The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-04 00:00:00

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THE ABOLITION OP TOLL&

Mr. W. Dickins presided at the county of War-
wick Epiphany Sessions, which were opened on Tuesday
at the Shire-hall, Warwick. The chairman introduced the
subject of the abolition of tolls by reading a memorial
adopted by the Gloucestershire magistrates at their quarter
sessions at Michaelmas, praying for the abolition of the
turnpike tolls. The chairman explained the past legisla-
tion on turnpike trusts, and said the question for the court
was whether they were disposed to co-operate in urging
upon government to adopt that step which the Glouces-
tershire magistrates had already asked them, to
adopt. The memorial he would submit was as
:—" We, the justices of the county of Warwick,
in quarter sessions assembled, bag to call the atten-
tion of the government to the present state of turnpike
trusts in England. Many trusts have of late years, by
successive acts of parliament, been extinguished, and the
remainder are for the most part continued only from year
to year by • sessional act passed for the purpose. In this
unsettled state of turnpike trusts, andlooking to thechange
of traffic by the establishment of railways, we would re-
spectfully urge upon the government the expediency of
submitting to parliament some comprehensive scheme
whereby turnpike tolls may be altogether abolished abd
the maintenance of roads provided for by such an equa-
lization of the expenditure as may protect individual
parishes from any undue burden being thrown upon
them." Lord Leigh seconded the motion. Mr. Newde-
gate, M.P., said that parliament had previously had its
attention called to the subject, and be had himself
attended several deputations to the Home-office with re
spent to the conditions under which the trusts which were
about to be extinguished should close their accounts. He
went when the late government was in office, and after-
wards an understanding was given by the Home Secretary
that, where a trust Pas to be wound up which was in a
solvent state, the trustee should have the power within
eertion limits of compensating their officers when those
officers had served them more than fifteen years, parti-
cularly in the case of surveyors. After the resignation
of the late government the question was necessarily re
newed. On his motion a clause to that effect was in-
serted in a bill before parliament, and which was in fact
• bill to terminate a great number of trusts, bat the
bill was late in reaching the House of Lords, and the
awes was consequently rejected. Linisalieved it would
be unjust were not that clause inserted in any future
bill, and he said that with some knowledge, being one
of the commissioners for the metropolitan trusts, and
when they decided to abolish a trust. provision was made
for the old servants who had been in the service 15, 20,30,
or 40 years. The commissioners felt that they would not
be acting properly by turning those men adrift, especially
where there was a surplus remaining in the hands of the
trust, which was a proof of their success. The subject
altogether wes • most important one. He thought that
parliament was verging towards the point when it would
bring the present turnpike system to a close. But he was
rejoiced that the court had thought fit to call the attention
of parliament to the great injustice that might be done
by the mere extinction of the present organization. Mr.
Holton King supported the proposal, and Mr. T.
Colmore, while also supporting the motion, said it would be
iniquitous that the repairs of the turnpike nods should be
thrown on the several parishes, whose rates would be thereby
doubled. Mr. P. Wykehain Martin, M.P., said he was a
member of that committee in the House of Commons to
which was referred the insolvent trusts, and the general
course adopted was to reduce the rate of interest on lia-
bilities, and prolong the trust for a period of 30 years. He
thought that the court, in asking government to deal with
the question, ought to give them some clue as to whether
they were prepared to buy up that thirty years' interest.
Mr. Newdegate observed that if parliament decided that
turnpike tolls should be abolished, then it would make
provision for the discharge of such debts as were in good
faith due to the public. For his own part, he would not
like, as the representative of North Warwickshire, to
pledge himself to any syatew of abolition until he knew
what the substitute was. After some further conversation
he memorial was adopted by a majority.

