The Express.
London, England, 1867-03-13 00:00:00

CITY of LONDON BONDS.
METROPOLITAN MEAT and POULTRY MARKKT,
SMITHFIELD. (Act 2Sr4 and 24th Victoria, cap. crclit)
L 200,000.

iii:MARICETS I M PROVEMENT COMMITTEE of the COR-
PORATION of LONDON having cleared the site, contr►cted for
and commenced the erection of the above market, the under-
signed Is authorised by the Yinance Committee of the Corpora-
tion to negotiate the DISP(kiAL of CITY DEBENTURE BONDS
to the above amount.

The floods will be tuned in pursuance of the above act, under
the common seal of the corporation at par, for sums of Ll,OOO,
£5OO, and £lOO each, respectively, for a period of ten years, and
bearing Interest, payable half-yearly by means of coupons at the
Bank of England, at the rate of £4 15a. per cent. per annum.
The principal and interest will he secured upon the rents of
the said markets, and also upon the estates and other property
of the mayor and eintimoualty and citizens of London. Appli-
cations at this office between the hours of 10 a.m. and 9 p.m.,
accompanied by payment In full of the amount offered, or by •
deposit of £lO per cent., a ill be registered in the order of their
receipt, and scrip receipts will be Issued In respect thereof, to
be exchanged for bonds when the same shall have been sealed.
The undersigned dues not hold himself responsible for applies.lions unaccompanied by payment of the amount tendered or a
deposit, or for a return of deposits upon (allure to complete.
Interest will commence from the dates of payment in full re-
spectively.
. . . . . _ .

VOl9ll of application may be obtained, and a copy of the form
of bond may be seen, at this office, where further information
will be afforded, if required, by the undersigned.
BENJAMIN scorr, Chamberlain.
Chamber of London, Guildhall, March 11, 1867.

NATIONAL ASSEMBLY ROOMS, 218, High
Molhern.-71ile very elegent and spacious eetabliehtnent
haring been entirely redecorated OPEN EVERY EVENING. The
grand band, conducted to Mr. W. M. Packer, will perform nightly
a choice aeleelios of operatic end dance mask, Open at Lau
pasts; done et It. Admission, la.

KIII•HAN'S LL WHISKY.
DUBLIN ITIO 18116.
This aliabeated old IRISHEXHWIBHI N,SK Y gained the DUBLIN
PRIZE MEDAL—It Is pure, mild, mellow, delicious, and very
wholesome. Sold In bottles, Se. ltd each, at the retail houses In
London; by the meats In the principal towns in England . er
Maoism& at k, Great Windmill-street, London, W. Observe the
red seal, pink label, and cork branded Kinshan's LL

BARLOW'S PATENT CASK STAND, • new
invention, so admirably contrived that • tuU butt, as well
as maw casks, may be raised or tilted on It without labour or
trouble. Its action la so Impalpable that the sediment of the
most limpid Enid by no pond y can be disturbed. Price 9a.,
12a, 14, to snit 4,9, and la gallon casks.
BARLOW'S SELF-ACTING SYPHON TAP.
No vent-peg required. No more Eat bear or sour wine.
Price 4a. 6d. ; ditto, electroplated, m.—Apply direct to J A Itil
&MOW. patentee, 14, King WUlfamutreet, Mansion-bonse.
See that his name and address are on army article all others
we spurious Imitations. Nogravhigs ZatabUshed 1920.

is CHEAPER THAN EVER.-Is. 6d., 2s.
6d. per pound are the prime at which PIIILLIPB an ,d
Co., tee merchants, 8, King WinkmAMnet, City, London, E.C.,
are selling good and fine BLACK TEA. A price current poet
40e. worth carriage tree to any railway station or market town In
the United Kingdom. All goods carriage free G 0 all WIG of
London. Oheerre.—PHlLLlPti and Ca hays no agents.? Sugars
are supplied at market prow

A VALUABLE PACKAGE of TEA. A
.Cll6 MINIM CADDY, containing 16Ibs. of really good BLACK
TEA, sent carriage free to any railway station or market town in
England, Ireland, Scotland, er Wales, on receipt of 405., by PHIL-
LIPS and Co.. tea merchants, 8, King William-street, City, E.C.

VARPETS, 3,000 pieces. Best Brussels, 3s. 6d. ;
NJ Tapestry ditto, 2s. Red and all the newest designs. 51. Ild.
Illustrated priced lists of furniture, bedsteads, bedding, and
upholstery, &c., gratis. AU goods warranted and delivered free
throughout the kingdom. A Hesse completely furnished to 30
hours—WY. WAINISS, 133 to 133, Newington-butts.

EASY CHAIRS, COUCHES, and SOFAS,
hest quality. Upwards of 300 different shapes constantly
on view fur selection and immediate delivery. Easy chairs made
to any shape on approval. At T. H. Vi L3I ER and SON'S Menu.
factory, 31, 32, and 28, Berneenstreet, Oxford-street. W., and 34
and 33. Charleestreet, W.—An illustrated priced catalogue sent
post free.

HAMILTON and KIMPTON,
MERCHANT TAILORS, 106, STRAND.
Steven. H. and K. Invite attention to the new goods of the
very best qualities, made In the latest style, at fair prices.
N.B. Overcoats always on hand.

