The Express.
London, England, 1868-11-02 00:00:00

THE EXPRESS, MONDAY

THIRD. EDITASNI2

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JUNCTION.—(THIS DAL)

This morning another aocident occurred on the
South Eastern Railway. It appears to be the pnistiee to
despatch a Mein of "main line empties" from the Brick-
layers%arras station to CannomMrest and Charing-eross
stations, there to receive passengers for the &Sweat sta-
tions down the line, and this morning the meal podia
was observed. Just, bower, as this train arrived at the
Quince.street Junction, it came into WI Wl= with a hula
on the North Kent line due at Charinroross at 11.40.
The effect of the collision was very severs, and eight or
nine passenger received severe Warier.

MR. ANTINNY TROLLOP! Ali A P4RLl'd-
KENTdBY CARDIDATIL
On Friday evening the Hon. M. 0. Maxwell and
XL A. ._r_rdlolo, the liberal candidateleal=loldwrepressista-
tion of Demeley, addremed tale composed of
mambas cd that cooatinseney, whit& bas hitherto
looked upon as the Acreat ntronglsold et oecommatima ia
the Past Big of Yorkshire.
Mr. TnerzOmit thicsourse of his address, said that a
oonseevative aftad would be impanel,. After VMS
strongly of the conduct of " the are " in
sent parliament, Kr. Trollop' continued :—My idea of Kt;
will be Wei that I shall conceive =yarn called upon to
give Mr. fillaa6ne my undeviating support (great cheer-
mg) , for if, as! firmb, and mod truly believe, Mr. Glad-
stone horrified to the Queen's counsel as her prime Waldo*.
—(renewed cheering)—l declare myself will*q to give to
him my undeviating support. (Applause.) When I know
so much of s roan as I dnof him, and when I see him in
the position of Prime Minister, Imy to myself—lt will be.
my du to you, if railed upm, to give him my constant
and firm support. (Gnat cheering.) Of Mr. Gladstone
I will my that for public honesty he never had a superior
—(applause)—for public efficiency in our times he cer-
tainiy Runner had an equal. (Renewed applause.) If
he has a fault, it is that he is too economical, but it is
because be wishes to lessen the burdens on the shoulder,
of you all. If you could open that man's heart
you would find written • upon it a desire for
economy in public life, and that for the rake of relieving
the burdens of the poor—(applause)—and no man in our
time has done so much to relieve the burdens of the pox.
These is hardly a comfort you enjoy, and there is hardly
an article you consume which is not cheaper than it would
have been if Mr. Gladstone had never worked for you. (Ap-
plause.) On the subject of the Irish church I don't think
there is any difference of opinion among you all. lam
quite sure there is no difference of opinion as to the future
between Mr. Gladstone and Mr. Disraeli. lam quite
sure they have both made up their minds that the
Irish church must go. And lam sure of this, if
you, and other boroughs like you, will give Mr. Dis-
raeli the capability-- which I am sure you will not —and
the power to remain in office, you will find that very
shortly he will go over the most beautiful conjuring
trick. (Laughter.) It will be " 'merle pocus, aprare
round, tly away, come again, up and down, turn a soiner-
rault, come down on his feet," and present you with a
most beautiful bill to disestablish and ilistusdow the Irish
t Lurch, and very likely to abolish Protestantism gene-
rally. (Laughter, and long-continued cheering.) Ho
will take that " awkward squad " to school, and drill
them again, and they will come out, not hlps himself, .
jaunty and smiling as he always is, but with long faces,
and terrible dolor written ou ell their countenances, bat
they will have learnt their lemon. (Laughter.) There-
fore, as for the Irish Church, I don't care which party is
in Loner but I wish it could go under our bands, not
theirs. In forcible terms Mr. Trollops then showed that
the Irish Church was a great injustice to the Irish people,
and contended that but for that grievance the people
would be content.

DESTRUCTIVE FIRE NE4R COVIDITET.

SIXTEEN RICKS contrmED.

