The Express.
London, England, 1868-01-22 00:00:00

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JANUARY 22. 18(8.

Saba ant littitterg.

PORTSMOUTH, JAW. 2/.
Ike Crocodile, iron screw troopship, Captain G.
W. Watson, maid this afternoon with drat tstho 7th
and Mird Regiments for Alexandria, ea route to the but.
The Minown, iron wow troopship, Captain T. Loth-
bridse, is under orders so embark the 44th Bashnont, for
oonvoyanto to Ireland.
The Himalaya, hen screw troopship Captain Shute B.
Piss, is Rader orders to ..Darkon Friday the 66th Rai,
mast for eon to Ireland, and ohe will afterwards
pressed on foelbr troop terries to Gibraltar.
Tba OTOMINIONS saw troopship, Captain IL
galpelat
win to pad eel of esewmistion on Saturday, to be
with a new set of boilers.
Ze7Pylades, 17, Bert Dorcas, Captain
Ba C. W. C.
Woosedod to Cowes this afternoon to join
the squadron deb( guard duty there and of Osborn.

OFIA'rII3II, JAL 21.
Tioore gos INDlA.—Orders have been received
at this pillion divesting 81 nememomimioned omens and 1
Ines of the Ist battalion of the lot Roya/e, 151 can of all
risks of the 2nd battalion of the Ist Royals. 101 men of
the let battalion of the 2nd Royals, and 50 men of the
82all Regiment, to be held in readiness to ember* for
India, to join the senior companies of their roopeative
• DlAllehmenta of 60 gnomon of the 16th Wend*
Royal Artillery, and 53 men of the 25th Winds, are also
*ad tinder orders to proceed to Ilverpool for embarka-
tion at that port on board rho ohertored Mesmer Ave-
treßs, 350-boree power, whisk has been taken • by the
for slim 001IV9SIMMIed deltasimonts
"Wraillosiog officers at this minion lave been placed
wider order, for embarkation :—Captain J. I. Proton,
45th Regiment ; Surgeon P. A. WlD•rmott, 95th Rat'
Viie lieutenant A. Glen, 10th Worent ; Ensign G. H.
, 2041 battalion of the 10th Regisneet ; Vieutirosat
0- trAd West Win Regiment ; and Ensign W. H.
Gortiou, lit Wes* India itsginient.

ADMIRALTY, JAN. 21.—APPOINTei1cre.—Pay-
meters Thea. S. Heywood, to the Mersey, and Robt.W. M.
Janes, to the Frederick William ; and Naval Cadet,
mated, Arthur Ingham.
eAOGINO IN THE NAVY.—The following circular
(Net 3 L) has been issued by the Admiralty : ' It having
come to the knowledge of my
has been semetbnes Lords Commimioesre of the
Adleiralty that the use of a " gag
rusted to on board her Majesty's ships, their lordships
desk* that this practice may be discontinued, and that
meet who are noisy or otherwise violent should be confined
in • coll.—Hamm G. Lmenox."
Navigating Lieutenant H. B. Gawler has been
&pointed a naval mail agent on the Southampton station.
BOARD OF TRADE, WHITZHALL JAN. 20.—The
Met Hon. the Lords of the Committee of Privy Council
far Trade have received, through the Secretary of State
for Foreign Affairs, from her Majesty's Charge d'Affaires
at Rio de Janeiro, a translation of a decree, dated 27th
November, 1867, of the Brazilian government, which. COO•
tinnier till the end of December, 1864, the disposition of
the decree of 27th March, 1867, which permitted foreign
Tem& to carry on the coasting trade in that country be-
tween ports at which there were custom•houses.—Geatk.

At a Court of Aldermen yesterday, Alderman'
sod Sheriff Stone made a return of the state and cendi-
UM of the City prima, by which it appeared that there
are at present in tiewpte 85, in the Debtors' Prison,
Wifftecroes4treet, 112, and in Holloway Prima, MD

prisoners.
Mr. Baron Pigott attended at the Judges' Chan-
hen yesterday, and dispreed of a number of applications.
Already there has been in the Exchequer a decrease in the
number of write issued since the operation of the County

