The Express.
London, England, 1858-03-20 00:00:00

MR. RIDGE AND TEE COMMITTEE OF
THE STOCK HICHANGE.

TO TRZ EDITOR OF YRS DAILY
Sra,—The publicity you have given to the re-
course of the Stock Exchange, in affixing my name, accom-
panied with erroneous and unjust assertions, on a board on
their walls, induces me to believe you will .Lo give publicity
to this, my declaration, that I do not deserve the reproach
and odium which they try to cast upon me; and I conscien-
tiously affirm, that to my knowledge I have not written or
uttered one falsehood to extenuate or justify my suspension;
but do believe that the circumstances which necessitated it
are a disgrace to those who produced them, and that the
committee of the Stock Exchange le highly culpable, in hav-
ing been induced to believe what is not true, end affixing to
their walls so libellous sad untrue a statement. It is my
arm hope I shall be able to get redress through a higher
pow, from a nits-statement calculated to do MO so much
injury.-1 am, ,tic , EDWARD RIDGE.
Finchley, March 18.

LADY HAVELOCIC.—ne lady of the late Sir H.
Havelock bas been staying at Divere's Dover Castle Hotel
during the put week. Her ladyship was in Dover, oat •
visit, some six years atom with her brave husband, the
lamented hero of a hundred Indian tights, who during his
brief stay won for himself the esteem in military circles bars,
as be did wherever he was known, either aa a privets Chris-
tian gentleman, or as one of the finest specimens of his pro-
iminion.—Doesr Chronicle.

THE SOLICITOR-GENERALSHIP OF SCOTLAND.—
On Thursday Mr. Bailey presented his commiaeion to the
whole court assemblei in the first division, and was sworn
in in the usual forte as Solicitor General.

vestry meeting
held at Cuckfleld on Thursday, 18th inst., an attempt wee
made to levy a church rate of 2d. friths pound. Where-
upon en amendment was prop Red by Mr. John Peckham
(ex-churchwarden). seconded by Mr. Cafyn, to the following
seise:—" That there be no church rate made, it being un-
necessary at the present time—the large sums of money ex-
pended in ornaments and decorations proving thatwhat maybe
required for neonsary repairs, &re. will be readily forthootnlng,
and that, if a rate be code, the funds would be employed to
advance Puseyism In the parish." A long dismission en-
sued, and on submitting the amendment, the vicar, upon a
show of hands, declared it carried. Many churchmen
=rthe rate as a protest against Pueryite radian pre-
adio the church. As no poll was irted upon, Cask-
field must be added to the rural perishes where church rates
have been successfully resisted. The pro-rate party threaten
to call another vestry to try the question again.
CAMBRIDGE, MARCH 19.—At a congregation this
day the following am«es were withered . by Royal
Mandate . George Edward Lynch Cotton, Bishop
a/Calenthe. A.M.: C. B. Marley, Trinity Collegsl;)r.irsH.
Kelly, Clare Hall. After exasalaation the following gentle-
men were elected to Bell's scholarships Richmond,
peserhouse ; 2. Star, Trinity.
A POLICE OFFICER COMBATED FOR ROBBERY.—
John M‘Gurk, elution- in the Liverpool police forearm yew
burley committed tot trial by the stipendiary magistrate ens
charge of stealing a sovereign from a coloured ammers, Peter
Williams by name, with whom the °Meer war drinking on
St. Patrick's-day at • public-hoods inVan:WO-road, Liver-
Pod.