At a lato hour on Saturday night, one of the
meet destructive fires which has occurred in this neigh-
bourhood for some time past, broke out upon the premiere
of Mr. Hollick, farmer, of Baginton, near Coventry. A
mounted messenger was at once despatched to Coventry for
assistance, and arrived there at 1 o clock ou Sunday morn-
ing. The members of the Coventry Volunteer Fire Brigade
and Sun Fire Brigade at once got their engines in readi-
ness, and proceeded to the scene of the conflagration. By
this time, however, the tire bad done considerable damage,
no less than sixteen ricks having fallen a prey to the
devouring element. Five others ware on fire, and to
them the attention of the firemen was at once directed.
After laboaring iscemantly for many honerthey suc-
ceeded in saving two ricks and the dwaing-kones.
Portions of five other ricks were also saved. The engines
end men returned to Coventry between 9 and 10 o'clock
yesterday morning. The fire Is supposed to be the work
of an incendiary. The property is insured in the Bun

That fine old steamship the Great Britain arrived
at Melbourne on the 4th September, after • fine run of 66
days, the shortest passage but one recorded of her.
ENCOUNTER Wall A BEAR AT BELLEVUE—On
Saturday morning one of the bears at Bellevue Gardens
escaped from its pit, and so severely bit one of the keeper
that he is not impeded to recover from the injuries be re-
ceived. Henry Scott, a man about 60 years of age, living
at Villa Inn, Hyde-road, a keeper of wM beasts in the ern-
ploy of Mesas. Jenninon, was engagedlia deseftg the bears'
den, and when doing so, having eceenioa to Mt owe of
the sliding doors, a large black bear made its escape. The
animal, which appeared to be very furious, made an
attempt to seine the keeper's son, • boy named Walter
Scott, who was standing by, and chased him into an
adjoining greenhouse. The boy closed the door, which was
forced by the bear, when the father overtook it,
boldly laid hold of the infuriated besot, and attempted
to throw it on its back. He failed in his attempt, and was
himself wailed by the beer, which bit him severely on the
left thigh. Another keeper ng up at the time, hit the
animal on the skull with asipade, with the effect of
snimmg it, and before it could recover it was again con-
fined. The wounded keeper was conveyed to the infir-
mary. He had suffered severely from loos of blood, and
he now lies in a very precarious state.—Yeas ter
ZUNII*T.
TEX EARTRINTAKZ AT PERU AND ECUADOR.—
The contributions to the Sufferers' Relief Pond during
the past week have exceeded 4,0001., including LOOM. from
Mr. -William Gibbs. The Bishop of Durham has contri-
buted 10/. It is satisfactory to know that the committee
has received, through Lord Stanley, the promise of active
assistance from the diplomatic agents in the distributions
of the sum collected. He lordship has just forwarded
interesting official despatches from these gentlemen to the
treasurer.
CO-OFEB.ATION IN TILE laos TRADIL—An initia-
tive step towards solving the capital and labour question
in the iron trade was taken about two years ago, and the
Drinkfield Iron Company started. Though the greater
part of the shareholders was composed of operative iron-
workers, the company was a limited one, and therefore
not purely co-operative. In order to make it more popu-
lar it has been determined to adopt the 00-operative prin-
ciple, and a meeting WM, held at Darlington on Saturday
to give the liquidator, Mr. S. Richardson, full powers to
wind up the old company, and transfer the property to •
new one. Resolutions were passed to this end. The
question was decanted as to what the relations of the
ebareholdere and the workmen in the new company
should be in regard to the division of
.profits. It was
thought that the pure co-operative principle of giving •
proportion of the profits made to the workmen should be
adopted rather than that the principle followed by Mama
Briggs and Co. should be copied, by which 10 per teak
should be first divided amongst the shareholders. and the
remainder equally between the shareholders and workmen.
INSULT TO A PRUSSIAN CHARGE D'AFFAIRE/I.
The latest news front Japan gives some paraculare of an
insult offered to the Prussian charge d'affeiree, Von
Brandt, who when driving through the main street of the
Japanese town with his tette, or groom, • Japanese,
behind him, was stopped by the retainers of Higashi Kum
Saki no Clnujo, an assistant secretary for foreign affa firs,
and his belle compelled to alight and prostrate himse in
the dust before the feudal noble. Von Brandt was com-
pelled to submit at the moment, although loudly protest-
ing, and has since demanded and received from the
Japanese minister an apology.
THE TRArterr OF MERCURY.—The transit of
Mercury, which takes place on November 6, will be care-
rully watched by all our best observers. A large number
of amateurs will also take part, no doubt, in observing
the interesting phenomenon. The construction of cheap
telescopes, which yet are capable of doing useful work,
has largely increased the number of those who will be able
to watch the transit. And, in particular, the recent in-
vention of silvered glass mirrors by the German optician
Steinbeil, and the construction in England of a form of
reflecting telescope, which is far more convenient to ass
than the ordinary telescope, has made amateur observa-
tion at once more effective and more pleasing than of old.
It used to require that a person should really have his
heart in the subject of astronomy,. to enable him unflinch-
ingly to fix himself in all the various and awkward posi
tions which ordinary telescopic observation requires.
Very few could endurewith comfort the attitudinising of
the observing-room when elevated objects had to be
)raked at. But now that an observer can obtain an in-
strument which is not only cheaper than the old-fashioned
refractory% but enables him to observe all objects what-
ever with his eyes directed horizontally, many, who would
otherwise have beeu deterred from astronomy, are found
to take a daily increasing interest in the observation of
celestial objects. We trust that no unfavourable circum-
stance of weather, or the like, will prevent the approach-
ing transit from being well seen by the numerous OINIINVOIII
who will be on the watch for the phenomenon. —Cern/silt
iterisisos for November.

