The Express.
London, England, 1857-12-26 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, SATURDAY EVENING, DEORKSZR • Sti, 185?.

same state of excitement to exist. The palace yard,
the Largo Castello, and other open pluses were full of
carriages, in which their inmates were reposing foe
the night. Hundreds of persons were couched on the
steps of the churches, and later in the night the images
of the Saints were carried in procession, whilst the
people sang Litanies. As the houses were in many
instances left vacant, the refuse of the population,
who are always ready in times of anxiety to profit
by the fears of the more timid, began to create con-
fusion in order to rob. Republican cries were
raised of " Viva i Tornesi," and many houses were
entered. Strong patrols, therefore, of the police,
gendarmerie, and military paraded the streets, and
much praise is due to the authorities for maintaining
oraer. Moat of the population passed the night in
the streets, and the next day brought with it the same
wonderful sammerlike weather that we have had for
the lest two or three months. During the day great
anxiety prevailed amongst the provincials to know
to what extent their families might have suffered,
and the telegraph office was so besieged, that a sen-
tinel was placed before it to prohibit all persons
from entering. On walking through the Toledo,
crowds were assembled looking at the fissures that
had been made in some of the lofty houses. The
monastery of the Jesuits gave similar indications of
the terrors of the preceding night, and I was told
that the great bell had been rung by the shook. Ac-
ccording to an opinion entitled to some respect, the
electric current had travelled from south to north,
Naples having been at the extremity of it, so that
intelligence from the Calabrias was anxiously ex-
pected. The Odicial Journal of the night of the
17th says that no news had been received at Salerno
from Sala, Lagonegro, or the Calabria% notwith-
standing repeated inquiries by the electric tele-
graph. On the Dame evening the following letter
to the directors of the Ojteiel Ammo( from the
aireetors of the Royal Astronomical Observatory at
Dip di Monte was published:—" I hasten to
apprise you that last night at 10.10 p.m. the
shock of an earthquake was felt, which lasted
from four to five moon& This was followed
by another of mach greater intensity after an interval
of two minutes, lutist about twenty seconds. Both
shocks were undulatory, and in the direction of from
south to north. The destructive character of this
shock is shown by the fact of two pendulum clocks
of the Observatory having been stopped, whilst three
others continued in movement, as also by the fissures
at the bass of the tower on which the equatorial ma-
chinery is placed. Two other light shocks were felt
at 3 and 3 on the following morning." On the night
of the 17th, as there was a common expectation that
the shocks would be repeated, great numbers of people
passed the night in the streets. On the morning
of the 18th more details were brought into the city,
which I condense. The electric telegraph had been
interrupted between Eboli and Sala, from which
latter place very afflicting intelligence had been re-
ceived. Three lives had been lost, and the prison
and the barracks had been opened from top to
bottom. In Atena half the houses had fallen; is
Padula more than 100 houses had givens= and it
is not known how many persons had • ed. In
l'otla the disaster, were immense an the victims
numerous, amongst whom was the brigede of gen-
darmes ; in Anions, Petrosa, and Caggiano the
deaths and ruin of houses were very many;
in Salerno, too, numerous houses had fissures
opened, among which were two churches, the
Palace of the Intendeusa, and the barracks
of the gendarmes ; the belfry and the church of
Bolden!' also gave way, and two women in a
neighbouring house were killed ; in Campagna many
house were injured. Towards the evening of
Friday (last night) news arrived from Basilicata
that in Potenza great destruction dad been occa-
sioned, many houses had been thrown down, and a
large number of persons, how many is not known,
had perished. The telegraphic despatch from Bari
is imperfect ; it runs thus greater part of the
inhabitants ate. ." This intelligence is
but from other and very reliable sources I hear that the
disasters have been greater than are given out.
Every moment brings notice of some fresh misfor-
tune, but I must reserve farther details for my next
letter. In this capital most of the houses bare
suffered more or lees, and every place in the imme-
diate neighbourhood has some diameter to recount.

oblong* about hi. mouth, .id Ms boo via somovist

Hie lonleitp thanked the jars for thefr palliest atteelloo,
sod the court adjourned. The hell wee crowded through-
eat the day, and 'ergs numbers thronged the rota& ot the
Court •honaa, weal, awaiting the remit of the trW.