borsvat,
. THEYELTAIf, M.P., AND THE POLITICAL
STlCATlON.—Yesterday, in answer to an address from the
North Shields Reform League, Mr. Trovelyan, M.P. for
Tyremouth, wrote as follows :—" I spree with the lesgue
in regarding the rating climes of the Reform Bill as op-
peemthe to the massed town populations, and as ineffectual
for any purpose but general annoyance. I especially feel
for poor Widows who have their rates largely increased
without the advantage of a vote. It is probable that the
same evil effects being experienced throughout most of the
barge centres of industry in the kingdom will result in
the expunging, during the ensuing seuion, of this
obnoxious clause. As regards the ballot, I am
alwelys ready to vote for it, and feel sure
' thee the drat result of the new Reform Bill will
be to give the ballot movement • vory perceptible impulse.
I shall be ready to support a general system of national
education ;an in the iice of such being brought for-
ward, shall throw in my lot with Mr. W. E. Forster and
Mr. Bruer. I am, if ble, more than ever orminteed of
the justice of a total abolition of the Irish
rests churl*
and have began to be hopeful about it. Agreeing with the
Reform League in the horror which that body expresses
against the perpetrators and abettors of the Clerkenwell
outrage, I shall at the same time resist with all my powers
) the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Let in England, and
shall regard the establishment of military law tertian the
I confines of the three kingdoms as a national crime."
ROYAL COLLECI OF SUSLOEONS OF EMIL/inn.—
The following gentlemen having undergone the 'winery
examinations for the diploma, were admitted members of
the college at a meeting of the Court of Examiners or the
21st inst., viz.:--Messrs. Richard Clement Lucas, Comp-
ton, near Petersfield, Hants, of Guy's; John Lloyd,
LS.A , Abergwili, Carmarthen, of University College ;
Frederick Marshall, LS.A., Kentialttown, of King's,
Cantle ; Henry Clifford Gill, L.S.A., Keatish-town of
University College; Richard Huth/ Prier, L-B:A,
Chichester, of King's College ; Hoary Car, St. Gwen!
road, Pimlico, of University College ; William Archibald
Sinclair Blue, Strathalbyn, South Australia, of St. Bar.
tholomew's ; Frederick Adams Davies, M. 8., Aberdeen,
British Guiana. of St. Gorge's ; Philip Itithard Littleton,
Plymouth, of St. Barthothiseer's ; Henry Thomas Hugh
Chapman, Lower Seymour-street, of St. George's ; Robert '
Mark Bradford, Exeter, of St. Bartholomew's ; George
Charles Parr, Cambridge-street, S.W., of St. George's;
Edward Jackson, Darthigtor.George's ; Thomas
Vincent de Denim, StodeM, Beds, of St. Thomas's ; Hugh
Munro McKay, M.D., Victoria College, Toronto, Wood-
stock, Ontario Crawls, of Toronto and St. Thomas's
Richard Strange Hall, LS.A., Leigh, near, Marichester
of the Manchester School ; David leggy, M.D., Vietorii
C:lnalea,v, Toronto, and LE.C.P. Load., Dander, Ontario,
Cof Toronto and St. Thomas's; Duman MoLarty,
M.D., ictoria College, Toronto, St. Thomas, Ontario,
Canada, of Toronto and St. Thomas's ; Henry Lyne, Ply-
mouth, of Guy's ; Bernard Renshaw' Lee Kent, and
David Edward Morris, Csrmsrtbes, of St. butholornew's
Hospital. It is stated that only throe candidates failed to
acquit thelves to the satisfaction of the court, and
were consequently referred to their hospital studies for six
months.
SOCIETY or ENOINIZE3.—At the first ordinary
meeting for this session on Monday, Mr. W. H. Le Feuvre
is the chair, premiums fee woo read during 1867 were
prorated to Messrs. S. W. Warrens, jun., for his paper
on Mechanical Saws •" A. Rigs, j un., for his paper ea
" Heavy Guns •" J. Girobank, for his paper on
Injector;" Ewing Matheson, for his paper on "The
quality of Iron." The following candidates for sleeting
were balloted for, arid duly sleeted, as members—Robert
F. Fairlis, John Thomas Chappell, Henry Ogre, Limit*.
rant-Colonel Henry Wray. R.E. and George Sparser ; as
associates—Juthe Knox, Edward Harrah, and 0. W.

