The Express.
London, England, 1857-05-23 00:00:00

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MEMORIAL OP A CRIMEAN OFFICER.—A small
bid vary_peceful spire ham been erected in the parish of
As**, Werwicludure, to the memory of the late Major-
General Henry William Adams, C.B. by his widow. It
=alai the 'Mate church was without tewor or mire,
area thought that • better mentorial could hardly be
Rot br the gerral than one which should
mar lb are air that maid building in whitalr=
Wed M arch/, aid which is now the guardian house at
W amid grins. The spire is designed by 0. G. goat ,
Bap, is As Nib PleiCriss et*, and stands at the west
err d the ars. the arireacs, within a richly-
reared airs, errs the dears oft knight in armour ; sad
ea the genic of the b •,seeas, on either ride of the
patetismo limes repentrarkag Fortitude and Prudence,
essential to the amender of • Christian manioc
rlithin the porch, ever ,c
earnee-doca of the church, is
the following insertpdan, carved in stone :—" This spire le
ended to the
eary 0104 and in memory of Major-Genial
Eery Willem Mira of Anidey Hall, Companion of the
Mast liatearstde Order of the Bath, who died at Scutari on
the 19th of Derriebtr, 1864, of wounds remised in the battle
of lekermaen. And Arty-nine years. Though He slay
me, yet will I Croatia Hisa.'—Job xiu. 15."
AN INCIDENT OF BALARLAVA.—When the Light
Brigade was mewing for action, the hatcher of the th
Lacers, who bad just been performing hie office. slaughter-
ing sheep and oxen, made ho appeareees be the field, with-
out coat az waist:cot, his shirt elaevat rolled up, and his
arms sad foes emsered with blood--41 gronesque and terrible
figure. He mounted a powerful charger, misdeed, up to his
=He had no basher there, bet the ;gramme of a
y fit err too strong to be MAL He mud two
sakes, exandned the limier said edges of the
dabs, mired the absrpest, and threw the other amide. He
the, with real 000 lases, took out • rat bit g
It ar
dared , NOM it, placed it in his mouth, sad,
bradia the ear* rods with the harrier We the
V pis, of the dsdew of Death. This mu wee seta monad
Ih. ueM losteMokmineing the gunmen right sod left,
lebillag with his own bri at least Ida at the enemy earn
Ida ways the retreat through the swami" Rumba cavalry
musk wady seaght be laterapt as reamer of the great
viarral airs, hir reds bar, adll smo
his r ray sal asthilag bad haggsar, without hayinkingg
tseiiM • &eh illventsv's

SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION O CRUILTY
TO ANIMALS.

The annual meeting of this society took j!laceyes-
tcrday at the HaROVereKIII4II) Rooms ; the Marquis of
WriITWINATIM in the chair.
The report, which was reed, stated that, since the last an-
niversary branch accietiets had been establiaked in varkros
pane of the country, whilst those previously formed success-
fully continued thew operations. The melee ire on the
Continent were in full activity, and the committee lead beam
in friendly ountmeudeation with institutions in Paris, Mu-
nieh, Vienna, Hamburg, and Trieste. The committee hoped
to obtain the assistant* of government inspectors of school;
and it one proposed to invite those gentlemen to become ho-
norary members. In consequent -c of the act of parliament
which extended the county constabulary over England and
Wales a number of chief constables had acted in co.opers-
tion with this memeistion, and the various enactments
relating to the subjcet had been given to each of those officer&
The subject of the slaughtering of animals continued to
occupy the attention of the committee, both se regarded the
modes of killing and the places where it woe carried on, sad
they bad remount feor that there atM existed sn unnecessary
amount of cruelty in private establishments. It woe, how-
ever,. to be hoped that during the present semi= some act of
=t would be pulsed, which, if it did not bed to the
o7of public abattoirs, would cause private ettablish-
nsents to be placed under such inspection as would prevent
annacenery sarksing. In the new cattle market there was
.alit Isms salbeing than formerly ended at Smithfield, hen
there was still an amount of cruelty practised which required
increased watchfulners. During the pest year 479 penman
had been prosecuted and convicted by the society, and of
those a great; number had been committed to pct. on with-
out being allowed to escape by a fine. The amount of fines
during the same period had been 553/. 2.. Bi. The annual
subscriptions had increased, and the donations had been
liberal, whilst about 1,700. had been bequeathed to the so-
ciety in legacies. The financial statement showed a balance
of WU. in favour of the society, and it was stated that the
institution was eltoaether in a very satisfactory condition.
After some discussion (in the course of which Mr. Mace-
kinnen, M.P., referring to the retirement of Mr. Forster
from the on manager or superintendent of the ewiety,
stated that he had always discharged his duties wish xnls
efficiency, and gentlemanly conduct) the report woo adopted,
and the usual formal resolutions having been passed, the
buaineee terminated.

