The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-12 00:00:00

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tr44;lliigloiAr .-(THDI DAY.)

COMMITTAL OP • BPMCIAL 00/1111A11L1 1,01 ABAAVIM.
George /eland. of 19, Ohnragrove, Iwwisham, was
charged on a summons with 'aimless John Turner.
The complainant said he was passing through Lewisham
with a friend when the defendant, who appeared to be
under the influence of drink, same up to him and asked
" Are on a fighting man in want of • job r He told
the defendant he didnot wish tosayanything tohitn,when
the defendant throat his head against him and then
took him by the lege and threw him over. Fearing the
defendant's violence he ran into the shop of a grocer for
potation, when the defendant followed hint in, seized
him by the collar, and said he was his prisoner, and most
go with him to the station, he being a special constable.
A witness having confirmed this statement, and said the
defendant sent a person to bring his warrant showing he
was a special constable.
The defendant admitted that be had been drinking, but
said he had in joke touched the complainant on his
shoulder, asking him how he was, when he put himself in
• fighting attitude.
The complainant denied this statement.
Mr. )Laude mid it appeared that the defendant had
made himself half drank, and then acting under some
notion of being vested with authority as s special con-
stable had committed a violent and altogether unpro-
voked assault. He should not impose • fine, but defen-
dant would be committed to Maidstone gaol for 21 days
with hard labour.

(lIT .111.101APIL)
BIRMINGHAM MEETING.-(THIS DAY.)

P.lt.
There was not much doing this morning. For
the Lincolnshire Handicap, Bing Charming remained arm
at 10 to 1; Purveyor was also supported at as little as 12
to 1 ; Esaby oonlinued to be in moan at 100 to 6 ; sad
Leans met with support at 25 to 1. For the Liverpool
Grand National, 1000 to 80 was offered on the field with-
out a response, and there appeared to be no disposition to
bask the favourites ; Thalami= was wall supported at 20
to 1, and at the improved price of 25 to 1 Chimney Sweep
met with taken. For the Charter Cop, some three or
four investments were made on Yields at 100 to 6. On
the other events there was no change. Quotations:

LICENSED VICTUALLERS.

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Coverdale
AllllVED.—Albeighton, Greenland, and Sprite.
Doctor scratched at 11.1 b.
Error in Rotingka Plata, run Pagoda, :—Huntsman
second, not Birdie.

9 zsz.--

HUN'TERS' PLATE. Three miles.
Round Text, Plum Oaks, Captain, Militiaman, Order,
Come-again, Lady Poet, Biahopton, Black Swan, Nigard,
and Caller On are her.
BIRMINGHAM GRAND ANNUAL STEEPLECHASE.
Three miles and a ball.

LINCOLNSHIRE HANDICAP.
9to I apt Ring Charming (t and off)
11 to 1 Cssz (off)
12 to 1 Purveyor (t)
100 to 6 Euby (t f)
25 to 1 Leases (t)
100 to 3 Mount Palatine (t and off)
LIVERPOOL GRAND NATIONAL.
1000 to 80 on The Field (off)
20 to 1 apt Thalassias it and w)
23 to 1 Chimney Sweep (t)
CHESTER CUP.
100 to 6 apt Viridis (t)
20 to 1 Abargeldio (off, 25 to Iw)
40 to 1 Caithness (off)
TWO THOUSAND GUINEAS.
500 to 200 apt Rosierusian (t)
1000 to 70 Typhoeus (t and off)
DERBY.
11 to 2 apt Lady Elizabeth (off, 6tol w)
23 to 1 Blue Gown (t and off)

The Doctor fiaksisare, Idea:mood,
Benarot, Archimedes, ones' Nun, opton, Havelock,
Knave of frumps, True Heart, Highfiyer, Charming
Woman, King Alfred , and Sylph are here.
Pam Formirr.--Corkscrew, Cabin Boy, King Arthur,
Columbia, Despetob, LAD., ;ad Flyibilier.

