The Express.
London, England, 1867-07-11 00:00:00

REMARKS.

Barometrical pressure Is decreasing gradually over the British
Isles. Wind. in the south are moderate from eastward, and
weather is generally fine. A thunder shower is reported from
Aberdeen.

The Representation of the People Bill, as
amended in committee, was issued this morning. It occu-
pies with the schedules 29 pages. Clause 20 still stands :
"In all future parliaments the Universities of London
shall return one member to parliament."
An excursion party, numbering 250 working
men, from Copenhagen, has arrived in Paris to visit the
Exhibition. This trip was organised by M. Wolfhagen,
Vice President of the Danish Commission.

NEW YORK, JULY 10.—(By Atlantic Telegraph.)
—The steamers Atalanta and Pennsylvania arrived here
to-day.

SOUTHAMPTON, JULY 11.—The Peninsular and
Oriental Company's steamer Syria passed the Needles at
12.10 p.m. to-day.
TRH LATE Ma. SCHOLEFIELD.—To the facts men-
tioned yesterday in our columns in reference to the
lamented death of Mr. Scholefield, we have now to add a
few particulars. We stated that on Monday evening
Mr. Scholefield attended in the House of Commons
as usual. He afterwards dined with a Birming-
ham friend at the Reform Club, and there seemed
to be in decidedly improved health. On Tues-
day morning, up to 10 o'clocic, he was quite as well as
usual, when be was seized with a sudden attack of para-
lysis ; and this, supervening on disease of the heart of
some standing, brought his life to a close in the course of a
few hours. After the first few moments of the attack,
Mr. Scholefield never recovered consciousness. His chil-

dren (Mr. Clement Scholefield and Mrs. Meredith) together
with his medical attendants, were present at the death-
bed. The funeral is fixed to take place on Tuesday next,
at Kensal-green Cemetery, near London—that place of in-
terment having been selected from the circumstance that
Mrs. Scholefield was buried there. We are informed that
it is the wish of the family that the ceremony should be
privately conducted ; but there is a strong desire on the
part of Mr. Scholefield's late constituents that the town
should in some manner be represented, and this may pos-
sibly lead to some change in the arrangementa.—Birmmy-
ham Post.

A Nannow ESCAPE.—On Monday afternoon the
porter at the Cemetery Gates station (Hull) as well as one
or two bystanders, had • very narrow escape. As the
train leaving Paragon station at 4.45 for Withernsea
approached the Spring-bank station the gates were
closed upon the carriage road by the porter, who
then went on the platform to assist the passengers.
As soon as the porter's back was turned a mis-
chievous lad, about nine or ten years of age, opened
the gate on the west side of the line. The porter's atten-
tion was called to the open gate, and he ran to close it,
as it was projecting over the line. The train was then
coming along at • rapid rate, and was within 20 or 30 yards
of the gate. He made every effort to close it, but just as
the train came up he saw he had not time to do so. He
had barely time to step upon the platform when the train
dashed into the gate, shivering it to pieces and taking a
portion of it away on the buffers of the engine. Hail the
porter been • second later in stepping upon the platform,
be must have been killed. Several persons who were
standing near the gates watching the train pass very nar-
rowly escaped being struck by the splinters, which were
thrownaboutin every direction.—Eastern Counties Ile raid.
SERIOUS CASE OF SHOOTING NEAR NOTTINGHAM.
—At the Shireduill, Nottingham, yesterday (Wednesday)
an old man named Thomas Truswell, aged 61 years, was
brought before the sitting magistrates on the charge of
shooting Charles Gunn, aged 18, at the village of Gotham,
seven miles from Nottingham. It appeared from the evi-
dence of police-constable Brown that on Monday night
last, about ten o'clock, Gunn and several of his oorupanions
were in the street annoying the prisoner by throwing
stones at his door. l'riaoner thereupon came out of his
house and pursued the young men. Failing, however, to
come up with them, he fired his gun, and the charge en-
tered the body of Gunn in various places. A surgeon's
certificate was produced, stating that upwards of fifty
shots had entered the body, and Gunn was not able to
appear. Fatal consequences are not anticipated. The
prisoner was remanded until Saturday.
WOOLWICH, JULY la—The whole of the avail-
able troops in garrison, comprising the Royal Horse Artil-
lery, field batteries, and the Woolwich division of Royal
Marine Light Infantry, assembled on the common this
day at 11 o'clock, and occupied upwards of two hours in
the complete details of • field-day and sham tight, which
is stated to be • rehearsal to • grand review which will
take place in the presence of the Viceroy of Egypt and
other distinguished visitors.
A JACKAL AT LARGE.—For some time past con-
siderable depredations have been committed among the
poultry and young pigs in the neighbourhood of this town,
which have been by some attributed to the incursions
of master reynard; and a week or two back, about
9 o'clock, a young man named Wagstaff, living in
Southgate-street, when on his way home, observed an
animal which he supposed to be a fox, and somewhat
injudiciously made an attempt to capture it, when it
turned upon him and seized him by the hand, biting it
completely through the palm. A considerable amount of
inflammation ensued, and he has been quite incapable
of using the hand ever since, but is now recovering.
The animal was in fact a jackal, which bad escaped
from the premises of Capt. Hon, of Fornham, and we
understand that, after having been on a marauding
expedition in the neighbourhood for some time, it was
abut a few days since by • gamekeeper.—Bury Gad
Nonsid Post.