The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-08 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, THURSDAY EVENING, tiCTOIIVR

THIRD EDITION.

LATEST SPORTING INTELLIGENCE

(111 f TILEORILPH.)

NEWBY ARKET MEETING.-(THIS DAY.)

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REMARKS.
The atmospherical premiums over these islands have increased
gentisily, and amain uniformly, during the last 2t hours, and
rt &dings are now high at eouthern stations. At Brad the read-
ing is U.S in. I. higher than at Nairn. Temperature on the
western coast has men a little. A fresh north-westerly wind
was prevalent yesterday on the Irish mast, elsewhere winds
were cooderste and more westerly. Light winds are general this
morning, with calms in the south-wed of England. Some rain
has talks in south-western districts, wherethe weather is cloudy.
Ou the east tollat the wualbez is tine.

SUDDEN DEATH IN TUN HT/Mfr.—Yesterday a
painful sensation was occasioned in Reading by an awful
instance of the uncertainty of human life. A corn porter,
named Frederick Waken, about fifty years of age, went
to the Wheel public-bouse, in Friar-street, for the pur-
pose of fetching his truck, when by some means he
ruptured a blood-vessel, and, falling down in the street,
expired almost immediately. The body of the unfor-
tunate man was conveyed to his residence upon the very
truck for which he had gone to the Wheel Inn only a short
time previously.
000Da TRAINO.—The goods traffic on our main
lines is now enormous, and it is on the increase. Its pro-
ceeds, we believe, often exceed that of the passenger
traffic, and though it may be carried on to • great extent
at night, yet there are trains enough in the day time to
create serious embarrassment and danger to the other
branch of the service. It has long been noted that the
lines with the least goods traffic enjoy singular immunity
from accidents. The wonder, indeed, is, on a line like
that from Chester to Holyhead, how the work is done as
well as we see; but every fresh inquiry into the Abergeln
disaster tends to show what risks must needs be inci-
dental to such • crush of business. That tan minutes
rule, for instance, of which so much has been said, was
certainly a must reasonable cos, and yet we have been
officially informed that it did not applyt to the North-
Western IMes. It was designed for ' foreign" lines—
that is to say, lines not under the company's
immediate
control; so that it would seem to resemble &species of ex-
traordinary precaution, and, indeed, it Wears to be
doubted by all concerned whether an Wisest of tea
minutes to be invariably maintained between one train and
another would allow of the despatch of all the trains
running in the twenty-four boars. The result, no doubt,
is simply a consequence of an unexpected overgrowth of
tree* but we have bad only too many warnings of the
catastrophes to which it may load.—ltinee.

PATAL STEAMBOAT OATASTROPIIR.
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FOURTSEN iiriki iiiii

The following, from a spacial corrosporclont of
the Thiess, appears in the second edition of that journal :

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" Psru,►nmaHu, Oar. 7, 11 a.m.
"The steamer Peraeveranoe was burnt on Tuesday an
the Lakes.

" Fourteen persona lost their lives by this catastrophe."

ELECTION INTELLIGENCE.

ItARYLEBONE.

Ytotorday a meeting of tho supporteri of Mr.
Thomas Chambers, Q.C., ?LP., was held at No. 63,
Oloueester-place, Portman-equare, for purpose of
considering the means to be adopted for bemiring the
return of Yr. Chambers es one of the members for the
borough at the forthcoming election. Amongst the nu-
menus attendance of gentlemen were—Mr. Alderman
Salomon N.P., Mr. A. N. Shaw, Mr. Rosa Yr. Fermis,
Yr. Beaton, Mr. Closest Norio Yr. Silas Taylor, Yr.
Newton, Cr. Smith, Yr. Bnakeshom Mr. Noon,mr.
Maybe, Yr. Robinson, Kr. aide. Mr. Jonathan Salter,
Yr. Watson, Ile. Kr. A. N. SILT was voted to the
chair._

In the evening Mr. Chambers addressed • crowded
meeting in the St. Pancras Vestry-hell, Mr. Church-
warden Furniss in the chair.
A number of questions were put to Mr. Chambers, and
having been answered, • vote of confidence is him was
carried by a great majority over an amendment is favour
of Dr. Sandwith's candid•tute.

