The Express.
London, England, 1866-05-17 00:00:00

MEMORIAL TO MR. KEELS.

On Saturday last, a meeting was held at Lambeth
Palace, under the presidency of the Archbishop of Canter
bury, at which the subjoined resolutions were adopted:
Resolution 1. Moved by the Bishop of Et. Asaph,
seconded by Mr. Walter :—" That it is desirable to afford
to those many persons who love and revere the name of the
author of the Christian Year' some opportunity of giving
public and permanent expression to their feelings of deep
gratitude to hip long and devoted services to the church
of Christ." Resolution 2. Moved by the Bishop of Win-
chester, seconded by Earl Beauchamp :—" That with this
intention a sum of not less than 50,0001. be raised for the
accomplishment of an object in which Mr. Keble is
known to have been deeply interested—namely, the
establishment of a college or other institution in which
young men now debarred from University education may
be trained in simple and religious habits, and instrict fidelity
to the church of England, with the hope that among
other advantages, it will tend to promote the supply of
candidates for holy orders.* Resolution 3. Moved by the
Earl of Devon, seconded by the Bishop of Moray and
Rosa That the institution bear the name of Mr. Keble;
that the Archbishop of Canterbury be requested to accept
the visitorship for himself and his canonical successors ;
that the principal be at all times a clergyman in holy
orders ; that the following prelates, noblemen, and gentle-
men—(the names of the proposed trustees are omitted,
as there has not been tune to obtain their acceptance of
the trust)—be requested to act as trustees ; and that the
arrangement of all legal and other details for establishing
the institution and permanently constituting the trust
be entrusted, until the completion of the work, when
their functions shall cease, to a committee composed of the
trustees as aforesaid, and of 13 other persons to be nomi-
nated by the Archbishop of Canterbury." Resolution 4.
Moved by the Dean of York, seconded by Lord Richard
Cavendish That the institution be in the first in-
stance established at Oxford, but the trustees for the time
being shall be at liberty to remove it to any other place in
case the circumstances of the church or of the university
shall in their opinion render the removal expedient."

On the sth of Juno there will be a grand dinner
at Willie's Rooms to present Captain Maury with a testi-
monial, which will take the monetary foi.o of 3,000
guineas. Sir John I'akington w.ll preside.
The Earl Stanhope received the following mem-
bers of the Antiquarian Society at dinner last evening at the
family mansion in Grosvenor-place : —The Bishop of Oxford,
Lord Henniker, Sir John Boileau, the Provost of Eton, Mr.
Tite, M.P., Mr. 0. Morgan, M.P., Sir Sibbald Scott, Sir
Henry Ellis, Mr. Ouvry, Mr. Franks, Mr. Markham, Mr.
J. Bruce, Mr. Tipping, Mr. Scharf, Mr. Thorns, Mr. Knight
Watson, secretary, &c.
A volume of essays on theforeign relations of Eng-
land will be published try MOMS. Chapman and Hall in a few
days, with the title of " International Policy." The essays
arc seven in number, and are contributed by writers who
are generally identified with what are called advanced opi-
nions. The first, entitled The \Vest, is from the pen
of Mr. Richard Congreve, whose pamphlet advocating
the giving up of Gibraltar to Spain attracted attention
some years ago. Mr. Frederic Harrison, known to readers
of the Fart Lightly Rcricw for his views on political
economy, contributes an essay on England and France ;
and Professor Ileesly, one on England and tho Sea. The
other papers are—England and India, by E. H. Penifer ;
England and China, by J. H. Bridges ; England and
Japan, by Charles A. Cookson ; and England and the
Uncivilised Communities, by H. D. Mutton.

A convsimmdent of tho l'ablishers' Circular
writes :—" There are three children—a son and two
daughters—of the poet Robert Bloomfield lodging at No.
22, lioxton-square. They are old, poor in 6n:utast:lmes,
and one of the women apparently not far (ruin her end.
They derive nothing from their father's writings, pleasing
and instructive as they are. Did not the Literary Fund
lately give something to the descendants of Defoe ? If so,
it does not cor.fine itself to the living authors. Will not
any subscriber, then, speak a word in behalf of these dis-
tressed persons, who, apart from want, are eve 4 way
worthy? There are the most ample proofs of their
identity."

