The Express.
London, England, 1858-09-25 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBEV 25, 1858.

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complaints were laid and tilearly established against
three other omnibuses, also belonging to the Lon-
don General Omnibus Company, for the offence of
curling." They were proved to have beset and
obstructed in every possible way one of the Saloon
omnibuses—stopping where it stopped, pursuing when
it moved on—driving across it, running into it, adopt-
ing, in fine, every conceivable mode of annoyance which
the most improved tactics of street warfare supply
to the accomplished " 'bus " driver. Now, a worse
offence against the safety and decorum of our thorough-
fares than this can hardly be conceived. No one can
have moved about much in London without feeling
amazement and disgust at the laxity which permits
such disorderly and dangerous proceedings to go on.
When a clear case of the kind is made out it is surely
the obvious duty of the magistrate to put in force
every power of repression with which the law en-
trusts him. Did Mr. Mesta do this? Nothing of
the kind. He contented himself with imposing a
fine of 10s. on each driver of the three obstructing
omnibuses. In thus doing, we cannot avoid coming
to the conclusion that he failed in what was
due to the occasion, the public, and himself. It is
notorious, it was indeed avowed by the London
General Omnibus Company in their last report, that
this abominable and dangerous system of " nursing"
is recognised by the Company as one of their regular
heads of expenditure. Surely a monopolist con-
cern like this, that seeks to drive all rivals off the
road by means alike offensive to public order and
opposed to public safety, is no object for magis-
terial lenity. It may be, and no doubt is, true, that
the powers of punishment at present conferred by the
Police Act are very inauequate to the due repression
of this class of offences. But the inadequacy of a
penal law is no reason for not exerting the powers
of that law to the utmost. The administrator of
the law who fails to do this, appears in publio esti-
mation to extenuate the offence. That you cannot
punish as you would is no reason for not pnniehiiit
as you can. Mr. BEADON showed a much wiser
discretion in imposing a fine en 31. on a driver who
was brought before him, also on the same day, for
furiously running into and damaging another omni-
bus. A fine even of 31. might be a very insufficient
penalty, but it very sufficiently marked the Magis-
trate's sense of the delinquent's conduct.
It is quite obvious that something must be done
in the next session of Parliament towards strength-
ening the powers of the police magistrates with
regard to this very dangerous and disgusting class
of street offences. The penalty imposed must be a
, heavy one, and it must be imposed directly on the
owners. The men act in almost every case under
the instructions, either express or implied, of their
employers. This is especially the case as regards
the disgraceful practice of " nursing." A minimum
fins of 101. rigorously imposed on the owners of
every omnibus that should be proved to be engaged
in this practice, would speedily put it down. The
same or even a heavier fine should be imposed on
the owner of every omnibus convicted of racing.
It is perfectly intolerable, that owing to the inade-
quacy of our laws, and the laxity of their adminis-
trators, practices should at this day be tolerated in
the streets of London which carry one back to the
epochs of oil-lamps and foot-pads, Charlie§ and
Juries, Bloods and Mohawks.

Cbc Qrourt.

BALMORAL, Bert. 21.

Her Majesty the Queen and the Prince Consort,
accompaaled by the younger members of Me royal family,
drove in the neighbourhood of the castle.
The Prinoe of Wiles went out deer stalking.
The Marquis of Mundy took kin dopertare from ,the
made.

Despatch., for the governors of the colonies on the west
coast of Africa were sent yesterdey from the CoIOIIW-office.
BALIIORAL, SEPT. 22.
The Queen and the Prince Consort drove in the
neighbourhood of the castle.
The r-ird dinner party Inchaded the Duchess of Rent,
Lady Anus Maria Dawson, Lord James Murray, Miss Vic-
toria Stuart Wortley, and Dr. Robertson.
Despatches from the Lord High Commissioner of the
lontan Islands, and from the Governor of Malta, were re-
ozived yesterday at the Col.rhil-offiee.
Decparchca were sent to tLo Governors of the North
American Provisoes.

It is with great pleasure we (Leeds Mercury) hear
that Lady Pairksirn has had the honour of receiving tram
her Msjeety a beautiful bracelet set with diamonds and tur-
quoises, ►^wmpantsd with a letter from Sir Charles Phipps,
expresalve of the Queen's gratification for the attention the
Royal Family received during their visit to Woodaley, and
also for the admirable arrangements so sucoessfally carried
out in the town of Leeds.