THE 81:11PlterED MORDIES AT NOTIMFOHAM.—
A COXPLICATION.—" Crowners"quest law" has led to a
strange tangle in Nottinghiunshire. Some weeks ago a
young man named Raynor, who occupied the obnoxious
position of rent and debt collector, was murdered et or near
the village of Carlton, within four miles of Nottingham.
The body was placed on the railway in such a position as
to make it appear that a passing into had caused death ;
but it was discovered by the railway porters lying across the
"four-foot" a few minutes preview; to the arrival of the
train which the murderer imagined would conceal the
I deed. Suspicion fell upon a man named Watson and hie
wife, with whom the deceased is said to have had some
disputes. The inquest was held before Mr. Coroner
Swann, and was adjourned from day to day, so as to pro-
tract the investigation for weeks. The anxiety caused
by the testimony to throw light on the mystery
overhanging the murder hastened the death of Mr.
Swann, which was reported • day or I two since,
and the county magistrates appointed Mr. Newton. the
coroner for the enjoining district of Newark, to act as
coroner for the Nottingham district until a fresh coroner
should be elected. On Tuesday Mr. Newton held the
adjourned inquest, and after referring to the death of Mr.
be told the jury that their duties as jurors were at
an end. " According to the statute," he said, " an inquest
of death can be taken by a coroner super visam oorporis
only, and if there be no view the inquisition is void.
Although the statute de officio coronatoris does not say
expressly that the coroner shall take his inquest on the
view of the dead body, and that an inquest otherwise
taken by him shall be void, yet it is clearly laid down by
all the books that a coroner has no authority to take an
inquest of death without • view of the body, sod that if
he do so, the inquisition is merely void as being an extra
judicial proceeding." The jury was then discharged, the
coroner declining to receive their verdict.
PAROCHIAL MEDICAL OPFICERS.—The parochial
authorities of St. Pancras and Devonport would seem to be
in a tix just now. They want a resident medical officer at
St. Pancras workhouse, and a special meeting of the vestry
was held to examine the testimonials of the applicants for
the vacant appointment. Two or three were to be selected
as • lest whereon the sapient body might exercise their
powers of exact discrimination at the nvit general meet-
ing. All were tried, and all but one found wanting. The
obvious plan would have been to recommend the election
of this gentleman ; but no. One could not be sent up—
that would give no choice ,• besides, the applicant was 35
years of age, and, bad he been • clever man, should by
that time of life have been far above applying for an
appointment to • workhouse. Logic prevailed, the can-
didates were dismissed, and they are to advertise again
in hopes of greater success. At Devonport, however, it
is not medical but religious qualifications which are
wanted. There, two guardians lately proposed that two
candidates for en out of doors surgeoncy to the union
should be had up before the board, in order that it might
ascertain whether they bad any ritualistic tendencies,
such being, of course, totally incompatible with the proper
performance of the duties of • medical man at Devonport.
—Medical Times.
THE MANCHESTER MEETING.—FURTHER POST-
PONEMENT—We are informed that the frost continues
very severe, that no definite day has been fixed for the
noes, tad that there is no prospect of their coming a
this week.

