The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-28 00:00:00

31/SCELLANZOLT.

PaLam.—Fintxka, and Illaannatios of Tountaisui.—
• -it Mlterain 4. Pr. /MUM'S lIALL.-8 -clod.
. t ILLUOTUATI4.3I —Yr. Nark Lesuoa Aka Falsta."—
y. .nuat nrformaneo at 3.
.. •.v Mau.. i'avaolo..T.-31r. Fleming Nartaa'a Eater-
. o'4lo.
I" IA Belle FTINIM sal the Maid of
musical and riotorial entertainnent) ; tho Ele-trie

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• !:TED IV .1 OP THE ARCHBISHOP

01 CA NTERE CRY.

ri,orted that the Archbishop of Canter-

has kin suffering from an attack of bros.
•3 this mottling at Addington Palace, near Croy.
• e agc of 71 y, an.. Riagrace was the fifth sone!
• hu I ottgli y. EAq.. Recorder of Rochester.

.trAGLR DUCHESS OF St-TIIBRLAND.

:.ty of our readers will learn with great

• E. nth of one of the most widely-known and
.popular members of the aristocracy, the
.. lefs of Sutherland. She died at 1 o'clock
L. :n.ng at Stafford-house, St. James's.
. sao Lud recently completed the 62nd
1, 7 nee, was the third daughter of
•
Ea.l ct Carlisle. E.G., &c., by Lally
. I r• y CavetdiAh. edez.t daughter of Wit-
-I,t.kt• ,•i Ik‘.u.hire, and was born on the
y, lay. —7,....•.

I. MAIL :114.11 r.ACIBT COYF.LN 1.
BIS LAI.)

is the ordinary general meeting of share-
w, held at tite Loudon Tavern. Mr. MaNOL23 in

tLieb Las already been publi.hed, having

..0 16, rend.

.'tramcar said, that after 21 years of a divilend-
; nipaity, the uiteetors met the proprietors
• • •' sy as a non-d vidend-paying company.
• - not merely a matter of regret to the
1,1-s it was a source of distrait'. They were well
.f cwever, that this was owing to a combination of
ward circumstance,. In the first place there was the
w fever of Ibbt.i. Then the yellow fever of
✓ It was followed by a hurricane and earthquake in St.
=ill. such as were rarely experienced even in that
Oen. These occurrences not only destroyed their pro-
•-. rty, but diminished their traffic. The whole of these
:,tter disasters wire included in the half-year ending
... hint. They bed, as it were. nature conspiring against
Their of rs could not prevent hurricane. or even
isve their ships in hurricanes; but beyond the disasters
• from the,. uncontrollable canoes, they did their
. c wvll, and the proprietors bad no losses to cam-
: i. Fur the quarter of a century during
; the company existed, no vessel. except
#.ttuto, was obliged to put back from die-
although
i Lot be Laid of them that they did not keep their
. The last vessel bsilt for them—the Neva—was two
. c-:.e hours before her time, and he did not believe
. • seas a better or a faster Teasel afloat. With regard
• • • •itmexion with the Panama. New Zealand, and
# Royal Mail Company, it was their interest to
~..aapany prospering, because it was a feeder to
.: Lupin% . They Lad already received3l,ooo/. from that
;., They lent them 70,11001. on the security of tour of
• • which were valued at 243,0001.; so that in case of
the Panama Company they had ample security.
-red after landing the maili at Plymouth to run
• -els into Cherbourg for the convenience of the
t. nr.d German paistengers who did not lite the
i:om Southampton to Havre in small steamers.
•• : to the government contract, he wished tt
• • sr. mere favourable to the company, but it
ts• bed they could obtain. and they wine Ruch
: t i to the deputy-chairman, Mr. Russell Gurney,
l• - t - Mt- adder, for their exertions in getting so much
y •Ld. The contract extended to the end of 1874,
was a o.aure iu it which compelled the company
1 -5. iv any pulite with the government over 8 par cent.
1,41a.1101.1M1t asked what circumstances were pre-
t.:: is the minds of the directors which induced them to
• ",•: from the government a contract less favour-
- to the company than the previous one,
•r which they had come down from a dividend
ir! t: n per cent. to nothing. He believed that foreign
..:_petition was one of the main causes of their difficulties
. this wu a permanent cause.
Mr. am esprts-•1d the same view.
meeting had not concluded when we went to press.)

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•JLo government has just held a preliminary
at Exeter into the extent to which women and
_Arm are employed in agriculture. Ameng4 the re-
p, eentatives of the landed interest who gave evideirze
t,:•aig objections live expreised to parliamentary inter-
: r• Lee in thie matter, as well as in that of compulsory
.cation. Earl fortescua, the President of the Devon-
Chamber of Agriculture, expreseed his opinion that
should be scot out to earn a livelihood before the

tria years. It was stated that the number of women
ployed on agr.eultural labour shows an annual dimi-
:

A svuial Rural Deanery Board was called at
unedin, at the instigation of the Bishop of Christchurch,
the lfith of August. in reference to the bishopric of
tago, to which Br. Jenner was some time since appointed.
Le Tier.s correspondent at Wellington write :-" Till
Veling against Bishop Jenne?, tearing England to assume
}.se oeice is still as strong, if not stronger, than ever it
wits—strong because of his ritualistic tendencies% but
till stronger because of the total absence of confidence
v.ti, which a large l ortiou of Lis diocese must rega-d
i sera, cal account of the pledge which Le has given that he
t..:1 r.ot forceliis rousit Cons on others, but only intro-
e..' t.lualisLe °W.:sauces with the most tender awl
I,n:emit tepid to the feelings of the devout.' They
eunl this as tantutive,ut to saying that he will be
j.suitical enough to openly profess an avoidance of
a •eul.ste, while he will really le; a\,or on the watch for
introduction Inf.& ly little.' "

We have from Valparaiso an extraordinary
I..uout of the ckition td a patron saint to one of the
--Ode there, e hi. h was concluded on the 6th of Sept.
;he Mercurio buys the favourite candidate was "the
lorable Saviour of the World," who polled 19,916 voters;
the Mom Holy • Lad 4,132: sundry odd saints
I .t La a loo,r ilii.w, poling in the aggregate 3111 votes+.
fttr the electiou a Ts 10.0. Was sung and a sermon pro-
h.tinetti in eris In utii•e i.l the joyful event.
An ittliverti .eloi tit tit Port-n, .nth settinfr, forth
lie attainment., of a juvenile uctre-ut, now performing
!Lem conteinit tio. following "Copyof to,,tiinonial
from the Right lion. Jultn Fikington, Tier Majerty's
Freretary of State tor War. ' I have NAM Mori Lydia
lioward, the lattle 1 a,. y Actre., , in :vane of her principal
WI I think it I 5C17 extraiothuary and delightful
i • rh•iniair,.. loyal Victoria hotel, St. Leonard's,
April " hirwiuytoos Post on this ob-
. I 1 .• We MI, is,t at all disposed to laugh fit Sir
tor having VI., a testimonial to the 'Little Fairy
"1•.-•.' It h. sods: charmism to oleenre that with
int, the 1111(1611 .811101 of IkOitWn:h --upon his
1:111 likhend for au hour in a country theatre.
• Sliuister of War, Sir John in hound to take an
h 11., pet foilfl4ll/24. of the infantry. And then,
' rissenv that cue of the pieces in which Mier Lydia
owned moat de.ights her audience is Ifous4asies Fursosn.
# lust whet his lately occurred at Irroitwieli, it will be
'Ail) midi Mood that to Sir John l•akingtoe's mind this
a+tatitda must have proved irresistible."