His Royal Highness the Duke of Cambridge,
accompanied by Colonel Footer, A. deputy adjutant-
general, alter the military maticesvms at Hanover, returns
to his duties at the Horse Qaards as General Commanctin7-
in-Chler. He arrived at Dover last night, and slept at
Birtaingham's Royal Ship Hotel.

The:Prinee of Proaeia arrived at Berlin on Thurs-
day evening frnm Hanover, and left immediately with M.
Mantenifel for Warsaw,

%The Emperor Alexander left Moscow on the 13th
foe firneienek. His Imperial 114jeafy was espearid.te
Warsaw by the 23rd.

The Prince and Princess Troubetakoy and family
and Count and Cambium de 'Lavoie* and fenily have ar-
arrived at Clarldgea Ao•el, from Shanklie, Isla of Wight.
His Excellency the Ambassador of France returns
to London to-day, from •ieiting the Doke and Duchess of
Wellington at Claremont, Norfolk. Eta Excellency will
kern town ,12 Monday next, for Parte.

The Earl and Counters of Bradford arc pasciog
lb. MM.= at thais sea; Weston Hall, Stem/shire.

Lord and

Charles WI

and family are

p.wtng rho sews ar Conholt ?ark, And Over: Wean
to learn that hie lordship has beta for some weeks past suffer-
ing from severe intlisposttion.
Advises from Messina to the 13th state that the
English igate Corsi eo, with Lord Stratford de &doll&
on bawd, was obliged to put Into that port on the previous
day from stress of weather.

Lady Havelock and her daughter are staying at
the Crown liotei, Bownees.

" The marriage of the Duke de Malakoff," says
the Pays, " will be celebrated inun.dist.ly after the return
of the Em;erer from the camp of Cbilons. The Empress
will arrive from Bias z a few days before the ceremony.
The bride. trousseau it one of thereat subjects of conver-
sation in Paris at present; anti, in particular, a diadem of
brilliants is spoken of, in which is inserted a woudrous pearl,
preeented to the Dal by the Sultan. It it said that several
of the marshal's 00l oompanions in arms in Sardinia as.d
Ezg:sud will be present at the ceremony."

We (Sendai Moreury) are glad to learn that the
I:Weiner to be strata to Professor Owen in tha Whitehall
Aram:ably Rooms in the early part of the ettenitur month is
likely to be attended by moat of the infincritial families in
the town and asie.lamrhood, and by many from a durance.
The Bucks Advertiser 'tate, that the Chancellor
of the Exchequer has intimated his intention of being pre-
sent at the mestiag of the Central Bads Agticultrual Logo-
elation, it his oßetal engagements permit.

The Marquis of Salisbury presides at the annual
diviner of the Hrrie Agricultural Society to be hold at Hart-
ford os Wedueeday neat.

QUEENLY BENEVOLENCIL—A few months ago a
poor womos, ths more of a working' man at Bothwell, was
detiterrd of three children—two boys and a girl. The coos
boring Wee brought andrr the 110,10 r of bar Mokotty, Mr.
6iakr, chairman of the Littrnord Victuallers' &molt lost
night resolved a loom from Bolmoral, encimeag a past-order
from thr Queue for 31, ea behalf of toss istertsting bat
poor Nosily. This is another proof of the kindly nOposf-
firm sad womanly itentvelruce of our gracious Quesa.—
Glasgow Daily

EXPRESS FROM PARib.

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PARIS) Fara►s,lNaxnra

Some of your readers may remember that the
Sleds published, about a fortnight ago, oertain
remarks upon the administration of public charities
in Franoe. That paper is obliged to publish to-dap
in its leading oolumns, an official condemnation of
those articles. We have all, in youth, experienced
the honors of swallowing a dose of rhubarb; but
few of us were ever condemned to the additional
penalty of mixing the dreadful draught with our
own hands—the punishment now, in a moral point
of view, inflicted by the Minister of the Interior
upon M. Havin's journal.
Prost, the manager of the General Discount
Company, who with the members of the board
of management, has been prosecuted for fraud, has
been condemned to three years' imprisonment, five
years contrainte par corps, a fine of 1,000 franos,
the expenses of the prosecution, and ordered to
refund the amount of the frauds, 558,317 franos 44
centimes. The five members of the board of direc-
tion are condemned to two years' contrainte par
corps, and are declared civilly liable to make up the
deficienoes of Prost. This latter has been arrested,
but upon another charge, arising, I understand, out
of further delinquencies in the same concern. Oar
allies are doing their beat to cap our banking frauds.
The Romans appear to have fallen into the de-
plorable error of believing that the iron gripe which
Imperial France has upon them will one day be re-
laxed, and that the French troops will be with-
drawn. It is even said that the Pope has endea-
voured to obtain from the court of the Tuileries the
order—" Right about! Quick march!" There
is no end to the delusions of mankind.

