The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-29 00:00:00

[STAMPED Id. ADDITIONAL.,

Lord Chancellor hinuelf enclosed in a letter to h;s
daughter, telling her to measure caref ally tbs.: length
of her petticoat, that there might be no unneoessar7
waste in the quantity of bomMaine to be sent.
Lord Eldon's brother, Sir IV. Swtt, afterwards
Lord Stowell, was equally distinguished for
leaving habits ; these habits were a; plred in. the;r ,
earlier years, and were shared in the :r rerpec-
Illy() wives. At the conclusion of a wiek's visit, in
a large house, Lady Scott came down to her hostess.
with arms extended, carrying a large number of
towels. " Madam, look here :" she said, " I th.i.k
it my duty to make you aware ef the extra-
vagance of your housemaids; day after day I
have locked up 118410.8 towels that have been put
into mine and Sir William's rooms ; yet they were
alwaywreplaoed. Look at all this lii.en. ma'am :
towel upon towel, and during all this time one has
served us boti."
Of Madame de Stad rather ill-natured anecdotes
are told. Visiting the Duchess d'..Angonielir.e in.
London before the restorsticm of the Bour-
bons, Madame, we read, was much inclined to
get np 'a scene, but the Duchess, who had gone
through too much agony and deep wiliction to
sympathise with " mere sentiment,' -quietly put the
attempt aside, saying " Madame, .ea larmea ne soot
pas necessaires. ' Visiting Blenheim, Madame de
Steel requested to look at the tablets on which the
then paralysed Duke of 3larlbur 'nigh :ised to make
known his requirements. After doing so she ex-
'l4llllllk 4 ji,&,
Pis tlrs Mot4LitiatilliVtila=olllll- ler
claims the indignant narrator, an invalid would be
likely to express Affectionate feelings through
mechanical tablets !

portion of theJittle bc.ok which excites admir-
ing sympathy, is that in v.iiich some extracts are
printed from letters written to the autheresi by
the late Lady Byron. '• I hope to le've this
world," wrote thatexoellent lady in one of the bitters,
" without having said a word that could damage
anybody, and so 1 must let people say wrist 'they
will of me." The following passage I•robablf bontaina
' an allusion to her husband :—`• I could trot appear
to aid F., but I can point out a way. 1 have an
interest for him which would make it painful fur
I me to think he was in a destitute state ; he served
I hie master for good, and, alas: for evil, with a
fidelity which inight, with a better-education. hare
proved a great virtue--

Yea,onremember'd love nosy work a blessing,
By seeds once sown ;
Bowe angel voice at last the boon confessing,
Before Gotta tbrone ! "

Tb. Hon. .Miss Murray gives slim sr four
pieces of poetry by Lady Byron, and exclaians,
" How she loved her child ! I never shall forget
her sweet melodious voice, touching even to tears,
especially when she repeated some lines bf,hes own
eq Ada's guitar." The following vtiried
Tidy Byron :

BY THE FORSAKEN.
"Fonaken"Toh ! if thou hada& beei

• An outcast from mankind for nye,
• The desolate, the desert Irene, - •
k Where thou mast driven in scorn away, •
lad been my.proutlly chosen path, . •
• Forgiven for being thus thy slave ;
• And I had borne thy sorrow's wrath,
• 'And every wound thy rpirit Bare : -
)[T only prayer, that more than all • •
/n uniferance I might bold thee dear, .
And new,: by a look meal •
The thought of thanks I would uut hear.
But ev'n that silence of my breast
Wu searched, acctused, restaged as crime,
Till shrank, all wasted and unblest, .
• The„lsmirt that would not alai by Ulna :
But it, mast come—thine hoar of tears,
When solf•tdoring pride shalt bow, •
And thou shalt own my " blighted years"-r•
• • 'Moats that thou t,--Dion/
714 vjetim !—but from ruin still,
SUB rise a wrn and drooping peace,
Wit pardon for unmeasured ill.

