The Express.
London, England, 1867-01-15 00:00:00

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THE WEATHER IN THE NORTH.

EDINBURGH, Motility NIGHT.
About twenty mail hugs front the north are over-
due here. On Sunday many of the Aberdeen and Inverness
mails due on Friday and Saturday were rewiv..d ; but
there has been agate a large arrear, and no through com-
munication has to-day taken place with Edinburgh from
places north of Blair Atholl on the Highland line and
Montrose on the Aberdeen line. The latest telegr.uns
from the north, however, Intimate the re-opening of the
communication between l'erth and Aberdeen. The snow-
fall here has been slight, and a keen front prevails.

ABERDEEN, Moxtur NIGHT.
During last night and to-day snow continued to fall
heavily at frequent intervals. Since telegram of last
evening there has been no railway communication what-
ever to the north or up Deeside, and traffic in these direc-
tions has ceased. The Leaden train of Saturday due at
Aberdeen yesterday at noon did not arrive here till this
forenoon, 2.1 hours behind time. A mail fur London and
the south was despatched this afternoon, but in the
evening it was reported not to have got beyond Stone-
haven, 11; miles from Aberdeen. The weather to-night is
fair and frosty.

MEMORIALS OF LORD l'ai.xstorrow.—A public
meeting is to be held at Eomsey on Thursday next, in
order to make final arrangetuenta in reference to the monu-
ments to be erected in that town to the memory of the
late Viscount Palmerston. It was at tint intended to
erect a mortuary chapel at the cast end of lionise' Abbey
church, but that design ha. been abandoned in favour of
the insertion of stained glees in the large windows at the
western end of the church. The Right Hon. W. Cowper
has written to soy that this plan has the full concurreoce
of Lady Palmerston. A subscription was also raised for
the erection of • statue of Lord Pelinetiton. It has fallen
somewhat short of what was expected, and Mr. Cowper
has offered to wake the deficiency, so that arrangements
will be made for placing • suitable statue in Ramsey
market-place.
DR. VAL:aI:NE ON ENGLISH PEOTESTANTINN.
The Times this morning contains a long letter from Dr.
Merle D'Aubigne, dated from Geneva, entering very fully
into the ritual stic movement in England, which he says
has attracted much attention amongst continental pro-
testant". One of the requirements of the present epoch,
he says, is the acquisition by the laity of their legitimate
influence in the church. by to the present the laity have
been looked upon as in a state of minority; tha day of
their majority has arrived. Is not convocation, he asks,
generally felt to be a relic of the middle ages ? Its place
should be supplied by an upper house, in which would sit
the bishops and lay representatives elected by the different
dioceses ; a lower house for the clergy and lay represen-
tatives of parishes or unions of pilule. ; an executive
council to carry out the decisions of these two houses.
The laity should now petition the queen and parliament
for a better constitution of the church, and ask fora synod
or assembly, where their representatives could be heard.
" Never was it more necessary," remarks Dr. D'Alibigne,
" that the protestantirm of England should beeouie well
organised. Everyone knows the ambition of Humanism ;
the papal aggression was not so dangerous ea are the covert
but persevering efforts of the Jesuits, wet king, as they do
in England, with the aelp of continental Romanies.
Have they no share in the ritualism of the present day
Was not the identity of the two systems pointed out by
Dr. Manning ? But, whether demotion is at the bottom
of the present movement in England or no, the almighty
power of God and the organise 1 efforts of Christian people
are necessary to preserve the treasure recovered at the Re-
formation."
THE LOCK-OCT OF THE DZEBYEIHRE MINERS.
Last evening a deputation from the Derbyshire Miners'
Association, consisting of Melees. Thomas Hill and Charles
Barber, waited on the Lyndon Trades' Council at their
meeting in the ILll Inn, 01d Bailey, for tae of
asking the advice and assistance of the London trades.
The deputation stated that the association had la-en in
existence for three years, and last September invited the
miners of the surrounding districts to a meeting called fur
the purpose of extending the association. About WO
vipers responded to the invitation, and iutniediately after
the meeting the masters—the principal being: tic Clay-
cross Company and the Staveley Company—commenced
discharging their men and ejecting them from their
homes, obliging the miners and their families to go into
tents erected in • field at Whittington, procured for the
purpose by the association. The men sent letters of

