The Express.
London, England, 1868-12-26 00:00:00

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ticket had but to present it to become laden
with good things. From distant parts of London
—from Bethnal-green, Shadwell, and White-
chapel, as well as from the parishes hard by, the
people came. No questions were asked, RSVe as
to whether they were teetotallers, when extra
groceries were substituted for their share of drink.
The responsibility of selection had rested with the
donor of the ticket, and all that Ham-yard had to
do was to honour its own draft, and this it did
right nobly. A dinner fit for a family of hearty
eaters was wrapped up and carried off in no time
to speak of, the ticket-helders entering at one
door of the building, receiving their portions at
each of its departments, and emerg•ng, like bees
laden with honey, at the other end. All these
had homes of some kind, in which they were
presumed to cook the sturdy lumps of beef they
carried off; and all tendered their thanks right
heartily. Seven hundred and fifty families were
thus enabled to make merry yesterday; and to
feel that Christmas-day had brought good will
and kindly feeling in its train. Their histories,
could they have been read, would have been those
of the struggling poor of London, the people
whose life is a long effort to keep off
the rates, and to secure the daily modicum of
bread. There are as many degrees in poverty as
in riches; and the Christmas dinners purveyed at
Newport-market and at Ham-yard, seemed to
mach distinct classes. It is pleasant to think that
each of these establishments may be regarded as
representative ones; and that the good work we
saw in progress was duplicated in countless dis-
tricts of the unwieldy territory called London.
The casual wards of the metropolitan workhouses
last night showed, however, that vast and catholic
as our Christmas charity is, there is a terrible
margin which it does not reach ; and that to
starve in the midst of plenty is the fate of
thousands even on the great feast day of the
English year.—Daily News.