Mr. Bancroft's ninth volume of the " History
of the United States" is nearly ready for publication.
The tenth and eleventh completing the work as at first
planned, bringing the history doisa to the adoption of the
Constitution of the United States, will follow very
speedily. It is intended, we (Tru)ner's Record) believe,
by the publishers, to avail themselves of a recent legal
decision, and endeavour to secure a copyright for the
book in this kingdom.

Mr. George Peabody is living quietly at tho
Brevoort House, New York, and declines all attempts to
give him r. public reception. He seems to have a horror of
public demonstrations. A committee of the town of Dan_
vers, Massachusetts. his birthplace, however, are in New
York to escort him thither, where he can scarcely decline
the public reception that awaits him.
A Melbourne letter of March 24, says :—" Our
Acclimatisation Society are in daily expectation of receiv-
ing a fresh consignment of 87,000 salmon ova, and of
white and brown traut ova, per ship Lincolnshire. Their
ultimate destination will be Van Diemen's Land, where by
last advice' our young salmon and trout are still doing well
and growing rapidly. The Martha Hirai°, from England,
lately brought us 93 Angora goats, besides a numerous con-
gregation of French ducks, mammoth pigeons,sand grouse,
partridges, blackbirds, starlings, linnets, Virginian night-
ingales, ke. They arrived in good condition under the
care of Mr. Thatcher."

A young midshipman serving in her Majesty's
ship Edinburgh in the Baltic during the war with Russia
improvised a torpedo with some rather startling results.
The youngster had just cleared out the last pot of jam
that had been sent him from home, when the ilea struck
him and his messmates that it would be rare fun to turn
the empty jam pot into a torpedo, of which thera was then
much talk, naturally enough, among the Baltic fleet. The
pot was filled with powder, plugged up, lowered out of
the gun-room ports, and fired. The consternation on board
was something great, and many imagined the ship was
lying over a torpedo bank. The secret, however, was soon
discovered, and the culprit was duly quarter-decked and
admonished to play no such pranks in future.
German science is never idle. While the country
re-echoes with the clang of arms, Professor Lepsius, who
has been staying in Egypt for the last few months, has
found a treasure of greater importance than any since the
digging up of the stone of Rosetta. It is also a bi-lingual
inscription, containing one and the same text, in Egyptian
hieroglyphics and in Greek, thus affording an opportunity
for deciphering the former by comparison with the latter.
The sentence of death passed in March last on
Colas, the soldier poet, by the military tribunal of Mar-
seilles, for striking his superior, was commuted, as
stated, into fifteen years' imprisonment. As this punish.
ment involves military degradation, Colas was three days
since stripped of his military insignia in the presence of
the garrison of Marseilles, drawn up under arms, and then
delivered over to the gendarmery to undergo his sentence.
Since his condemnation this unhappy young man, who
has a wonderful facility with his pen, wrote in four days a
three-act comedy, entitled 24 Me et le near, and dedi-
cated it to BL Bostand, who defended him on the trial.

The death was announced yesterday of Mr.
Wilkinson Mathews, Q.C., who has for many years put
held a high position at the Chancery bar.

LAW INTELLIGFZICM.

(THIS DAY.)

COURT OF BANKRUPTCY.
(Before Mr. Commissioner Holtoyd4
IN RI PILEIGOSON.—THE CAITLII PLAOLIL
The bankrupt in Ws mega was • farmer, of pod,
Ealing. He attributed his failure to the mtg. pit
having swept off the whole of his stook. His dsbsi
about 6001. He now applied for his release from wThere was no opposition, and his Honour grow
order.