CPIT op LONDOW.—A meeting of the mem-
bars of the Hishopegate Ward Ratepayers' Association
was held on the 6th inst.—Mr. John Rsehardson, in
the chair. The chairman spoke in reference to the great
eliution requisite in connection with the three-cornered
constituency at the approaching election of members of
parliament for the city of London, when a dismission
ensued urging the desirability of ire members taking an
active jpart in an organisation for the successful return of
four liberal members to parliament. The following notice
of motion was given by the chairman :—" That a muting
of the members of the Bishopsgate Ward Ratepayers' As-
sociation be held on Tuesday next, 13th inst., to consider
the beat means to be adopted to secure the return of
the four liberal candidates for the city of London."
It was proposed by Mr. Churchwarden Beeps, and
seconded by Mr. Joseph Morris, and resolved—" That
each member of this association be kindly requested to
bring any friends interested favourably to the return of
the four liberal candidates." Messrs. meet, Cartwright,
and others addressed the meeting, strongly advising the
necessity of all the Liberal Ward Ratepayers' Associations
of the city of London at once taking immediate steps for
the success of so desirable • result. A vote of thanks to
the chairman closed a meet 1111/11i11101111 meeting.
CHELSEA.—An influential meeting of the liberal
electors was last night held at the Crown and Sceptre,
Kensington. Mr. T. G. Snell presided. Sir Henry Hoare
said be was in a very peculiar position, because be had
been first in the.field and yet he was accused of having
divided the liberal interests. He had been invited to con-
test the county of Middlesex in the liberal interest, but
being a long distance from London he did not receive the
invitation in time to respond to it, and his late colleague
at Windsor (Mr. Labouchere) stood in his steed. Mr.
Wentworth Dilk• was then in the field, having accepted
the invitation of an influential section of the electors, and
he (Sir H. Hoare) at once issued his address, and it could not
be fairly said that he:came forward asa rich man too early,
and so prevented others from coming forward. The blame
of dividing the liberal party was due to others, and not to
him. In 1866 . when in the House of Commons, he closed
the debate on Sir John Gray's motion for an inquiry into
the grievances of Ireland, which of course included the
Irish church, with these words: " If Sir John Gray will
only press it to • division, I will follow him into the lobby
even if ah ne." A vote of confidence was passed in the
hou. baronet, and the meeting terminated. On the
same evening Sir li. Hoare held a second meeting
Oil Kensington, which was also a very enthusiastic one.
On Tuesday evening! Sir Henry addressed a very large
and influential meeting of electors at the Drill-hall, Col-
lege-street, Fulham-road, Dr. Daniel in the chair. Sir
Henry spoke for an hour on the imperial and local topics
of the day, and was loudly cheered throughout his speech,
and at its close received quite an ovation. A resolution,
pledging the meeting to support Sr Henry, was carried
by acclamation. Sir Henry afterwards addressed • moot-
ing in the Stanley Ward, when he received the same
hearty support.
Gitii Last night Alderman Sitlomone,
M. l'., addressed a crowded public meeting of his consti-
tuents residing at Woolwich, Charlton, and Plump'itesd,
at the Lecture-hall, Woolwich. A resolution pledging the
meeting to support Alderman Salomon* at the next
election wee unanimously adopted.
HACKNEY.-31r. Charles Reed, one of the liberal
candidates for the borough of Hackney, addressed a
crowded meeting ladevening at the new Town-hall,
Hackney, the chair being occupied by Mr. 0. B. Woolley.
Mr. Reed, who on rising was received with loud cheering,
said, in the course of a very exhaustive speech, that he
entirely concurred with the proposed disestablish-
ment of the Irish church, and- should, if returned,
support Mr. Gladstone in the House of Commons. Re-
ferring to the Reform Bill, he desired to see the rate-
paying clauses abolished, and the measure fairly settled
on the basis of free and unrestricted household
suffrage. He also should 'Avocete a comprehensive
scheme of national education without additional tax-
ation, and retrenchment in the present expenditure,
which he denounced as wasteful in the extreme.
Having touched upon other general topics, the pro-
ceedings were brought to a close_ by a resolution
pledging the meeting to support Mr. Reed, which was all
but unanimously carried amid loud cheering.
LYNN.—Mr. Anthony Trollope has decided not
to come forward as one of the liberal candidates for
King's Lynn.
SHEFFIELD.—Mr. Price, Q.C., the conservative
candidate, yesterday addressed • monster meeting in
Paradise-square. lie spoke in favour of the legalisation of
trades unions and of the legislative restriction of the
number of apprentices. The learned candidate was atten-
tively listened to, and • vote of thanks was passed to him
at the close. A resolution in favour of the candidature
of Mr. Hadfield and Mr. Mundell& was carried by an
overwhelming majority. The address of Mr. Mundella
has been issued.
Sorra-Warr TANCASTIIRE.—The election cam-
paign in South-West Lancashire, the result of which will
be waited for with so much interest by the country, will
commence in earnest next week. Mr. Gladstone and Mr.
°rental' will address the electors at Warrington on Mon-
day next, and again at Liverpool on Wednesday. An-
now:momenta are also made, for addresses by the conserva-
tive candidates. _ _

ENT- ..—On Tneeday evening the liberal
candidates for West Kent, Sir John Lubbock, Bart, and
Mr. Angentein, addressed a numerously attended public
meeting of the electors at the school room, Ingress Vale,
GreenbitLe. The chair was occupied by Mr. J. B. White,
and a resolution pledging the meeting to support both
candidates was unanimously adopted.

