The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-30 00:00:00

THE ATTACK ON THE MARTELL° TOWER NEAR
WATERFOWL—A telegram hem Dublin gays:—" When
the military went from Duncannon fort to the aseistanee
of the defenders of the Martell° Tower, they came upon
the insurgents, who stood until they were only seventy
yards off. The oiliest in command called upon them to
surrender. The reply was, ' Stand firm, my men " from
the leader of the insurgents. The latter fired first,
wounding one of the soldiers. The troop. then fired,
when two insurgents fell, but were borne off by their
fellow insurgents. Traces of blood were afterwards found
on the ground. A pursuit wee made, but it was futile.
There are, as yet, no arrests."
The Dublin correspondent of a contemporary
rye Mr. Flannery, the county Clare fanner, who allege
be wee the person alluded to u head centre in a recently
published letter in the Pall Mall Oaulte from an Irish
agent, stating that a jury, composed of Fenian, and a dia.
charged head centre, bad improperly acquitted parties
charged before them with receiving property Noised for
rent, applied yesterday in the Court of Common Pleas for
' liberty to gesso es Yam. Smith and Sons, as agents in
, Ireland for that paper, • writ in an action for libel. The
court will give its decision in the mattorof the application

to-day.
The presentation by Mr. Alderman Randall, of
Oxford, of the chair made out of the stern of the boat in
which Oxford, with only seven oarsmen, achieved such a.
marvellous victory over Cambridge itt 10.13, took Ilse° in
the Univerrity }Vie, 011Gia, lasi evening, in tic pre-
!Ml" of a save company, including the Lord Bishop of
Lalman, the Master of Pembroke College, the Principal of
Bram:mom, the Rev. it. W. Risley, Sir Robert Meucies,
Bart. Mr. Fletcner Norton Menzies, Mr. George Elward
Eugl;es,l the Revs. G. I). Burnoe. J. C , I
. Coxt. Lo of
des,
and Mr. H. Stapylton ; Mr. F. Willan, President of the
; Messrs. Bowmen, Hall, Carter, Fish, Mars-

den, Sc.
Professor Owen was prevented by a sudden
attack el illness from lecturing on Tuesday to the Leam-
ington Philoeophical Society. Unusual interest bad been
excited by the anticipated visit of the learned profewor,
•
local paper having announced that it would be his last
public appearance as a lecturer.
ST. PAULB CATHEDRAL. —The Bishop of London
has appointed the following gentlemen to preach in St.
Paul's Cathedral on Sunday mornings in the month of
February :—Sunday, Feb. 2, the Bee. Thomas Griffith,
ILA., of St. John's College, Cambridge, incumbent of
ham's Chapel, Homerton ; Similar, Feb. 9, the Rev. Bes
aiLinn Morgan Cowie, 8.D., of St. John's College, Cam.
e, rector of St. Lawrence Jewry ; Sunday, Feb. 16,
the iev. William Roger'. A.
of BOW College,
Oxford, rector of Bishoperate ; Sunday, Feb. RI, the Bey.
Michael Gibbs, ILA., of Carrillo and Caius College, Cain-
bridge, rector of Christ Church, Neweteetreet.
SPECIAL CONSTABLES IN ST. rout's. Coveur-
GAlweU, RIAN.— Last evening Mr. }leery White and Mr. J. G.
at the vestry aims, Covent-Orden, swore in 108
permits. Mr. Henry New, the vestry clerk, basing
acted
suffi-
ciently recovered from hie severe indiapositioo, again
as clerk to the magistrates. Am St. Martini pariah hes
for the present refused to job in forming one brigade, nail
the Covent-garden special being so numerous, it is pro-
posed to appoint Colonel Sargent, C. 8., as chief superin-
tendent, with sax superimandente in the district under him.
BREACH OF PROMISE OY MAICRIAGE—DAYAUES
1,200/.—An action for breach of promise of marria
Cow-
ge. in
which the lion. William Bruce Ogilvy, residing atr
dembease, Perthshire, was defendent, and Mies Fanny
Pugh, residing at the North Western Hotel, Stafford, was
pursuer, was tried before Lord Bereaple and a jure, in the
Court of Session, at Edinburgh, on Tuesday. The pur-
suer is daughter of the late Benjamin Pugh, of Treberth,
Pembrokirs, gentleman farmer, and 27 years of age.
In 1865 abe was managing the Crews Anne Hotel, at
Crewe, when the defender became acquainted with her,
and, as she alleged, not only promised marriage, but
wrote to Mr. Halsey, in whose employment she then was,
• letter announcing that be was to be married to
Mini Pugh, and that he hoped be would be able to dia.
penes with her services under the usual month's warning.
The defender subsequently broke off the engagement, and
in 1866 married Sarah Boyden, daughter of the late Henry
Boyden, of Birmingham,. pew-opener at the Jewish Syna-
gogue. Damage, were laid at 6,000 f. ; the jury returned
a verdict for 1,2001.
SZILIOVe ACCIMINT IN THE HOl7lB OF COBREC-
riox.-41 sakes accident occurred yesterday In the House
of Correction, Coldbath.fields. About three or four hun-
dred prisoners are engaged in what is celled the " wheal
room' of the prison—two hundred in working the
treadmill, of which there are two, placed north and
south, and the other hundred in 'picking oakum. Yee-
eds morning
_as the mon on the south wheel
were bMng " called off "togo to chapel a cry was raised
that a man woe in the wheel, and that others were being
, drawn in. Incsheet time the wheel was stopped and the
' cause of the outcry ascertained. For about a fortnight
past the northern wheel has been employed in raising
water from a well which has been recently sunk,
sad ,
some fresh gear bad been employed for that purpose,
but the ' catch " stop "to the cop got out of order ;
and either from the fact of the men dropping off the
wheel too quickly, or some other raise the wheel span
round the reverse way. It is ea that when the
" catch" did not act, the weight the buckets of water,
the buckets, and chains mused the wheel to fly beak,
dragging the men in with it. One man bad one of his
lags completely smashed and the other Injured. Another
man had his finger cut off, and seven other mew sastsined
injuries which compelled their removal to the M&01,17e
where they were promptly attemded to by Dr. Smiles,
winvon.
Tun SPRING Oincorra or TEI JllDOZll.—Yee-
terdey me rain the judges on the Oxfeed circuit (Lord
Chid iloson golly and Mr. Jostles Heating) fixed the
time fee holding, that circuit, vis. :—Resdig, Wednesday,
Feb. 98 ; Oxford, S 9 ; Worcester, March 4 • Blefford, 10 ;
Shrewsbury, 19 Hereford, 2t i Mee .Oath. 26 ; Glom
costar, IL
ELICTIIO AND brrizgArioNAL Tilsolusa
TEs
00We:ff.—Va. &Mims el monpany lave resolved to
resesansend the treeeistoes to maim a dividend of
Si. per
coot far the lag half-year, free of issonse-tax.
LONDON GENZILLL OICNIIIIISCoIEPANY (IJIITTED).
—Trate receipts for the week eliding Jas. 26, VAN.
10e. 3d.