The Express.
London, England, 1867-05-17 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, FRIDAY EVENING, MAY 17, 1867.

Mr. .Sete—.Very incorrect, I think.
I)efeti.l.int I believe 1 wua ringing at my own house.
Mr. Selfe- Why you have given your addreas on the
police-.beet at Paddington.
Defendant--Yee, but I live in Glinter's•grove as well.
Mr. Selfe—}low many bowies did he knock and ring at ?
Policennui— At three.
Mr. Selfe (tu defeudant)—llo you live in three bowies
int;i!ntt.r's•grTe ?.

Defendod—Next door is a friend's, and finding I could
not get WU, ugy ?we house I knocked there.

16: tielfe--And the other house
Defendant- That's unfinished.
Mr. belle—Then it was not much use knocking or ring-
ing there.
Policeman- Why it was the other side of the way, sir.
Mr. belle—This is hardly an samun meat of persons not
over yooog. 1 thought it was confined to suckling medi-
cal students mid those sort of people. As you area" gen-
tlent.m" you are tined 20s.
The fine was immediately paid.
WANDSWORTH.
SPFNDING A HONEYMOON.

rt Trig 1ff0,(,, gentleman, of No. 9 room, Claren-
don Hotel, Anerly, was charged with travelling on the
London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, and refusing
to pay his fare ; also with ass suiting William Reach, ticket
collector at the Clapham junction station.
The collector stated on the arrival of a train at a late
hour the prisoner was found asleep in is second chow car-
riage. He woko him up and asked him for his ticket; but
he had not one, and ref-Used to pat), the fare. The prisoner
struck him in the carriage and after he had assisted him
out of it. He used abusive language.
Pri.oner—Did I strike you at all ?
Witness—Yes ; in the carriage and out of it.
Prisoner Sir Richard Mayne is my wife's first cousin,
and he shall remove you.
. .

Mr. Daytnan —I don't think Sir Richard Mayne has any-
thing to do with the ease.
. .

PiWooer (to the witnesid—Did you drag me out of the
carriage 411.1.1p0ck um down?

Prisoner texcitedly)—You ate a liar.
Mr. Daytona -Th.tt is not the way to conduct yourself, to
call a witness a liar. _

Prisoner—The treatment I have received is enough to
make a man angry ; but I beg your worship's pardon.
Mr. Dayinan then remarked that it appeared to him
that the a..sault was committed in trying to remove the
prisoner from the carriage. He was liable to a penalty if
he attempted to travel without obtaining a ticket ; but he
(Mr. Da en) did not see that there was any power to
remove him unless he annoyed passengers.
An officer of the company said he understood the
prisoner was drunk.
Mr. Hayman informed the officer that the charge was
not so stated.

The prisoner said he gave his name and address, as he
was stopping at the Clarendon Hotel, Anerly. Ho was
spending his honeymoon, and he did not wish to bother
himself about the fare, but he considered he had been very
badly treated, and therefore he refused to pay it. He
wanted to get out at the Crystal Palace station, where he
was known, bat he fell asleep, and was awoke by the wit.
ness, who pulled him out of the carriage.
Mr. Dayinan said the prisoner must be discharged, as
there was no power to remove him from the carriage. He,
however, recommended him to pay the fare.
The prisoner readily acquiesced, and as he left the dock
said he would first have to pay a visit to his " uncle."

BArrorr UNION.—The annual meeting of this
union, consisting of minister and members of Baptist
churches throughout Great Britain, was held yesterday
morning in John-street Chapel, Bedford-row. There was
a numerous attendance of ministers, delegates, and
visitors. The chairman of the union, the Hon. and Rev.
B. W. Noel, having delivered an address upon sacerdotal-
ism in the church of England, the secretary presented the
report, which took a brief survey of the present condition
of the entire denomination. That condition it pronmneed
to be one of steadily-increasing prosperity. The additions
reported in their tables did not, indeed, appear to be
quite equal to those of last year, but so many new churches
had been formed beyond the average number,
whose membership was not yet reported, that the total
increase might be reasonably inferred to be larger
than before. Thirty-nine new chapels had been
opened at a cost of 59,2651., supplying accommoda-
tion for 24,:)..30 worshippers, while twenty-nine chapels
had been enlarged or improved by the addition of school
roomy, at an expense of 17,068/., making a total outlay
under this head of at least 75,n1/. In addition to this
the income of the college had been 14,646/. • their mis-
sionary societies, home and foreign, about 40,001. ; their
building funds, 6,1511. • their ministers' provident and
benevolent societies, 2,0004 ; their tract society and edu-
cational board at least another 1,000/. ; making a free con-
tribution to the cause of Christ of about 140,000/. on the
part of the Baptist denomination during the year, exch.
awe of the support of its ministry. The report having
been moved by Rev. Mr. Bailhache, and seconded by Rev.
James Spurgeon, was carried unanimously. Some formal
business was then transacted, after which the assembly
adjourned until this day.
lanai RsitivsYs.—rsoon after the meeting of
the House of Commons yesterday, a number of !deb
members assembled in the tea-room, where several Irish
peers also joined the conference. The object of the meet-
mg was to consider the report of the Royal Commissioners
upon Railways, and to determine what steps should be
taken with regard to the railways in the sister island.
Lord Dufferin was called to the chair. The
which were of a merely formal nature, reser:elm it
naming of a committee, to draft resolutions for con-
sideratim at an adjourned meeting on Tuesday next.
Upon a subsequent day • general meeting of peers and
member of the House of Commons interested in the wel-
fare of Irel.nd will be called, when, after due deliberation
and discussion, the collective wishes of the Irish legisla-
tors will be laid before the government with all the weight
and influence to be derived from united action. A
contemporary states that there is a confident belief that
Lord Naas, the Chief Secretary for Ireland, is engaged in
maturing a plan of reform in connection with the railways
of Ireland, not adverse to the ideas of English economists,
yet calculated to gratify both the Irish proprietary bodies
and the Irish people.
DEATH OF MR. W. MCCONNELL. —WO regret to
announce the death of Mr. W. McConnell, the well-known
draughtsman on wood, which took place on Tuesday. The
deceased gentleman had natural talent which only needed
instruction and refinement to have won for him a good
place in the ranks of art. He contributed to many of our
popular periodicals, but will be best remembered by his
illustrations to Mr. Sala's "Twice Round the Clock,"
which were full of spirit. Mr. McConnell for several
year worked in harmony with Mr. C. H. Bennett, whom
he has survived but so short • time.—Star.