THE POLK% COURTS.
THIS DAY.

MANSION-H 01782.

Williams Tampa's and Seery Oaksr wwe brought before
the Lord Mayor, is the curtody of bliehmi Haydres, the de-
tective ;Aker.

Toe pvl;onays had bun bvenght op on a former day, bat
Coker, having been seized with severe illness, was sent to the
infirmary.
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been seen taking • handkerchief from the pocket
of a gentleman of the name of Roberta and handing it to
Thompson, from whom it was taken by the °Hoer.
The modem of Coker, upon being milked about him, said
mho wee surprised to hear the statement of the robbery, as
aim believed that he had not got out of prison, whine be
was met about lime months before.
The Lord Mayor mid it was quite clear that the miaow@
had been la the habit of acting in the streets, mad
sestescod each to be tm t , with herd labour, in the
Home of Correction.

P C. Worths's', who was charprl 'with having stales a
a sovereign, which It wes believed he had wallowed, wss
brought up again, and
The Lord Mayor having ascertained that the sovereign bed
not been found, told the prosecutor that the releaser mast be
discharged, and that he had already be 'n severely punished.
The Prisoner—l hope your lordship won't cast no slur
upon my character.
The Lard Mayer—l tad no slur upon you. Yon are &-
The primer—l am an innocent man, my lord.
Jews Lreltherf was charged with baring stolen a goose.
The prisoner wee mot deliberately to take the gouge from
the maw at Mr. Howard, of Leadenhall Market, and upon
Woe tianheedell he shammed drunkennees, and mid he
did net Mew Moder he bad bought the goose or not.
The pertem said—l work in the docks, and was drink.
lag all dug, mad spat se. in that way. My wife than gave
ow
4e., le bey a goose, and I did so, but I do not know the
perm I psi for It.
The alts of the prisoner mid her husband bad told no-
thing bet the truth , but her statement fell to pkges,before
the gesetions of the Lord Mayor who said to leer Yea
came here in the hope of a.ttlissr this Mow by SIMLA:Is.
Yon say you gave him 4e. to bay a goose far your
mud you have not had as much oast In year room se would
reek ft."

-11teprisoner win then eentenoed to Imprisonment for ell
weeks es a rogue and vegabesd, his lordship telling the
wet at the ease thee that the would, in all prAtbility, be
henettett by the Amen of nob a drunken fellow.

GUILDHALL.

A earpenlir or the mit; otßsVs:rfilest- lane, vas charged
with sa result epee a woman and her brother.
Mr. ILewle mid the worths had arranged their dlfiresees.
The conelable pot in • medial certificate showing that the
woman wee NMI in the hospital, with evreml severe incised
wounds upon the heed.
Alderman Ceder said it was too scions a matter to be so
lightly dl,poetd et.
James Conrad aid—l was in Fleet-line on Thursday
night list, whim soy Teter, Mrs. Griffiths, warn easaultad.
We were going to have casting to drink, and knocked at
the radio-house kcthatparpoae, but, a it weapeat 12 o'clock,
could not get say. We wire coming away, when the
primer, who was standing In hie door-way, seed, neves
the —," end immediately struck um on the head with •
large can sod knocked me down. My alder ease to Boo-
ted. me, sad she was also knocked down, het I cannot tell
whether it wee the prisoner who 'track her or the Mend
he had with him. The blow was struck with • beer-cen.
My Metre and I weal to the hospital to have oar heads
dread.

