The Express.
London, England, 1861-11-15 00:00:00

DRAMA.

ISTILIND.

It is our pleasant duty to chronicle an addition
to the stop., eisl tlkv.oshlr merited
wrier .4 Miss .tils sister a we so well
known to tlio the:strive.' w, d !. Lis lueu;lit with her
let Or I.r..tip., but f mime.
W. AT, . that wko made 1.. happy •
s.esterd.sy 0109114; AD Lie! stnwl ThtAtiV. IA ha 16
AO, soil that, if we artist some 1,4 nights of trill
is Ihight.m, .lio is quite new the public. They will bail
her eppv.itsury with grutifusitioo.
o chimes latest Isar capacity is • Dew cootie drams
lateso wt.. retitled, Lit Isar liaoj, It issuedeptatem trust
•I. .t very recent lime Is ',Loy, oadl ow,. its Elighsli guise
to Mr.t:trreweuil

Th- 1.:4,4• is adialreLly put upon the +lege, and
with *pint. Ni.s I.b .4M4llbuto.tgb ads
6‘ twofold clunicter with teen al lity. I ler 'with aud eta-
..l.;••.sr..ue join with her awl, wt.% to peuisiiar brr • for-
tow.ite future. Both she awl t:.• iaru.a were rapturously
apt.:sudod.

CORPORATION OP THE SONS OP THE CLERGY.

The ..lencrui annual court of the governors of
this meicat charity was held yesterday at their lo,lse, No.
Igeonadotry-place, when the following nohlenieo,
elerzymen. and gentlemen, contrileztors during the peat year
et .40 pats-as or upwards t.. the feuds a the wwiety, were
wiLosisoonsty elected goseroore. u..:v Earl Bathurst,
the Earl of Ellesmere. the Lor.l Bishop of Norwich, the
Ilan. the Spanker of the Howe or eoMuloue, the
Birht Ms. the Lord Mayor. tie Dannitigtion Jef-
fonsim, Canoe of York. the Iles.. John Evans, M.A.. sod
11...er, Witham Barker, Iterials Drew. B. A. Henke'',
Au.lrew Lusk hate sheriff of Lomb* and Ywbllesexl.i:o,ree
A. P., Henry Moor, Alfred Sieben Pigeon, Thomas
Blew Ihiyb, t :ono John Steer, sod John Welker.
The court then unanimously isotheted his Cruet the
Au. hht..hee of l'anterbury, president; tbe flight 11.. e.
emoworth, Vic...president ; awl Mr. Alrierman (metaled,
M. W. Vrewhitiehl. awl the Rev. J. W. Vivtatt,
, tre4.urere (40 the eneuleigyrer;ehd the Lord Bishop of
St Das the How. and Very Rev. Use Dean nulear,
se i the gee. Jobe Thomas, B.C. L., were elected to till the
vac awe s which had.occurred .:tiring the past year in the
Court .4 .1 etuutote. .

Much satisfacti3n wee elicited by a report that the
re,,eg,ea have been ea.,ided within the last few year. per-
seariently to mow the peiotions of at least 370 widows wed
arl sin.:le daughters of deceased clergymen, from 101. to
1., ~ 31.11., awl nt. per annum ; end a e.sitident hope was
exuress-,1 thee that eultstantial promo. might be male-
Wool, tied that ere long the whole of the 712 pensioris
inset, Ity this corporation to the widows and daughters of
clerzresten might be rented to en amount attenuate to the
maintenance of tallest whose merit and necessities alike
entitle them to the sympathy tad practical besevolence of
the conintuenty.
During the last year the governors distributed about
to wards 16,3001. u of 1.20 U individuals, elergyniee, their
widows, daughters, tad etalthee, applying from all
parts of ad aad Wales ; &ad it is übviuua that to
autialain loslarge se mem' expenditure, and ameeeially to
Increase it by raring the 'warmer pirmion, will require
the coetteued oondlimice sad liberality al the pedle.

