The Express.
London, England, 1867-10-04 00:00:00

THE REGISTRATIONS.

The result of yesterday's revision of the M
parialies as supplied by the Liberal Registration Aseo-
elation was 8 liberal claims allowed and 6 disallowed ;
92 liberal objections sustained, aunt 2 failed or witbdrawn,
and 7 names expunged by the barrister.

NIDDIJAILX.
The revision of the list of voters for members
of parliament to t the county of Middlesex was
held yesterday at t e Old Black Dog, at Bedfont, for the
rurpose of revising the lists for the several parishes and
places within the Bedfont ponies district.
Mr. Gilberem appeared for the Middlesex Liberal
Registration Association, and Mr. T. Alley Jones for the
Middlesex Conservative Registration Committee.
The overseer for Harlingen' said be had two objections.
The Barrister—They are not marked in my list.
The Overseer—They are here (banding in his list).
The Barrister—When did yen write these words " dead"
against Mr. Colman's and Mr. Wood's names?
The Overseer—The day before yesterday.
The Barrister—That is after the lists were published?
The Overseer—Yes.
The Barrister castioned him that be had no right to
make any alteration after the lists were published. By
doing so be rendered himself liable to a fine of sf.
The Overseer said Mr. Baker, hie brother overeser, bad
transacted the business, sod he was absent from town.
The overseer was then called on to produce the new
claims as sent to him.
The Overseer—l had none.
Mr. Jones—Bat yon have published one.
• fir. Dear—And omitted another I sett you.
The Overseer—l don't know what papers Mr. Bakes
received.
Mr. Jones then adduced evidence and established the

claim that bad been published • and Mr. Dear proved the
due service of the claim which the overseer bad omitted to
publish, and no objection being raised, the claimant's
name, W. H. Bolster, was inserted on the register.
The Barrister then said be wished to impress on the
overseen that it was neonaary for flaw W produce at the
revision all the original papers in connexion with it before
the court.
The court was then adjourned.

EARLY CLOSING ASSOCIATION.—The annual re-
port just issued by this body exhibits:the acceptance which
she /early Closing and Weekly Half-holiday Movements
are obtaining in the metropolis and the provincial towns.
The information given shows that the number of the
linendrapery and other houses of London cloning at seven
o'clock In winter and eight in summer now tionetitntes •
considerable list. The abridgment of the long hours which
prevail in the east of London, and in some other parts
where business is conducted on • malls: seals, with cue-
tomes who are less accessible to the efforts adopted by the
association in more fashionable localities, proves to be •
work of slower achievement. It is, however, explained
that the tredesinen who are content to keep their shops
open until nine or ten every night are • rapidly decreasing
minority, although the interdependence of establishments
contiguous to each other often subjects • large majority to
the arrangements of the few. The Saturday hall-holiday,
which is now so generally established in professional,
mercantile, and manufacturing circles, and in the whole-
sale warehouses of the City, is now permanently
adopted by • number of the Leading linendrapery firms who
closed at 2 o'clock tentatively for three months last year,
whilst others resume the arrangement at the return of the
autumn. In • considerable number of other retail trades,
2 o'clock cloning has also been permanently adopted since
last year. The effect upon the late evening trade of the
Saturday is easels the react adoption by various large
houses in Sboreditch and the neighbourhood of four o'clock
instead of eight, and in changes of an approximate cha-
meter in many other parts of London, reflecting not only
the increasing practice of the early payment of wages, but
• change in the habits of purchasers based upon the gene-
ral advantages of earlier shopping. In some parts of
the (metropolis, however, the hours of closing on or-
dinary nights contrast unfavourably with the ar-
rangements adopted in the many provincial towns
which are in connection with the association. Alto-
gether, the information presented brings practically before
the mind the existence of the large community of the
employed who in this country are dependent for their
sanitary and general well-being upon the etelf-regulation of
the public with regard to hour* of shopping. Ily the sub-
scription lists the society appears to be looked upon with
favour by employers, both in she wholesale and retail
trades' as well as by the saistants. Appended to the
report is • " Select list of evening and Saturday afternoon
resorts in London," both indoor and outdoor, with the
days, boots, Lad malts of admission to toe !Winnel istati•
tutions—including the museums and art oolloosions, with
syllabus of the objects of interest—evening classes, literary
institutions, libraries. Young Men's Christian Associations,
public perks and environs, a list of excursion distances,
with railway fares ; public gymnasia, swimming baths,
he., exhibiting not only • worthy selection of objects for
the popular leisure at the close of the day or the week, but
supplying • good incentive for those who still await the
benefits of the early closing movement.

