The Express.
London, England, 1860-08-24 00:00:00

RUSSIA.

Ruled= finance seems to be in a strange con
limy if we may judge from Some recent oonfssiee.
Within the last two months the Emperor has me
than once complimented the intendants of th
State domains on the zeal and success with whio
they have collected the peasantry-taxes of the la,
year, " above and beyond the yearly assessment.
The Bell, edited by M. Herten in London, latch;
demanded an explanation of this singular excess 0
zeal on the 'Art (a the tax-gatherers. Accordingly
the last imperial expression of thanks to the inteu
dant of the province Samara (published July 31
ult.), supplies an amended version of the forme
compliment. It now appears that the intendant
had anticipated ten per cent. of the amassment
next year, so that, as The Bell renmrks, tli
ou jlit only to collect next year 00 per cent.
the taxes ; and at this rate the government M.
years hence will have no right to collect a farthin;:
in short, the Russian government is already lido
on its capital.

Mena 701 711 Bautzus.—To-day (Friday) tl
Anglo-Luso-Brazilian Company's steamer Milford Her
will sail from Liverpool with moils for Lisbon, Cape
Verde, Pernambuco, Bahia, and Rio de Janeiro. Lett,
and newiritper% whit+ must be prepaid. will be received
the Liverpool post.eMee till 2 p.m., and with a late fc.
ld. till 213

THE POLICE COURTS.

(THIS DAY.)

IILANSION4IOI7IIE.
Hoary Lyon,' a um, we Nought before the Lord
Mar or. charge.; wMstsaffing a mild; valise sight raioess. the property of Mr. Sykes, the ac sloop the
under the following aggravated mstances.
It praS, t hat about haltpast 6 o'clock yesterday evening
the pom,utor waa standing MI Ceen.house quay witnase-
ing • 1... trace, when the primmer rut his guard chain and
snatched his watch from hie pocket. He seised him imme-
diately but he made a violent resistance and forced the thumb of the prosecutor back, and injured him very
severely and at the same time attempted to bite him. He
at length contrived to form him down upon the
ground, and with the assistance .1 a private in the
Peas Feather Goods he was held until a policeman
tame up, and when the latter attempted to take him into
custody a number of thieves assaulted the constable, and
esdsavourest to rearm the prisoner, oral it was cot without
emmiderable difficulty that be was secured.
The penetrator, in answer to questions put by the Lord
Mayor, said that his thumb was a good deal injured and he
was quite unable to ow his hand.
In Louden ag
The Lord Maianyor itiquired when the proilecuter would be
He replied that it was very uncertain ; it might be a
moth or longer.
The Lord Mayor mid as this was the case he should deal
summarily with the matter, and he inquired in the usual
form whether the prisoner would plead guilty there or be
tried at Mewl/ate.
He said he would plead guilty.
His lordship thee said it WILA a moat impudent and daring
robbery, and with the concurrence of his colleague (Alder-
man Merin) he should sentence him to be imprisoned and
kept to hard labour for six months.

