The Express.
London, England, 1867-04-02 00:00:00

BRITISH ORPHAN ASYLUM,
A V.SI VRILSARY FESTIVAL, TO-MORROW (Wednewfay,
3r4 April, M Willies Rooms, M. James's. London. ILK. H. the
Dukc of CAMBRIDOZ In the Chair. Tickets to be obtaluctl
from the Clty °Meek 73, Cheap*le.
ALFRED MACILXNZIE. hec.

SAIRBATARIAN INTOLERANCE.
PPRFNAION of the SUNDAY E'VENING9 for the
PEOPLE.—PURIAC misriso to tit. James's Great Hall, TO-
MORROW EVENING (Wednesday', at 8, Mir J. ROWRING In
the ('hair, supported by Members of Parliament and gentlemen
nt eminence. All lowers of religious liberty invited. A few re.
served seats at 2s. dd. can be secured of Mr. Austin, at the Hall,
daily. R. M. MURRELL. Boa. See.
mix, 4, Beaufort-buildings, Strand.

LITRE BOTTLE WINE COMPANY, Old Swan
wharf, London-bridge. Imported in Litre and Half this
Bottles, containing 25 per cent. more than ordinary bottles.
Yin Ordinal,.Bs. Od. lft. Od.
Beaujolais
Port and Sherry
intuition and Picardin 12a 6d. I Litres, or 20s. 6d. litres.
French Brandy 264. Od. 445. Od.
Price Lists of other Wines ou application.
N B. All the above sold In bond If required, and Dock War-
route hauled on single dozen cases. Depots will be opened In
every town In Great Britain. Apply as above.

KINAHAN'S LL WHISKY.
DUBLIN HIBITION
Thie celebrated old IRISE!!X WHISKY, 188Lgained the DUBLIN
?BM ?d ZDAL —lt Is pure, mild, mellow delicious, sod iery
wholesome. Sold to bottles, la Bd. each, at the retail houses in
London; b the agents In the principal towns to Inland; or
wholesale at 8, Gnat Windmill-street, London, W. Observe the
Ted seal, pink label, aad clerk branded "Mashies LI. Wlskary."

TEA is CHEAPER THAN EVER.-Is. 6d., 25.,
ed. pound are th• prices at which PHILLIPS and
Co., tea pound are
William-street, City, London, KC.,
are selling good and Sns BLACK TKA. A price current post tree
40e. worth carriage free to any railway station or market town in
the United Kingdom. All goods carriage free to all parts of
London. Observe—PHILLIPS and Co. bars no *gotta Sugars
are supplied at market priors.

MR. WEIGHTON'S NEW SONGP.
SHYLIIt SAWN. The very popular Irlab ballad. By
W. T. Wunncrog. 61. Free for 1e stamp.
"Abundantly share, the favour lavished upon his precedent
works."—Olobe, Nov.!.
TIIT VOICE IS NEAR. Song by the composer of " ller Bright
Smile flaunts Me BUIL" " The Liquid Gem," Ac., As. each. free
by post for 19 stamps each.
Pretty song, which will win Its way Into favour because of
Its simpliclty."—kleirs Weekly Messenger.
"A simple, plaintive song, remarkable for much sweetness.--
Court Circular.

—lidail:Z:11:1e a favourite with the admirers of the soft and
sentimental."-Bath and Cheltenham Gazette.

London: Robert Ouekiind l 0., New BWihigton-streeL

PAINLESS SYSTEM OP DENTISTRY.
Just published, price 3d., or post free four stamps,
►TOTAL ABOLITION of PAIN aa applied to
MECHANICAL DENTISTRY. B 7
Haase. GABRIEL the old established DENTISTS,
84, LC t ketka.
68, HARLEY-sTREST, W., f
136, DUKE-STREXT, LIVERPOOL