SHERIFFS' COURT, RED-LION-W: 42x
((Before Mr. Under-Sheriff Burchell and • .Tury4
HIBI7IO MURICIAL LIIIRTRUHENTS WITH °MON 0,111
Three actions in the Queen's Bench in which jadayi
were suffered by default were heard to-day,
Mr. Blackman, musical instrument maker, bebieM
friars-road, against three persons in the muster%
for the hire of harmoniums and pianofortes and tit
for their value, in the event of Mr. Madman not phi
back his property.
Mr. T. E. Palmer, of the Home prcuit, inheisidL
Messrs. Stuart and Massy, appeared in tin three hew
mid persons having become musical manufacture lee
in the habit of letting out instruments on hay Wyk
agreement that the parties should become the phi,:
provided they kept up their payments. He kt 7
tt
say that persona did not keep up their untahnehe,
there was a great difficultyin getting back the will,
menta. The present actions were to recover the kin ass
also the value of the property, if it should not be news,
to the plantiff.
' After hearing the evidence of Mr. Blackman, lie
under the direction of the learned Under-Sheriff (0Q
verdict in each case for the hire and value of the Mitt;
instruments, to be reduced to the amount of the hi,*
the return of the harmoniums and pianos.
The court in each case granted a certificate kw sine

THE POLICE COURTS.
(THIS DAY.)

WORSHIP-STREET.
THE BOOTS AND THE DEBBY.
Wes. Lome Davidson, 36 years of age, sad Rang
39, Coply-street, Stepney, was charged with r'
assaulting Mr. John Smart, a boot and shoe manysteso
290, Hackney-road.
Complainant's left eye was blackened and his jaw
swollen ; he said—This gentleman came into my shop,
Wednesday morning (yesterday) and agreed so op 1,6
for a pair of boots ; when he got them on Ile flat
without paying and leavine hir old ones behind biro. •
Defennt—Old, you call theta! Why I gave a gab
for them only a few hours previously.
Complainant produced the boots which, by
certainly bore out this assertion, and continued=
him and observed, " I beg your pardon, sir, but yoshoso
to pay for your purchaae," he seemed astonished, sadold
" What, are you afraid to trust me ; well, then, ra giw
you 55., and you can keep the boots I left mail I aim ,
pay you the remaining 3s. 6d." To this I wok,'
having received the 51. went back to my shop. Bourbon
afterwards, while at dinner upstairs, my 'hopeful moo j
told me that the gentleman was below inaistiag oft too
the boots he had purchased changed. I went to add,
dined to change them he Raid that they pinched
badly as those he had left with me, and deamadd t •
be shown that pair. I complied, and ha wssk
to take them without paying the 3s. 6d. mniaia
them as owing. I refused, and he assaulted warts
blows and kicks, pitched into me and my shopmai, sa
this (pointing to his face) is what I got from him ;deli
ran off again and with the boots in his possemica.
followed Lim, and subsequentiy gave him into custody
Defendant—l didn't think that you would desks"
a gentleman with 20f. in his pocket, for a paltry kg
Adolphus Gibson, complainant's ahopnnsn, condense
his employer's statement as to what Lad oocurredis Ott
shop, adding, " When the gentleman told nehew
have the boots changed, and I remarked that ambit
been worn, he took them to the door and comfamed
scraping them, at the same time remarking that h wit
sure he could make them better than new.
Kelly, 130 H—Several persons told meet this.'.
in the street, and I found defendant in a public-boas
far from the complainant's shop. He haul a pair of
in his hand, and I took him into custody for en anal
Complainant—He also struck me iu the street.
Defendant—You called out " Stop thief," and I
and hit you, as I would any man who called me s
I'm a large cigar manufacturer, and Montagu Chad=
my solicitor. I wish this case put back, that I may -
for him. Here I have had my day spoiled. I was •
to start for the Derby, instead of which I was locked
and I don't like it. Of course the lobster salad is
and everything else. There never was such a "
for me.
Kelly—Defendant sail that he was going to the
and had to pick up a lady on the road. A cab was at ;
public-house door, and it contained a hamper with sr_,
thing necessary for the Derby in it—Polonies, a ae
full of sandwiches, bottled stout, bottled milk, a Tian
full of mixed salad, a kettle, an 01.1 crockery tea pot ••
he said I might have, and a variety of other articles,
eluding water creases.
Defendant—Yes. It was a sad &sap: ointment.
Magistrate—Where is the cabman ?
Kelly—l believe he is discharged, sir.
Defendant —I keep him; pay se much a day (arida
drive me about.
At defendant's repeated request the case was put bid.
MARLBOROUt: 11-STREET.
COMING HOME cites THE DENBY.
AOC, a fishmonger, of No. 24, l'pper Cleveltd
street, was charged before Mr. Barker with being clan
furious driving, anti damaging cab No. 12.644 in Palle •
Henry Richards' cab driver. badge 16,031, said that
the previous night, about 9 o'clock, while proceeding do
Park-lane, he paused a female, who was ins cart with t
defendant and another man, screaming. The defender
was driving and urging the horse on by whipping hi a
it was going at a furious rite, the cart being OD the 1,1:04
side of the lane. He endeavoured to avoid a alba
but could not, and his cab was driven on to anotherfolhnn
him and damaged to the extent of !ads.
George Betts, another cab-driver, said he war fake*
the witness with his cab, a fare inside, when theism wit
ness's cab was driven on to his. and his shafts mat del'
throu'yh the back panel. The defendant was gaffid 0
full gallop and was whipping his horse.
In answer to Mr. Barker, the witness said that both ma
were drunk.
Police-constable Coulson, 216 C, said that en geisic
after the collision he found the defendant and Ong. ill
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out a scratch till he got tutu I',.k-taus. where the (skew,'
drove his cab right across the road, awl then the ahead
ran into his cab.
Win. Shute, the defendant's brother, said the daemons
caused by the cabman himself. He denied beingthrwuo
for drink.
The constable said the witness was more Mtaxicatedoo
the defendant.
Mr. Barker ordered the t:cfendant to pay a fins di
for being drunk and furious driving, and 50s. the a 00.•
of damage, or 21 days.