MARLMOROUGH.STREET.
Z AAA OltOttlAit ettARG6 OP onT•INLYO PIAKOPOITLit
DT FRAUD.
Don Oscar de la C. 11,14, maniac to the Queen of Eicain.
WWI charged on • warrant before Mr. Tyrollitt for that,
being the bailee of certain property, to wit a pianoforte be-
longing to cue (barks Holdersome, of the value of 801., be
did feloniously convert the same to his own use.
The prisoner ea, brought from Manchester by Shilling-
ford, ose of the warrant officers of the court, having bees
taken auto ew,tody by hint at the Merchants Hotel, Old-
haniatreet, Mao-heater.
Mr. Charles Holikrnease, 444, Oxfordatreet, pianoforte.
imuitifactumr, said that on the lath of July last the prisoner
now and mid he was about login, • concert at Kensington
Palace, and required • very good pianoforte, at the same
time handing Wm • programme, which stated that he
was about to give • matinee musicale at Kensington
Pala,,, ander the patroaege of her Grace the Duchess
of la on Saturday, July 28. lie(aaid be wanted it
at one, sot he could practise on it, sad having read
the pro:non:as ti• was 'winced to let him have one of the
valor of 301., sad to send It to his lodginp at 66,
blargaretatreet, Ike terms Axed ea for the hiring being
25.. a week. He (Mr. Holdsniesee) then had aa
Intimation from Mr. Roll, pianoforte-maker, el the
Tottenham-court-read, that be bad lent the prisoner a
prop, sad that he had been endeavouring to sell ks
Nasoimstreet. This was four or firs days after the on
Was sent to the prisoner's lodging., sad at ones
fearing fur the safety of the piano be went there
lied found the priamer ha left and that his
piano had been piWged at Mr. Attembis, in
theekedmist, for Mt He then made and
ascertained that the prisoner mid a Mr. Meyer bees
limn to pledge another, and aloi that the primmer had
offered to mil a Ills. harmer the duplicate of a piano, at the
pima who he was them lodging, is
Grosvenorpark • he
ale received • from Mancheiter,
Maws that the prill=lielb=nrousing to obtain
pianos id Mr. Nolimman sad dims at that phos.
Mr. Charles Ocittoia, manegor at Mr. Atteahmoughh, 11,
Oreekuireet, geneuhrabw, mid thetas W file ef-Jsly, •
same mid eeked if they took is phdge *SOL
reirsa id they did, but required to see the teoelpie for them
lint. 'The gentleman came the set day, sad took Idea to es,
illargaretutreee, when primer at the time was playing
the piano. Bombed if he bed bought the el • maker,
sad he mid had not. but of • The asst day
wed the peewee he raw in the roam brought whet pur-
-I=edls be the receipt fee fa., and signed "A. Admin."
eatilded kin, and the seat day be sent for the pono
end paid the mousy, 351., to a person who was with the
Pels:lr.r* . -

Muffin/era said • till was found in Mr. Hoiderarese's
same. but was receipted ia the name at Adams, H• bend
the primmer bed two car three lodgings, mad at trek al them
be bad • plasm
Mr. Elven& of SO, Gnat RopliZeirsit, pisalearte-
maker, mei proposer ease to him sad bind tba nod T•bs.
able be Ind, sad estend the c4 &A. Meyer bt hie
hook and the writing was the moma thig am Vie wip-
pmed 4114 Mr. Holdereene. The primmer bud wedeavoared
to rail it, but be bad fortunately made the liadied, of the
boom *riga • paper that it *bold.' not be takes away.
The primmer w s remanded, the °Meer matins there
woaki be other cane.

DITTILIMIND Armin' A? iIIiCTOS.
Mont rempectable•ka.kiag woutea.
taw charged wt* atteragtima to dem
Hear, Cole, a unbars et Chelles, raid that at tee .1.
nisi to .it We soshe ho was ea Battenereboidgot whoa
• erfi " Tholtre a ware ia the water," sad ist-
toodietoly aaw ddosieet woe pre boo the shore. Be
ow' h. sad torewwies how& M. oeseratiod is ,epee
tog tr;herThe latt wan mobs WS it the We, sod die
Ms. Payster adist I arit.od her Meade were mend?
A millodwide-lweadlaidia atears hinter
Sniped forward anal rly
she see her nottair. at Battersea
Mr. Payater acid heir Y eras ?taw what had giros rime
to the present arelll.llllol.
The mother replied Wit ohe ourgrosod it us throe&
a y.maa anew tetrudeVetur was a arroset, who ~D Satur-
day obtauted a baby. sod owe hoots les
had be.. perviously it bra l
stelhelotatiog that she bad
got a rim/ ft.. a Neldier, sod permission to la-
vita kist to her NAM% here, hatt father deelised,
hem' a addrer woe is se stedst • to support a wita
Oa Tuesday the deleadmat west with her water to the
Crystal Pilaw,. whole she wee mot by the soadiar_ , and
tiara separated from hoe alder. ohmler, which ate had Dot
beni heard of.