Lady Byron was once reprosehetl for not
writing as much or as frequently as usual. She
answered, " A few pothooks and hangers less
—the same friendship always.- We offer
this ingeniously conceived aphorism for the use of
all neglectful correspondents.
At the time of her Majesty's accession (1837),
Mrs. Jameson was going in a canoe up Lake
Superior. She wrote to the Bon. Amelia
Murray thus :

We ►ailed a schooner with, " What news *:" " William
IV. dead, and Queen Victoria reigning iu Lill stead !" We
sat there silent, looking at one another, and at that ma.
ment the orb of day wee out of the like. and poured its
beams full In our dazzled eyes. Many thoughts oame into
my mind, some tears rose into my eyes, not certainly for
that dead king, who, in ripe age and in all honour, wee
gathered to the tomb ; but for that living Quien, so young
sad fair :

"As many hopes hung on that noble head
As there hang blossoms on the boughs in May."
And what will become of them, of her! The idea that
i even here, in this new world of woods sad watt rs, amid
• these remote wilds, to her utterly unknown, her power
reaches, and her sovereignty is acknowledged, filled me
with compassionate awe. IMy compassionate ; for if she
feel in its full extent the liabilities of her position, alas
for her' and if she feel them not, oh ' worse and worse.
I tried to recall her childish figure and features. I thought
over all I had ever hear.l ow:mooing her. I fancied her
not such a
i thing as they could make a mere pageant of ;
for that, theres too little without, too math wiain.
!And what will they make of her! for at lit she will
hardly make anything of them. I mean of the men and
women around her. It is of the woman I think marethar, of
! the Queen ; for, as part of the Slate machinery, she will do
• quite as well as another, better perhaps ; ao far, /air youth
i and her sex are absolutely in hi r favour. If she he but
I simple-minded, and true-hearted, and straightforward,
with a common portion of intellect ; if a royal education
have not blunted in her the quick perceptions and pure,
kind instincts of the woman ; if she has only had fair
play, and carries into business plain distinct 'melons of
right and wrong, and the tine moral sense that is not to be
confounded by diplomatic verbiage about crpedioarr, she
will do better fur um than a whole eakinetfill of cut and
dried officials, with Talleyrand at the bead of them. And
what a fair heritage is this which has fallen upon her :
• land young like herself, a land of Impel ; and fair, most
fair. Doer she know, does she care anything about it
while harts are beating warm towards her, and 'nice'
bless her, and hands are stretched on: towards ber, exec
from these wild lake *borer. ',

It will be seen that the Hon. Amelia .Murray's
" Recollections" are such as must give pleasure to
others as well as to herself, and every reader will
wish she had given us more of them.

LONDON, CHATHAM, AND DOTER RAILWAY.—The
following is the result of the poll upon the resolu-
tion proposed by Mr. Scott :—For the resolution, per
sons! Totem, 1,`285 ; proxies, 6.345 ; total, i.h3o. Against
the resolution, pinata] votes, 293; proxies. 1.6h:4; total,
2,276. Majority in favour of the resolution, 5,334.
THE OAKa COLLIERY.—Within the. laat week an
important circumstance connected with the &love calainity
has come to light. The men at work in exploring the
mine at the latter end of lot week got to the bottoo. tf
the atone drift, which was being tut by blurting at the
time the disaster occurred. Since that time they hare
been able to penetrate the drift itself. cmi b..rt
found that the shot has blown flirt-ugh. At the
beginning of the week Mr. Dickinson, ir.,pector -fa:
East Lancashire, Mr. F. N. Wardel. Ai, newly.
appointed inspector for South Yorio.hirt, and Mr.
I.owthorn, the recent inspector, pll visits.l- the pit and
descended the shaft along with Mr. Dymond, the managing
partner, and Mr. Minto, the newly.appointed viewer, and
west to the place, which they examined, and found that
the shot had blown through. It will Le rememlorod that
at the inquest a great deal of time was rphot in bearing
evidence ma to this important point, the majority of the'
witnesses believing that it not blown through. The
main road leading to the cupola has been cleared for
distance of from N to 80 yard?, in which apace a peer
has just been Nand and got out. The work at the cupola
progresses hut slowly, on account of the walls c.ivinr way.

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cluing, without nic.licine or expense, dyypepila
constpation. dlarrliasa, acidity. heshaelte, neitralgia, hysteria,
palpitation, sleepiessinee, debility. wasting, cough tathen► freers
consinuption. low spirits. 60.000 cures which had rooted ad
medicines, inducting that of Ida flotiztais the Pope. It mesa
Oily times ita Wit he other remedies —7lra, 111. ,Ps nil.
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INTELLIGENCE FROM ABROAD.

(LECTLICR TELEGRAM.)
FRANCE.

PARIS, FL& 23.

The Temps gives an account of an attempt made
upon the life of Baron Budberg yesterday at
Vervierv, by a son of Baron 31eyendorff. Baron
Budberg sufrored no injury, and his would-be
assassin appears to have been subject to a sudden
tit of insanity.
The PreAse of this evening says that Marshal
Regnault de St. Jean d'Angely, of the Imperial
' Guard, has issued a circular ordering the recall of
the soldiers belonging to the guard who have
received leave of absence till the 31st of March,
and prohibiting any leave of absence being granted
without a report first being made to the superior
authorities.

