The Express.
London, England, 1857-01-20 00:00:00

MEETING OF THE 09NOREOATION4L UNION

OF BNOLAND AND WALES.

To-day commences the special meetings of the
Compigationel Union.
The meetings will be held to-day and to-morrow, at the
New Broad-street Chapel, under the presidency of the Rev.
John Stoughton, chairman of the Union. The first laminae
will be to receive an explanatory report hoes the Committee
of the Union, giving an °AMA statement reverting their
proceedings minev the meetings in May teat. After dimming
of this report, it is intended (mays a eotemporary) to submit
a motion for the appointment of • special committee of
twenty-five (in addition to the secretaries, who will be ex
'Poo members), fifteen of whom shall be chosen from the
country, and ten from the metropolis. To this committee will
be referred a variety of topics, some of which will involve
modifications of the constitution and operations of the Union,
and they will be requested to report to the annual meeting of
the Union in May next. This committee will be appointed
' from a list to be drawn up by. sub-committee, and presented
to the Union to-morrow morning.
In addition to a variety of motions which have not trans-
pired, these epecial meetings will have to &muss the future
relation of the magazines (i.e., the Christian Witness and
ChnStian'a Penny Yya•ise, edited by Dr. Campbell, of the
British Standard, since their commencement) to the Union,
and the future mode in which the funds devoted to charity,
arising from the profits of these periodicals, shall be applied.
Again, the relation of the British Missions, the Congrega-
tional Board of Education, and other organisations of a
similar nature, to the Union, will have to be discussed.

TREATMENT OF A TICKET-OF-LEAVE MAN.—A
are named John Knight, who ores (*evicted at the adjourned
sessions, November, 1852, of stealing a smock frock, Ac., at
Barden, and sentenced to reran years' transportation,
obtained an order of release on the 14th of January last, for
good conduct ; he was re-committed to gaol for damaging an
ash tree at Baden on the 20th of December lea, end sen-
tenced to pay 9e. W. or one mlendar month's had labour in
default. The particulars of his case were duly reported to
the llome-odice, and the Secretary of State having revoked
Knight's order of relearn, he was yesterday conveyed to the
Stirling Castle bulk at Portamouth, by • Bow-street omen.
—Ewe Ilereld.

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FATAL FIGHT BETWEEN TWO Borg.—Yeeterday
an inquest was held befum Mr. Baker, at the Grasshopper,
Clark's-atm* Mile-end New Town, on the body of a boy
named Tatar, aged ten years and a half, whom death was
alleged to have been arced by blows received in a light with
a led ssimed Davis, aged eleven rem, whom parents reside
in the same asighbourhooL It gnawed front the evidence,
that am Bauday, the 11th Wheat, ilia two boys, who had pre-
viously been as timidly teems, woe playing at marbles with
mem ether hays, whoa a dispels arom between them, and
dareased mid Davis a Ike. Davis truck him on the mouth
with hie at, ad a grinds IMMO"( when the d.-
asesed's seetber era eat sad sepaistod them. Deceased
who became very 111, was to bed, and some medicine
was given to Mai ; be tress imi of pins in the stomach
ad bath, sad the nett day bums Meer Ile, in which state
be umainad until Weolaiday sight, when he died. On •
sat inatteen examination me eMs af Mead wee found on
the Inds, the *fact ei • mime of a Wood ems* bat no es-
' tenni meek of sidemen to erne It. She Cermet. having ob-
marred that when then woe se empanel Wary to usue
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