The will of the Right Rev. Anthony O'Regan,
Roman Catholic Bishop of Dora, lately residing at
Mickuiers.grove, Brompton, was proved in the London
Court, on the 21st ult., by the Rev. John Kyne, the sating
executor and trustee, power being reserved to Charles
Kelly, Esq., Q.C., the other executor. The personalty in
this country is sworn under 10,000/. The will is dated July
15, 1665, and be died in London, Nov. 13, 1866. He has
left pecuniary legacies to each of his brothers, to his ne-
phew. and niece', and to a sister-in-law. He bequeaths
2,0001. to the Roman Catholic Missionary College, All Hal-
lows,Dublin, the interest to be applied for the education of
clergymen for the diocese* of Chicago and Alto, Illinois,
United States t also, a sum of 5001. to aid in the building
of an hospital in Chicago and Illinois, to be under the
management of Catholic ladies; 5001. towards the
erection of two Catholic schools, one in Law-
llywe. the place of his bath ; the other in Cloon-
ford, both in his native parish of Kiltulla ; 12,0001.
the interest towards the payment of teachers ; 5001. for
the enlargement and decoration of the chapel at Cloon-
ford. He leaves all his vestments, miseale, albs, alter-
candlesticks, the crucifix, altar-cloths and covers, and all
the statuettes and other furniture of his chapel in
Brompton to the chapel at Cloonford ; his cha.itas he
leaves to the Rev. John Kyne, and the ivory crucifix
in his drawing-room to Charles Kelly, Esq., his exe-
cutors, and to them be also leaves a legacy of 501. each.
He bequeaths 3001., the interest of which is for the saying
of manses for therepos* of his soul and those of his
parents, brothers, and sisters, to be said in the dispel at
Cloonford, one to be an annual solemn requiem mass, by
four priests, on the anniversary of his death. The archbishop
is requested to see these directions carried out, and that they
are placed in some conspicuous part of the sacristy of
the chapel at Cloonford. After making some other
bequests, and that each of his ennui shall have one
year's wages, he bequeaths the ultimate residue et his pro-
perty to his nephew, the Rev. Patrick IL Oltegan, and
also leaves to him the gilt dish and vase presented to him
by the Duke of Norfolk, and leaves him every other article
used by him in his episcopal character in the ministration
of religion—rings, crimes, boujeoir, nitres, ke., to be dis-
posed of as he may plasm
The will of the lion. and Ven. James Agar, MA., Arch-
deacon of Kilmore, late residing at Stephen's-green,
in Dub-
lin but who died at Doaishall, Wexford, was administered
to the London Court by his nephew, the Hon. Herbert
Welbore 11111. Agar, second son of the Earl of
Normanton, Thomas James Agar Robartes, son of
the late Hon. Charles Bagnal Agar, the surviving ex-
ecutor. having renounced. The personal property was swots
under 30,000/. The testator died Sept. 6, 1606, at the age
of eighty-five, having executed his will so far back am
1842, wherein he neaten that his wife is sufficiently pro-
vided for should she survive him, and that she might
select the beet of his carriages, close or open, and the best
pair of horses. He leaves the rest of his property to his
end nephew, the lice. Herbert W. E. Agar, and to his
issue.

The will of Major-General George Macan, of her Ma,
jesty's Indian Arm?, lately residing at Weatbourne-street,
liydn-park, where he died on Nor. 12, was administered to
in the Londol Court, on the 10th ult., by Henry Macau, C. 8.,
the testator's brother, the executor appointed for India, sad
one of the surviving residuary legatees ; Iliss Mary Macan,
the general's sister and the executrix for England, having re-
nounced the grant. The personalty in this country was
sworn under 20,000/. The testator executed his will in
1827, then lieutenant of the 15th Regiment of Bombay
Native Infantry. This gallant officer has bequeathed the
whole of his property in India, England, and elsewhere
equally between his brother Henry and his sister Mary, for
their own absolute use and benefit.—lllustrafed Loudon
News.

TER WATERFORD ELEeTION RIOT6.—WO learn
by telegraph, that the inquests on the bodies of Captain
Kelly and William O'Brien, who were mortally wounded
by the Lancers in the election riots at Duagarvan last
Saturday, have been adjourned to Monday for the mili-
tary to prepare their defence. The Waterford Moil states
that the soldier who was wounded on Friday in the attack
made on the military escorting voters to Dungarvan died
on Wednesday at CloomeL