THE END OV THE WORLD.—But, after all, the
favourite subject of the Camandres is the extinction of the
world. This result I. to be effected in verious ways—either
by a sudden blow which will, at say rate, very epeedily put
ua out of our misery, or by a lingering process of torture.
Thus, some one found out, a short time ago, that the earth
and the Run were getting farther and teethe, apart every year,
and that in proems of time the fructifying power, the
physical vitality of our planet, would thecemartly become
end less, until living beings, sitar miserably dwindling
and languishing for some generations, would at
I length for want of food, light, and warmth.
Many of the in Chuotandra's temple upheld this
opinion by referring to the protato disease, the vine diastase,
and the doniniched supply of fruit, R. endences of a bible
deterioration in the earth a producing powers. But tle it opi-
nions have been contradicted by another faction, the membent
of which contend that the earth its getting nearer to the eon
and that in time we shall be sucked into his fiery vortex, and
wormed like a moth in the game of a taper._ Thus, if we
are to escape gradual starvation, it is only. that we may be
slowly roasted alive. A third hypothetic is, that the sun
himself is absolutely going out, like a lamp that has burnt Its
appointed time. A gentleman signing himself *
pus " recently wrote to the Tim. • to my that the well-known
spats on the run's dim are increasing in sire and number.
From this we suppose we are to infer that that robe of fire end
luminosity which encompasses the opaque body of the syn,
and which Ia the eoures of all the vitality of our cyetcm, is
out—dropping to pieces with ocketial rottenness.
.13rec:Zr minor and purely local signs of decay are also
talked 0f.... . .. . . But all Ruch minor
consideration give place to the overmastering dread of
the 13th of next June—a fear not unfelt in this country,
but producing, in several parts of the continent, • perfect
madness of despair among the peasantry, who relate to till
the ground, to make provision for the harvest, or to trammel
any business whatever. For, on the terrible thirteenth,
Time, like a grim bowler at an awful game at cricket, is to
deliver a comet at this our earthly wicket, to terminate our
innings with a remornelee hand, end stump us out for ever.
Against this sweetening fesr, there rises up a French
astronomer, who says that the colhaion of a comet with this
globe would be (on the part of the comet), like the dashing of
a fly against a locomotive in full speed. And Herr von
Littrms, a German astronomer, reminds us that comets are
nothing more than • species of drifting mix; that they are
not coherent memos st all ; and that we have nothing to
fear from

