The Express.
London, England, 1868-02-15 00:00:00

AENAIL&

A decrease In barometrl;7pren urn has continued from yes-
terday afternoon at the southern and routnc +nom stations out
a rise in Scotland and Ireland Is shown line* last c‘ertlin,
amounting to nearly threatenthe of en loch on the sate: a cost
Lf I relo tad. The different°, in readings between Shudesnaen and
yons is large: it amounts to nineientlia. Freiman in acne
Wends bare become more easel. The temperature has
diminished on our north and west coasts : the diminution has
Leon conaidereble In Scotland. Sines yesterday afternoon a
south westerly gale arose on our western coast, but this morning
it btu moderated, and the wind has ',sod to north.westwart
on our Channel roar wind is soutnweeterly. KW is ''portal
om the west coast of Ireland. Lein oat Won oreroet i
whilst mist and fog are prevalent In the seath•west.

Herr Joachim will appear, for the first time this
masa; at next Moaday's Popular Coseerts.

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The President of the Royal Society, General
&blue, hes sent out cards foe two evening receptions,
which ore to be held on the 7th of March and the 26th of
April.

The annual meeting of the Geological Society
will be held at the apartments of the society in Somer
set-house, on Friday, 21st February, at 1 o'clock. The
President will read as addrees. sad the Fellows will elect
their ofilimin for the year.

The annual festival of the Hospital for Sick
Children will take plus next Wednesday, when the chair
will be occupied by the Archbishop of York.
Galignani announces the death of M. Lon
Foucault, of the Institute and Paris Observatory. M.
Foucault wu a acientille contributor to the Journal du
Delors. M. PmosFParndol concludes an obituary notice
of the deceased anent in these words :—" Let as hopo that
the darkness has now disappeared, and that his soul,
which thirsted for truth, is bathed in light. It the noble
and ingenious curiosity which was the vivifying lire of h:s
life, and gave a never-ending charm to his conversation, is
now entirely satisfied, he has received hie reward." The
funeral was attended by Marshal Valliant, General Marie,
Etienne de Beaumont, Pro rost-Paradol, Emile!Oririer, kr.
The Turkish journals announce the death of
Darbohor Beschid Pasha. He was the last Pasha sp.
pointed by the late Sultan ',Alimony]. Though he filled
the alike of War Minister three times, and that of
girder Ekrem twice, he was unable either to read or wrik..

•
TIMINICAL EDUCATION. —A preliminary confer-
ence on the 'abject of technical education was held at
the ogees of the Working Men's Club and Institute
Union, Strand, on Friday night, the Earl of Lichfield in
chair. At ths req nest of the chairman, Mr. C. Symons moved
• resolution, averring that the question of the technical
education of British workmen danands the attention of
all classes, but that no action on the subject could be
toonziileir which does not embody the opinion of the
@lessee themselves, and which is not based upon
the epeeist information which they alone an give. Oit.r
resolutions were also agreed to with the Slaect c! giving
'Heat to this view of the question.
&luso' Doscorzar or AlrbruNrrtor orrros
Gasworis.—At a late hour on Thursday night • parcel,
containing twelve bell cartridges and twenty-three perms-
dos caps, was found secreted under some grass ty the
towing-path of the Surrey Canal, and near the South Me-
tropolitan Gasworks, Old Kent-road. It appears that fcs.
several weeks past extra watch has been kept, both day
and night, by the police, in consequence of • communica-
tion having been made that it was the intentios of o body
of Fenian, to ire the place. The ammunition was banded
over to the police, and yesterday Inossppeecctor Digby, of Ow
B division, conveyed the same to -yard.

Di•TH FROM TSi IGNITION OF • LINIMENT. —A
singular but melancholy owe was disclosed yesterday at
the Liverpool coroner's court. Peter Breen, an old into
troubled with rheumatism, bad obtained a colourless lini.
meat, which on Sunday last he gave to his wife and caked
her to rub It upon one of his hips. She poured some of
the liquid upon her bands, and after Tabbing her husband
for some time, In order to increase its efficacy eh* warmed
her hands at the fire. The liquid on her bands Mama
ignited and she was very actively burned. Her husband
approached to render ber asaistance, and the liquid upon
his hip became ignited also, his elotbes were Ia mid, sad
he sustained such serious injuries that be died in the
Northern Hospital on the following Thursday. A verdict
of " Accidental death" was returned. No evidence was
given as to whines the rubbing mixture had been ob-
tained.

A PUBLIC DANGER llf PICCADILLY.—We hal/0
IC can the attention of those whom it may eminera to the
present date of the lofty well separating the courtyard of
Burlington-beam from Piccadilly. The wanton angle of
this wall hes been taken down, so that the tie which it has
torso many years formed is broken. The stractert thus
exposed in motion is on the move, or, to speak with more
precision, has visibly moved towards the street, and now
overhangs its boas by as mime as its own respectable thick-
men That the fact has not escaped the attention of those
in charge of the works is evident from the presence of two
strata, not mere casual props, but struts formed with a
care that seems to contemplate their maintenance for
tome emisiderable time. In fact, the wall is now Las.
ing on these props, and, if they ware suddenly re-
moved, would in all probability fall oa the foorpeth.—Tho
"data.

THE FENIAN ATTACK ORTHR MARTELL° TOITIOL
Om of the artillery soldiers, named Hickey, who wee
in charge of the Martell* Tower in Cork harbour when the
Fenian party attaoked it in December. hes been tried by
,sort-inertial, convicted of disobedient, to orders and
mewithm! ofd
abouruty. and eentensed to Si days' imprisonment
hard l.

RITUALITY AND MONUMENT IN THE CHURCH
OF ENGLAND.—Yesterday awing a sesame eti
bald at the Queea's Costear‘roosa, for
the purpose of reasidering the pa sad pelieles the
church of England in referees* Se dimellies esti alastaill
dam. The large room was dumb esewded, aweepst
these pressat bekte lame ambers of oweepilleal:
MN sad le= eaaneeted will that easel of
were abs is Ihe
and
away diery"Q
ITV, Leg to the hie Aura and porde%
sew as part ia ths eessaap itohylad as 00m•
disapproval of soon very prbroad staisseests. of whisk
may were awls daring the orsolag.
TaS lam Cams Thong.—. 4 zammerielodgasti
by &beat 1,000 el the pdasipal kails4 prepisters is the
cdata dietriete of beim& I:Si ealtbdeswil se
Otheell of that& . ISM folfilial
the sad shall* is shoat Is be
ruse is the immanent The seameleliste probes►
spinet iatetisseeee with this iraporasat lode es me-
essaary. The diseases referred to Is the eriey viw., Ow
mouth and foot disease sad pleareeissearathalet
►4lthe.
sad she arab aad let to
their experienoe, ef • toatßeintheummiabee•
sane presorthed ia the order the el
theth weld, in leek theme sad* slop the est* tai.
FATAL ACCIDENT IN TITS Elmira TIMM.
Oa Tuesday wee*, Abraham Poem, • YiwitgaS
wale
=l:6Maybe the thee Math of Warp'
hem to Weehoseepesa
toad. lama be wee easebei then sattha that br. •
teinzereie. As bath Agrees* M. wee bead is es.
both sad balefully aislibesa. tha law* wee
beid Tkanday el the Oewpar Arm, ea • verde% d
" Ambilaid Dwelt" was-4malmnifialsr4Ableal.