The Express.
London, England, 1856-04-14 00:00:00

(Stamped id. Additional.) [TWOPENCE.

ASSOCIATION FOR THE AID OF DRESS-
MAKERS AND MILLINERS.

TM annual meeting dads association took place
at Willis'isesoms se Friday, the Earl of 831/7/111BOST,
thepaseidsetoia the skein
His Lesssitir having empsomed his regret that the mos
cation had esperks &deg the past year so mar In-
dians** se the put snits pub)* adverted to the efforts
made by himself to "Alois legislative protection fn the un-
bolt,* mum is whose behalf the meociatios was err-
ed. The ms re was latroduesd into the House of
end. IlMerellerroti to a select commits,widows
was cocotte peeved the existence of a very large
aural devil said graft wader the present system. The
bill, however, was throws out by a majority of one, r-
ears the cairn** were doubtful whether it would prove
effectual. Bet there were nose who queerer the arm
sky of doing something to promote the object In view, sad
airy were of opinion that the experiment was worth
tryiag Although mach evil had bees abated by the
81mM:den, there still remained an amount diegreestal to a
anther oemsainiiy. He did not think et *deride
1 to make mother effort is the Hoses of Lords this session.
The preset stir of damp wee a etain a tha
iml pertioderip epee that-large gene who weep
oboes the wash of meat, and who might rather to set an
=mph, of humanity, that encourage ea evil of such new
Meads-
A report was then read by the hawser, 'ternary, to
whin it well stated that some estimate of the greet 'dna-
, tars cuiferred by the association both it the employers and
the employed slight be formed tram the fact that during the
I last year me fewer than 1,248 young dressmakers and nil-
linen had bees registered at the office foes of all gapers,
and of this await 634 bad obtained situations. In a Sags
✓usher of cues of dolmas prompt attendance had bow
provided through the isetrassenslity of the medical feud
iamituted by the assosiatioe, whilst toe provident fond we-
aseled with the society continued to afford is-
persist assistaace to those young purr who
nailed themselves of this mode of Investing their
pansy, and in sassy instances the deprices
were Um enabled to establish themselves in basins's. The
voodoo dike essealatiso, bosom, had been for some time
readsisat to defray the seesseary envenom. Dula; the
last year especially the hada had suffered from the pro-
raediage white had takes plea ia corneaion with mother
society bearing a einali title. But the oessmittee had,
nevertheless, perierred is their eeriness, and they ac-
knowledged the aseceral efforts glade in essay large sets
Mishmash' to shorten the hours of week, and otherwise
to promote the outlast of the young perms' therein em
3107•11-
This report was adopted, and resolutions were speed to,
calling upon the public to give a larger annual of support
aad ratans to the Waiters than it had hitherto enjoyed

DESTRUCTION OF VAUXHALL RAILWAY
STATION.

no Vauxhall Railway-station was totally &-
strived by fin last evening.
At a quarter past eight o'clock the ordinary truism of
the station wee promedleg, and poonngere were in the est
of booking themselves for the nburben down trains, wire*
sadden alarm of tin erne, and the same instant it was (Woo-
erred that • mall ante-nom, adjoining the booking office,
sad need by the clerk in charge, was in flames. In a very few
moments the flex had extended to the bookiog-oMee itself,
and so remarkably rapid wee its progress that the oßleiak
present, so far from beteg able to stay its ravages, were
eo.psllsd to nuke a hasty retreat. Nom the booking-
ogee, whisk wee sheeted upon • level with the rail-
way immediately adjoining the down line, the Ire
spread rapidly to the platform, and within in
Waster after the outbreak the Gasses had nearly
eacireled the station on the down side. • Twick-
oakum train passed through altos the ere Wile out
cad wee thiMLl W •:11thalsar wain, mid* maws*
stopped to set down priessagen while the station wee fa
flames, the rapidity of the fire having prevented the
affl-
oiale from signalling all trains to atop. Mr. Godson, train
manger et Nice Blois, was fortuaately on the not when
the ere weaned, and under hie direction the most active
measures were taken for the prevention of accident. Mee-
semen were despatched to Waterloo to stop the de-
puty, of all dowa-trains, and the up-gratin wen tweed
off into the Niue Wm-station. Meantime the fire eon-
tinned to even in every direction, until the whole station
was enveloped In Gunn. The roof soon fell, and the
Intense hat from above and below had the effect of
fine' and caging up the metals so as to render It
lemonade to earn on the traile last night. Ar-
rangements were easordingly nude to convey the
mail bags sad passengers in omnibuses from Water-
loo to Niue Wine, to which station all passeagers foe
Riehmend sad Windsor were also directed. Beyond •
delay of some couple of bons no incionveniesee arose, sad
sot the slightest seediest of say kind occurred.
Mr. Beattie locomotive superintendent, Mr. Crosatir,
tM seenury, Lid Mr. Young, superintendent at Waterloo-
station, were ell at Vaughan shortly after the fire Irene
out, where their presence bad the best effect in allaying
the apprneasins of she pianism, and many inquiring
friend,.

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At ten o'clock several gugs of plate lapin woe at week,
under the direction of Mr. Bottle, who assured the as
porter that the Ike would be la perfect readiness for the up
soil this wooing, and that no interruption whatow in the
trade from Watseka-nation would take plow.
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TIN origin of Ow ire is at prelims sydwy, bat ft is tar
Haired to bats boss ownakawl is win way or other by
the gas. -

OFFICIAL REPORT.
TO TIN IDITOR OP TIT =TRW.