The beeentetriad mew wow ear Woe& alter little trona
those on Saturday ; yeekedge theieserwo lowor
esally is the north. Aw imam Waft gienew=breoral"Novin.
tog in anthem rid warden dislikes, Mt it Me set eneweiled to
sontieten etstium wham however. the mane are now
• diterewso at e-tentho at en Wee mite between=
Nair. owl lt.siefatMrsbrairday woo =
high, renoldonade gad hem einem
untow•Mtdo :dem ee Ihrolleerly wiser wee=
mast . the, veto gli en ear eontheen gad
meats. mad • gels we tett at sonrd. wig* eulesteled during
thep. aii. Watery winds at weds.!. twee ore generally re-
title maraing. but there or. Wow at the enizeinee of the
Channel. On nonthern end western wads rein hes dem In the
north the sky is deur, but on the other owns tt Is dowdy, with
fag and mint in the south-wet of Ibiedand.

"An American in Dresden makes known some
singular facia in a letter to the nines. The American
colony in that city formed the majority of the oongrega-
tion at the English church, and contributed largely to its
funds, so that the church came to be called " the Engtith
and American church." Under these cimumstanoes the
clergyman thought it but proper to introduce a prayer for
the President of the United States, after that for the
Queen of England and teethe King of Saxony. The first
tisne this was done, a gentleman interrupted the service
with the exclamation, " I thought this was an English
church !" On the other days persons left the building
when the new prayer was read. The clergyman adhered
to his practice, and considerable animosity was roused
against him. At length a portion of the congregation
seceded, and contrived to obtain authority from the
Bishop of London for building a new church to be
strictly " English," and, as it seems, high church.
Soon, however, the Americana found their way into the
new congregation, and the same story was enacted,
although with a different conclusion. The prayer for the
President was introduced, some of the English objected,
and the clergyman gave way. The Times is confident
that if the Bishop of Lordon had known the circum-
stances, instead of authorising a new church, he would
have administered a severe rebuke to such unchristian and
almost undeilleed Jealousy.

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NONE? MARIET.-01114 ALT.)

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timhange is shut t. -day, and there
in fitly no blames going forward in
public securities.
The applications for disease! are upon a
nitiderste veal*, 'but the rate for Or best Area
months' bills is maintained at 11 to 11 Per
cent.

