The Express.
London, England, 1868-10-06 00:00:00

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TES Sorrn-WitIeTERN RAILWAY AND WS Eine-
eiorre.—The following circular bag been issued "Cir-
cular to station agents and all parties concerned.—Oeneral
Election.—l am instructed by the directors to state that at
the general election of members of parliament it is to be
understood that the officers and servants of the company
are to extern° their own discretion in respect of their
votes.—Faxeinice Cram, Secretary." It is dated Lon-
don and South-Western Railway, Secretary's-office, Wa-
terloo-bridge Station, S.E. Sept. 19.
THE CHANCERY OCTOBER Denny ens.—On the
lath instant, and the two following days, the office of the
Accountant-General of the Court of Chancery will be
opened for the payment of the October dividends.
REGISTRATION APPEALS.—On the fifth day of
Michaelmas term—the 7th November—the Court of Com—
mon Pleas will appoint sittings for the hearing of a=lii
from the decisions of the revising barristers. A
several have been lodged, and • considerable number w'
appear by the first day of term. An appellant has to give
ten days notice, and by being given at once the hearing
is expedited. The first appeal lodged is from Manchester,
and has reference to upwards of 6,000 women.
THE COURTS OF REVISION.—The lists of voters
for the new parliament must be revised by Thursday neat,
and by the let November the clerks of the peace and town
clerks must deliver to the proper officers the books con-
taining the register of voters between the is November,
thee, and the lit Janui, 1870.
The so-called " Mediu& scandal" case will
shortly come before the public again in the shape of an
action for libel to be tried during next Michaelmas term
by a special jury in the Court of Common Pleaa. The
action is brought by Mr. Leonard Edmunds against Mr.
Greenwood, Q.C., the solicitor to the Treasury, to recover
damages for an alleged libel contained in a joint official
report made by him and the late Mr. Eindmarch, Q.C.,
alleging defalcations in Mr. Edmunds's accounts as clerk
of the patents. The witnesses who will be called by the
plaintiff include, it is said, several ex-cabinet ministers.
' Yesterday morning, for the first time under the
new regulations, divine service was to have commenced at
Eton College Chapel at 9.25, bet on the entrance of the
choir and students to the chapel it was discovered to be
suffocatingly filled with gas. which had been escaping mince
the closing of the Sunday evening service, thnidgh some
neglect in turning it off. The meet prompt and judicious
means were taken to expel the gas in order to prevent ex-
plosion, but the morning service was necessarily dispensed
with. Had the service been arranged to take place as on
the previous evening, there is every probability, at the
entrance of light*, of this beautiful edifice being destroyed.
THY TIMES OF THE FIRST GEOSOES.—The good
men were inoperative, the bad men were dauntless; the
vast crowd between the two, which forms the bulk of
humanity, felt no stimulus towards religion, and drowsed
iu comfortable content. It was the age when the chap-
lain married my lady's maid and ate at the second table,
and would even lend a hand to carry my lord to bed at
night, after be had dropped under the table, and turn a
deaf ear to the blasphemy with which his speech was
adorned. It was the age when delicate young women, of
the best blood and best manners in the land, talked with a
coarseness which editors of the nineteenth century can
represent only by asterisks ; and in which the most polished
and dainty von*, Pope's most melodious, corrected
couplets, were interspersed with lines which would damn
for ever and ever any modern poetaster. Personal satire,
poor inetiument of vengeance which stings without
wounding, had such sway as it has never had before in
England ; but that sense of public honour which prevents
open outrage upon decency was not in existence. The
public liked the wicked story, and liked the scourge
that came after ; and laughed, not in its sleeve, but
loudly, at blasphemy and indecency and profanity. Even
the sentiment of ekannees, purity, and honour, was lost
to the generation. Its soul was good for nothing but to
soint an oath. The name of God was still used in public
temente as giving victories and confounding enemies,
and suchlike ; and in private very freely. as the most
round syllable to clinch the perpetual curse ; butt was of
no more spiritual significance than the name of Grge or
JIIIII4II, and not half so much external weight. Such MU
the age, a period of confused lighting, hue for Maria
Theresa, there for Charles XII., again for the fallen, ever-
falling Stuarts ; with nu principle in the strife, and
little good coming out of it to any man or kingdom, ex-
cept perhaps in the end the Prussian ; and, so far as
England was concerned, a gradual weaning of the
popular mind from any belief or hope is excellence, or
power of contrasting the good with the evil. So long as
Egoist-bills were held aloof, and tranquillity preserved,
what did it matter whether light or darkness was upper-
most ? or, indeed, was not darkness the rule, and light,
if not painful, at least indifferent, to the eye—not a
matter to make any fuss about ? One
of the mod impa-
las unexalted egos that ever benumbed the facultsee of
man.—lllseksreofs Magazin' for October.
Spurn Kattorrtozos liussum.—'c
during
the week ending 3rd Get., 1808:—On Monday, Tues.
day, and &Jordan free, from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., 11,629 ;
en Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday (adndedost
from 10 a.m. ES 6 p.m. 2,280; total, 13,906; &vases et
corresponding week in farmer 13,099 ; total from
the opening of the swam% 7,817,778.