Mr.
Ps4l; 4aul he issil ssound 1. WI Walsosky,
is maw dist nth. vesslie Ibrwi of sossonstkos
with the chiplia d Ihs pd

That-agile Rants ASP hoons.—Tbe inotimant
rain which NI dr* the West sad aim morainic he. had most
dim...trine. easels. Al Geeenford, between Ealing mad Har.
row oe•tlie-Hill, Sleeker brat overflowed its hank@ townie
distance, and, biting aided by land streams that rutted in
torrent. from the aislighbouriny, hills, swept the bay,
much of which IMMO in cocks I a the declivities,
into the vale boessa, and the morning the
carte employed i collecting it were partly
submerged in the volt lake formed by the accumulated
water+. The roads in the vicinity of the Brent were Man.
iLitod. Anti in some parts rendered impasasWe. The low lying
ground. in the neighbourhood of ininbrook, Longford, Pails,
Wynirdshury, and Runnymede were inundated by tbe over-
do. of the COLD. and its tribulation The accounts re-
ceived this morning from Kent and Flex represent
several of the marshes as having the appearance of
cast lakes, many 'sheep having been drowned. The
Ravensboutne is overflowed, and much damage done to
ground upon its banks ; and on the biota of the
retuay a large number of cheep were drowned by the
overflow of the marsh land.

CHI LMSFuItD G &Hoot. AND Tim Dts-
nsirrgan, The governon of this school, it will be learnt
with eitisfaction in the district, in accordance with the
spirit of the recent set, have laid the foundation of a vast
extension of the noefulneso of the institution by opening the
door for the admiesion if the children of disarm sad
others who do not conform to the ritual of the established
church. Hitherto, both under the old management and by
the new scheme, it had been closed against inane of thew, as
one of the regalatisor was that the pupils should attend
public worship in the perish church every .Monday, to which,
of course, most of the dissenters objected. Since the pass-
ing of d referred m act referr to, declaring genes-Ay the opening
of theressehools, but leave octo theauthorities the mode of the
revitalises by which it should be accomplished, the matter
barn been several times under the conxideration of the
governors, sad wresdoelly they have passed a resolution the
effect of which I. that air dissenter, on intimating to
them (the governor.) an ohiectien to his sou receiving the
presentee! religious instruction of the school and attending
church, may have him exempted from this, while he will be
admitted to the full hese& of the classical, mathematical,
and general eluceitine of the institution, divinity excepted.
Thus we have reached a result which has loos been desired
by many in the town. The school will henceforth he re-
garded as the school of all ; petty jealousies on the subject
will ci•as,* and it may fairly be hoped that churchmen and
dissenters, fairing thus studied together on the some form,
aid teed in the same classes, wiU be brought together
in after life in a more friendly mid harmonious spirit.
Vicheolosl Chnmsdr.
A WWI( n St • rzawrrnov. —One superstition at least
prevails in Stamford. When • smith wee being made on
Monday to recover the body of a young woman who con-
mittell suicide, an attempt was made to bring the labours
.1 those ,inittwil is the search to a speedy termination by
throwing into the water Revers! leaves abreast, the belief
briug that the breed will out goat beyond where the body of
the drowned japan lien, but that it will remain above it.
She o+l It mar,.
A 11.4WTH rt. L Hgao.—The silver medallion of the
Royal Humane Society was vests/day presented to William
Platters% It years of see, of 9, Horton-street, Deansgate.
Hainisester. for his iotreHisl exertions to save life ow the
evening of November _rah, 1.45 e. Emit* mantle's of
his own danger, br encoded twice to a MOM on ere in a
14.1.1ng•hotaw in Spinuitoi. 1.1, Manchester, the lint time
lenn,ing not two mfant ediildren, and the second their
mother, all of whoa were rocirded by Limos, which he
subsl to extinguish. The rhibirvn did sot bog survive, hut
their Heather twos-ere& We are informed that about N.
was solocribed L.r glattery by the watch committee of the
lianclooeter core- mien, at the Woe the above named testi.
/MAW was premised to brat.