Tai LATS MRETING or THR BRITISH ASSOCIATION.
—Ai • meeting on Wednesday of the local executive
committee which arranged the details of the British Asso-
ciation meeting in Dundee, it was reported that the total
receipts of the meeting were 4,9261., and the expenditure
up to date 2,7201., leaving • surplus of 1,706 i., to be ap-
plied to objects ma which the committee will hereafter de-
cide. A. banquet, under the chairmanship of Lord liCio-
naird, is to be given to all the members who entertained
the members of the association—es if there had not ahead,
been at least *Dough of " ecisatile" dining.
ROYAL COLLSOE or SIISORONS.—The council of
the college lies Jost decided ea an important alteration is
the examinations for the diplomas of fellowship and mem-
bership, the value of which will be fully appreciated, not
only by the profession bat by the public generally, as no-
i. about to be published that on and after the let of
October next all candidates presenting themselves for the
Gael exantiaatics for the diploma, whether of fellowor mem-
ber of the college, as the case may be. will be required to pass
an examination In medicine at the college, or to produce a
recognised degree, diploma, or license in medicine before
receiving their diploma. The importance of this step is
shown in the feet that • considerable number of registered
practitioners are now practising generally with only •
perely surgical diploma. The next primary and par ex-
amination for the diploma of member will commence on
the 2nd and 9th proximo.

THE MYSTERIOUS DISCOVERY OF A SKELETON
AT SACENZT.—Yesterday, Mr. John Humphreys, the
Middlesex coroner, resumed at the Bari Amherst Tavern,
Amherst-road, Hackney, the investigation respecting the
discovery of • skeleton of a child in the cellar of a house,
at No. 4, Loddiges-road, Hackney. The proceedings were
again of a protracted kind, and the witnesses included Mr.
and Mrs. Butley. The coroner, in a lengthy summing up,
raid then IMO three point& for the jury to decide. The
first was the fast of the discovery of the skeleton ; on that
there could be no doubt. Secondly, the cause of death,
and upon that point the jury must bear in mind that the
doctor's statement, that owing to the length of time the
skeleton had been congealed, he Gould not tell the cause of
death. The third point that they would here to decide was
whose child the skeleton had been. That appeared to lay
between Mrs. Clark and Mrs. Butley. Now Mrs. Butley
had given her evidence in a very reckless manner. Her
answers with regard to the document he had produced
seriously impeached her credibility. The fast of the odious
example which her mother had set her by living in open
adultery with another man might be some excuse for any
lapse of good conduct on her part. The jury then retired
to deliberate, and after an hour's deliberation they re-
turned into court with a verdict " That the skeleton of a
certain child was discovered at 4, Loddiges.road, and that
the juror are unable to ascertain the cause of death, in
eonsequence of the fact of the remains having been so long
In concealment, end the jurors say that the said child was
not the child of Mrs. (lark, and as to whether the skeleton
found was the skeleton of a child of Mrs. Batley there is
not sufticient evidence to determitie." The proceedings
then terminated. _ _ .

Tus TIPPLING Acr.—ln the new County Court
Act, which will take effect on the Ist January, an amend-
ment has been made to "The Tippling Act." By the 4th
section it is provided that no action shall be brought
or be maintainable in any court to recover any debt or
sum of money 'Waged to he due in respect of the sale of
any ale, porter, beer, cider, or perry, which, after the
commencement of the act, was consumed on the premises
where sold or supplied, or in respect of any money or goods
lent or supplied, or of any security given for, in, or towards
the obtaining of any such ale, beer, &e.
A BAT TAINER.—The moat popular of the shows
of the season at St. Cloud fair has been flown( aux rots,
well known to the inhabitants of the Quartier Mont Par-
muse. The name of this P.arey of the nit race is Antoine
Leonard. His favourite scene of action are some cross
alleys in the 14th and 15th Arrondissement. Hie sole
theatre is a sort of perch which he sticks into the ground,
and then he takes his corps de ballet out of his pocket. At
his word of oommand she =to run up and down the
perch, hang on three legs, then on two, stand on their
head, and in fact go through • series of gymnastic exer-
cises that would put Blondin himself to the blush. Hie
week stator is a grey rat he has had in his troupe for eleven
roue ; this old fellow not only obeys Leonard, but is per-
sonally attached to him. It is • curious sight to see
Leonard put him on the ground, and then walk away.
The (nature eons after him and invariably catches him,
however many turns be may make to avoid him. An
Englishman offered 50fr. for him about two years ago, but
Leonard would not separate from his " old and attached
friend."