CRAVEN CUP. Three miles and shelf.
Bannockburn, Corkscrew, Benuet, Walterstown, and
Brick are here.
SCURRY HANDICAP. Two miles.
Comberton, 12.4 121 b ; Hat 31b ; Ace of Hearts,
lost 12Th ; Huntanian, tat 121 b ; Knave of Trumps,
lost 121 b ; Patience, lost 101 b ; Bishoptos, tat 101 b
Dictator, lost; Brandy Apple, BM blb; Strike,
lOst 41b ; Chinning Woman, lOst 21b ; Rom, 10et ;• emit-
keen , lOst ; Birdie, lOst ; Quicksilver, tat 'All are
here.

EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE.-(THIS DAY.)

Music-halls, though quite as numerous in London
and the oountry as theatres, are not so frequentlydemoyed by
fire, and the burning of the " Oxford," as far as we remem-
ber, is the first music-hall fire that has happened since
music-balls came into existence about fifteen years ago.

This day a conference on the subject of education
took place in Willis's Rooms, King-street, Bt. Juan's; the
Hon. C. L. WOOD in the chair. Amongst those present
were Archdeacon Denison, tho Dean of York, Hon. C. Lind-
say, Rev. Dr. F. G. Lee, Rev. Mr. Graeber, Rev. Dr.
Miller, and Mr. Wrattley, of Harrow.
The objects of the conference will be best discerned by
the following propositions which were submitted to the
meeting:—" That it appears to this meeting that
it Is necessary that aid should be given oat of the
I public funds towards building and maintaining
sufficient schools for the education of the poor.
2. That such aid be not by rates, local or general, but
by parliamentary grant to be administered by the Com-
mittee of Council on Education as parliament shall direct.
:i. That such aid be applied to assist in building schools of
all religious bodies on sites legally conveyed, secured
for the purpose of education, and open to all children
whose parents are willing to accept the education
and to comply with the rules and regulationsof the school
Religious teaching therein and all manner of regulation
connected with it to be left unconditionally free to the