The Brighton Guardian says :—" In considers-
' tion of Professor Fawcett's eminent talents and of the high
' esteem in which he is held at Cambridge, and especially la
' his own college, Trinity Hall, the master and fellows have
(on his resiguationl re-elected him to his fellowship under
' the new statute, which enables • Benedict to hold • fel-
' lowship."
ANOTHER REFORM DEMONSTRATION. —Arrange-
rnents are in progress for another great reform demonstra-
tion in London, and which seems to be intended to influ-
ence the House of Commons and the government. It is to
take plain on the 11th of February, the Monday after the
' assembling of parliament, and in connexion with it there
is to be a visit to the House of Commons for the purpose of
presenting petitions. The proposed visit will be a rather
peculiar one. Every reformer who feels so disposed is to
sign a petition on his own behalf, praying the House of
Commons to adopt • measure of reform on the principle of
residential and registered manhood suffrage. Every man
is to take down to parliament his own petition, and as
many thousands of men are said to be likely to adopt the
course suggested, lines of route have been laid down, so
that confusion may be avoided. On the steps of St. Ste-
phen's Chapel several members of parliament who are
attached to the advanced reform movement are to be sta-
tioned to receive the petitions as the men bring them up,
and to present them to the House of Commons. These
petitions, from all parts of the country, if they should flow
in to the extent the leaders of the movement believe, will
take a long time to receive, and still longer to present to
the house, where certain prescribed forms must be gone
through by the members who have charge of them.
'METROPOLITA N BENEFIT SOUIZTIER' A HYLUH.—
The annual treat to the inmates of this institution, in the
Bell's-pond-road, was given on Wednesday last, Mr. J. T.
Sister presiding. Spite of the snow storm many visitors
attended, and good old English fare was abundantly pro-
vided. The usual loyal toasts disposed of, the chairman
gave that of " The Asylum," shortly narrating its history,
and stating that the building was now complete, affording
a home for 70 married couple*, or 140 inmates ; and the
present invested capital amounted to 4,000/.. the ground
and building having oost 8,0001.; and the asylum had pro-
vided a home for 175 persons, of whom 38 now remained.
After tea' au additional entmtainutent was provided, in •
series of dissolving views, through the kindness of Mr.
Greenwood and a friend ; the tonic sol-fa choir, led by Mr.
Runts, assisting, and Mr. Byrne doing duty at the her-
munium. A small testimonial was presented to Mr. Slater
who bad conducted the religious services for fourteen
JEWS past. Altogether, • very pleasant day was spent ;
and we agree with what the chairman said—that the
asylum is well worth a visit by anyone interested in
friendly societies, for the benefit of whose members this
asylum was founded.
ROYAL COLLEGE OF SURGEONS. —A special meet-
ing of the council of this institution was held yesterday
afternoon to elect a member of the Court of Examiners,
in the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Mr. Ciesar
Henry Hawkins, F.R.S., when the next senior member of
the council, Mr. Edward Cock, surgeon to Guy's Hospital,
was duly elected, and having been sworn in, will take his
seat at the next meeting of the Court of Examiners on the
12th inst. Mr. Hawkins, who has been so long connected
with the College of Surgeons, of which institution he has
been • twice elected president, retains his seat as
/tentative of the college at the General Council of M=l
Education and Registration, and is one of her Majesty's
sterjetint.surgeona. Mr. Cock was elected by the fellows •
member of the council with Mr. holly, his junior colleague,
in July, 1856.
MODERN NESTOR& —From a list of fellows of the
Royal Society, it appeals that the eldest members of it are
Lord Brougham, late Lord High Chancellor; Sir Henry
Ellis, late librarian of the British Museum ; and Mr. Wil-
liam LIWT•IICIS, late president of the Royal College of Sur-
pone, the youngest of whom is in his 734th year, having
been born in July, 1783.
STRIKE AT A CoLLI Rev.—A strike has taken
place at the Edmunds Main Colliery (which was the scene
of a terribly fatal explosion two years ago), for such an
advance of wages as will enable the miners to make remu-
nerative wages without the use of powder for blasting.
The recent calamities in that neighbourhood and in Stet-
,' fordshire will have had one beneficial result if they should
produce • feeling of greater carefulness on the part of
those emplord in mines, and the public, we imagine, will
not begrudge the trifling increased cost they may be called
upon to pay for their coal if, by the abolition of the use of
powder, such fearful disasters as those which have re-
cently been reported could be in any degree avoided.—
Leeds Mercury.
PAU PER FEVER HOSPITALS. —WO understand
that it is in contemplation at the Poor-law Board to supply
three fever hospitals for the reception of pauper patients
suffering from fevers and other contagious diseases. One
would be erected in the east, and one in the south of Lon-
don. It is rumoured that it price will probably be offered
for the Fever Hospital in the north of London, which is
now mainly occupied by pauper patients supported partly
at the parish expense and partly by voluntary contri-
butions from the benevolent. Such a scheme would do
much to relieve the wards of workhouse iutirmaries, and,
if carried out, would be • great public benefit. It accords
with the suggestions of the London Workhouse In-
firmaries Association.—British Medical Journal.

Soirrantrron, .JANUARY 3. —The Hamburg and
American Company's steamer Bavaria from New York oa
the 22nd ult., has arrived here with M passensers for this
port, Have, and Hamburg, but no specie. The Bavaria
experienced fine weather throughout the voyage. Her
DOW/ has been anticipated.