AMERICA.

NY ATLUCTIC TELECRAr it, 711Rve.lit YR. SCUM'S ACCICT.)

NEW YORK, Fe& 28.

The Cunard stiamer Australasian arrived out at
6 a.m. to-day, and the
.Allan steamer Nestoriat
also arrived today.

Gold, 1414

Sterling exchange on London.

kV United States Beside, 1882, 110
;IFtB:5, 1084 ; 10.40 Bonds, 104 g. Illinois
138 ; Erie, N. Cotton : Middling Upland, 21}
Petroleum, standard white, 20. Flour, °sirs
State, 10 dole. 20c. Corn, old mixed, 1 dol. 24c.

THE IRISH FENIAN TRIALS.

DUBLIN, FUMY.

. -
The commission at Sligo was opened yesterda!
by Judges Fitzgerald and Keogh. A drug farce of con
@tabular', two companies of the 72nd IfighbiaNts, and
troop of dragoon's are in the town.
Mr. Justice Fitzgerald, in charging the grand jury • ,
called attention-to the fast that Oriloael llagl behtg ea • •
alien, was not amenable to our laws %Wei feit oda**
' witted within tLe realm, and they *ban have k
' inquire whether, when the overt nets ea board the
vessel were committed, the decimal was witliin **Aug
laud, or within three miles of the shore. sus
difficult question, were likely to aria* to
trial. It was not clearly defined foe what the .
=
jurisdiction of the Queen over adjoining ts of
the high seas is admitted by foreign nationi,' gl• ass
be maintained, nor whether an alien, in a ship of ha
own country, on the high seas, and not in the 144 01
the county, the setranit evert acts of tresses or .L
feleny. lie wield direst lam thestais
the headland's, thisiontflashl4.4zer4
the body of the county. Quests* night Age mite,
as to whether any nest with* Ile thes*thile limb -
might not, as regards jsziadletion of *the seen to try the 7
case, be comidered within Pit body. of **county. If •
bill were found the Oates iaidLt claim ijury half aliens
With respect to thietherpriaonertosaturalised Americana
no bill could be found agelnertheln without proof of some' '
overt act committed within the county of Sligo, or the '
IMAM forming, in coateMplatioe of late, 'part of the I
county. , . .

• - 1/I.I{IAW. FRIDAY NicliT.
Trite bills were found to-day against Nagle, and the
trial is used for to-morrow.

An application was made by Mr. Heron on behalf of
Nagle for the rinboyal of the cane to the Court of Queen'r
Bench. Tl 6) 0111114 retuned It. Mr. Heron their
for • jury half of whom should be. Arnertein :diked
Judge Fitzgerald said there was tro inerdaliod for tie
claim, and directed the sheriff to return all the elf ens he
could 6n.1 in Ow town. Mr. alkinlley Irwin, barrister,
ap u 4 to hare Mr. Trainalltced on. tLgjur bgt the_
judge refus terin7antsi.

K"illiam Johtutone, Grand Master of the County Dows
Orangemen, and Grand Seeret.try for Ireland, and, Mau
others, have hems found guilty to day of a party prooessus
at Bangor, on the Mit July last. Sentence deferred until
to-morrow.

