The Express.
London, England, 1867-12-24 00:00:00

REMARKS.

The barometrical pressures reported this morning show a
diminution over the whole of the British Isles since yesierday,
except at Valencia ; the decreer amounts to three-tenths of an
Inch at OreeiscaNtle, whilst at Helder a rise of a tenth is shown.
Temperatures have risen geeerally. Winds this zuornlng are
southerly—moderate to fresh In Orr and light In the
south of Ireland, where !Ley lave aocrensed since yesterday.
On the west Coast of Prance they are southeasterly and mode-
-1 ate. The weather eyeliser evereer Bale has been general
in the west, but fog is less prevalent than it was yesterday.

THE OUTRAGE AT WARRINGTON.—The four men
employed at the gasworks, who were arrested yesterday,
were brought before the magistrates. There can be little
doubt that the withdrawal of the plug was a deliberate
act on the part of some person or persons, but the bench
did not consider the evidence laid before them sufficient to
justify them in directing the prisoners to be detained
in custody. The four men were, therefore, discharged.
It may be stated that warning had been given of an
alleged design to blow up the gasworks, and special mea-
sures had been taken to protect the premises. The mayor
received a message last evening from the Home-office
stating that mischief was intended by the Fenian in the
neighbourhood of Warrington, and warning the authorities
to be on their guard. A meeting of magistrates was called,
and a large number of special constables have been sworn
in. The proceedings at the police-court yesterday have
caused great excitement in the town, and a feeling of un-
easiness pervades the public mind. Today's Warrington
Guardian announces that a post-mortem examination on the
watch-dog near the gas works shows it had been poisoned.
Fourteen Irishmen have been discharged from the gas
works. Special constables are being sworn in.
EDUCATIONAL Movissitsre IN BIRMINOHADL—A
new educational movement has been commenced at
kir-
mingham. It is estimated that there are 20,000 children
' in the town entirely without education, and to meet this
want its proposed to raise a fund to be called "King
Edward the Sixth's Memorial School Fund." Schools are
to be erected in the most destitute districts of the town,
and it is urged that fifty new schools will not be too many
to meet present edncational requirements. Ammar& the
religions constitution of the schools, it is proposed to place
them in connection with the churl of England, but to
carry out the same system of toleration and perfect equality
which has beer, adopted in King Edward's schools, where
children of all religious denominations are admitted with-
out distinction, and without any sacrifice of religious prin-
ciple.
VIOLET ETTINGHAN.—She was small, with light
crispy hair, which seemed to be ever on the flutter round
her brows, and which yet was never a hair astray. She
had sweet, soft grey eyes, which never looked at you long,
—hardly for a moment,—but which yet, in that half
moment, nearly killed you by the power of their sweetness.
Her cheek was the softest thing in nature, and the colour
of it, when its colour was fixed enough to be told, was •
shade of pink so faint and creamy that you would hardly
dare to call it by its name. Her mouth was perfect, not
small enough to give that expression of silliness which
IA so common, but almost divine, with the temptation of
its full, rich, ruby lips. Her teeth, which she but seldom
showed were very even and very white, and there rested
on her Chin the dearest dimple that ever acted as a !road-
ster to men's eyes. The fault of her face, if it had a fault,
was in her noes, which was a little too sharp, and perhaps
too enialL A woman who wanted to depreciate Violet
Effingham had once called her • pug-nosed puppet : but I,
as her chronicler, deny that she wee pug nosed,—tad
the world who knew her soon came to understand that she
wee no puppet. In figure she was small, but not so small
as she looked to be. Her feet and hands were delicately
fine, and there was a softness about her whole person, an
apparent compressibility, which seemed to indicate that
the might go into very small compass. Into what cooper
and how eompremed time were very many men who held
very different —" Phinees Finn," in fit, Peel's
Magazine for December.