HARRIS'S CRYSTAL SPECTACLES of well-
known excellence c■n only be had at 52, Great ROBIISI:-
street. opposite the British Museum listen The very best steel
trains Crystal Spectacles, Ito and 18a —THOMAS HARRIS and
SON CAUTION the public against persons udag their name
Established NCO. .ho traveller' or agent&

lust published, In fancy covert past Bro Ar., poet fir la. Yd..
THE MUSICAL GYMNASTICS ; with flus-
tradow n draw Pwilikasi. If/ Dr. LIMB. With Intro-
ductica by M. C. 'nisi.
London: W. Tweectle, 337, Strand.

BUNHILL-FIELDS 3313111 AL GROUND
PRESERVATION, with Inscriptions on tbe Tombs. Con-
taininkthe Correspondence between the Corporation of London
and the Ecclesiastical Commissional', and Okla Document..
Prim M.
liatullton, Adams, and Co., 32, Paternoster-ro►.

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THE SHOCKING OCCURRENCE AT GRAVESEND.

Yesterday a coroner's inquest was held by Mr.
E. A. Hilder at the Town-hall, Gravesend, on the body of
Edward Edgar, aged 18 years, who was shot by a young
man named Holmes, a fellow.shopman. Mr. Sherland,
solicitor, appeared for the accused, John Horace Holmes.
Martin Eiger, a hairdresser, living in White Lion-street,
Norton Foliate, identified the deceased as his son. He
was an assistant in the employ of Mr. Edwards, a grocer,
carrying on business at No. 98, Milton-street, Gravesend.
Thomas Edwards, deposed that he, the deceased, and the
accused, Holmes, were assistants to Mr. Edwards, and they
lived at the house in Milton-street. On Sunday afternoon
they were all three in the drawing-room, the deceased and
the accusal reading newspapers, when the housekeeper,
Mn. Ails, came in, and asked Edgar to write a letter fur her.
He went away to comply with her request, and in • few
minutes he returned and asked Holmes for some letter
paper. Holmes gave him the letter paper, and some
friendly conversation took place about the hymns which
had been sung that morning at Christ Church. Witness
and Holmes then went upstairs to the bedroom and lay
upon the beds. Eiger soon after came in and said that he
was going to post the letter. He was eating nuts, and he
threw the shells at witness and at Holmes. He also
tickled Holmes as he lay on the bed. There was some
sparring, quite in play. Holmes then l got up, and there
was sparring at the foot of the bed. Witness then heard
the report of • pistol shot, and upon looking round be saw
Eiger fall on the floor. Blood flowed from the left side
of his head. Witness said to Holmes, "He is dead,
John, you have shot him." Holmes answered, " No, that
cannot be," and kneeling over the deceased, he said, " Ed-
ward, Edward, speak to me ! " But when the deceased did
not answer him he put his head on witness's shoulder, and
said, " Tom, lam done for ever." He wept bitterly. A
doctor was sent for, but the deceased died soon after.
In answer to Mr. Sharland, the witness stated that the
accused never said to Elgar—" I will shoot you." There
was DO ill feeling. What was done in the way of sparring,
&a, was all in play. The pistol was bought by -Holmes
three months ago, and it was latterly kept loaded at the
bead of his bed, because be used to tie frightened since
the death of the old housekeeper in the house. She died
suddenly a fortnight ago, and there was an inquest held
upon her. Witness did not know how the amused got
the pistol before he shot Eiger. Witness only saw it in
his hand' after the occurrence.

Mrs. Jane All., the housekeeper, said that all the young
men were on friendly terms with each other on Sunday.
They were about to take tea together when the °eminence
took place.
Mr. Philip Whitoombe, surgeon, said that he was called
in to the deceased and found hint lying on his left side, •
large pool of blood being under his head and shoulders
There was a wound an inch long over the left ear. He
died in an hour. The accused was present, and gave all
the assistance he could. He was much distressed m mind.
Witness asked him how it happened and he said, "We
were sparring with sticks, end I exclaimed ' I will
shoot you.' I took the pistol and presented it
at hint, and shot him." He told witness that he
had the pistol loaded in consequence of being frightened
about a ghost story. He said that a week before, when
he went to London, he withdrew the charge, but that he
reloaded the pistol on his return. A post-mortem exami-
nation had been made on Tuesday morning. The bullet
had entered on the left aide of the head, over the ear, and
had passed obliquely backwards through the brain ; it
struck the opposite side of the skull., It was found ]
embedded in the substance of the brain.

The accused, John Horace Holmes, was present during
the inquiry, but, by the advice of his solicitor, he made
no statement at the present stage of the proceedings.
The proceedings were adjourned when the foregoing
evidence was taken. The impression created by the testi-
mony adduced appeared to be that there were no grounds
for attributing the death of the deceased to anything
worse than the folly of playing with loaded fire-arms.

ROYAL AORK7IILTUAAL SOCIETY.—As already an-
rammed, the meeting of this society for the present year
is appointed to be held at Bury St. Edmund's. The pre-
paration of the ground has been for some time In progress,
several new roads have been made, and within the last
few dams the Great Eastern Railway Company has taken
steps for providing the accommodation which will be re-
quired. The ground is bounded on one side by the rail-
way to Ipswich, and en another by the line to Sudbury,
and a number of navvies are now engaged in the con.truo-
non of a siding from the former line directly nn to the
show-field. The fencing by which the ground will be en-
closed will shortly be commenced. •