THAMFS.
HARING RABBERY IN THE sAlLott,:' nowt
Thomas Curt tang/tam , a seaman, was brought before*.
Partridge, charged with stealing 3 coats, a gnereself°l4
2 caps, and a blue flannel shirt, represented as thefortr,_
of William Newman, a steward of the Sailors' mono
Well-street.
Mr. Charles Young, solicitor, said he was Matta:ha ,
prosecute in this case. There were a great ulnae
sailors boarding and lodging in the Sailors' Home, old
anything was lost it tended t.. shake the securiO
of
perty there, and to cast suspicion on the officers, in
appointment great care was exercised. The ntisolso'"'
home in a ship called the Blue Jacket, and lodged IP dm
Sailors' Home three days. He then cleared out to Pl'old
boarding-house,but he had *ince loitered about the lion%
his intentions being suspected be was turned oat. Yola.'
day morning Mr. Newman, the steward. missed two sw°
In the course of the day the prisoner made his &FPI
in the Home twice, and was turned out 11_,.
evening the steward saw the prisoner 10 gr_t".j
into a cabin where the clothes of a sailor D..-
Williams were deposited. Newman procured aseisO°,
and upon entering the cabin saw the
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there with a coat, a guernsey frock, a blue
and two cape on his person, over his own dress
sad
The prisoner was asked what business he lied in the OW,
to which he replied, "That he Caine to looklijP;
Yankee Jim." The prisoner was taken into eorj
and he made a violent resistance, and bit.,L.
kicked another steward named Joseph Partridge.
facts would be proved, and lie should ask that
prisoner should be committed for trial. The Pn7o
told the officer that he could do six !meths for•
robbery, and that he had done seven years in Tessol_ti
The case having been proved, the prisoner said °
he wr;
plead guilty. He hail made two voyages in tbe
Jacket. He belonged to Drogheda.
Mr. Partridge said he should not dispose of this
la
ialen°
a summary manner, but commit the prisoner for