840106.
MALVERN COLLEGE.—The Rev. G. P. Harris,
ILA., of Trinity College, Cambridge, boa been appointed
to the profemorship of English literature and modern
history et this college. In the modem department two
English classes bare been formed ; in the one special
teaching in English literature and modern history is added
to the other studies ; is the other a mare detallsui educa-
tion in English grammar, modern literature, precis-
' writing, Am, Mu substituted for a portion of the classical
studies. The school will reassemble after the Christmas
holidays on the 24th inat
The Mark-tame Express stated that Lord Hill's fat
eland. which attracted so much notice at the Islington
Christine& Cattle Show. has beau slaughtered and fame.
A sirloin of the beast was placed co the Midi et the
Fernier,' Club dinner at the Salisbury Hotel, and those
who partook of it and were not Is the moret of its being
dyad,pronounced it to be " capital beef." The flesh is
fine in the grain, dark in colour, and marks a fair layer
of Ist, but is not of particularly fine devour—not at all
like venieon. The eland was slaughtered by Messrs.
Bannister, who bought it a low prim, there being no coo.
petition for such strange :meta
The affairs of Mr. Robert Hutchison, of Liver-
pool, who recently failed for 51D,0001., were to have been
before the local bankruptcy court= ler the maw
illation of whams's, but were swiss to the
abeam@ of the bankrupt from seism Elms. WU next
Thursday. Mr. Huteldeon was the salaried managing
director of the Liverpool Royal Beek, which ruannT
sesprodral, and to which he owed • large PROS a inewey.
LIVERPOOL ADELPRI BAIR (LEIBERD.I.ME. B.
Vann, prodded at the hollineely wean tiro sham
holders of this bank, whisk wee laeld atasre=elyemear-
day. It was stated that the continued is trade
bad affected the prosperity of the beak sad %dosed the
diroellers to emeobdate radium thenimeremotielr budarn
The aassuat available for mit was MIK, widely AM
'amorist el a dividend at the rats el Ti per me& imt
massy would leave a helium to be canted fainet
LIML The report was edema, as was she a ressiadsa
*Ow aid that the number of aimless digabt away
owed aims or be Ism than elm Mums. Wllliana, Weir'
add, mai Lillneleni were seeiseleil &beam&

[STAXPXD. 14.

TEN CITY MINES QUESTION.

TSB LONDON CLERKS' CLML
la the course of last autumn the columns of the
metropolitan journals were largely occupied by
Wes from City clerks, complaining of the high
Irises which they were compelled to my to the pro-
011120ts of restaurants, or dining-rooms for
I 0011ssons and dinners, and of the inadequate sic-
emmiodation whichthey obtained for their excessive
sispediture. The tavern keepers did not allow
theme complaints to go unanswered, and fora ems
the controversy between hungry clerks and oirsti-,1
nate, or at all events unsympathetic, victuallers,
waxed fierce and hot. While the dispute was at
its height parliament met in November ; the Abys- I
sian expedition and the twopenny income tax with-
drew the attention of the public from the vexed
question of " small plates " and "large plates," and
101 their respective cubical contents and prima ; sad
probably most persons, who neither by themselves or '
their relations have any knowledge of what is occur-
ring in the City, fancied that this controversy, like
Imany others , had proved entirely barren of results,
and thatafter a coupleof montlisof angry oomplaint,
I the hard-worked employes in City houses had re-
turned to their old bondage to the proprietors of
Cdining-rooms and crowded luncheon bars.
Y this impression is not altogether correct is
proved by the establishment of the Loudon Chicks'
ClertLiralted), which will to-day be opened for
the accommodation of the members. This club has
been established upon the principle of a limited
company. The nominal capita/ is 25,0001. in
25,000 shares of 11. each, and the advantages of
the club will, in the first instance at all events„be
confined to those who have taken shares. The
premises of the dub are at 132, Leadenhall-street,
and consist of a spacious luncheon bar upon the
I ground, and a commodious dining-room upon the
tirst floor, both of which are plainly but substan-
tially furnished. Above these are the kitchen,
two or three rooms in which private dinners
may be obtained, and a smoking room. The reason
'liar the establishment of the club, as stated by the
• promoters, is that " at present the charges for a
satisfactory lunch or a good substantial dinner are
far beyond the means of a large number of London
I
clerks,
particularly juniors.' To remedy this evil
they propose to give " a good lunch of cold meat,
bread, and halt a pint of aleor porter" for sixpence,
and " a substantial dinner of hot meat, vegetables.
bread and cheese, with half a pint of ale or stout,
for a shilling," with additions or alterations of fare'
at equally moderate prices. From calculations
which have been made, with the assistance of per-
sons well acquainted with the subject, they believe
that, starting from this basis, they can conduct the
basins:a of the dub so as to secure a fair interest ,
upon the capital invested, and at the same time
ensure to the shareholders good food, well cooked,
and comfortably served.
The operations of the club were inaugurated
last evening by a dinner to which 00 or 70 members I
sat down, under the presidency of Mr. T. Hughes, '
M.P. After the usual loyal and patriotic toasts
had been honoured, the chairman, in proposing
" Success to the London Clerks' Club," congratu-
lated the members upon the excellence of their
cook, and assured them that if they kept him up
to his present mark they would have an astonish-
ing success. He warned them that they must ex-
pect some little shortcomings at the outset, but
promised them that if by bearing patiently with
these they carried their enterprise to a sueessaful
issue, they would set an important example which
must be highly valued and speedily followed in this
great city. He cautioned them against adopting
the luxurious habits which defaced some of the
West-end clubs, and congratulated them upon the
circumstance that they were taking part in that
great co-operative movement which had already
very much changed the aspect of society in Eng-
land, and was about to influence all Europe. Those
who promoted the co-operative movement were
sometimes told that if their principles were adopted
no one would be able to know his own business,
because every ono would be meddling with every-
body else's affairs. In reply, they could only say
that they never meddled with any one's busi-
ness until those who carried it on had so managed
affairs as to render things intolerable. The reason
for the establishment of this club was that the state
of things iu the City as to lunching and dining was
intolerable, and the determination of those who had
founded it wee to secure to the members the best
food and drink that could be procured for their
money. (Cheers.) The toast was drunk with great
cordiality. Mr. Biome, the chairman of the club,
in responding, disclaimed any hostility, or even op-
position, to the proprietors of dinuig-rooms or
restaurants in the City of London, and mentioned
that the club would not be open after nine o'clock
in the evening, or on Sunday. In conclusion,
Ihe proposed the health of the chairman as one of
a band of men who had devoted cultivated talents
and high intellects to the reform of abuses, and
who in the words of Tom Brown, when they
fought never yielded until they could neither
stand nor open their eyes. (Cheers.) The toast
was very warmly received. Mr. Hughes, in
acknowledging it, said that many arduous ques-
tions were rising in the future, and it would be the
duty of any one who by any circumstances had be-
mane s public man to the best of his ability to fight
through those question, and to take care that he
left the country to his children in as good a posi-
tion as it occupied when be came to manhood.
(Hear, hear.) Several other toasts were drunk,
and the promedings did not conclude till a late
hour.

