The Express.
London, England, 1866-11-22 00:00:00

ORPHAN WORKINGSCHOOL.-(THIS DAY.)

The Lord Mayor presided at a special meeting of
the governors and subscribers of this charity held at noon
at the London Tavern, for the purpose of electing ten
orphans whose parents have diet of cholera.
The repot t of the committee of management stated that
that body at their first meeting after the outbreak of
cholera in the cast of London, upon mature consideration,
deemed it to be their duty as the managers of an orphan
asylum at once to offer aid and assistance in order to miti-
gate, as far as they possibly could, the distress of the
buffering and bereaved poor, by admitting at a special and
extra election ten orphans whose parents, or father only,
ma y have died of cholera. The circumstances at once
called for prompt action, and although very little had
been attempted in the way of appeal, yet a sum ex.
needing 3001., or about a fourth part of the sum required,
bad bceu contributed towards the expense of maintaining
those ten additional orphans. The committee require the
511 m of 1,2:00. to meet the expenses attendant upon the
admission of these ten orphans, and they therefore appeal
for an additional I,OOW. to defray the charges upon the
general income of the charity, which this special effort will
involve.
The I. dan Mxviir expressed the pleasure he felt in pre-
siding at the meeting, which was the first he had attended
since his appointment to the civic chair. He considered
one could hardly he present without being impressed with
the great value of such institutions as the Orphan
Asylum, especially at the present time, when society
was scarcely recovered from the shock occasioned by
the visitation of cholera, which left many children father-
less or motherless or orphans completely. He was forcibly
struck by the fact that last July 40 children were elected to
the benefits of the charity, and that next year 40 more will
he received, so that with the 10 children who are to be
elected at present the charity would have taken 90 children
in twelve months, and augmented the number of inmates
to 400. A large demand would he consequently made
on the funds of the charity, and lie was sure
the public would not allow a deficiency in funds
when they saw the vast amount of good which
was being done. The institution conferred great benefits
on society by taking under its sheltering care children who
if left neglected would in all probability become victims
to every species of vice.
The H-y. JoHN PArrnsoN, M.A., moved and Mr. JAMES
WAI.TrIt seconded a resolution, thanking the committee
for what they had done, rind commended the charity to
the cordial support of the public.
A cordial vote of thanks was given to the Lord Mayor
for his kindness in presiding.
The polling then commenced.

REMARKS.
Licht westerly winds prevail over the British Isles. with rather
higher temperature. The sky is overcast w;tli some fn,; ou the
southern coasts. To the southward of this country an easterly
current of whirl coati owe to prevail with low temperance.
Barometric pressure is high and nearly uniform. but in the west
it is dwereasing.