LORD LYTTELTON'S rrazr TO PEW ZEALAND.
Lord Lyttalton gave an soommt of his recent
rbdt to New Zealand to the members of the 84ourbridge
Institute • few day' ago, Lord Lyttelton was aecompa-
Med by his son, the Hon. Spencer Lyttelton. The out-
ward and homeward voyages were made vii Panama.
The travellers first maw the cliffs of New Zealand on
January 24, and Lord Lyttelton described the harbour of
Welltngton
thesingularly beautiful and picturesque ; the
of coast shut it in .11 round, and the scenery
ww:sid:Orunlike that of the Lake of Lucerne. The houses
in all parte of the colony had a comfortable English air;
they invariably found • quantity of English books, which
came out from England in every ship, and there were plea-
sant_ldnilish prints and pictures on the walls.
Wellington eras the seat of the colonial government, t
present t-house was little better than a cottage.
Lord L tan's particular destination wee the Canterbury
settlement, with the foundation of which, some twenty
ago, he was oonoerned. The from Wellington
years
lNart Lyttelton occupied from aigbteen to twenty hours,
and on landing they took nil to Christchurch, pang
through a tunnel one mile and three-quarters in length,
which now gave rapid communication between the coast
and the settlement. Civilisation, cultivation, and in-
closure have spread over the whole of this pert, and
• good deal beyond the town (of Christchurch) in
all directions. Christchurch had beenlaid out with a
view to the future rather than to any present capabilities
of population. A curious effect of the original church
character of the settlement was that the agent who fixed
the site and laid out the town thought it suitable to affix
to every single street and square in it the name of some
English see or prelate. The general look of the town was
somewhat slovenly and unkempt, and such matters as
clean and neat paving, filling up ruts and puddles, re-
ca:vcd but scanty attention. There was not yet any
concentration of buildings deserving the name of more
than a largo village. The population was said to be
about 8,000. The town had gaslights, anti the streets and
roads were macadamised ; but beyond the outskirts there
were only tracts made over the grass of the plans.
Scattered among the enclosures were the small home-
steads and gardens of the dwellers in the subarb
and here and there a church. Them marks of al-
vancing comfort and civilisation in a district which 20
years ago was mere wilderness were of singular iutere-t to
one who had so much to do with the foundation of the
colony. The only positive measure by which the founders
of the colony pretended to give it a church of Euglanil
character was that the first purchasers of the land by
their own consent, allowed 11. per acre—one-third the
price—to be allotted to church p This con-
tinued es long as the Canterbury Association lasted ;
but when the colony received self-governing powers and
• popular constitution the church retained no exclusive
advantage of any kind. He found the political relations
of the numerous colonies were a subject of great local
interest, and the general movement of opinion was
towards a greater consolidation and concentration of
political action throughout the colony. In the early days
of such settlements, with their numbers few and the
means of intercommunication very imperfect, it was almost
inevitable that each separate settlement should have its
separate government. But with the progress of popula-
tion and intercommunication it would be a sign of weak-
ness rather than strength that such independence should
continue in a country of less size than Great Britain. It
had been ably pointed out by Mr. Grote that among the
fatal causes of the decay of ancient Greece was the jealous
exclusiveness with which so many small states within its
limits asserted their self-governing exigence, and there
could be little doubt that the ultimate aim of New
Zealand statesmen, now generally stated (for the
details would require the most careful adjustment),
should be the establishment of a strong central
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government surrounded by municipalities.' Such a
government, indeed, there was, but it would need
farther development. There was a good church school,
Christ Church College, where many of the resident gentry
and others sent their boys. In an address he gave there,
he strongly urged parents to "upped and strengthen the
school, and make use of it, rather than send their sons an
the way to England for education. The great effort in
young colonies ought to be that of self-reliance, possession
within themselves of the essentials of social life. Even if
they rent their young men home to Oxford and Cam-
bridge, let them not do violence to nature by sending
away from their homes their children of tender
years. The general following of English usages
was to be observed in the colony. They bad
the same amusements and many of such institursons as
were common among us. The extraordinary growth of
watercress was one of the plagues of the colony, requir-
ing the moat constant efforts to prevent it choking up the
water. It was sometimes said to be so thick that one
could almost walk upon it, and it was even the subject
of special legislation, and watercress and scab in sheep
(oleo a most formidable evil, from its rapid spread
through a flock once attacked) were perhaps the most
peculiar objects of colonial legislation, as compared with
England. A candidate at an election was reported to
have said : " Gentlemen—l come forward on this occasion
wholly actuated by scab ; I stand upon scab." He was
told at the lunatic asylum that there wore often melan-
choly cases of madness produced by separation from
home. He believed that this was often not immediate,
but through the indulgence of drinking habits. An almost
perpendicular bill intervened between Port Lyttelton and
the Canterbury Plains, and until the railway re-
cently made, communication was very laborious. The
vast end lonely plains of the colony, with their far-
separated homesteads and scanty flocks, represented all
such fertile countries in their early stages of occupation.
Every part of the arid-looking pastures of the country
was fine arable land, capable of bearing 40, 50, or 60 bushels
of corn with little trouble. In the present state of the
population, however, it paid better to stock them with
sheep and sell the wool and so it would be for many a
long year yet. The condition of any new country which
but a few years ago was a solitude must always be one
of promise somewhat snore than of performance. Can-
terbury was • cub of England, but yet not an an.
licked cub. Go out, however, beyond the suburbs,
and they saw this cub getting licked, or even
TaacieLoMo r that process to be begun. There they had a
though on a small scale, of England as it was ;
and there, too, they saw what England was centuries ago,
with similarly Tad powers of nature undeveloped and
slumbering around, patiently atiftgthe band of human
skill and enterprise, under Divine thinee, to evoke them.
It was not easy to resist the feeling that they bad
these additional reasons to suppose the end was not yet;
and there were still under the sun resources,
which they hoped year after year mese and dis-
creetly to make use of, and width might su for the
life and comfort and well-being of countless generations.

Mauro 01'rItaoZ.—A correspondent
_ of the
Dwßliw Erasing Neil, writing from Moynalty, Dec. 23,
says :—" An outrage of • daring character took pleas
on Sunday evening last in this neighbourhood. A re-
spectable farmer named Arthur M'Quade, of Leashes,
near Bloynalty, was lying on his bed about seven o'clock
in the evening, not being very well, and his wife was
preparing some drink for him at the kitchen fire, when a
number of men rushed in (she thinks not less than fifteen
yentide2teen and presented • pistol to her bread, and
&earns. adding to give them at once, or they
would take her life. She said she would get them, and
retired to the room where her husband was in bed, and
called him to get up. In the meantime she laid kild of a
Ledge 'Washer, which happened to be near, and ll'Quade
got hold of an old cavalry sword. They made such good
use of these weapons that the men retreated till they got
outside the door, when one man caught Yrs. ll'Quadeksy
the hair or the head, and called out to ' Stab her—shoot
her.' They would most likely have done so had
nut ll'Quade caught hold of her and dragged her inside,
and succeeded in closing the door and fastening it. The
fellows then tried to hiwilc in the door, but, failing to do
to, fired a shot, and left the place. They succeeded in
wresting the splaal.er out of Mn. It'Quade's hand. mud
bruised ber hands and arms with blows from their sticks."