The airy jostles
Of thus atoms ad corpuscleo.
It is not to be hoped, however, that the ignorant and super-
stitions will retreat from matching a fearful joy from their
anticipations of the thirteenth.—Lliriveis "Boaechold
Wertele."
A RAILWAY CARRIAGE LIGHTED WITH OAS.—
On Monday night last a trial of a new invention wee made
between York and Milford Junction, when a first-clam car-
riage belonging to the Great Northern Railway Company
was lighted with gas. Each of the three compartments hod
an amend burner, the illuminating power being amply sniff -
&lent to allow newspapers and other publications printed in
small type to be read with the same ease as in a room where
gaa-light is used. The carriage was affixed to an migne and
tender, and this mall train, containing Mr. Knapton. the
inventor, and leveret other persona, started from the York
station at half-put 8 o'clock of Milford Junction, where it
arrived in seventeen minutee, being at the rate of nearly
a toile a minute, the journey being sixteen miles in length.
During the transit the gas burnt steedily and regularly,
the flickering associated with all descriptions of artificial
light being on this occasion very slight indeed. After re-
maining at Milford Junction about a quarter of en hour
the train Monied to York, the gas maintaining its bril-
liancy es before, but the superiority of the light was now
more apparent, inasmuch as the night had become more
advanced. The apparatus employed.m the fitting up of rail-
way carriages with gas is exceedingly simple, and therefore
the easier to manage. Underneath the flooring of the carriage
is fixed the gaileter, which composed for the most pert
of galvanlud India rubber. When inflated it contains 76
cubic feet of gas, which will light three argand bunters for
rather move than eight hours, thus affording ample time for
a train lighted in this way to proceed from this city to the
metropolis without any tack of gaa. Branch pipes; connected
with the gasometer par up the sides of the carnage, the fit-
ting-up being the same as that adopted in shape and dwel-
ling-houses, and thus each compartment is lighted. With
respect to the difference in the expellee of gas and oil, we are
to that a carriage with three gas lights travelling from York
to London would cost a fraction under 20., whilst nil would
be consumed amounting to Is. 70. When the gas holder
taconite exhausted it can very readily be refilled with Kea,
and in case of repairs being required, they can be effected
without much trouble or inconvenience. Already Fame rail-
way companies have given Mr. /Lupton orders to fit op with
pa the carriages on their lines.
MORE RUSSIAN RAILWATIL—A ndent of
the bedipetsdave* Beige, writing from St. Peters rit on the
Bth inst., nu it is seriously asserted there that an American
projector hu just laid before the Imperial government a
plan for the construction of a railway acmes the whole of
Siberia, from west to es*, u far ee the mouth of the river
Amour (with branches probably to India and China). There
is to be a ;submarine telegraph, from the eastern terminus, to
cross the Pacific and connect the Russian empire with some
remote quarter of the globe. This writer observes that the
Russians are a people of very excitable and violent Imagina-
tion, primitives et eeterptataratee, forays d or worn', de
chimeras; and at present railways have taken such hold
of their minds that there is no scheme too wild for
them to believe. With regard to the Mission Railway
Company, the Javrval de St. Peferstatrg of the 11th instant
contains an announcement that 319,397 shame hkve been
applied for in that city, the number to be allotted at St.
Petersburg being only 130,000. The directors therefore
=mune* that subscribers for more than 100 and less than
SOO shores will receive half the amount they applied for •
salleerlbsre for more than 800 and leas than 3,000 there@ will
nerve one-third ; subscribers for more than 3,000 end keg
then 6,000 will receive one-quarter, and subscribers far more
then 6,00 D sham one-fifth of the number they have aaked
for. The calla, to the amount of 30 per cent. on the share
capital, are to be paid up at St. Petersburg by the Ist of
Juno, upon which the letters of ellotment will he delivered.
AN AUSTRALIAN BALE OF WOOL.—A singular
discovery, exhibiting the tuestulneu of the customs' exami-
nationsof imported goods took place the other day. In a
bale of wool from Australia a large block of stone weighing
about 641 k.. weight was found in its centre. The grower
perhapehad thus cheated the buyer in Australia, who had
unooneciouoly cheated the buyer in England of the like weight
of wool, and the shipowner had unconsciously overrated the
freight by a similar amount of weight The question anew,
would it not be a safeguard to the British merchant were
colonial wool examined under customs' regulations previous
to the pressure and shipment of the wool P By the diecovery
of the customs' officials the merchant in England will save
the duty on the weight of the stone, and be enabled to re-
cover the price of the wool from his Australian agent.—Anil
Service Gazette.

ENIGRA77ON FROY SCANDIN.
Stockholm, in the Ilmosinirr Nev
fever seems to have seized on S.
Norway: Two Tenzin are

e I
...gbbourbood of the town
• * • - -

inhabitanta, who have emigrated.
grants left Chriatiania in April •
womb. Another ahip will ler
Drammen four veaaela are

iii.;fiiti;eiWorfourteez
with 3,000 canigranu."

'Mad

SCANDTIVATIA.—Accounts from
lay News, ray:—" An euggani,on
i on the popnlation of stuts,
ire to start next m ' . e
e town of Okelbca/ init* is rn
n has been ent*iy ape* bizil "...2
*rated. No lesgthell :MNtG
April fur Quelssar
441 Ch
ill leave the Pam - '1:1
ire fitting out f e
ships are prepay
' ''
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THE WEEKLY PRESS.

THE PRUSSIAN N4I2RIAOR.