The " Oxford" belonged to a joint-stock company, and
until • few weeks back was coupled with the Canterbury-
hall in Lambeth-marsh—a building opened in 1851 by Mr.
Charles Morton, hut now leased to Mr. W. Holland, late
of " Weston's," in Holborn. The " Oxford," like the " Can-
terbury," wasone of our best conducted mimic-halls—a place
in which music and singing were generally the chief attrac-
tions, and in which the vocal " operatic selection" was
still clung to by the managers and very ably rendered by
the company. There are certain forms of amusement,
like promenade concerts, that have a run of suocees, and
then go out of fashion for a time, and it may be that the
particular kind of music-hall entertainment inaugurated
by Mr. Charles Morton is one of these. The speculators in
theatres and operetta houses have already been busy in
measuring the ruins of the destroyed music-hall, with the
view of securing such a valuable site for a playhouse.
Tue 111sHOP OF LONDON'S FUND. —Yesterday a
conference of the clergy, churchwardens, and otherlaymen
of the diocese of Lenders, convened by the Bishop, was
held at Willies Rooms, on the subject of the Bishop
of London's Fund, and the general condition of parochial
work within hie lordship's see. It was a meeting of men
exclusively, and the large room was completely fillet, the
bishop Laing supported by nearly all the rural dean., the
gentlemen of the board of management of his fund, and
lay representative. from most of the principal London
parishes. The bishop presided.
THE EARLSWOOD ASYLUM FOR IDIOTS.— -This
admirably managed institution, which has a reputation
throughout the civilised world, is experiencing one of the
emberramnimits which attend success. It is absolutely
necessary to enlarge the aeylum, inasmuch as the elections
of the present year will fill it, and cases will have to be
refused for want of room. The board are now appealing
to the public on behalf of the enlargement fund, contri-
Indices to which will give the same voting privileges as
those for the current year. It is perfectly certain that
when the facts become known the public will not let the
usefulness of this institution be limited through want
1 et funds.
Tur IRIr H RAILWAYQUESTION.—Aeorrespondent
of a Dublin contemporary states that the sum required to
purchase all the Irish railways has been ascertained to be
a little over 20 millions sterling. This does not include
the sum requisite to put them into thorough working
eider. The Inquiry on the latter subject is said to be still
MIL 'THEODORE MARTIN.—It it stated that Mr.
Theodore Martin is sufficiently recovered from the &mi.
dent which he lately sustained to leave Osborne. The
I Queen presented Mrs. Martin (Helen Faucit) with a mag-
nificent ruby diamond bracelet, as • souvenir of their
visit to her marine residence.
The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
have appointed a committee, consisting of Air. Hubbard,
M.P., the Rev. Prebendary Martineau, Mr. Casenove,
Mr. Erskine Knollys, and other gentlemen, fbr the per-
pose of collecting funds for the endowment of • bishopric
for the north of Germany, specially for the northern part
of Europe, with Heligoland for its see.
Socurrr or Ewa 'mass. —At the last meeting of
the Society of Engineers, Mr. Baldwin Latham, presi-
dent, in the chair, 12 candidates were belluted for and
duly elected, viz.:—A. members, Mr. John Rowan, Ayles-
bury, Bucks; Mr. Hugh Mclntosh, Lambeth • Mr. Wil-
liam Randall Lamy, Wandsworth ; Mr. Charles Seeley,
Royal Small Arms Factory, Enfield ; Mr. Edward belie,
Parliamentebeet, Wedminster ; Mr. James Edwin Phil-
lips, Spittlegate Ironworks, Grantham ; Mr. Christopher
Brakell, North Moor Foundry, Oldham. As foreign mem-
ber: Lieutenant Constantine ',steppe, Railway Depart-
ment, St. Petersburg. As associates : Mr. John Clayton
Mewbum, 166, Fledestmet ; Mr. Johnson Vivian Jeffree,
Crossness.
CRUEL TREATMENT OP A CHlLD.—Yesterday the
Brighton stipendiary (Mr. Biggs) heard the preliminary
evidence in a case which promises to develop some extra-
ordinary circumstance.. As formally presented yeeterday,
It was a charge of assault preferred against a middle-aged
woman of respectable appearance, named Charlotte Wing-
field. The child she is alleged to have ill-treated is her
nephew, named Tugwood, who was allowed by his mother
to live with her for several months at Brighton. Thomas
Dunham, superintendent of the Books oonetabulary sta.
boned at Slough, said he saw the boy Tugwood, who he
was told was six years old, at Boveney, DOW Wiudaor, a few
days ago. His mother wee named Tugwood, and she was
• widow. He went in company with a doctor to see the
child. The doctor said be thought the child's life was in
danger. There were more than fifty wounds and sears
upon the child. Some of them were scars of old wounds
which had heeled up. The child made a statement in
the presence of a magistrate which warn taken down.
Ho said that a poker was heated red hot, and he was
burned with it every night. The inside of the child's ears
were masses of sores, from which matter was discharged.
The bridge of the nose and one finger were broken. The
child was very emaciated, its bones nearly coming through
its akin. Prisoner was great aunt to the child. She lived
at Boveney last summer, and the child bad remained with
her till last Wednesday. The boy described the poker
with which the injuries were inflicted, and witness found
that the one produced answered to that description. (This
was a short light poker, with the end much finer than an
ordinary one.) He went yesterday with Detective Whittle
to No. 1, Sudely-place, Brighten, and found prisoner.
Whittle read the warrant to her, charging her with
vaulting the boy Tugwood, end she became very excited,
and ran about the room. She said she had not burned
the child, but that he was barbed by her son, Alfred, and
that it was a conspiracy got up by the boy's uncle and
others to get rid of her. He believed she referred, by the
term uncle, to the man who kept her. She also said that
her eon Alfred had pit some vitriol in • syringe, and seat
it over the lower part of her body, burning her. Her ion
Alfred was about 14; years old. The child had been living
with prisoner about seven mouths. Prisoner said she was
quite innocent of the charge. He wee • very good boy,
and never wanted beating. Upon her " word of honour
she was too fond of the child to beat it. The prisoner was
remanded till Monday. Alfred Wingfield was next placed
in the dock. and also charged with committing an assault
on William Tugwood. On being taken into enetody he
said " I never assaulted the boy ; it was my mother who
did it • I always treated him very kindly." He further
mid that he took the boy home and slept with him one
night in London, and gave him what hewanted. The male
prisoner was else remanded.
A Cuaiors PUNISHMINT.—We read in the
Malta (Astern. of Feb. 6th: "At the meeting, of
council to be held to-morrow afternoon • resolotin will
be moved by the Hon. Dr. &iodine, proposing the re-
establishment of the preents notturno. This punish-
ment existed in Malta until the revision of the eriminal
code some years ego, when it was abolished, and it eon-
misted in a prohibition restraining the person subject to it
from quitting his own dwelling during the period from
one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise. The
punishment could be imposed for a period extending from
six months to five years, and the individual undergoing it
was liable to be visited during the night by the police,
in order that its observance might be ensured.
There is reason to believe that the effects of
the punishment in question are excellent, but
we doubt the expediency of its re•tertablialonsat in these
times, madder* that it greatly interferes witht.jemeenal
liberty, and that it may at times prove Miff and be
aimed. We believe that the pre:tette adeerne, peculiar
to this island, was to be found in the local criminal aide
at a time when the polies form was far from being eon-
siderahla and snidest foe the proper pretedion of the
life and property of the inhabitants. Calm' it he thought
that the present lone is insufficiset foe the Wend, no
other reason can possibly be found for the reiniredeetkes
of this punishment in our code • but even then—that is, if
the form be would numerieally slop
have been that of es, the aiesaMea of Se eat
to the aseessity Mensnotle the pontesforge.
CITIITAL PALM* ON. BEILLDIG
TELMA; FEN. IL—kileshatoes as pument, 1,91 n
ditto by assist *INK WM; lola Tidbit% 2.717.