Crosesmunined—l saw the tall man who snack me down
at Pratt's public-how, batl am not aware that I Mcked his
bear•cisa over. I know be. beer fell over after he threw me
down. I cannot moiled exactly, because I had had a little
beer. My sister dragged the prisoner off ms by hie hair, to
rated ms, sad very likely he was swinging the can about
to protect himself. Have received compensation be= the
defendant, and I am sstiefled.

Alden:Ws; Carter said the witnem might be satisfied with
the thrashing he had received, and probably he deserved It;
but such an arrangement could not affect the care at the
worasa in the hospital.
The witness's wits produced a mesa of hair saturated
with blood, which the said had been removed from the heed
of the injured woman.
Alderman Carter said he could not part with the defendant
at present without bail. He therefore remandsd the priemer
till Saturday next.
dirtily
Tho
nested. prisoner put in the required auretise, mad was base-

Romany or £3O.

Patna Howley •I:•iiii;;;;Qing;t 7, Londee-
Goldwa-lens, 81. Lake'., was plead st the bar Dean Mr.
Cart* clurpd with being concerned with two other tom
new in settedy,ta elealleg hem the parson of Mrs. North-
Add • parse IS one and between 30a. end
410 u, et ilieskis es the 1511 hut.
Fran the evident%to sneezed that the ' and hie
two oreepenieste were et ens of the rind ions et Ritchie
em the 16t1 Wt.., ant respectably attired, when they der-
' terosely manned to pick the pocket of the prose-
earn:, end them amps. They took the tes. to
some up to to and when they arrived at
the Gnat Northern Railway terminus at King'
Lesley, one of the railway constables. apprekeerkette=
them, sad tekhig them before the Mid& megistades, they
were committed for trial. The contrived to amps
detection until last evening, whey from the deseription that
had been rent round to the different police dodoes he wee
apprehended by polkeemtetable Mattock, 162 0, when he
did not deny the charge. The purse was not found. The
inspector of the HitaLia police was now in attendance, sod
asked that the prisoner might be given into his custody.
The who hid nothing to say in he defence, wee
aderdto be conveyed before the Ritchie magistrates.

THE CHRISTMAS TISTITAL.
The passages of the court were very mush crowded this
wansing with Use fried' of pews. who were looked up
upon difwent charges, mostly arising out of drankannasa.
number of night charges wire as fidlows division;
11, N 14, 7, and G 34 ; total, 66.

The Manchester Guardian, of this day, publishes 11
the prosprctua of a Working Man's College at Mene►eeter,
the committee of management including Influential and pub-
80-spirited gentlemen of all denominations. The scheme of
studies br the drat term covers a very considerable part of
the ground appropriate to • liberal English education; sad the
same of the gentlemen who hare undertaken to liked in
the various departments furnish guarantee for the character
of the instruction which the college will offer. The institu-
tion is cat proposed to be entirely gratuitous; but the rate
M which the feu are flied pieces It. advantages within reach
of students of ea extremely bumble social class.

The Council of the Society of Arts have fixed to
hold s conference of representative, frora institutions In
Landon and the neighbourhood, with a view to the organise.
tics of local boards in connection with the eaarninationa•

The conference will tato place on Monday evening, the 11th
of January, when the attendance of two or three represen-
tatives from each institution is invited. Rapresentarives
from institutions not in union with the society are also
invited to be present.
The Council of the Society of Arta bare assented
to the proposal made by the Institutional Association of Lan •
mabire and Cheshire, that they may be allowed to bold the
preliminary examinations for 1868 in Lancashire andlChsehire
la Ender week, six weeks before Whitanntide, instead of
twelve weeks before, as laid down M the programme; the
report to be furnished to the council not keg than five weeks
baby. Whitsuntide.

Early next month will be published a " Handy
Book on Property Law, In a Series of Lettere," by Lord
fk. Leonard's.