THE METROPOLITAN DISTRESS COMMITTEE.
Yesterday the Mansion-house Relief Committee met at
the usual hour. The Lord Mayor presided. The follow-
ing grants were made :—To the East London Central Com-
mittee for Poplar, Limebouse, and the river district, in
consequence of the considerable distress which still pre-
vailed in those localities, a further grant of OW. was
made, with the suggestion that as this would be the last,
it should be well husbanded to meet the most pressing
emergencies. To the district of St. Thomas, Stepney, on
a second application by the Rev. Mr. Valentine, the in-
cumbent, a further grant of 251. was made ; and a
like sum was awarded to the " Howe of Mercy "
for poor Germans, per the Rev. H. Allebn. It was
alien resolved, that as the funds were exhausted, the
committee should now cease their labours, which had
coma to an end. It was desired to acknowledge the
liber and philanthropy which had been manifested by
the public, by which the committee bad been enabled to
dispense throughout the distressed locality a sum of very
nearly 16,0001. since the 21st January last. On the
motion of Mr. Samuel Morley, seconded by Mr. Henry
Green, it was resolved unanimously that the thanks of
the committee were justly due and awarded to the Lord
Mayor, for the facilities he had afforded to the committee
by granting the use of the Mansion-house for the trans-
=doe of its badness, and especially for the courtesy of his
lordship when piesidbig ever their deliberations. The
Lord Mayor briefly but gracefully returned thanks. It had
given him great pleasure to act with a coalmine composed
as it had been of gentlemen for whom he entertained the
highest regard anal respect, and who had so heartily lent
their valuable aid and assistance in so good a cause. The
committee was then dissolved, and the meeting separated.
THE METROPOLITAN POOR ALT.—Yesterday the
act, which received the royal assent on Friday, on the
metropolitan poor was issued, and has immediate opera-
tion. The 82 sections are divided into several portions.
The act is to provide for the establishment in the metro-
polis of asylums for the sick, insane, and other classes of
the poor, and of dispensaries, and for the distribution
over the metropolis of portions of the charge for poor
relief. Districts are to be formed, and managers appointed
of the asylums for the purposes mentioned The existing
workhouses may be adapted as asylums, and the mode of
admisaion is to be under the direction of the Poor-law
Board. The second part of the statute relates to medical
relief, including the building of dispensaries, do. Some
of the clauses relate to land, and a basis is laid down for
the contribution of unions and parishes. The first and
second sections of the Metropolitan Homeless Poor Act,
1864, as to the reimbursement of the Metropolitan Board,
are repealed from the 211th September next. A metro-
politan COJIII.OII poor fund is to be established. There are
other provisions as to poor relief under local acts; the
appointment of additional guardians and othoers ; and also
as to the extension of the borrowing power under the
Poor-law Acts.

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THE METROPOLITAN IMPROVEMENT BILL.—A
meeting of the ratepayers of the ward of Cheap was held
yesterday at the Guildhall Coffee-house, to protest against
the levying of the Metropolitan Improvement Rate. Mr.
Alderman Allen occupied the chair, supported by Mr.
Deputy Tegg, Mr. J. F. Bontems, C.C., and the follow-
ing members of the Common Council:—Messrs.
Bennett, Wild, Morley, Orridge, Bannister, Re. Mr.
Bontems moved the following resolution :—" That, in the
opinion of this meeting, the Metropolitan Improvement
Bill now before the House of Commons is highly objection-
able, and ought tobe opposed—first, because It increases the
burden of the already overtaxed ratepayers of the metro-
polis ; second, because it makes no provision for the more
equitable distribution of local taxation ; third, because it
increases the already overgrown power of the Metropolitan
Board of Works ; and fourth, because it still further in-
terferes with the right which the citizens of London have
for centuries enjoyed of controlling the expenditure of
their own rates." Mr. Peyton seconded the motion, which
was put and carried unanimously. Mr. Bennett moved a
resolution to the effect that petition. to both Houses of
Parliament, in accordance with the foregoing resolution,
be adopted and signed by the alderman on behalf of the
meeting. This motion was also seconded and carried aria.
cou., and the usual compliment to the chairman closed the
proceedings.
SMOCKING CARL OF MANSLAUGHTER. —At the
Leeds maims yesterday, Mr. Justice Lush sentenced a
nut hawker named Joseph Jubb to 20 years' penal servi-
tude for the manslaughter of his wife, Elizabeth Jubb, at
Thurlston, on the 7th February. The evidence adduced
in support of the charge disclosed circumstances of great
ferocity. The prisoner, who was so abusive in the dock
that he had to be repeatedly admonished by the learned
judge, returned to huh ome at Thurlston on the night of
the 31st January last. in a state of partial intoxication,
and fiercely demanded from hie wife, who was enerink,
substantial supper. The poor woman, who had to leave
her bed to admit into the house her dissipated husband,
was unable to provide a supper which would satisfy him,
and thereupon he commenced beating her in a most violent
manner, and kicked her in various parts of her body
so savagely that one of the blows left such deep
indentations of the nails in his hoots that they were ob-
servable a week afterwards when the post Torten exami-
nation was made after her death on the 7th of February.
One kick he dealt on the lower portion of her body, and to
this blow, the concussion of which caused the lining mem-
brane of the womb to become detached and cause inflam-
mation, the medical gentleman who was examined attri-
buted death. The morning after the attack the deceased
drew the attention of the prisoner to the marks on her
body, upon which the prisoner remarked—" I have been
lame long enough, and I thought it was thy turn now."
The prisoner alleged that deceased hurt herself by falling
over a log of wood when she got up to admit him on the
night of the 31st of January, and that owing to the suffer-
ing she endured she inflicted such wounds upon herself that
she bled to death; but his lordship, in sentencing the
prisoner, said he entirely disbelieved the statement of the
prisoner, and remarked that the crime of which the jury
had found him guilty was one on the very verge of murder.
THE ST. ALRATeII PROBECLITION.—The Bishop of
London has signed the letters of request to the Dean of
the Court of Arches in the matter of the prosecution of
the incumbent of St. Alban's, Holborn. The charges are
as follows :—L For the elevation and adoration of the holy
elements. 2. For placing lights on the communion table.
3. For the use of incense. 4. For the mixed chalice. We
understand that Dr. A. J. Stephens would not include the
wafer bread in the charges, wi the evidence would have
been required of communicants, and to this the learned
counsel declined to resort. The letters of request have
been lodged in the registry, and to-day the citation will
be oompleted.—Beeord.