THE PROPOSED DEAD MEAT NAME! IN
SMITHFIELD AND THE CITY GAS QUESTION.

A mpecial Court of Common Council was held
yestettlity, in the Lair Parlour at the Maesiawhouse, for
of
purpose of inkier into consideration the prenatal poeitioa
of the proposed mow died meet market in Smithfield, widths
question of the leen-seed price of gnu io the City. The
ItarLt Hoe. the Loan MAYOR presided.
A repot by the committee appointed to consider the
questions of the proposed new dead 'neat market in Smith-
geld red the disioarketier of Newpite-market was
brought up. It detailed the procesdisp that here already
taken place, sad suited that in ouesequitees of
difficulties boring arisen with respect to the proposed
street to lead to the new market. it was easeideredabeo-
lutely Decessery by the committee that a bill should be
ilitrudeced into parliament, with a view either to relieve the
tiorporation from the beceseity of making such street, ar
to rive them the powers toms* the fends that were eerier
Nary for such a purpose, no suck powers being granted by
the present art.
The rep Nat, after a very long liscuisioe, was unanimously
adoetel.

l'ox„ the Animas of the Law, Parliaroentary, and
City Count Committee, them brought up a report oo the
several references relating to the supply of gas to the City
of Luedon, which he moved the court should agree to.
The report referred to the various matters is coolie:ion
with the proposed increase in the pekes of gam
in the City from te. to 4. M. par 1.000 Net, end
stated that the [nonagon 4 the Chartered and
the City Use Compton, had been applied to to
know a bather they would oppose a bill for the introduction
of [mother gas company tato the City,_end that they replied
that they certainly should do so. The same question had
also bees put to the manager of the Great Central Use Com.
pony, and it appeared that he declined to answer it. It
thee west oa to neoensteod that the matter should be still
left is She bawls of the Commissioners of Sewers to act on
behalf of the at large, and that the special com-
mittee should be ocretasued.

Rtas repot% eras also adopted after considerable disctuaion.