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Pnwsie,thwe tweentomMtiew, law bra sateriby
by breed
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trawl& Wass it Pressis. As alliswes wee
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weld Jurielleites, ups the weestry a baba sere'
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brad ever the aria. Taking m this bhp be soma%
lire say ad he seidest sew he the reeds is that
bar IDEA@ Midis revhica whoa their children rm.
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deer. . The bib drib be per is to. way to sapper
limb wither wasp es dr barks of marrylar
it
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sesermate es the eassairases. It is a wader he
sessidessillse wielder Ods plea wadi set be sod orb
bat the ineweellie peak" of ear court, elite des
"satasplibe allirese" that saheb berrees coats to the
wsberessorat arse of eider end wide the preeersa-
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DRULLELL—THE SITE 07 D 15000217.
(Tram the lorrionios.)
Mr. Dimas cow farth at the briers' eat-
ery, at ItorpO Terse, as ea expokr at OW
row We ere gled to met the right he.. greenest*
sedi essied rem& where there le IN. kr coolsovorsy,
est rely WO& Therms has. prim dated est
" the ridges dais adlos lee hews N. ti • reed sad
Why thestirisk" To dig fed we eery his theemey
with Wreak sithser we theme her Ide easelseho
That it hoe beeare so ta cosersses et the reseed threeseir
d the redoes We. Ilat Ors Owe= bre elm
▪ esinarakeel Opiee be ink, Is Wilds*, Ned rei
Is wide wrap le as miedelei dist ; bet they has
dee leoght late edema a rot wet at wild mi dek
weary eradetiaa, ad AIM le Wool le ear essalther"
the esareery sobeermirest d 'NM* mini" aftribi
—is Ms Is them The ~Ay iges etmdgl
timer theldlem es at a WWII aliniglig ral=
they acorn*; sad the seceders dile remit esiakthe
as sestredisesgehiel from it wandered aotivithe_k ear-
teddy sot Ask rMr. DWI( alleges, le the gdedlise-
thek his we arse the they hoe bad • poodle Ma-
der IS Wadies orgrosoofog pryer, 'swift mss/ rest
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pr, et may earalsodido Is seW time Wes at the
pr, diroveriss, why Mr. DWI stirs d be wiled at the
raw is de .as. at istairli—die Weal earerear d
isireseed Wiry, Moroi rooffamiliks, sad Wood
prier;—dad why r he sir this dhet d Op
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as that W. Mews* the pews west, he shatthl isthe
the bareetter the Mims* melt d the went.* diediek
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seder, which me many or be bedew who they law
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ko lead NM detles., dhr coddle awl luxuries. It
her op Idols mi her sp reels; sod while lie art
rear) semi hip}, it is Me le hope Se a wawa*
isihMles le Oehler* et moo.
The is at wet a potability that it will kr . est
why y Sew, hi lot et bed, sore toselies at trade, is
cowrie et the high Tess d the raw essterlds, hare
wed le AY her rube To soy the as, rosy tea
se kept be dosteresely lewrowed is the wed ;
wrestler ere weediegly mired, the Awl kr wow
Owe hae, 'amortise will be ohooko4 rine will set
dray o. owl the moo as Yong may Orley dedim
lhr tee yews rid Ii meths it Ma 5.., ,with
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add sad weds resells. et tires 7 sad di rot
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al Wed is the
rely arced probsble wiry at the Used SW
this eid old looMoleped washy. per seal yaw
sew hem hitherto bilowed boa the gold dimmer*
Ilhat Mr. Diesdi Skull 5.. b.. root a dryer sad ova
• derwthesery erlr d its Sao the we essis, is at
teat megidheighled.
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prat the ref thereelle r deo is soh es the quality
draw, and as iraab., theder, he espied; whisk heir,
the erred by the geld, is Mom se owe Writ ; sod
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—eve thaw, ea • " rawer sed " isedieble" "rmat,"
both high prim N. their redeem sad a Mr vale at
breve ow the to.. they sreg athe vip. • *oho arlysie
at Wel weld Yrs Mght blee that mere h isseath
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• ldr prim for eepashend rears ad a Me me at
OM. pbter impenry Weir the iater may 'sem
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pea 17 raise high prism Mr. DWI meet thet the
Wm weld pis heri proles, awl he *West them
thee they we * Garet loth lop piths sad • Na ire if
karat tor lie gold thecoverles.
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