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• reepeetable-lookinaungoung man, named GT•
wads, described se a 's steward, eras ellargW before
the Lord Mayer with ' a gold watch, Talus 16i.
The preseratlar was a gentleman mush
Lethbridge,
and it wowed Leaduba: on Thursday afteresesa he want to
searket to see fire display of poulte7
and game. When in Ship Tavern- about
2 o'oluck, ha felt • tug at his chain
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saw he prisouir running wy.
cry al • Stop thief ' wu raw& and the
loner was esiOured before be bad run may yard,. The
watch was picked up.
The prisoner said he was going to Cardiff next week to
get a ship and be wanted something to pay his fare.
Partr4o, the gaoler, esti he was known to the patios.
laLon.
The Lord Mayor senteseed hha to three month. hard

GUILDHALL.
seXTTIOLIVI BOBEZZY 01 011:13173.
Camille* 'lndia& living at 16, Eagle-court, Red Lion-
square, Clerkenwell, was at the bar before Sir
Benjamin YEiltips, with =inooncerned, with
tome parson, not in custody, in 23 pieces of l
chintz, value 231., from the warehouse o Mr. Walters,
of Newgen-street.
William Smith, detective OMNI', said that he went to
the prieemer's house in company with the foreman of Mr.
Bullweethy, a pawnbroker, of Aylesbury-street, Clarion-
welL He saw the prisoner and told her that be was •
detective officer and that he had come to her because
there bad been a very enemies robbery of
chintz at Mr. Walters's, of Morgan-menet, and
that she had been pawning some of the pro-
perty that had been stolen. She hesitated and them
said she had only pawned one lot. In answer to further
questions, she said She pawned it for • woman she met in
• public-Douse at the end of Jerusalem-pane e, and that
the woman gave her mixpenes for pledging it. She did
not know the woman. He told her that she had pledged
more than one piece, and that there was only • week or
ten days between the two painungs, but she denied it
until Mr. Bullworthy'a amestaat told her that she had,
and then she admitted that she bad, and that abs
received the two pieces from the same woman. On going
down stain she called out to some women in the boor
" It is for the furniture —the Mints—that Inn away
with this gentleman who is an officer." He took her to
the station and asked her if she was desirous of telling him
where she got it from, and she said " No."
The prisoner mid it was not likely that if she had
known it had been stolen she would hays taken it to
pledge M Mr. Mallworthy's in her own nuns, when she
was known and by wham she meld be found.
Edward Eingea, assistant to Mr.Bullworthy, produced
the piens of chintz pledged in the prisoner's name—one
by herself and one another woman. One was 16 yards,
and was pledged en 23rd of October for 6s. ; and the
other was 12 yards, and was pledged on the 4th of No-
vember for 3e. dd. _

ChaiiisSelleiwarebonesman to Yr. Walters, identified
tbe two chintz es part of the 23 pieces which had
beauetoleafrom their premiss.. It was manufactured
orpreedy for them and so other bowie lad it.
Sir Benjamin Phillip remsnied the prisoner.
W-BTRZIT.
COCIEWEILMI nem&
No leas than thirty perms were brought up this morn-
ing before Hr. Flowers, Unmet part charged with being
drunk and incapable, disorderly, and with commit-
ting emaults (some of a serious chareater) all
being the result of Christmas indulgences. Some
of the persons had commenced their festivities on
Thursday evening, and having imbibed too freely had the
misfortune to spend their Christmas-day in the dark cells
of the nearest liratule-
°swims.
ROUGH-STBEEI'.

• CONGREGATION.

Janqs 111Tonnan, a groom, was charged as follows:
Police-constable George Hamilton, 66 C maid that on
Christmas-eve, the prisoner, who was drank, was put out
of the Farm-street Chapel by the doorkeeper. The
prhoner rushed in again and ho become very disorderly,
and he wns cninpolled to take him into custody,
as he was disturbing the congregation, and n
was with some: difficulty that ho was got to the
station.

In answer to Mr. Knox, the constable said that ho wa;
told that the prisoner was in the practice of going to the
chapel to beg.
Mr. Knox said it would not do to hare a man going
drunk to a chapel and disturbing a congregation, and
Cued the prisoner 2t/s., or fourteen days' insprisuarnaut.

DECEMBER 26, 1868

BOXINO-DAT.