The Times advocates " official life peerages"—
life peerages, that is, attached to certain offices, as, fur
instance, to those of Lord Chief Justice of the Queen's
Bench and Common Pleas, and Lord Chief Baron of the
Exchequer, to the Lord Justiceehip of Appeal in Chancery,
and, perhaps, to the Mastership of the Rolls. The Lord
Chancellor himself might still be an hereditary peer, nor
would the privilege of the crown to grant hereditary
peerages to distinguished lawyers, as well as to thstin-
guished soldiers, be in any respect curtailed, while the
judicial reputation of the House of Lords, the Times
ASHBU RN HAM-HOUSE. The solicitor of Mr.
argues, would be vastly increased.
Mr. George Shaw Lefevre, M.P. for Reading, Simpson, the freeholder of the grounds of Ashbumbani-
hou,e Chelsea writes to say that he has given notice
and a Junior Lord of the Admiralty in the late govern- to the general secretary of the trades' societies that the
ment, has returned to England from America, where he reform demonstration sill not be allowed to take place
had been on a tour for several weeks. there. Mr. E. T. Smith, the occupier of the premises,
Mr. Henry Vincent is at New York, and at the says that the placards announcing the gathering were
issued without his sanction or authority.
last dates was about to speak at the Cooper Institute, on RI:PRESENTATION OF TII 1: COI: NTY OF WATER-
"The late great American Conflict and the Friends and i Foßl..—There are rumours of the probable appearance of a
Enemies of America in England." conservative candidate for the representation of the county
Mrs. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who was a candi- I of W.,terforil ; but the only person who appears to have as
date for Congress in the Eighth District of New York. yi,trireb,ilrlie,‘,ll. the electors is Mr. De la Poer—hublia
received the total of eight votes, her radical opponent I Piltot Rost:- ti mt.. —Yesterdav, a joint deputation
receiving 9,196, and her conservative opponent 13,113. from the parishes of St. )I:trylel...lie and St. Pancras
Mrs. Stanton is not daunted by this failure. She announces waited upon Lord John Manners, First Commissioner of
her determination never to lower the flag of " Equal her Majesty's Works, to draw his attention to the dia-
Rights." gr..ceful condition of Prinirme-hill at bight time, and to
ask him to cause the lull to be lighted. It wan stated that
The physicians to whom was confided the case of after nightfall the principal paths, the most frequented of
M. de la Garza, the Mexican who fired a pistol in the lobby which was that from Chalk-farm to St. John's-wood, were
of the Italian Opera, Paris, have come to the conclusion infested by the worst characters of both sexes, and that it
that he is completely out of his mind. NV,tts inmate for respectable people to travel them. This
would be to a great i:tettt remedied if these paths were
The Marquis de la Rochejarquelein, chairman of lighted. The parishes of St. Pancras and Marylebone
the board of directors of the Vendee Railway, lately I hail agreed upon a plan which would, in their opinion, be
brought an action for defamation against M. Guedon• a the best meaes of carrying out this object, and which
barrister of Rochefort, the alleged objectionable words .
Tooluillialmaenentet,views of the parishioners generally. Lord
1 is'esaid he must decline giving a direct answer
being spoken by the former in court while pleading in is to the ie.luest of the deputution, but he would take into
case against the Vendee Company. The Tribunal of corisider.:tion the statements they had made, and if they
Napoleoin'Vendee, before which the action was tried, non- I would leave the plan lie would give his attention to it.
suited M. de la Rochejaquelein, with costs. A meeting of the Oaths Inquiry Commissioners
A letter from St. Petersburg of the 18th says : yesterday. Nov. 21, at 2, Victorimatreet, West
Duke of Richmond. Lord Lvveden,
771, a
shtenelr'.l
" The report of the Cesarevna's health is very satisfactory. the Bishop of Oxford, the Dean of St. Paul's, the Right
She was able to get up yesterday for the first timt. since . Hon. H. Waddington, and Mr. J. H. Patteson, Secretary
the commencement of her indisposition, and to-day she is •to the Commission.
FESETBAL L. —CH ARTERHOUSE v. W ESTM INSTER.
much better. It appears that, being unused to the climate
This match was played yesterday at Vincent-square, and
of St. Petersburg, she did not take sufficient precaution
resulted in a victory fur the Carthusian by one goal,
when she left the Winter Palace on Friday evening. The kicked by Watford.
diadem that she wore at the ballpreventeitherfrom putting M It. CYRUS \V. FIELD. —We hope we do not violate
anything on her head when she entered her carriage, and confidence in stating a fact to the honour of a New York
this is enough to account for the severe cold she caught, m w
erchant, hich, though a private transaction, ought to
as
and which h disturbed all the arrangements foe the lie known Our fellow citizen, Mr Cyrus W. Field—
whose name will always he connected with the Atlantic
week."
Telegraph—has twice nearly ruined himself by his devotion
We read in Gafignoni :—" Lieutenant Bonnin to that enterprise. Though a man of independent fortune
of the French navy, and orderly officer to the Minister of when he began, he embarked in it snfla
fi.. nrgi whole. t\\
of
.cailarent
i.sennearly to a
Marine, had the honour the day before yesterday gaged mthekeexspehipditioenkoz leo, ,wa financial stormm
exhibiting to their Majesties at Compiegne his new plan . swept over this country, and his house suspended, but
of a breech-loader. These carbines excited considerable on his return he asked only for time, and paid all
curiosity as much by the rapidity of their fire as by the in full with interest. But the stoppage was a heavy
simplicity of their mechanism. The Emperor kept the in- ' blow, and being followed by a fire in 1859, which
venter to breakfast and ordered General Lebinuf to have burned his store to the ground, and by the panic
of December, 1860, just before the breaking out
an official trial of the weapon." I of the war, he was finally obliged to compromise with
THE EMPRESS Or MEXICO'S HEALTH. The ' his creditors. Thus released, he devoted himself to the
Lffierle says :—" Private letters, which we have received ' work of his life, which he has at Last carried through.
I The success of the Atlantic Telegraph, we are happy to
from an excellent source, give a deplorable account of the I learn, has brought back a portion of his lost wealth, and
state of the E-npreas Charlotte's health. The august , his first earn has been to make good all losses to others.
sufferer has totally lost her reason, and is in a dreadful He has addressed a letter to every creditor who sufferend ad by
date of agitation. She tears her clothes, obstinately I the failure of the house in 1860, requesting him to se
refuses all food and drink, and is in terror of every human stateine.d of the amount compromised, adding the interest
for nearly lux years, and as fast as presented returns a
SOUTHWARK. being who approaches her.' 1 cheque in full. The whole amount will be about 200,000 doh.
IMPFTENT ROBBERY Or A HORSE AND CAB. Nine horses were burnt to death by a fire yes- • Such known however he may wish to keep it secret, ought
William Weston, described as a groom, was brought up terday on the premises of the Liverpool Road and Railway Ito be to his honour, and to the honour of the mer-
for final examination, charged with stealing a haw and Omnibus Company. I chants of New York.—Nete York Evening Post.