The first meeting of the Royal Horticultural
Society this year took plain yesterday, in the council-room
of the society, at death Kensington, and a fine show of
Tye
orchids, and other dowers were exhibited.
The principal object. of attractiuu were two fruits of the
cocoa nut palm, ripened at Sion-house gardens, lalewortb,
i by the Duke of Northumberland's talented gardener, Mr.
U. Fairbaira, the wily =mum oa record in which is has
been fully and is this remalry. The emiety awarded
Mr. Faubairn a first class certificate and the Od Banksian
Ilmedal for this most meritorious production. The follow-
ing candidates were elected fellows of they ty :—Mrs.
Oookbarn, by.
J. G. 01,4411W•ii, M.A., m
Dickson, My.
_liayineo H. W. klecossortli, Mrs. 8. lied&
I suri,_ Herr Emu mer, Mr. W. Robinson. to.
Tag MATIVOrtILITAN VUAILD WOILILIL—At a
ol the Paddington vestry held yesterday, Mr.
Chaeeesrehwerden Ellie in the chair, Mr.
the smalpiantkin of the Loudon ges comptVer:tetch.e.ird
ping plasm' midst the control of the Mgaropoiitaa Board
of Works, which latter body had, in his opanion, already
mare buMnsen on their hands than they amid egicioatly
lanneact. Mr. Roche, the parish representative at the
Metropotan Board of Works, said he cordiad
*be last h
expression roads use of by Mr. Wiliamlly endorse
Bo (Mr.
Baas) was now going to make • statement which would,
=Amps, startle the vestry, hat whisk was nevertheless
mon. A very short time ago be attended a meeting of the
Ifiserepolitan Board of Works, and to his great astonish-
ment be focad the doors admitting
.to the board-
leaked sad also, upon being admitted,
hofound • *eh= clique of the members
sitting la solemn conclave. Oa looking over the
I agenda paper he was astounded to find that the principal
bamboos of the meeting waste weedvisability cf
borrowing the sum of 350, London and
Westminster Bank, for the purpose. of completing certain
metropolitan imprommenta. On 'squiring whether say
statism/a emsested with the pass were present be wee
=do enewered In the baptise, and wee farther tat
that no stratagem would be admitted into the room
this solemnly erotastod spinal the legality of their
proesedinge, adoring them to • =Mute za the honk
which expressly stated that reporters should net be =-
eluded except • nmeon to that effect was .
• majority of the board, and he added that=
bad already 210,009 t. In the Louisa end Ma
Beak, for whist they reoeived interest di mats ep
kr sod
a half per mat. and that i* WY • piIipiNSEINI beee
them to honour their own meow for vlsids Ong VIM
ha= to pay interest at the rate et Sew and os
quarters per cent. All hie protests, howeeeir, =wed le
he of so =ail; be new that the mutter bed beta eat =I
dried biers entered the roses, endi fie bawd
senctiemed the hemowbeg el a very hese OM 4111
=mu they had aersdy_ Own moo= ia the Imadial=
Weeindader Beak. The further diesunisa ot tide matter
is postponed =ill the nest notellsg am =Ma.