•
The enimated appearance of the metropolis to-
day is io every respect suggestive of • general lioliday.
The varlons street• Mere thronged from a rather early
hour with won-dromed persons. evidently in search of
same kind of ammussat or recireatise. theme
thonemds floated 43 the several railway sta.
tioas—the new and reoently-oposed X:tropoli.
ten and other "extensions" beteg largely patron-
ised. As night be impeded, the substitution of the
shilling for the ordinary Saturday lull-orown day
drew an extraordinary amber to nydniben ; and there
is no doubt that the "p. T. Badtldosi " psatonime of
Laws Boy Blow will be witnessed by as audience seat as
Is only to be seen at the Crystal Palms. The
" crowning announemient " pot forth by Mr.
Sanger bad the effect of drawing thousands
to " raerrh Islington," where at the A grioultutul Hall
there will be three grand performances to-day. The
other please of emossassat afforded • treat to .say—the
more quietly-disposed or the more rigidly ecossanioal
selecting our publio institutions open MA The
volunteers made some display, the 48th Middlesex—
Colonel Meters in command—having mustered at

Boathwark-hridge, and proomded from thence to
Blackheath, where a review will take plane
early this afternoon. The day was Am, and the general
good humour and order of the holyday-makeie was quite
in uniacn with the geniality of the weather and the season.
It may be added that, apart from the attention usually
shown to the inmates of the London hospitals at this
period, the mealy adopted practice of decorating the
*event wards has been freely observed this year, thereby
adding some cheer to the sick and afflicted. This was
particilarly the case at Bt. Bartholomew's Hospital, of
which the Prince of Wales ispresideat ; devious in Bowers,
&c., have bean provided there in abandons,.

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LYNCH LAW AT NIW ALBANY, U.S.
YOUR OP TIM INDIANA RIPIZIO BOBBIES
HANORD.
Liniments oorrespostannte, writing on the 12th
beteg, rive the partienlen el • tragedy which mom mot
at /11,w Albany early is the inswing of that day. A
'Wags cesasetke, mid to have seise from Seymour,
Inelbaa, arrived at New Lbw on the previous easing.
About I o'clock on the —omlag of the 12h, Daher
Whitten, ems of the outside aegis of the ph was met
at the mimeos by a potty of men, who presaged pitch
at Ida, demand*/ We geese or death Whitten
shouted, but was reined, knombed down, and
beforsard that if be sheeted again he should die.
By this time the 11)01.111.1111 was MLA with men
seerelivg far the keys. Sherif Pellenlow, under-
standing the siteatioe, came down Dom his shaping
apartment, aid seised the door leading to the grounds
cm the were aide of tie ph Here he met ►fame armed
with pistols, width were dinged at him. He ezelaged :
" Gentlemen, don't shoot me ; I am the sheriff." But
ow of the band. And • shot, which took effect
in the heriff's right arm, indicting a serions and
painful wooed. The keys were amended, but he
positively refused to earmarks them. About • doss.
of the band then mitered Paliseleve's room, where his wife
lay in bed, and demanded the gaol keys of her, but she re-
fused to surrender them. They succeeded in finding
them, however, weaseled in • drawer. Thomas
Mathew% one of the (aide guards, was then com-
pelled to open the cells of the men whom the mob
had determined to bang. Prank and William Reno were the
first victims. They were dragged out and hung abiegskle of
each other. on theism pillar. Simon BANJO was then brought
out, hut be fought the mob with great desperation, knocking
one ortwo of them down before he wee overpowered and left
suspended between the ceiling and the floor. Charles
Anderson, who was the last victim, was heard to beg for
the privilege of praying ; but this tweed was refused,
and be was gaged at the south-west owner of the gaoL
After • farther threat to kill the sheriff, the mob
proceeded to the train, carrying with them the
gaol keys. Aimed Rata stood guard to prevent any alarm
from bang gives. At 4 o'clock the train, with the entire
party, weisting of from seventy-five to one hundred men,
started of. They came wall armed and equipped for the
work. They intestate/1 to hang a =a Milled Clark, the
murderer of George Trill, but they concluded not to do so,
fearing to remain any longer. The band came in • car by
themselves, which was attached to the regular train.
Charles Andersen and Prank Reno were samendered by
the Canadian authorities upon the ahem pledge of the
tufted States government that they should have • fair
trial, and, if found innocent, be returned to Canada.
All the telegraph wires on the line of the Jeffersonville
Ballroad were found sownected together and communica-
ting with the groundsheet one half-mile north of Sey-
mour. It is supposed to have been done by the Seymour
Regulators before going to New Albany.