Philip Christiqn Von Hoorin, a gentlemanly-looking
young man, surrendered to take his trial upon a charge of
semimg a threatening letter, demanding money, to Mr.
Hope.
There was another indictment against the defendant,
charging him with sending a letter with a view to incite
the prosecutor to fight a duel.
The defendant pleaded guilty to the last-mentioned
charge.
Mr. Cliflard, Q.C., who was instructed to prosecute,
said that he was perfectly satisfied with this, and he should
not press the other charge.
The defendant was then ordered to enter into recogni-
muses in 1,0001. with two sureties in 5001. each, to keep
the peace fur six months.

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

CLERK EN WELL.
DRIVING CATTLE ON MUNDATS,

John Richards, of 14, Arthur-street, Goswell-road,
drover, was summoned at the instance of Inspector Odell,
with driving sheep in the parish of Islington between the
hours of 1 o'clock on Saturday night and 12 o'clock on
Sunday night.
police-constable Loveday, 142 Y, said that on Sunday,
the 11th inst., he was on duty in the Sevenasisten—road,
when he saw the defendant driving 250 sheep. It was
about half-past 8 o'clock on the Sunday evening. The
sheep were taken to the lairs belonging to Mr. Guerrier, a
distance of about 200 yards, in the parish of Islink,.on.
Mr. Ricketts, who appeared to defend, said that this
was a very hard case, and one that ought never to have
been hi ought before the court. The short facts were
these : The steamer Mars, from Antwerp, arrived at
Gravesend on the 10th inst., at 11 a.m., but owing to the
dense fog could not get to Blackwall until 3 p.m., when
it was too late for the inspector of cattle to pass the ship,
consequently the whole cargo had to remain on the wharf
without food till Sunday afternoon at 5 p.m., the
orders of the police preventing them being driven through
the streets at that time. These sheep could not be driven
to any lairs without coming into the parish of Islington,
and to take them to the market Lairs they would have to
travel through the crowded streets for more than a mile.
To avoid that nuisance, Mr. Guerrier, the defendant's em-
ployer, had them driven on the outskirts, and through a
toll to his own lain, and the whole of the distance that the
sheep actually travelled on the roads of the parish of
Islington was not actually more than 200 yards. The
wharf where the sheep were landed has no accommo-
dation for feeding, consequently it was only common hu-
manity to take the animals to some place to feed them.
The carrying out of the Islington Act was a heavy toll on
the persons engaged in the cattle trade, and it was against
the necessities of the case.
Mr. D'Eyncourt said that he was of opinion that a
line ought to be drawn, and he had mentioned to the
police that he thought some inquiry should be made before
so many summonses should be taken out. As the defen-
dant had only gone a little distance in the parish he should
only enter him to pay the costs.
Mr. Ricketts said that the police should be more careful
in taking out summonses. All that the defendant had
done was in the cause of humanity, and he did not think
that the defendant should be called on to pay the costs. This
question was of very great importance, not only to the
cattle salesmen, hat to the community at large, as if the
cattle arrived at the wharves late, and they could not
be taken to the lairs without the parties being fined every
time they went through the parish of Islington, the price
of meat would always be mimed to meet that contingency.
He hoped that the magistrate would dismiss the summons.
Mr. D'Eyncourt said that the act of parliament did seem
against the necessities of the awe, and dismissed the
summons.