The Express.
London, England, 1861-06-12 00:00:00

ROYAL SURREY GARDENS.

THE GREAT FIRE.

TO THE ■DROR or THU KIPLIOS.

Sta,—ln answer to numerous inquiries will you
permit us, through the medium of your excullest piper, to
Awry, that the whole of the extensive ground, continue open
for the public, and the venous performances are still given in
the Music Hall adjoiniu; the i;mod Mende Hall. -We are
glad to say that the great picture of Vendee is Dot in soy way
injured, and the gardens are very little damaged. P' ranee
George Galitriu, And dawns of eminence in the musical
world, are arranging tar a series of of Irmo concert* here
until the ball is reimilL—We are. tc.,
, June 12. CALDWELL sad BISHOP.

SHOCKING WIRD= IN • CsMracit.—On Wed-
pedal evening last a dreadful murder was committed M
the parish church at Blakeney, a village between the eta.
ilOOll of Nowskam and Gatcornbia on the South Wales liao, '
and about four miler from the latter plow. The panh
clerk, named Steel, left his house ad usual to get a pint rat
beer for supper, and not returning for some time his wife
went to the public-house io search of him. She was told he
bad been there, but left as anon se he got the ale, aad
thinking he might have called at amebae-A. —which was oa
his way Lome—she went there and found him lying on the
dooestrangled, hie handkerchief tied in atightkoot roundlas
seek. Seem strangers, supposed to be from the Forest of
Dean, had been seen in the village daring the day, and it is
conjectured that they hail entered the church by means of
• false key, for the purpose of stealing the plate, and that
the clerk, ideerviog the door open, went to see who was
there, when the men attacked him. They probably did not
intend to commit murder, hut ending the man dead they
quitted the church in alarm, leaving their key in the door.
Everything is the church was found untouched. There
were marks of • severe struggle having taken place—tbe
nefortunate MAR having apparently been dragged aloes the
door for a considerable distance. As yet no clues to the
murderer or murderers has been discovered, but the Sewn-
ham police are on the alert, and are not without hopes that
their exertions mac be successful.
DEALERP4 IN MARINE STORRE.-A bill hart been
published for regulating the buriness of dealers in old
metals, which provides that if any such dealer he found in
peressebe of say old metal which may reasonably be au-
to have been stolen or unlawfully obtained, it shall
lawful for say constable or police officer to 'aim the
SKEW and carry it before a justice of the peace, who may,
thereupon, issue a rummona requiring such dealer to appear
before two justices, and if such dealer shall not satisdac.
teeSy prove how he came by
.the same. or if it be
peeved that at the time of receiving it he knew it to be
delta, be shall be guilty of a iniedemeatiour, and be liable
to a penalty not exceeding N., and for any subsequent
aims to a penalty not exceeding 2131. After the Int
however, ho may, if the justices think fit, be kept
laberst for a period sot exceeding three calendar
months. The fentzipleserrisions are in no way to affect
to which the dealer may be
=lermr=g stolen goods. Any dealer, on being
convicted, may be required to register himself at the prin-
cipal p of of the city, borough, or dirtnct, and
lEwee[orward for a period not exceeding three years he
will be subject to the surveil/secs of the police, who are
empowered to visit kis shop and inspect his books whenever
autkoei ed by two justices so to do.