THE SUPPLY OF COAL TO THE METROPOLIS.— The
total quantity of coal now supplied to the metropolis is at
the rate of 5,600,000 tone per annum, or 7 per cent. of the
entire yield of the United Kingdom, of which about one
half is carried by sea and the other by railway. For the
month of April the division was nearly equal, as 664 ships
carried 274,272 tons against 271,789 tons forwarded by rail-
way. The district sending the most is Newcastle, which is
credited with 125,629 tons ; the next in order being Derby-
shire, with about 90,000, one third of the entire quantity
carried by railway. The total sent to London will be—by
sea, 50 per cent. ; from Derbyshire, 17 per cent. ; York-
shire, 10 per cent. • ' and the remainder is forwarder' from
collieries in Staffordshire, Lancashire, Wales, &c. The
qualities most in request for household purposes are the
Hatton, Harwell, and some of the Wallsends, and the
Bilkstones of the South Yorkshire district. The most
valuable coal is the Wigan cannel, which is considered the
best for gas-making purposes in the kingdom. Newcastle
and Wales supply most of the steam coal, both being on
the Admiralty list—an advantage not enjoyed by the York-
shire and other coalmasters, although their "herds" com-
mand a large sale for the iron and steel works, and also for
the merchant steam @ernes.

THE CATTLE PLAGUE. —For the week ending
11th May, seventeen attacks of cattle plague have been
reported, being an increase of seven on the last return.
On the premises in New North-road, Islington, infected
on 4th May, three additional attacks have occurred, and
the animals have been killed by order of the inspector, as
were also 10 healthy cows. Four fresh outbreaks of the
disease have been reported ; one in Shepperton-mews, New
North-road, Islington, on premises belonging to the
owner of the stock above mentioned ; of 4 animals, 1 bull
and 2 heifers were attacked and killed by order of the in-
spector. Another outbreak occurred in a stock of 30 cattle
at Stoke Newington-green, in the Finsbury district; 9
animals contracted the disease, and were killed by order
of the inspector, and the remaining 21 were slaughtered
healthy. The same inspector reports that he found a
cow suffering from cattle plague in Mare-street, Hackney,
which he ordered to be killed and buried. The remaining
outbreak is reported from Blyth, near Retford, Notting-
hamshire ; in a stock of 14 animals, one cow was attacked,
and was killed by order of inspector.
A Naw OnJecrioN TO Exmernoxs.—There
ought, I think, to be some sort of statute of limitations
about international exhibitions. They serve as land-
marks in the records of social life of an unpleasant kind.
I observe already that ladies of a certain—or uncertain—
age are beginning to repudiate all recollection of that first
and fairest of the series, which sixteen years ago owed its
beauty to the genius of a some-time English gardener.
Yet, though their memory is short in this respect, mine is
long; and I can remember strolling, with some of those
of whom I speak, up and down the leaf-arched nave, and
crushing by the side of others into the cage where the
Koh-i-noor glittered in its glory. From these recollections
I can form positive conclusions as to the dates of these
ladies' baptismal certificates which might possibly not be
coinciding with the received and current opinion to which
they are understood to have given their sanction. So in
like manner I am afraid, if ever the weak desire of con-
cealing my years should grow upon me, the fact, that I
knew the old Glass Palace well, will be brought up in
judgment against me. It is all very well now, but ten,
twenty, thirty years hence, the survivors of those who
visited the first building will not perhaps be over-eager to
recall their reminiscences of its glories. If we are to have
exhibitions at the intervals of every decade or so, we
shall possibly grow to think that poor old Colonel Sib-
thorpe was not quite so mad as we fancied at the time,
when be waged deadly war against the late Prince Con-
ores hobby.—Afacrniifon's Maga:Me for May.

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