WANDSWORTH.
THE DERBY DAY.
Louis We!bock, a gentlemanly-looking young nlam'
charged as follows.
Serjennt Beaumont, M division, said that between 7
8 o'clock last night, he was on duty opposite the Al
Hotel, Clapham-road, when he saw the prisoner
crackers, one of which bit a per.on on the head, am.l4
nen, then took him into custody. Witness prow
number of crackers which be found upon the prom°,
In answer to (he charge the risouer mid he twv"..,
crackers for a bit of fun. He did not think there was "
harm.
Mr. Ingham—Oh, it was the Derby Day.
Witness—Yes, sir.
Mr. Ingham—You are fined half-a-crown then.
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THE CHOLERA AT LivitarooL.---Another death
from cholera occurred at the workhouse yesterday (says
the Lie. Mercury), and a female nurse and a male
assistant from that establishment, who were attending to
emigrants at Bank Hall, have been attacked by the
direful disesse, and removed to the hospital at the work-
house.
THE CATTLE PLAGUE AND THE AGRICULTURAL
6R0W8.--Conaiderable derangement of the annual stock
shows in Yorkshire will occur this year, on account partly
of the fear of rinderpeet being re-introdnced and partly on
account of the dispirited condition of some of the farmers.
In some cases the shows will not be held at all, and in
others where horses are the chief feature there will be no
classes for the exhibition of horned cattle.—Eastern anili-
nes Herald.
THE CATTLE PLAGUE IN IRELAND.—We publish
in another column full details, extracted from the Belfast
papers, respecting the reported outbreak of the rinderpest
in the county Down. It is satisfactory to learn that the
disease has appeared in an extremely mild form. This
mob is evident from the extraordinary fact that, although
h is stated to have been in the locality for five weeks, only
eight deaths have taken place. It is, we believe, alto-
gether without precedent that a disease of such terrible
virulence should have found its way into a district,
and inflicted so comparatively small an amount of
injury. Indeed some doubts, in which even a re-
spectable veterinary surgeon, specially sent down fromthe
Bestle, participated, were naturally entertained at first as
whether it was really the dread plague or a severe form of
one of the ordinary distempers to which stock is liable. It
was not until Professor Ferguson proceeded to the spot, in
obedience to a telegraphic summons, that a posi-
tive opinion was pronounced. He at once de-
dared it to be the rinderpest, and adopted such stringent
ramming's'', in his judgment, the urgency of the ease de-
mandml The farm has been completely isolated, and the
animals which had been exposed to the risk of contagion
have been slaughtered. The first report of the appear-
ance of the plague excited the utmost consternation, but
the decisive action of Professor Ferguson bad the effect of
restoring confidence, so that in the last accounts we find
it stated that cattle were grazing in adjoining lands, at
the very verge of the enclosure, as if the belief were still
cherished that the dire Ise bad not reached our shores. A
meeting of the Privy Council was held yesterday at Dub-
lin Castle, at which the order which we stated yesterday
was ready to be issued was promulgated. It does not posi-
tively announce the outbreak, hut, in terms calculated to
mitigate alarm, states that " it is apprehended."—Dubhn

-
ErrPsiOSION OF GAS AND Loss OF LlFE.—Yester-
day morning a most disastrous explosion happened at the
pnvate residence of Mr. (lambert, No. G 2, Avenue-road,
St. John's-wood. One life was loot and three persons
were injured, one of them seriously. The destruction of
property was very great, and much of the loss is irrepa-
rable, inasmuch as rare works of art constitute a heavy
proportion of it. For some days past certain preparations
hail been going forward at the house for a fancy ball.
which would have taken place this evening, and to which
Mr. and Mrs. (lambert had bidden 300 guests. A tem-
porary ball-room was being constructed, and workmen had
been employed to conduct the gas from the mains in the
house to this new room. They had used for this pur-
pose mdiarnbber piping. and in all probability the burst-
ing of some portion of this tubing primarily caused the
explosion. During the night of Tuesday a very copious
escape of gas must have taken place in the lower
part of the house. Yesterday morning, ate few minutes
before 8 o'clock, a charwoman, employed to assist the ser-
vants, went into one of the rooms on the ground floor, and
struck a lucifer. The chamber, which had been closed all
ni;:ht,was at the time full of gas, which had been escaping
into it, and a terrific explosion ensued. Such was its
force, that a considerable portion of the back wall of the
house was bloom down ; the reception rooms; the con-
servatory end the picture gallery were almost ruined, and
a great number of most valuable pictures were quite
destroyed. Three of the servants, besides the charwoman.
were found to be injured. The family, who had not yet
come downstairs, escaped with slight hurt. It was neces-
sary to remove the charwoman and one of the servants to
the hospital, where the first-named has since died, and the
other lies in a very precarious condition. The value of the
Property destroyed is estimated to exceed 15,000/.
DEATH FROM SWALLOWING A BEAN.—On Satur-
day an inquest was held at the New Inn, Hanbury, before
W. S. P. Hughes, Esq.. coroner, on the body of a little
child, named Fanny Fisher, aged seven years, daughter of
Joseph Fisher, of Hanbury. About a fortnight ago the
deceased complained to her mother that she had swallowed
a bean, and, as she breathed with difficulty, Mr. Harrison,
of Droitwich, was fetches!, but he thought she was suffer-
ing from a severe cold. The child, however, got worse, and
diet on Thursday. Mr. H. Curtler, surgeon, of Droitwich,
tusk a post mortem examination, and found the bean in
the windpipe, and he gave it as his opinion that it had
caused suffocation. The jury returned a verdict to that
effect. —Worn:kr Chronicle.

