The Express.
London, England, 1868-05-07 00:00:00

TRAFFI U RETURNS.

BALLWATiI. Wks Par Mar Total. lOU{
aqua, asosera obasollso lel& lett.
Week eliding March 1. A 4 t a
Great bidian Peninsula .. 8734 7,914 1456tia 4 lA%
Weak ending Marta 7.
Yolraa—Mouth West Lino. 492 —,
. ...

7.243 : 1:4
2,2",4

North West Line. 163
Week ending April 11.
Smyrna and (Isa•aba 706
Week ending May 1.
limerick and F.nnia
limerick and Poynes
Waterford and Kilkenny 3l 139 3044 4,0 4.,,
Waterford and Linierkk
Week ending May 2.
Pembroke and 1 eaby
Week outlaw May 3.
Cornwall
lireat Northern
Iduscashire and Yorkshire. 403 18,910 29,512 4,.4112 V.)
London, Chatham, & hover
& Met. En. ek Branches . 136 10,011 1,703 11,771 11.4:1
Metro. Ks. of LC. & D l3l 7,714: 3,3 :4:0
London & North Western 13481, 55.450 65,772 121,222 1
London and:iouth Western 61M 18,640 3,8141 ?7,40
Manchester, Sheffield, and
LincoMahme 149 6,700 13,791 19,123
M anebester.hniath.huiction,
and Altrincham
Midland 924 17,783 35.013 63,.va:
North !onion ll 4.179 2,016 t. 1,5
North Staff ordahlre ;BAC ) 275 0,7-)
South Devon ll9l 2,816 1,005 4,1 2 1 4

745 1,411

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Munster Fair a week later this loe r.

THE METROPoLITAN HORSE SH9W. —The IT,'-
partitions for the forthcoming horse show at the Agr.-ul.
tumbhall, Islington, ar pro.;tessing rapidly. The show
will be attended with considerable improvement., there
will be some novel features, and a large iticie.ise in th
aggregate of prizes over the shows of former yein.. It is
understood that the judges this year, although c,opri.ing
noblemen and gentlemen who have some of the •t.tuds
in the kingdom, and who on that account sill hot tbn in •
selves compete, have never held the position le foie the
metropolitan show. This circumstance has induct,' I..rge
number of the principal masters of hounds in tb • coalitry
to make entries who have not hitherto rio:to so, trot
already entries of some of the finest blood stock in the
kingdom have been made. The applications for st.mds in
the arcade and in the galleries are also being sent in a ith
unusual rapidity.
THE DOSTAGIOri DISEASES .SIT,— nurnel. uus
and influential meeting was held on Tuesday in the
hall, Newcastle, for the purpose of promoting the e ten•
sion of the Contagious Diseases Act to the civil isvulat:on.
Mr. Henry Angus, mayor of the borough, presided on the
occasion ; there being also present the Ven. Aerh,leacou
Prest, the Rev. Clement Moody (vicar of Newe..stl. ..nd
a number of medical men and other gentlemen of indm ace.
' THE STRIKE Or DRI,KLAYERs AT LIVERE.O.6..
The Liverpool bricklryers who are now on strike. cense.
quent upon some new rules insisted on by the masters,
had a conference with their employers on Tuesday ni.;ht.
The Masters' Association offered to refer the rule.' in dis•
puts to arbitration, but this the bricklayers refused to
agree to. This unfortunate strike will, if persisted in.
seriously retard the completion of the New Exchange
buildings, the new gaol at Kirkdale, and the hotel at
Lime-street building for the London and North Western
Railway Company.
THE DARREN AND THEIR GRIEVANCES.—List
evening a well-attended public meeting of cabdrivers was
held in St. Ceorge's.hall, Gray'a-inn-rosid ; the notice
convening the meeting being an follows :—" To protest
against the unressor.able demands now being made on the
drivers by some of the proprietors." Mr. Pierce in the
chair. A deputation was appointed to wait upon the
Home :-,ecretary, to urge the insertion of a clause into the
Hackney Carriage Bill limiting the price which drivers
shall be required to pay for the daily hire of the cab.
Resolutions pledging the men to aupr:ort the efforts of the
Cabdrivers' Association were also carried.

HOSPITAL FOR DISEASES OF .THK THROAT, n 2,
GinDric-spoesE, W.—During the week ending May :!,
422 patients were under treatment, of ,whom were n w
cases.

LAdvertisement.l—lloLLowAY'S OINTUENT D
PILLS.—Yew ailments are more disheartening, and nom tu•re
ominous than ulcerations on the surface of the issly. sth,-1, ter
they are situated it Is difficult to cure them, unless in iibd
judiciously with some cooling, healing, invisuirsting
like this never-failing ointment. It has worked wrind-rs
making had legs sound and wrong, even when the im,wer 'h..
blood.reuels had nearly Isten destroyed, and itlniod ertir. .t
nation of the c rculation had rendered esery "flog' t.istn•
means ahortive. No sore, wound, or uloer can aithstuid Its
healing powers, which ran he most heneficiAll) esairti
winter is giving place to spring, and the i ircubition bra •ismg
more active and mare readily controllable by pn,per
soothing, and strengthening agents.

BIRTHS, MARRIAGES, AND DEATHS.

BIRTHS.

BURY —May 5, at 65, Princes.gute, the Viscountess Bury r 4
daughter.
COHEN. —May 4, at Tarbtock-road Villas, Westbourne.park, the
wife of J. P. Cohen, Eon , of a eon.
GREEN.—May 5, at 5, Wooclbusde terrace, Blackheath, the *ire
of Samuel Green, Eon , of a eon
LUAID.—May 1, at the Lawn, Witham, Ease', the wile of Cap-
bin Luord., R.N., of a daughter.
MONCKTON.—May 6, at Brenchley, the wife of W Monckton,

of a sOW --
o,=lll .—•7 4., at Borbiton, the wife of E. H. Owtrans, Esq
of a daughter.
SMITH.—May 4, at Argyll-read, Kensington, Um 11. J. Swab,
of a son.
WATSON.—May 5, at rtes.:eat terrace, Ile,shorough gardens,
8.W., the wife of Mr. W. B. Watson, of a daughter.
WOTHERSPOON.—May 2, at IS. Blenheim-crescent. Nottin2•
hill, th• wife of C. G. Wotherspuon, of the Middle Temple,
Esq., barrister-at-law, and of the Scotch nar, of a s.,n
WOOLY.—Stay 5, at Leinster4quare, flyde-park, the wife of D.
Woolf, Esq., of a daughter.