The Spanish Minister of Finance is said to medi-
tate several salutary reforms and measures tending
to raise the financiAl credit of the country out of the
slough into which it has fallen.
Tee Three per Cents. closed to-day at 721 r. 75c.
for the end of the mouth, and Four-and-a-Half per
Cents. at 96fr. 550. ; Orleans Railway Shares,
1,413 r.75e. I Great Northurn,9sBfr.; Strasburg, 737 fr.
50e.; Paris to Lyons and the Mediterranean, 877 fr.
60e. t Western of France, 640 fr.; Bordeaux and
Cette, 598 fr. 750.; Lyons and Geneva, Mfr. ; Bank
of Credit Mobilier, 932 fr. 500. ; Austrian Railways,
671 fr. 25c.; Roman Railways, 505 fr.; Russian Rail-
ways, 607 fr. 60c.
Cocas AIITEINTIQUIL..-PARTS, Sept.-Cash Prices.-
Four-and-a-Half per Cents. (not Mei ble for 10 years),
96fr. 961 r. sc. Ilk. 250. 150. 260. • Three per Cents., 72tr.
600. 60c. ; Bent of Francs, 3,100(r. 3.075 fr. 3,090 fr.; Cr6dit
Fonder, 6701 r.: di. .a Obligations of 600 fr., Four per Cents.,
465 fr. ; ditto, Three per Cents., 4261 r. 250. ; ditto, Tenths,
Four per Cents., 92fr. We.; Promissory 0 bihratiocs of I,ooolr.
Three per Cents. (2001 r. paid), 980 f.; Credit. Niohilier.927l4.6oe.
Mfr. 923 fr. 75c. 926 fr. 25a. 925 tr. 930 k. 927fr.50a. 931 fr,
250.; Discount Bank, 700 fr. ; Piedruontese Five per Cents.,
91fr. 76c.; ditto, Three per Cents., 66fr. 50a.; Austrian
Five per Cents., 9'n ; Belgian Four-and-s-Half per Cents.,
1001; Bente de Neoles (driest.), 113 25; Romans, 94;
Spanish Passives, 111; ditto, Three per Cents.. Interior,
41. Exchange on Loudon at mght, pater, 25fr. 20c.;
money 261 r. 171 c.; three months, paper, 26k. 21c. ; money,
26fr.

CAN BOARD 07 WORSE.

The weeky meeting of the Metropolitan Board
of Worke wee held yedatay in the Council Chamber, Guild-
hall. _ _ .

....it. I. TRWAITES Ca the chair.
The ash statement showed a balance of 92,6921. 19e. 7d.
in favour of the board. . .

The report of the finance committee was brought up, and
the following recommendations were agreed to:
" 'flat the sum specified in the statement accompanying
the report of the committee, mowing in the whole to
9,4611.6 e, 3d., be paid. That the sum of 6,0001. be transferred
from the general deposit somata to the general current
account of the board. That precepts be forthildth issmed to
the several parts of the metropolis, for raising the amessinents
teethe Metropolis Msln Drainage Bats, and that it be re-
leered back to the committee to prepare Use beds
upon which such amesenients shall be made. That
this committee be Authorised to prepare a statement of
the expenses of the board for the current year, such state-
ment to be made for the total' expenses up to as late •
period SIB can be oonveniently adopted, and an estimated
amount for the remainder of the year, and to report what
amount each vestry, district board, &c., should be required
to pay towards the expenses of the board. That this com-
mittee be authorised to negotiate a loan of 42,0001. for a
period of five years, for the purpose of carrying out the pro-
vieions of the Victoria-perk Approach Acr, 1658. That an
account be opened with the treasurer, to be called The Vie-
toria-park Approach Account' and that the sum of 6001. be
transferred from the general current account of the board,
sad planed es a loan to that amount."