managers of each school to auist in maintainfag wheels by
annual grants. The amount of suchgrantstobeproportioned
to *ocular results, as these are ascertained byher Majesty's
inspectors. The manner of producing such results to be
left unconditionally free to the managers of each school.
4. That where desired sea aid shall be applied to mist
in building and maintaining purely secular schools."
The Cli URMAN opened the conference in an able speech,
and was left speaking when we went to press.

DEPUTATION OP fiat METROPOLITAN YRS-
rruk.s AND DISTRICT BOARD., TO THE
DONE SECRETARY.—( THIS DAY.)

This afternoon, at one o'clock, a numerous depu-
tation from the above bodies, including 16 out of 19
vestries, waited upon Mr. Hardy at the Home-
office to express opposition to the Municipal Cor-
porations Metropolis and the Metropolitan Municipal
Government Lille introduced in the House of Commons
last session by Mr. John Stuart Mill. The
metropolitan members of parliament present were
Mr. Harvey Lewis, Mr. T. Chambers, and Mr. John Locke.
The Metropolitan Board of Works was represented by Col.
Hogg, Mr. Westerton, Mr. Freeman, Mr. Brooker, Dr.
Evans, Mr. White, Mr. CoMotion, and Mr. Meaden. AN
reporters were not admitted no account can be given of
the proceedings.

TB& ARRESTS AT CORK.

(BY TLLISOILATII.)

CORK, WEDIRSDAT.
The man Dineen, who was arrested last night,
and who was found to have bad his now shot off, has been
identified as the person who fired at the policemen in
Uulows-road, and has been committed for trial

THE EXPRESS, WEDNESDAY EyENI,NI;3I,. FEBRUARY
,12,, 168.

MON

't ifiR.KET.-(THIS DAY.)

Ors o'Cluosz.

Public securities, with two or three exceptions,
present no important change to-day, the amount
of fresh business being limited. A somewhat
better tendency, however, is apparent. The settle-
ment, which has just commenced and will be com•
pleted on Friday, shows a limited supply of railway