CITY OF LONDON REGISTRATION.—Mr. Spenoer
Ferceval, the revising barrister for the city of London,
met the liberal and conservative agents in the Court of
Common Pleas, Guildhall, this afternoon, and arranged
the order of the appeals. They include three questions.
The first is whether a room in the Temple constitutes an
entire house, the second has reference to the female
franchise, and the third doals with the description of the
landlord.

Lew ILEFORM.—A SANGUINE VlEW.—Happily
it is not • party question. It matters not who is chan-
cellor, whether Lord Cairns or Sir Boundell Palmer, these
eminent men are upon this subject equally enlightened,
and will each cordially co-operate with the other in the
advancement of this great object—the improvement of
our civil procedure. They will be aided also, to the ut-
most, by an eminent person who, happily, occupies the
highest position in our common law judicature, we mean
Sir Alexander Cockburn, the Lord Chief Justice of Eng-
land, whose enlarged and enlightened mind would lead
him to adopt and advocate any e measure of
legal reform, and whose authori would lend it great
weight. He is the senior surviving member of the Com-
mon Law Commission of 1860, which did so much to im-
prove our procedure, and recommended the salutary pro-
visions to which we have adverted ; and it was under-
stood that his views were far more advanced than those of
his coadjutors; nor can it be doubted that he would
dadly lend hie aid to carry out the principles then laid
own. There are, moreover, still three more judges
the bench who were members of that commission:
Martin, Baron Bramwell, and Mr. Justice Willa, all men
of sound sense, of great legal learning, and of great ex-
perience. And happily the bench, as it is now constituted
largely—one might my entirely--ocenposed of men at
once enlightened and experienced; such men, for in-
stance, as Sir H. Keating, whose name has been already
mentioned as that of a law reformer, and the author of •
very valuable measure; Mr. Justice Montague Smith, •
man of vast experience and cultured mind; Mr. Justice
Mellor, • man of very sound judgment ; and last, not
least, Mr. Justice Blackburn, who combines in • rare de-
gree deep learning with common sense ; from such man
law reform will meet with no objection or obstruction.
Nor is this all : there has lately been added to the Bench
a man of the same order of mind as Mr. Justice Wiles,
we mean Mr. Justice Hannan, • man evidently learned,
liberal, anal enlightened. Than there are men like that
eminent judge Sir James Wilde, with minds at once
elegal
and practical, who would lend all their aid
reform. In parliament, again, there are manlike
Mr.yrton and Mr. Tomas on one ode, and Mr. Henke
and Mr. Hardy on the other; to say nothing of apse
liberal lawyers like Coleridge, Mr. Denman, and Sir B.
Collier, who would lend all their assistance. Anyhow, we
rejoice to think, considering the construction of the com-
mission now ratting, and that it includes the honoured
name of Sir William Erls—a man in whom liberal views
are happily blended with matured experience—no doubt
can be entertained that, next session, we shall sera • yin's
and *skiable reform of our civil procedure.— Wiettilitultr
nevi w, new number.

MR. CARDWELL, M.P., AT OXFORD.