CAPTORS OF A NOTORIOCS lIVIO:LAR. At the
Woolwich police-court yoderday, John Adams, aged 36,
of 27, Ordnanos-road, Woolwich.common, was charged
before Mr. Tottemon with burglariotudy entering the men-
sion of LIM James Wilde (judge of the Divorce Court) at
Shooters-hill, and also with committing burglaries at
about a dozen other gentlemen's residences in the sense
locality. He was further charged with cutting and
woundima P. C. Lincoln, IP; 5, on the l doer attempting
to arrest him. The prisoner is a most desperate end sm.
(woeful burglar, and within the two years he has been out
ma a ticket of leave, it is believed, from the proceeds of
burglaries found at his house, that be meet lave had
less than an income of WI. a year derived from his mkt.
night depredations. He has on reverel occasions been
detected by the pollee in the act of committieg btorglerles.
hut by the use of fire-arms and knives has smarmed to
escape. On one occasion he successfully escaped from •
force of five constables, and bee never hesitated to resort
to the most desperate and murderous acts rather than ho
made a prisoner. He baa undergone eight years' penal ser-
vitude for a burglary at Deptford, mid at the time of hie
arrest by the Shooters-hill police his ticket of leave had not
expired. Ha lasbeen in tho habit of reporting himself and re.
ceivinghelp from the I'visoners' Aid Society, owl was dreamed
in their clothing at the time of his capture. Within the lad
two years almost every house on Shooters-hill has been
entered, from that of Lord Truro down to the labourer's
outings, and it will be proved in evidence that the prisoner
has !Woken Into three or four haulms in one night, and be
had latterly become the terror of the' district. Impede,
Moynahan said them were a great many charge., of bur.
glary against the poisoner, but he only propored going into
the case of Sir J. Wilde that day, and then to ask foe •
remand. l'olice.conetable Lincoln said that he and enothor
constable, named Billham, 57 It, stepped the prisoner as
be was making off through a tell with the proceeds of the
burglary committed at Sir James Wilde's. AA a premo
tionary mearare witness rubbed him down, and took •
knife from one of his packets, when the prisor.er threw
away the stolen property. Billhoun was in the act of goring
to pick op the • bundle, when the prisoner drew forth
another knife which ho hail secreted about him, end dis-
abled witness by ',oohing it across his hand several times.
; and gap off into Shooters-hill-wood, in the darkness and
intrkacieTor which he escaped. They secured the proceeds
of the burglary, ejsolated • description of the burglars
p0pea........a0gi0 our, 252 iedTdd he received a deacriptift
of the prisoner, ADA the pr_evioss Fame uPow him
at the Star public-house, Plonsistamd Gagmen, Witness
I told him the Charte against him, when the prtiOncT, t*ites
aback at the:suddennese of the arrest, cazlsimed, "Goof
(God!' Knowing thedangeroua character of the prisoner,
I be instantly threw him on his bark, and held Lim dow•
übtil amistance arrived, the primeer meantime making •
I desperate resistance. Ile said be would be —if he
would 0, and a female with him, marred Msry Ann Brown,
with whom he had been cobahrtlig. tried to rescue hen,
and told Dot policeman to be aware of what he had got in
bis pockets. Having got the prisoner to the statics he
ran to the prisoner's house, and arrived there before Use
woman, and brought away a cart bead of property and
sixth seven duplicates relating to articles which there M no
doubt will t •rr. out to he the proaeeds of Lorelei ie.. on
hastily looking over the thinge, the police identified
articles helongum to about a dozen cases of Lundaries
witted in the Shooters-bill subdivision. The female
Brown, India, the house stripped, went to the Shooters.
bill police-station, where she was At once llama ender
arrest. Mr. Patteson remanded the pi :wisers. Lot:. of
whom are most forbidding and dogma eta-lookirg characters.
RAILWAY AND OTHSIt Bette arrone PARLIA.
a:Dir.—Yesterday Mr. Palgrsve, cne of the examiners
of the standing order proofs of rii:ltiay and other bills
Dow pendie: in parliament, held a court in Room C of time
House of Lards ; and proceeded a iti. ti.c ean.idemtion of
the oppose..' petition of the Metropolitan Street Tram.
ways Ddle, the standing order. in which caw were declared
not to have beat emptied with. The stamiieg om!rn wen
declared to base be.tn compli, a with in the case of *he
; unopposed Crystal P.ileco and :math Landon J gamin)*
Railway Bill.

CRY3TAL PALACE. ONE SI:I7.LINO DAT.
MOAT. P. SS--tdudstions on pay tuna, 8:1.1; ditto
by eaaaua tickets. 1.500 ; told risitoir.l2o.l6.
itavartifealCut. -- iwCY.ii PILLS. Con-
antral Cull Natio:, of lb* %lima! tit works of tutting winds,
thetr durailon has azteated ovvi that period. crol.
at Premised the writ elTret• over ate it. Ilinto. :rim.
and 411•4 11011 i-wars part¢int )411. shrobl now be lo.krii le
avert t-es Cl mt.:iguanas of lii. Lie tninit 013..41. !••»41
▪ awn pills and lhetr accanipiii.tha
lieraimary fur etar int...llJ to 1110 t nv.t he went ...di of dr.,.
and to amine inters toad health. Depraved awl poor Itai.l • 111
that hi porifict Rod ovirkitedi aU csagualnas of tha circulation
Lt the langs. liver. Wary.. brats. or .4tenkure. will be ctlis.
• 4a, ;rattly, will no paleved faros sogireldo2, rad the
whole Waist ntschtae trUt be ream ateil.