SMokINO ON R•ILWAYR.—Mr. Henry Eugene
&rem a rontleman trailer At Southaes, was summoned
before the Pernikld bench of magistrates last Tuesday, the
Hoe. J. J. Carnegie io the chair, for arcking in a railway
carriage on the Direct Portsmouth lies on the slat of
Sepleather. The defendant did not appear. Morelos of
the 1111111111.164 raying been proved. the car proceeded la his
absence. Mr. J. llouliam Carter, lL P., deposed: On
Saturday the 2let of September. I travelled front Pram
field to P'ortarouth by the 11.30 dowel train from Loader
Shortly after haying the statiod a considerable quantity of
tarp neer found its way into the earring he which I
wen cansing anneyente to the primers Oe the trim
argyle, at the Rowlaiste Castle station I directed the st-
eadies of the Mstio•4wirsor to the facts. He west to the
retiage, sad tpelosto sore owe in the compartmeet I pointed
SO la WM Jam Hirygate, the station-master la question,
deposed that he west to the frost compartment of • &m-
-olar carriage. lades °peers the dose saw • enthrone with
• lighted cigar ta hie habil. lie told him be mast not smoke
I. the tworiegs. His reply wan "llio.i your owe bun-
Dm" Wither toki him • geatieman had complained. He
said, "There are pigmy of other carriages." Waver told
the guard what had taken place. Is reply to the chair-
sass, wrier anted that he opened the door for two ladies.
Owe 40t in. but the smoke was sio stern she waa compelled
to get tit again. Muir Weorm, stetices-master at Harr,
said he uperd the door of • IPst.chuis carrisge at Havant
to let ia a lady tied gentlemen. The lady had wile
stepped ie. when she Lathy retreated. estrin,;. "Oh, deer,
1 cen't ride hen; there is saoliog. ' He put them into
seethe, carriage, and requested the gestlereso to desist, boat
he ma, le no reply whatever. The guard ideotilled defendaat
as the geatleman n quadri ; be got is at Waterloo ma-
th*. Thu Herb Bawl ilefendwit 40s. and lea shed. arts ;
in default of payment distraint to be loss* and if sot eta-
meet ,tends ass month's imprisonment
SII.PCIIISO DIA= ON • ILA ILWAT.—An in.
reit wee held re Wednesday eerie, at the Peterborough
,a;paaeare, before Mr. A. armor, en tee body of
Jolts Meeent." *41.1 it, who came be tie death under the
folloeiegeirernseanses. °rev Weft. a fireman w the
Lord.,. sad North WORMS Railway, stated that shout
C..:10 p.m. es Mosday last he was es a pilot waging gulag
to fetch sore teethe from the shed at Woodstone; wire a
lite' togged that place he saw neerthing sprier; from the
=toot sad pare Intel( just hare the somoe, which ran
over it lie at once celled to the esgime-driver to stop,
as they bed roe ere seerthieg. They immediately
stopped, sad en goitre down found a man stuck on the
guard iron He asked what he did there, but the only
artier girth wan "My name is Wm. Grocock." The de-
ceased waii stuck so *rut on the maid iron that they hail
to proms • jerk wad lift the elegise up before they could
get him self. When they chi so they mud dereesed fear-
felly swards& They at ore prozured reistemes and had
him coeveyed to the Infirmary. Dr. Wallow slated that
he we. celled to the leirreery to we decreed ay Monday
eight. Oe examination he four& that he led as ostensive
lucenstvil wound us the upper part of the lest thigh, pene-
trator; to the bobs, ad leyi open the lower port of the
Bose:.. He thee thought it • car, bet did every.
shun: n. his poser to save him. The deceased lingered
seal laulf.past tas Wednesday usseuis;;. Deceased was •
manned men. with five chides ; he resided at Poplar row
latterly, lassies mmore I from New Fiction, where be kept
a *hop up to the time cf the acchleat He mum have got
• lima at Woodatosie, ad walked up towards ()Hos.
The ; ury returned a verdict to the effect that deceased was
kdled lo • railway eumee, hut there was no evitleoce to
sinew whether it 1.111. accident or whether decreed COW-
mitinl eniekte._

H..ivirwtraw BANQUET. —At Algiers a few day.
track a "aeaiderstde .tuber of Ligti public futicticearkw, au.
parlor military °Moen, :judges, and clew. partook ms the
ed., of the theatre of a grand banquet. the pester mate!
the &Ace of which were conapowd of horse ens lei
The 01.,ject in pthing op the feast was to combat the pepalsr
prejudi ..pleat web food. The dishes were
dreniol iu the French etyle, sod declared eacellest. flee of
them emulated at a young as roasted whole. After the
thaw-r. suitable i.r.a and speeches were clehrerrd. ose of
the latter wee IL Dectoix, Veterisary.fia.rgeno of the Ist
rammed Alwinetws. who maim:lased that hone nosh is very
setritious, sail that the seams' adoption of it aa se article
of fond would menet awry arismsteiges.—Gefignani.
Often CULLOM Boarrtat. —On Tues. lay last
the materials of Ilie old hospital I. Pertmpattreet,
odn'aiwa, formerly the workhome of the parish of 41.
CUirneet Deans, were mold by aortic., preparatory to the
sate lanes cleared fur the completion of the sew hoepital.
'gore thee two-thirds of the now building are already
carted. and all that renseace to be done an eider to rasa-
plate the &marital, acenedeng to the architect's design. rte
matinee tie I 'areyetreet wiag to Portegal-strest, ew lee
ate of the old Ir..thhouse, which is now heieg palled dews.
As aloe wing nll .Roil greatly iacreeerdaccoineiodation far
parroV, we hops tisk tie committee will sous be saaillsil
Wpubbo ilMserny, to premed with its enwilm.