The traffic return of the Great Western of
Canada, for the week ending the 30th ult., shows
• decease of 9401., compared with the corres-
ponding period of 1867.
The following notification has been issued by the
Bank of England :
Notes is hereby gimes—That is order to prepare the
divides& due ea the ith January, 1666, the beJesess of
the several ecomate in the following tends will be stench
as the night of Tuesday, the ht December, 1884 N.
pm Cant. Coaeolidated densities, New IL par Coat. As.
nailies, New 111. 16s. per Gat. Asesaida, 1864, New
W. 10s. per Cast. Annuities, Annuities furor Team of
Team lade IL per Cent. Stook. Oa Wednesday, the
bed December, the above-aimed lands will be transfer-
able without the dividend due on the Alt January next.
Feet India Stook—Shat Tuesday, 9th December, 1868 ;
open Wednesday, 6th Jammu, 1889.
November 2, 1868.

FOUR O'CLOCK.
About 16,0001. m goki has been withdrawn from
the Bank to-day for the Continent.
At Paris to-day the Three per Cent. Rentes
opened at 70fr. 77c. for the account, being I per
cent. better.

The prospectus has appeared of the expected
Five per Cent. Loan for the Charkof-Asof
(Charkow-Asow) Railroad Co. The amount is
4,349,2801. sterling, or 61,321,304 florins Dutch
currency, or 29,375,104 Prussian thalers, of which
2,000,0001. is reserved for subscription in London,
at the price of 80 per cent., through Messrs. R.
Raphael and Sons. 20 per oast. is to be paid on
allotment, 30 per cent. on the 17th December, and
30 per cent. on the 28th January. Reckoning the
accrued interest and rebate of discount at 6 per
cent. on payments in full, the price becomes 761.
The imperial guarantee of the interest and sinking
fund is unconditional. The sinking fund is an
accumulative ono of 1-12th per cent., so that the
loan will be paid off in 83 years. The list will be
closed at 2 o'clock on Wednesday. The railway
to the construction of which this money is to be

applied will doubtless do much to divelop the
resources of the country, but these Russian Rail-
way issues have of late become so numerous and
heavy that it is time some authoritative statement
should be put forth respecting the probable
requirements of this kind in the future.

Borne of the railway companies have already
given notice of the shutting of their transfer books,
for the purpose of publishing the list of proprietors,
pursuant to the following section of the Act (cap.
119) of last session, passed 31st July:
34. Every incorporated company shall print correct
copies of the shareholders address book of the company,
corrected up to the first day of December inecery year, and
affix an &del isk against the names of those qualified to
act aa directors. After the expiration of one fortnight
from the aforesaid date, the company shall, on application,
supply such printed copies, at u prico not exceeding ss. for
emit copy, to every person who holds any ordinary or pre-
ference shares or stock in the company, or any mortgage
debenture or debenture stock of the company. Anv com-
pany which acts in contravention of this section shall be
liable for each offence to a penalty not exceeding 201.

Subjoined is a statement (from Mr. Slaughter's
Weekly List) of the calls due on railway and mis-
cellaneous undertakings in the month of Novem-
ber. The total seems considerable, but the shares
of the Lemberg-Csernowitz Railway, on which a
quarter of a million is nominally required, are
held to only a limited extent in this country, while
as regards the other principal call—that of
500,0 W. on the new shares of the London and
Westminster Bank—a portion has doubtless been
paid in advance, and the whole will quickly be
available for employment in the market :

Amount per Share.
Due in November, 1866. Due Already No. of
Cella Ara. Data. pad. Call. Shares.
Fast Indian
and!xtandan lO 10 60 0 not known.
Lemberg Clarsowits,
iNew Mary) °mallet. iltipt.6 0 0 50,000 NO,OOO
Iffenehester, She,. and Line
6 per Cent. Omar. Stork ll5 pr et. ism= 91,050
North Debenture
i LOW& II dept. 10p.et11,600,000 100,000

Total be November

111w_• SIBOCIP.
LOlOl3lll sod Wolngsater
Bank (New &mu) 10 10 10 0 0 50,000 100,000
Sao Sr.oool 10a. 010 0 10,060 6,000