AN INPATIENT PASSZNGER.—On Tuesday even-
ing, as the boat from New Holland, due at &30, was on
herllautage to Hull, one of about a dozen fine bullocks on
her fore deck became tired of the voyage, and as the vessel
was well inshore on this side of the river, the animal
gave a clean bolt over the bulwarks, and at once struck
oat for the shore. The captain witnessed the occurrence,
and he at once gave orders for the engines to be stopped.
Thu was promptly done, or tho consequences might have
been fatal to the venturesome animal. The tide being well
Op he easily effected a landing on the new dock works, and
shortly afterwards waa restored to the herd.—Eastern
Cossfies Efe-mid.

BEER-SHOP SMNS.—A correspondent writes :
"At Alillbrook, in Rants, a new beer-shop has just been
opened with the unusual sign of the Oliver Ormwell.
Thls +mean to he in oppositton to the King's Head. The
Email, the Garibaldi, and the Richard Cobden, are
frequent beer-shop signs in the south of England. It is
sauce that opposition beer-shops do not oftener select
apposition signs, such as the George the Fourth, and the
Queen Caroline, the King John, and the King Richard.
If there had been beer-shops 70 years av,o, two capital
apposition signs would have been the W. Pitt, and the
C. Fox. At the present time good opposition signs would
be the W. E. Gladstone and the B. Disraeli, the J.
Bright, and the R. Lowe. Perhaps, however, the
better sign would ensure the landlord being soon
la the Gazette if he depended for custom upon
working men. If there were beer-shops in France.
where the men are wittier and the government more absurd
than is the case in England, there would sure to b., the
apposition signs of the Julius Caesnr and the Pompey the
Creak and the landlords who set up the latter sign would
is surely receive warnings from a minister of state for
konouring Pompey, the great rival of the Emperor's his-
ler.c idol, Caner. Beer-shops have often the signs of the
Cordwainers' Arms, the Bricklayers' Anne, ke. ; but the
mast absurd sign of this description was seen in Dorset-
Aare a short time since, and which was the Agricultural
labourers' Arms. If this coat of arms had been pictorially
rePresented, according to the laws of heraldry, it could
ml 7 have done by a miserable cottage, a don children's
months, and half a loaf of bread."

Last year's performances pointed most distinctly to Re-
pulse, Ischia, and Elfeta being the pick of the above ;
and next to them came Hone).noon, Tormentor, Proserpine,
and Gretna ; but there are rumours abroad of Wild Briar
being superior to Honeymoon, and of Gretna being a very
doubtful starter ; and as Ischia proved the other day
to have lost her form, whilst Elfeta was amiss
very recently, if she is not now, there are only
the unkown school to jeopardise the pretensions of
Repulse, Tormentor, Proserpine, and Wild Briar.
Of that body, the Queen (in the same hands as Regalia
was when she won the Oaks) was whispered a " good
thing" until the other day, when the whisper turned
round and said she was not ; and reports are rife of La
Dauphine (who knows the way, but has not the will, to
win) and Aetna having improved immensely, which must
be true for either to be successfnl—Actsia's being only
about the same form as Castanet. In fact, I cannot but
think