and habitation, being found in
the interior of the pesliculus capita. It is only due to
them, however, that these statements should be verified
by other observers before we give all the particulars of
their natural history. They are not easily destroyed.
They resist the effects of drying, and even of boiling.
Acids, alkalies, ether, and other agents, would kill them ;
but these would be injurious to the hair, and
so cannot be used. According to the authority
quoted, in the conditions of a ball-room the
gregarines " revive, grow, and multiply by dividing
into many parts—so-called germ-globules ; these fly
about the ball-room in million', get inhaled, drop on
the refgeshments—in fact, enter the interior of people
by hundreds of ways, and thus reach their specific
gregarian development." We do not answer for the
truth of all this natural history ; but when the natural
history of else:lsom themselves is considered, it may well
be all true. In Russia, the hair of them is supplied by
the poorer people, especially peasant women of the
Mordwines and the Burlakes, near the Volga, who do a larr
trade in it. " When the Burlake goes out to work in the
siring. be perhaps puts a clean shirt on, but he de-
ctiledly never takes it off until he returns home in
autumn." Verily, as the professor argues, here is a fine
chance for parasites. We must leave the subject with
ladies and naturalists. Half the awful possibilities of the
fashion—which it does not require a microscopist to sug-
gest—would deter men. We cannot so certainly reckon
upon affecting ladies in a matter of fashion. But of all
false things, one of the 111011 i objectionable is false hair.
Loma.