Total in November' 1405,000
An extraordinary general meeting of the Arica
and Tacna Railway Company is called for the
20th Nov., " for the purpose of submitting a re-
port of damage done to the company's property
by the recent disastrous earthquake in Arica, and
the means of repaying the cost of necessary repairs."
The annexed memorandum from a correspon-
dent, reciting some points in connection with the
several Canadian government loans, may be relied
upon for securacy

Dominion of Canada 5 per Cents. at 92 pay Si. 8.., and
at the expiration of the bonds in 35 years gain in capital
8 per Cent., say 4e. 2d. per annum.
Canada 6 per Ceuta at 1071 pay (deducting for dividend
accrual) 51. 13s. 2d., and at the expiration of the bonds,
averaging 12 years, show aloes of capital=7B. Bd. per cent.
annum.

Canada 5 per Cents., terminable at the option of the
government, with only t per cent sinking fund. and in-
terest payable in January and July, are at 93!. 10s.
Dominion of Canada 5 per Cents., payable off in 1903,
with 1 per cent. sinking fund and interest due in April and
October, are at 92.
The difference between these two latter storks as regards
the amount of dividend accrued is only 1} per cent.

OUTWARD INDIA AND CIUNA MArLe OF O-T.
li-23.—Susie, Nov. 2.—The Peninsular and Oriental
Coropeny's steamers Surat and Carnatic sailed at noon
yesterday, for Calcutta and Bombay respectively.
MARSEILLES, Nov. I.—The Measageries Impe-
rialto steamer Falun, with the India and China mails, ar-
rived here today at 2 p.m.
FRUIT TREES IN HEDOEROWS.—II has been
ed that all available walls should be utilised for the
PuMicttion of fruit; but why should not fruit trees be
grown everywhere, in hedgerows, in fields, by the road-
side lt will be answered that the fruit would be stolen ;
and this is true, if a single tree were planted in an un-
guarded place. But in those districts where it is cus-
tomary, as in Worcestershire and Herefordshire, to expose
great quantities of fruit, and in Prance, Italy, Germany.
and other foreign countries, there are no complaints of
theft. Near Malvern, apples and pears grow in profusion
in places open to all the world ; not only in the orchards
and fields, but in the hedgerows which bound turnpike
roads, and on the strips of waste which border them. "Is
this fruit never stolen r was • question ut to • native of
the place. " Oh, no sir," he answered,' it is very plenti-
ful." Make it " plentiful," accustom the people to see it
exposed, encourage them to expose their own fruit in a
similar way, give them,—that as, give to individuals of
them,—if mammary, a charge over a certain quantity of
trees, and a share in the prate which accrue from them,
or some of thew and yore need have no fear that your
fruit will be plundered. On the contrary, you will foster
halite of honesty in your neighbours, you will strengthen
their respect for property,
_and accustom them to resist
teenaiths.—.Mseesilreis's Neese se for November.
TuE GOVERNMENT OF SPAIN. There is a
dory, which the Spaniards themselves are food of
telling, that when Ferdinand M., after his death at
Seville, which he bad conquered from the Moors, was
brought int* communion with St. imp, the patron saint
of Spain, he proceeded to ask boons for bee. " Fine
climate.', Granted. "Fertile soil, corn, wine, oil- &o.'•
Granted. "Brave eons and beautiful daughters."
Granted. "Good government." "No, no, DO • three
times, nine times, No!" exclaimed the saint, ledag all
patience (as saints are apt to do) at the monstroaty or the
demand : "Give Spain good goveninamt, and *eter one
of the angels would leave heaven to live in it. ' The
curious and depressing circumstance Is that the Spaniards
should dwell comphmentlystorm this feature of their
as national character, if government was not the
beet, the sole security for every other good. It remains to
be peen whether this cis Owrtio can be overoome by any
amount of reran or stimulant that the leaders of the
present movement can bring to bear. They
.are working
weU togeiher tor. Their wand ambition Ins been
kept under. Their intestines seem good; and it will be
their misfartinee. ant ties fed& serald the State machine
run back hsto the old atom ascii. of them.—puma's
Mapisii• bit &IMO%