renioostrsnoe and deputations to the masters and fore-
men, but without avail. The masters had now declared
that unless the men destroyed the rules and Looks of the
association tliey would not employ one of them. Fifteen
hundred miners were thus looked 0ut—....r.) in Staveley
and the remainder in Clay cross and surromidin,g districts
--although the men were w Wing to resume work without
any advance of wages, merely stipulating to preserve the
principle of union. The association was allowing 9s.
week to each miner locked out, and la. a week for estli
child in his family, the total expenditure amounting to
750 L week, which exceeded the income of the association.
Under these circumstances, the association appealed to the
London trades for assistrmce to enable the miners to resist
the oppression under which they were suffering. After
some discussion, credentials acre given to the deputation
entitling them to apply to the London trade so.ieties for
assistance.

CITY ur MOSCOW GAI Comr.txv.—The exten-
sive works oi this company, built for about NO, retorts
and the necessary ameiritus, were publicly opened on De-
cember 27, old style, by the Prince Mayor of Moscow, the
governor-,;eneval and grand toaster of police, the English
consul, Mr. Roberts, and a large number of umtd-
taries and intuenti.d citizens. In the large eiete..-house,
at 2 &clue:, all the great personages being assembled, the
Russian religious ceremony of the benediction of the esta-
blishment was gone through by several priest:, aolisted by
a choir of :10 buys, whose singing was very effective. At
the conclusion of this ceretatny the Rev. It. t:. Penny, the
English chaplain. offered up a irayer. Mr. Itibdoll,
who represented the London board cf directors on the
OCOASiOII, then read an address to his eNceliency the
Prince Mayor, during wide:, Mr. Frederick Leslie,
the engineer-in-chief, presented an elegant silver lamp. cf
Russian manufacture, to his e•xellency, with which the
newt public lamp in the Kremlin was to be lighted in the
evening. The mayor expressed his gratification at being
able to assist at the opining of works which would confer
many benefits upon his fellow-citizens. The mayor then
pronounced the works opened. After an inspection of
thu works, success to the company was drunk in bumpers of
champagne. The mayor gave a handsome donation to be
distrim,ted among th.• workmen, and at half-paq 4 o'clock
his excellency succes,fully lighted the first lair p in the
Kremlin. A hand of 40 musicians immediately played the
national air, and afterwards " God Save the Queen."
Itrilliant illuminations appeared at the Emperor's Palma,
at the Holy Chapel, Kremlin, and throughout the city.
Upwards of 2,000 public lamps were then rapidly lit, to
the admiration of a large number of spectators. The
weather was severely cold, registering on Leaumtr's
thermometer 20 dega. of cold, bat the day pasted of wi.:_-
out accident. _ _

Prtuanccrat t, DEC. 27, 18G6.—The clipper
David Crocket from San Francisco in IA days, wit'. a
cargo of 66,000 bushels of white wheat and 4,015, bushels
of barley, arrived to-day. The order for shipment was
telegraphed to San Francisco Sept. 1. This u the first
direct cargo of Californian grain over received IA this
port.—New Fork Herald. . .

Sours Kaxstxorox Mrszrx.—Visitors during
the week ending January 12. —On Monday. Tues-
day, and Saturday, free, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.u.,
7,107 ; on Wednesday, Thursday, and Triday (adads-
iioll 61.), from 10 a.m. till 4 p.m., 1,199; total, 9,566.
Average of corresponding week in former years, 9,691
Total from the opening of the Museum, 6,C,00,659.