In the seven years—from the rise of the
Pre-Ea its honey to the present time—the Liverpool
Academy has bestowed it. prises In the following manner:—
W. Holman Hunt, " Valentina mating Silvia from Protects,
and reproaching him for Me falsity," 1861. I. E. Millais,
"A Huguenot, on IR. Bartholomew's day, miming to shield
himself from Danger by wearing the Roman Catholic
Badge." 1852 W. Holman Hunt, "Claudio deliberating
the Terms of the Pardon offered to him through his Sister
Isabella," (Measure for Meactire. Act 3, se. I), 1853. Mark
Antony, "Natures Mirror," 1&51. Augustus L. Egg,
"The Life and Death of Buckingham," 1855. Yord
Brown, "Christ Washing Peter's Feet," ISM. J. E. Mil-
lais, Blind Girl," 1867. Six Pre-Raphaelite picture.
crowned in seven years, and only one picture of the natural
School l-4 Mammas.

Toe ROYAL INBTITUTION.—The Friday evening
lectures at the Royal Institution will probably (says the
Literary Gazette) be arranged all follow.:-- Jan. 21. Pro-
foesor
Tyndall, "Oa soma Pbysieal Properties of lee."
Jan. 29. W. IL Grove, Esq., "On Molecular Impree-
alma by Light and Electricity." Feb. h. Edwin Leu-
kemia, M.D., "Os the Drlnbing Waters of the Metropolis,"
Feb. 12. Professor Faraday, on a subjet not yet decided
U . Feb. 19. Edmand Beckett llenison, Egg ••• On name
nalllmproveteents in Loris since the Great Exhibition of
1851." Feb. 26. Rev. Professor Baden Powell, "On
Rotatory Stability and its Applications," illustrated by the
Argentite of Pmfesew C. Pima Smyth. March 6.
Professor C. P. Smyth, "Account of the Astronomical
Experiments on the Pea of Tense& in 1856," illustrated
by Photographs. March 12. William S. Carpenter,
"On the Lowest (Rhimmod) Type of Animal Life, con-
sidered in its relationsto Physiology, Zoology, and Geology "
March 19. Henry Thom.. Buckle, Esq "Os the
In-
6anarw of Women on the Progress of Knowledge." March
26. key. John Barlow, "On Mineral Candles and other
Prodnete maanfactind at. Belmont."

001MOCI4L TRAVILLUIP BENIVOLILY2
INBMUTION.-(THIS DAY.)

Thle morning the anneal general meeting of the
=nOahe above exmilent inatitution was bad st the
onall'avorn ; Mr. WALTIne 0. B. Greene, coo of the
tins-presidents and inestuary pureing.
The minutes of the lest haff-yearly meeting baring been
road and confirmed, the report od the board of management
for the hat half-year IMO reed by Mr. CZAILLEO Neon, the
secretary, from which It appeared that la June of the pe-
ewit year one annuitant of 401. per annum was eluted,
sad that at this meeting there were five candi-
dates seeking to become recipients of the charity,
but only two could be elected, and the meeting would have.
to determine in the canal manner which of the five
should have the preference. The annual bell and
supper the board of management have fixed for
the 11th of January next ; the ball will take place at
the London Tavern, and will be under the especial pa-
tronage of the Lord and Lady Mayoress, the
Sheriffs of London and Middlesex, and Sir Jamas
Duke, Bart., M.P., the President of the Inetitntion.
The report concluded with an t appeal to the commer-
cial community for additional ttseisiaace, m order that more
claimants might be placed upon the charity.
The report was unanimously adopted, after which the
fifteen and board of manst for the ensuing year were
elected. Mr. Gunter, We chairman was re-elected treasurer,
sad Mr. J. L. Emu. honorary solicitor.
The meeting then to the election of the two
annuitants referred to in the report.
The dinner in aid of the schools connected with the above
Institution will take place this evening at the London
Tavern, and Mr. W. M. Thackasy has promised to preside.