Waterloo Statics, Rends, Evening, April 13,12 p.n.
regret to WA to mosses that the buildings of
the Vansball-statioe of the floatb•We+bra Railway Com-
pany have been thh evade. smithy destroyed by Are.
fortunately without leas of life or pausal irjury. I have
the latiafeeties to state that, after a metal ammunition, the
pessimist way hes been found to be 'Majored ; and the
oily Inehmslenee therefore to the peblts will be the tim-
pani:7 esseation cl the stopping of any trains at the Vass-
hall-statiss, until smothery aseohntedatios can be provided.
—lsm, Am. L. CRORBIB, Asa

BALANCE OF PAR7IBB AT OXFORD.

OXFORD. B*TuaDAT.

The election Me afternoon of a professor, am a
member of the hebdomadal council, in tea roma of Pro-
tium Wilson, whose term of office as prole/me of mead
philosophy had expired, was the occasion of a s..s
be-
twees the two parties in the University de lira Melt
church mid low church. Dr. Jac Amos, Boras Pr fame of
Divinity, was the audition, of the armor, sad Dr. Mee-
bride, PriaMpal of Marbles Sail, Lord Almoner's Beefier
in Arabia, wee the candidate of tee latter. The=
comma mud at two Valet*, sad wee motioned with •
vigssr wadi three, the time sppoioted for its cads&
Nearly all the binds of brutes and resident professore re.
corded talk totem. 8o well balanced were the pantie, that
melt wee oharnately at the head of the poll, from its open-
ly' to be aloes.
At three drink the motors east up the cones, tbe
embers Wag, for Dr. Jamboos, 71; Dr. Machride, 69.
Tea elation of a mamba of oesvocation to sit at the heb-
domadal coated in the room of Kr. Mosley, of Magdalene
College who had resigned, was oho well mounted. The
madlitirse niers lir. Rendolph,baresr and fellow nf Minos
College, and Kr. ilediey, tutor and fallow of University
College. At the oleos of the poll tbe ectes were—for Kt.
Randki.ll, 76 ; for lire Medley, 68. Majority for Mr.
Randolph 8.

7ONSBCRATION OF ST. SAVIOUR'S, WAR-
WICK-ROAD, PADDINGTON, BY 2HB BISHOP
OF OXFORD.

Oa Saturday thin church was consecrated by the
Bishop et °deed, attended b bis registrar, &a, la the
menace of the parish sad distilct clergy and a nueueress
a.
witirentteh bas a picturesque appearanee, being 'aside
alls@ 'entre ot the antribitheatee ot hint which are con-
tiose to Criotlowsod, Hendon, 80.

THE TEAL OE WILLIAM FALMEit.—On Saturday,
the sew set to empower the Court of Queen's Bunk to
crier certain °faders to be tried at the Control Criminal
Court ores late beet. It received the royal attest es
Friday. Then are 24 mottoes is the new law, astir'. whisk
William Fame, sow is Stafford Gaol, will be removed to
Newpte. The Indictment is this case will be transmitted
to tits !Coated Criminal Court, and at the oonmeoceineat of
term the Court of Queen's Bench will probably make an
order is eefasece to this partkuler eue, to be tried at the
Glottal Criminal Court, and when any such order is made
the prisoner is to be forthwith removed to London. Hales
are is be made to effect the puipees cf the act. Among the
providing is am, that any person convicted may be ma-
tinee' to be punished either in the county where the offence
ens ammitted, or within the jurisdiction of the Central
Maisel Owast.
' THE CONVICTS UNDER SENTENCE OF DEATH IN
NrWe•Tl.—The two women, ElAabeth Anse Harris ant
Celeetina Sommer, who wire recently convicted, the Messer
of the martinet her Mild by drowning, and the latter of
the inelltr of her child by cutting its throat, and whom
ems melted ao painful en inter. st ulna the trial, were, re.
wed, immediately after the sentence was pt oars
to
smarm* rooms on the female side of the prison, where they
will remain isatil their fate decided upon by the Irvine-
meat. A Maids tsrakey is In the room with each prisoner
the whole of the day, sad at night two women sit up with
den. The scedessied women, although they were laugh
esslted dudes Unit trial, particularly the woman Hants
mediuMmed two of her children), have become much
somposed. Cambia Summer, who was convicted of
mwriseing her ehild at Winston, by tutting its threat, and
who was stated to be oily 26 yams old in the Weed. r,
a. it appears, two years older, but eves weeding
IS this, she must have brought the child, whams
1116 Me deem ye& iato the world when she was little more
this 16 yeersold. She has stated that she moms to be
mat to a Meade asylum, sod that atter she has boys cern-
laid there a few maths she will be set at liberty. Whether
or sot this belief le real or amused cannot, of tourer, he
positively seeeetaleed bat the authorities cf the prison, se
well se the medical oder, seem to be of opinion there is
no ground for supposing that her mind is in any way de-
Theng Pelsoser appears to have received a good
Gametic.; sad ti IS stated theta eis respectably connected-
Harris is osly 25 years old, and she appears to have 'strived
very little education. It is several years sin. a female
was emisated at lieriegeta, the last being a girl named
Browning, for the murder of an old woman, in We
mister, for the pupae a f getting p.rettson t.f what she
believed to Rs. beak of England rote, bat whit h, after she
Rad commitv d the murder, tetrad Out to be a nt t • of the
Bask of utiessace." It is andersto:d that • petition
for a welrilnlaioll of tar Sentence is in course of pref ar--
tios.
roe Peninsula and Oriental Company's steamer.
•!,.triambra arrived at Southemp.oo, on Saturday. She has
Abets maveliag the ladle mail Mimes Malta and Ma-
i anima