On Tuesday evening last a dinner of Oxford
Oildfellows was held in tho Town-ball, nailer the presi-
dency of the NATO*, when Mr. Cardwell attended, sad
the new candidates for the representation of the city, Dr.
Deane and Mr. Vernon Hamm* were also present
In acknowledging the toast of "The City Members,,,
Mr. Caminsix, after • few introductory observations,
said—The twopnaospel measures of the last quarter of a
cannily, for which this existing pediment has been dile
tinfundted, have beim measures of • " social Mance"
character. They have now, I think, both ceased to be
quettiMie of Condo Yew, and therefore I think with-
out fear I may rider to them withent toe epos
prohibited ground. One has bees the P6lllO shm
by step, of many burdens which fettered the
and hindered the comforts of all cleans of the
community, but chisay those who lived by Mhos.
It was my fortune to eater parliament fret jail at that
time that ell my earliest votes were &el k
of the jest measures of that policy the remit
of which has been like the meal and ernes of oil 4:11 the
widow sent to Zlijalt, as recorded in Holy Seraphim;
it has furnished abundant cause of comfort to the semi
enmity at large, and, instead of dinsinimbing, it bas
rather tended to increase the revenue resetvid by the
(Chem.) The other measure is that witch
haTr:berin paned ter admitting into the baseille sad
privileges of the trembles meth larger claim of tie ems-
annuity. M belief is also that an impulse wall be
to the co raflom of questions of • algal character.
Of theme no doubt the chief will be the gaistios of Mesa-
tion. That question is nowhere to anterestisg as it is
Oxford, nor km there beim say time when it has bees
more intereeting then at that whoa I now edition=
It is a source of mist satisfaction to tee to
that the chimes of Oxford are now swaged fa amicable
communication with the authorities el the univer-
sity with • view to the extension of the edem-
a szlearsity education in • manner that
tari
the city
not only' to the university
and city of Oxford, but etitineatly Cantles:live to the
general welfare of the country. I for four advan-
tages chiefly from these various changes. In the that
place, the university extension should yield an increase
of the high style of learning, which is properly rolled sea-
demical, among a much larger circle of the eimenaity
than have hitherto enjoyed it, so that instead of being a
privilege to the few at may in future be the possaston
and inheritance of many. (Cheers.) The second ad-
vantage I hope will be, that the union of the higher edu-
cation may not be limited to these who have the direct
enjoyment of it, but that, parcolatang by the influence of
one clam to the teachers of-another it may communicate
itself throughout the whole, and improve the character of
the teaching of the country. ffs.) As a third
advantage, I hope that those large educational charities
which aroscattered through the count/viand which it is
my conviction contribute much less than maybe
made so to contribute to the furtherance o tho • for
which they were originally founded, in the benefit of the
community at large. (Cheers.) Fourthly, but not least, I
hope that the education of every class will be good of its
kind—"the primary," as it is called, the secondary, and
the highest ; and that there will be established that con.
nection and inter-dependence which will enable talent and
merit, in whatever strata of society. they may be found,
to have the utmost facility of rising to the highest
station to which they can advance. (Loud cheers.)
I believe we shall in • few years in a great measure attain
this, and then I truet that the education of this country
may fairly bo compared to • pyramid, of which the broad
hasty shall be xa-extensive to the whole body of the people
—of which the parts shall be completely cemented and
compacted together—of which the universities—and not
least this one—Aall be the apex and the capital. (Cheers.)
I would just observe to you upon the events which have
happened within the last week in a neighbouring country
of Europe, that when you see, first the navy and then the
army, and next the people all as if by one consent
rising in rebellion against their government—when you
are without a conflict worthy of the nano a sovereign in
exile and a government overthrown, does it not awaken
in your hearts • sense of the deepest thankfulness, and a
sense of the inestimable blessings of that people whose
Queen is enthroned in the hearts and affections of her
subjects—whore government is founded upon • broad and
popular basis—and the conduct of whose affairs is guided
by the wi.shes and convictions of the community ? (Cheers.)

RAILWAY MINING, AND OTHER
SHARES.-(THIS DAY.)

Mg prices to 1 p.m.]
COLONIAL OOVERNMEN"T SECURITIES.
Canada, 6 per cent., Jan. and July, 92.
New Brunswick, G per cent., Jan. and July, 103.
New South Wales, 6 per cent., Jan. and July, 1871 to
1876, 1001.
Do., 1888 to 1896, 991, 81, 9.
Queensland, 6 per cent., Jan. and Jul), 1882-83, 1071. 1
Victoria, 6 per cent, April and Oct., 1101, 1, xd.

ORDINARY SHARES AND STOOk&
Bristol and Exeter, 78.
Caledonian, 701, 1,1, 1,1, *.
Great Y.:intern, 401, 1.
Do. (East Anglian, No. 2), n.
Great Northern, 108.
Do. A(A receives no dividend until 6 per mat. has
been paid to B), 107, *.
Great Western, original, 494, 1. 9.
London, Brighton, and South Coast, 611.
London and North Western, 112, f.
Manchester, Sheffield, and Lincolnshire, 474, 1.
Metropolitan, 1061, 7L 61.
Do. Extension (die. lim. to 6 per cent. till Jan., 1870),
1041, I.
Do., New Redeemable, 101.
Midland, 1111, A, 1, 121.
North British, 311.
North Eastern (1 ork), 89.
Do. (Stockton and Darlington), 1281.
South Eastern, 78, 4.

PREFERENCE MARES.
North Eastern Consolidated 4 per cent., 86k.
Do., 4i per cent. redeemable, 94.
PREFERENCE SHARES AND STOCKS.

Midland, 6 per cent., optional to convert to ordinary
stock, Sept. 1, 1869, 194.
South Eastern, 4, per cent., 1869, 95.

BRITISH PORRRSSIONS.
Boni., Bar., and Cent. India, gua. 5 per ct., 105 t.
Eastern Bengal, gua. 5 per cent., 107, I.
East Indian, guar. b per cent., 1003,
Great Western of Canada, 6 per cent. bonds, payable
1873, 101.
Ifadras, gaa. 5 per oent.,
Oude and Robilcund, gua. 5 per cent., 1061.
Sande, gua. 5 per cent., 104.
Do., Delhi, 1031.
Do., Punjaub, 1031.